The practical implications of Article 13 depend heavily on how they're implemented. If Article 13 becomes law, its vague text will need to be transposed into detailed regulations in every member country. Then those regulations will need to be interpreted by judges
The devil will be in the implementation details and the interpretation of the law. A harsh rendering of the law would be something to worry about, but a tech-friendly rendering would require only minor adjustments.to what is now done.
I think the commerical announcing the Mac was one the best commericals ever, if not the best. I remembered it well even though it would be many many years later before I saw the commercial again.
I have noticed some slowness with the loading of Google sites with Firefox. I think these changes are also affecting Firefox. My initial reaction to slow loading gmail was to wonder how did the Firefox team mess up this up, but when I got thinking that it was very unlikely that they would not test on such a popular site. I then wanted to blame Comcast, my provider, but that also seemed unlikely with other sites loading okay. This makes a lot more sense. Come on Google, you can do better!
Thank you for posting a link about electric car subsidies. It appears to be true that Slashdot readers do not click the links and read the articles. I had to scroll a long ways to find this link. Thanks for posting the link.
I agree with what you are saying, however I think the business environment has changed, not so much Microsoft. Microsoft has always been about maximizing profits. Twenty years ago they were the big 800 lb gorilla. They did what they wanted to make more money. Today they are competing in a field of equals and they are trying to remain relevant with the new computing paradigms. So now they have to behave nicely to maximize profits. They decided that joining OIN was worth more than the royalties they would have collected from OIN members. I believe they will still try to collect royalties from non-OIN companies. It is all about the money.
Those numbers include Mobile and Tablets. Firefox does not have a presence on phones or tablets. Firefox has 11% market share on the Desktop. It does have a declining market share but it is not as bad as that 5% number.
Jitsi, an open source audio and video platform for conferencing, was bought and further developed by Atlassian. Some code from Jitsi is in Stride. Was is part of the purchase? Are the Atlassian developers still working for Atlassian? Are they working for Slack now? Or have they been let go?
Check out Jitsi Meet, the open sourced video conference product.
He [Mahaveer Prasad Khileri] is a former troll for India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, or the BJP. “At that time, poison was in my mind,” he said.
Khileri was recruited by two acquaintances into the party’s social media operation in February 2014, just as Modi was racing to become India's next prime minister. He was given eight cell phones and ID’s for six different Facebook identities, he recalled in an interview in his home village of Jogaliya. He worked 18-hour days, toggling between legitimate campaign work and trolling of opponents and journalists, he said. When Modi won, the operation evolved as well, transitioning to a tool supporting Modi’s government.
Khileri worked in what the BJP calls its ‘IT Cell,’ which effectively operated as an ad hoc troll farm, he said. The development of the cell in the world's largest democracy occurred around the same time that American authorities believe Russia began using such techniques to influence the 2016 presidential election. The researchers contributing to the institute and Google reports found similar timing in different countries and under various circumstances.
According to Khileri, the Indian version of the trolling toolkit included strategies meant to inflame sectarian differences, malign the Muslim minority and portray Modi as savior of the Hindus. Supervisors would set themes for the day and specify targets to attack. Khileri and 300 other paid trolls would create memes or cut-and-paste Twitter posts that were sent to WhatsApp groups of tens of thousands of party loyalists. Their reposts sent hashtags viral in minutes.
“Muslims slaughter cows, so we’d tell them, ‘When Modi comes, we will slaughter you,’” Khileri recalled. “We’d tell Hindus: ‘If you don’t vote for Modi, then Muslims will destroy you.’”
An interesting detail I noticed in the nine tests that Firefox was in second place except for the two times that it was in first place. It was never in third place. I think that means Firefox is solid across all tests. Looking at first place finishes only, you see that Firefox ends up in third place, but if you add up the rankings Firefox ends up in first place. I think all the browsers are pretty good so maybe these tests are not that big of a deal. I think the point is that Firefox and Edge have improved so much that Chrome not the must-use browser that some people used to claim. I use Firefox so I am happy to see that it is performing well.
It makes me think of the Sci-Fi book, The Stainless Steel Rat, where the anti-hero, the rat, refined his skills and became super criminal getting around the very strong security. (He ended up using his skills to capture crooks like him.) The very strong security honed his skills ( the "stainless steel part") so that he became a super criminal. Could these cameras create the students you describe, ones who fake attentiveness and comprehension? I think it is possible.
There is a lot of good citizen science happens. One such organization is CoCoRaHS, where citizens with rain gauges add a lot more resolution to precipitation maps. Think one rainfall report for a town versus several reports all over town. The data has been used in a variety of ways. I find it interesting comparing my daily results with my neighbor 4 blocks away. Most the time there is no difference, but sometimes there is a significant difference.
