The public doesn't need to catch everything. The public has to have a high enough chance to catch anything that Google doesn't want to take that risk. I fear the carriers a hell of a lot more than Google.
Arguably, if the cops are recording it too, they can show the context you didn't see in the shock vid on YouTube. I fail to see why the cops are against this; it's nice to be able to prove you're telling the truth when you have the public calling for your blood.
I agree that they're dumb, but playing devil's advocate: these devices are effectively multipurpose tools that come with a lot of hardware that could be purposed flexibly. Anything the phone can do, I suspect they already have: GPS, compass, radio, camera, etc...but suppose you now want your GPS device to be able to keep "bookmarks"? To triangulate a fire position from mulitple units? I don't know shit about military actions but I can see the value in a rapidly repurposable portable general computer. Plus office use.
My main concerns are security, dependence, cost, and durability. Mostly the last one. Grad school isn't exactly a combat zone but my electronics still take a beating in day-to-day use.
Which is why I bought my phone direct, bypassing a carrier. Can't tell me not to tether, can't force shitty software on me, can't shove ads in every orifice...
Dryness aside, I want to live in a society where the government can get anyone's data (logs, cameras, etc), provided they follow due process and have a good reason, but not everyone's data. The cameras in the subway make me feel safe when they're wiped every week and no info gets out except if there's an incident. It's when it all gets linked together with face recognition software into a global surveillance network that I start to panic.
Yeah but I've usually found that sites like yours [judging purely on the JS addiction, not judging content or anything] aren't worth visiting enough of the time for me to bother. Half the time I hit a JS only page I just close the window, the other half I might allow.
It's ok though; there aren't enough of me you need to care about me and there aren't enough of you I need to care about you so it all works out;)
I've never seen a site that didn't work perfectly withj "Temporarily allow all this page", except, eg a site where I was in the middle of something [order form] and the refresh interrupted the flow. In other words, if I did it first thing on landing it would work fine.
The thing here is I'm fine with Google's text ads getting through; they amuse me, are sometimes useful, are fast, and aren't obnoxious
I suspect it's because Google knows that virtually no one uses AdBlock, and that those who do aren't the sort that tend to click on ads anyway. Same reason they let you opt out of their DoubleClick tracking cookie -- you won't bother.
capable of running whatever code I instruct it to? Waah, I want big government/big business to protect me!
Seriously though, this isn't news. Extensions are intended to be general purpose, and in order to be powerful enough to do what you want, some risks are taken. I suppose you could take a partial sandboxing approach such as BitFrost or that taken in Android to warn users of what permissions are being requested (and mitigate the effect of expoits), but there's a tradeoff between functionality and safety.
Well if your generated graphics are vector based, then the resolution you rasterize to could have some effect on quality, but only if your screen is >= that resolution after all or it'll just be downscaled.
Perhaps it's a fixpoint. IE, the md5sum of the logo image, including the md5sum...though the ability to compute that would be very interesting to know that they know how to do.
Most of my GIMP hate is because I'm an Ion user and it shits windows all over my workspace. I also find it to be a difficult app to/use/ (contrast with difficult to learn, which, as you note with Blender, is kind of unavoidable with a powerful tool).
GIMP is a great backend. if I want to script images, and imagemagick can't do it, the GIMP can. But it needs a UI by someone who isn't swilling the GNOME flavor-aide and thus cares about building simple, portable applications with clear, consistent UIs.
The things I have trouble doing in GIMP are generally simple things like moving a block, drawing a line, etc...so I switched to Kolourpaint (think ms paint for kde with a few more features and less crashing). When I need to do serious image work, I dust off photoshop.
When I think the default settings are manipulative instead of just incompetent or a bad fit for me? Yes, I do think that's a good reason to distrust a product and the company that makes it.
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The public doesn't need to catch everything. The public has to have a high enough chance to catch anything that Google doesn't want to take that risk. I fear the carriers a hell of a lot more than Google.
Arguably, if the cops are recording it too, they can show the context you didn't see in the shock vid on YouTube. I fail to see why the cops are against this; it's nice to be able to prove you're telling the truth when you have the public calling for your blood.
