When the Rapture doesn't actually happen, at least the kooks admit that it didn't happen. The warmists just say that it did happen by changing the past data to fit their conclusions.
Oh please. That is EZACTLY what the kooks do. They go back to their religious texts and learn that they were interpreting it wrong before, and the rapture is in fact the following Tuesday.
I agree with this comment on the scale bar. apple maps also has a scale bar, but for whatever reason it only shows you the scale bar when you're resizing the map. once you're done pinching to zoom, the bar fades away.
I always thought it would be awesome that all the forced air vents in rooms were remote controllable so you could only heat or cool the rooms were people are. seems like a no brainer.
the blackmailer would have likely preferred not reporting the transfer to the govt so he wouldn't have to declare "blackmail income" on his tax returns...
Obviously the prosecutors don't think they can make a sexual misconduct case stick.
or, there is no merit to any sexual misconduct accusations, and prosecutors are gleefully suing anyway for bs offenses. why do you ascribe any hint of merit or competency or decency to federal prosecutors?
Which would be interesting as the blackmailer (originally a victim)
*who may have been a victim. there is no reason to think that the blackmailer was actually victimized. As the past week has shown, even a baseless whisper about past acts is enough to take someone down.
Now, Hastert stands accused of improper sexual contact with a boy he knew years ago while teaching high school and trying to hide that sordid history by paying the young man to keep quiet.
I have not seen anybody make an accusation that they were molested. Citation needed. All I have seen are buzz and rumors.
ok, what if you're thinking of coming out gay or trans? or what if you are a woman and looking for domestic abuse shelters? there are so many valid reasons to protect your privacy.
I agree with you on this. If a biography ever comes out, I wonder if we'll learn that his passion for privacy comes from growing up gay in alabama in the 60's...
based on everything we've learned about nsa/gchq, including poisoning the RSA protocols, I think it's more accurate to say "nobody* can gain access to encrypted data".
it's fair to say that while many sites such as gmail had integrated advanced security features such as 2FA, apple had not done so in the name of usability. this was the fundamental flaw. after the fappening apple rolled out 2FA.
However, i would call this a security problem not a privacy problem.
The only product Apple has that's actually end to end encrypted is iMessages.
also facetime audio and factime video. they basically have a secure communication platform, except for email.
Keeping servers fully blind as to the data they're working with is an open field of academic research. It's not something that Google or Facebook or Twitter or DropBox or whoever are holding back from because they hate privacy. It's just a really hard problem.
google makes all their billions from reading people's communications and tracking their searches then advertising against it. they have incentive to not solve this "hard problem".
Advertising as a business model may not be perfect but it's the reason that people in Africa can buy smartphones for $30 and use services like Google Maps, Search, Photos, etc. People who live outside affluent countries matter too.
this is a fair point and something that I need to think on some more. but it could be argued that many people who rejoice at a $30 phone don't fully understand how much they're giving up when they get one.
how did he attach his name? he used the internet from his computer. it's not like he started a slashdot account linked to his email with the user name iamtrans
good to know that you're such a perv that for you private == porn. what if you're searching for information on mental disease? or divorce? there's all sorts of things that people want to keep private, either from family members or from work.
You know, I can agree with this, especially interstitial ads that break the flow of the show (note that is all of broadcast and cable TV). You know your preferences, and you shop as an informed consumer. I think the impetus for my earlier comment was the entitled attitude.
Or did Uber just have a huge checkbook and such a small marginal value for dollars they were happy to blow a few million dollars to slow down Google and Apple, with the completely speculative objective of maybe developing some product at some point.
umm... uber doesn't compete with google and apple. if google or apple did autonomous car breakthroughs then uber would benefit.
Consider this; if there were no adverts would you still be able to discover new products to purchase? Of COURSE you would! I find new shit on Amazon every time I visit! No one needs to force feed me any adverts for this to occur.
Umm, the reason companies pay for ads is so you discover _their_ products and services, not the ones that amazon shows you. And hint hint, amazon is showing you what they want to influence your purchase of specific items, just like an ad does. As far as I know, amazon does this to boost their own revenue, but nothing is stopping them from letting companies pay for placement...
it's not necessarily double dipping. it could be half dipping for the subscription fee, half dipping for the ads. In total there is one full dip.
This is how magazines have been for 100 years, whether you buy them with a subscription or at the newsstand. Over time, a rich industry developed around this half/half dipping approach that resulted in a rich variety of content for people. you could get a fishing magazine, a mag on woodworking, on concrete, Indiana news, everything could work.
it's not an interently evil business model, it's just another business model.
I cannot comprehend this entitled attitude. on cable tv you see ads. in a magazine or newspaper you see ads. before movies you see ads. during movies you see ad placements. so it's not like Netflix is proposing a crazy new concept, to show you an ad even though you pay a subscription. why so angry bro?
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When the Rapture doesn't actually happen, at least the kooks admit that it didn't happen. The warmists just say that it did happen by changing the past data to fit their conclusions.
Oh please. That is EZACTLY what the kooks do. They go back to their religious texts and learn that they were interpreting it wrong before, and the rapture is in fact the following Tuesday.
in westeros the cycles of summer and winter are chaotically unpredictable.
