Not in the sense I'm thinking where people on certain drugs will do anything, commit crimes, etc in order to get their next fix. I don't think McDonalds has this effect. But I certainly believe that even if it did have this effect, that would not stop corporations from doing something this destructive.
I doubt it will ever be physically addictive. But even if it were, I don't think that would stop corporations from doing it. But they might engineer tastes that are very mentally addictive.
I'm not shocked at all. I expected it to behave that way. And yes, I did have Sync turned on. I'm just pointing it out that Google ultimately can get your plaintext passwords.
Trusting the group means trusting whoever has enough compute power to manipulate the blockchain.
On the web you have people that don't trust each other but trust central certificate authorities -- more or less.
Or, what if you used blockchain to sign your certificates, and then used certificates that others would trust because they trust the group that your certificate is really yours? This costs a whole lot less compute power.
Advertising destroys every medium in which it is used. Ever.
This is because there is absolutely no restraining force to limit or self police behavior of advertisers. So is Google's behavior any surprise?
Begin rant.
I'll start with Radio and not comment.
TV had a tolerable number of ads. Somewhere during the golden age of TV the ads got more and more. And the quality of ads went way down. It used to be that the ads were somewhat entertaining. Then more and more ads. Lower quality programming.
People fled to cable. The promise of cable was no ads. That illusion didn't last long. But it was tolerable. And programming content was superior. And included the network TV channels if you needed to see a program on network TV. Then the ads got worse. The content got worse. More and more time was spent on ads, and less on content. It got so bad that after an ad, when the content resumed, there would be more ads walking out onto the show you are watching, obscuring things, sometimes important things.
People fled to internet TV. Some of it has ads, some does not. Hulu offers ad free for a higher price, which I'm willing to pay. Netflix is free of ads. When they started considering ads, I wrote them about how this is a slippery slope. Netflix has not put in ads, yet. I also suggested if the did introduce ads, have a higher priced ad-free tier. HBO, Starz and Amazon Prime are free of ads.
Now YouTube has ads. It was okay at first. Now it's getting intolerable. They push YouTube Red. But their ads have gotten so bad, I may just forego ever getting YT Red because I find the ads so offensive.
The web. No ads at first. It was about information. Then ads came. And came and came and came. And ad / malware networks. Then sites where an article was one paragraph per page, and each page had that one paragraph surrounded in dozens of blinking flashing dancing animated seizure inducing ads. And deceptive ads that try to look like an OS window warning you of something. And the advertising networks, and even host web sites were complicit in this. So I have no sympathy for sites complaining about ad blockers. If a site isn't usable with an ad blocker, I never go there again. No site has or ever will have anything valuable enough to overcome this. And since I won't go there, I won't find out even if they did. And I don't care.
Ads are a blight on our cities. And even the countryside. Miles and miles of billboards along roads. It's disgusting.
These people know no bounds. Absolutely none. Phones, tablets, personal computers all spy on us now for the sake of ads! Our cars spy on us for ads. Smart TVs spy on us for ads. IoT devices spy on us for ads.
Once the technology is available, these people will lobby to require ads on the inside of our eyelids. Yes really. Mark my words. They'll probably want your internal vital organs at some point.
Only if you think Consensus beats Authenticity. I'd somehow feel safer having signed documents where I can verify the digital signature, and trust the certificate chain. Even if the parties pre-arrange to use self-signed certificates.
Or maybe use the Consensus approach to Generate your self signed certificate, thus avoiding any CAs. That is a lot less computational work and waste of resources. You only generate your certificate occasionally. But you could use it to sign much more frequently.
Maybe people (or a browser extension, or FB reading mode) should not read things until they are at least ten minutes old. That would keep them safe from Bad Things(tm). This could be called the Facebook Safe Spaces mode where nobody can be offended or encounter unusual or uncomfortable ideas or opposite points of view.
> Your full plaintext password and full hashed password are never set to Google.
Let's try this experiment. But for real.
I use Chrome on a work computer. I log in to some web sites and Chrome conveniently remembers my passwords for those sites.
Last April I get a shiny new Google Pixelbook. (think: glorified web browser with 8 GB, core i5 and 128 GB SSD -- unless you put it in developer mode effectively rooting it so it can do useful things)
Using the Pixelbook (which is Chrome OS, of course, and thus Chrome), I am able to go to my favorite web sites, and -- like magic! -- Chrome conveniently knows my login credentials to those sites. How do you suppose that happened. My Pixelbook is on my home or other network. My Chrome browser which originally learned the credentials is on a much more secure network at work.