I agree that they're dumb, but playing devil's advocate: these devices are effectively multipurpose tools that come with a lot of hardware that could be purposed flexibly. Anything the phone can do, I suspect they already have: GPS, compass, radio, camera, etc...but suppose you now want your GPS device to be able to keep "bookmarks"? To triangulate a fire position from mulitple units? I don't know shit about military actions but I can see the value in a rapidly repurposable portable general computer. Plus office use.
My main concerns are security, dependence, cost, and durability. Mostly the last one. Grad school isn't exactly a combat zone but my electronics still take a beating in day-to-day use.
You screw up the country, it dies and you no longer get paid. You do poorly, you get fires [sic], you don't get paid.
I don't think I could give up my tomatoes even if they were...
Don't be so smug. I look to Britain for what rights we'll be losing across the pond in 6-12 mo.
Which is why I bought my phone direct, bypassing a carrier. Can't tell me not to tether, can't force shitty software on me, can't shove ads in every orifice...
Well that was fast...
Dryness aside, I want to live in a society where the government can get anyone's data (logs, cameras, etc), provided they follow due process and have a good reason, but not everyone's data. The cameras in the subway make me feel safe when they're wiped every week and no info gets out except if there's an incident. It's when it all gets linked together with face recognition software into a global surveillance network that I start to panic.
...I want to start failing.
Yeah but I've usually found that sites like yours [judging purely on the JS addiction, not judging content or anything] aren't worth visiting enough of the time for me to bother. Half the time I hit a JS only page I just close the window, the other half I might allow.
It's ok though; there aren't enough of me you need to care about me and there aren't enough of you I need to care about you so it all works out;)
I've never seen a site that didn't work perfectly withj "Temporarily allow all this page", except, eg a site where I was in the middle of something [order form] and the refresh interrupted the flow. In other words, if I did it first thing on landing it would work fine.
The thing here is I'm fine with Google's text ads getting through; they amuse me, are sometimes useful, are fast, and aren't obnoxious
I suspect it's because Google knows that virtually no one uses AdBlock, and that those who do aren't the sort that tend to click on ads anyway. Same reason they let you opt out of their DoubleClick tracking cookie -- you won't bother.
When it comes to freedom, I see free speech as more of a minimum than a maximum.
capable of running whatever code I instruct it to? Waah, I want big government/big business to protect me!
Seriously though, this isn't news. Extensions are intended to be general purpose, and in order to be powerful enough to do what you want, some risks are taken. I suppose you could take a partial sandboxing approach such as BitFrost or that taken in Android to warn users of what permissions are being requested (and mitigate the effect of expoits), but there's a tradeoff between functionality and safety.
Well if your generated graphics are vector based, then the resolution you rasterize to could have some effect on quality, but only if your screen is >= that resolution after all or it'll just be downscaled.
Perhaps it's a fixpoint. IE, the md5sum of the logo image, including the md5sum...though the ability to compute that would be very interesting to know that they know how to do.
Most of my GIMP hate is because I'm an Ion user and it shits windows all over my workspace. I also find it to be a difficult app to /use/ (contrast with difficult to learn, which, as you note with Blender, is kind of unavoidable with a powerful tool).
GIMP is a great backend. if I want to script images, and imagemagick can't do it, the GIMP can. But it needs a UI by someone who isn't swilling the GNOME flavor-aide and thus cares about building simple, portable applications with clear, consistent UIs.
The things I have trouble doing in GIMP are generally simple things like moving a block, drawing a line, etc...so I switched to Kolourpaint (think ms paint for kde with a few more features and less crashing). When I need to do serious image work, I dust off photoshop.
I'm a huge FOSS fanboy but I'd rather gouge my eyes out than use the GIMP for even the simplest of tasks.
Don't forget growing up to be responsible cogs in the machine.
I want to use it instead of my x61's display.
Interesting; I didn't see that because of noscript and adblock.
Cue lack of net neutrality and this becomes a nasty can of censorship worms.
Likewise. And if I see flash it's a damn good indication I just don't care what's on the site.
because it's easier to criticize the efforts of others than improve the world.
When I think the default settings are manipulative instead of just incompetent or a bad fit for me? Yes, I do think that's a good reason to distrust a product and the company that makes it.