Many decades of child psychology research and practice says otherwise. I assume you have some peer reviewed studies to back up your assertion that it's all bunk?
The "enabling genocide" and "facilitating foreign undermining of democratic institutions" was in part done by them selling people's data. They allowed hostile governments to mine Facebook data which was then used to facilitate genocide and interfere with democracy.
BTW the NZ Prime Minister is a woman. Perhaps you meant the Privacy Commissioner, who you actually quoted.
There is a privacy and human dignity issue with things like the NZ terrorist's video. People are being murdered in it, and in many countries the victims of crimes like that had a right to a certain amount of privacy and dignity even in death. I think it's different in the US, but for example in the UK they generally don't show people being murdered on TV unless it's very exceptional circumstances.
There are other privacy issues around the way that Facebook handles personal data of course, e.g. Cambridge Analytica.
There are also safety issues for children. If they want to be open to children they have additional responsibilities. If they don't they can raise the minimum age for having an account to 18. As an example we have film and game ratings because we understand that children don't have the psychological tools to process certain material without being harmed by it, but Facebook has nothing like that. In fact it promotes itself as a safe space, when in fact it is not.
There is plenty of evidence that Facebook knows what it is doing, especially when it comes to selling data. They knew about companies violating their contracts with regard to user data and just ignored it until the world found out. Always profit before the users.
The NZ terrorist's video could easily be blocked if they really cared. Look at how good YouTube is at recognizing someone merely humming a few bars of some copyrighted song. Play a 5 frame clip of some TV series in the middle of your hour long critique video and YouTube will copyright flag it.
It's more than simply enabling communication. Facebook data mines your personal info and sells it on. It allows Russia to target you with misinformation and influence your political discourse, something that is explicitly illegal in many countries. It helped Cambridge Analytica cheat during the brexit referendum.
Facebook builds communities. Communities that are dedicated to committing crimes in some cases. Facebook enables people to broadcast the murder of others, which at the very least is a severe violation of the rights of the victims.
And Facebook lies about it all the time. Facebook wants you to trust them, wants to present itself as a safe place to be, but it's not. Facebook are a bunch of pathological liars, it's their core value. Pretend to be your friend while ruthlessly exploiting you and trying to cover it all up.
The distinction is not if you pay for it, so yes it is somewhat mis-named. The distinction is in the amount of lock-in there.
With cable TV you need to have cable installed in your house and a receiver set up. Around here it's a 1 year minimum contract too. So just deciding you don't want cable this month isn't easy, it means you have to sent the rented receiver back and when you subscribe again it's locked in for a year.
With Netflix etc. you come and go as you choose. It's just an app/web site so you can flick between the ones you want almost effortlessly. The commitment is 10 bucks or whatever for a month, nothing more.
Speaking of inaccurate terminology, it's not really cord cutting either. A cord is a power lead, and all domestic versions have at least two wires in them. The actual thing being cut here is usually a coax cable with a single conductor and shield.
Have you looked at places like Norway? They seem to be installing that infrastructure without too much hassle. Car parks with charge points in every bay, a bit of smarts to limit the max simultaneous current.
Part of the secret is that a lot of charging happens at night, when utilization is otherwise very low.
Still, I suppose we should feel sorry for those electricity companies faced with having to upgrade their networks just so they can deliver more of their product. Take all that business away from gas stations for the foreseable future surely isn't worth investing in infrastructure upgrades for.
5G won't provide fibre speeds to all. It can't, there just isn't enough bandwidth. Say you live in a city in an apartment block and everyone is using 5G for their broadband. Well for a start 5G uses higher frequencies so you will need an external antenna to get anywhere near the theoretical 10Gbps it offers.
10Gbps between how many users? If it's more than 5 then it's already slower than symmetrical 1/1Gbps cable, and of course the latency is much worse. That 10Gbps is the on-air rate too, not the speed you get after all the protocol overhead and switching time to allow other uses to communicate.
You can charge from 110V, no problem. But yeah, 220V and higher current is nice. I had 240V/32A at home. 50A is excessive, most cars can only pull 32A anyway.
$500 sounds about right for a nice one. Of course companies will get them installed anyway for their own fleet vehicles, and over time the costs will continue to fall and all new buildings will have them.
It's not like upgrading gas stations is free either. How much do you think a hydrogen pump and storage system costs?
