I can't help but imagine that there is some kind of "advertising bubble" like a stock bubble, that is going on here.
Agreed. I also used the term "bubble" in a post further up, before I saw your post. I also used the term "pyramid" because I believe this data is being bought and sold with profit at every stage until a sucker at top has payed far more than it is worth - a pyramid (Ponzi in the US?) scheme. That is why we are assured the data collection industry is "worth billions", but only to the guys who sell the data onwards and that is not the value of addition sales.
I rarely see ads that seem to be targeted, and those ones merely irritate me and are miles off-target anyway, like trying to sell me again something I recently bought.
I'm pretty sure the value of one's personal info far exceeds any amount of "free" coffee in the long run
Overall I doubt it. I think that the bubble of personal information buying and selling will burst one day. Organisations collect it and sell it on to others who sell it on at a profit (repeat and rinse) to suckers at the top of a pyramid who kid themselves it was worth the price. Really? I believe it is a fad that will pass. Anyway, have you seen the price of coffee in these places lately?
This is one case where a fake ID would really come in handy...
I'm using fake IDs and misinformation all the time. I'm sure I could get free coffee in exchange for BS at that place. I have several "standard" aliases that I can reel off at short notice, and have created countless other ad hoc ones.
A lot of victims, probably the vast majority, are people with one foot in the grave already, and the flu tips them over the edge. So less long term effect than if the victims were random like some other diseases.
I don't think RMS is a SJW dictator..... considering that he was attacked almost a decade ago by SJW's.... I seriously doubt he's all that sympathetic to their tactics and authoritarian speech codes.
That does not mean he is not a SJW. You are assuming that all SJWs exactly agree with each other. But RMS does enough to qualify as a SJW just by persisting in using "she" as a general personal pronoun; I usually stop reading his rants in irritation at that point - anyone can simply use "they" as a long-established non-gender pronoun if they wish.
No they didn't, because contrary to general belief Microsoft did not originally write DOS. They bought it from Seattle Computer Products [SCP] where it had been written for an 8086 by a guy called Tim Paterson. Some people believe that some ripped-off CP/M code was in it. MS also hired Paterson to port it to the IBM PC.
What MS did rip off was SCP - by lying about what they wanted DOS for, which was specifically to sell it on to IBM, and so they got it for a low price. Later SCP threatened to sue MS for misrepresentation, and I believe it was settled out of court by MS paying some more.
It probably succeeded because it had two key ingredients: IBM was behind it at the start; Microsoft was incentivized by IBMs initial non-exclusive license..... You don't see that too often.
Nothing probable about it - those were the reasons. Before the IBM PC, personal computers were generally "unacceptable" in corporates. We had a Commodore Pet in my branch that we more-or-less concealed from the IT department (an IBM shop). Then IBM PCs were introduced because nominally they were only supposed to be used as terminals (3270 emulators) to the company mainframe (that's how I first used one), and because the IBM logo was on them. They came with PC-DOS of course.
As for the non-exclusive licence, often cited as an example of Gates' "genius", why uncommon? Eg, plenty of bread baking companies have non-exclusive sales agreements with supermarket chains - I can find (in the UK) Hovis bread in Tescos, Waitrose, Asda, and corner shops too. The non-exclusive agreement was a result of IBM not taking PCs seriously; moreover they could, with a bit of enquiring, have bought DOS directly from Seattle Computer Products (SCP the guys who actually wrote it) directly instead of via MS, who had hastily bought it from SCP in order to sell it on to IBM at profit : IBM's incompetence in other words.
I have an account I set up several years ago for a once-only communication. False name, false address, false birthday, false career, throw-away email. I hope they have fun with it.
Which is why someone campaigning with a high profile should stay out of any possible trouble from other directions. Clean as Caesar's wife, as the saying goes.
A golden rule is not to do two dodgy things at the same time. Being behind 3-D printed guns, controversial, a current big issue, and the legality of which is still in a state of flux is one dodgy thing, and having sex with a girl who is underage in at least one of the jurisdictions involved is another dodgy thing. Either one draws adverse attention to and weakens your case with the other.
As he wanted to promote printed guns with a high public profile he should stayed squeaky clean in every other respect. It's the price of "enjoying" a high public profile. No sympathy.
I am surprised that a planet around a triple star would have an orbit stable enough to last long enough for the "aeons" needed for life to evolve, unless so far out that the radius of its orbit was some orders of magnitude more than the maximum distance between the stars, in which case it might be too cold for life. Is that the case here?
In fact, unless the three stars form a spinning equilateral triangle, one of the stars must be much further away than the other two are from each other for the system to be even quasi-stable, so presumably any planets must be much further away than that if they are not to be ejected from the system or lapse into a very eccentric orbit within an evolutionary timescale.
Pretty much everywhere else the children of slaves were born free, and quite often had a clear route to citizenship as well.
