" This is very harmful. It feeds pessimism in Western countries and you get a lot of people firmly convinced that instead of being the best culture to ever live, we are the worst culture to ever live."
Global warming is not just a problem for "Western" countries / cultures. Its a problem for all counties and all cultures. A potential mass extinction of us all.
Pretending its not happening is a big part of the problem. Solving it on the other hand just might reverse that pessimism you are afraid of taking over (if that is really what you are after, my guess is you just want to consume as much as you want, or some other short sighted selfish reasoning).
Unless you are saying that wastern culture has to equal destroying the environment, that this is a defining feature of it. In which case the culture needs to change obviously, and I dont personally believe its impossible.
So basically there is no way your 'philosophy' on the matter is correct. You can admit there is a problem, and try and fix it. But you can't say there is no problem, don't try and fix it, and then complain that people are being too pessimistic. You want them to be happy about environmental collapse such as the one in TFA? You want them to ignore the evidence all around them as you seem to?
thats denial my friend, pure and simple. Any amount of pessimism is better than any amount of denial.
Face it, companies like google arent going to bow down to your pithy little laws. Silicon valley is all about disruption and rule breaking. Breaking society is part of the programme for tech these days (or maybe it always had that ethos by some: "Who else is going to change the world, Marty? Greenpeace?")
Waze, airbnb, uber, etc are all about gaming regulatory systems that are set up to protect the people mostly. Having a multi room vacation housing without proper sprinklers, for instance. There are no "good" for-profit companies. You can't "do no evil" and "always make profit" at the same time. Companies side with their financial masters when push comes to shove. Tech may even be more susceptible to this than most other for-profits that, you know, actually and reliably turn an actual profit.
For profit corporations are evil. pure and simple.
"I think the race to the bottom is just going to accelerate. We could stop it whenever we want"
Everybody knows that it's now or never Everybody knows that it's me or you And everybody knows that you live forever When you've done a line or two Everybody knows the deal is rotten Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton For your ribbons and bows And everybody knows
"(5) Where is the evidence that I'm a good person who deserves more success?"
You must look into yourself for this answer. Life is random, but the way you react to it you have some control over. If you can't give yourself an honest opinion on this matter, ask your wife.
("6) Where is the proof of what a prick I am?"
You seem to have confused google with the ghosts of christmas past. I don't think it works that way.
"(7) Is there anything in there that I should actually be afraid of? "
Are you ashamed of something? question why, accept yourself, come to terms with it, or stop the behaviour. But a specific example would be location data. I have noticed when i move, and my wife starts using google in the new place (I do not use it) it gradually learns where my IP address is in the world. Thats pretty basic but also the most frightening thing to me personally really. Is that in the data? i dont know, i didnt rtfa.
(8) How could I find evidence of strengths that I don't even know I have?
Man, you sound like someone ripe for self help. Google is not self help, its an agregate data harvester (and probable NSA front).
"(9) What is the economic value of my personal information to the google?"
Individually, nothing. On aggregate, it seems like billions.. (are they at trillions yet?)
(10) Where are the pieces the googlers are cashing in on?
Google is hype, plus a few products, lots of patents and IP and a universal world brandname. They also give away lots of "free beer" and are a grandfather in internet time. But primarily its an advertising company, so again, its value is in interpreting the agregate. You seem to want the conclusions that google is drawing about you personally, however that is the reason google is valuable, the interpretation of the data. Their conclusions don't belong to you in their eyes, thats the only thing of value they really "own".
Picture a painting that everyone in the world is painting, one brush stroke each. They have given you the results of your individual brush stroke, but how could you possibly determine any context without all the rest? An individual brush stroke is valueless and uninteresting. Having *everyones* data is where the real value lays.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... A table like the above, will explain the breakdown of the numbering. It hasn't changed much with each generation since the core series lineup came in 10 years ago. Here is a better breakdown with more words than numbers. https://www.intel.com/content/...
