The problem is not that they exposed wrong-doing, it's the way they did it. They exposed Hilary in a way that caused maximum damage to her campaign, even though in the end it didn't result in any prosecutions. At the same time they kept quiet about Trump and his staff's illegal dealings with Russia, which at least one of them has now admitted and taken a plea bargain for.
Are you really so naive as to think that Russia was trying to help the US, rather than get the guy they thought would weaken their biggest rival elected?
Number of tweets is the wrong metric. If 100,000 real users with 1 follower each tweet about it, and 1 Russian account with 100,000 followers tweets about it, does the Russian tweet really represent 0.001%?
Even their Brexit troll accounts averaged a few hundred k followers, so I'd be surprised if the US election troll accounts had less than that.
People have to trained to be gullible. Any time anything unfavourable to Trump comes out he decries to as fake news, and people started to think that way.
This is a particularly shitty model too. It has Wifi and direct internet access, doubtless insecure. According to Trusted Reviews, "for unfathomable reasons, HP's setup program offers to install Google's Chrome browser and toolbar, and like other printers it defaults to sending usage data over the internet."
It needs an expensive supply of ink, and refuses to print when a single colour runs out. I can see the ISS going down in flames when they can't bring some vital service document because their printer ran out of cyan.
Again from Trusted Reviews: "this was the first printer ever to start with new cartridges and actually run out, by which point the spent colour cartridge had printed 39 graphics-rich pages, three 10x8" photos, seven 6x4" photos, a colour photocopy and two test and configuration pages."
The only issue here is fairness. If one group gets to take hours a year extra time off to smoke, non smokers should be able to have the same hours available to them.
That's the issue - good answers usually end up buried under crap ones who just got in early. If you know what you are doing you can find the right solution, but then why are you bothering with SO?
People having to rely on Stack Overflow just makes things worse for them, because most of the code on SO is of extremely low quality. If it actually works then the chances are it's a completely half baked implementation that will inevitably bite you in the arse later on.
The most frustrating thing is that there were already plenty of much better scripting languages that were suitable, but Eich had to go and invent his own and of course it was terrible.
I expect we will start seeing this used for TV shows pretty soon. Sets are expensive, and it's really obvious when shows like Suits re-use the same corner office slightly redressed for 20 different companies. Soon they will just film against bluescreen and click a button in Premier to auto-generate a single-use office set.
The companies often want their trucks to be driven hard and abused. I see them around here, hitting speed bumps without bothering to slow down. What matters to them is getting their deliveries done on time. I don't know if they just buy new vehicles when the suspension dies or if the rest of the vehicle doesn't even last that long.
Google does not use end-to-end encryption in storing your data.
They do. I suspect you don't know what end-to-end encryption is. It just means that the connection between the two endpoints is encrypted, and they do use that (HTTPS) when storing your photos in the cloud if you enabled cloud sync.
Also, the image recognition features are done on the phone. They do additional stuff in the cloud like the collages and auto-photoshopping, but the image recognition stuff works just fine without cloud sync enabled. Same with Google Translate (with databases downloaded for offline operation). I have not tested Lens in airplane mode yet.
The "AI" chip in the Pixel 2 is nothing of the sort. It's an image processing accelerator, a parallel DSP processor suited to image manipulation tasks.
You talk like it's some irresistible force we can do nothing about. Yet your first example, credit reference agencies, are heavily regulated. Around here there are strict limits on what information they can collect and for how long they can report it. Things like old bankruptcies from >7 years ago and spent convictions can't be reported, and it's also illegal for employers and banks to ask or seek to find out.
These are likely the same people who use Facebook and Windows despite repeated instances of blatant malicious behavior.
What is the alternative to getting abuse from Windows? Linux, where half your software and at least one of your peripherals doesn't work, or MacOS where you simply shift the abuse over to your wallet.
Fortunately Facebook is much less important than it once was, but your non-GPL friends will still want to organize their lives on WhatsApp. The only other option is the self abuse of having no social life.
This isn't how we win. Don't berate people for not being 100% FSF certified, just build something better.
Most car manufacturers would love to make 60% profit, it's a wild dream for them.
Recycling is already pretty big and will get bigger because it is profitable. That's always been the case for anything that has significant value. Check how much wrecked Teslas and Leafs sell for, especially if the battery pack looks partially salvageable.
The main problem with the Hyperloop concept is the low capacity. It's fast, but the cars are small and only carry a small number of people. Maglev trains are capable of about 75% the speed but carry hundreds of people at once, plus all their luggage, plus toilet facilities, in comfort. And maglev exists and works today.
Hyperloop fans say that there will be lots of cars to make up for the capacity problems, but when you look at the numbers based on minimum safe separation between vehicles it just doesn't stack up against maglev.
A lawsuit over systemic gender discrimination is hardly the same thing as kicking up a fuss when you feel you are simply not paid enough. One is a legal right based on practices within the organization, the other is your estimation of your market worth.
