Its manufacturer, Janssen and Pharmacyclics, has decided on the basis of the doctors' interest in smaller dosages to reprice all sizes of the drug to the price of the largest size.
The company made all doses the same price. You can buy the four times stronger pills, cut them in four parts and save yourself 75%.
That doesn't work with all drugs - for example, some drugs have an enteric coating that prevents it from dissolving in the stomach, others may have a time release coating, etc.
I suspect that a compounding pharmacy could take a bunch of the large pills, powderize them, and make smaller pills with enteric coating. Expensive? Yes, but still peanuts compared with the price of the original pills.
sort of. Didn't realize that Tesla was already on the job there. I particularly like the plan to build microgrids. It would be good if some other companies got involved though.
... to delete Facebook. FB needs to die, to make room for social media that serves the interests of its users, rather than serving advertisers, companies like Cambridge Analytica, and other such vile putrid scum. Facebook needs to die fast and hard, to discourage investors from betting their money on business models that that rely on abusing their fellow citizens.
Unfortunately, we no longer have the power to get them created. That power now belongs to the rich, who have purchased the legislators. They create the laws that benefit them, and block the laws that would benefit us. I'm pretty sure the only thing that will change this is revolution - and that is becoming both increasingly less likely, (via bread-and-circuses, propaganda, and various other forms of Kool-Aid), and increasingly less possible, (via mass surveillance and, appropriately enough, Facebook). Not to mention that in a revolution, pretty much everyone loses big time, at least in the short term...
A Canadian kid gets charged with "exploiting a vulnerability", (i.e. incrementing a number in a URL), and faces ten years in prison for archiving the FOI data he collected as a result. He had no idea he was doing anything wrong. (FOI? Hello!). These assclowns scraped data, and created 48 million personal profiles without consent. They knew full well what they were doing. Then they effectively published the data. Careless, much? Arguably they were criminally careless. They probably won't face any penalties at all. Go figure.
I'm wondering if Puerto Rico might be a good place for some companies to test and showcase new power technologies. If the country's electrical grid is utter crap, then perhaps the fastest way out of the hole is to abandon large parts of it in favour of localized wind and solar capacity, with battery storage and some fossil-fuel generation capability as backup. Maybe even a couple of those dumpster-sized nuclear generators, if they're buried deep enough...
Yes, it will cost money. That could be partially offset by the good publicity and the possible tax write-offs. It's also an opportunity to try out experimental ideas and processes in a place where the people will be a lot more accepting of failures and interruptions, because right now they have nothing to lose. That's worth money in its own right. And much of the work could be done with cheap local labour. The Puerto Rican economy could benefit in three ways - reliable power, local jobs, and technical training that would raise the level of local expertise. I could see Elon Musk taking the lead on this, and perhaps other companies would jump on board as well.
Depending on the electrical grid to power households and small businesses is kind of quaint anyway. Local power generation provides redundancy, avoids single points of failure, reduces transmission losses, and is friendlier to renewable energy. The Grid should power industry, and serve only as a backup for less power-intensive users. Puerto Rico might be a good place to start moving in that direction.
It's time to start seriously promoting the truth among the non-tech-savvy that 'smart TV's are a dumb idea'. Folks still have the Facebook debacle in the backs of their minds - maybe it's time to bring it back into the foreground and make clear the relationship between Facebook spying on people via their computers, and TV makers / sellers spying on them via their TV sets.
I have lots of hope, (but very little optimism), that it's possible to wake Joe and Jane average from their shiny-induced stupor.
We don't have AI. All we have is automation. Stop please calling it AI.
Wikipedia says "In computer science AI research is defined as the study of "intelligent agents": any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of successfully achieving its goals.[1] Colloquially, the term "artificial intelligence" is applied when a machine mimics "cognitive" functions that humans associate with other human minds, such as "learning" and "problem solving". Are you sure we don't have AI?
Other important points to consider: 1) For non-techies, the barrier for AI tends to be lower than that for the average Slashdot reader. 2) Continued use of a term prior to the full realization of whatever thing the term refers to, tends to help create that thing. 3) Self-awareness is not a prerequisite for the kind of AI referenced in TFS, and we really need a new set of names to differentiate between sentient and non-sentient AI.
Keyword search is great when you're hunting down a specific piece of information, but Google -- and digital technology in general -- still has a long way to go when it comes to connecting ideas and answering questions with complete thoughts.