But perhaps youre a casual and that's all a bit too esoteric for you?
If you want to easy it up, just go to www.cpubenchmark.net and you can easily compare all cpus and pricepoints. Look at single thread performance if that's all your application can handle (or you are a gamer..), and total performance if its multithreaded. There is a wealth of user submitted data there that i would never view processor advertisements without.
Its really not something you need to spend more than an afternoon getting acquainted with. An exercise that anyone who wants to spend $500+ on a new PC should be more than willing to do. As others have said, basic research is important when buying most things.
"You are free to buy from the most fuel efficient car maker. And buying a more fuel efficient car saves you money, so why would you need a law to force you to buy the more fuel efficient model"
Because the law is to force companies to set the bar higher for what is acceptable. Has nothing to do with saving money. Many people have more money than sense and so money can not be the primary motivator of change.
This is more similar to the laws enforcing mandatory vaccinations. You can't trust people to make the right decision, and in both cases the greater good is what is at stake. So by forcing the car manufacturers to innovate, rises the tide and it helps everyone.
"All part of the hazards of storing your data on servers you don't own."
That's extremely obtuse to think that the only people that deserve privacy are people technically competent enough to maintain it. Because that is a losing battle as your skills will fall out of tech eventually, unless you make it your lifes work to stay under the radar.
You need a very friendly ISP to change your reverse DNS for your mailserver for instance. Elsewise, everyone rejects your mail. This is just one example. It is extremely hard to maintain your privacy at all costs, all on your own. Especially when you are fighting with soulless corporations for these rights.
Thats the whole point of making laws against this kind of behaviour. So we all dont have to be watching our backs 24x7, hoping we never fuck up somehow, like sharing a personal photo with a non technical relative using a cloud service. The tech companies deserve the lions share of the blame here, for being allowed to view thier customers "private" data! Used to be that was sacrosanct, till the new generation of tech companies came along.
Mine workers that have to shop at the company store was policy too. Policy is fucking policy, not law and is not a definition of peoples rights in society.
American companies have far too much power for unelected, private, profit focused entities.
I thought the department of homeland security was a temporary thing. Yet here you are now, 17 years later. And they have money to advocate for anything they want to do, the same as your ministries of education and health.
"However, few things can compete with the sheer joy I had as a child when given the rare opportunity to roam the aisles of a Toys R' Us to discover, touch, test, and play with the toys. The "aisles" of Amazon are a poor substitute for a child."
Buy stock in a thrift store chain then. The toy isle of a second hand store like value village is a kids paradise. all the toys are out of the annoying packaging, and free to play with and test. And there are very few toys over the 10 dollar mark.
I usually get an hour of entertainment for average $3.99 and the kid walks home with a toy. Much cheaper than say, an amusement park. Toys r us I do continue to go to for things like lego or gifts for other kids. The canadian operations are still profitable from what i hear.
"I like clocks. I like accurate clocks, to be precise. I have several 'Atomic clocks', synchronized to WWVB out of Fort Colins"
Wow, then i would think then that you are THE target audience. So you are either 1) jealous or 2) have lost your sense of wonder.
42million over 10,000 years works out to $420 a year, so smoke some green and chill the fuck out bro. its a god damned art piece, and a pretty cool engineering challenge to boot.
Its the same kind of cluttered and portalesque search engine that was MSN and yahoo and all the others. Google went that way so i switched to duck duck go a few years ago due in part to no tracking and its slimed down no nonsense interface. I mean tahts why we all started using google in the first place right?
Google maps on the other hand i do continue to use because openstreetmap just doesn't do it for me personally. Very frequently, typing in part of an address gets me somewhere else in the world entirely. Especially if the street is also a province, or country name. It gets real confused.
So in the end, the right tool that fits you for the right job. What is bings niche market? what was MSN's? making more money for microsoft and because they need "something" to fill a gap. So it doesnt have to succeed, that would just be a bonus.
