Seriously. If you change any of the data collection settings the browser begins to implode. They do no variable checks on any of it and can only opt out of the transmission part (until it "accidentally" transmits anyway).
They were supposed to have a privacy council that met every month... I think they held it 3-4 times before forgetting about it. Flat out rejected concerns about the security of passwords (which proved to be insecure)
Sounds a bit conspiracy theory to me. Educational channels, LGBT, etc. have been hit as well. I'd put it down to hiring 10,000+ people without adequate training/controls on how policies should be enforced.
I don't think they're social engineering - simply going where the 'respectable' money is. The resources they likely spend dealing with governments/legal cases over "immorality" has got to be massive. Add in that the companies paying for ads don't generally want to be associated with that kind of stuff, why waste resources/ index space on it? Sure, they still have to index some of the bigger stuff to stay relevant but beyond that, they have no financial interest.
I spend so much time fighting with Google's intrusive results these days I could hardly even care. The first search engine that builds a sizable index where I can manipulate the search without AI getting in the way, and I'm gone. DuckDuckGo is the closest but their index is about 1/10th the size it needs to be.
I'm so sick of "Google knows best", inserted images/twitter/"news"/etc, "movies playing in ireland" when I search for "irish movies", and all sorts of other fuckwitterty. I mean why the hell do I care what other people searched? Other people are idiots based on the crap that comes up.
Subscription services sound nice, there's just not the income to support that very widely. People also can't afford the rate of obsolescence that would be required to sustain such a model either. We're already seeing that in the smartphone market and that's essentially what happened to the PC market. Buy small/cheaper devices that are "good enough" instead of an expensive/complicated/bulky PC.
I'm certainly not going to buy a "smart coffee maker" with a subscription & planned obsolescence when I can buy a dumb one without. I would buy one that is standardized and has a common interface though.
I think we also need to consider the massive shift that's coming with AI. If it turns out to be half as disruptive as experts claim there will be a serious shift in society. When AI/robotics can manufacture things cheaply and resources become more scarce (both physical and individual) will we still want the planned obsolescence model? We may just find society shifting the dynamic from profit based motives (obsolescence, disposability, etc) to longevity, interoperability, and customization.
Vendors have an interest in not having to provide their own cloud. That is an on going expense for a one time purchase. Those who want it for control, are usually up to no good. Those who want it for data, really don't need the cloud service, they just need the software to phone home telemetry and perform updates, things that can be standardized for user privacy & security. The reality is that it's not a sustainable business model to run IoT devices without a subscription service.
On the expense issue, it's true that you don't want to replace an expensive PC to restore all those functions. I think the structure of PCs also needs to change along with it so they're externally modular. It would not be an easy problem to solve but I think it's solvable with common hardware interfaces.
By externally modular I mean that I don't need to open up the system to replace anything. I just order any X interface module knowing that it will be compatible with my X interface system. Need more processing power? Plug in another CPU module. One of the two RAM modules failed? Pop it out and plug in a fresh RAM module. The only time you would need to go to great expense is if you wanted/needed to change interfaces.
Obviously it's not that simple, there would be huge hurdles to overcome and such a system has potential drawbacks. As it stands now though I am relying on numerous 3rd parties for the continued functioning of my IoT devices and the retail price + diminishing returns on monetizing my data will not continue to sustain their cloud services. They also have more points of failure - not only what's in my home but also internet service at large and my ability to connect without heavy latency to their cloud service.
PC market is shrinking because they failed to solve the problems necessary to make them relevant in a portable device world.
A home PC should be like a furnace - rarely physically interacted with but fully integrated into the home. Every fixed screen in my home should be dumb, they should all run off a single PC. All "smart devices" should simply be interfaces that use the PC's hardware to execute/control their functions. Smartphones/tablets/portable devices should have a power saving mode that enables them to operate as a "dumb" screen or as a separate fully powered device.
