That's what today's generation puts up with. Me, I can't get over the fact that free speech is decided by unccountable giant megacorps who can't be reined in by government because of their sheer size - not to mention, because they're in bed with said government. I'm always amazed to see what people are willing to accept these days that we weren't...
So yeah, you get over it. I don't. Not that I or people from another era matter nowadays though, mind you: we're old enough that this isn't our world anymore. We're just here for the ride. But the ride gets scarier by the day for us.
Again, you don't seem to realize that scanning Google customers' inboxes doesn't only impact Google customers, but anybody who emails them as well. Half of the content of anybody's inbox is composed of messages they received from somebody else, who may or may not agree to have their emails scanned by Google themselves.
The problem is, if you send an email to someone whose email system is managed by Google, you didn't sign up for anything, nor did you give Google and their business buddies your consent to exploit your email, but they do it anyway.
- General-public, apparently-free Google services are used by individuals who don't know better, mostly don't give a damn about privacy and data protection, and just don't want to pay a cent to have access to stuff. Not to mention, Google having become a virtual monopoly, good luck finding alternatives to many services that have become essential. No, Vimeo or Dailymotion aren't as good as Youtube. And Google managed to make their products so amazingly good and attractive that using something else for the sake of principles is really, really painful.
- Enterprise-level Google products are targeted at companies that mostly care about how much they can save by getting rid of their IT people and infrastructure, and don't seem to understand the intrinsic value of the company's data and the risk associated with sharing it or losing it.
Google is a drug that's really hard to wean yourself of, whether you're Joe Consumer or a company. And as much as I hate to say it, that's to Google's credit. So no, it's not the beginning of the end at all for them: their future looks very bright indeed - and that of those who don't want to live in a corporate surveillance society, bleaker by the day.
Cloud = letting untrustworthy and/or incompetent companies manage your own data.
Roll-your-own IT = hard (as in, really hard - I'm not talking managing 5 servers in a small company), but as good and/or competent as you/your organization is willing to be.
The former looks like a good, cost-effective option until the company that manages your data screws your over or the internet goes down. The latter then starts to look like a better deal - but by then, it's too late.
Now then, ask yourself: is Google competent? Probably. Trustworthy? Hell no...
Those of us who are security-conscious know they haven't been pwned. Those who don't use weak passwords, reuse the same password across multiple logins, and submit their email addy on random websites for more pwnage.
Yeah right. That's nice and all, unless you just landed from a 7 hour flight, you're tired, and the hotel room was booked for you in advance by your company. I guarantee you most travelers in that kind of situation just give in and hit the sack.
1. Unplug the listening device 2. Realize the A/C, TV, lights and kettle are controlled by the (now off) listening device 3. Plug the listening device back in
The bad news is that at the moment, millions of people are happily sending crucial geodata to proprietary services like Waze
The bad news is, millions of people are happily sending any and all data with complete disregard for the consequences to themselves and to society as a whole. Because for most people, being able to instantly send lolcats to their cousin, inform the world of their latest bowel movement or watching the soccer match live on their phone is much more important than liberty and privacy.
Oh and by the way, Waze was bought by Google in 2013. Don't make it out to be a separate entity: it's part of the collective, and it's out for your data.
I've had my own ideas about how to "better" engineer Devuan, but there are so many things to do and so little Bruce.:-)
I've said for years that Bruce Perens is an insufferable narcissist with an ego the size of mount Everest. If that sentence doesn't convince you, I don't know what does...
I use StumbleUpon all the time. It's a great way to pass time.
BUT!
The thing has become a true privacy nightmare lately. If you use it without Noscript or uBlock Origin, you're bonkers: for any page that has, say, 10 scripts (and 8 are trackers), the same page referenced within the StumbleUpon "window" has hundred, even thousands of extra trackers tacked on.
It's so crazy I have to pretty much disable all scripts, and yank the URL of whatever page looks of interest from within the StumbleUpon URL (thankfully easy to extract) to paste it in another tab and view it normally.
