Not being able to trade anonymized data would be a severe hit to anyone trying to create statistics about anything. Countries rely on statistics to put the available resources to good use. How many car owners do we have and where do they drive? That allows us to know how much money to allocate to road construction, and where to build them. How do rents develop, so we know where to zone for more living space. How do people spend their pastime, so we know whether there are security or health issues coming our way.
And so on.
I agree that there should be some checks and bounds to data collection, but oulawing it altogether is going to do more harm than good. Data collection has actual uses besides finding out how to pester you the most effective way with ads.
The problem is twofold. One, that security did not keep up with the amount and severity of attacks, and that (personal) data is more valuable than ever before. Which of course is one of the things that drives the attacks.
Moving out of the cloud and trying to do your own thing again won't solve this. It will probably even make matters worse because I do kinda expect Amazon and Google to have more resources and better people available to secure their stuff than the average company that might collect some data about you.
What's needed is to make companies actually care about security. And that only works via punishment, unfortunately.
Well, gamers caught on when they left out the part where you first of all have to make a game instead of slapping a new year number on the old one before trying to sell it again, only this time you get to pay for the book and then extra for every page you want.
Fortnite is not the problem, and neither is a dwindling interest in video games.
It's a dwindling interest in paying again and again and again for getting the same video games.
Does EA even have a line of games anymore that doesn't have the current year in the title? Or does any major studio still offer games where you actually get to buy the whole game for 60 bucks instead of buying a husk that you can then fill with zero-day DLC and "season passes"? Only to eventually find out that you shelled out about 200 bucks for game you already had, just that back then you actually did get the whole game for those 60 bucks (aka what today passes as a "sequel")? But it has a new gimmick and worse, dumbed-down mechanics because crippling games so they run on consoles was not enough, today's gaming market is cell phones so enjoy playing games with mouse and keyboard on your 30" screen that were designed for stamp-sized touch screens.
EA, it's not that people don't want to play games anymore. You just don't produce the games anymore that we want to play.
99 out of 100 mails I get are pointless. And I'm not even counting spam. It's FYI, it's "just in case you might be interested" CC, and let's not start about all the "funny" ones.
Email as a means of communication is dead for me. You want to communicate with me, you use Skype (professionally) or Discord or Telegram (if private). EMail is something you send to me for archive functionality.
Ignore at your own risk, i.e. at the risk of your request being ignored.
Curing something does not mean you won't sell the same cure to the same person again. Just because you cured HepC, hell, even curing AIDS in a person does not mean they can't get infected again and need your cure again.
The number of diseases that grant lifetime immunity to it after you survived it once is fairly low.
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it! --Agent K, MiB
Or, as I tend to put it, the collective IQ of a group can be determined by taking the IQ of the biggest idiot and dividing by the number of feet.
The only thing the internet changed was that no loonie is alone anymore. Before the internet, anyone who had some batshit crazy outlook on life got a pretty quick reality check when his tinfoil hattery hit the reality of the rest of the world around him. Now it's easier than ever to find others who believe the same bullshit.
There is actually two kinds. Just like with religion. The ones that really, really, REALLY try hard to believe it and at least convinced themselves, and now want to convince someone else to strengthen their faith so they don't "fall". To them it's quite a bit of a religious thing, and more often than not you'll notice that they follow some other religion and think that their holy book kinda "demands" that the world is flat, so they have to believe in a flat earth or their holy book could maybe be wrong, and that MUST NOT be.
And then of course there's the snakeoil peddlers that noticed that the former group is a welcome source of income.
Greetings, You don't know me, but I have sent this to your printer. Another sheet of paper will be printed shortly, yes, it is a ransom note. You will put this note into an envelope and mail it. Don't contact the police, you and your porn collection would not like what happens next...
(I leave the rest to the imagination of the reader)
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I consider it a missed opportunity to see Jesus with shades. Would've been the coolest messiah ever. And turned water to beer.
I can only do that the other way 'round.
You can have a Norse superhero, you can have a black superhero but god forbid we get a Jewish superhero!
Not that easy, all that beard and the towel on the head... Stick to Jesus. A halo is easier to draw than a hairdo on fire.
No. Do it like with copyright. "We determine that by selling this information you could have netted a revenue of..."
Not being able to trade anonymized data would be a severe hit to anyone trying to create statistics about anything. Countries rely on statistics to put the available resources to good use. How many car owners do we have and where do they drive? That allows us to know how much money to allocate to road construction, and where to build them. How do rents develop, so we know where to zone for more living space. How do people spend their pastime, so we know whether there are security or health issues coming our way.
And so on.
I agree that there should be some checks and bounds to data collection, but oulawing it altogether is going to do more harm than good. Data collection has actual uses besides finding out how to pester you the most effective way with ads.