Does that mean that Google search results will continue to be less and less relevant at an ever-increasing pace? I already have to re-refine my searches over and over again, in a drain-swirling process of thwarting Google's hopelessly inept attempts to read my mind. And then all those re-queries I end up trying, result in that fscking Recaptcha thing - and I'm pretty much NEVER signed in to Google, so that process takes two, three, or more minutes, depending on how coy their 'anti-bot' algorithm is being at the time. At which point I either give it up, or have to fire up another browser instance just so I can keep soldiering on.
Fuck Google, fuck the horse they rode in on, and fuck their attempts at "answering questions with complete thoughts".
In an age where everyone always carries a tracking and recording device, everyone is granted the opportunity, at any time, to be an informant
Obviously, I agree with your entire comment. But I'd phrase that last part "everyone is granted the status of informant". It's not really 'everyone', of course; but the vast majority of smartphone users are spying on the people around them, simply by being in proximity while having WiFi, mobile data, and location services active.
It occurs to me that mobile phone usage and tracking is a kind of disease vector, and could be modelled with the same techniques and math used for epidemics. And the only vaccine, (and it's only partially effective), is to simply not carry a phone around.
is reporting on what happened to all the data collected on people who either never joined Facebook, or left it years ago. FB has made it its mission to collect all data possible on EVERYONE, but it seems only people who have been knowingly drinking that Kool-Aid are being notified and offered sympathy. What about all the private data scraped from people who never belonged to the club, and who therefore never signed on to have their lives on display to the highest bidders?
Seriously, it's starting to look as though the only real solution is to shut down FB, and destroy all copies of the data in their hands. There's still that huge trove of data that's already been let loose in the wild, but going nuclear on Zuckerberg's ass, (and all those investors too), would make the rest of these jerkoffs think twice about playing fast and loose with people's privacy. Sometimes pillaging and burning down a castle or two is the only thing that brings the kings and lords back into line.
... aftermarket parts regularly break iPhones due to software updates
Software updates regularly break iPhones that contain aftermarket parts.
If the aftermarket part worked with a previous version of the OS, there's no excuse for it NOT working with a newer version. I'm pretty sure Apple breaks far more phones than aftemarket parts do.
Seriously, who cares about this, or anything else Apple does that's shady? They're not harvesting or selling our data, at least. Surely that's well worth all the premiums and walled gardens.
Dude! That's like excusing the actions of an extortionist because he was so kind as to not tell the whole neighbourhood about your porn stash. Nice troll though...
What really irritates me is that Linux filemanagers cant figure out that right click and dragging and icon is supposed to pop up a context menu when it is dropped on the destination to select if you want to copy or move. Many file managers wont even ask at all. Very annoying behaviour.
Interesting! I never even used that functionality in Windows Explorer - didn't know it existed. But now that you mention it I think I HAVE seen it a few times, accidentally. I guess by the time I noticed I'd been stuck in my accustomed workflow for long enough that it never even occurred to me to use it.
Not directly on the topic of file managers, but closely tied to it, is the whole mimetypes / file extension / "Open With" ugly mess that makes Linux desktop environments such a PITA to use. Plain text files, (for example), may need to be openable by several different types of applications. Back before KiCad changed its file structure, its PCB and schematic files were plain text. But they had their own extensions, and in Windows it was easy to just assign a program for a particular extension. In Windows, I could open KiCad files in a text editor, and often did - but I had it set up so that a double-click opened them in KiCad. Not so easy in Linux, where the concept of a filetype independent of extension is pretty rigidly enforced. If I set dot-pcb or dot-sch files to open in KiCad by default, then dot-txt files also open in it. I've also run into the problem with other file types,.I suppose it's possible to get around that in Linux, but in many hours of trying I never managed to get it to work. Those rules also seem to be handled in multiple places, and they interfere with each other. I've given up and learned to accept it, but it still pisses me off sometimes that Windows Explorer was far more seamless and consistent 20 years ago than any Linux DE / file manager combo is today.
I wish they'd release the source for the file manager that came with Win98 and Win2K, and I wish somebody would port it to Linux. The only decent Linux file manager I've found is Dolphin, and its deps are pretty much all of KDE core, which is huge - especially when compared with the XFCE environment I'd be using it in. I want a file manager with an integrated search function that will actually search inside files for a specified text string. Right now I use the Gnome search tool. It isn't integrated into the file manager, it's buggy, and its UI sucks, but it's the best available, short of installing the bloated and bling-laden KDE. Pretty much the only thing I miss about Windows is the File Manager. Well, except for the fact that Windows applications use File Manager for their load and save functions, which makes the interface much more consistent from one application to the next. Having a mix of GTK2, GTK3, and program-specific file dialogs like those in Libre Office, is just sucky.
