In my opinion they're simply saying that users would use 3rd party devices to rip their content and they have no other way of stopping it. They're not wrong.
It's the same old story, just a different scope. There are billions of already locked down devices on the market today. Yet, creative souls keep finding ways to break all those devices free. Worst case scenario, you can buy some old, easily breakable devices on eBay or from a pawn shop. It's not like they all area going to disappear from the market any time soon.
It takes a great story to make a good game. Playing a video game should feel like reading a good book and being a part of the story. It's difficult to come across games which feel like that these days. And it's not because creators are running out of ideas. There are always great literate minds willing to write incredibly engaging content. But guess what? Perfection requires thorough planning, attention to detail and, most importantly time. Something that many companies are entirely not comfortable with. Just impose an impossible deadlines, make the team crunch 24/7 at the price of creativity and then deliver a moderate quality product with microtransactions. Deadlines met? Check. Money flowing? Check. Experience is shit? Who cares.
Given that you would usually run DDG inside Chrome which is in total control of your omnibox, and that it kindly lets you use other search engines, what's the guarantee that Chrome doesn't send all your queries to Google servers no matter what search engine you use?
The output you see in the browser has nothing to do with what programmers write. It may be the nicest piece of code you've ever written but once you put it through your build process of compilers, transpilers, pre and post-processing, auto-optimisations, localisation, stripping, trimming, polyfill integration, minification and {deity_of_choice} knows what else, the code becomes incomprehensible to the human brain.
Your expectations can be compared to having someone write C code and then making sense of its post-compilation assembly language representation. Sure, you can look at it and identify individual instructions and basic structures, but good luck trying to make any sense of it.
What if melting ice capes are not what we think they are? What if global warming is the effect rather than the cause? What if those "upward going" particles are a sign that something is happening in the mantle deep under the North Pole, causing nuclear disturbance, ejecting matter and increasing the global temperature as the result?
I'm not saying there is anything happening there and surely some of you will doubt my sanity but is it really such an implausible theory? We only managed to probe a tiny fraction of the crust. On the other hand, we know how violent and unpredictable other planets can be.
So this is why Chrome 69+ automatically logs people into Chrome as soon as it sniffs out a valid G* session. They simply need to link everything they know or may discover about the user in order to power the upcoming set of (bad) features.
I own a 5 years old Nexus 5 on which I've been running LineageOS pretty much since its inception. I recently made a few pro-privacy changes in my life and realised that I don't actually need any Google software on my phone anymore. Having disposed of G-Apps, the battery life went from 1 day to almost 3 days. This clearly shows how much their apps do behind the scenes. If I had to guess, I'd say that they are probably covertly using your location (regardless of your settings) to predict things like traffic, peak hours at shopping centres and such like.
The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question,
That's the right approach. In fact, you should not automatically trust anyone. Even your girlfriend. Trust should always be earned, not assumed. In a job like this, however, there is no way to earn trust, therefore checks like this are absolutely necessary.
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The author conveniently forgot to mention that the number fell from 61.3M which in relative terms is less than 5%.
Interesting point of view. Maybe you're right. Laying technical foundations to enforce the absurd law.
In my opinion they're simply saying that users would use 3rd party devices to rip their content and they have no other way of stopping it. They're not wrong.
Correct. I even started working such an extension this morning. I'm sure I'm not alone.
It's the same old story, just a different scope. There are billions of already locked down devices on the market today. Yet, creative souls keep finding ways to break all those devices free. Worst case scenario, you can buy some old, easily breakable devices on eBay or from a pawn shop. It's not like they all area going to disappear from the market any time soon.
I don't care about the touch bar. I need my function keys to work. Period.
Just different the one we know.
You can't ban something that is already common programming knowledge.
I've heard about them but it's not my cup of tea. I play a lot of retro adventure and RPG games though.
It takes a great story to make a good game. Playing a video game should feel like reading a good book and being a part of the story. It's difficult to come across games which feel like that these days. And it's not because creators are running out of ideas. There are always great literate minds willing to write incredibly engaging content. But guess what? Perfection requires thorough planning, attention to detail and, most importantly time. Something that many companies are entirely not comfortable with. Just impose an impossible deadlines, make the team crunch 24/7 at the price of creativity and then deliver a moderate quality product with microtransactions. Deadlines met? Check. Money flowing? Check. Experience is shit? Who cares.
As if reliably disabling cache in Chrome for development purposes wasn't difficult enough...
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I do it all the time: https://someonewhocares.org/ho...
knows that a disease has to start on Madagascar in order to succeed.
In other words, they may as well be doing this:
if self.engine != Google:
return self.engine.search(query)
So they can write politically correct algorithms? No, thank you.
The output you see in the browser has nothing to do with what programmers write. It may be the nicest piece of code you've ever written but once you put it through your build process of compilers, transpilers, pre and post-processing, auto-optimisations, localisation, stripping, trimming, polyfill integration, minification and {deity_of_choice} knows what else, the code becomes incomprehensible to the human brain.
Your expectations can be compared to having someone write C code and then making sense of its post-compilation assembly language representation. Sure, you can look at it and identify individual instructions and basic structures, but good luck trying to make any sense of it.
What if melting ice capes are not what we think they are? What if global warming is the effect rather than the cause? What if those "upward going" particles are a sign that something is happening in the mantle deep under the North Pole, causing nuclear disturbance, ejecting matter and increasing the global temperature as the result?
I'm not saying there is anything happening there and surely some of you will doubt my sanity but is it really such an implausible theory? We only managed to probe a tiny fraction of the crust. On the other hand, we know how violent and unpredictable other planets can be.
What if the end is actually near?
So this is why Chrome 69+ automatically logs people into Chrome as soon as it sniffs out a valid G* session. They simply need to link everything they know or may discover about the user in order to power the upcoming set of (bad) features.
Thanks Graham. This is a very interesting report. I'll read it in full tomorrow morning.
windowsd?
Sorry. I should have been clearer. Of course Android comes from Google. I meant that I do not need any parts of the Google Suite / preload apps.
I own a 5 years old Nexus 5 on which I've been running LineageOS pretty much since its inception. I recently made a few pro-privacy changes in my life and realised that I don't actually need any Google software on my phone anymore. Having disposed of G-Apps, the battery life went from 1 day to almost 3 days. This clearly shows how much their apps do behind the scenes. If I had to guess, I'd say that they are probably covertly using your location (regardless of your settings) to predict things like traffic, peak hours at shopping centres and such like.
from "Saving the planet" by George Carlin.
That's the right approach. In fact, you should not automatically trust anyone. Even your girlfriend. Trust should always be earned, not assumed. In a job like this, however, there is no way to earn trust, therefore checks like this are absolutely necessary.