OSM provides the data, however they do not provide hosting of tilesets. From OSM's terms
What I meant was DDG using OSM data and rolling their own service. It's more expensive than using a 3rd party provider - which is cheaper because it gets to exploit the data DDG will inevitably hand over to them - but if DDG truly cared about privacy, they would have done it.
That's what's mildly disappointing: it tells me DDG is okay with compromising when it suits them. Pragmatically, I understand these services cost money to run and provide for free. Yet I can't help drawing a parallel with an early version of another company that promised not to do evil but eventually gave up on the promise.
In other words, I'm wondering if this is the first sign that DDG is abandoning its ideals (because of simple economics, no doubt) and will eventually go full nasty, like all the other big data players.
I would have preferred it if Duckduckgo had worked with Openstreetmap. If would have fitted their general self-declared ethics better methink.
So yeah, going to bed with Apple is better than integrating into the Google collective - although I don't believe Apple's good intentions for one second, and working with Google was never an option for DDG in the first place anyway. But it's kind of meh really...
Today's world is fabulous technologically speaking. I remember MIT's first attempts at self-driving cars in the 80s. I worked on one of the first telephone with voice recognition (it sort of recognized 10 digits after hours of training). I dreamed of a portable computer I could take with me everywhere, and being forever-connected to the rest of the world.
Now all these things are a reality, and so ubiquitous people feel the need to wonder if they're cool on Slashdot!
What I didn't expect is the reasons why these technologies came about: as I kid, I thought research was done to better humanity, and give more people access to education. Wrong! It's done to squeeze money out of people and put them under surveillance. It's also used by religious crazies, conspiracy theorists, and to post videos of cats.
In short, all these mavellous things have been invented for nefarious purposes, and used mostly by an ever-dumber population. That's a letdown...
The innovativeness of Apple's "technology" notwithstanding (I can't see rounded corners and annoying notches being a particularly special USP), if the Chinese stole it, Apple had it coming: they wanted to build cheap, they played with cheap Chinese suppliers, and they've been had. If you stick your head in the mouth of a lion, don't be surprised if you get a headache...
Well, while I agree Microsoft probably weaved bits of IE deep into the OS go gain unfair advantages over competing browsers, the issue in question might also run deeper than the browser. For instance, they might have modified or extended a kernel API call to truly secure whatever runs on top of the kernel. So they might have patched the browser and the kernel to fix the issue, and fucked up the kernel bit of the patch.
The real issue is that Microsoft views their users are computer idiots (with some reason) and bundles OS and application layer diffs in one single patch, and you don't really know what a Microsoft patch does or modifies.
I mean, fear mongering is fine. But seriously could you not find even ONE example of the abuse of privacy for a kids tech toy?
That's the problem with big data: the threat is so massive and so diffuse that it's both very hard to find clear-cut evidence for it, and it's often too big to believe.
With "localized" dangers, it's simple: for example the pervert neighbor watching your child with a pair of binoculars. Easy problem to identify. Catch the perv in the act, problem solved.
With surveillance IoT toys, it's a lot harder to identify the problem. The toy maker could be building a database on your child's habits and behaviors in good faith. But what tells you they won't sell it to Facebook who'll get to "open a file" on your kid early? If the toymaker's database gets stolen and sold on the dark net, pervs can buy it and use it. And gee, do you want even a benevolent company virtually living with your child?
The problem is, there hasn't been a clear-cut crime committed. If there was, you can't tell because database owners are totally opaque and unaccountable. How do you do about proving something illegal is, or will be going on?
You only get to see the effects of corporate surveillance in the news when it goes spectacularly wrong. But in reality, it goes on all the time and there's nothing you or the law can do about it.
and how the real human will make the call in edge cases. One liberal tumblr censor will let vaguely sexy photos of clothed gay guys pass, while some holier-than-thou christian-leaning one will ban photos of nuns...
If only "religious leaders" - or anybody spending more than 10 seconds per year reflecting on religious issues - spent their time and efforts trying to solve the real problems of this world...