What do you call a person who learns to interact socially but doesn't feel the emotions and empathy that drive normal people to be sociable? The ones who have to study social interaction like they study coding, sometimes with people to teach them, rather than intuiting it...
The sociopaths I've known have been glib and charming. They didn't have a particular problem engaging in convincing social interactions, and I'm pretty sure nobody taught them how to do it. Zuckerberg isn't necessarily a sociopath / psychopath. He may have Asperger's Syndrome, or a mild form of some other Autism Spectrum Disorder that prevents him from gauging and expressing emotions and empathy.
No matter what you would have been sold out for a profit so it's best to not pretend and work on approaches to mitigate what companies can use.
Came to say pretty much this. I don't trust ANY corporation, whether I'm paying them or not, to even apply good security practices to my data. I certainly don't trust them to not SELL my data - especially since they can sell it over and over again. And I really, really, really don't trust social media to not sell it, (especially Facebook), because selling other people's personal, private data is their business model.
I also suspect that, in the aggregate, corporations pay WAY more to buy data, than people will pay to buy back their privacy. And if people do start paying in large numbers, then there will be a tipping point where corporations will consider the remaining available data to be worth less money. And if people who were paying to keep their data private stop paying for some reason, (or even miss a payment or two), then all their data is suddenly up for grabs again. So I don't think there's a snowball's chance in hell we'll see paid social media subscriptions. And if we do see them, we can be absolutely certain that the 'members' aren't getting what they're paying for.
Facebook scans the text and images that people send each other on Facebook Messenger, making sure it all abides by the company's rules governing content. If it doesn't, it gets blocked.
We'll censor our members' private communications with each other, but we won't censor ourselves when we make your data available to our 'partners'. Everything you do is transparent to us, but everything we do is opaque to you.
For governments, cashless means unprecedented control. You know, civil forfeiture with less smell of "the government is stealing from me!" Which is exactly why economists are creaming their pants at the idea. Bank problem? Just steal everybody's bank balances and done. Bank runs? Impossible because without cash nobody can get their money out. Monetary policy, no matter how onerous, becomes much easier to just force onto the population. And so on.
This one argument alone is far more important and compelling than all your other ones put together. And it's ironic that some of us here who have been so against DRM, SaaS, Facebook and Google, are either blase about or actively support the demise of cash money. As far as I'm concerned they are all of a piece. They are all examples of the powerful extending their control further and further over every aspect of our lives. Ultimately, they all reduce our freedom and our autonomy. It seems that some here are equating convenience and flexibility with freedom. Please let me know how that works out for you when you reach the end of your leash - if you're not being choked so hard that all you can do is gasp.
Check the spec - perhaps it was by design or not called out to ignore empty entries?
The "by design" part is slightly plausible. But "not called out"? I haven't yet met either a programmer or a tester who wouldn't have at least tried out the 'null entry' scenario and flagged it as a problem. Heck, one of the most basic tests is to check what happens in the case of empty fields. This smacks more of somebody higher up ignoring test results and/or good advice.
This stuff needs to be disabled by every end-user until there is some oversight or regulation on what information companies can gather.
No, every end user needs to feed audio into "this stuff" from movies, TV, radio stations, and loud public locations. They need to do this until the data is hopelessly poisoned and the advertards end up chasing their tails and wasting billions on advertising to movie characters, popular songs, and random strangers.
Of course, we know this will never happen, just as we know that Facebook is only taking a temporary hit and will be back to business as usual within a year. 'Cause the average citizen just doesn't get it.
A company that has taken the admitted stance of connection at all cost... is now hoist by their own revelations
Poetic justice, that. And the rank hypocrisy they are revealing here is even deeper and more pointed when you consider that they are among the folks who created and promoted the 'nothing to hide, nothing to fear' meme.
you workers who joined those companies: are you now starting to have a conscience? I guess better late than never, but sheesh, what DID you think your company was all about?
At least I can kinda understand them deceiving themselves in the name of keeping jobs that provide pretty good wages and healthcare. The ones I don't get are those, (many friends of mine among them), who continue to offer up the last vestiges of their privacy so they don't have to write an email or a letter, pick up a phone, or, (gasp!), arrange a gathering and actually travel somewhere to get together with their "friends". It seems to me that they're past 'give me convenience or give me death' and well on their way to 'if death is the cost of convenience I'll pay it'.
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The company made all doses the same price. You can buy the four times stronger pills, cut them in four parts and save yourself 75%.