The trouble is that they've left it to 3rd parties to solve these problems and write patchworks of underfunded software and "unique" hardware solutions. They should be developing standards, interfaces, and cohesive solutions to make a single, powerful PC relevant again for more than just hardcore gaming. I should need a multi-CPU system to run hundreds of small devices around the home without hiccups.
A lot of series I want to keep up on when new content becomes available, but it's a real pain to figure out when/where without being inundated with other crap. ie: I'd love to know when the next X is coming out, I don't want to wade through every social media post they put out in order to get that info
That or simply trying to figure out where I left off. I might lose track of a show in a mid-season break and get back to it a year or more later and need to figure out what episode I was last on. For TV series, EpGuides.com is great for dates, not so much for episode descriptions.
I didn't imagine that the app would be tracking your location before you even left your home, and then follow you while you drive back or head out for a drink afterwards. Did you?
Does this person think we're all naive idiots? Very first thing I do when I get a new phone is disable *everything* that would let anyone get this type of information. Sure, it means Google Maps isn't as useful but who the fuck cares. I also make sure I kill any app after using it so it's not sitting in memory wasting my battery trying to do bullshit like this.
Depreciation factors in, however, not as significantly as you believe. The $0.30/km is based on a 10 year lifetime operation of the vehicle so while it may depreciate faster earlier on, the total depreciation of the vehicle occurs over a long period. Averaged out it's about $3100/year. If you're driving 124,800 km/year only about $0.025/km of the $0.30 is for depreciation. The bulk is the increase in maintenance, gas, and insurance.
I don't think Uber drivers are dumb, I just think fewer of them are making as much money as they think they are.
This. Hourly wage is meaningless without knowing how much is going to vehicle maintenance, operation, and capital replacement. A Prius will cost about $0.30/km to operate lets say a conservative 30km/h driven (based on sample examples given by Uber drivers) which means $9 in operating costs and $1.49 in capital costs ($31,000 vehicle over 10 years). That would make their income $5.19/h for a 40h week (based on the $15.68 number), assuming a constant driving rate for 8 hours a day. Reduce that for driving back from drop offs, extra hours sitting around waiting for customers, and reduced further if they're driving around trying to get to places with customers.
All the sudden the $3.37 isn't that far off. If they're making $25/h average as Uber claims, that's much better at $12.69. However, this example is also assuming the cheapest to operate vehicle at the lowest insurance rates. An accident increases the insurance rates (and is especially bad if it's improper coverage) and anything but a Prius increases the operating costs. Both of these would reduce the hourly wage.
This is almost accurate. You can disable telemetry transmission without affecting telemetry collection. Fuck with telemetry collection settings and you'll bork the browser.
If you graph the history of HDDs over the years there haven't been any significant advancements since 2011. We're basically at the 10nm theoretical limit right now (12TB). ODS showed promise for Petabyte storage but hasn't materialized commercially, despite being around since 2009. At this point it seems like profiteering is taking over from rapid advancement.
I mean SSDs been available for ~10-26 years now, depending on how you define "available", you'd think they'd have figured out how to get the $/GB below that of HDDs long ago but it's maybe 6-12 months away before hitting that milestone, let alone advancing to the $/TB milestone.
There is a very simple reason to CGI that shot - complexity. There are actually 2 shots here. The first is the 1st where the camera travels up to the top floor - that's all CGI except for the extras. Then the 2nd shot as it lifts over the edge of the banister. It's technically very challenging, if not impossible, to do that shot in one continuous movement. Just on a simple level, the camera in the 1st shot is on a crane - they would need to remove the banister mid-shot for it to get the final angle in her fight.
If you've got to split it up like that, why have all the expense of having everyone on set? It's a 2nd unit shot with 4-5 extras and a stunt double for the gunshots and some CGI, or insane complexity getting the choreographing just right. Between the gun angles, timing, and framing her face so that we see who's fighting right as the camera lifts over the edge - that'd be horribly difficult/expensive to do.
