All the previous posters joke about mutant moths and such. In reality no one wants to release these critters. They want to find out what the chemical process is and see if it can be replicated industrially and effeciently. If it works without massive energy input then it is a viable alternative to putting plastic in landfills.
Randome Joe Website trying to be useful and show you the native language for your IP is one thing. The snippit of obfuscated ad-tracker code that picks up your Facebook or google or crappy-ad-services-llc cookies has a much better chance of finger printing you.
TL;DR - ad trcking code is almost always de-coupled from the actual web page code, and give the plethora of options for IDing you (cookies, browser fingerprinting, etc
Don't get me wrong, I use them for very specific purposes, but...
Many sites do not work correctly, even on paid vpns. From languages changing to broken javascript, to slowness it makes for an aggravating user experience for an average user.
If you use your regular browser and log into sites, or even once launch your regular browser and surf, all the ad-trackers from google, facebook et all will just learn that you are on such and such VPN IP instead of such and such ISP IP. It really only blocks your ISP to see what you are doing unless you practice op-sec. And guess what, op-sec is hard as fuck to do well, even for IT experts, much less an average user.
So, you are right, always assume your data is being sold. However, mitigating that is still not easy, and it never will be as long as there is potential monetary gain from collecting it.
Not joking. I enjoyed it. I never read the novel. Personally, what I did read of Crichton I did not enjoy. The pacing alwyas felt off, but many of his books seemed to translate well into movies for me.
With other titles I swing wildly the other way... Dune is good, but nothing near as good as the novel. LoTR, please don't get me started!
ST II Wrath of Kahn
Matrix
Bladerunner
District 9
Event Horizon
Sphere
Fifth Element
Lucy was pretty good too. Looking forward to see how Valerian is... looks promising.
You couldn't pay me to use a spybook like this or Chromebooks.
That is rather tinfoil hatish. Do you use a smartphone? The internet? Then you are being tracked. You can minimize it but not eliminate it. As a 'boycott' your refusal is ineffectual at best as the spying device horse left the barn long ago. The choices now, are ignore it, or do your best to enter the discussion and try to point public policy in the right direction. That task feels a bit sisyphean, but it looks like you just gave up, instead of having something tangible to offer.
This. To expand on some personal experience. I use Waze. Sometime last year they added a speed limit feature. You can show your speed and the posted speed limit on the road. You can even have it alert when you are a set amount over the posted speed limit.
At first, the data was sparse. Some roads did not have speed limit data, some were incorrect, normally in the placement of a change in speed limit. However it quite quickly became usable, just from crowdsourced data.
Google maps includes turn lane indications so you know which lanes are left, right or straight through an unfamiliar intersection. This is very useful fir picking the correct lane when needing to make two turns in quick succession.
A fleet of cars with AI can also 'croudsource' and report changes to a data network. As long as a data connection or a local copy of the data is accessible, there is far more data that can be stored in the map than visual sensors allow.
I see no reason why this cannot be expanded to self driving cars to give them an up-to-date model in addition to it's own sensor data.
UA entered into a contract to fly a paying customer to a destination. He had leagally paid, boarded and been seated. Just as a landlord cannot instantly evict a tenant because the need an apartment for thier cousin, UA should not be allowed to do this.
If you want to be an apologist for corporate fuckery, I have a katana shaped dildo for you. If you want to be an apologist for stupidity, go look in a mirror.
The real question is why we let corporations use the government to enforece rules they set. In this case whe have a company using jackbooted thugs, paid for by your taxes, to abuse your peer. This is just another illustration of where power really lies. This is not a democracy. It is a corporate oligarchy.
Cherry picking is decidedly wrong when used to mislead. That said.. when will you and those like you admit that both sides have sold out. The buyers, and hence the favored corporations may differ - but to them YOU do not matter other than a sheep to corral into a voting booth with unkept promises.
But.. this does not require direct physical access. since the download mechanism for the manufacturer updates is not encrypted it could easily be patched in by an adversary with advanced capabilities. Even if it were https it could be vulnerable to MITM attacks to modify the flash files. And really, no checksum and/or signature? This is an APTs wet dream.
With older games this really wont matter, and even with newer games that go unpatched they still perform enough for clean 60fps gaming with a good GPU. Even if it performs less than an intel CPU with the same GPU, if it is good enough and about.5 the price, what are you bitching about?
I had a similar experience. As some here may know I was in prison. Upon release in 2011, I was nearly broke and jobless. I scraped together some funds, and my mom (oversease) sent me some. I linked my bank account to paypal, and used paypal to buy a ~$300 dollar laptop at Walmart - needed for job applications ant other things. It was 'in stock' so I ordered online and opted for in store pickup. Lo and behold it was not in stock and could not be substituted. However, Walmart said it would take up to 30 days to refund my money (over 95% of the money I had in my name at the time). But, they could take it instantly.
Granted, a portion of the blame here also resides with PayPal, but still extremely frustrating. I burned up almost all the minutes on my then pre-paid flip phone with Walmart and Paypal trying to resolve it.
Side note, it is hard as fuck. But even with a decade in prison, and a felony record, I now have a great job, a side business, bought a new car 2 years ago and now own a home. All in a bit over 5 years. It took a lot of luck, good friends, and a pile of hard work. So if you are unemplyed, have strikes against you etc, don't give up.
