Let's say you didn't get the head start (college education) a modestly wealthy family could've afforded you... let's say over and above the hours the wages the job you are qualified to do provides, you can taxi the more fortunate to their destination in order to make your bills more closely resemble your income.
Are you hoping for government regulation that diminishes your ability to work yourself and your family into solvency and regular groceries?
Zuck's outfit is certainly not alone in this, but the fact The Facebook has the ability to listen when they deem it appropriate is troublesome enough. At this point, we basically have to trust an information-gathering juggernaut not to use this ability to ever gather information about us.
As others have wisely pointed out, listening all the time to everyone is not technologically feasible, yet the threat of a targeted listening campaign looms very possible and extremely likely to occur.
Because people are easily led sheep, and have been convinced that these are their betters, and that they should look up to them?
It also helps that they own all the media, most of the government (if not all, no one who is not owned will get far), and almost most importantly, the entertainment industry.
This is, I am afraid, the cost of popularist democracy.
This is also probably why original democracy was NOT popularist democracy, and had a number of features, now long gone, designed to stop this very development.
We are all busy racing to totalitarianism, with the only real competition being who wants to get there first. Right now the left is showing a more rabid love for it, however the right are playing many of the same games.
I have begun equating the left and the right with punches that equally contribute to my beat down.
I don't understand that, since we allegedly live in a democracy in which the vast majority of folks are on the poorish side of the economic scale.
It seems like eating nutritious food whenever you want, and living in better homes built in safer neighborhoods, and driving your kids to better schools in better automobiles would be enough incentive for those inclined toward greater wealth.
Why do they need the additional Get out of jail free card?
She will: relinquish voting control, give back a big chunk of her stock, pay a $500k penalty, and agree to be barred from holding an officer or director position with a public company for 10 years.
A relatively small private contractor would go to jail next Wednesday for a hot check to float the Easter Party.
A powerwall designed specifically to store and discharge energy to offset peak usage is also going to be more practical to market, since electric car owners would understandably be concerned about the number of charge/discharge cycles their batteries could sustain before needing replacement.
New genome research suggests birds and reptiles are descendants of dinosaurs, with crocodilians being the reptile most closely related to birds.
It's certainly plausible the asteroid impact was not the absolute end for many of the dinosaurs, but merely a Toba-event bottleneck they could not outlast.
Congress extended the same data-gathering practices of tech companies like Google and Facebook to internet providers like Comcast, AT&T and Verizon.
Why on earth would it behoove Congress, outside of the campaign contribution factor, to ease the path for other internet providers to evolve into top flight data collection outfits?
Perhaps campaign contributions are but the penultimate incentive, and government exploitation of the collected data is the end game.
If history teaches anything at all, the rather morbid and malevolent withdrawal of blood from a 95 yr old will be punished by ever skyrocketing values these collectibles.
Too many links, didn't want cookies? While there are admittedly no gun deaths where guns are not available, the nation with the highest rate of citizen gun ownership, the US is far from the most prolific nation with regard to gun related deaths.
Not surprising, really, since the gun has been accurately touted as the great equalizer that puts a 100# woman on equal, belay that, superior footing with a 227# male aggressor.
I find it macabre that these shootings are so common that we feel immediately comfortable joking about tragedies involving human suffering and death.
In the good old days, we at least pretended to care and waited a suitable length of time before making jokes of questionable empathy, initially whispered only in private company.
A quick test of the Google voice function on my Samsung reveals that "Not okay Google" and "Okay Beagle" both open the phone's ears.
Since accents, dialects, sleep or drink in your voice, and speaking with your mouth full probably all alter pronunciation enough for there to be some wide parameters in the voice recognition software, have a voice activated snoop powered on at your own peril.
Agreed. Similarly, it's not logical to risk a more severe collision to avoid running over a rabbit, a cat, or a puppy... yet people instinctively do it.
Imperiling the lives of you and your passengers, as well as occupants of other vehicles and pedestrians, is most often done without forethought. Making a conscious decision to minimize evasive maneuvers at sunset to avoid running over the ever present deer is something most people can do. Training yourself to ignore sudden, unexpected discomfort is much more daunting.
The driver had about five seconds and 150 meters of unobstructed view of the concrete divider with the crushed crash attenuator, but the vehicle logs show that no action was taken.
Having narrowly avoided two separate impending collisions while driving due to insects, one hornet loose in the cab & one bee in the eye through an open window, I have a macabre fascination with the last few seconds in a vehicle before the collision the takes the life of the human witness(es).