I think you are missing my point about corporate food 'addicting' people with unique flavors that might cause them to stop eating healthy for the sake of corporate profit.
Yes. I'd rather not be dysfunctionally addicted to anything that results in altering my behavior and way of life, especially if I would commit crimes in order to get my next fix. Now I don't think marijuana has that problem. But some other drugs do. My real point is that the dystopia of corporate food might 'addict' you in a way that doesn't make you a criminal, but does make you stop eating healthy for the sake of corporate profit. And believe me, they don't care what they do to your body over the long term.
You're making a lot of assumptions. I don't know what a Food Babe is. Yes, real strawberry is an organic molecule and made of cells (even if not living), long chain hydrocarbons, etc. How would natural and artificial molecules, of otherwise identical structure, be any different? In fact at some level what is 'artificial'? Are smartphones all natural because humans are a part of nature? But I digress . . .
My point is that the 42 chemical artificial flavor is, as I said, heavily engineered. Not that it is bad for you to eat the flavor. But it has an addictive purpose in the brain to make you want to keep coming back for something that is less than a healthy way to eat. Not that I don't enjoy a McDonalds breakfast burrito. But I notice that the 'simple' ingredients (eggs, sausage, cheese, bits of red/green pepper) sure seem to taste astonishingly unique. And that was my point. Corporations won't invent new flavors (although you could say I just described inventing a new flavor). Instead corporations will engineer addictive flavors that you cannot get anywhere else. When you think of a McDonalds breakfast burrito you will remember that unique taste.
The dystopia comes in because people find it less convenient, more expensive, and less flavorful to eat healthy.
Slashdot Mirror
> IBM Watson has a debater feature
But Trump is such a master debater.
It is a simple way for the machines to get rid of the humans.
Some say the robots will create enough wealth to feed all the unemployed.
I say the robots will create enough unemployed to feed the robots.
Interesting.
I would also point out that Soylent Green is made from all natural ingredients.
Not in the sense I'm thinking where people on certain drugs will do anything, commit crimes, etc in order to get their next fix. I don't think McDonalds has this effect. But I certainly believe that even if it did have this effect, that would not stop corporations from doing something this destructive.
I doubt it will ever be physically addictive. But even if it were, I don't think that would stop corporations from doing it. But they might engineer tastes that are very mentally addictive.
I'm not shocked at all. I expected it to behave that way. And yes, I did have Sync turned on. I'm just pointing it out that Google ultimately can get your plaintext passwords.
No evidence.
No crime.
I think you mean Carriage Return + Linefeed. Linefeed just rolls the platen up one line, but does not return the carriage to the left hand position.
Trusting the group means trusting whoever has enough compute power to manipulate the blockchain.
On the web you have people that don't trust each other but trust central certificate authorities -- more or less.
Or, what if you used blockchain to sign your certificates, and then used certificates that others would trust because they trust the group that your certificate is really yours? This costs a whole lot less compute power.
So much computing power. I'll bet Blockchain technology was invented by both electricity suppliers and computing equipment suppliers.
What makes you think I still watch it? I stopped long ago once I realized how bad the advertising had become.
Radio and TV are both a vast wasteland. I quit watching a long time ago. I do subscribe to multiple internet streaming services, without ads.
Advertising destroys every medium in which it is used. Ever.
This is because there is absolutely no restraining force to limit or self police behavior of advertisers. So is Google's behavior any surprise?
Begin rant.
I'll start with Radio and not comment.
TV had a tolerable number of ads. Somewhere during the golden age of TV the ads got more and more. And the quality of ads went way down. It used to be that the ads were somewhat entertaining. Then more and more ads. Lower quality programming.
People fled to cable. The promise of cable was no ads. That illusion didn't last long. But it was tolerable. And programming content was superior. And included the network TV channels if you needed to see a program on network TV. Then the ads got worse. The content got worse. More and more time was spent on ads, and less on content. It got so bad that after an ad, when the content resumed, there would be more ads walking out onto the show you are watching, obscuring things, sometimes important things.
People fled to internet TV. Some of it has ads, some does not. Hulu offers ad free for a higher price, which I'm willing to pay. Netflix is free of ads. When they started considering ads, I wrote them about how this is a slippery slope. Netflix has not put in ads, yet. I also suggested if the did introduce ads, have a higher priced ad-free tier. HBO, Starz and Amazon Prime are free of ads.
Now YouTube has ads. It was okay at first. Now it's getting intolerable. They push YouTube Red. But their ads have gotten so bad, I may just forego ever getting YT Red because I find the ads so offensive.
