I know you aren’t going to like it, but maybe you SHOULD pay a higher premiums in that case. The point of insurance is to mitigate risk, not to offload it onto others. You wouldn’t expect everyone to have to pay more for their car insurance, because there is this one guy that wrecks his car every week due to no fault of his own and everybody is paying for it because we have completely anonymized all traffic incident for muh privacy, do you? Some countries have social programs that essentially force you to pay for others and I don’t think that it is necessarily a bad thing for healthcare, but that is not what an insurance is for.
Which is precisely why this entire conversation is nonsensical to the bone. You don’t need to set up a VPN if you trust the company enough not to cause harm to you. Usage data will not ruin your life even if the company’s servers are breached. If you don’t trust them, a VPN won’t help you either as there are a million ways they can screw you over on both software and hardware levels. All GP is really trying to do is make everyone’s life harder to -feel- marginally safer.
That’s RIGHT! Technology should be as inaccessible and inconvenient as is humanly possible to keep us safe from manufacturing globalists who want to gather data on how their products are used for EXCLUSIVELY nefarious purposes. I take great offense with your proposed solution though. You forgot to mention the most important point: it should be 100 PERCENT GPL-compliant and be so free—really, there is only one kind of “free”; all else is slavery—that even Stallman would be willing to use it when he’s not creaming up his feet.
Great for you. This “I will never connect my appliances to the internet” hand-waving reminds me a lot of refusal to use anything but dumb phones in early 2010s and anything but phones wired to a wall in early 2000s.
I do not think the issue is Amazon in this case: it is Chinese sellers and customer protection in a globalized world in general.
I had once bought a game key on Ebay and the Chinese seller refused to send it to me without me sending him a copy of my ID for age verification. Understandably, the last thing I want to do is sending some guy in China is the information on my ID. I asked for a refund and the seller refused, copy-pasting the same message about how I should give him a good review first. I contacted Ebay, then PayPal, none of whom wanted to help me with my issue despite the seller being marked with all of Ebay’s trusted symbols. The very young-sounding customer support person actually said that I “have the reigns in my hands and should threaten the seller with bad reviews until he refunds me”. I then reported the seller for “review extortion”, which is an offense under Ebay’s own terms of conduct, Ebay confirmed that review extortion had taken place and refused to help me with my refund.
At this point, I gave the Chinese bastard a snarky yet positively-marked review and he returned my money. I am confident that there is a library worth of similar stories that never made it into the court room due to being less high-profile. All of these companies are utter trash when it comes to third party seller customer protection.
And yet none of them were banned on all major airlines. Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is a subset of Samsung Galaxy. His statement is perfectly factual. Learn Venn diagrams, buddy.
This is hilarious on a number of levels, not in the least because the person writing about "bullshit jobs" is an anthropologist--a field of science that originally had a goal, had its goal branded politically inappropriate and scientifically not rigorous enough, and then transitioned into an eternal cycle of doing nothing but self-reflecting on par with some kind of Buddhist monastery.
The whole area of humanities--which I originally come from myself--and large chunks of social sciences are by and large jobs in search of a job. You need not look further than the most junior level entrants into the job: the Ph.D. candidates. I know a number of people both in STEM and in humanities and have been to general meetings and colloquia of both. STEM candidates usually have a work group that has a problem and a team leader that coordinates the new entrants to solve the problem and produce results. It's not perfect, but it's objective driven more often than it is not. Humanities candidates on the other hand each have their own project that they make up and meet on a weekly basis to discuss how they can "problematize" their research. The people who get the most ahead are the ones who are best are "problematizing" their research, whatever that research may be about. It still annoys me to this day to think of some of the mundane crap I had to sit through and then sit through some more as two dolts were discussing whether they should call something A or B for half an hour, because A sounds more foreign, but B is used in the literature.
Quite frankly, our dear anthropologist should probably do some more self-reflecting and determine if his job is not a "bullshit job". Out of all the candidates I have run across and I have run across many different breeds from humanities--mostly historians, area studies people and anthropologists--anthropologists are by far the most bullshitty of them all. At least the guy whose job is apologizing for why the carpenter didn't complete the task on time is working towards keeping the client--because the carpenter sure as hell can't--and thus a presumably profitable business afloat. The only thing Dr. Graeber is doing is wasting the taxes paid by the same business because some capital bureaucrat deemed his research worthwhile without having the slightest idea of what it is about. Everybody in humanities know that this is precisely how it works.
Now you are just waving hands and grandstanding with some rules the customer base most likely does not care an inch for. If the consensus of the customers was that they value your 3 Os over a usable product, they are more than welcome to not buy the Oculus and back some unusable/.-sanctioned product that is in line with everything the EFF and FSF dream of at night. Much in the same vein, you are more than welcome to run your own mail server and avoid Google's indexing, while dealing with viagra adverts and Nigerian princesses day in day out. Oddly enough, both Gmail and Facebook are considerably more popular than something like ProtonMail.