To be clear I'm not tolerating or excusing poor journalism, I'm saying that people who like to alternative facts do so by making people think that all news media are unreliable all the time, and so random blog posts by "ordinary people" and alt-news outlets are just as worthy of their attention.
They don't even need to ask people to trust the fake news, just being exposed to it regularly is enough.
30+ years ago the newspapers were just as bad, worse even as they hadn't been reigned in by the scandals of recent years. Going back 100 years the media of the day was busy demonizing Jewish immigrants at the behest of their owners.
I'm not very familiar with US TV from before then, but in the UK you could certainly argue that TV news was much more serious and reliable 30+ years ago, for the reasons you mention and also because there was just far less competition forcing them to use clickbait. But even then the rot was there, people could see it. That great movie Robocop actually didn't go quite far enough, 3 minutes is way too long and the bulletins were surprisingly free of obvious bias.
There used to be a solution to this problem. News outlets would post factual information and then a separate opinion piece offering interesting views, often multiple opposing ones.
What we have now are a few purely factual outlets like the BBC and NHK, and a large number of purely opinion outlets. Notice how the purely factual ones are the ones that are somewhat insulated from commercial considerations.
So reading as many sources as possible alone is not enough. What you need are some purely factual ones, plus some of the more serious opinion ones to help burst your bubble.
It's a fairly standard attack used on all media. Set an impossibly high standard and berate them for not meeting it.
People with half a brain look for a more detailed criticism than "humans are involved, so it must be biased" and "they made one mistake, therefore everything they ever did or said is fake news". The goal is to prime people to accept alternative facts.
Maybe it's part of the 20th anniversary celebrations. We used to have some great holy wars over Imperial vs. Metric, the merits of DST and which endianess was best.
By the way, I typed this post in EMACS, the greatest OS^H^H editor ever written. This kind of quality is impossible in Vi.
DST is just a pain in the arse, with almost no benefits.
Anything that used a clock gets screwed by it, e.g. computers that have to deal with the same hour happening twice or a one hour gap.
Humans have to manually change their clocks twice a year, although personally I don't bother and just live with them being an hour out. I guess it was less of an issue when clocks were shit and needed to be corrected regularly anyway, but these days I adjust mine maybe twice a decade at most.
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The problem is not that they exposed wrong-doing, it's the way they did it. They exposed Hilary in a way that caused maximum damage to her campaign, even though in the end it didn't result in any prosecutions. At the same time they kept quiet about Trump and his staff's illegal dealings with Russia, which at least one of them has now admitted and taken a plea bargain for.
Are you really so naive as to think that Russia was trying to help the US, rather than get the guy they thought would weaken their biggest rival elected?
Number of tweets is the wrong metric. If 100,000 real users with 1 follower each tweet about it, and 1 Russian account with 100,000 followers tweets about it, does the Russian tweet really represent 0.001%?
Even their Brexit troll accounts averaged a few hundred k followers, so I'd be surprised if the US election troll accounts had less than that.
People have to trained to be gullible. Any time anything unfavourable to Trump comes out he decries to as fake news, and people started to think that way.
This is a particularly shitty model too. It has Wifi and direct internet access, doubtless insecure. According to Trusted Reviews, "for unfathomable reasons, HP's setup program offers to install Google's Chrome browser and toolbar, and like other printers it defaults to sending usage data over the internet."
It needs an expensive supply of ink, and refuses to print when a single colour runs out. I can see the ISS going down in flames when they can't bring some vital service document because their printer ran out of cyan.
Again from Trusted Reviews: "this was the first printer ever to start with new cartridges and actually run out, by which point the spent colour cartridge had printed 39 graphics-rich pages, three 10x8" photos, seven 6x4" photos, a colour photocopy and two test and configuration pages."
The only issue here is fairness. If one group gets to take hours a year extra time off to smoke, non smokers should be able to have the same hours available to them.
Some of the content could land you in trouble in some parts of the world.
The terrorism stuff could be illegal to view in the UK.
The home videos could violate the subjects' right to privacy if (re) published in the EU.
That's the issue - good answers usually end up buried under crap ones who just got in early. If you know what you are doing you can find the right solution, but then why are you bothering with SO?
People having to rely on Stack Overflow just makes things worse for them, because most of the code on SO is of extremely low quality. If it actually works then the chances are it's a completely half baked implementation that will inevitably bite you in the arse later on.
The most frustrating thing is that there were already plenty of much better scripting languages that were suitable, but Eich had to go and invent his own and of course it was terrible.
I expect we will start seeing this used for TV shows pretty soon. Sets are expensive, and it's really obvious when shows like Suits re-use the same corner office slightly redressed for 20 different companies. Soon they will just film against bluescreen and click a button in Premier to auto-generate a single-use office set.
The companies often want their trucks to be driven hard and abused. I see them around here, hitting speed bumps without bothering to slow down. What matters to them is getting their deliveries done on time. I don't know if they just buy new vehicles when the suspension dies or if the rest of the vehicle doesn't even last that long.