To your greater point that the MCU has a CGI problem - I don't think it's the MCU. I think it's an industry problem as a whole. Between video games, TV, and movies the amount of CGI being done is huge. There is only so much artistic talent to go around and eventually something is going to go to the B or C team. A couple long distance henchmen is a normally good place to compromise on CGI rather than on your primary visual effects where DC seems to like to compromise. In this case it was a mistake because the gunshots were drawing your attention to them as a connecting visual so it became very obvious.
What I think is a bigger problem is that because CGI is so "easy" they aren't putting a lot of thought into what they're actually creating. Wakanda's city was pretty but it was very rudimentary from an architectural perspective. That city is likely something that could be built with normal technology. They didn't think through what vibranium would allow them to create. It's a small detail but if you're bothering to do these long "inspirational" sequences showcasing your visuals - make sure they evoke something other than "here's a city".
This type of thing is exactly why Microsoft did everything possible to get people to move to Win10. They intended to monetize it in other ways that would give them a steadier/larger stream of income going forward.
As operating systems get more stable there are fewer reasons for the consumer to upgrade while Microsoft still has the task of keeping up security updates, etc. Eventually this would lead to declining revenues and the inability to support future development, not to mention allow Linux to make inroads. By restructuring to a walled garden where they're in control of your system they can monetize the hell out of you, EULA away your privacy rights, and be laughing well into the future.
If Linux development can ever get it's head out of it's ass and focus on how to make it easier for users to recover from problems without resetting everything they'd probably have a shot at taking away a big chunk of users who don't want to deal with MS' new direction.
Except you can cite a specific wiki state which would allow someone checking sources to not only verify it but also see if the body of knowledge has changed since it was written.
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Seriously. If you change any of the data collection settings the browser begins to implode. They do no variable checks on any of it and can only opt out of the transmission part (until it "accidentally" transmits anyway).
They were supposed to have a privacy council that met every month... I think they held it 3-4 times before forgetting about it. Flat out rejected concerns about the security of passwords (which proved to be insecure)
Mozilla is a shitshow these days.
Sounds a bit conspiracy theory to me. Educational channels, LGBT, etc. have been hit as well. I'd put it down to hiring 10,000+ people without adequate training/controls on how policies should be enforced.
Nice for privacy but it's "enhanced by Google" and full of intrusions into the results so how is it any better? (kinda sluggish too)
I don't think they're social engineering - simply going where the 'respectable' money is. The resources they likely spend dealing with governments/legal cases over "immorality" has got to be massive. Add in that the companies paying for ads don't generally want to be associated with that kind of stuff, why waste resources/ index space on it? Sure, they still have to index some of the bigger stuff to stay relevant but beyond that, they have no financial interest.
I spend so much time fighting with Google's intrusive results these days I could hardly even care. The first search engine that builds a sizable index where I can manipulate the search without AI getting in the way, and I'm gone. DuckDuckGo is the closest but their index is about 1/10th the size it needs to be.
I'm so sick of "Google knows best", inserted images/twitter/"news"/etc, "movies playing in ireland" when I search for "irish movies", and all sorts of other fuckwitterty. I mean why the hell do I care what other people searched? Other people are idiots based on the crap that comes up.
Subscription services sound nice, there's just not the income to support that very widely. People also can't afford the rate of obsolescence that would be required to sustain such a model either. We're already seeing that in the smartphone market and that's essentially what happened to the PC market. Buy small/cheaper devices that are "good enough" instead of an expensive/complicated/bulky PC.
I'm certainly not going to buy a "smart coffee maker" with a subscription & planned obsolescence when I can buy a dumb one without. I would buy one that is standardized and has a common interface though.
I think we also need to consider the massive shift that's coming with AI. If it turns out to be half as disruptive as experts claim there will be a serious shift in society. When AI/robotics can manufacture things cheaply and resources become more scarce (both physical and individual) will we still want the planned obsolescence model? We may just find society shifting the dynamic from profit based motives (obsolescence, disposability, etc) to longevity, interoperability, and customization.
Vendors have an interest in not having to provide their own cloud. That is an on going expense for a one time purchase. Those who want it for control, are usually up to no good. Those who want it for data, really don't need the cloud service, they just need the software to phone home telemetry and perform updates, things that can be standardized for user privacy & security. The reality is that it's not a sustainable business model to run IoT devices without a subscription service.