The backers of the original Oculus got screwed over on multiple front; that's just the nature of pre-paying and something we are wiser about now than when Kickstarter first became a thing. It is very unfortunate that you would exploit the misfortune of an entire customer base to make ideological points they may not endorse.
You can really stop reading a privacy article when it lists "stor[ing] posts that are made on the Oculus forums". Better get off/. until it goes full P2P. Everything listed here sounds like anonymous metrics used for product development or spam prevention. A complete non-story.
That’s funny, I switched from Android to WP to iOS just. Before that I switched from Windows to Linux and back just fine too. Must be some really terrible lock-in you have there if it’s causing you that much trouble.
I very much disagree. When I was in high school, my backpack was stuffed with 300+ page thick paper books literally every single day. Maths, chemistry, biology. Those books have done irreparable damage to my back that I am making up for by staying healthy now, but will probably suffer from nonetheless once I get older.
Working through a book on a laptop sucks. There are no two ways about it. An iPad coupled with something like LiquidText for reading and annotating and Notability for notes is godsend. This far outweighs the fact that the keyboard is a separate device and that moving files is a little different than it is on desktops.
I think the biggest disadvantage is that you do get accustomed to this tablet way of doing things, which means that students wouldn’t be all that great with desktops once they do need them.
Waymo didn’t force anyone to operate the vehicle on a public road. This one is on Uber. Couldn’t have happened to a better company. They have been avoiding safety regulations for years and now it got someone killed.
I dispute that. As a trained economist, I often see comments under political articles here and elsewhere that are objectively uninformed. I usually ignore them, but, should they somehow get upvoted to high heaven, it’s not very difficult to correct them with very little effort. (This is not because I am somehow smart, it’s just a part of my profession.)
I don’t need to read some journalists rant about Trump’s tweeting in its entirety and answer some quiz to do that. IMHO, often the most interesting comments—especially on Slashdot—are very much tangential to the article itself and I would very much like to benefit from the same kind of input from people who know a lot more about physics, medicine and law than I do, regardless of whether they are careful readers or not.
While that is very true and I am no fan of SNSes either, it has no bearing on the fact that AC's comment applies every bit as much to email as it does to FB.
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I know you aren’t going to like it, but maybe you SHOULD pay a higher premiums in that case. The point of insurance is to mitigate risk, not to offload it onto others. You wouldn’t expect everyone to have to pay more for their car insurance, because there is this one guy that wrecks his car every week due to no fault of his own and everybody is paying for it because we have completely anonymized all traffic incident for muh privacy, do you? Some countries have social programs that essentially force you to pay for others and I don’t think that it is necessarily a bad thing for healthcare, but that is not what an insurance is for.
Which is precisely why this entire conversation is nonsensical to the bone. You don’t need to set up a VPN if you trust the company enough not to cause harm to you. Usage data will not ruin your life even if the company’s servers are breached. If you don’t trust them, a VPN won’t help you either as there are a million ways they can screw you over on both software and hardware levels. All GP is really trying to do is make everyone’s life harder to -feel- marginally safer.
That’s RIGHT! Technology should be as inaccessible and inconvenient as is humanly possible to keep us safe from manufacturing globalists who want to gather data on how their products are used for EXCLUSIVELY nefarious purposes. I take great offense with your proposed solution though. You forgot to mention the most important point: it should be 100 PERCENT GPL-compliant and be so free—really, there is only one kind of “free”; all else is slavery—that even Stallman would be willing to use it when he’s not creaming up his feet.
And pigeons are not only warm to the touch, but can also be eaten in case of a famine. Got to be safe and all.
Great for you. This “I will never connect my appliances to the internet” hand-waving reminds me a lot of refusal to use anything but dumb phones in early 2010s and anything but phones wired to a wall in early 2000s.
Actually, I think it only became decent after Microsoft bought it.
I do not think the issue is Amazon in this case: it is Chinese sellers and customer protection in a globalized world in general.
I had once bought a game key on Ebay and the Chinese seller refused to send it to me without me sending him a copy of my ID for age verification. Understandably, the last thing I want to do is sending some guy in China is the information on my ID. I asked for a refund and the seller refused, copy-pasting the same message about how I should give him a good review first. I contacted Ebay, then PayPal, none of whom wanted to help me with my issue despite the seller being marked with all of Ebay’s trusted symbols. The very young-sounding customer support person actually said that I “have the reigns in my hands and should threaten the seller with bad reviews until he refunds me”. I then reported the seller for “review extortion”, which is an offense under Ebay’s own terms of conduct, Ebay confirmed that review extortion had taken place and refused to help me with my refund.
At this point, I gave the Chinese bastard a snarky yet positively-marked review and he returned my money. I am confident that there is a library worth of similar stories that never made it into the court room due to being less high-profile. All of these companies are utter trash when it comes to third party seller customer protection.
Should have been upvoted as FUNNY really.
A lot of people are correct a lot of the time. They somehow manage to do so without being the incarnation of grossness itself.
And yet none of them were banned on all major airlines. Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is a subset of Samsung Galaxy. His statement is perfectly factual. Learn Venn diagrams, buddy.