I'd rather be served drinks at the beach by a cute bartender with nice tits straining against her bikini top.
Don't worry, there will be a robot for that too.
Google does not use end-to-end encryption in storing your data.
They do. I suspect you don't know what end-to-end encryption is. It just means that the connection between the two endpoints is encrypted, and they do use that (HTTPS) when storing your photos in the cloud if you enabled cloud sync.
Also, the image recognition features are done on the phone. They do additional stuff in the cloud like the collages and auto-photoshopping, but the image recognition stuff works just fine without cloud sync enabled. Same with Google Translate (with databases downloaded for offline operation). I have not tested Lens in airplane mode yet.
The "AI" chip in the Pixel 2 is nothing of the sort. It's an image processing accelerator, a parallel DSP processor suited to image manipulation tasks.
You talk like it's some irresistible force we can do nothing about. Yet your first example, credit reference agencies, are heavily regulated. Around here there are strict limits on what information they can collect and for how long they can report it. Things like old bankruptcies from >7 years ago and spent convictions can't be reported, and it's also illegal for employers and banks to ask or seek to find out.
These are likely the same people who use Facebook and Windows despite repeated instances of blatant malicious behavior.
What is the alternative to getting abuse from Windows? Linux, where half your software and at least one of your peripherals doesn't work, or MacOS where you simply shift the abuse over to your wallet.
Fortunately Facebook is much less important than it once was, but your non-GPL friends will still want to organize their lives on WhatsApp. The only other option is the self abuse of having no social life.
This isn't how we win. Don't berate people for not being 100% FSF certified, just build something better.
Most car manufacturers would love to make 60% profit, it's a wild dream for them.
Recycling is already pretty big and will get bigger because it is profitable. That's always been the case for anything that has significant value. Check how much wrecked Teslas and Leafs sell for, especially if the battery pack looks partially salvageable.
The main problem with the Hyperloop concept is the low capacity. It's fast, but the cars are small and only carry a small number of people. Maglev trains are capable of about 75% the speed but carry hundreds of people at once, plus all their luggage, plus toilet facilities, in comfort. And maglev exists and works today.
Hyperloop fans say that there will be lots of cars to make up for the capacity problems, but when you look at the numbers based on minimum safe separation between vehicles it just doesn't stack up against maglev.
And to be fair, Google does the same thing. Image recognition on the device, allowing natural language search. Optional cloud storage.
A lawsuit over systemic gender discrimination is hardly the same thing as kicking up a fuss when you feel you are simply not paid enough. One is a legal right based on practices within the organization, the other is your estimation of your market worth.
To be clear I'm not tolerating or excusing poor journalism, I'm saying that people who like to alternative facts do so by making people think that all news media are unreliable all the time, and so random blog posts by "ordinary people" and alt-news outlets are just as worthy of their attention.
They don't even need to ask people to trust the fake news, just being exposed to it regularly is enough.
30+ years ago the newspapers were just as bad, worse even as they hadn't been reigned in by the scandals of recent years. Going back 100 years the media of the day was busy demonizing Jewish immigrants at the behest of their owners.
I'm not very familiar with US TV from before then, but in the UK you could certainly argue that TV news was much more serious and reliable 30+ years ago, for the reasons you mention and also because there was just far less competition forcing them to use clickbait. But even then the rot was there, people could see it. That great movie Robocop actually didn't go quite far enough, 3 minutes is way too long and the bulletins were surprisingly free of obvious bias.
There used to be a solution to this problem. News outlets would post factual information and then a separate opinion piece offering interesting views, often multiple opposing ones.
What we have now are a few purely factual outlets like the BBC and NHK, and a large number of purely opinion outlets. Notice how the purely factual ones are the ones that are somewhat insulated from commercial considerations.
So reading as many sources as possible alone is not enough. What you need are some purely factual ones, plus some of the more serious opinion ones to help burst your bubble.
It's a fairly standard attack used on all media. Set an impossibly high standard and berate them for not meeting it.
People with half a brain look for a more detailed criticism than "humans are involved, so it must be biased" and "they made one mistake, therefore everything they ever did or said is fake news". The goal is to prime people to accept alternative facts.
Maybe it's part of the 20th anniversary celebrations. We used to have some great holy wars over Imperial vs. Metric, the merits of DST and which endianess was best.
By the way, I typed this post in EMACS, the greatest OS^H^H editor ever written. This kind of quality is impossible in Vi.
DST is just a pain in the arse, with almost no benefits.
Anything that used a clock gets screwed by it, e.g. computers that have to deal with the same hour happening twice or a one hour gap.
Humans have to manually change their clocks twice a year, although personally I don't bother and just live with them being an hour out. I guess it was less of an issue when clocks were shit and needed to be corrected regularly anyway, but these days I adjust mine maybe twice a decade at most.