This is because there is absolutely no restraining force to limit or self police behavior of advertisers.
Actually there was and they were happy to comply when the choice was an active choice made by users and browsers required opt-in to do it. Unfortunately Microsoft shat the bed and made it an opt out feature, then Google and Mozilla happily joined in the fecal party and... you won't believe this next bit... advertisers decided "do not track" had stopped being a user choice and decided to just give the middle finger to the entire concept.
If your browser tells sites to not track, and they still do, impose some hefty fines.
With what authority? The entire scheme was voluntarily introduced by some industry code. There's no enforcement mechanism, legal or otherwise. You asking a company to do something in no way obligates them to do anything.
I use Chrome on a work computer. I log in to some web sites and Chrome conveniently remembers my passwords for those sites.
Last April I get a shiny new Google Pixelbook. (think: glorified web browser with 8 GB, core i5 and 128 GB SSD -- unless you put it in developer mode effectively rooting it so it can do useful things)
Using the Pixelbook (which is Chrome OS, of course, and thus Chrome), I am able to go to my favorite web sites, and -- like magic! -- Chrome conveniently knows my login credentials to those sites.
Hmmm didn't work for me. But then I didn't enable the completely optional feature of password synchronisation which is literally the second setting in Chrome underneath where you select your Google account.
Gentlemen, I present to you the stupification of our population. These people should stop taking all forms of di-hydrogen monoxide (hydrogen is highly explosive isn't it!!!! woooo scaaaarrrrryyyyy) and maybe Darwin help our species out of this mess.
Except that the browser never waits on Google analytics. At least not unless you're using Google Analytics code from pre-2009 (when Google analytics became asynchronous and thus stopped affecting page load times at all) and were stupid enough to put the code in the head of the HTML.
Fucks sake - this is exactly the reason random web page X stops working.
You could act more like your dad and simply not randomly enable optional features, and tell your mom to not push random buttons she doesn't understand and then complain about the result.
No need. It's up there with the "I forgot" cases. The amazing coincident that something magically happens to evidence by pure unlucky malfunction is beyond any reasonable doubt of malfunction.
or admit the Constitution has been shredded.
The constitution says nothing about defending your acts of god during a legal case. When it all comes down to it in criminal activity your high and mighty constitution combined with your incalculable lucky break just fails to meet any requirements of reasonable doubt.
Sorry mate, but when you look guilty AF you will ultimately be treated as such.
If he was stupid enough to be the only person with access to the cold storage he was certainly stupid enough to not go to a hospital with an infection.
Why come to this conclusion?
One scenario affects a person physically. The other scenario he likely couldn't give a fuck about. You can go ask him if he cares that his company is in the shitter. Ask him to say "yes" if he does and let us know how you go.
Maybe if Bitcoin had some sort of public ledger we can establish if anyone ever accessed the funds... It's a shame they didn't implement such a feature.
Why do you think banks don't do stupid things with security
I don't. What I do think is that banks have multiple insurance policies against various types of problems that they may encounter, the ultimate one being too big to fail.
The local neighbourhood idiot with a bit-coin wallet offers no such protection. Go ahead, hack my bank. Even if you take their money I will be unaffected.
Depends on how "smart" you expect the "smart" thermostat to be. You use the word "smart" and then describe something incredibly dumb that has existed for years.
Conversely with a camera you can apply image detection to determine if someone is home / away while ignoring disturbances like pets, you know, like someone "smart" would.
Then just buy a Nest and be done with it. I don't know why you are complaining about something as irrelevant as a thermostat while we're talking about a completely different product.
Not true. File compression is self sustaining and very much not encrypted in any way. The contents of the file can be restored with information from the archive itself. That is quite different to something requiring an independent decryption key.
The Electoral College is not going any where, period.
There are NEVER going to be more than 9 justices on the supreme court, period.
Trump is not going to be impeached and removed from office, period.
One of these is not like the other. And the fact you state it with "period" means that you have abandoned the concept of rule of law. Or maybe you believe that congress has abandoned that concept. Heck no one in the history of impeachments has thought it likely for a president to be impeached before some charges were actually brought against them.
Not every news article needs to be some mind blowing revelation of international interest to nerds. Some news articles can just contain new stuff. Today I learnt 2 things, in America they use fire to keep tracks from freezing, and that there's a picture floating around of lightning striking all three towers in Chicago.
All in all, happy I read it on Slashdot, and happy I read it in the comments too. If only we could have more of this rather than yet another Red vs Blue political debate.
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Innocent until proven guilty.
No. Innocent until thought guilty beyond reasonable doubt. Catch phrases won't get you far in the legal system.
This is because there is absolutely no restraining force to limit or self police behavior of advertisers.
Actually there was and they were happy to comply when the choice was an active choice made by users and browsers required opt-in to do it. Unfortunately Microsoft shat the bed and made it an opt out feature, then Google and Mozilla happily joined in the fecal party and ... you won't believe this next bit ... advertisers decided "do not track" had stopped being a user choice and decided to just give the middle finger to the entire concept.
If your browser tells sites to not track, and they still do, impose some hefty fines.
With what authority? The entire scheme was voluntarily introduced by some industry code. There's no enforcement mechanism, legal or otherwise. You asking a company to do something in no way obligates them to do anything.
Let's try this experiment. But for real.
