Why is everyone assuming the claim the data is anonymous is true? The people selling data have a long consistent history of lying their teeth out and they have obvious economic incentives to keep on lying. Why should anyone believe them about anything?
Big data suppliers consistently ignore their published policies and often break the law and nothing serious happens to them. Just naming Facebook and Twitter proves the point.
If you take this story at face value you deserve to be hoodwinked and manipulated. We live in the world of 1984 except the surveillance state combines the public and private sectors. Facebook and the NSA are part of a seamless whole.
Facebook is a cess pool of misinformation because their only goal is profit from exploiting their user base. Users are an information commodity to be sold; that's the entire business model. Same for Twitter, Google, Apple, Amazon, MicroSoft/Github/LinkedIn, banks/credit cards, etc.
Whenever an individual is visible to a surveillance for profit business they become a commodity. Facebook shadow profiles are the perfect example. You can't opt out, all you have to do is visit a web site with a Facebook link and they own you. It's so ubiquitous it's impossible to avoid.
Since it is all about selling your information there are negative economic incentive for privacy or avoidance of falsehoods. If lies increase volume there is more profit to be had. Whatever they say about user privacy or upholding standards is propaganda in support of the business model. It also gives cover to executives who want to pretend they are not complicit in illegal and damaging behavior.
A counter example exists: medical information. HIPPA strongly protects patient information and data breaches are severely punished. Medical organizations can be shut down for failure so the protections work.
As long as for profit commercial surveillance is routine nothing will change. It's disruptive to the economy, society, democracy and national security, but that will be ignored as long as big business can buy political policy on the cheap. They're making vast amounts of money now and nothing else matters.
Pollution is bad for expectant mothers, the unborn, infants and children.
Your argument is vile and immoral. It shows ignorance of fundamental principles of moral behavior: defending one side by claiming bad behavior on the other side is both illogical and morally bankrupt.
What you should have learned from your parents is that two wrongs do not make a right. Even if your were correct, and you are not, you expressed an overtly un-Christian point of view. While you pretend to take the moral high ground you are in fact abandoning both reason and religion.
No one who reads Slashdot should be surprised by this. Underfunded emergency infrastructure during disasters causes greater destruction. It's as certain as the sun rising in the east.
Under the camouflage of deregulation the Republican Party has been consciously eliminating all sorts of infrastructure due to greed and contempt for the public good. They sit on top of the American economic pyramid of corruption and they love it. They want more wealth, more power and the sadistic thrill of watching people suffer.
Pai is a mass murderer. People have already died because of underfunded telco emergency services during natural disasters, and the number is going up. It's not if he is responsible for deaths, but how many he's caused: five, fifteen or fifty? Will it hit five hundred while he is in charge? These casualty numbers qualify him as mass murder.
This is not a singular instance. Defunding Planned Parenthood kills women, babies and children. The current opioid epidemic was caused by greedy drug manufactures tricking medical professionals to overprescribing addictive drugs. The major cause of death for people under 50 in the US is drug overdose. Eliminating smog regulation on vehicles kills through cancer, heart disease and lung ailments. Republican policy results in death increases.
The Republican Party is a Death Cult. It kills people for profit and power. That is why life expectancy in the US is declining. If you are too stupid to understand this you are a cult member. You or someone you know could end up a victim.
If this is not obvious to you by now then you deserve to end up poor, hungry, sick and homeless. It's not your country, it belongs to banksters, international corporations and Trump and his corrupt cronies. They all thrive by stealing the wealth from the entire county.
Once you are kicked into the gutter it will be too late. There is short window where America's side into a third world country can be reversed, but it won't last long.
The current set of Republican grifters must be unseated and then prosecuted for their crimes. That, unfortunately, is only the beginning, because they will only be replaced by a different set of professional looters. The only way out of this mess is for voters to elect candidates who are more honest then what we have now. It's going to take decades, but it's that or dictatorship will prevail.
Every idiot quadcopter pilot who flies with no thought of safety, regulations, noise, privacy, or common sense. That would be well over a third of them, possibly over half.
Not only would nearly all students, grade one through post-grad, be unable to do their homework, but the toads who run the EU wouldn't be able to make a speech or write any legislation or regulations. The former would cause chaos, but the latter might not be noticed.
Real World Libertarianism: Property rights over the right to "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness".
BTW your "complaint" is sheer mud slinging and has no content or logic. Typical for a right wing troll, or a Russian government troll trying to destabilize the United States.
Who does NASA belong to? Some bloated corporation or the people of the USA? It is symbolic of the corporate takeover of the Federal government.
Consider the real world possibilities. The Waste Management Uranus Probe. What about foreign powers? United States Lunar Base Putin. China doesn't have to build the Long March 12, they can just buy the naming rights to an American built missile.
