I hate corporations as much as the next guy (especially working for them), but what would you suggest if a corporation screws up as badly as the individual who lost his summer cabin, children, dog, and job? Shut them down? Then all of their employees lose their jobs. Much as we hate to admit it, corporations are comprised of people who stand to lose a lot if that corporation is shut down. Corporations have too much power now, yes, but we have to be careful how we address that issue.
I'd mod this up if I had points left.
Very well said, and good advice about living with someone/waiting on kids. I'm very happily married and have been for 16 years. But then, my wife and I enjoy just hanging out with each other. Try this: take a 1 week vacation with your prospective spouse and just stay home and hang out together. If you can't do that without going insane or driving each other nuts, forget marriage - it'll never work.
They send takedown notices to the major usenet providers which then remove the posts from their servers. Yes the posts propagate, but if you want any sort of article retention time and completeness you subscribe to one of a handful of major providers. If those major providers nuke the posts from their servers, you're generally SOL....or so I have read...
Probably a stupid question but I'm sure others wonder, too: How can the discovered particle have 125 times the mass of a proton when it was discovered by smashing individual protons together? In other words, prior to a proton-proton collision that creates this Higgs-like particle, where was the particle?
I think the problem is a lot of us don't see how we're going to get there from here, and it makes us nervous when people threaten to take away our ability to work as efficiently as we do now with desktop PCs. I'm nervous too, but things are evolving. I have to trust that some new solution will eventually arrive that while maybe making desktop PCs obsolete, will not lower my productivity or user experience. But I'm going to need a big screen, a keyboard and a mouse. Give me those and I don't care what's crunching the numbers in the background.
Every little bit helps. I'm also usually behind a VPN, and always have Ghostery, Noscript and 'do not track' enabled. Am I 100% private? No. But I'm better than without those options. I'm also under no illusions that 'do not track' helps unless the site I'm connecting to wants it to help. But it probably doesn't hurt.
This is why I stay logged out of my Google account whenever possible and only access Facebook when I absolutely have to. Privacy is dead. Google talks a good talk with "Don't be evil", but actions speak louder than words. And Facebook might be the biggest enemy of privacy on the web right now.
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I hate corporations as much as the next guy (especially working for them), but what would you suggest if a corporation screws up as badly as the individual who lost his summer cabin, children, dog, and job? Shut them down? Then all of their employees lose their jobs. Much as we hate to admit it, corporations are comprised of people who stand to lose a lot if that corporation is shut down. Corporations have too much power now, yes, but we have to be careful how we address that issue.
I'd mod this up if I had points left. Very well said, and good advice about living with someone/waiting on kids. I'm very happily married and have been for 16 years. But then, my wife and I enjoy just hanging out with each other. Try this: take a 1 week vacation with your prospective spouse and just stay home and hang out together. If you can't do that without going insane or driving each other nuts, forget marriage - it'll never work.
They send takedown notices to the major usenet providers which then remove the posts from their servers. Yes the posts propagate, but if you want any sort of article retention time and completeness you subscribe to one of a handful of major providers. If those major providers nuke the posts from their servers, you're generally SOL. ...or so I have read...
I'm with ya. But there have been a recent rash of DMCA takedowns, so somebody somewhere has finally caught on...
Probably a stupid question but I'm sure others wonder, too: How can the discovered particle have 125 times the mass of a proton when it was discovered by smashing individual protons together? In other words, prior to a proton-proton collision that creates this Higgs-like particle, where was the particle?
I think the problem is a lot of us don't see how we're going to get there from here, and it makes us nervous when people threaten to take away our ability to work as efficiently as we do now with desktop PCs. I'm nervous too, but things are evolving. I have to trust that some new solution will eventually arrive that while maybe making desktop PCs obsolete, will not lower my productivity or user experience. But I'm going to need a big screen, a keyboard and a mouse. Give me those and I don't care what's crunching the numbers in the background.
The only way to ensure complete privacy is to stay offline and stay indoors. Oh, and probably keep all of your curtains closed too, now...
Can't a guy raise a homicidal army of SOME sort of technological automaton without someone ruining all my fun?
Nope. Switch to a zombie horde and you won't have that problem...
Every little bit helps. I'm also usually behind a VPN, and always have Ghostery, Noscript and 'do not track' enabled. Am I 100% private? No. But I'm better than without those options. I'm also under no illusions that 'do not track' helps unless the site I'm connecting to wants it to help. But it probably doesn't hurt.
This is why I stay logged out of my Google account whenever possible and only access Facebook when I absolutely have to. Privacy is dead. Google talks a good talk with "Don't be evil", but actions speak louder than words. And Facebook might be the biggest enemy of privacy on the web right now.
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