Sure, we live in an age of unrivaled electronic distractions, but there have always been ample incentive to pick the wrong five seconds to look away from the road. Outside of law enforcement, we'd never see the video, even if it did exist... but the new tech vehicles are getting makes the 'fly on the wall' view ever more likely.
Once they start censoring they will keep censoring, whether it is to please the Disney mouse, a political party, their own agenda, etc. Do you still trust them with finding for what you are looking for or finding what they want you to see instead? Probably not yet but they are trotting towards becoming a world-wide propaganda engine.
It seems unlikely a corporation could command as much influence as Google without eventually succumbing to either the internal pressures of wielding such power, or the external pressures of governments and advertisers to steer the narrative.
There has to be a whole other level just north of 1st world problem to properly convey the angst and suffering experienced by the user forced to enter the full four letters to link to the Kodi site.
It became aware of the breach earlier this week and took steps to alert users about the incident, the company said.
...took steps to alert users about the incident... sounds a whole lot less definitive, and somewhat shy of reassuring, than saying they "...alerted users about the incident..."
I suspect the housekeeping market is largely for unreported cash, and by independent contractors who don't need Amazon or another corporate behemoth pimping their gigs.
If the figures are for the domestic industry, puntended, that's $16,000,000,000 / 325,000,000 (US population) for a total of $49 per person, per year... hogwash.
I don't have a boss in the traditional sense, although the myth of no-boss self-employment evaporates quickly when you realize that now every customer is your boss.
The litmus test is this: Although emergency is also in the eye of the beholder, what carries the weight in the consideration of after hours service is, "What kind of customer are you?" Do you pay our bills year round? Are you considerate and a pleasure to work for or a pain in the arse?
If you want a more practical suggestion... the skills necessary for the occupation of Walmart greeter.
Yes. Mining the uncanny ability to morph from delivering a pleasant greeting to fascist receipt checker, in the span of one quick shopping trip... since the pay allows one to subsist at below the poverty level, identifying those sociopaths at an early age is critical to their proper recruitment.
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Let's say you didn't get the head start (college education) a modestly wealthy family could've afforded you... let's say over and above the hours the wages the job you are qualified to do provides, you can taxi the more fortunate to their destination in order to make your bills more closely resemble your income.
Are you hoping for government regulation that diminishes your ability to work yourself and your family into solvency and regular groceries?
New Statesman did that and wasn't able to show any change in advertising as a result of talking near the phone. That said, this doesn't mean that they won't use recorded audio in the future and it doesn't mean that they didn't temporarily disable this feature when it started to get a lot of press.
Zuck's outfit is certainly not alone in this, but the fact The Facebook has the ability to listen when they deem it appropriate is troublesome enough. At this point, we basically have to trust an information-gathering juggernaut not to use this ability to ever gather information about us.
As others have wisely pointed out, listening all the time to everyone is not technologically feasible, yet the threat of a targeted listening campaign looms very possible and extremely likely to occur.
Because people are easily led sheep, and have been convinced that these are their betters, and that they should look up to them? It also helps that they own all the media, most of the government (if not all, no one who is not owned will get far), and almost most importantly, the entertainment industry.
This is, I am afraid, the cost of popularist democracy. This is also probably why original democracy was NOT popularist democracy, and had a number of features, now long gone, designed to stop this very development.
We are all busy racing to totalitarianism, with the only real competition being who wants to get there first. Right now the left is showing a more rabid love for it, however the right are playing many of the same games.
I have begun equating the left and the right with punches that equally contribute to my beat down.
It seems like eating nutritious food whenever you want, and living in better homes built in safer neighborhoods, and driving your kids to better schools in better automobiles would be enough incentive for those inclined toward greater wealth.
Why do they need the additional Get out of jail free card?
She will: relinquish voting control, give back a big chunk of her stock, pay a $500k penalty, and agree to be barred from holding an officer or director position with a public company for 10 years.
A relatively small private contractor would go to jail next Wednesday for a hot check to float the Easter Party.
A powerwall designed specifically to store and discharge energy to offset peak usage is also going to be more practical to market, since electric car owners would understandably be concerned about the number of charge/discharge cycles their batteries could sustain before needing replacement.
New genome research suggests birds and reptiles are descendants of dinosaurs, with crocodilians being the reptile most closely related to birds.
It's certainly plausible the asteroid impact was not the absolute end for many of the dinosaurs, but merely a Toba-event bottleneck they could not outlast.
Another block in the foundation of civilization crumbles.