I'd jump to Threadripper. Intel goes through sockets way too fast to be worth sticking with. Threadripper is going to have 64 PCIe lanes, compared to only 40 on the 6900K, and the socket will most likely be around for years with decent support for future models of CPU.
has a lot of condescending tools that would rather make people asking for help feel stupid than making the effort to educate them
This is unfortunately true. I asked about setting up OPAL V2 self-encryption and got a bunch of asshats telling me how it was compromised and completely useless and that I should use software crypto. I explained that I was aware of all that and it was still suitable for my threat model, at which point they lost interest and I had to figure it out on my own.
I checked a few of their other posts and they were all the same. Tell the questioner that they are an idiot and doing it wrong and then bugger off rather than offer an actual solution.
Not all software is available in package managers. For example, Chrome isn't there in Ubuntu. I tried to search for "steam" but the web site just gives me an error.
Hardware compatibility is still an issue too. Couldn't get my document scanner to work and there doesn't seem to be any equivalent to the document management software that NEC provides with it. Maybe there is some software but I couldn't find it.
Maybe we just need to think about alternative funding models that don't involve advertising, or at least allow people to connect with advertisers who don't worry too much about the content. Because the simple truth is that you can't force advertisers to pay you if they don't want to.
Outlook is available via the web now and many smaller businesses are switching to a cloud based solution, to avoid having to run their own Exchange server and deal with things like spam blacklists hitting their IP address range.
In general a lot of stuff is done online now, and you have MS Office online or Libre Office is good enough... So why does the OS matter? It's because there are still so many apps that are Windows only. Oh sure, they will probably work under WINE, but Windows is already there. You buy a laptop, it comes with Windows. It integrates with the existing Domain server, all the support and remote management is in place...
And the benefits of Linux are somewhat unclear anyway. The days when Windows was constantly being infected by viruses are long gone. Even Windows 10's bastard update system wasn't enough motivation.
You are both the product and the customer. They need to keep you happy or you will leave, and then they can't sell your data to advertisers. Unlike cattle you have free will and a choice of social networks, or simply not using Facebook at all.
Best not to over-simplify this if we want to fix it. Also customers have rights so better that we demand them.
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That's argumentum ad absurdum.
Fujitsu ScanSnap 1300. I remember when I looked about a year ago there was some fiddly way to make it work involving WINE.
YouTube is the same, which is why their awful system is fully automated and it's nearly impossible to contact a human.
Many decades of child psychology research and practice says otherwise. I assume you have some peer reviewed studies to back up your assertion that it's all bunk?
Unfortunately Pateron also has some minimal moral fortitude and will ban Nazis etc. from their platform too. Bitcoin maybe?
The "enabling genocide" and "facilitating foreign undermining of democratic institutions" was in part done by them selling people's data. They allowed hostile governments to mine Facebook data which was then used to facilitate genocide and interfere with democracy.
BTW the NZ Prime Minister is a woman. Perhaps you meant the Privacy Commissioner, who you actually quoted.
It's not a free speech issue.
There is a privacy and human dignity issue with things like the NZ terrorist's video. People are being murdered in it, and in many countries the victims of crimes like that had a right to a certain amount of privacy and dignity even in death. I think it's different in the US, but for example in the UK they generally don't show people being murdered on TV unless it's very exceptional circumstances.
There are other privacy issues around the way that Facebook handles personal data of course, e.g. Cambridge Analytica.
There are also safety issues for children. If they want to be open to children they have additional responsibilities. If they don't they can raise the minimum age for having an account to 18. As an example we have film and game ratings because we understand that children don't have the psychological tools to process certain material without being harmed by it, but Facebook has nothing like that. In fact it promotes itself as a safe space, when in fact it is not.
There is plenty of evidence that Facebook knows what it is doing, especially when it comes to selling data. They knew about companies violating their contracts with regard to user data and just ignored it until the world found out. Always profit before the users.
The NZ terrorist's video could easily be blocked if they really cared. Look at how good YouTube is at recognizing someone merely humming a few bars of some copyrighted song. Play a 5 frame clip of some TV series in the middle of your hour long critique video and YouTube will copyright flag it.
It's more than simply enabling communication. Facebook data mines your personal info and sells it on. It allows Russia to target you with misinformation and influence your political discourse, something that is explicitly illegal in many countries. It helped Cambridge Analytica cheat during the brexit referendum.
Facebook builds communities. Communities that are dedicated to committing crimes in some cases. Facebook enables people to broadcast the murder of others, which at the very least is a severe violation of the rights of the victims.
And Facebook lies about it all the time. Facebook wants you to trust them, wants to present itself as a safe place to be, but it's not. Facebook are a bunch of pathological liars, it's their core value. Pretend to be your friend while ruthlessly exploiting you and trying to cover it all up.
So basically the problem is a sub-standard power grid and CEOs who can't see beyond next quarter.