That doesn't work with all drugs - for example, some drugs have an enteric coating that prevents it from dissolving in the stomach, others may have a time release coating, etc.
I suspect that a compounding pharmacy could take a bunch of the large pills, powderize them, and make smaller pills with enteric coating. Expensive? Yes, but still peanuts compared with the price of the original pills.
sort of. Didn't realize that Tesla was already on the job there. I particularly like the plan to build microgrids. It would be good if some other companies got involved though.
... to delete Facebook. FB needs to die, to make room for social media that serves the interests of its users, rather than serving advertisers, companies like Cambridge Analytica, and other such vile putrid scum. Facebook needs to die fast and hard, to discourage investors from betting their money on business models that that rely on abusing their fellow citizens.
Unfortunately, we no longer have the power to get them created. That power now belongs to the rich, who have purchased the legislators. They create the laws that benefit them, and block the laws that would benefit us. I'm pretty sure the only thing that will change this is revolution - and that is becoming both increasingly less likely, (via bread-and-circuses, propaganda, and various other forms of Kool-Aid), and increasingly less possible, (via mass surveillance and, appropriately enough, Facebook). Not to mention that in a revolution, pretty much everyone loses big time, at least in the short term...
A Canadian kid gets charged with "exploiting a vulnerability", (i.e. incrementing a number in a URL), and faces ten years in prison for archiving the FOI data he collected as a result. He had no idea he was doing anything wrong. (FOI? Hello!). These assclowns scraped data, and created 48 million personal profiles without consent. They knew full well what they were doing. Then they effectively published the data. Careless, much? Arguably they were criminally careless. They probably won't face any penalties at all. Go figure.
I'm wondering if Puerto Rico might be a good place for some companies to test and showcase new power technologies. If the country's electrical grid is utter crap, then perhaps the fastest way out of the hole is to abandon large parts of it in favour of localized wind and solar capacity, with battery storage and some fossil-fuel generation capability as backup. Maybe even a couple of those dumpster-sized nuclear generators, if they're buried deep enough...
Yes, it will cost money. That could be partially offset by the good publicity and the possible tax write-offs. It's also an opportunity to try out experimental ideas and processes in a place where the people will be a lot more accepting of failures and interruptions, because right now they have nothing to lose. That's worth money in its own right. And much of the work could be done with cheap local labour. The Puerto Rican economy could benefit in three ways - reliable power, local jobs, and technical training that would raise the level of local expertise. I could see Elon Musk taking the lead on this, and perhaps other companies would jump on board as well.
Depending on the electrical grid to power households and small businesses is kind of quaint anyway. Local power generation provides redundancy, avoids single points of failure, reduces transmission losses, and is friendlier to renewable energy. The Grid should power industry, and serve only as a backup for less power-intensive users. Puerto Rico might be a good place to start moving in that direction.
It's time to start seriously promoting the truth among the non-tech-savvy that 'smart TV's are a dumb idea'. Folks still have the Facebook debacle in the backs of their minds - maybe it's time to bring it back into the foreground and make clear the relationship between Facebook spying on people via their computers, and TV makers / sellers spying on them via their TV sets.
I have lots of hope, (but very little optimism), that it's possible to wake Joe and Jane average from their shiny-induced stupor.
Does the enzyme release CO2, (or any other greenhouse gases), while it's breaking down the plastic?
We don't have AI. All we have is automation. Stop please calling it AI.
Wikipedia says "In computer science AI research is defined as the study of "intelligent agents": any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of successfully achieving its goals.[1] Colloquially, the term "artificial intelligence" is applied when a machine mimics "cognitive" functions that humans associate with other human minds, such as "learning" and "problem solving". Are you sure we don't have AI?
Other important points to consider:
1) For non-techies, the barrier for AI tends to be lower than that for the average Slashdot reader.
2) Continued use of a term prior to the full realization of whatever thing the term refers to, tends to help create that thing.
3) Self-awareness is not a prerequisite for the kind of AI referenced in TFS, and we really need a new set of names to differentiate between sentient and non-sentient AI.
Keyword search is great when you're hunting down a specific piece of information, but Google -- and digital technology in general -- still has a long way to go when it comes to connecting ideas and answering questions with complete thoughts.
