Failbook already controls the news most of its products read. A typical product glances at the screen a couple of times per minute in order to read what shit its contacts have taken, what selfie was uploaded, what genital... erm, genial, idea blew its mind and so on. THAT is news for most of failbook's products.
Well, you have failbook to communicate and share ideas. Right, mr. Zuck? We'll just personalize it more, just give us all your details and presto! personalized learning.
When are you going to understand that Windows 10 is still at early beta stage? It's cheaper for Microsoft to force telemetry on suckers and let them bang their heads with the testing. And, best of all, no current Win10 beta tester can complain as they didn't pay a dime for the software.
Hmm, could it be that because it logs you automatically on all google sites (search, youtube, ad network and so on)? With Firefox/Opera I can choose when I want to be logged in and when not.
You do know that Kindles, past Kindle NT, are just gutted android tablets, right? If you manage to check your mail and use apps on a Kindle 1 - 4, please let me know.
Basic economics says "I have a good/service (website) and I'll offer it in exchange for other goods or services (view ads, maybe subscription)". If both sides do not agree to the terms, then neither party gets the other's goods/services. What ad blockers do is say "I don't like what I have to pay so I'll just take it for free". So since adblockers threw out the basics of economics, it's only fitting for the other side to do so too.
Basic economics say that the service provider must inform the other party before that the intention is to gain something in exchange for the goods/services. If the other party is not interested then it's a no sell. So websites should put up a landing page which says: "By entering this site you agree to let us track you, steal whatever info we can get our hands on, fill your screen with useless junk totally unrelated to the content, blast music at 10000%. Click here to enter site or here to leave". But noo, that would be honest, and we can't have that.
I will not accept ads with sound, ads that hover-over content, ads that block access to content until active user-action, ads that require a significant time-delay before allowing access to content, ads that spawn a new window or tab, ads that use excessive animation, ads that resize the browser window, ads that use high-speed high-contrast color swapping, ads that are wholly inappropriate for the content of a website, ads that install anything on my computer, or ads that linger past the display of the web page on which they are associated.
But... but... this IS the web today! All those meaningless letters some old farts consider articles are just placeholders for the real content! People want to 'consume content', not read an article, watch a movie or look at cat pictures.
In an emergency, 90% of people stay calm and keep doing their things until someone takes charge and tells them to keep calm and head for the exit. At that precise moment 99% of people will start to scream, run around aimlessly or freeze up. 1% will not only act but act with intelligence and on their own initiative.... See, it was not hard to summarize all the impending doom scenarios Hollywood follows.
The same thing would have happend if instead of a tin can were a real person. From TFA (yes, I know): "the researchers recruited a group of 42 volunteers, most of them college students, and asked them to follow a brightly colored robot that had the words “Emergency Guide Robot” on its side." So, people conditioned to follow authority figures follow an authority figure. Well, go figure!
First, you assume I'm using windows, which I don't. Second, without internet access you're SOL with online storage. How about your cloud provider has some techical difficulties andnyou're unable to access your files when you need them? Third, how much are you willing to trust your vaporware provider?
Oh, come on, he does care about truth. Truth is people want to be lied to. In the past politicians were trying to pretend they give a fuck about people as it was harder for the common people to find out about them. Now, with every media channel trying to get a piece of the action it's almost impossible to hide so why not come clean and admit it. Politicians say what people want to hear. And Americans want to hear about jobs, about throwing out emmigrants, about how the mighty US will crush the rebellion... erm, terrorists and so on.
All the while claiming to be the religion of "peace".
Oh, please, do fuck off. Remember the Inquisition? Burning at stake? Killing of the unbelivers? It's standard practice for any religion: you're either with us or you're next on the list.
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Failbook already controls the news most of its products read. ... erm, genial, idea blew its mind and so on.
A typical product glances at the screen a couple of times per minute in order to read what shit its contacts have taken, what selfie was uploaded, what genital
THAT is news for most of failbook's products.
Well, you have failbook to communicate and share ideas. Right, mr. Zuck?
We'll just personalize it more, just give us all your details and presto! personalized learning.
Buddy, you don't know half of it. They've fucked up 45ESR big time: pocket, reader, idiot new search, no more options in a separate windows.