If I were king I'd make sure the consumers didn't pay for it, that's for sure.
The distinction is not if you pay for it, so yes it is somewhat mis-named. The distinction is in the amount of lock-in there.
With cable TV you need to have cable installed in your house and a receiver set up. Around here it's a 1 year minimum contract too. So just deciding you don't want cable this month isn't easy, it means you have to sent the rented receiver back and when you subscribe again it's locked in for a year.
With Netflix etc. you come and go as you choose. It's just an app/web site so you can flick between the ones you want almost effortlessly. The commitment is 10 bucks or whatever for a month, nothing more.
Speaking of inaccurate terminology, it's not really cord cutting either. A cord is a power lead, and all domestic versions have at least two wires in them. The actual thing being cut here is usually a coax cable with a single conductor and shield.
Have you looked at places like Norway? They seem to be installing that infrastructure without too much hassle. Car parks with charge points in every bay, a bit of smarts to limit the max simultaneous current.
Part of the secret is that a lot of charging happens at night, when utilization is otherwise very low.
Still, I suppose we should feel sorry for those electricity companies faced with having to upgrade their networks just so they can deliver more of their product. Take all that business away from gas stations for the foreseable future surely isn't worth investing in infrastructure upgrades for.
5G won't provide fibre speeds to all. It can't, there just isn't enough bandwidth. Say you live in a city in an apartment block and everyone is using 5G for their broadband. Well for a start 5G uses higher frequencies so you will need an external antenna to get anywhere near the theoretical 10Gbps it offers.
10Gbps between how many users? If it's more than 5 then it's already slower than symmetrical 1/1Gbps cable, and of course the latency is much worse. That 10Gbps is the on-air rate too, not the speed you get after all the protocol overhead and switching time to allow other uses to communicate.
You can charge from 110V, no problem. But yeah, 220V and higher current is nice. I had 240V/32A at home. 50A is excessive, most cars can only pull 32A anyway.
$500 sounds about right for a nice one. Of course companies will get them installed anyway for their own fleet vehicles, and over time the costs will continue to fall and all new buildings will have them.
It's not like upgrading gas stations is free either. How much do you think a hydrogen pump and storage system costs?
I'd jump to Threadripper. Intel goes through sockets way too fast to be worth sticking with. Threadripper is going to have 64 PCIe lanes, compared to only 40 on the 6900K, and the socket will most likely be around for years with decent support for future models of CPU.
What happens when we get two robots talking to each other for hours, clogging up phone lines with their inane time-wasting?
Better to phrase it "abort, retry, fail?" I think.
has a lot of condescending tools that would rather make people asking for help feel stupid than making the effort to educate them
This is unfortunately true. I asked about setting up OPAL V2 self-encryption and got a bunch of asshats telling me how it was compromised and completely useless and that I should use software crypto. I explained that I was aware of all that and it was still suitable for my threat model, at which point they lost interest and I had to figure it out on my own.
I checked a few of their other posts and they were all the same. Tell the questioner that they are an idiot and doing it wrong and then bugger off rather than offer an actual solution.
Speaking of Netflix, you need a special browser add-on to watch it in HD on Linux.
Not all software is available in package managers. For example, Chrome isn't there in Ubuntu. I tried to search for "steam" but the web site just gives me an error.
Hardware compatibility is still an issue too. Couldn't get my document scanner to work and there doesn't seem to be any equivalent to the document management software that NEC provides with it. Maybe there is some software but I couldn't find it.
The cost is just adding a socket. It's pretty minimal and quickly pays for itself.
Maybe we just need to think about alternative funding models that don't involve advertising, or at least allow people to connect with advertisers who don't worry too much about the content. Because the simple truth is that you can't force advertisers to pay you if they don't want to.
Outlook is available via the web now and many smaller businesses are switching to a cloud based solution, to avoid having to run their own Exchange server and deal with things like spam blacklists hitting their IP address range.
In general a lot of stuff is done online now, and you have MS Office online or Libre Office is good enough... So why does the OS matter? It's because there are still so many apps that are Windows only. Oh sure, they will probably work under WINE, but Windows is already there. You buy a laptop, it comes with Windows. It integrates with the existing Domain server, all the support and remote management is in place...
And the benefits of Linux are somewhat unclear anyway. The days when Windows was constantly being infected by viruses are long gone. Even Windows 10's bastard update system wasn't enough motivation.
You are both the product and the customer. They need to keep you happy or you will leave, and then they can't sell your data to advertisers. Unlike cattle you have free will and a choice of social networks, or simply not using Facebook at all.
Best not to over-simplify this if we want to fix it. Also customers have rights so better that we demand them.