Microsoft producing a Linux OS that it will distribute and maintain is amazing! Microsoft has been infected with the Linux cancer. Linux world domination?
The Mozilla suite never went away. It became SeaMonkey, an "all-in-one internet application suite". The old Mozilla suite is still here, using right now the Firefox 52.6 ESR core/platform, so it is mostly up-to-date.
Fake news spreads very fast. People will post things that they agree with (or find interesting) without thinking and checking to see if it is true. One harmless but false post that I recently seen on Facebook posted by a couple of my FB friends is that in 2018 1/1, 2/2, 3/3,...12/12 will all occur on a Sunday. It is a fun fact if it was true, but with just a little bit of thinking it is easy to realize that it is false. Yet I have a couple of FB friends who posted it without thinking. Posting without thinking and checking is a problem Facebook can not solve.
By the time a human looks at the post and determines it is fake news, the post has been reposted hundreds of times. An algorithm can find some fake news posts but how many false positives would there be. People would also figure ways around (or game) the algorithm, so it would be an ongoing battle. And what determines fake new? Is it one misleading statement? Does a slanted story with only one side counts as fake news? Is an opinion that is misleading fake news? It is hard.
Then there is the issue of censorship. Is it right for Facebook to ban posts? Should Facebook mark posts as possible fake news and put it far down in its curated list of posts? I think something can be done, but it is not an easy problem to solve, and it will never be completely solved.
I remember many years ago driving down the road trying to read a paper map to figure out my next turn. That was definitely dangerous, and I was very distracted. I did that more times than I care to admit. Having a cell phone with Google Maps (or equivalent) has definitely made things much better.
Even the act of changing the radio station is distracting. I lose track of what is happening on the road while trying to get a station with a decent song.
Distracted Driving is a serious problem but it is not anything new. Cell phones may have made the situation worse in most cases but in some cases things are less distracting with a smart phone.
I am wonder what advantage there is for T-Moble. In the last few years, T-Mobile has greatly expanded its network. Coverage is much better. Would Sprint increase the network coverage of T-Mobile? I don't it would make much of a difference. Where is Sprint that T-Mobile is not? I don't see the advantage for T-Mobile. Cost savings from the combine company reducing staff, I don't think will be that great.
HTML already has the object tag, which allows one to put any binary proprietary code one wants to use into a web page. So as I understand it all this EME tag does is standardize what was already available for DRM.. I don't like it but they already had the power with the object tag.
Interesting! I agree that oil and financial services are the foundations of today's economy. But is the information being collected also a foundation or will be a future foundation since the stock market is forward-looking? I think so. The future economy will be even more dependent on our personal information and already today many businesses do depend on it. The market cap numbers are future-looking. The values may be off a little bit but the trend toward personal information being very important is clear.
I would hope that there is at least an audio recording if not some video. I would think there would be one for those serving the warrant and doing the interrogating. They should have to share that recording with the defence too. Unfortunately it would be in the wrong hands. The judge should make the full unedited recording available to all parties.
It looks like to me he is wanting to reinforce those Facebook friend bubbles. For the most part my Facebook friends reinforce what I believe and what I think is right. I do not see the differing opinions. Actually I have a few outlier 'friends' that help give me a broader perspective, but for the most part my 'friends' reinforce what I believe.
I do not think this is good for any country.. I think the thing to do is not to reinforce our bubbles but to break them down some with thoughtful alternative viewpoint posts (news articles). We need to see the other side and break down the caricatures . Conservatives need to hear what those Liberals are thinking, and the Liberals need to hear what the Conservatives are thinking. It may not be popular but I think it would be good for the country and world. This is what would really build community.
I think it's more of a subtle (and not so subtle) condescending attitude to "the other side". Pick your adjectives -- dishonest, cruel, stupid, immoral, and so on. Even when it's not explicitly stated.
I think those kinds tones are much harder to pull off in face-face encounters. People are forced to be more accommodating in person.
I agree that face to face is the ideal way to debate and discuss. And I want debates, not two monologues where each person talking past the other. The key is listening and trying to understand where the other person is coming from. I think being online makes monologues easy since the other person is not right there.
It's the *presentation* and tone of both that turn me off, and neither person comes off that way in person. I think that's what contributes to the corrosiveness of social media, it's less about the ideas than their presentation and tone.
Yes, the presentation and tone are major turn offs. It is hard to have a civil discourse when both sides are screaming bloody murder. That bothers me the most and makes me want to block them. I would like to hear arguments that support their views, the ones I don't agree with, so I can learn, but most of the time it is just tearing down the other side. The presentation and tone does give me a view of how corrosive the political debate has become and how divided the country is.
