> What is blowing the minds of many of the posters is the concept that there is > no strict heirarchy of control. There seems be be a propensity of some people > to disbelieve that anything can get done without a strict military/fascist > type table of order.
There does not exist a human organization in which everyone is equal (though some groups try to pretend).
> However google don't give an option to those who don't wish to be profiled.
You don't have to use their services.
> We have not given consent for our emails sent to Gmail for them to be > analyzed and profiled.
You sent the messages there.
> I think in the future some advanced countries will start to legislate as to > what these companies can and can't record and what they can do with the > information.
If any significant fraction of the population actually cared about this sort of stuff they would avoid the companies that do it and it would stop.
> That, and who thinks they are fooling anyone by doing this? If you have a > Google account for other services like Gmail, then you must allow Google to > set a cookie, and you are still identifying yourself.
An amazing but true fact: some of us do not have Gmail accounts, or use any Google service other than search.
> Actually DC can also be transmitted long distances as well. It's high voltage that > allows long distance power distribution, not something special about AC.
In fact, DC is sometimes used for very long distances because when the length of the line begins to approach a substantial fraction of the wavelength of the AC you start to see radiation losses.
> Perhaps the intent of the empty spams is to confuse the filters, but whoever devised > the method has no understanding of how these things actually work, whatsoever.
Many (most?) people don't have personal spam filters. They rely on shared filters provided by their employers or ISPs.
> Tesla was right about AC for many applications but DC has its merits and any useful > application of DC is a credit to Edison's scientific achievements.
For 19th and early twentieth century technology Tesla and Westinghouse were entirely right. They had no practical method of changing voltage.
BTW you don't want to look too closely at Edison's scientific achievements. You might find that there is less there than meets the eye.
There will be cases where Google will be slow to react or will initially dispute the sites claim of innocence. In the meanwhile the site will suffer losses which Google will not voluntarily reimburse them.
I'm not saying it isn't a good idea or that Google shouldn't do it, just that there will be problems.
> To win this lawsuit, the malware providers are going to have to prove that they don't > do exactly what Google says they do, which is going to be challenging.
The successful suits will come from sites (not malware "providers")that don't host any malware but were falsely accused of doing so.
Has it occurred to you that in a place with a lower cost of living than Silicon Valley that you might actually be able to live better with a less than maximum salary?
> Also I get the shits at the posters earlier on (not you) that say matter is gone > forever in a blackhole lots of it is converted to energy, most of it being > released in X-Ray transmisions (hypothetically).
It is gone forever once it crosses the event horizon. It's just that most of the mass of a lump of matter that falls toward the event horizon is radiated away before the remainder actually crosses it.
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> What is blowing the minds of many of the posters is the concept that there is
> no strict heirarchy of control. There seems be be a propensity of some people
> to disbelieve that anything can get done without a strict military/fascist
> type table of order.
There does not exist a human organization in which everyone is equal (though some groups try to pretend).
This is called a "cooperative". These have been common in the US for over a hundred years.
> However google don't give an option to those who don't wish to be profiled.
You don't have to use their services.
> We have not given consent for our emails sent to Gmail for them to be
> analyzed and profiled.
You sent the messages there.
> I think in the future some advanced countries will start to legislate as to
> what these companies can and can't record and what they can do with the
> information.
If any significant fraction of the population actually cared about this sort of stuff they would avoid the companies that do it and it would stop.
But you are right. Stupid laws will be enacted.
> That, and who thinks they are fooling anyone by doing this? If you have a
> Google account for other services like Gmail, then you must allow Google to
> set a cookie, and you are still identifying yourself.
An amazing but true fact: some of us do not have Gmail accounts, or use any Google service other than search.
> Investing in stock tips...
Many of the stock tip spams are attempts to pump a stock. I suspect that they often work.
> Actually DC can also be transmitted long distances as well. It's high voltage that
> allows long distance power distribution, not something special about AC.
In fact, DC is sometimes used for very long distances because when the length of the line begins to approach a substantial fraction of the wavelength of the AC you start to see radiation losses.
> Perhaps the intent of the empty spams is to confuse the filters, but whoever devised
> the method has no understanding of how these things actually work, whatsoever.
Many (most?) people don't have personal spam filters. They rely on shared filters provided by their employers or ISPs.
> I think the theory about using this stuff to untrain spam filters is very plausible.
> But it's difficult to see how it will work.
By causing your spam filter to make so many errors that you will decide that it is worthless and dump it.
> ...Seems like it'd train my spam filter to have more false positives, no?
Thereby convincing you that it is worthless, causing you to scrap it.
> Tesla was right about AC for many applications but DC has its merits and any useful
> application of DC is a credit to Edison's scientific achievements.
For 19th and early twentieth century technology Tesla and Westinghouse were entirely right. They had no practical method of changing voltage.
BTW you don't want to look too closely at Edison's scientific achievements. You might find that there is less there than meets the eye.
> Then again, you don't have to worry about shorting yourself to ground with DC.
That statement makes no sense at all.
AC is very slightly more disruptive of the heart than is AC, but at 380V it makes no difference. Touch that rail and you're toast.
Both IBM's market cap and its revenue are about double Dell's.
> Michael Dell, founder of the world's largest computer company...
In what alternate universe?
> It looks like (from TFA), there will be restrictions in place that only allow caching
> of non-copyrighted, legal content.
"Non-copyrighted", eh? I suspect that isn't what you really mean. Hint: this article is copyrighted. So is yours.
There will be cases where Google will be slow to react or will initially dispute the sites claim of innocence. In the meanwhile the site will suffer losses which Google will not voluntarily reimburse them.
I'm not saying it isn't a good idea or that Google shouldn't do it, just that there will be problems.
> To win this lawsuit, the malware providers are going to have to prove that they don't
> do exactly what Google says they do, which is going to be challenging.
The successful suits will come from sites (not malware "providers")that don't host any malware but were falsely accused of doing so.
> ...it uploads your most recently eaten food.
I had an entirely different image from that then you intended...
Call the politician involved at home at dinner time on Sunday evening and tell him you are going to vote against him because of the call.
> You can't always assume the customer is always right...
"The customer is always right" doesn't mean what you think it does.
Has it occurred to you that in a place with a lower cost of living than Silicon Valley that you might actually be able to live better with a less than maximum salary?
Some might see Silicon Valley and Research Triangle as carrying the personal cost.
> But if a company that you are paying to keep your data, loses it, you can sue them for
> $lost per minute...
Up to the maximum specified in the contract, which may be zero.
> Also I get the shits at the posters earlier on (not you) that say matter is gone
> forever in a blackhole lots of it is converted to energy, most of it being
> released in X-Ray transmisions (hypothetically).
It is gone forever once it crosses the event horizon. It's just that most of the mass of a lump of matter that falls toward the event horizon is radiated away before the remainder actually crosses it.
Blood is water, cells, and various dissolved substances. Plasma is blood without the cells. This stuff is blood without the water.