That assumes that the author isn't a "friend" of Facebook, reading the headlines of his recent submissions about Facebook (mostly positive) and Google (overwhelming negative), I don't think it's going out on a limb to suggest that.
Yeah, no. Google don't force you to run Facebook, Facebook do by crafting deals with telcos and phone companies to force it's app on you, or by forcing you to run an app rather than just using the web browser version for messages.
Last I saw iOS was happy enough to allow Facebook to ask for permissions on your contacts too, so what is that red herring about?
I'm all for changing the law to mandate how people handle data; why does the US allow anyone to use your SSN for ID for example, but suggesting that granular permissions are the OS problem and not the user's problem is ridiculous. Are you proposing that you would decide for each individual what level of access they are permitted to grant to what company for them?
You think Facebook wouldn't have sold that information to the Stazi? Facebook are still trying to move into China and they understand the price of entry all too well....
The "opt in" is bullshit. Facebook is very opt out, and the information it was giving app developers was friends and friends of friends information, that never even knew the app existed.
In Australia for example, around 50 people used the app, which harvested the data of over 300,000 people.
They may not have bundled the data and handed it to them personally, but they were at least wilfully negligent.
This is even dumber that the average political use of whataboutism...
Google: knows everything about you, will use what it knows to serve ads to you based on a target profile supplied by the advertiser. Facebook: knows everything about you and gave your data and your friends data and your friends-friends data to anyone that could be bothered to ask, oh and also sold some ads.
The line of best fit for those two periods are very different, and you've managed to cherry-pick the start of the industrial revolution as "normal change".
Lots of things have implied/mandatory warranties, which may exceed those offered by the manufacturer.
In the US it's a mess of state-based law, in Australia it's federal and Apple was shocked to discover that a 1 year warranty on a "premium priced" item wasn't sufficient.
One option is winding up the business if you have a lot of unaffordable warranty claims in your foreseeable future... works well for a used car yard, not so well for Apple.
I really doubt this is even intentional on Apple's behalf, and I have never owned or wanted an iPhone...
The strength of their brand has always been reliability based on them making BOTH the software and the hardware which means their regression testing is infinitesimal compared to Microsoft or Google.
It also meant they could double down on aesthetics without too much concern about what the device might be required to run later, since they control all of that as well.
Take all that and replace a significant part with a 3rd party controller chip, and yeah, it's not always going to be compatible.
If the kid isn't wearing the associated wristband, and doesn't take it off, then the alarm sounds when it goes in the pool.
The neighbour kid, or your friends kids, or your own kids that aren't happy to wear a massive wristband around 24/7 can drown all they like.
The hundreds of existing wave based devices are bad because they will go off if other people are using the pool... other people that will watch a toddler fall into the pool and drown I guess.
Not to mention, where in this explanation does it make sense that "sorting your contacts" requires a server?
Call and Text History: Call and text history is part of an opt-in feature for people using Messenger or Facebook Lite on Android. This means we can surface the people you most frequently connect with at the top of your contact list. We’ve reviewed this feature to confirm that Facebook does not collect the content of messages — and will delete all logs older than one year. In the future, the client will only upload to our servers the information needed to offer this feature — not broader data such as the time of calls.
Also, who uses "surface" in this way? What a wanker.
Many of the suburban stations don't have gates, they just have a post that can register your tap on. All the CBD stations have gates though, and often 4-5 people with nothing else to do than hand out $200 fines to absent-minded commuters.
Yeah, that doesn't help if they tapped on with the wrong (low balance) card. The system is designed to allow you entry regardless, then deny you exit and hoover up that lovely penalty cash. Ka-ching, ka-ching!
Yeah, no. In Australia (even if you have registered your card, bought a monthly card that only needs to tap on for statistics purposes, and have a clear pattern of travelling from Stop A to Stop B and vice versa every day) what happens if you forget to tap on at the start, or lose your card on the journey, is they fine you $200-238.
To stress that, this is even when you've already paid but just forgot to tap on.
The nice thing with infrared is it prioritises living things by default, at least at night.
Not that there's anything wrong w/ LiDAR, if you're good at object detection. I wonder what it actually made of "woman + sideways bicycle", as I understand it it's non-trivial.
I suspect a 12-year old could write the reaction to "warm thing moving across my path" though.
Maybe, the BMW version seems to be about $1000. But I'd pay that for infrared around here pretty happily, for kangaroos rather than people or deer, but would easily pay for itself.
Night vision has amplification, this camera did not.
What the car should have had was infra-red and if it doesn't then I can't see how you can suggest it's fit to use at night in any conditions.
If it did have infra-red she would have been a massive bright spot on a black background moving across the cars path, and it reacted by... doing nothing.
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That assumes that the author isn't a "friend" of Facebook, reading the headlines of his recent submissions about Facebook (mostly positive) and Google (overwhelming negative), I don't think it's going out on a limb to suggest that.
Vis: http://www.businessinsider.com...
Google may suck, but Facebook definitely do, repeatedly and at length.
It's like comparing the sins of a country that still practice the death penalty in the modern age to one that gasses its citizens en mass.
Yeah, no. Google don't force you to run Facebook, Facebook do by crafting deals with telcos and phone companies to force it's app on you, or by forcing you to run an app rather than just using the web browser version for messages.
Last I saw iOS was happy enough to allow Facebook to ask for permissions on your contacts too, so what is that red herring about?
I'm all for changing the law to mandate how people handle data; why does the US allow anyone to use your SSN for ID for example, but suggesting that granular permissions are the OS problem and not the user's problem is ridiculous. Are you proposing that you would decide for each individual what level of access they are permitted to grant to what company for them?