I use Chrome on a work computer. I log in to some web sites and Chrome conveniently remembers my passwords for those sites.
Last April I get a shiny new Google Pixelbook. (think: glorified web browser with 8 GB, core i5 and 128 GB SSD -- unless you put it in developer mode effectively rooting it so it can do useful things)
Using the Pixelbook (which is Chrome OS, of course, and thus Chrome), I am able to go to my favorite web sites, and -- like magic! -- Chrome conveniently knows my login credentials to those sites.
Hmmm didn't work for me. But then I didn't enable the completely optional feature of password synchronisation which is literally the second setting in Chrome underneath where you select your Google account.
a list of 42 chemicals that would not sound nice
Gentlemen, I present to you the stupification of our population. These people should stop taking all forms of di-hydrogen monoxide (hydrogen is highly explosive isn't it!!!! woooo scaaaarrrrryyyyy) and maybe Darwin help our species out of this mess.
how about we 'trim the fat' from the pages' sources themselves, instead of having these bloated monstrosities in the first place?
Indeed, you should start by writing the internet a strongly worded letter. I mean people not being happy about ads also got rid of ads too right?
They should start there!
Except that the browser never waits on Google analytics. At least not unless you're using Google Analytics code from pre-2009 (when Google analytics became asynchronous and thus stopped affecting page load times at all) and were stupid enough to put the code in the head of the HTML.
huh?
Fucks sake - this is exactly the reason random web page X stops working.
You could act more like your dad and simply not randomly enable optional features, and tell your mom to not push random buttons she doesn't understand and then complain about the result.
(I could not play online games in our area with cable but U-Verse was fine)
Holy crap man, that was a local problem with your cable and not something magic about U-Verse.
Prove it didn't
No need. It's up there with the "I forgot" cases. The amazing coincident that something magically happens to evidence by pure unlucky malfunction is beyond any reasonable doubt of malfunction.
or admit the Constitution has been shredded.
The constitution says nothing about defending your acts of god during a legal case. When it all comes down to it in criminal activity your high and mighty constitution combined with your incalculable lucky break just fails to meet any requirements of reasonable doubt.
Sorry mate, but when you look guilty AF you will ultimately be treated as such.
If he was stupid enough to be the only person with access to the cold storage he was certainly stupid enough to not go to a hospital with an infection.
Why come to this conclusion?
One scenario affects a person physically.
The other scenario he likely couldn't give a fuck about. You can go ask him if he cares that his company is in the shitter. Ask him to say "yes" if he does and let us know how you go.
the main killer of a crohn's sufferer is infection due to lowered immune system
Phew. Thank god he was in India and not some 3rd world country.
how can anyone prove otherwise
Maybe if Bitcoin had some sort of public ledger we can establish if anyone ever accessed the funds... It's a shame they didn't implement such a feature.
Why do you think banks don't do stupid things with security
I don't. What I do think is that banks have multiple insurance policies against various types of problems that they may encounter, the ultimate one being too big to fail.
The local neighbourhood idiot with a bit-coin wallet offers no such protection. Go ahead, hack my bank. Even if you take their money I will be unaffected.
a 'smart' thermostat needs no camera
Depends on how "smart" you expect the "smart" thermostat to be. You use the word "smart" and then describe something incredibly dumb that has existed for years.
Conversely with a camera you can apply image detection to determine if someone is home / away while ignoring disturbances like pets, you know, like someone "smart" would.
Then just buy a Nest and be done with it. I don't know why you are complaining about something as irrelevant as a thermostat while we're talking about a completely different product.
I don't think most people here would consider gifs or swapping images as video.
You're right. Most people here would consider it far worse as it is a video consuming far more bandwidth and resources.
An how about blocking the ability for a video to self extract its ass from a frame and chase my ass down the page.
Doing so would break the layout system used by an incredible amount of the internet. So no. #wontfix
Assuming you slashdot idiots actually use C according to the context to mean coulombs
Wow. It's been a long time since I've seen a post fail as much as this one. I commend you for your superiority complex while being so utterly wrong.
Karma indeed.
The Electrify America deal is actually rather amusing, as it's Volkswagen behind that ;)
It would be amusing if the company did it on its own accord rather than doing it as part of it's "fine" for dieselgate.
Oh good. Not one but 2 counts of contempt of court. Such a stupid lie won't get you very far.
File compression does the same thing
Not true. File compression is self sustaining and very much not encrypted in any way. The contents of the file can be restored with information from the archive itself. That is quite different to something requiring an independent decryption key.
The Electoral College is not going any where, period.
There are NEVER going to be more than 9 justices on the supreme court, period.
Trump is not going to be impeached and removed from office, period.
One of these is not like the other. And the fact you state it with "period" means that you have abandoned the concept of rule of law. Or maybe you believe that congress has abandoned that concept. Heck no one in the history of impeachments has thought it likely for a president to be impeached before some charges were actually brought against them.
Not every news article needs to be some mind blowing revelation of international interest to nerds. Some news articles can just contain new stuff. Today I learnt 2 things, in America they use fire to keep tracks from freezing, and that there's a picture floating around of lightning striking all three towers in Chicago.
All in all, happy I read it on Slashdot, and happy I read it in the comments too. If only we could have more of this rather than yet another Red vs Blue political debate.