"Now what would occur to me, would absolutely be to not put trademarked logos on the disc. I would have made some leet graphic from the Matrix or the like and put that on the disc. Maybe a photo of Rick Astley on the cover, which would be fitting given the mission of the discs."
Thats ridiculous and not at all professional. He downloaded the software from dell, its their software. I would think the opposite, that they would have argued he was representing it as something he did by customizing the graphics, providing nfo or whatever. There is no reason why you shouldnt be able to make a physical copy, identical in every way to the original. To do less would be disingenuous and untrustworthy. Why can't he make exact copies, branding and all, that are binary equal (and visually identical) to files that dell releases on their website and indeed are originally included with the computer in the first place? That would be easily verifiable by anyone who cared to audit it. He had a license and indeed a physical machine for each copy even! this is clear overreach by microsoft or dell or whomever.
All they had to do was offer free wifi as well and the public would have ate it up. The real story is how most citizens are voluntarily carrying unique radio beacons 24x7 these days.
but no one talks about that except the crazies right...
"I would rather the feds just get out of the way."
Indeed! america, go ahead and step aside. Plenty of countries are dying to lead in these fields!
you had your turn, now give others a try. Very progressive and very unlike you! Maybe that trump will end up being the best thing yet for countries not the usa. USA out of everywhere, and everything!
Then in a few years, you can claim "unfair dumping of subsidized technologies", slap a tariff on them, and make your market less and less attractive. (This then makes my countries markets more attractive!)
So I call it a net win for the world as well. Good thinking!
Agree. the other major benefit to mcdonalds self order kiosks is the two for one breakfast coupons just need to be scanned, not handed over! so you can use the same coupon again and again till it expires. And you can even make your own barcodes, or copy them from some barcode sharing site.
Sure its a loophole but its an amazing one when i am running late and dont have time to make a breakfast sandwich at home!
I love computer automation, there is always hacks you can do to them. Far more fulfilling than social engineering or strong arming employees to me personally. Computers don't give a fuck when you scam them!
"Most people earning minimum wage are not doing it to pay for room and board."
Citation needed.
I worked minimum wage when i moved out on my own, as do many other people. $800 pre tax per month is a shitty way to live. Luckily i was able to find rent for $325 at the time (late 90s). All the rest of the money went into food and a bus pass to get to and from the job. You are full of shit as normal and out of touch. That's what happens when you need to make a stupid comment on every single article.
"I change mine 2 times a year"... "Just turn it on and off at the at the wall at the appropriate time of day "
"Multiple times a day" is a bit more than twice a year isn't it? Unless you consider "off" and "on" to not be changes in temperature... And then i would question if you even know what thermostats do...
"I'd really like to kill the heat when I go to bed and have it kick back on about an hour before my alarm goes off."... "Being able to control the temperature in my apartment from work seems like a useless feature."
If your buying into automation of the heat in general I am surprised you don't see the value. It allows you, if you have portable internet, to be more dynamic with that mentality you are already familiar with. For instance, when leaving work you can turn on the heat so its warmed up when you get home. Or if youre going out to dinner, you can turn it on when you leave the restaurant.
I can see the appeal if you have any requirements a plain old 7 day programmable is too basic to satisfy. I believe google home also detects when you enter the house and profiles you over time to automatically adjust the schedule.
For me, I have electric heat (instant heat when on). So i simply turn it on when i enter the room and off when i leave. But i can see the appeal of an internet connected thermostat once you hit the limitations of a fixed schedule, or if there are multiple schedules needed for each family member. Its the next generation of scheduling thermostat and its easy to picture the uses. Rather than say, an internet connected fridge, which seems totally useless to me. (cue defenders of internet connected fridges...)
" someone else has any bright ideas how to mitigate evil behavior incoming from ISPs (because they will take full advantage of this, believe you me), I'm all ears."