If you ain't rich and you you can't fund the devlopment of an oops-sorry app, you don't get to have a nice wedding in a protected nature reserve. If you are, you do.
Somehow that story doesn't make me feel all warm and fuzzy...
Waiting at the check-in desk, checking in, waiting in line at the airport for the security theater, walking the airport's corridors, waiting at the gate, boarding, taxiing, landing, disembarking, walking some more, waiting at the baggage claim, etc: 3 hours if you're lucky. That's assuming flying supersonic isn't reserved for rich fucks who get to fast-track the whole process of course...
Conclusion: if you want people to travel faster, it would make more economic sense to reduce the time it takes *before* and *after* the flying proper.
Only use that account for when a reputable site requires it, else a throwaway hotmail account gets used
Funny, I use my Gmail account for the very thing you use your Hotmail account: if it's trash or stuff required by Google - which is the same thing - then I submit the ole Gmail account. My real email is handled by a reputable ISP.
It's greedy megacorps like Google, Facebook and whatnot that have taken over Linux as a commodity OS they have complete access to the source code of, and don't have to pay a cent in royalties to deploy by the hundreds of millions of seats.
What's taken over the world is those companies' disgusting and heinous application stacks that happen to run on Linux.
I know that telemarketers can be annoying - especially if you're on the Do Not Call list
The Do Not Call list, just like the Do Not Track setting in most modern web browsers, is a feature that basically tells advertisers you're a naive sucker who believes it's worth ths effort to register.
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OSM provides the data, however they do not provide hosting of tilesets. From OSM's terms
What I meant was DDG using OSM data and rolling their own service. It's more expensive than using a 3rd party provider - which is cheaper because it gets to exploit the data DDG will inevitably hand over to them - but if DDG truly cared about privacy, they would have done it.
That's what's mildly disappointing: it tells me DDG is okay with compromising when it suits them. Pragmatically, I understand these services cost money to run and provide for free. Yet I can't help drawing a parallel with an early version of another company that promised not to do evil but eventually gave up on the promise.
In other words, I'm wondering if this is the first sign that DDG is abandoning its ideals (because of simple economics, no doubt) and will eventually go full nasty, like all the other big data players.
I would have preferred it if Duckduckgo had worked with Openstreetmap. If would have fitted their general self-declared ethics better methink.
So yeah, going to bed with Apple is better than integrating into the Google collective - although I don't believe Apple's good intentions for one second, and working with Google was never an option for DDG in the first place anyway. But it's kind of meh really...
Today's world is fabulous technologically speaking. I remember MIT's first attempts at self-driving cars in the 80s. I worked on one of the first telephone with voice recognition (it sort of recognized 10 digits after hours of training). I dreamed of a portable computer I could take with me everywhere, and being forever-connected to the rest of the world.
Now all these things are a reality, and so ubiquitous people feel the need to wonder if they're cool on Slashdot!
What I didn't expect is the reasons why these technologies came about: as I kid, I thought research was done to better humanity, and give more people access to education. Wrong! It's done to squeeze money out of people and put them under surveillance. It's also used by religious crazies, conspiracy theorists, and to post videos of cats.
In short, all these mavellous things have been invented for nefarious purposes, and used mostly by an ever-dumber population. That's a letdown...
The innovativeness of Apple's "technology" notwithstanding (I can't see rounded corners and annoying notches being a particularly special USP), if the Chinese stole it, Apple had it coming: they wanted to build cheap, they played with cheap Chinese suppliers, and they've been had. If you stick your head in the mouth of a lion, don't be surprised if you get a headache...
Me, it'd take $1000 to convince me to open an account - then a lot more than that to actually use it.
And when you're done logging in, you can use the fake hand to give yourself a stranger. What's not to love eh?
You rent your home full of your stuff to a total stranger. What do you expect?
If your AI can navigate web forms, teach it to solve your fucking Google CAPTCHAs which are the bane of the internet.
