Or: being butthurt that you go through all the trouble and hassle of securing food and water for yourself, and then some parasitic worm latches onto your small intestine, giving nothing back to you, and freeloading off of your hard work.
mcafee is one of the worst violators of consumer privacy. their antivirus crap sends a whole metric ton of information back to the mother ship which is then sold to analytics firms for tracking consumer behavior.
This move has next to nothing about actually using the software as an antivirus; it's entirely about harvesting that sweet sweet data.
Why would this be modded down? Mommy government shouldn't be called in to squash something you don't like, irrespective of laws.
Is FB doing things that are illegal? Maybe (probably), but there's a reason why we have courts. is FB doing something morally wrong? Definitely. So we update the laws accordingly, and deal with it by proper channels.
that is a fig leaf. Whether it's government silencing people or an army of twittering dorks clamoring for your ouster because you said something that goes against the current notion of political correctness -- the chilling effect is very much there.
anti-vaxxers are a supremely easy target, as are nazis or flat-earth whackadoodles. But, the line being drawn as far as what is 'acceptable' can and will drift. Perhaps at some point something YOU said will be will be dredged up. Thanks to google et al, the hive-mind has perfect recall.
Call me old fashioned but the inoculation (possibly pun intended) against this kind of misinformation and pseudo-science isn't regulation or providers blacklisting entire topics -- but some god damn education and fostering critical thinking.
Because people who spend upwards $350 on non-dress shoes that may or may not be able to lace themselves are paragons of critical thinking and common sense... Being an athlete is irrelevant.
This is how society loses its freedom of speech. Sure it's just pintrest and possibly facebook; but what if google decided to weigh in with their opinon on the matter?
The slippery slope might be a fallacious argument, but it's not always wrong.
The only ways to preserve freedom of speech are through anonymity (if desired) and the right to say whatever you want (aside from direct threats or calls to violence). Allowing a few companies to essentially serve as gatekeepers to the internet is risky and foolish.
I think we get to FINALLY do away with that pesky 4th amendment -- police shouldn't need probable cause to search someone without a warrant, my gods they're just trying to keep us safe!
... Actually, it's really depressing info, as one can see from it that a small minority can control a country/keep a country in a state of war for years.
Poor Chooseco, I mean it's not like Netflix paid homage to a genre, and then referenced them explicitly.. the additional interest and sales they'd garner from the exposure must be brutal.
Those books were popular when I was in grade school 20+ years ago; are they still a relevant/popular category? If not, maybe bandersnatch would wind up introducing people to a genre they otherwise wouldn't have been exposed to.
They essentially got free advertising from Netflix, and instead of saying 'thank you' decide to sue.
I don't know man; facebook seems to be an evil of several orders of magnitude worse than MS. MS wanted to control the desktop market - through any means necessary -- but they mostly stopped there. They didn't really get into the pervasive surveillance that modern web companies are involved with.
Basically FB wants to monetize and track every single living person on this planet. That's way worse than anything MS ever did in their heyday.
Lookit; if it takes a cadre of high priced lawyers, accountants, PR spokesmen, lobbyists and bought and paid for politications to justify it, along with needing a flowchart to explain it -- it's more than certainly vile and immoral behavior.
This.. "well it's not technically against the letter of the law.. so it's okay.." mentality is just enabling shit behavior from corporations.
the next time you hear about the US playing world police, remember articles like this one. it will be so, so much worse if the chinese supplant the US as the global super power.
Judging from the response to his adventures in Georgia and the Ukraine; I think Putin knows he's squaring off with the west which is currently more Chamberlain than Churchill.
Slashdot Mirror
yes, but what if your electrons aren't flowing in the right direction? how does monster get around that technical limitation/hurdle????
if you've ever paid for something with your debit card and an ipad with a weird looking thingy plugged into the headphone jack; you've been squared.
Or:
being butthurt that you go through all the trouble and hassle of securing food and water for yourself, and then some parasitic worm latches onto your small intestine, giving nothing back to you, and freeloading off of your hard work.
mcafee is one of the worst violators of consumer privacy. their antivirus crap sends a whole metric ton of information back to the mother ship which is then sold to analytics firms for tracking consumer behavior.
This move has next to nothing about actually using the software as an antivirus; it's entirely about harvesting that sweet sweet data.
