"Hasbro, the toymaker behind Monopoly, is letting the public decide whether or not they should replace the game's iconic game pieces with new pieces inspired by pop culture and social media."
Kill me now, before I live to see the "Kim Kardashian's Giant Buttocks" Monopoly piece waddling around the board.
Because it's on a per login basis. Because one stop privacy shops are all the rage across companies. Because I want to do it once in one place not once on every damn device I own.
Horseshit detected.
Just out of curiosity, how does Satya Nadella's dick taste? Is it every bit as delicious as the Microsoft Marketing team would have us believe?
You are right, but at the same time I can't help but wonder if those are not simply instances of "we know better" than truly tricking people for some nefarious goal.
I'm glad we agree. Now send me all your money, lucm. I promise it's not for anything nefarious, I just know better than you what to spend it on.
Firefox has the same kind of telemetry features. Chrome too. And pretty much everything else. But when it comes from Microsoft people freak out first, ask questions later.
Maybe that's because Firefox and Chrome don't try to trick and/or force you into upgrading. Ever.
Maybe because the "X" or "Close" control in Firefox and Chrome never magically change what they do to mean "yes" instead of "no".
Because your system will still send all the data to the MS cloud
Yeah, I know. I probably should have indicated I was being sarcastic more clearly.
As someone else here said, all the data is still being sent; by using the control panel you're just telling the server what data to (supposedly) ignore or pretend it isn't seeing.
You do understand the Motorola Star-TAC was DIRECTLY influenced by Star Trek right?
I know lots of people working on voice recognition that reference the 'Hello Computer' scene from Star Trek IV.
Okay, I don't know about that, but Picard was a Jedi, right?
Because google doesn't pay them doesn't mean it's unpaid.
No, what makes it "unpaid" is that nobody pays them. That's kind of the definition.
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Do you expect Microsoft to cut you a check everytime you write a Win32 App?
No, and if no one paid me to write that app, that would mean the work I did was "unpaid".
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There are few people using it. The entire service is a wasteland, a failed product. Thanks for claiming everything needs to be absolute.
Oh please, I never claimed any such thing- you were the one that said, and I quote, "...when there are no users using it". But it's nice to see that you admit there were people who were using it (even though you have no idea how many).
WeChat isn't IRC - it's a platform on which basically everything runs that's your typical user in China regularly uses. There's a reason TenCent is as big as Alibaba.
Whatever WeChat may be, I was using chatrooms that didn't require downloading or installing any app almost 20 years ago. An HTML page with a couple of frames and some javascript was all it took.
But all your appliances will be able to Talk to each other without your network . ..
Yes, I know, that's why I want to get rid of this like a cheap rash.
My toaster doesn't really need to talk to my blender, and neither of them need to talk to my crock pot or coffee maker. In fact, I'd like them all to just STFU and just do what they're supposed to do.
a) this isn't unpaid work. b) closing the API is completely irrelevant when there are no users using it. The "unpaid developers" don't care at this point.
a) No, it's unpaid work. I'm sorry if you're having difficulty understanding that idea. Google doesn't pay them, no one pays them, it's unpaid work.
b) There are people using it, just not in the numbers that Google would like to see. Or are you claiming that there is literally not a single person, not one, using Google Hangouts?
c) Furthermore, my original comment was about Google's services in general, not just Hangouts.
That's fine, but if the site is creating the data, it's not really slurping "private" information.
I wasn't clear enough when I write that, and that's my fault.
The only reason for ajax is so that you could send the data out without having to even submit the form. It's not pulling data from the site, it's sending it to god knows where without anyone actually submitting the form.
You do this by instead of filling the field, have an icon in it or some such, and a click fills it, still quite convenient for the user, but protected from secret fields the user can't see.
They'll just have their malicious javascript click the icon, intercept the data, and silently copy it to a hidden field.
I pointed out that Bitcoin isn't for storing money but rather for moving it around. It's not meant to function as a currency,
Really? It's not meant to function as a currency? If you type "what is bitcoin" into Google, here's what you get:
bitcoin a type of digital currency in which encryption techniques are used to regulate the generation of units of currency and verify the transfer of funds, operating independently of a central bank.
From Coindesk:
Bitcoin is a form of digital currency, created and held electronically.