Does that mean that Google search results will continue to be less and less relevant at an ever-increasing pace? I already have to re-refine my searches over and over again, in a drain-swirling process of thwarting Google's hopelessly inept attempts to read my mind. And then all those re-queries I end up trying, result in that fscking Recaptcha thing - and I'm pretty much NEVER signed in to Google, so that process takes two, three, or more minutes, depending on how coy their 'anti-bot' algorithm is being at the time. At which point I either give it up, or have to fire up another browser instance just so I can keep soldiering on.
Fuck Google, fuck the horse they rode in on, and fuck their attempts at "answering questions with complete thoughts".
In an age where everyone always carries a tracking and recording device, everyone is granted the opportunity, at any time, to be an informant
Obviously, I agree with your entire comment. But I'd phrase that last part "everyone is granted the status of informant". It's not really 'everyone', of course; but the vast majority of smartphone users are spying on the people around them, simply by being in proximity while having WiFi, mobile data, and location services active.
It occurs to me that mobile phone usage and tracking is a kind of disease vector, and could be modelled with the same techniques and math used for epidemics. And the only vaccine, (and it's only partially effective), is to simply not carry a phone around.
is reporting on what happened to all the data collected on people who either never joined Facebook, or left it years ago. FB has made it its mission to collect all data possible on EVERYONE, but it seems only people who have been knowingly drinking that Kool-Aid are being notified and offered sympathy. What about all the private data scraped from people who never belonged to the club, and who therefore never signed on to have their lives on display to the highest bidders?
Seriously, it's starting to look as though the only real solution is to shut down FB, and destroy all copies of the data in their hands. There's still that huge trove of data that's already been let loose in the wild, but going nuclear on Zuckerberg's ass, (and all those investors too), would make the rest of these jerkoffs think twice about playing fast and loose with people's privacy. Sometimes pillaging and burning down a castle or two is the only thing that brings the kings and lords back into line.
... aftermarket parts regularly break iPhones due to software updates
Software updates regularly break iPhones that contain aftermarket parts.
If the aftermarket part worked with a previous version of the OS, there's no excuse for it NOT working with a newer version. I'm pretty sure Apple breaks far more phones than aftemarket parts do.
Seriously, who cares about this, or anything else Apple does that's shady? They're not harvesting or selling our data, at least. Surely that's well worth all the premiums and walled gardens.
Dude! That's like excusing the actions of an extortionist because he was so kind as to not tell the whole neighbourhood about your porn stash. Nice troll though...
What really irritates me is that Linux filemanagers cant figure out that right click and dragging and icon is supposed to pop up a context menu when it is dropped on the destination to select if you want to copy or move. Many file managers wont even ask at all. Very annoying behaviour.
Interesting! I never even used that functionality in Windows Explorer - didn't know it existed. But now that you mention it I think I HAVE seen it a few times, accidentally. I guess by the time I noticed I'd been stuck in my accustomed workflow for long enough that it never even occurred to me to use it.
Not directly on the topic of file managers, but closely tied to it, is the whole mimetypes / file extension / "Open With" ugly mess that makes Linux desktop environments such a PITA to use. Plain text files, (for example), may need to be openable by several different types of applications. Back before KiCad changed its file structure, its PCB and schematic files were plain text. But they had their own extensions, and in Windows it was easy to just assign a program for a particular extension. In Windows, I could open KiCad files in a text editor, and often did - but I had it set up so that a double-click opened them in KiCad. Not so easy in Linux, where the concept of a filetype independent of extension is pretty rigidly enforced. If I set dot-pcb or dot-sch files to open in KiCad by default, then dot-txt files also open in it. I've also run into the problem with other file types,.I suppose it's possible to get around that in Linux, but in many hours of trying I never managed to get it to work. Those rules also seem to be handled in multiple places, and they interfere with each other. I've given up and learned to accept it, but it still pisses me off sometimes that Windows Explorer was far more seamless and consistent 20 years ago than any Linux DE / file manager combo is today.
Please!!!
I wish they'd release the source for the file manager that came with Win98 and Win2K, and I wish somebody would port it to Linux. The only decent Linux file manager I've found is Dolphin, and its deps are pretty much all of KDE core, which is huge - especially when compared with the XFCE environment I'd be using it in. I want a file manager with an integrated search function that will actually search inside files for a specified text string. Right now I use the Gnome search tool. It isn't integrated into the file manager, it's buggy, and its UI sucks, but it's the best available, short of installing the bloated and bling-laden KDE. Pretty much the only thing I miss about Windows is the File Manager. Well, except for the fact that Windows applications use File Manager for their load and save functions, which makes the interface much more consistent from one application to the next. Having a mix of GTK2, GTK3, and program-specific file dialogs like those in Libre Office, is just sucky.