Why would this be modded down? Mommy government shouldn't be called in to squash something you don't like, irrespective of laws.
Is FB doing things that are illegal? Maybe (probably), but there's a reason why we have courts.
is FB doing something morally wrong? Definitely. So we update the laws accordingly, and deal with it by proper channels.
that is a fig leaf. Whether it's government silencing people or an army of twittering dorks clamoring for your ouster because you said something that goes against the current notion of political correctness -- the chilling effect is very much there.
anti-vaxxers are a supremely easy target, as are nazis or flat-earth whackadoodles. But, the line being drawn as far as what is 'acceptable' can and will drift. Perhaps at some point something YOU said will be will be dredged up. Thanks to google et al, the hive-mind has perfect recall.
Call me old fashioned but the inoculation (possibly pun intended) against this kind of misinformation and pseudo-science isn't regulation or providers blacklisting entire topics -- but some god damn education and fostering critical thinking.
Because people who spend upwards $350 on non-dress shoes that may or may not be able to lace themselves are paragons of critical thinking and common sense... Being an athlete is irrelevant.
This is how society loses its freedom of speech. Sure it's just pintrest and possibly facebook; but what if google decided to weigh in with their opinon on the matter?
The slippery slope might be a fallacious argument, but it's not always wrong.
The only ways to preserve freedom of speech are through anonymity (if desired) and the right to say whatever you want (aside from direct threats or calls to violence). Allowing a few companies to essentially serve as gatekeepers to the internet is risky and foolish.
it's in the same dictionary as 'whoooooosh' i think
Yeah, we're watching with horror in the PNW. :(
My condolences.
yes but then hordes of Californians will flock/invade to said state, thus bringing all of their problems with them.
Arizona Bay can't happen soon enough.
us: lawsuits, red tape, more lawsuits, elections, more red tape
china: prison, education camps, execution.
basically it's way easier to do large-scale engineering projects if you can jail or bury anyone who speaks out.
if you're in TX or FL, have at it.
More like a repeat of 2016. The dems ran a laughably unelectable candidate, and now we have Trump.
If they roll the dice again in 2020 the result will be the exact same thing.
I think we get to FINALLY do away with that pesky 4th amendment -- police shouldn't need probable cause to search someone without a warrant, my gods they're just trying to keep us safe!
... Actually, it's really depressing info, as one can see from it that a small minority can control a country/keep a country in a state of war for years.
Wait.. are you still talking about Afghanistan?
In about 50 years when fusion power becomes mainstream, we'll have all the helium we need =D
Poor Chooseco, I mean it's not like Netflix paid homage to a genre, and then referenced them explicitly.. the additional interest and sales they'd garner from the exposure must be brutal.
Those books were popular when I was in grade school 20+ years ago; are they still a relevant/popular category? If not, maybe bandersnatch would wind up introducing people to a genre they otherwise wouldn't have been exposed to.
They essentially got free advertising from Netflix, and instead of saying 'thank you' decide to sue.
I don't know man; facebook seems to be an evil of several orders of magnitude worse than MS. MS wanted to control the desktop market - through any means necessary -- but they mostly stopped there. They didn't really get into the pervasive surveillance that modern web companies are involved with.
Basically FB wants to monetize and track every single living person on this planet. That's way worse than anything MS ever did in their heyday.
Lookit; if it takes a cadre of high priced lawyers, accountants, PR spokesmen, lobbyists and bought and paid for politications to justify it, along with needing a flowchart to explain it -- it's more than certainly vile and immoral behavior.
This.. "well it's not technically against the letter of the law.. so it's okay.." mentality is just enabling shit behavior from corporations.
Given how the chinese treat IP; isn't this a favor?
Basically they'd build the reactor in china, and within 2 weeks the plans and technical details would be 'appropriated' by the Chinese government.
Basically all that R&D wasted. Just because they aren't shooting at us (yet) doesn't make them an ally, or even a remotely-friendly country.
sign me up.
the next time you hear about the US playing world police, remember articles like this one. it will be so, so much worse if the chinese supplant the US as the global super power.
Judging from the response to his adventures in Georgia and the Ukraine; I think Putin knows he's squaring off with the west which is currently more Chamberlain than Churchill.
The materials (and licensing?) to create the port are most certainly greater than zero. This cost saving can be passed on the customers.
Have you looked at how much new iPhones cost by any chance?