If ever a Hitler gains power, it will make it easy to round up the Jews (or whoever the next lot of scapegoats are). Thr census will also become irrelevant. Simply gain access to this data.
The next lot of scapegoats will likely be brown people of various origin and the poor.
Slashdot Mirror
But will ego-boost add enough delta-v for a trip?
All the previous posters joke about mutant moths and such. In reality no one wants to release these critters. They want to find out what the chemical process is and see if it can be replicated industrially and effeciently. If it works without massive energy input then it is a viable alternative to putting plastic in landfills.
TL;DR - ad trcking code is almost always de-coupled from the actual web page code, and give the plethora of options for IDing you (cookies, browser fingerprinting, etc
Don't get me wrong, I use them for very specific purposes, but...
Many sites do not work correctly, even on paid vpns. From languages changing to broken javascript, to slowness it makes for an aggravating user experience for an average user.
If you use your regular browser and log into sites, or even once launch your regular browser and surf, all the ad-trackers from google, facebook et all will just learn that you are on such and such VPN IP instead of such and such ISP IP. It really only blocks your ISP to see what you are doing unless you practice op-sec. And guess what, op-sec is hard as fuck to do well, even for IT experts, much less an average user.
So, you are right, always assume your data is being sold. However, mitigating that is still not easy, and it never will be as long as there is potential monetary gain from collecting it.
Vericose Rectum - Also known as hemmorhoids.
With other titles I swing wildly the other way... Dune is good, but nothing near as good as the novel. LoTR, please don't get me started!
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Yep.. comments like that will engender change in the world. Bravo.
ST II Wrath of Kahn
Matrix
Bladerunner
District 9
Event Horizon
Sphere
Fifth Element
Lucy was pretty good too. Looking forward to see how Valerian is... looks promising.
You couldn't pay me to use a spybook like this or Chromebooks.
That is rather tinfoil hatish. Do you use a smartphone? The internet? Then you are being tracked. You can minimize it but not eliminate it. As a 'boycott' your refusal is ineffectual at best as the spying device horse left the barn long ago. The choices now, are ignore it, or do your best to enter the discussion and try to point public policy in the right direction. That task feels a bit sisyphean, but it looks like you just gave up, instead of having something tangible to offer.
TRS-80 model 1 level 2, with tape drive. Also a Mattel Aquarius.
At first, the data was sparse. Some roads did not have speed limit data, some were incorrect, normally in the placement of a change in speed limit. However it quite quickly became usable, just from crowdsourced data.
Google maps includes turn lane indications so you know which lanes are left, right or straight through an unfamiliar intersection. This is very useful fir picking the correct lane when needing to make two turns in quick succession.
A fleet of cars with AI can also 'croudsource' and report changes to a data network. As long as a data connection or a local copy of the data is accessible, there is far more data that can be stored in the map than visual sensors allow.
I see no reason why this cannot be expanded to self driving cars to give them an up-to-date model in addition to it's own sensor data.
This article feels like FUD.
Personally, I ran a gopher server, ircd, and later CERN https on a next cube, you insensitive clod.
If you want to be an apologist for corporate fuckery, I have a katana shaped dildo for you. If you want to be an apologist for stupidity, go look in a mirror.
The real question is why we let corporations use the government to enforece rules they set. In this case whe have a company using jackbooted thugs, paid for by your taxes, to abuse your peer. This is just another illustration of where power really lies. This is not a democracy. It is a corporate oligarchy.
Cherry picking is decidedly wrong when used to mislead. That said.. when will you and those like you admit that both sides have sold out. The buyers, and hence the favored corporations may differ - but to them YOU do not matter other than a sheep to corral into a voting booth with unkept promises.
This.. a thousand times.
But.. this does not require direct physical access. since the download mechanism for the manufacturer updates is not encrypted it could easily be patched in by an adversary with advanced capabilities. Even if it were https it could be vulnerable to MITM attacks to modify the flash files. And really, no checksum and/or signature? This is an APTs wet dream.
With older games this really wont matter, and even with newer games that go unpatched they still perform enough for clean 60fps gaming with a good GPU. Even if it performs less than an intel CPU with the same GPU, if it is good enough and about .5 the price, what are you bitching about?
Granted, a portion of the blame here also resides with PayPal, but still extremely frustrating. I burned up almost all the minutes on my then pre-paid flip phone with Walmart and Paypal trying to resolve it.
Side note, it is hard as fuck. But even with a decade in prison, and a felony record, I now have a great job, a side business, bought a new car 2 years ago and now own a home. All in a bit over 5 years. It took a lot of luck, good friends, and a pile of hard work. So if you are unemplyed, have strikes against you etc, don't give up.
I prefer 'only twits and twats tweet'
I was never with her. But this buffoon makes a turd look tasty.
..longer POTUS blasts. I'm thrilled.
God IS spaghetti code. Minus the code possibly.
Ramen
PLease put your colander on in church sir. All praise his noodly goodness!
If ever a Hitler gains power, it will make it easy to round up the Jews (or whoever the next lot of scapegoats are). Thr census will also become irrelevant. Simply gain access to this data.
The next lot of scapegoats will likely be brown people of various origin and the poor.