Ownership by Facebook immediately makes it technology I don't want. Not now, not ever.
Yes, me too. I do my best to avoid giving Facebook a dime of my money, and unfortunately this must include OR being something I can't purchase. That FB bought them turned them from being a source of palpable excitement to a source of sadness and longing for what could have been.
With the proliferation of national security letters, NSA spying, and all the other badness we know is happening, there's no way to trust cloud services that are owned by a third party, period. I don't use a public cloud directly, and I do my damndest to avoid doing business with companies that do.
You have a choice of TWO providers?? Count yourself lucky. I get a choice between Comcast or Comcast. Even though I live in a major metropolitan area, DSL doesn't come to my house.
If you are concerned about protecting you privacy of movement, why not use public transportation? In many places it's cheaper and more convenient than owning a car.
And in most areas, it sucks to the point of uselessness.
Is it legal to hide your tag while on private property?
In my state, the answer to all your questions is "yes". Your car only has to display the proper tags and license plates when it is being operated on public roads and thoroughfares. If you're on private property, you don't even need a license to operate those cars, either.
I agree. I'm of the opinion that when the government hires outside firms to perform governmental operations, then those firms are acting as an agent of the government and should be subject to all of the same laws, requirements, and restrictions as the government.
In the US, anyway, government entities are supposed to get a warrant before they can attach a surreptitious GPS tracker to any car, even one used solely on public roads.
This has not been decided in court, so it's hard to say it as a matter of fact. The famous GPS tracking case I think you're referring to said that that particular GPS device placement was illegal because the cops trespassed to place it. If they had place it while you are, say, parked on a public street then that court ruling would not apply.
Our state has a law that prohibits the police from retaining the data for more than two days.
And your state law does absolutely nothing to protect you from tracking -- the police aren't the ones retaining all this data and tracking you. LEARN (a private corporation) is. The police get the same end result as if they were compiling and using a tracking database while at the same time staying within the bounds of the law that is intending to stop them from doing just that.
So why does someone leave and create a startup like that anyway? Oh yeah, to get more money.
Not necessarily. There are a whole ton of nonmonetary reasons why people do things like this. For example, to get creative, technical, or professional control, to escape a terrible employer or working conditions, or (as appears to be the case here) to work on technologies or projects that interest you the most.
The reason we aren't using C++11 yet is because we have to change our toolchain to do it, not because of anything to do with C++11 itself. Changing the toolchain is a costly proposition, and is only done when the opportunity permits (new products) or if there's an extremely good reason to do so (security, typically).
STL can do it just fine. The problem with STL is primarily syntactic. If too much is being used, it becomes rather difficult to decipher what the code is actually doing.
That'd be a lot easier for them to police because they could create their own client and force you to use it.
Going that route is only slightly better than not offering the stream at all. I know that such an offering wouldn't be of interest to me regardless of the price point, even if the price was $0.
I work as a software engineer for a major software company. We do not use C++11, and likely won't start for years. Due to the existing code base, changing up tools is a costly and dangerous thing to do and it is never done unless absolutely necessary.
STL is something of an abomination. Good intentions, and we do use some of it, VERY sparingly, but generally speaking it makes code more difficult to understand and maintain.
I think that's about right. FF 4.0 was where the UI became utterly crappy -- but at least you could easily make it like it was before they decided to screw it all up. Now, it looks like you can't even do that without installing an add-on. If that ends up being the case, then clearly Firefox is not the browser for me at all anymore.
I remember thinking that their rapid release scheme was the worst thing they could do. I suspect that I was wrong, and they found something even worse.
I agree. I've been doing this for a long time now. When I see companies using awful practices like this, or ad that come through companies or ad agencies that engage in tracking, I make it a point to avoid buying those products and services. I don't intend it as a punishment or boycott, but it's more that I consider these practices to be despicable and I try my best to avoid doing business with companies that do despicable things.
It's different because with Google, you're paying for the services your using with this personal data and everyone knows that's the deal. With crap like what Verizon is doing, they're double-dipping, making us pay twice (once with money, once again with our personal data) and not being clear that they're selling you out.
And how many of those people are OK with their kid's school automatically signing them up for Google or Microsoft account for their school domain then forcing all the work to be done in the online docs/whatever tools?
I don't know, but I would absolutely, and vocally object. And refuse to allow my child to comply.
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Yes, me too. I do my best to avoid giving Facebook a dime of my money, and unfortunately this must include OR being something I can't purchase. That FB bought them turned them from being a source of palpable excitement to a source of sadness and longing for what could have been.
They killed it for me. They proved that the cloud cannot be trusted.
With the proliferation of national security letters, NSA spying, and all the other badness we know is happening, there's no way to trust cloud services that are owned by a third party, period. I don't use a public cloud directly, and I do my damndest to avoid doing business with companies that do.