Well, while I agree Microsoft probably weaved bits of IE deep into the OS go gain unfair advantages over competing browsers, the issue in question might also run deeper than the browser. For instance, they might have modified or extended a kernel API call to truly secure whatever runs on top of the kernel. So they might have patched the browser and the kernel to fix the issue, and fucked up the kernel bit of the patch.
The real issue is that Microsoft views their users are computer idiots (with some reason) and bundles OS and application layer diffs in one single patch, and you don't really know what a Microsoft patch does or modifies.
I mean, fear mongering is fine. But seriously could you not find even ONE example of the abuse of privacy for a kids tech toy?
That's the problem with big data: the threat is so massive and so diffuse that it's both very hard to find clear-cut evidence for it, and it's often too big to believe.
With "localized" dangers, it's simple: for example the pervert neighbor watching your child with a pair of binoculars. Easy problem to identify. Catch the perv in the act, problem solved.
With surveillance IoT toys, it's a lot harder to identify the problem. The toy maker could be building a database on your child's habits and behaviors in good faith. But what tells you they won't sell it to Facebook who'll get to "open a file" on your kid early? If the toymaker's database gets stolen and sold on the dark net, pervs can buy it and use it. And gee, do you want even a benevolent company virtually living with your child?
The problem is, there hasn't been a clear-cut crime committed. If there was, you can't tell because database owners are totally opaque and unaccountable. How do you do about proving something illegal is, or will be going on?
You only get to see the effects of corporate surveillance in the news when it goes spectacularly wrong. But in reality, it goes on all the time and there's nothing you or the law can do about it.
Oh yeah I know: Pornhub, Youporn, Xvideos...
and how the real human will make the call in edge cases. One liberal tumblr censor will let vaguely sexy photos of clothed gay guys pass, while some holier-than-thou christian-leaning one will ban photos of nuns...
so I know what to order from them.
If only "religious leaders" - or anybody spending more than 10 seconds per year reflecting on religious issues - spent their time and efforts trying to solve the real problems of this world...
If you ain't rich and you you can't fund the devlopment of an oops-sorry app, you don't get to have a nice wedding in a protected nature reserve. If you are, you do.
Somehow that story doesn't make me feel all warm and fuzzy...
London-NY subsonic: 7.5 hours
London-NY supersonic: 3.5 hours
Waiting at the check-in desk, checking in, waiting in line at the airport for the security theater, walking the airport's corridors, waiting at the gate, boarding, taxiing, landing, disembarking, walking some more, waiting at the baggage claim, etc: 3 hours if you're lucky. That's assuming flying supersonic isn't reserved for rich fucks who get to fast-track the whole process of course...
Conclusion: if you want people to travel faster, it would make more economic sense to reduce the time it takes *before* and *after* the flying proper.
"git commit -a -S -m 'same old crap`" when doing a push
Is that what you do when you do a push? I just grunt and it seems to work for me.
Very soon.
Only use that account for when a reputable site requires it, else a throwaway hotmail account gets used
Funny, I use my Gmail account for the very thing you use your Hotmail account: if it's trash or stuff required by Google - which is the same thing - then I submit the ole Gmail account. My real email is handled by a reputable ISP.
Why just telcos?
All companies lie when they have an agenda.
It still works. I'll keep it. Fuck Christmas (sorry, it's "holiday season" officially now) mass consumption.
In fact, fuck mass consumption and planned obsolescence year round...
It's greedy megacorps like Google, Facebook and whatnot that have taken over Linux as a commodity OS they have complete access to the source code of, and don't have to pay a cent in royalties to deploy by the hundreds of millions of seats.
What's taken over the world is those companies' disgusting and heinous application stacks that happen to run on Linux.
You should have put your dick on the reader. Now *that* would have been a blast.
I know that telemarketers can be annoying - especially if you're on the Do Not Call list
The Do Not Call list, just like the Do Not Track setting in most modern web browsers, is a feature that basically tells advertisers you're a naive sucker who believes it's worth ths effort to register.
Nah... Since they turned it into a script, it's gotten much better. Get with the times man!