Nope. You think those Spanish galley slaves, Roman gladiators, Chinese eunichs etc had a route to freedom? Some slaves got to high rank as slaves went, and did not lead a bad life, but they were a minority. Most slaves in history would be lucky ever to have the chance of children (certainly not eunuchs unless they grew one).
Have fair-skinned peoples ever been the lower/oppressed class?
Yes.
Fair skinned people have generally been considered more beautiful, but less powerful. As such, women are expected in many societies to be fairer skinned then the men - take a look at Ancient Egyptian art, you would think men and women were of different races.
Fairer skinned men are not generally considered more beautiful though - compare the sun-tanned James Bond with the basement-pale nerds or anemic overweight slobs that he blows away sometimes. Today, eastern men prefer paler or white women, and they generally treat women as a lower class of course. Historically, Arabs raided North European coasts for white girls as sex slaves, and to some extent this still goes on.
Chrome does the same thing when you open IE/Edge and navigate to google.com.
Not the same thing as the "much nastier trick" referred to in TFA, which is about Windows trying to stop the installation of something. Your example sounds merely like an advert appearing on a web page.
it just has to worry about wind, waves, navigation, storms, icebergs, and all of the ways the open ocean tries to kill you.... This is a lot more impressive than armchair sailors on Slashdot realize.
No it isn't all that impressive, and I have been a professional sailor. TFA says that they waited until the wind and waves were favourable. It says:-
That's a significant departure from the 20 previous unsuccessful efforts made by teams.... "We had to wait a while for the right wind conditions to deploy safely; otherwise, the crossing has been normal with not too much wind and waves"
Sounds like I could have made it across on a pedalo at the time, and that some of the previous 20 attempts did meet some real wind and waves.
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I thought I'd heard that possessing a "false or fake ID" was illegal....
I'm in the UK. We don't carry ID, and I'm sure I'm not going to be prosecuted for telling a coffee shop I'm Joe Smith instead of Nukenerd.
Name (fine)
Phone number (work)
Email (throwaway I use for orders)
Major (sure)
DOB (sure, year is correct, but month and day are made up)
You ask me for data, I'll give it to you.
You are an adman's delight. My version is :-
Name (false but plausible)
Phone number (a certain pub I dislike)
Email (that of a spammer I found out)
Major (false)
DOB (false but plausible)
I can't help but imagine that there is some kind of "advertising bubble" like a stock bubble, that is going on here.
Agreed. I also used the term "bubble" in a post further up, before I saw your post. I also used the term "pyramid" because I believe this data is being bought and sold with profit at every stage until a sucker at top has payed far more than it is worth - a pyramid (Ponzi in the US?) scheme. That is why we are assured the data collection industry is "worth billions", but only to the guys who sell the data onwards and that is not the value of addition sales.
I rarely see ads that seem to be targeted, and those ones merely irritate me and are miles off-target anyway, like trying to sell me again something I recently bought.
The western world is sort of appalled at only serving one set of people.
Isn't this discrimination?
I'm pretty sure the value of one's personal info far exceeds any amount of "free" coffee in the long run
Overall I doubt it. I think that the bubble of personal information buying and selling will burst one day. Organisations collect it and sell it on to others who sell it on at a profit (repeat and rinse) to suckers at the top of a pyramid who kid themselves it was worth the price. Really? I believe it is a fad that will pass. Anyway, have you seen the price of coffee in these places lately?
This is one case where a fake ID would really come in handy ...
I'm using fake IDs and misinformation all the time. I'm sure I could get free coffee in exchange for BS at that place. I have several "standard" aliases that I can reel off at short notice, and have created countless other ad hoc ones.
What retard came up with that name [Pop_OS!].
They didn't. They came up with Pop!_OS. That's much more sensible.
A lot of victims, probably the vast majority, are people with one foot in the grave already, and the flu tips them over the edge. So less long term effect than if the victims were random like some other diseases.
based on timestamps, it only took eleven minutes to bring guns into a completely unrelated discussion. Not sure it's a record, but it's close....
A record long time or a record short time? I'd say it's about an average.
.... Until you kiss your spouse.
That depends on who else they have been kissing.
The company he created is more important than it's creator.
He did not create Tesla, he bought into it.
I don't think RMS is a SJW dictator. .... considering that he was attacked almost a decade ago by SJW's .... I seriously doubt he's all that sympathetic to their tactics and authoritarian speech codes.
That does not mean he is not a SJW. You are assuming that all SJWs exactly agree with each other. But RMS does enough to qualify as a SJW just by persisting in using "she" as a general personal pronoun; I usually stop reading his rants in irritation at that point - anyone can simply use "they" as a long-established non-gender pronoun if they wish.
did Microsoft MS-DOS rip off CP/M 86 code?
No they didn't, because contrary to general belief Microsoft did not originally write DOS. They bought it from Seattle Computer Products [SCP] where it had been written for an 8086 by a guy called Tim Paterson. Some people believe that some ripped-off CP/M code was in it. MS also hired Paterson to port it to the IBM PC.