So yeah, I'll miss SU. I won't miss the sneaky privacy invasion and over-the-top monetization attempts though...
And it might just be right. The more I age, the more I wonder if the very nature of humanity is compatible with sustainable peace and happiness, and whether it can be fixed at all. Maybe the best "fix" is extinction...
Okay, here's one: suppose an AI is in charge of running the US (and after all, why not: humans aren't doing such a great job at it). It determines the only way to end violence and protect minorities is to preventively lock up religious crazies and racists. Whose basic human rights will it choose to respect? The right of the crazies to be free, or the right of the minorities to be treated as human beings and live in peace? Zeroth law anyone?
The towing limit on most cars is because cars accelerate and brake going up and down hills, and have to cope with lateral acceleration forces on the trailer in turns.
In this case, the Tesla is pulling a lot of weight on a dead-flat surface at low speed. All it has to overcome is the inertia of the airliner's mass when accelerating to the 2 mph it seems to be doing in the video, and then overcome the friction of the plane's tires and wheel bearings once up to speed. Electric cars would be especially good at this, as they have no clutch and the highest torque at low rpm.
If you're not convinced any vehicle can tow heavy masses on flat ground with limited frictional forces, check out this video. Or this one...
Around 2000, Larry Ellison declared âoePrivacy is dead, get over itâ. Back then, I had no idea what he was on about and I laughed. Now I know - we all know - and I quit laughing.
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A nation-wide socialist state? More like a wide national-socialist state if you ask me...
Oh, and there's nothing blueprinty or futuristic about it: it's here right now, and it's been implemented many years ago.
Yep. And I bet a lot of people would like to set his feet in concrete and send him to the bottom of the ocean also.
This raises the following questions:
- Why do you want the internet filtered? Have you internalized censorship so well that it seems natural to you?
- Why would you want Google to do the filtering?
That's what today's generation puts up with. Me, I can't get over the fact that free speech is decided by unccountable giant megacorps who can't be reined in by government because of their sheer size - not to mention, because they're in bed with said government. I'm always amazed to see what people are willing to accept these days that we weren't...
So yeah, you get over it. I don't. Not that I or people from another era matter nowadays though, mind you: we're old enough that this isn't our world anymore. We're just here for the ride. But the ride gets scarier by the day for us.
Again, you don't seem to realize that scanning Google customers' inboxes doesn't only impact Google customers, but anybody who emails them as well. Half of the content of anybody's inbox is composed of messages they received from somebody else, who may or may not agree to have their emails scanned by Google themselves.
The problem is, if you send an email to someone whose email system is managed by Google, you didn't sign up for anything, nor did you give Google and their business buddies your consent to exploit your email, but they do it anyway.
I don't think so.
- General-public, apparently-free Google services are used by individuals who don't know better, mostly don't give a damn about privacy and data protection, and just don't want to pay a cent to have access to stuff. Not to mention, Google having become a virtual monopoly, good luck finding alternatives to many services that have become essential. No, Vimeo or Dailymotion aren't as good as Youtube. And Google managed to make their products so amazingly good and attractive that using something else for the sake of principles is really, really painful.
- Enterprise-level Google products are targeted at companies that mostly care about how much they can save by getting rid of their IT people and infrastructure, and don't seem to understand the intrinsic value of the company's data and the risk associated with sharing it or losing it.
Google is a drug that's really hard to wean yourself of, whether you're Joe Consumer or a company. And as much as I hate to say it, that's to Google's credit. So no, it's not the beginning of the end at all for them: their future looks very bright indeed - and that of those who don't want to live in a corporate surveillance society, bleaker by the day.
Cloud = letting untrustworthy and/or incompetent companies manage your own data.
Roll-your-own IT = hard (as in, really hard - I'm not talking managing 5 servers in a small company), but as good and/or competent as you/your organization is willing to be.