The problem isn't "the cloud".
The problem is twofold. One, that security did not keep up with the amount and severity of attacks, and that (personal) data is more valuable than ever before. Which of course is one of the things that drives the attacks.
Moving out of the cloud and trying to do your own thing again won't solve this. It will probably even make matters worse because I do kinda expect Amazon and Google to have more resources and better people available to secure their stuff than the average company that might collect some data about you.
What's needed is to make companies actually care about security. And that only works via punishment, unfortunately.
Why do you bury this gem in the pointless rubbish you respond to? This is the best summary of the problem possible!
I'd suggest counting the nurses' legs, too, for the sake of not running in an unsolvable mathematical problem.
As we've seen with the measles, all you have to do is rely on idiots to give diseases a renaissance.
And there's no cure for stupidity.
Well, gamers caught on when they left out the part where you first of all have to make a game instead of slapping a new year number on the old one before trying to sell it again, only this time you get to pay for the book and then extra for every page you want.
There is still something else? What recent AAA title can you name that wasn't aiming for online multiplayer gaming?
Fortnite is not the problem, and neither is a dwindling interest in video games.
It's a dwindling interest in paying again and again and again for getting the same video games.
Does EA even have a line of games anymore that doesn't have the current year in the title? Or does any major studio still offer games where you actually get to buy the whole game for 60 bucks instead of buying a husk that you can then fill with zero-day DLC and "season passes"? Only to eventually find out that you shelled out about 200 bucks for game you already had, just that back then you actually did get the whole game for those 60 bucks (aka what today passes as a "sequel")? But it has a new gimmick and worse, dumbed-down mechanics because crippling games so they run on consoles was not enough, today's gaming market is cell phones so enjoy playing games with mouse and keyboard on your 30" screen that were designed for stamp-sized touch screens.
EA, it's not that people don't want to play games anymore. You just don't produce the games anymore that we want to play.
99 out of 100 mails I get are pointless. And I'm not even counting spam. It's FYI, it's "just in case you might be interested" CC, and let's not start about all the "funny" ones.
Email as a means of communication is dead for me. You want to communicate with me, you use Skype (professionally) or Discord or Telegram (if private). EMail is something you send to me for archive functionality.
Ignore at your own risk, i.e. at the risk of your request being ignored.
Curing something does not mean you won't sell the same cure to the same person again. Just because you cured HepC, hell, even curing AIDS in a person does not mean they can't get infected again and need your cure again.
The number of diseases that grant lifetime immunity to it after you survived it once is fairly low.
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it!
--Agent K, MiB
Or, as I tend to put it, the collective IQ of a group can be determined by taking the IQ of the biggest idiot and dividing by the number of feet.
The only thing the internet changed was that no loonie is alone anymore. Before the internet, anyone who had some batshit crazy outlook on life got a pretty quick reality check when his tinfoil hattery hit the reality of the rest of the world around him. Now it's easier than ever to find others who believe the same bullshit.
They're not eliminating it, they just don't promote it anymore. I.e. you won't get it in your "recommended" list anymore.
Doesn't keep flattards from crying CENSORSHIP, of course.
There is actually two kinds. Just like with religion. The ones that really, really, REALLY try hard to believe it and at least convinced themselves, and now want to convince someone else to strengthen their faith so they don't "fall". To them it's quite a bit of a religious thing, and more often than not you'll notice that they follow some other religion and think that their holy book kinda "demands" that the world is flat, so they have to believe in a flat earth or their holy book could maybe be wrong, and that MUST NOT be.
And then of course there's the snakeoil peddlers that noticed that the former group is a welcome source of income.
Enough is ENOUGH! I have had it with these motherfuckin' flattards on this motherfuckin' plane!
Who is going to print on a random printer.
(paper coming out of your printer, reading)
Greetings,
You don't know me, but I have sent this to your printer. Another sheet of paper will be printed shortly, yes, it is a ransom note. You will put this note into an envelope and mail it. Don't contact the police, you and your porn collection would not like what happens next...
(I leave the rest to the imagination of the reader)
The word you're looking for is uneducated. Blame the school system (and homeschooling even more).
We don't teach critical thinking and reward rote learning and saying what the teacher wants to hear. Now what kind of result do you expect from that?
Not illegal in Austria.
If you try to use the information, it is. But finding out that there are unpatched, insecure servers isn't per se illegal.
That's basically what's gonna happen now.
Let them. At least as long as they don't have a clue they don't try something that could actually damage the flow of information.
Because I like porn. It's less slimy, gross and outright nasty than any politician I know, so why don't you demand filters for political spam?
Next question?
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