You think Facebook wouldn't have sold that information to the Stazi? Facebook are still trying to move into China and they understand the price of entry all too well....
IFF you're a criminal this is entirely likely, but if you're a citizen, it's almost completely absurd.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
There you go 14 years of it.
The "opt in" is bullshit. Facebook is very opt out, and the information it was giving app developers was friends and friends of friends information, that never even knew the app existed.
In Australia for example, around 50 people used the app, which harvested the data of over 300,000 people.
They may not have bundled the data and handed it to them personally, but they were at least wilfully negligent.
This is even dumber that the average political use of whataboutism...
Google: knows everything about you, will use what it knows to serve ads to you based on a target profile supplied by the advertiser.
Facebook: knows everything about you and gave your data and your friends data and your friends-friends data to anyone that could be bothered to ask, oh and also sold some ads.
So similar.
The line of best fit for those two periods are very different, and you've managed to cherry-pick the start of the industrial revolution as "normal change".
Amusing, well done.
I hate mixing seeing political agendas thrown in with science.
Then stop doing it?
Lots of things have implied/mandatory warranties, which may exceed those offered by the manufacturer.
In the US it's a mess of state-based law, in Australia it's federal and Apple was shocked to discover that a 1 year warranty on a "premium priced" item wasn't sufficient.
One option is winding up the business if you have a lot of unaffordable warranty claims in your foreseeable future... works well for a used car yard, not so well for Apple.
I really doubt this is even intentional on Apple's behalf, and I have never owned or wanted an iPhone...
The strength of their brand has always been reliability based on them making BOTH the software and the hardware which means their regression testing is infinitesimal compared to Microsoft or Google.
It also meant they could double down on aesthetics without too much concern about what the device might be required to run later, since they control all of that as well.
Take all that and replace a significant part with a 3rd party controller chip, and yeah, it's not always going to be compatible.
There's plenty of counter-examples to your claim below, e.g. that they can reset after the water stops having waves for a time.
Any way you cut it this thing is a death trap and deserves sarcasm.
If the kid isn't wearing the associated wristband, and doesn't take it off, then the alarm sounds when it goes in the pool.
The neighbour kid, or your friends kids, or your own kids that aren't happy to wear a massive wristband around 24/7 can drown all they like.
The hundreds of existing wave based devices are bad because they will go off if other people are using the pool... other people that will watch a toddler fall into the pool and drown I guess.
http://makeinternetnoise.com/i...
Not to mention, where in this explanation does it make sense that "sorting your contacts" requires a server?
Call and Text History: Call and text history is part of an opt-in feature for people using Messenger or Facebook Lite on Android. This means we can surface the people you most frequently connect with at the top of your contact list. We’ve reviewed this feature to confirm that Facebook does not collect the content of messages — and will delete all logs older than one year. In the future, the client will only upload to our servers the information needed to offer this feature — not broader data such as the time of calls.
Also, who uses "surface" in this way? What a wanker.
That's what you get when valuations are based on user growth...
The android reviews are hilarious, there's about 2% that look genuine in the 5 star reviews, then stuff like:
Nithin Samuel
February 3, 2018
Worst update.
(That's what gets 5 stars from me, bad updates!)
Or these:
Lanchan gowda
March 19, 2018
Best apps for connecting with people
furkan sheikh
March 7, 2018
Connect with all dear one good app...
Prabhakaran p
February 11, 2018
Use full to connecting people
G Anu
March 18, 2018
Connecting people
(I guess this one didn't read the astro-turfing sheet right)
And looking at the reviews, perhaps WhatsApp is connecting 800 million Indians.
But then how are you going to pay $85-100k+ for your ticket inspectors, who also get 7 weeks off a year and free public transport?
http://yarratrams.com.au/about...
Many of the suburban stations don't have gates, they just have a post that can register your tap on. All the CBD stations have gates though, and often 4-5 people with nothing else to do than hand out $200 fines to absent-minded commuters.
Yeah, that doesn't help if they tapped on with the wrong (low balance) card. The system is designed to allow you entry regardless, then deny you exit and hoover up that lovely penalty cash. Ka-ching, ka-ching!
Yeah, no. In Australia (even if you have registered your card, bought a monthly card that only needs to tap on for statistics purposes, and have a clear pattern of travelling from Stop A to Stop B and vice versa every day) what happens if you forget to tap on at the start, or lose your card on the journey, is they fine you $200-238.
To stress that, this is even when you've already paid but just forgot to tap on.
Arseholes.
The point of the safety driver is so the estate has someone to sue that isn't Uber.
The nice thing with infrared is it prioritises living things by default, at least at night.
Not that there's anything wrong w/ LiDAR, if you're good at object detection. I wonder what it actually made of "woman + sideways bicycle", as I understand it it's non-trivial.
I suspect a 12-year old could write the reaction to "warm thing moving across my path" though.
Maybe, the BMW version seems to be about $1000. But I'd pay that for infrared around here pretty happily, for kangaroos rather than people or deer, but would easily pay for itself.
Night vision has amplification, this camera did not.
What the car should have had was infra-red and if it doesn't then I can't see how you can suggest it's fit to use at night in any conditions.
If it did have infra-red she would have been a massive bright spot on a black background moving across the cars path, and it reacted by ... doing nothing.
Asking @jack about global finance is like asking Michael Jordan about string theory.
Just because he's "successful" in one endeavour doesn't mean he's any better informed in something completely unrelated.
They're both really good at promotion though.