Might as well let billionaires bid for the right to have their ugly mugs on the currency. Larry Elson would pay a billion dollars to have his face on a $50 bill. Goldman-Sachs or Bank of America would big bucks to have their logo on a quarter.
Just go all out: pay enough and you get to rename the country. If you're going to be a whore go all the way.
Because any nuclear fission technology with a minuscule track record is always preferable to a proven technology that is already more cost effective, better for the environment, and has no multi-million year waste problem.
Trump lies. He lies compulsively, typically multiple times a day. Show some evidence from a source that is not a part of the Republican propaganda apparatus that this claim is correct. No Fox News, Breitbart or US government source allowed. This is the administration that has censored references to climate change, so nothing they say can be trusted without verification.
Trump's Republican Party is a White Supremacist organization and you are clearly with the program. Remember it was only a year ago that real live American Nazis with real live swastika flags were marching in Charlotte in support of Trump. Your claim that minorities are thriving under the current regime smacks of the same kind of propaganda as Arbeit macht frei used at Nazi death camps.
Stop masturbating to your picture of Ajit Pai and listen up, you right wing tool. Since Ronald Reagan the Republican Party has been successfully trying to eliminate all Federal regulation on big business and this is the inevitable result. We live in a country run by and for the Telco cartel, the pharmaceutical cartel (currently killing Americans by pushing legal opioids), the agribusiness cartel (just gone international now that Bayer purchased Monsanto), the bank cartel (Wells Fargo is the bank equivalent of a child molester who keeps on hurting kids because his uncle is the judge), Wall Street in general (who almost wrecked the word economy in 2008, was bailed out at the expense of everyone else, including you, and is now making even larger profits, and now has lower taxes and even less regulation.)
The Democrats, feckless as they may be, are the opposition against the slide into plutocracy and oligarchy. To call them out shows that you are a committed fascist.
Why don't you get the hell out of my country and live in Russia under Putin? He embodies the corrupt centralization of power that you endorse. Your would fit right in.
Monopolies always end up with a rent-not-buy model. There is even a term for this: rent seeking behavior.
Collecting rent makes a lot more money in the long run and is a very natural extension of monopoly power. It also leads to lower value for renters and larger profits for the landlords, or SAS providers in this case. Plus market stagnation.
Welcome to the USA in the 21st century. You have no viable choices and you've been commodifed.
This is what DARPA is supposed to do: tackle problems that are too risky for private funding. The phrase for it is "DARPA Hard".
They often get a lot of bang for the buck because they attract more investment from partners in both academic research and business. That is what the DARPA Grand Challenge projects are all about. Remember the autonomous vehicle race from California to Las Vegas? Or the emergency rescue robot competition? Things like that.
In fact, both of those were "failures". The goals were not met. The robots fell over. No team finished the Mojave race. The prizes were not awarded. But the government got more then it's money's worth. And everyone who participated learned a whole lot. For DARPA that was a good result.
So stop whining about the futility of the project just because you are too short sighted to understand what it is really about. There are plenty of very very smart motivated people who do get it, and they are going to produce some very interesting work. Go back to computer and watch someone else play a video game. It's all you're good for.
Wall Street has a love/hate, or more accurately a love/jealously, relationship with successful high-tech entrepreneurs. They love the money and hate the successful individuals who make it. The hatred comes from the realization that despite the money and power, the tech types are smarter and make a bigger mark on society then any finance type ever will.
The only Wall Street types who have name recognition are all from the late 19th and early 20th century, for example Rockefeller or Vanderbilt. Not one name comes to mind in the post WWII era from finance. Meanwhile names like Edison, Einstein, Watson, Crick, Feynman, and Higgs have name recognition. Revealing that the Wall Street Masters of The Universe are ultimately second raters makes them insanely angry. Wall Street is not rocket science and SpaceX is. That's why they want to see people like Musk fail.
He clearly wanted to go from a movie cult figure to real world religious cult leader with tax exempt status, fanatic followers who labor endlessly in near slavery conditions, an ever shrinking paranoid inner circle who feed his delusions of grandeur and fight for eventual control of a vast empire (pun intended) that uses subterfuge, violence and intimidation to control the destiny of millions.
DU is soooooo safe, particularly when used in armor piercing slugs where it catches fire, which is what it's designed to do. Then the toxic and radioactive particles can disperse into the environment where it's absorbed by people or whatever. There's no problem because it's less radioactive then non-depleted uranium, although it's very toxic.
Increased rates of immune system disorders and other wide-ranging symptoms, including chronic pain, fatigue and memory loss, have been reported in over one quarter of combat veterans of the 1991 Gulf War. Combustion products from depleted uranium munitions are being considered as one of the potential causes by the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses, as DU was used in 30 mm and 25 mm cannon rounds on a large scale for the first time in the Gulf War. Veterans of the conflicts in the Persian Gulf, Bosnia and Kosovo have been found to have up to 14 times the usual level of chromosome abnormalities in their genes. Serum-soluble genotoxic teratogens produce congenital disorders, and in white blood cells causes immune system damage.
