I know this place has been going downhill for awhile but this is an especially shitty submission even by msmash standards. A handful of academics get a boatload of money to move to canada is proof of a net braindrain in canada's direction and somehow this extends to proof that this is all trump's fault based upon one random comment?
Yes, yes it is. Hater!
Now stop micro-aggressing me and head off to re-education camp.
If Facebook's policies piss you off so much, stop using it (I stopped in 2011). It's not like you have a subscription you paid for the year and now have to use up to get your money's worth or something. Just log off. Delete your account. Say no.
You can live without Facebook. It's not necessary. If they change their ways, you can always go back. Nothing will get Facebook to change the way they operate like losing millions of users really quickly. If users just bitch about, but keep using it, nothing substantial will change. If people start leaving in droves, then they will change things.
If only it were that easy. Network effect.
It's almost like saying "just give up your phone, don't use phone calls". After all, you can live without a phone.
Yeah, you can do that... sort of. Tell everyone "no more phone calls for me."
And you can get all your friends, family, and associates to use some other communications channel just for you. In a dream world.
Oooh, nice by-the-numbers fake news posting. Some kids pose with baseball bats for a cool picture with firm tongue-in-cheek ironic undercurrents, and suddenly you have leftists 'patrolling the campus with baseball bats on a seek-and-destroy mission against "nazis"'.
Yeah, c'mon, it's not like they were carrying tiki torches or something... who could take it seriously?
Raises the question of what these guys think we should do when the killbots show up (which they will; can't stop every place on earth from developing them).
Perhaps we should try to discuss 1940's science fiction with the kilbots? That should work.
The move reflects a growing concern in Silicon Valley that the effects of increasingly toxic and partisan online behavior may translate into violent offline actions.
Er, her politics appear to align nicely with Google and YouTube's.
Folks don't stop taking the meds so they can try and save them for the next time or for their kids. They wouldn't do that if they didn't have to worry about coming up with money every time they get sick.
They stop using them because they feel better, you said it yourself.
Lots of people do that, poor or otherwise. They shouldn't, but they do.
My impression of Facebook has always been a) a pretty poorly designed website with little going for it besides, erm, "connecting people" in a very basic way b) a massive database back-end that scoops up as much data about everybody as possible, analyzes it a bit, and then lets that data be sold to whoever the fuck pays enough money for it. Why is everybody suddenly panicking "Gosh-OMG-NoWay-They-Sold-Our-Datazzz". Isn't this what Facebook was engineered to do from day one? Why is anybody surprised by this at all???
Because of who did it this time. But you knew that...
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Funny, you forgot to quote this:
The hackers, calling themselves Prosox and Kuroi'sh, had written "Free Palestine" underneath the videos.
How can any Chinese person stand to live in China? I would think they would be revolting or committing suicide by the millions.
You may have hear about a little communist revolution they had there, and the totalitarian state that followed.
Those who opposed them fled to a little island. Or just got slaughtered.
Just following our lead ... got to have "fact checkers" keeping us safe from "fake news".
Can't have people getting unapproved ideas from anywhere.
"pluntly"?
... taking random quizzes on the internet isn't secure, is that what you are trying to tell me??
I find it hilarious that Democrats started hating Russians approximately the moment they stopped being communist.
Front line reps clueless, news at eleven. Maybe they use the first four for phone identity verification?
I know this place has been going downhill for awhile but this is an especially shitty submission even by msmash standards. A handful of academics get a boatload of money to move to canada is proof of a net braindrain in canada's direction and somehow this extends to proof that this is all trump's fault based upon one random comment?
Yes, yes it is. Hater!
Now stop micro-aggressing me and head off to re-education camp.
But imagine the various conclusions that a Trump-level intellect might make
Yes, you might end up as President or something. Be careful!
If Facebook's policies piss you off so much, stop using it (I stopped in 2011). It's not like you have a subscription you paid for the year and now have to use up to get your money's worth or something. Just log off. Delete your account. Say no.
You can live without Facebook. It's not necessary. If they change their ways, you can always go back. Nothing will get Facebook to change the way they operate like losing millions of users really quickly. If users just bitch about, but keep using it, nothing substantial will change. If people start leaving in droves, then they will change things.
If only it were that easy. Network effect.
It's almost like saying "just give up your phone, don't use phone calls". After all, you can live without a phone.
Yeah, you can do that ... sort of. Tell everyone "no more phone calls for me."
And you can get all your friends, family, and associates to use some other communications channel just for you. In a dream world.
I know, I know; the solution is to open the borders even wider to people who will work for peanuts!
That will raise wages, because reasons!
Oooh, nice by-the-numbers fake news posting. Some kids pose with baseball bats for a cool picture with firm tongue-in-cheek ironic undercurrents, and suddenly you have leftists 'patrolling the campus with baseball bats on a seek-and-destroy mission against "nazis"'.
Yeah, c'mon, it's not like they were carrying tiki torches or something ... who could take it seriously?
'Autopilot is intended for use only with a fully attentive driver,'
Said no logic ever.
"You had one job!"
Your question is meaningless;
You mean he's not even wrong??
Ah, I've been waiting so long to use that awesome geeky putdown! It works; I feel all superior and everything!!
Asimov rolls in his grave
Raises the question of what these guys think we should do when the killbots show up (which they will; can't stop every place on earth from developing them).
Perhaps we should try to discuss 1940's science fiction with the kilbots? That should work.
Of we go then, what could possibly go wrong?
It is going to be developed; the only person you can stop from developing it is yourself. Let me know how that works out for you.
There is a notion among older people that teens, with their smartphones and unlimited internet access, never experience boredom.
Wha? Who, exactly, thought that?
Childless "older people", I guess?
I wonder how long it will take before all these conversations are just chatbots talking to each other...
Well, I'd love to have a chatbot take care of my conversations with customer service. That would rock!
I want an AI chatbot to chat with the cable company for hours and negotiate a lower rate, for example.
So, people just won't develop this military tech, because peace? Got it.
No, we need to develop it, first, fastest, and best. And develop AI powered countermeasures too.
And every day I feel reassured that moving to Japan 20 years ago was the best thing I ever did. I only have to worry about earthquakes.
But ... but ... no vibrant diversity?
The move reflects a growing concern in Silicon Valley that the effects of increasingly toxic and partisan online behavior may translate into violent offline actions.
Er, her politics appear to align nicely with Google and YouTube's.
Folks don't stop taking the meds so they can try and save them for the next time or for their kids. They wouldn't do that if they didn't have to worry about coming up with money every time they get sick.
They stop using them because they feel better, you said it yourself.
Lots of people do that, poor or otherwise. They shouldn't, but they do.
Expect people coming out of wood work blaming Hillary for being dumb out of touch politician and a master criminal at the same time.
Um, yeah, that'd be pretty silly to make two such contradictory accusations about somebody prominent ...
No, I can't; it's just too easy.
we believe most people on Facebook could have had their public profile scraped in this way
Uh ... can't a public profile be scraped pretty much any way?
My impression of Facebook has always been a) a pretty poorly designed website with little going for it besides, erm, "connecting people" in a very basic way b) a massive database back-end that scoops up as much data about everybody as possible, analyzes it a bit, and then lets that data be sold to whoever the fuck pays enough money for it. Why is everybody suddenly panicking "Gosh-OMG-NoWay-They-Sold-Our-Datazzz". Isn't this what Facebook was engineered to do from day one? Why is anybody surprised by this at all???
Because of who did it this time. But you knew that ...