Social Media makes it easy for us to reinforce and confirm our beliefs. Family and friends help shape our beliefs and our social media "friends" tend to be those people. Social media puts us in a bubble as we self-select our "friends". We do not hear alternate views. I have 2 high school friends on Facebook, one is right wing and the other is left wing. They are both prolific in their postings. I want to block both of them but I don't so that I hear alternate viewpoints. We need to listen to alternate viewpoints. That is why they are not blocked.
Starbird says she's concluded, provocatively, that we may be headed toward 'the menace of unreality -- which is that nobody believes anything anymore."
I believe that the "nobody believes anything" is somewhat here today. To determine what is true, we rely on family and friends to help us. There is no longer any authority that we trust to tell us the truth. This puts us into bubbles where we only believe news that confirms our bias. We are suspicious of any news source that deviates from what we believe to be true. The internet makes it easy to confirm our bias and stay in our bubble. We need to listen to the alternate viewpoints even if we disagree. This will give us a broad background to help us think critically and help us break out of our bubbles.
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The devil will be in the implementation details and the interpretation of the law. A harsh rendering of the law would be something to worry about, but a tech-friendly rendering would require only minor adjustments.to what is now done.
I think the commerical announcing the Mac was one the best commericals ever, if not the best. I remembered it well even though it would be many many years later before I saw the commercial again.
I have noticed some slowness with the loading of Google sites with Firefox. I think these changes are also affecting Firefox. My initial reaction to slow loading gmail was to wonder how did the Firefox team mess up this up, but when I got thinking that it was very unlikely that they would not test on such a popular site. I then wanted to blame Comcast, my provider, but that also seemed unlikely with other sites loading okay. This makes a lot more sense. Come on Google, you can do better!
Thank you for posting a link about electric car subsidies. It appears to be true that Slashdot readers do not click the links and read the articles. I had to scroll a long ways to find this link. Thanks for posting the link.
I agree with what you are saying, however I think the business environment has changed, not so much Microsoft. Microsoft has always been about maximizing profits. Twenty years ago they were the big 800 lb gorilla. They did what they wanted to make more money. Today they are competing in a field of equals and they are trying to remain relevant with the new computing paradigms. So now they have to behave nicely to maximize profits. They decided that joining OIN was worth more than the royalties they would have collected from OIN members. I believe they will still try to collect royalties from non-OIN companies. It is all about the money.
Those numbers include Mobile and Tablets. Firefox does not have a presence on phones or tablets. Firefox has 11% market share on the Desktop. It does have a declining market share but it is not as bad as that 5% number.
From the Jitsi Community Forum: "All we can say at this point is that our team is not affected by the Slack deal."
Jitsi, an open source audio and video platform for conferencing, was bought and further developed by Atlassian. Some code from Jitsi is in Stride. Was is part of the purchase? Are the Atlassian developers still working for Atlassian? Are they working for Slack now? Or have they been let go?
Check out Jitsi Meet, the open sourced video conference product.
India's governing party is guilty of trolling and fake news on WhatsApp so this is all about control.
An interesting detail I noticed in the nine tests that Firefox was in second place except for the two times that it was in first place. It was never in third place. I think that means Firefox is solid across all tests. Looking at first place finishes only, you see that Firefox ends up in third place, but if you add up the rankings Firefox ends up in first place. I think all the browsers are pretty good so maybe these tests are not that big of a deal. I think the point is that Firefox and Edge have improved so much that Chrome not the must-use browser that some people used to claim. I use Firefox so I am happy to see that it is performing well.
It makes me think of the Sci-Fi book, The Stainless Steel Rat, where the anti-hero, the rat, refined his skills and became super criminal getting around the very strong security. (He ended up using his skills to capture crooks like him.) The very strong security honed his skills ( the "stainless steel part") so that he became a super criminal. Could these cameras create the students you describe, ones who fake attentiveness and comprehension? I think it is possible.
There is a lot of good citizen science happens. One such organization is CoCoRaHS, where citizens with rain gauges add a lot more resolution to precipitation maps. Think one rainfall report for a town versus several reports all over town. The data has been used in a variety of ways. I find it interesting comparing my daily results with my neighbor 4 blocks away. Most the time there is no difference, but sometimes there is a significant difference.
Microsoft producing a Linux OS that it will distribute and maintain is amazing! Microsoft has been infected with the Linux cancer. Linux world domination?
The Mozilla suite never went away. It became SeaMonkey, an "all-in-one internet application suite". The old Mozilla suite is still here, using right now the Firefox 52.6 ESR core/platform, so it is mostly up-to-date.
Fake news spreads very fast. People will post things that they agree with (or find interesting) without thinking and checking to see if it is true. One harmless but false post that I recently seen on Facebook posted by a couple of my FB friends is that in 2018 1/1, 2/2, 3/3, ...12/12 will all occur on a Sunday. It is a fun fact if it was true, but with just a little bit of thinking it is easy to realize that it is false. Yet I have a couple of FB friends who posted it without thinking. Posting without thinking and checking is a problem Facebook can not solve.