What do you call a person who learns to interact socially but doesn't feel the emotions and empathy that drive normal people to be sociable? The ones who have to study social interaction like they study coding, sometimes with people to teach them, rather than intuiting it...
The sociopaths I've known have been glib and charming. They didn't have a particular problem engaging in convincing social interactions, and I'm pretty sure nobody taught them how to do it. Zuckerberg isn't necessarily a sociopath / psychopath. He may have Asperger's Syndrome, or a mild form of some other Autism Spectrum Disorder that prevents him from gauging and expressing emotions and empathy.
No matter what you would have been sold out for a profit so it's best to not pretend and work on approaches to mitigate what companies can use.
Came to say pretty much this. I don't trust ANY corporation, whether I'm paying them or not, to even apply good security practices to my data. I certainly don't trust them to not SELL my data - especially since they can sell it over and over again. And I really, really, really don't trust social media to not sell it, (especially Facebook), because selling other people's personal, private data is their business model.
I also suspect that, in the aggregate, corporations pay WAY more to buy data, than people will pay to buy back their privacy. And if people do start paying in large numbers, then there will be a tipping point where corporations will consider the remaining available data to be worth less money. And if people who were paying to keep their data private stop paying for some reason, (or even miss a payment or two), then all their data is suddenly up for grabs again. So I don't think there's a snowball's chance in hell we'll see paid social media subscriptions. And if we do see them, we can be absolutely certain that the 'members' aren't getting what they're paying for.
Facebook scans the text and images that people send each other on Facebook Messenger, making sure it all abides by the company's rules governing content. If it doesn't, it gets blocked.
We'll censor our members' private communications with each other, but we won't censor ourselves when we make your data available to our 'partners'. Everything you do is transparent to us, but everything we do is opaque to you.
For governments, cashless means unprecedented control. You know, civil forfeiture with less smell of "the government is stealing from me!" Which is exactly why economists are creaming their pants at the idea. Bank problem? Just steal everybody's bank balances and done. Bank runs? Impossible because without cash nobody can get their money out. Monetary policy, no matter how onerous, becomes much easier to just force onto the population. And so on.
This one argument alone is far more important and compelling than all your other ones put together. And it's ironic that some of us here who have been so against DRM, SaaS, Facebook and Google, are either blase about or actively support the demise of cash money. As far as I'm concerned they are all of a piece. They are all examples of the powerful extending their control further and further over every aspect of our lives. Ultimately, they all reduce our freedom and our autonomy. It seems that some here are equating convenience and flexibility with freedom. Please let me know how that works out for you when you reach the end of your leash - if you're not being choked so hard that all you can do is gasp.
Check the spec - perhaps it was by design or not called out to ignore empty entries?
The "by design" part is slightly plausible. But "not called out"? I haven't yet met either a programmer or a tester who wouldn't have at least tried out the 'null entry' scenario and flagged it as a problem. Heck, one of the most basic tests is to check what happens in the case of empty fields. This smacks more of somebody higher up ignoring test results and/or good advice.
--Max Headroom was a WARNING, *not* a HOWTO...
In my experience, the difference between the two is usually inferred, not inherent. Psychopaths infer different things than the rest of us.
This stuff needs to be disabled by every end-user until there is some oversight or regulation on what information companies can gather.
No, every end user needs to feed audio into "this stuff" from movies, TV, radio stations, and loud public locations. They need to do this until the data is hopelessly poisoned and the advertards end up chasing their tails and wasting billions on advertising to movie characters, popular songs, and random strangers.
Of course, we know this will never happen, just as we know that Facebook is only taking a temporary hit and will be back to business as usual within a year. 'Cause the average citizen just doesn't get it.
A company that has taken the admitted stance of connection at all cost... is now hoist by their own revelations
Poetic justice, that. And the rank hypocrisy they are revealing here is even deeper and more pointed when you consider that they are among the folks who created and promoted the 'nothing to hide, nothing to fear' meme.
you workers who joined those companies: are you now starting to have a conscience? I guess better late than never, but sheesh, what DID you think your company was all about?
At least I can kinda understand them deceiving themselves in the name of keeping jobs that provide pretty good wages and healthcare. The ones I don't get are those, (many friends of mine among them), who continue to offer up the last vestiges of their privacy so they don't have to write an email or a letter, pick up a phone, or, (gasp!), arrange a gathering and actually travel somewhere to get together with their "friends". It seems to me that they're past 'give me convenience or give me death' and well on their way to 'if death is the cost of convenience I'll pay it'.