Human epidemiological evidence is consistent with increased risk of birth defects in the offspring of persons exposed to DU. A 2001 study of 15,000 February 1991 U.S. Gulf War combat veterans and 15,000 control veterans found that the Gulf War veterans were 1.8 (fathers) to 2.8 (mothers) times as likely to have children with birth defects. After examination of children's medical records two years later, the birth defect rate increased by more than 20%.
I suggest that you acquire some DU, grind it into a fine power and sprinkle it around your house and put it in your food. Or you could mix it with something flammable and burn it like incense. It's no problem since according to you it's safer then milk. (Some people are allergic to milk.)
Absolutely. Just like you don't have to treat a disease if less then 50% percent of the population is vulerable. Who cares if they die, if it's statistically insignificant?
As for FireFox/Mozilla, give up on that Pocket crap and whatever the halfassed social network is called and MAKE FIREFOX SECURE. No one who uses FF gives a rat's ass about your dreams of internet glory, just like they didn't care about that other idiot scheme to make a Mozilla version of Linux.
You're not seeing the big picture here. The problem is that they are competing too much. Since none of them are likely to be purchased or merged any time in the foreseeable future, they are going head to head for monopolistic control of the internet. That means users might have a choice, which is against Trump and Republican policy. If you doubt this, now that Time-Warner merged with AT&T, T-Moble wants to merge with Sprint, and that will happen. Soon we will only have two large cell phone carriers in the US, which is a Republican wet dream. They want the equivalent of the old Bell phone system, without all the pesky regulation.
Republicans want a cartel economy. It's their way of imposing plutocracy. Trump envies Putin and his oligarchy pals, and despite their whining about "innovation" and "free enterprise" and "small business" the entire Republican Party is on the same page.
Slashdot Mirror
Big data suppliers consistently ignore their published policies and often break the law and nothing serious happens to them. Just naming Facebook and Twitter proves the point.
If you take this story at face value you deserve to be hoodwinked and manipulated. We live in the world of 1984 except the surveillance state combines the public and private sectors. Facebook and the NSA are part of a seamless whole.
Whenever an individual is visible to a surveillance for profit business they become a commodity. Facebook shadow profiles are the perfect example. You can't opt out, all you have to do is visit a web site with a Facebook link and they own you. It's so ubiquitous it's impossible to avoid.
Since it is all about selling your information there are negative economic incentive for privacy or avoidance of falsehoods. If lies increase volume there is more profit to be had. Whatever they say about user privacy or upholding standards is propaganda in support of the business model. It also gives cover to executives who want to pretend they are not complicit in illegal and damaging behavior.
A counter example exists: medical information. HIPPA strongly protects patient information and data breaches are severely punished. Medical organizations can be shut down for failure so the protections work.
As long as for profit commercial surveillance is routine nothing will change. It's disruptive to the economy, society, democracy and national security, but that will be ignored as long as big business can buy political policy on the cheap. They're making vast amounts of money now and nothing else matters.
Your argument is vile and immoral. It shows ignorance of fundamental principles of moral behavior: defending one side by claiming bad behavior on the other side is both illogical and morally bankrupt.
What you should have learned from your parents is that two wrongs do not make a right. Even if your were correct, and you are not, you expressed an overtly un-Christian point of view. While you pretend to take the moral high ground you are in fact abandoning both reason and religion.
Dead Americans are the only certain result.
Republican Party Death Cult
Under the camouflage of deregulation the Republican Party has been consciously eliminating all sorts of infrastructure due to greed and contempt for the public good. They sit on top of the American economic pyramid of corruption and they love it. They want more wealth, more power and the sadistic thrill of watching people suffer.
Pai is a mass murderer. People have already died because of underfunded telco emergency services during natural disasters, and the number is going up. It's not if he is responsible for deaths, but how many he's caused: five, fifteen or fifty? Will it hit five hundred while he is in charge? These casualty numbers qualify him as mass murder.
This is not a singular instance. Defunding Planned Parenthood kills women, babies and children. The current opioid epidemic was caused by greedy drug manufactures tricking medical professionals to overprescribing addictive drugs. The major cause of death for people under 50 in the US is drug overdose. Eliminating smog regulation on vehicles kills through cancer, heart disease and lung ailments. Republican policy results in death increases.
The Republican Party is a Death Cult. It kills people for profit and power. That is why life expectancy in the US is declining. If you are too stupid to understand this you are a cult member. You or someone you know could end up a victim.
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
Once you are kicked into the gutter it will be too late. There is short window where America's side into a third world country can be reversed, but it won't last long.