On the expense issue, it's true that you don't want to replace an expensive PC to restore all those functions. I think the structure of PCs also needs to change along with it so they're externally modular. It would not be an easy problem to solve but I think it's solvable with common hardware interfaces.
By externally modular I mean that I don't need to open up the system to replace anything. I just order any X interface module knowing that it will be compatible with my X interface system. Need more processing power? Plug in another CPU module. One of the two RAM modules failed? Pop it out and plug in a fresh RAM module. The only time you would need to go to great expense is if you wanted/needed to change interfaces.
Obviously it's not that simple, there would be huge hurdles to overcome and such a system has potential drawbacks. As it stands now though I am relying on numerous 3rd parties for the continued functioning of my IoT devices and the retail price + diminishing returns on monetizing my data will not continue to sustain their cloud services. They also have more points of failure - not only what's in my home but also internet service at large and my ability to connect without heavy latency to their cloud service.
PC market is shrinking because they failed to solve the problems necessary to make them relevant in a portable device world.
A home PC should be like a furnace - rarely physically interacted with but fully integrated into the home. Every fixed screen in my home should be dumb, they should all run off a single PC. All "smart devices" should simply be interfaces that use the PC's hardware to execute/control their functions. Smartphones/tablets/portable devices should have a power saving mode that enables them to operate as a "dumb" screen or as a separate fully powered device.
The trouble is that they've left it to 3rd parties to solve these problems and write patchworks of underfunded software and "unique" hardware solutions. They should be developing standards, interfaces, and cohesive solutions to make a single, powerful PC relevant again for more than just hardcore gaming. I should need a multi-CPU system to run hundreds of small devices around the home without hiccups.
The one where it becomes self-aware and kills all humans for the greater good.
A lot of series I want to keep up on when new content becomes available, but it's a real pain to figure out when/where without being inundated with other crap. ie: I'd love to know when the next X is coming out, I don't want to wade through every social media post they put out in order to get that info
That or simply trying to figure out where I left off. I might lose track of a show in a mid-season break and get back to it a year or more later and need to figure out what episode I was last on. For TV series, EpGuides.com is great for dates, not so much for episode descriptions.
He does - run Mozilla into the ground just like Firefox
Except they'll know you're coming and how you'll get there. Foiled again.
I didn't imagine that the app would be tracking your location before you even left your home, and then follow you while you drive back or head out for a drink afterwards. Did you?
Does this person think we're all naive idiots? Very first thing I do when I get a new phone is disable *everything* that would let anyone get this type of information. Sure, it means Google Maps isn't as useful but who the fuck cares. I also make sure I kill any app after using it so it's not sitting in memory wasting my battery trying to do bullshit like this.
Depreciation factors in, however, not as significantly as you believe. The $0.30/km is based on a 10 year lifetime operation of the vehicle so while it may depreciate faster earlier on, the total depreciation of the vehicle occurs over a long period. Averaged out it's about $3100/year. If you're driving 124,800 km/year only about $0.025/km of the $0.30 is for depreciation. The bulk is the increase in maintenance, gas, and insurance.
I don't think Uber drivers are dumb, I just think fewer of them are making as much money as they think they are.
This. Hourly wage is meaningless without knowing how much is going to vehicle maintenance, operation, and capital replacement. A Prius will cost about $0.30/km to operate lets say a conservative 30km/h driven (based on sample examples given by Uber drivers) which means $9 in operating costs and $1.49 in capital costs ($31,000 vehicle over 10 years). That would make their income $5.19/h for a 40h week (based on the $15.68 number), assuming a constant driving rate for 8 hours a day. Reduce that for driving back from drop offs, extra hours sitting around waiting for customers, and reduced further if they're driving around trying to get to places with customers.
All the sudden the $3.37 isn't that far off. If they're making $25/h average as Uber claims, that's much better at $12.69. However, this example is also assuming the cheapest to operate vehicle at the lowest insurance rates. An accident increases the insurance rates (and is especially bad if it's improper coverage) and anything but a Prius increases the operating costs. Both of these would reduce the hourly wage.