By the time a human looks at the post and determines it is fake news, the post has been reposted hundreds of times. An algorithm can find some fake news posts but how many false positives would there be. People would also figure ways around (or game) the algorithm, so it would be an ongoing battle. And what determines fake new? Is it one misleading statement? Does a slanted story with only one side counts as fake news? Is an opinion that is misleading fake news? It is hard.
Then there is the issue of censorship. Is it right for Facebook to ban posts? Should Facebook mark posts as possible fake news and put it far down in its curated list of posts? I think something can be done, but it is not an easy problem to solve, and it will never be completely solved.
I remember many years ago driving down the road trying to read a paper map to figure out my next turn. That was definitely dangerous, and I was very distracted. I did that more times than I care to admit. Having a cell phone with Google Maps (or equivalent) has definitely made things much better.
Even the act of changing the radio station is distracting. I lose track of what is happening on the road while trying to get a station with a decent song.
Distracted Driving is a serious problem but it is not anything new. Cell phones may have made the situation worse in most cases but in some cases things are less distracting with a smart phone.
I am wonder what advantage there is for T-Moble. In the last few years, T-Mobile has greatly expanded its network. Coverage is much better. Would Sprint increase the network coverage of T-Mobile? I don't it would make much of a difference. Where is Sprint that T-Mobile is not? I don't see the advantage for T-Mobile. Cost savings from the combine company reducing staff, I don't think will be that great.
HTML already has the object tag, which allows one to put any binary proprietary code one wants to use into a web page. So as I understand it all this EME tag does is standardize what was already available for DRM.. I don't like it but they already had the power with the object tag.
Interesting! I agree that oil and financial services are the foundations of today's economy. But is the information being collected also a foundation or will be a future foundation since the stock market is forward-looking? I think so. The future economy will be even more dependent on our personal information and already today many businesses do depend on it. The market cap numbers are future-looking. The values may be off a little bit but the trend toward personal information being very important is clear.
I would hope that there is at least an audio recording if not some video. I would think there would be one for those serving the warrant and doing the interrogating. They should have to share that recording with the defence too. Unfortunately it would be in the wrong hands. The judge should make the full unedited recording available to all parties.
It looks like to me he is wanting to reinforce those Facebook friend bubbles. For the most part my Facebook friends reinforce what I believe and what I think is right. I do not see the differing opinions. Actually I have a few outlier 'friends' that help give me a broader perspective, but for the most part my 'friends' reinforce what I believe.
I do not think this is good for any country.. I think the thing to do is not to reinforce our bubbles but to break them down some with thoughtful alternative viewpoint posts (news articles). We need to see the other side and break down the caricatures . Conservatives need to hear what those Liberals are thinking, and the Liberals need to hear what the Conservatives are thinking. It may not be popular but I think it would be good for the country and world. This is what would really build community.
I think it's more of a subtle (and not so subtle) condescending attitude to "the other side". Pick your adjectives -- dishonest, cruel, stupid, immoral, and so on. Even when it's not explicitly stated.
I think those kinds tones are much harder to pull off in face-face encounters. People are forced to be more accommodating in person.
I agree that face to face is the ideal way to debate and discuss. And I want debates, not two monologues where each person talking past the other. The key is listening and trying to understand where the other person is coming from. I think being online makes monologues easy since the other person is not right there.
Yes, the presentation and tone are major turn offs. It is hard to have a civil discourse when both sides are screaming bloody murder. That bothers me the most and makes me want to block them. I would like to hear arguments that support their views, the ones I don't agree with, so I can learn, but most of the time it is just tearing down the other side. The presentation and tone does give me a view of how corrosive the political debate has become and how divided the country is.
Social Media makes it easy for us to reinforce and confirm our beliefs. Family and friends help shape our beliefs and our social media "friends" tend to be those people. Social media puts us in a bubble as we self-select our "friends". We do not hear alternate views. I have 2 high school friends on Facebook, one is right wing and the other is left wing. They are both prolific in their postings. I want to block both of them but I don't so that I hear alternate viewpoints. We need to listen to alternate viewpoints. That is why they are not blocked.
I believe that the "nobody believes anything" is somewhat here today. To determine what is true, we rely on family and friends to help us. There is no longer any authority that we trust to tell us the truth. This puts us into bubbles where we only believe news that confirms our bias. We are suspicious of any news source that deviates from what we believe to be true. The internet makes it easy to confirm our bias and stay in our bubble. We need to listen to the alternate viewpoints even if we disagree. This will give us a broad background to help us think critically and help us break out of our bubbles.