We just roll it back a bit to internet 1.5. Everyone simply turns off their wireless encryption and changes their SSID to linksys. Then just multiplex all the signals in range.
Linksys will once again be the biggest and freeist ISP in the world!
Yeah i mined a few bitcoins perhaps 4, back when bitcoins were worth 30 cents and prompty forgot about it.
I am now using testdisk on some old hard drives trying to find my wallet.dat. no luck so far!
Its funny because i usually keep my entire appdata structure between computers, but i have no bitcoin folder that i can find, and i have only had 2 computers between 2009 and now. Maybe i hallucinated mining those coins? so much can happen in 8 years...
i can see why people are madly looking through thrift stores for old PCs now. Any PC recycling place would be an absolute gold mine.
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Global warming is not just a problem for "Western" countries / cultures. Its a problem for all counties and all cultures. A potential mass extinction of us all.
Pretending its not happening is a big part of the problem. Solving it on the other hand just might reverse that pessimism you are afraid of taking over (if that is really what you are after, my guess is you just want to consume as much as you want, or some other short sighted selfish reasoning).
Unless you are saying that wastern culture has to equal destroying the environment, that this is a defining feature of it. In which case the culture needs to change obviously, and I dont personally believe its impossible.
So basically there is no way your 'philosophy' on the matter is correct. You can admit there is a problem, and try and fix it. But you can't say there is no problem, don't try and fix it, and then complain that people are being too pessimistic. You want them to be happy about environmental collapse such as the one in TFA? You want them to ignore the evidence all around them as you seem to?
thats denial my friend, pure and simple. Any amount of pessimism is better than any amount of denial.
Face it, companies like google arent going to bow down to your pithy little laws. Silicon valley is all about disruption and rule breaking. Breaking society is part of the programme for tech these days (or maybe it always had that ethos by some: "Who else is going to change the world, Marty? Greenpeace?")
Waze, airbnb, uber, etc are all about gaming regulatory systems that are set up to protect the people mostly. Having a multi room vacation housing without proper sprinklers, for instance. There are no "good" for-profit companies. You can't "do no evil" and "always make profit" at the same time. Companies side with their financial masters when push comes to shove. Tech may even be more susceptible to this than most other for-profits that, you know, actually and reliably turn an actual profit.
For profit corporations are evil. pure and simple.
Everybody knows that it's now or never
Everybody knows that it's me or you
And everybody knows that you live forever
When you've done a line or two
Everybody knows the deal is rotten
Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton
For your ribbons and bows
And everybody knows
and everybody knows
You must look into yourself for this answer. Life is random, but the way you react to it you have some control over. If you can't give yourself an honest opinion on this matter, ask your wife.
You seem to have confused google with the ghosts of christmas past. I don't think it works that way.
Are you ashamed of something? question why, accept yourself, come to terms with it, or stop the behaviour. But a specific example would be location data. I have noticed when i move, and my wife starts using google in the new place (I do not use it) it gradually learns where my IP address is in the world. Thats pretty basic but also the most frightening thing to me personally really. Is that in the data? i dont know, i didnt rtfa.
Man, you sound like someone ripe for self help. Google is not self help, its an agregate data harvester (and probable NSA front).
Individually, nothing. On aggregate, it seems like billions.. (are they at trillions yet?)
Google is hype, plus a few products, lots of patents and IP and a universal world brandname. They also give away lots of "free beer" and are a grandfather in internet time. But primarily its an advertising company, so again, its value is in interpreting the agregate. You seem to want the conclusions that google is drawing about you personally, however that is the reason google is valuable, the interpretation of the data. Their conclusions don't belong to you in their eyes, thats the only thing of value they really "own".
Picture a painting that everyone in the world is painting, one brush stroke each. They have given you the results of your individual brush stroke, but how could you possibly determine any context without all the rest? An individual brush stroke is valueless and uninteresting. Having *everyones* data is where the real value lays.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
A table like the above, will explain the breakdown of the numbering. It hasn't changed much with each generation since the core series lineup came in 10 years ago.