Congress extended the same data-gathering practices of tech companies like Google and Facebook to internet providers like Comcast, AT&T and Verizon.
Why on earth would it behoove Congress, outside of the campaign contribution factor, to ease the path for other internet providers to evolve into top flight data collection outfits?
Perhaps campaign contributions are but the penultimate incentive, and government exploitation of the collected data is the end game.
If history teaches anything at all, the rather morbid and malevolent withdrawal of blood from a 95 yr old will be punished by ever skyrocketing values these collectibles.
If they purchase more energy than they consume then what are they doing with the extra energy?
They are using the extra energy they purchase to fuel a public relations campaign that implies they are a conspicuously conscientious corporation.
To be fair, at ten times the world average in gun ownership the US is a case study in the conundrum that is citizen ownership of weapons vis-a vis firearm related deaths.
Too many links, didn't want cookies? While there are admittedly no gun deaths where guns are not available, the nation with the highest rate of citizen gun ownership, the US is far from the most prolific nation with regard to gun related deaths.
Not surprising, really, since the gun has been accurately touted as the great equalizer that puts a 100# woman on equal, belay that, superior footing with a 227# male aggressor.
I find it macabre that these shootings are so common that we feel immediately comfortable joking about tragedies involving human suffering and death.
In the good old days, we at least pretended to care and waited a suitable length of time before making jokes of questionable empathy, initially whispered only in private company.
A quick test of the Google voice function on my Samsung reveals that "Not okay Google" and "Okay Beagle" both open the phone's ears.
Since accents, dialects, sleep or drink in your voice, and speaking with your mouth full probably all alter pronunciation enough for there to be some wide parameters in the voice recognition software, have a voice activated snoop powered on at your own peril.
Agreed. Similarly, it's not logical to risk a more severe collision to avoid running over a rabbit, a cat, or a puppy... yet people instinctively do it.
Imperiling the lives of you and your passengers, as well as occupants of other vehicles and pedestrians, is most often done without forethought. Making a conscious decision to minimize evasive maneuvers at sunset to avoid running over the ever present deer is something most people can do. Training yourself to ignore sudden, unexpected discomfort is much more daunting.
Why were the insects causing you to drive?
Couldn't outrun the beasts.
The driver had about five seconds and 150 meters of unobstructed view of the concrete divider with the crushed crash attenuator, but the vehicle logs show that no action was taken.
Having narrowly avoided two separate impending collisions while driving due to insects, one hornet loose in the cab & one bee in the eye through an open window, I have a macabre fascination with the last few seconds in a vehicle before the collision the takes the life of the human witness(es).
Sure, we live in an age of unrivaled electronic distractions, but there have always been ample incentive to pick the wrong five seconds to look away from the road. Outside of law enforcement, we'd never see the video, even if it did exist... but the new tech vehicles are getting makes the 'fly on the wall' view ever more likely.
Once they start censoring they will keep censoring, whether it is to please the Disney mouse, a political party, their own agenda, etc. Do you still trust them with finding for what you are looking for or finding what they want you to see instead? Probably not yet but they are trotting towards becoming a world-wide propaganda engine.
It seems unlikely a corporation could command as much influence as Google without eventually succumbing to either the internal pressures of wielding such power, or the external pressures of governments and advertisers to steer the narrative.
There has to be a whole other level just north of 1st world problem to properly convey the angst and suffering experienced by the user forced to enter the full four letters to link to the Kodi site.
It became aware of the breach earlier this week and took steps to alert users about the incident, the company said.
If the figures are for the domestic industry, puntended, that's $16,000,000,000 / 325,000,000 (US population) for a total of $49 per person, per year... hogwash.
I don't have a boss in the traditional sense, although the myth of no-boss self-employment evaporates quickly when you realize that now every customer is your boss.
The litmus test is this: Although emergency is also in the eye of the beholder, what carries the weight in the consideration of after hours service is, "What kind of customer are you?" Do you pay our bills year round? Are you considerate and a pleasure to work for or a pain in the arse?
If you want a more practical suggestion... the skills necessary for the occupation of Walmart greeter.
Yes. Mining the uncanny ability to morph from delivering a pleasant greeting to fascist receipt checker, in the span of one quick shopping trip... since the pay allows one to subsist at below the poverty level, identifying those sociopaths at an early age is critical to their proper recruitment.
Nice try, but everybody knows you were talking about your mom.
If you really want to test the eavesdropping theory:
1) speak openly with your partner/mother about an act of armed insurrection against the US
2)wait like Charlie Brown and Great Pumpkin for the black helicoters