From CNNMoney:
Bitcoin is a new currency that was created in 2009....
From Bitcoin.org:
Bitcoin is an innovative payment network and a new kind of money.
So umm yeah, it's considered to be currency. You can search on all sorts of variations of a definition of bitcoins, and 99.99999999% say it's a currency. And one of the primary things any currency is used for is "storing money". That's what it does.
Who's unpaid work? Surely not the developers who are creating platforms using the APIs.
No, I'm referring to all the people who don't work for the Almighty Google, who code stuff up using Google's APIs, trying to build something interesting. Which is why they released the fucking API in the first place- so people could build stuff that uses it and (hopefully) make it popular.
Funny, but most home appliances are actually pretty simple devices.
Which is why they don't need an internet connection- they're mostly just various combinations of motors and heaters.
My toaster, coffee pot, can opener, coffee bean grinder, waffle maker, crock pot, blender....none of that shit needs wifi capability or a goddamned internet connection. And I won't buy one that does, period.
Slashdot Mirror
Well you had better put your parentheses on. You're scaring the kids.
It's not his fault- he was speed-reading and hit a bookmark.
"Why You Shouldn't Trust Geek Squad"
Ummm, because they're a bunch of ninnies who couldn't pour piss out of a boot with the instructions written on the heel?
"Hasbro, the toymaker behind Monopoly, is letting the public decide whether or not they should replace the game's iconic game pieces with new pieces inspired by pop culture and social media."
Kill me now, before I live to see the "Kim Kardashian's Giant Buttocks" Monopoly piece waddling around the board.
Marketers: Ruining everything since time began.
Because it's on a per login basis. Because one stop privacy shops are all the rage across companies. Because I want to do it once in one place not once on every damn device I own.
Horseshit detected.
Just out of curiosity, how does Satya Nadella's dick taste? Is it every bit as delicious as the Microsoft Marketing team would have us believe?
You are right, but at the same time I can't help but wonder if those are not simply instances of "we know better" than truly tricking people for some nefarious goal.
I'm glad we agree. Now send me all your money, lucm. I promise it's not for anything nefarious, I just know better than you what to spend it on.
Firefox has the same kind of telemetry features. Chrome too. And pretty much everything else. But when it comes from Microsoft people freak out first, ask questions later.
Maybe that's because Firefox and Chrome don't try to trick and/or force you into upgrading. Ever.
Maybe because the "X" or "Close" control in Firefox and Chrome never magically change what they do to mean "yes" instead of "no".
Because your system will still send all the data to the MS cloud
Yeah, I know. I probably should have indicated I was being sarcastic more clearly.
As someone else here said, all the data is still being sent; by using the control panel you're just telling the server what data to (supposedly) ignore or pretend it isn't seeing.
"Microsoft is launching what it calls a (web-based) privacy dashboard..."
Why does it have to be web-based? Was it too fucking hard to build it into the Control Panel or Settings app?
This sounds like horseshit to me, and I've heard enough horseshit in my life to be able to reliably identify it when I hear it.
You do understand the Motorola Star-TAC was DIRECTLY influenced by Star Trek right?
I know lots of people working on voice recognition that reference the 'Hello Computer' scene from Star Trek IV.
Okay, I don't know about that, but Picard was a Jedi, right?
"technology that allows for ear speakers"
As opposed to what, nose speakers? Toe speakers? Speakers in suppository form?
Because google doesn't pay them doesn't mean it's unpaid.
No, what makes it "unpaid" is that nobody pays them. That's kind of the definition.
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Do you expect Microsoft to cut you a check everytime you write a Win32 App?
No, and if no one paid me to write that app, that would mean the work I did was "unpaid".
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There are few people using it. The entire service is a wasteland, a failed product. Thanks for claiming everything needs to be absolute.
Oh please, I never claimed any such thing- you were the one that said, and I quote, "...when there are no users using it". But it's nice to see that you admit there were people who were using it (even though you have no idea how many).
WeChat isn't IRC - it's a platform on which basically everything runs that's your typical user in China regularly uses. There's a reason TenCent is as big as Alibaba.
Whatever WeChat may be, I was using chatrooms that didn't require downloading or installing any app almost 20 years ago. An HTML page with a couple of frames and some javascript was all it took.
