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  1. Re:Late to the party, Huffington on Is the Next Big Thing In Tech -- Disconnecting From It? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How, precisely, does people who are, in your assessment, "too reliant on technology" affect your life? How do those extant dependencies intrude on your well being?

  2. Re:Apps to use fewer apps? on Is the Next Big Thing In Tech -- Disconnecting From It? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody NEEDS a TV. Nobody NEEDS books. The real answer is to just worry about individual needs and stay out of other people's business.

    I'm a retired IT guy, 73 years old, and I grew up with all this shit.

    I just checked my wallet and every thing's there. Looking in the mirror, no one busted me in the nose.

    I'm good to go despite technological opportunities to get to know the rabbits by fucking name.

  3. Re:Best Idea Ever on Is the Next Big Thing In Tech -- Disconnecting From It? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Hooking up a 6 or 12 volt battery to your balls will do nothing except maybe the clamps will pinch.

    It's the current that matters. Human body parts have a resistance to current. Put 9 volt battery terminals on your dry skin (balls) and it will be unimpressive.

    "Taste," the 9 volt battery and you'll get a pretty good jolt on your tongue. In the former case, the resistance is high and the latter, the wet tomgue's resistance is low. Lower resistance means higher current.

  4. Re:Compassion and empathy are easy to simulate on Is the Next Big Thing In Tech -- Disconnecting From It? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    ... it gives them empowerment.

    I agree, and that sense of empowerment is very persuasive.

    The emphasis is on the word, "sense."

    The "sense of empowerment" gained from online is similar to the "sense of sex" from masturbation.

  5. False equivalency much?

    Oil is sitting where it is because it works. Water is sitting where it is because it works.

    We don't inject oil into ground storage where oil has never been before, right?

  6. Re: Here's how to do that ... on 'Why Data, Not Privacy, Is the Real Danger' (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I just dumped Facebook. I downloaded all the data (going back to 2009).

    I used the Chrome extension, Social Book Post Manager to delete all the data and then Deleted. I did not Deactivate.

    I have until March 9 to log back in or it's gone. I have no expectations that Facebook actually deleted the shit.

    I have burner Facebook accounts. Hell, I have burner accounts on most social media.

    I'm pretty sure they track me by a shit load of metrics including browser signature but, like you, it's the best I can do,

  7. Re:Here's how to do that ... on 'Why Data, Not Privacy, Is the Real Danger' (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Not a bad point. I am a photographer. I set my price according to what the market will bear. To do that, I look examine the revenue stream of the client.

    For those who make a killing, I can get more than a mom & pop.

    I sell the same photo to either at greatly different prices.

  8. Re:Here's how to do that ... on 'Why Data, Not Privacy, Is the Real Danger' (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    See law about use of likeness and use your imagination. Did I not say make a change? Go back and read.

  9. Re:Here's how to do that ... on 'Why Data, Not Privacy, Is the Real Danger' (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why the definition of data has to be changed as per my OP, right?

  10. Re:Here's how to do that ... on 'Why Data, Not Privacy, Is the Real Danger' (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Not true.

    That was in the beginning. In the beginning, Facebook was simply ad supported. They captured data and sold it without complete transparency. Keep up.

  11. Here's how to do that ... on 'Why Data, Not Privacy, Is the Real Danger' (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Declare private data to be IP and copyrighted by the entity creating the IP.

    Calculate the value of the IP by examining the revenue generated from it.

    Pay royalties to the owners of the private IP whenever and wherever the data is used/reused, in perpetuity.

    For those who don't wish to sell their IP, allow them to opt out. Any private IP harvested will be theft.

    I have to think of everything and stuff.

  12. not sure what that one is

    You find a hole in the ground, put nuclear waste in it.

    The idea has gained a lot of resistance and the lessons there apply to your proposal.

    The waste can get into water tables via leeching, earthquakes, tectonic movement. Neither waste product is biodegradable, so storage time is essentially in perpetuity.

  13. So let's solve the real problem: Genetically engineer pest-resistant humans.

  14. ... it would affect Google's bottom line.

  15. Is your solution similar to the nuclear waste one?

  16. Re:It's not always nefarious.... on Many Popular iPhone Apps Secretly Record Your Screen Without Asking (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You are NOT missing the goddam part where you are rolling out an unfinished product. It's a lot cheaper to let people run the fucking thing into a ditch and THEN you do a front-end alignment.

    Your QA sucks.

  17. The translated version:

    Those sumbitches are getting data and not paying us for it. We'll get them and their little doggie, too.

  18. Google gives LEO all our data.

    Google will find a way.

  19. Re:It's not always nefarious.... on Many Popular iPhone Apps Secretly Record Your Screen Without Asking (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the "let the users beta the alpha before going gold" model that Microsoft has used since its inception.

    You can "blah blah" all you want, but goddammit, get your shit together.

    ASK FOR BETA TESTERS!

  20. ... government. They don't give one flying rat's ass about anything but money.

    Facebook deflects worse than Trump.

  21. The new Radio Shack on Raspberry Pi Gets Its Own Brick-and-Mortar Retail Store (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I spent a lot of time browsing the packets of parts there. I worked there as an assistant manager and the markup of parts was phenomenal.

    I built a-d, d-a converters for the TRS-80.

  22. Tou know, kinda like this?

    Facebook Ordered To Stop Combining WhatsApp and Instagram Data Without Consent in Germany; Company Says It Needs That Data To Fight Terrorism and Child Abuse

  23. Re:Everyone Needs to Understand on 'You Need To Be Very, Very Cautious': US Warns European Allies Not To Use Chinese Gear For 5G Networks (reuters.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    China is not your friend.

    Facebook and Google are your friend.

  24. ... warning the EU about Facebook and Google?