When are you going to understand that Windows 10 is still at early beta stage? It's cheaper for Microsoft to force telemetry on suckers and let them bang their heads with the testing.
And, best of all, no current Win10 beta tester can complain as they didn't pay a dime for the software.
Hmm, could it be that because it logs you automatically on all google sites (search, youtube, ad network and so on)?
With Firefox/Opera I can choose when I want to be logged in and when not.
You do know that Kindles, past Kindle NT, are just gutted android tablets, right?
If you manage to check your mail and use apps on a Kindle 1 - 4, please let me know.
Politicians?
Basic economics says "I have a good/service (website) and I'll offer it in exchange for other goods or services (view ads, maybe subscription)". If both sides do not agree to the terms, then neither party gets the other's goods/services. What ad blockers do is say "I don't like what I have to pay so I'll just take it for free". So since adblockers threw out the basics of economics, it's only fitting for the other side to do so too.
Basic economics say that the service provider must inform the other party before that the intention is to gain something in exchange for the goods/services. If the other party is not interested then it's a no sell.
So websites should put up a landing page which says: "By entering this site you agree to let us track you, steal whatever info we can get our hands on, fill your screen with useless junk totally unrelated to the content, blast music at 10000%. Click here to enter site or here to leave".
But noo, that would be honest, and we can't have that.
I will not accept ads with sound, ads that hover-over content, ads that block access to content until active user-action, ads that require a significant time-delay before allowing access to content, ads that spawn a new window or tab, ads that use excessive animation, ads that resize the browser window, ads that use high-speed high-contrast color swapping, ads that are wholly inappropriate for the content of a website, ads that install anything on my computer, or ads that linger past the display of the web page on which they are associated.
But... but... this IS the web today! All those meaningless letters some old farts consider articles are just placeholders for the real content!
People want to 'consume content', not read an article, watch a movie or look at cat pictures.
In an emergency, 90% of people stay calm and keep doing their things until someone takes charge and tells them to keep calm and head for the exit. ...
At that precise moment 99% of people will start to scream, run around aimlessly or freeze up.
1% will not only act but act with intelligence and on their own initiative.
See, it was not hard to summarize all the impending doom scenarios Hollywood follows.
The same thing would have happend if instead of a tin can were a real person.
From TFA (yes, I know): "the researchers recruited a group of 42 volunteers, most of them college students, and asked them to follow a brightly colored robot that had the words “Emergency Guide Robot” on its side."
So, people conditioned to follow authority figures follow an authority figure. Well, go figure!
First, you assume I'm using windows, which I don't.
Second, without internet access you're SOL with online storage. How about your cloud provider has some techical difficulties andnyou're unable to access your files when you need them?
Third, how much are you willing to trust your vaporware provider?
I have a magnitude less personal information in my computer that I have online
Then you're doing something wrong.
I'd say the OS wins every time. It does have access to all your file, you know.
Then don't call it free market. Call it regulated market and be done with it.
No, a free market involes hiring who the fuck I want. It's my call. If I make a bad one I suffer the consequences.
You mean US.
Too late, the scientists figured how to grow it in a dish.
Oh, come on, he does care about truth. Truth is people want to be lied to.
In the past politicians were trying to pretend they give a fuck about people as it was harder for the common people to find out about them. Now, with every media channel trying to get a piece of the action it's almost impossible to hide so why not come clean and admit it.
Politicians say what people want to hear. And Americans want to hear about jobs, about throwing out emmigrants, about how the mighty US will crush the rebellion... erm, terrorists and so on.
Yes, otherwise they would have been assassinated long ago.
The person with a "pen" may die. But his ideas may ultimately change the world, despite the attempt by those with "swords" to prevent it.
Only if the victor is dumb enough not to erase those ideas from the history.
All the while claiming to be the religion of "peace".
Oh, please, do fuck off. Remember the Inquisition? Burning at stake? Killing of the unbelivers?
It's standard practice for any religion: you're either with us or you're next on the list.
Religious nutjobs trying to censor the truth again.
Censor the truth? I've seen more lies on failbook and twatter than in all political speeches form the last 50 years.
Or a fat campaing contribution from Apple's rivals.
And I bet the software used to access the cloud only runs on Windows. But hey, the cloud!