What MS did rip off was SCP - by lying about what they wanted DOS for, which was specifically to sell it on to IBM, and so they got it for a low price. Later SCP threatened to sue MS for misrepresentation, and I believe it was settled out of court by MS paying some more.
The 8088 actually was a significant improvement over the 6502 or the Z80-with-bank-switching.
But inferior to the 8086 of which it was a cheaper variant. Suprising choice for IBM really.
It probably succeeded because it had two key ingredients: IBM was behind it at the start; Microsoft was incentivized by IBMs initial non-exclusive license..... You don't see that too often.
Nothing probable about it - those were the reasons. Before the IBM PC, personal computers were generally "unacceptable" in corporates. We had a Commodore Pet in my branch that we more-or-less concealed from the IT department (an IBM shop). Then IBM PCs were introduced because nominally they were only supposed to be used as terminals (3270 emulators) to the company mainframe (that's how I first used one), and because the IBM logo was on them. They came with PC-DOS of course.
As for the non-exclusive licence, often cited as an example of Gates' "genius", why uncommon? Eg, plenty of bread baking companies have non-exclusive sales agreements with supermarket chains - I can find (in the UK) Hovis bread in Tescos, Waitrose, Asda, and corner shops too. The non-exclusive agreement was a result of IBM not taking PCs seriously; moreover they could, with a bit of enquiring, have bought DOS directly from Seattle Computer Products (SCP the guys who actually wrote it) directly instead of via MS, who had hastily bought it from SCP in order to sell it on to IBM at profit : IBM's incompetence in other words.
I have an account I set up several years ago for a once-only communication. False name, false address, false birthday, false career, throw-away email. I hope they have fun with it.
Which is why someone campaigning with a high profile should stay out of any possible trouble from other directions. Clean as Caesar's wife, as the saying goes.
A golden rule is not to do two dodgy things at the same time. Being behind 3-D printed guns, controversial, a current big issue, and the legality of which is still in a state of flux is one dodgy thing, and having sex with a girl who is underage in at least one of the jurisdictions involved is another dodgy thing. Either one draws adverse attention to and weakens your case with the other.
As he wanted to promote printed guns with a high public profile he should stayed squeaky clean in every other respect. It's the price of "enjoying" a high public profile. No sympathy.
Italy has age of consent is 14 and heaven does not fall on earth there.
That's funny, I had always thought it did.
I am surprised that a planet around a triple star would have an orbit stable enough to last long enough for the "aeons" needed for life to evolve, unless so far out that the radius of its orbit was some orders of magnitude more than the maximum distance between the stars, in which case it might be too cold for life. Is that the case here?
In fact, unless the three stars form a spinning equilateral triangle, one of the stars must be much further away than the other two are from each other for the system to be even quasi-stable, so presumably any planets must be much further away than that if they are not to be ejected from the system or lapse into a very eccentric orbit within an evolutionary timescale.
Pretty much everywhere else the children of slaves were born free, and quite often had a clear route to citizenship as well.
Nope. You think those Spanish galley slaves, Roman gladiators, Chinese eunichs etc had a route to freedom? Some slaves got to high rank as slaves went, and did not lead a bad life, but they were a minority. Most slaves in history would be lucky ever to have the chance of children (certainly not eunuchs unless they grew one).
Have fair-skinned peoples ever been the lower/oppressed class?
Yes.
Fair skinned people have generally been considered more beautiful, but less powerful. As such, women are expected in many societies to be fairer skinned then the men - take a look at Ancient Egyptian art, you would think men and women were of different races.
Fairer skinned men are not generally considered more beautiful though - compare the sun-tanned James Bond with the basement-pale nerds or anemic overweight slobs that he blows away sometimes. Today, eastern men prefer paler or white women, and they generally treat women as a lower class of course. Historically, Arabs raided North European coasts for white girls as sex slaves, and to some extent this still goes on.
Chrome does the same thing when you open IE/Edge and navigate to google.com.
Not the same thing as the "much nastier trick" referred to in TFA, which is about Windows trying to stop the installation of something. Your example sounds merely like an advert appearing on a web page.
AC wrote :
it just has to worry about wind, waves, navigation, storms, icebergs, and all of the ways the open ocean tries to kill you .... This is a lot more impressive than armchair sailors on Slashdot realize.
No it isn't all that impressive, and I have been a professional sailor. TFA says that they waited until the wind and waves were favourable. It says :-
That's a significant departure from the 20 previous unsuccessful efforts made by teams.... "We had to wait a while for the right wind conditions to deploy safely; otherwise, the crossing has been normal with not too much wind and waves"
Sounds like I could have made it across on a pedalo at the time, and that some of the previous 20 attempts did meet some real wind and waves.
20 seconds is pretty good to calculate a number with infinite decimal places.
It isn't at random.