The former looks like a good, cost-effective option until the company that manages your data screws your over or the internet goes down. The latter then starts to look like a better deal - but by then, it's too late.
Now then, ask yourself: is Google competent? Probably. Trustworthy? Hell no...
For your information, I give seminars on how to avoid crazy sex with multiple gorgeous women.
Hint hint...
Those of us who are security-conscious know they haven't been pwned. Those who don't use weak passwords, reuse the same password across multiple logins, and submit their email addy on random websites for more pwnage.
They kicked all the small-time trolls and kept the biggest of them all.
Yeah right. That's nice and all, unless you just landed from a 7 hour flight, you're tired, and the hotel room was booked for you in advance by your company. I guarantee you most travelers in that kind of situation just give in and hit the sack.
More like:
1. Unplug the listening device
2. Realize the A/C, TV, lights and kettle are controlled by the (now off) listening device
3. Plug the listening device back in
The bad news is, millions of people are happily sending any and all data with complete disregard for the consequences to themselves and to society as a whole. Because for most people, being able to instantly send lolcats to their cousin, inform the world of their latest bowel movement or watching the soccer match live on their phone is much more important than liberty and privacy.
Oh and by the way, Waze was bought by Google in 2013. Don't make it out to be a separate entity: it's part of the collective, and it's out for your data.
therefore Facebook wannabes will suck too.
It has nothing to do with privacy: Facebook's interpretation of what social media should be makes it totally unappealing to me.
As for the privacy thing: Mozilla never gave me any reason to trust them anymore than Facebook.
So... no.
I've said for years that Bruce Perens is an insufferable narcissist with an ego the size of mount Everest. If that sentence doesn't convince you, I don't know what does...
Nothing like a good line of Colombian.
Same here.
But I'm a nobody, and my OSS project are of little importance. What matters the most now is migrating this away from the Microsoft trap...
Yeah, Stallman was right - always has been. But most people have a hard time taking people who eat their own toejam in public seriously.
People are concerned about corruption in politics, yet keep electing the same sumbitches.
I use StumbleUpon all the time. It's a great way to pass time.
BUT!
The thing has become a true privacy nightmare lately. If you use it without Noscript or uBlock Origin, you're bonkers: for any page that has, say, 10 scripts (and 8 are trackers), the same page referenced within the StumbleUpon "window" has hundred, even thousands of extra trackers tacked on.
It's so crazy I have to pretty much disable all scripts, and yank the URL of whatever page looks of interest from within the StumbleUpon URL (thankfully easy to extract) to paste it in another tab and view it normally.
So yeah, I'll miss SU. I won't miss the sneaky privacy invasion and over-the-top monetization attempts though...
And it might just be right. The more I age, the more I wonder if the very nature of humanity is compatible with sustainable peace and happiness, and whether it can be fixed at all. Maybe the best "fix" is extinction...
Okay, here's one: suppose an AI is in charge of running the US (and after all, why not: humans aren't doing such a great job at it). It determines the only way to end violence and protect minorities is to preventively lock up religious crazies and racists. Whose basic human rights will it choose to respect? The right of the crazies to be free, or the right of the minorities to be treated as human beings and live in peace? Zeroth law anyone?
The towing limit on most cars is because cars accelerate and brake going up and down hills, and have to cope with lateral acceleration forces on the trailer in turns.
In this case, the Tesla is pulling a lot of weight on a dead-flat surface at low speed. All it has to overcome is the inertia of the airliner's mass when accelerating to the 2 mph it seems to be doing in the video, and then overcome the friction of the plane's tires and wheel bearings once up to speed. Electric cars would be especially good at this, as they have no clutch and the highest torque at low rpm.
If you're not convinced any vehicle can tow heavy masses on flat ground with limited frictional forces, check out this video. Or this one...
Around 2000, Larry Ellison declared âoePrivacy is dead, get over itâ. Back then, I had no idea what he was on about and I laughed. Now I know - we all know - and I quit laughing.
Larry Ellison is a true visionary.