Here is a better breakdown with more words than numbers. https://www.intel.com/content/...
But perhaps youre a casual and that's all a bit too esoteric for you?
If you want to easy it up, just go to www.cpubenchmark.net and you can easily compare all cpus and pricepoints. Look at single thread performance if that's all your application can handle (or you are a gamer..), and total performance if its multithreaded. There is a wealth of user submitted data there that i would never view processor advertisements without.
Its really not something you need to spend more than an afternoon getting acquainted with. An exercise that anyone who wants to spend $500+ on a new PC should be more than willing to do. As others have said, basic research is important when buying most things.
Because the law is to force companies to set the bar higher for what is acceptable. Has nothing to do with saving money. Many people have more money than sense and so money can not be the primary motivator of change.
This is more similar to the laws enforcing mandatory vaccinations. You can't trust people to make the right decision, and in both cases the greater good is what is at stake.
So by forcing the car manufacturers to innovate, rises the tide and it helps everyone.
This is the job of government.
Gotta love harmless eccentric billionaires. Much better than any other kind of billionaire imho.
That's extremely obtuse to think that the only people that deserve privacy are people technically competent enough to maintain it. Because that is a losing battle as your skills will fall out of tech eventually, unless you make it your lifes work to stay under the radar.
You need a very friendly ISP to change your reverse DNS for your mailserver for instance. Elsewise, everyone rejects your mail. This is just one example. It is extremely hard to maintain your privacy at all costs, all on your own. Especially when you are fighting with soulless corporations for these rights.
Thats the whole point of making laws against this kind of behaviour. So we all dont have to be watching our backs 24x7, hoping we never fuck up somehow, like sharing a personal photo with a non technical relative using a cloud service. The tech companies deserve the lions share of the blame here, for being allowed to view thier customers "private" data! Used to be that was sacrosanct, till the new generation of tech companies came along.
Mine workers that have to shop at the company store was policy too. Policy is fucking policy, not law and is not a definition of peoples rights in society.
American companies have far too much power for unelected, private, profit focused entities.
I'm pretty sure battlefield 1942 had bots in it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Yep. Good job EA, you re invented something you already invented 20 years ago.
I thought the department of homeland security was a temporary thing. Yet here you are now, 17 years later. And they have money to advocate for anything they want to do, the same as your ministries of education and health.
Amazing how that happens.
Buy stock in a thrift store chain then. The toy isle of a second hand store like value village is a kids paradise. all the toys are out of the annoying packaging, and free to play with and test. And there are very few toys over the 10 dollar mark.
I usually get an hour of entertainment for average $3.99 and the kid walks home with a toy. Much cheaper than say, an amusement park. Toys r us I do continue to go to for things like lego or gifts for other kids. The canadian operations are still profitable from what i hear.
The unintentional immortal consciousness you are creating.
A profile of you, becomes you, and has to live in a damn egg for a hundred thousand years because some sadist time dilated your ass.
Wow, then i would think then that you are THE target audience. So you are either 1) jealous or 2) have lost your sense of wonder.
42million over 10,000 years works out to $420 a year, so smoke some green and chill the fuck out bro.
its a god damned art piece, and a pretty cool engineering challenge to boot.
Its the same kind of cluttered and portalesque search engine that was MSN and yahoo and all the others. Google went that way so i switched to duck duck go a few years ago due in part to no tracking and its slimed down no nonsense interface. I mean tahts why we all started using google in the first place right?
Google maps on the other hand i do continue to use because openstreetmap just doesn't do it for me personally. Very frequently, typing in part of an address gets me somewhere else in the world entirely. Especially if the street is also a province, or country name. It gets real confused.
So in the end, the right tool that fits you for the right job. What is bings niche market? what was MSN's? making more money for microsoft and because they need "something" to fill a gap. So it doesnt have to succeed, that would just be a bonus.