The current set of Republican grifters must be unseated and then prosecuted for their crimes. That, unfortunately, is only the beginning, because they will only be replaced by a different set of professional looters. The only way out of this mess is for voters to elect candidates who are more honest then what we have now. It's going to take decades, but it's that or dictatorship will prevail.
Every idiot quadcopter pilot who flies with no thought of safety, regulations, noise, privacy, or common sense. That would be well over a third of them, possibly over half.
It will be used by NASA and the military and should be available in 2020.
"Many big tech companies have business models built entirely on collecting as much user data as possible."
Not only would nearly all students, grade one through post-grad, be unable to do their homework, but the toads who run the EU wouldn't be able to make a speech or write any legislation or regulations. The former would cause chaos, but the latter might not be noticed.
BTW your "complaint" is sheer mud slinging and has no content or logic. Typical for a right wing troll, or a Russian government troll trying to destabilize the United States.
How does it feel to be working for Putin?
Consider the real world possibilities. The Waste Management Uranus Probe. What about foreign powers? United States Lunar Base Putin. China doesn't have to build the Long March 12, they can just buy the naming rights to an American built missile.
Might as well let billionaires bid for the right to have their ugly mugs on the currency. Larry Elson would pay a billion dollars to have his face on a $50 bill. Goldman-Sachs or Bank of America would big bucks to have their logo on a quarter.
Just go all out: pay enough and you get to rename the country. If you're going to be a whore go all the way.
"Thorium"
Because any nuclear fission technology with a minuscule track record is always preferable to a proven technology that is already more cost effective, better for the environment, and has no multi-million year waste problem.
Trump's Republican Party is a White Supremacist organization and you are clearly with the program. Remember it was only a year ago that real live American Nazis with real live swastika flags were marching in Charlotte in support of Trump. Your claim that minorities are thriving under the current regime smacks of the same kind of propaganda as Arbeit macht frei used at Nazi death camps.
The Democrats, feckless as they may be, are the opposition against the slide into plutocracy and oligarchy. To call them out shows that you are a committed fascist.
Why don't you get the hell out of my country and live in Russia under Putin? He embodies the corrupt centralization of power that you endorse. Your would fit right in.
Collecting rent makes a lot more money in the long run and is a very natural extension of monopoly power. It also leads to lower value for renters and larger profits for the landlords, or SAS providers in this case. Plus market stagnation.
Welcome to the USA in the 21st century. You have no viable choices and you've been commodifed.
They often get a lot of bang for the buck because they attract more investment from partners in both academic research and business. That is what the DARPA Grand Challenge projects are all about. Remember the autonomous vehicle race from California to Las Vegas? Or the emergency rescue robot competition? Things like that.
In fact, both of those were "failures". The goals were not met. The robots fell over. No team finished the Mojave race. The prizes were not awarded. But the government got more then it's money's worth. And everyone who participated learned a whole lot. For DARPA that was a good result.
So stop whining about the futility of the project just because you are too short sighted to understand what it is really about. There are plenty of very very smart motivated people who do get it, and they are going to produce some very interesting work. Go back to computer and watch someone else play a video game. It's all you're good for.
The only Wall Street types who have name recognition are all from the late 19th and early 20th century, for example Rockefeller or Vanderbilt. Not one name comes to mind in the post WWII era from finance. Meanwhile names like Edison, Einstein, Watson, Crick, Feynman, and Higgs have name recognition. Revealing that the Wall Street Masters of The Universe are ultimately second raters makes them insanely angry. Wall Street is not rocket science and SpaceX is. That's why they want to see people like Musk fail.
He clearly wanted to go from a movie cult figure to real world religious cult leader with tax exempt status, fanatic followers who labor endlessly in near slavery conditions, an ever shrinking paranoid inner circle who feed his delusions of grandeur and fight for eventual control of a vast empire (pun intended) that uses subterfuge, violence and intimidation to control the destiny of millions.
What could possibly go wrong with a lovely seaside view?
Can your say Gulf War Syndrome:
I suggest that you acquire some DU, grind it into a fine power and sprinkle it around your house and put it in your food. Or you could mix it with something flammable and burn it like incense. It's no problem since according to you it's safer then milk. (Some people are allergic to milk.)
As for FireFox/Mozilla, give up on that Pocket crap and whatever the halfassed social network is called and MAKE FIREFOX SECURE. No one who uses FF gives a rat's ass about your dreams of internet glory, just like they didn't care about that other idiot scheme to make a Mozilla version of Linux.
Stop being so dumb.
Republicans want a cartel economy. It's their way of imposing plutocracy. Trump envies Putin and his oligarchy pals, and despite their whining about "innovation" and "free enterprise" and "small business" the entire Republican Party is on the same page.
Let's do the Slashdot meme:
1. plutocracy/oligarchy
2. ???
3. Profit & permanent Republican rule
Just like every other large company.