The web. No ads at first. It was about information. Then ads came. And came and came and came. And ad / malware networks. Then sites where an article was one paragraph per page, and each page had that one paragraph surrounded in dozens of blinking flashing dancing animated seizure inducing ads. And deceptive ads that try to look like an OS window warning you of something. And the advertising networks, and even host web sites were complicit in this. So I have no sympathy for sites complaining about ad blockers. If a site isn't usable with an ad blocker, I never go there again. No site has or ever will have anything valuable enough to overcome this. And since I won't go there, I won't find out even if they did. And I don't care.
Ads are a blight on our cities. And even the countryside. Miles and miles of billboards along roads. It's disgusting.
These people know no bounds. Absolutely none. Phones, tablets, personal computers all spy on us now for the sake of ads! Our cars spy on us for ads. Smart TVs spy on us for ads. IoT devices spy on us for ads.
Once the technology is available, these people will lobby to require ads on the inside of our eyelids. Yes really. Mark my words. They'll probably want your internal vital organs at some point.
Shhhhh! They don't want people to know that.
Were they inspected by customs at import time to ensure they matched the president's natural color?
Only if you think Consensus beats Authenticity. I'd somehow feel safer having signed documents where I can verify the digital signature, and trust the certificate chain. Even if the parties pre-arrange to use self-signed certificates.
Or maybe use the Consensus approach to Generate your self signed certificate, thus avoiding any CAs. That is a lot less computational work and waste of resources. You only generate your certificate occasionally. But you could use it to sign much more frequently.
Maybe people (or a browser extension, or FB reading mode) should not read things until they are at least ten minutes old. That would keep them safe from Bad Things(tm). This could be called the Facebook Safe Spaces mode where nobody can be offended or encounter unusual or uncomfortable ideas or opposite points of view.
I think /. is stuck in the LATE 90's. And that is NINTEEN-90s.
10 minutes is enough time to light a forest fire of Fake News. And then un-light it back at the source. Meanwhile the forest continues to burn.
Google has a "don't be evil" motto.
DDG.gg, shortcut for DuckDuckGo, does not have such a motto.
Google is not setting the evil bit on the packets it sends you.
> Your full plaintext password and full hashed password are never set to Google.
Let's try this experiment. But for real.
I use Chrome on a work computer. I log in to some web sites and Chrome conveniently remembers my passwords for those sites.
Last April I get a shiny new Google Pixelbook. (think: glorified web browser with 8 GB, core i5 and 128 GB SSD -- unless you put it in developer mode effectively rooting it so it can do useful things)
Using the Pixelbook (which is Chrome OS, of course, and thus Chrome), I am able to go to my favorite web sites, and -- like magic! -- Chrome conveniently knows my login credentials to those sites. How do you suppose that happened. My Pixelbook is on my home or other network. My Chrome browser which originally learned the credentials is on a much more secure network at work.
I think you are missing my point about corporate food 'addicting' people with unique flavors that might cause them to stop eating healthy for the sake of corporate profit.
Yes. I'd rather not be dysfunctionally addicted to anything that results in altering my behavior and way of life, especially if I would commit crimes in order to get my next fix. Now I don't think marijuana has that problem. But some other drugs do. My real point is that the dystopia of corporate food might 'addict' you in a way that doesn't make you a criminal, but does make you stop eating healthy for the sake of corporate profit. And believe me, they don't care what they do to your body over the long term.
You're making a lot of assumptions. I don't know what a Food Babe is. Yes, real strawberry is an organic molecule and made of cells (even if not living), long chain hydrocarbons, etc. How would natural and artificial molecules, of otherwise identical structure, be any different? In fact at some level what is 'artificial'? Are smartphones all natural because humans are a part of nature? But I digress . . .
My point is that the 42 chemical artificial flavor is, as I said, heavily engineered. Not that it is bad for you to eat the flavor. But it has an addictive purpose in the brain to make you want to keep coming back for something that is less than a healthy way to eat. Not that I don't enjoy a McDonalds breakfast burrito. But I notice that the 'simple' ingredients (eggs, sausage, cheese, bits of red/green pepper) sure seem to taste astonishingly unique. And that was my point. Corporations won't invent new flavors (although you could say I just described inventing a new flavor). Instead corporations will engineer addictive flavors that you cannot get anywhere else. When you think of a McDonalds breakfast burrito you will remember that unique taste.
The dystopia comes in because people find it less convenient, more expensive, and less flavorful to eat healthy.
I run uMatrix and slashdot works just fine for me.