You have a choice of TWO providers?? Count yourself lucky. I get a choice between Comcast or Comcast. Even though I live in a major metropolitan area, DSL doesn't come to my house.
Seriously?! THAT was their idea? Everything about that screams "avoid using this service at all costs."
If you are concerned about protecting you privacy of movement, why not use public transportation? In many places it's cheaper and more convenient than owning a car.
And in most areas, it sucks to the point of uselessness.
Is it legal to hide your tag while on private property?
In my state, the answer to all your questions is "yes". Your car only has to display the proper tags and license plates when it is being operated on public roads and thoroughfares. If you're on private property, you don't even need a license to operate those cars, either.
I agree. I'm of the opinion that when the government hires outside firms to perform governmental operations, then those firms are acting as an agent of the government and should be subject to all of the same laws, requirements, and restrictions as the government.
Wrong.
In the US, anyway, government entities are supposed to get a warrant before they can attach a surreptitious GPS tracker to any car, even one used solely on public roads.
This has not been decided in court, so it's hard to say it as a matter of fact. The famous GPS tracking case I think you're referring to said that that particular GPS device placement was illegal because the cops trespassed to place it. If they had place it while you are, say, parked on a public street then that court ruling would not apply.
Our state has a law that prohibits the police from retaining the data for more than two days.
And your state law does absolutely nothing to protect you from tracking -- the police aren't the ones retaining all this data and tracking you. LEARN (a private corporation) is. The police get the same end result as if they were compiling and using a tracking database while at the same time staying within the bounds of the law that is intending to stop them from doing just that.
So why does someone leave and create a startup like that anyway? Oh yeah, to get more money.
Not necessarily. There are a whole ton of nonmonetary reasons why people do things like this. For example, to get creative, technical, or professional control, to escape a terrible employer or working conditions, or (as appears to be the case here) to work on technologies or projects that interest you the most.
Pay is important, but isn't everything.
Even if there is no legal backing to stop him, it is still pretty bad form.
Why is this bad form? The days of companies and employees expecting loyalty to each other ended a few decades ago.
The reason we aren't using C++11 yet is because we have to change our toolchain to do it, not because of anything to do with C++11 itself. Changing the toolchain is a costly proposition, and is only done when the opportunity permits (new products) or if there's an extremely good reason to do so (security, typically).
No, we use different libraries for this.
STL can do it just fine. The problem with STL is primarily syntactic. If too much is being used, it becomes rather difficult to decipher what the code is actually doing.
That'd be a lot easier for them to police because they could create their own client and force you to use it.
Going that route is only slightly better than not offering the stream at all. I know that such an offering wouldn't be of interest to me regardless of the price point, even if the price was $0.
I work as a software engineer for a major software company. We do not use C++11, and likely won't start for years. Due to the existing code base, changing up tools is a costly and dangerous thing to do and it is never done unless absolutely necessary.
STL is something of an abomination. Good intentions, and we do use some of it, VERY sparingly, but generally speaking it makes code more difficult to understand and maintain.
I think that's about right. FF 4.0 was where the UI became utterly crappy -- but at least you could easily make it like it was before they decided to screw it all up. Now, it looks like you can't even do that without installing an add-on. If that ends up being the case, then clearly Firefox is not the browser for me at all anymore.
I remember thinking that their rapid release scheme was the worst thing they could do. I suspect that I was wrong, and they found something even worse.
Whenever you see the words "anonymous" and "unique" attached to "identifier", you can be 100% sure that you're being lied to.
You can't have both "anonymous" and "unique identifier". It's a logical contradiction.
Better to have ads that are relevant to my interests than random, irrelevant ads.
To you, perhaps. Personally, I'd much rather have the random irrelevant ads.
That's not exactly true. You can easily use an Android phone without it contacting Google, but you have to avoid using Google's apps.
Opt out is a cop-out. If it's not opt-in, then it's scammy.
I agree. I've been doing this for a long time now. When I see companies using awful practices like this, or ad that come through companies or ad agencies that engage in tracking, I make it a point to avoid buying those products and services. I don't intend it as a punishment or boycott, but it's more that I consider these practices to be despicable and I try my best to avoid doing business with companies that do despicable things.
It's different because with Google, you're paying for the services your using with this personal data and everyone knows that's the deal. With crap like what Verizon is doing, they're double-dipping, making us pay twice (once with money, once again with our personal data) and not being clear that they're selling you out.
Verizon is being incredibly sleazy here.
And how many of those people are OK with their kid's school automatically signing them up for Google or Microsoft account for their school domain then forcing all the work to be done in the online docs/whatever tools?
I don't know, but I would absolutely, and vocally object. And refuse to allow my child to comply.
Every so often, a little glimmer of good news comes my way. This would be one of them!