We are taught to 'keep your eyes on the road' but this is not what that means. Anyway, it sounds like just one more unnecessary thing in the car that will cost a nice markup to fix.
Browser extensions and similar offerings with 'anonymous usage data used to enhance user experience', which is corporate-speak or 'it reports everything you do back home for resale of the data.'
It happened to set up the follow up questions about what the response should be. That's relevant and valuable information for Facebook. The one question, er, in question, was not the only one asked, it was merely exposition.
I'd rather help 'the Chinese' than the Americans, who also harvest all of the information they can and prosecute real physical warfare all across the world along with the cyber warfare their government also lies about..
2 of the last 3 paragraphs contain much better advice, IMO:
This feels unfair when it happens to you, but it’s just how it goes, and the entire ecosystem benefits. Every app — even yours — includes countless “standard” and “obvious” features and designs that, at one time, weren’t. Everything is a remix.
A great design or feature can give you a competitive advantage for a little while, but it’s always temporary. Compete on marketing, quality, and what you can do next, not the assumption that nobody can copy what you made.
Exactly. Also, don't forget that higher productivity means lower prices and thus less need to work. Our notion of what constitutes a 'job' is going to keep on changing. Two hours a week might be enough for most people, given how low the prices will be for all the robot-made goods and services. It's just a continuation of the process that's been eliminating poverty for the last couple centuries. The transition is going to be painful, though. And more so if the doomsayers get their way and the government "helps"
First, his statement was correct that many of the ads were bought AFTER the election. Simple logic suggests they were not aimed at affecting the election in those cases. Second, his statement does not contradict the indictment, which note multiple goals for the Russian actors, one of which was simply "sowing discord".
How long until everyone learns to ignore the Internet ignoramus mob?
Once Google gets done AMPing up email and so on,paper news will make a comeback because there is no way to embed trackers and "engaging" content in it. Then it will die again when they start using "interactive" paper.
"Engaging" now means they will nag, cajole, lie, beg, induce, hypnotize, and use any other psyops trick they can dredge up to get you to use the stupid thing so they can profile you.
It's not teaching basic ethical principles, it is getting would be creators some practice looking for undesirable consequences and ways the tools might be misused. Real world examples specific to the focus of the course are a great help here. Also likely an interesting discussion on where a creator's responsibilities lie. If you make a hammer for example, knowing full well that someone somewhere will crack a skull with it, are you ethically bound to change the design? I would say no, but students would benefit from thinking about it and discussing it. That's part of what education is supposed to be after all.
This is why I never update. Yet another "upgrade" introducing pointless and gratuitous interface changes. No doubt they will "improve" my user experience by moving, removing, or renaming settings, adding new "features" I can't delete or turn off, and if they are feeling really ambitious perhaps break some of the apps I use and make the device generally slower.
When half your resources go to babysitting applications which randomly break when "updating" or just for no reason at all, existing technology is definitely stifling innovation, and it has nothing to do with improper implementation. Source: I work in IT.
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We are taught to 'keep your eyes on the road' but this is not what that means. Anyway, it sounds like just one more unnecessary thing in the car that will cost a nice markup to fix.
except for the fact everyone else knows where you are going.
How is that any different than turn signals we are supposed to use now?
Browser extensions and similar offerings with 'anonymous usage data used to enhance user experience', which is corporate-speak or 'it reports everything you do back home for resale of the data.'
"Our subscribers are our most important asset."
Don't forget, they can vote and go overseas and use the guns, but can't drink.
It happened to set up the follow up questions about what the response should be. That's relevant and valuable information for Facebook. The one question, er, in question, was not the only one asked, it was merely exposition.
Nobody said anything about China saving anything
Stop helping the Chinese machine make money.
I'd rather help 'the Chinese' than the Americans, who also harvest all of the information they can and prosecute real physical warfare all across the world along with the cyber warfare their government also lies about..
Ask any successful startup
This feels unfair when it happens to you, but it’s just how it goes, and the entire ecosystem benefits. Every app — even yours — includes countless “standard” and “obvious” features and designs that, at one time, weren’t. Everything is a remix. A great design or feature can give you a competitive advantage for a little while, but it’s always temporary. Compete on marketing, quality, and what you can do next, not the assumption that nobody can copy what you made.
Exactly. Also, don't forget that higher productivity means lower prices and thus less need to work. Our notion of what constitutes a 'job' is going to keep on changing. Two hours a week might be enough for most people, given how low the prices will be for all the robot-made goods and services. It's just a continuation of the process that's been eliminating poverty for the last couple centuries. The transition is going to be painful, though. And more so if the doomsayers get their way and the government "helps"
"Robot Bites Man" isn't a headline for Pete's sake! "Man Bites Robot", now that's a story!
Of course we are not ready, that's why it is called a singularity. Perhaps the solution is not to fight the AI, it is to become the AI.
Any company that sues researchers in this way should be assumed to be relinquishing any claim to responsible disclosure in the future.
Maybe some precedents linking SLAPP to malicious prosecution, then lawyers would take the case on spec to harvest the settlement
First, his statement was correct that many of the ads were bought AFTER the election. Simple logic suggests they were not aimed at affecting the election in those cases. Second, his statement does not contradict the indictment, which note multiple goals for the Russian actors, one of which was simply "sowing discord".
How long until everyone learns to ignore the Internet ignoramus mob?
Now we have to watch out, aliens could come to Earth undetected and mine all our cryptocurrency.
Then the workers would be the shareholders and would hire someone else to do the work. It's a vicious cycle.
I'd rather see them take away the underlying capabilities which are abused by these ads.
Once Google gets done AMPing up email and so on,paper news will make a comeback because there is no way to embed trackers and "engaging" content in it. Then it will die again when they start using "interactive" paper.
"Engaging" now means they will nag, cajole, lie, beg, induce, hypnotize, and use any other psyops trick they can dredge up to get you to use the stupid thing so they can profile you.
It's not teaching basic ethical principles, it is getting would be creators some practice looking for undesirable consequences and ways the tools might be misused. Real world examples specific to the focus of the course are a great help here. Also likely an interesting discussion on where a creator's responsibilities lie. If you make a hammer for example, knowing full well that someone somewhere will crack a skull with it, are you ethically bound to change the design? I would say no, but students would benefit from thinking about it and discussing it. That's part of what education is supposed to be after all.
The idea is to train the next generation of technologists and policymakers to consider the ramifications of innovations
Easy, just send them to /. to read all the posts by debbie downers
This is why I never update. Yet another "upgrade" introducing pointless and gratuitous interface changes. No doubt they will "improve" my user experience by moving, removing, or renaming settings, adding new "features" I can't delete or turn off, and if they are feeling really ambitious perhaps break some of the apps I use and make the device generally slower.
When half your resources go to babysitting applications which randomly break when "updating" or just for no reason at all, existing technology is definitely stifling innovation, and it has nothing to do with improper implementation. Source: I work in IT.