This is hilarious on a number of levels, not in the least because the person writing about "bullshit jobs" is an anthropologist--a field of science that originally had a goal, had its goal branded politically inappropriate and scientifically not rigorous enough, and then transitioned into an eternal cycle of doing nothing but self-reflecting on par with some kind of Buddhist monastery.
The whole area of humanities--which I originally come from myself--and large chunks of social sciences are by and large jobs in search of a job. You need not look further than the most junior level entrants into the job: the Ph.D. candidates. I know a number of people both in STEM and in humanities and have been to general meetings and colloquia of both. STEM candidates usually have a work group that has a problem and a team leader that coordinates the new entrants to solve the problem and produce results. It's not perfect, but it's objective driven more often than it is not. Humanities candidates on the other hand each have their own project that they make up and meet on a weekly basis to discuss how they can "problematize" their research. The people who get the most ahead are the ones who are best are "problematizing" their research, whatever that research may be about. It still annoys me to this day to think of some of the mundane crap I had to sit through and then sit through some more as two dolts were discussing whether they should call something A or B for half an hour, because A sounds more foreign, but B is used in the literature.
Quite frankly, our dear anthropologist should probably do some more self-reflecting and determine if his job is not a "bullshit job". Out of all the candidates I have run across and I have run across many different breeds from humanities--mostly historians, area studies people and anthropologists--anthropologists are by far the most bullshitty of them all. At least the guy whose job is apologizing for why the carpenter didn't complete the task on time is working towards keeping the client--because the carpenter sure as hell can't--and thus a presumably profitable business afloat. The only thing Dr. Graeber is doing is wasting the taxes paid by the same business because some capital bureaucrat deemed his research worthwhile without having the slightest idea of what it is about. Everybody in humanities know that this is precisely how it works.
Are the tickers $SPY and $ANAL taken yet? Probably.
No problem, they can still combine the two and be $ANALSPY. Brand recognition right there.
Now you are just waving hands and grandstanding with some rules the customer base most likely does not care an inch for. If the consensus of the customers was that they value your 3 Os over a usable product, they are more than welcome to not buy the Oculus and back some unusable /.-sanctioned product that is in line with everything the EFF and FSF dream of at night. Much in the same vein, you are more than welcome to run your own mail server and avoid Google's indexing, while dealing with viagra adverts and Nigerian princesses day in day out. Oddly enough, both Gmail and Facebook are considerably more popular than something like ProtonMail.
The backers of the original Oculus got screwed over on multiple front; that's just the nature of pre-paying and something we are wiser about now than when Kickstarter first became a thing. It is very unfortunate that you would exploit the misfortune of an entire customer base to make ideological points they may not endorse.
You can really stop reading a privacy article when it lists "stor[ing] posts that are made on the Oculus forums". Better get off /. until it goes full P2P. Everything listed here sounds like anonymous metrics used for product development or spam prevention. A complete non-story.
Can't. Be serf, must plow field for landlord.
I like how people always asset that someone else has "enough money to do XYZ".
I remember! It's when Americans kept slaves, right?
AFAIK, most schools don’t really on the Apple’s backend. It’s not very good.
That’s funny, I switched from Android to WP to iOS just. Before that I switched from Windows to Linux and back just fine too. Must be some really terrible lock-in you have there if it’s causing you that much trouble.
I very much disagree. When I was in high school, my backpack was stuffed with 300+ page thick paper books literally every single day. Maths, chemistry, biology. Those books have done irreparable damage to my back that I am making up for by staying healthy now, but will probably suffer from nonetheless once I get older.
Working through a book on a laptop sucks. There are no two ways about it. An iPad coupled with something like LiquidText for reading and annotating and Notability for notes is godsend. This far outweighs the fact that the keyboard is a separate device and that moving files is a little different than it is on desktops.
I think the biggest disadvantage is that you do get accustomed to this tablet way of doing things, which means that students wouldn’t be all that great with desktops once they do need them.
Waymo didn’t force anyone to operate the vehicle on a public road. This one is on Uber. Couldn’t have happened to a better company. They have been avoiding safety regulations for years and now it got someone killed.
It’s not, it’s just much more apparent now that information is so abundant.
This would very much disincentivize legitimate comments and make the comments section a good advertising space.
I dispute that. As a trained economist, I often see comments under political articles here and elsewhere that are objectively uninformed. I usually ignore them, but, should they somehow get upvoted to high heaven, it’s not very difficult to correct them with very little effort. (This is not because I am somehow smart, it’s just a part of my profession.)
I don’t need to read some journalists rant about Trump’s tweeting in its entirety and answer some quiz to do that. IMHO, often the most interesting comments—especially on Slashdot—are very much tangential to the article itself and I would very much like to benefit from the same kind of input from people who know a lot more about physics, medicine and law than I do, regardless of whether they are careful readers or not.
While that is very true and I am no fan of SNSes either, it has no bearing on the fact that AC's comment applies every bit as much to email as it does to FB.