Thats ridiculous and not at all professional. He downloaded the software from dell, its their software. I would think the opposite, that they would have argued he was representing it as something he did by customizing the graphics, providing nfo or whatever. There is no reason why you shouldnt be able to make a physical copy, identical in every way to the original. To do less would be disingenuous and untrustworthy. Why can't he make exact copies, branding and all, that are binary equal (and visually identical) to files that dell releases on their website and indeed are originally included with the computer in the first place?
That would be easily verifiable by anyone who cared to audit it. He had a license and indeed a physical machine for each copy even! this is clear overreach by microsoft or dell or whomever.
All they had to do was offer free wifi as well and the public would have ate it up. The real story is how most citizens are voluntarily carrying unique radio beacons 24x7 these days.
but no one talks about that except the crazies right...
Indeed! america, go ahead and step aside. Plenty of countries are dying to lead in these fields!
you had your turn, now give others a try. Very progressive and very unlike you! Maybe that trump will end up being the best thing yet for countries not the usa. USA out of everywhere, and everything!
Then in a few years, you can claim "unfair dumping of subsidized technologies", slap a tariff on them, and make your market less and less attractive. (This then makes my countries markets more attractive!)
So I call it a net win for the world as well. Good thinking!
I would say "stupid fucking chair!" as it obviously cut me off.
Agree. the other major benefit to mcdonalds self order kiosks is the two for one breakfast coupons just need to be scanned, not handed over! so you can use the same coupon again and again till it expires. And you can even make your own barcodes, or copy them from some barcode sharing site.
Sure its a loophole but its an amazing one when i am running late and dont have time to make a breakfast sandwich at home!
I love computer automation, there is always hacks you can do to them. Far more fulfilling than social engineering or strong arming employees to me personally. Computers don't give a fuck when you scam them!
Citation needed.
I worked minimum wage when i moved out on my own, as do many other people. $800 pre tax per month is a shitty way to live. Luckily i was able to find rent for $325 at the time (late 90s). All the rest of the money went into food and a bus pass to get to and from the job. You are full of shit as normal and out of touch. That's what happens when you need to make a stupid comment on every single article.
"Multiple times a day" is a bit more than twice a year isn't it?
Unless you consider "off" and "on" to not be changes in temperature... And then i would question if you even know what thermostats do...
If your buying into automation of the heat in general I am surprised you don't see the value. It allows you, if you have portable internet, to be more dynamic with that mentality you are already familiar with. For instance, when leaving work you can turn on the heat so its warmed up when you get home. Or if youre going out to dinner, you can turn it on when you leave the restaurant.
I can see the appeal if you have any requirements a plain old 7 day programmable is too basic to satisfy. I believe google home also detects when you enter the house and profiles you over time to automatically adjust the schedule.
For me, I have electric heat (instant heat when on). So i simply turn it on when i enter the room and off when i leave. But i can see the appeal of an internet connected thermostat once you hit the limitations of a fixed schedule, or if there are multiple schedules needed for each family member. Its the next generation of scheduling thermostat and its easy to picture the uses. Rather than say, an internet connected fridge, which seems totally useless to me. (cue defenders of internet connected fridges...)
We just roll it back a bit to internet 1.5. Everyone simply turns off their wireless encryption and changes their SSID to linksys. Then just multiplex all the signals in range.
Linksys will once again be the biggest and freeist ISP in the world!
Yeah i mined a few bitcoins perhaps 4, back when bitcoins were worth 30 cents and prompty forgot about it.
I am now using testdisk on some old hard drives trying to find my wallet.dat. no luck so far!
Its funny because i usually keep my entire appdata structure between computers, but i have no bitcoin folder that i can find, and i have only had 2 computers between 2009 and now. Maybe i hallucinated mining those coins? so much can happen in 8 years...
i can see why people are madly looking through thrift stores for old PCs now. Any PC recycling place would be an absolute gold mine.