This is almost accurate. You can disable telemetry transmission without affecting telemetry collection. Fuck with telemetry collection settings and you'll bork the browser.
If you graph the history of HDDs over the years there haven't been any significant advancements since 2011. We're basically at the 10nm theoretical limit right now (12TB). ODS showed promise for Petabyte storage but hasn't materialized commercially, despite being around since 2009. At this point it seems like profiteering is taking over from rapid advancement.
It's Netflix's intent. Lower costs, higher discoverability, more hours of content for people to binge.
Meanwhile, good video stores are topping 50,000 titles
How are you defining discoverability? Netflix's app seems ruthlessly dedicated to limiting the number of titles anyone sees.
Limiting titles overall adds to that. Less to index, fewer possibilities to show in any one category, etc.
It's Netflix's intent. Lower costs, higher discoverability, more hours of content for people to binge.
Meanwhile, good video stores are topping 50,000 titles
Bring it down to $300 and I'll buy one.
I mean SSDs been available for ~10-26 years now, depending on how you define "available", you'd think they'd have figured out how to get the $/GB below that of HDDs long ago but it's maybe 6-12 months away before hitting that milestone, let alone advancing to the $/TB milestone.
There is a very simple reason to CGI that shot - complexity. There are actually 2 shots here. The first is the 1st where the camera travels up to the top floor - that's all CGI except for the extras. Then the 2nd shot as it lifts over the edge of the banister. It's technically very challenging, if not impossible, to do that shot in one continuous movement. Just on a simple level, the camera in the 1st shot is on a crane - they would need to remove the banister mid-shot for it to get the final angle in her fight.
If you've got to split it up like that, why have all the expense of having everyone on set? It's a 2nd unit shot with 4-5 extras and a stunt double for the gunshots and some CGI, or insane complexity getting the choreographing just right. Between the gun angles, timing, and framing her face so that we see who's fighting right as the camera lifts over the edge - that'd be horribly difficult/expensive to do.
To your greater point that the MCU has a CGI problem - I don't think it's the MCU. I think it's an industry problem as a whole. Between video games, TV, and movies the amount of CGI being done is huge. There is only so much artistic talent to go around and eventually something is going to go to the B or C team. A couple long distance henchmen is a normally good place to compromise on CGI rather than on your primary visual effects where DC seems to like to compromise. In this case it was a mistake because the gunshots were drawing your attention to them as a connecting visual so it became very obvious.
What I think is a bigger problem is that because CGI is so "easy" they aren't putting a lot of thought into what they're actually creating. Wakanda's city was pretty but it was very rudimentary from an architectural perspective. That city is likely something that could be built with normal technology. They didn't think through what vibranium would allow them to create. It's a small detail but if you're bothering to do these long "inspirational" sequences showcasing your visuals - make sure they evoke something other than "here's a city".
This type of thing is exactly why Microsoft did everything possible to get people to move to Win10. They intended to monetize it in other ways that would give them a steadier/larger stream of income going forward.
As operating systems get more stable there are fewer reasons for the consumer to upgrade while Microsoft still has the task of keeping up security updates, etc. Eventually this would lead to declining revenues and the inability to support future development, not to mention allow Linux to make inroads. By restructuring to a walled garden where they're in control of your system they can monetize the hell out of you, EULA away your privacy rights, and be laughing well into the future.
If Linux development can ever get it's head out of it's ass and focus on how to make it easier for users to recover from problems without resetting everything they'd probably have a shot at taking away a big chunk of users who don't want to deal with MS' new direction.
Likely illegal in Canada too - as is some of the stuff that's done now with Apple/Yahoo/etc. tagging stuff to the bottom of emails
Except you can cite a specific wiki state which would allow someone checking sources to not only verify it but also see if the body of knowledge has changed since it was written.
That's more an indictment of published encyclopedias than an endorsement of Wikipedia.