"WeChat Beats Google in Releasing Apps That Don't Need Downloading or Installing"
A chatroom that doesn't require downloading anything? Whoop de fuckin' doo....1998 called and wants their chatroom back.
This is the most retarded "news" in months. In other words they "invented" something that's been around for almost 20 years.
It takes zero time for the light from the event to reach us in its frame of reference. According to the photons the event is zero distance away.
I interviewed several of the photons tomorrow and they called bullshit on your concept of zero distance.
Goddamn scientists, always predictin' shit and figurin' stuff out.
Selfish bastards, at this rate there won't be any new discoveries left for the next generation of scientists to make.
But all your appliances will be able to Talk to each other without your network . . .
Yes, I know, that's why I want to get rid of this like a cheap rash.
My toaster doesn't really need to talk to my blender, and neither of them need to talk to my crock pot or coffee maker. In fact, I'd like them all to just STFU and just do what they're supposed to do.
So as i was implying:
a) this isn't unpaid work.
b) closing the API is completely irrelevant when there are no users using it. The "unpaid developers" don't care at this point.
a) No, it's unpaid work. I'm sorry if you're having difficulty understanding that idea. Google doesn't pay them, no one pays them, it's unpaid work.
b) There are people using it, just not in the numbers that Google would like to see. Or are you claiming that there is literally not a single person, not one, using Google Hangouts?
c) Furthermore, my original comment was about Google's services in general, not just Hangouts.
Except the browser doesn't need to put the icon in the DOM either.
The browser can far something that the user can interact with, but not JS.
The icon would be drawn by the browser, not the website
These sentences seem to contradict one another, and I'm not sure what "The browser can far something that the user can interact with". (??)
What about letting us choose everything we want to update?
Fuck you, you filthy child-molesting communist!!
Signed, Satya Nadella
Benevolent Dictator, Microsoft Corp.
OH THANK YOU my benevolent overlords from Redmond!
Please, let me lick your boots for granting me this unprecedented freedom!!
That's fine, but if the site is creating the data, it's not really slurping "private" information.
I wasn't clear enough when I write that, and that's my fault.
The only reason for ajax is so that you could send the data out without having to even submit the form. It's not pulling data from the site, it's sending it to god knows where without anyone actually submitting the form.
You do this by instead of filling the field, have an icon in it or some such, and a click fills it, still quite convenient for the user, but protected from secret fields the user can't see.
They'll just have their malicious javascript click the icon, intercept the data, and silently copy it to a hidden field.
Presumably from the first manufacturer to seize the goldmine that "the only true non-wifi electronics" niche is going to become in this scenario.
Oh yeah that'll happen.
"Buy our product because it has fewer features" has always been hugely successful marketing technique.
I pointed out that Bitcoin isn't for storing money but rather for moving it around. It's not meant to function as a currency,
Really? It's not meant to function as a currency? If you type "what is bitcoin" into Google, here's what you get:
bitcoin
a type of digital currency in which encryption techniques are used to regulate the generation of units of currency and verify the transfer of funds, operating independently of a central bank.
From Coindesk:
Bitcoin is a form of digital currency, created and held electronically.
From CNNMoney:
Bitcoin is a new currency that was created in 2009....
From Bitcoin.org:
Bitcoin is an innovative payment network and a new kind of money.
So umm yeah, it's considered to be currency. You can search on all sorts of variations of a definition of bitcoins, and 99.99999999% say it's a currency. And one of the primary things any currency is used for is "storing money". That's what it does.
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You're right that Bitcoin makes a bad currency,
You're right, but not for the reasons you give.
Who's unpaid work? Surely not the developers who are creating platforms using the APIs.
No, I'm referring to all the people who don't work for the Almighty Google, who code stuff up using Google's APIs, trying to build something interesting. Which is why they released the fucking API in the first place- so people could build stuff that uses it and (hopefully) make it popular.
Funny, but most home appliances are actually pretty simple devices.
Which is why they don't need an internet connection- they're mostly just various combinations of motors and heaters.
My toaster, coffee pot, can opener, coffee bean grinder, waffle maker, crock pot, blender....none of that shit needs wifi capability or a goddamned internet connection. And I won't buy one that does, period.