I agree with this comment on the scale bar. apple maps also has a scale bar, but for whatever reason it only shows you the scale bar when you're resizing the map. once you're done pinching to zoom, the bar fades away.
Just sayin', maybe we should postpone the atoning until we have more info.
I always thought it would be awesome that all the forced air vents in rooms were remote controllable so you could only heat or cool the rooms were people are. seems like a no brainer.
the blackmailer would have likely preferred not reporting the transfer to the govt so he wouldn't have to declare "blackmail income" on his tax returns...
Obviously the prosecutors don't think they can make a sexual misconduct case stick.
or, there is no merit to any sexual misconduct accusations, and prosecutors are gleefully suing anyway for bs offenses. why do you ascribe any hint of merit or competency or decency to federal prosecutors?
Which would be interesting as the blackmailer (originally a victim)
*who may have been a victim. there is no reason to think that the blackmailer was actually victimized. As the past week has shown, even a baseless whisper about past acts is enough to take someone down.
Now, Hastert stands accused of improper sexual contact with a boy he knew years ago while teaching high school and trying to hide that sordid history by paying the young man to keep quiet.
I have not seen anybody make an accusation that they were molested. Citation needed. All I have seen are buzz and rumors.
ok, what if you're thinking of coming out gay or trans? or what if you are a woman and looking for domestic abuse shelters? there are so many valid reasons to protect your privacy.
I agree with you on this. If a biography ever comes out, I wonder if we'll learn that his passion for privacy comes from growing up gay in alabama in the 60's...
based on everything we've learned about nsa/gchq, including poisoning the RSA protocols, I think it's more accurate to say "nobody* can gain access to encrypted data".
it's fair to say that while many sites such as gmail had integrated advanced security features such as 2FA, apple had not done so in the name of usability. this was the fundamental flaw. after the fappening apple rolled out 2FA.
However, i would call this a security problem not a privacy problem.
The only product Apple has that's actually end to end encrypted is iMessages.
also facetime audio and factime video. they basically have a secure communication platform, except for email.
Keeping servers fully blind as to the data they're working with is an open field of academic research. It's not something that Google or Facebook or Twitter or DropBox or whoever are holding back from because they hate privacy. It's just a really hard problem.
google makes all their billions from reading people's communications and tracking their searches then advertising against it. they have incentive to not solve this "hard problem".
Advertising as a business model may not be perfect but it's the reason that people in Africa can buy smartphones for $30 and use services like Google Maps, Search, Photos, etc. People who live outside affluent countries matter too.
this is a fair point and something that I need to think on some more. but it could be argued that many people who rejoice at a $30 phone don't fully understand how much they're giving up when they get one.
how did he attach his name? he used the internet from his computer. it's not like he started a slashdot account linked to his email with the user name iamtrans
maybe some day a biography will come out... but I wonder if growing up gay in Alabama taught him the value of privacy. he's definitely a strong man.
good to know that you're such a perv that for you private == porn. what if you're searching for information on mental disease? or divorce? there's all sorts of things that people want to keep private, either from family members or from work.
At first I was going to make a joke about chest rails or whisper copters, but the reality is just as ugly.
You know, I can agree with this, especially interstitial ads that break the flow of the show (note that is all of broadcast and cable TV). You know your preferences, and you shop as an informed consumer. I think the impetus for my earlier comment was the entitled attitude.
Or did Uber just have a huge checkbook and such a small marginal value for dollars they were happy to blow a few million dollars to slow down Google and Apple, with the completely speculative objective of maybe developing some product at some point.
umm... uber doesn't compete with google and apple. if google or apple did autonomous car breakthroughs then uber would benefit.
what if they ran ads instead of raising prices? would you pay more for an ad-free Netflix?
Consider this; if there were no adverts would you still be able to discover new products to purchase? Of COURSE you would! I find new shit on Amazon every time I visit! No one needs to force feed me any adverts for this to occur.
Umm, the reason companies pay for ads is so you discover _their_ products and services, not the ones that amazon shows you. And hint hint, amazon is showing you what they want to influence your purchase of specific items, just like an ad does. As far as I know, amazon does this to boost their own revenue, but nothing is stopping them from letting companies pay for placement...
it's not necessarily double dipping. it could be half dipping for the subscription fee, half dipping for the ads. In total there is one full dip.
This is how magazines have been for 100 years, whether you buy them with a subscription or at the newsstand. Over time, a rich industry developed around this half/half dipping approach that resulted in a rich variety of content for people. you could get a fishing magazine, a mag on woodworking, on concrete, Indiana news, everything could work.
it's not an interently evil business model, it's just another business model.
I cannot comprehend this entitled attitude. on cable tv you see ads. in a magazine or newspaper you see ads. before movies you see ads. during movies you see ad placements. so it's not like Netflix is proposing a crazy new concept, to show you an ad even though you pay a subscription. why so angry bro?
To be fair, the biggest complaint against the Star Trek movie was that they turned it into a rip off of Star Wars. But it was a great rip off!