The reason why Google Fiber rollout did not happen as expected, and Alphabet eventually got tired of the whole thing is exactly because of the corporations they are supposed to be fighting against. Redoubling efforts won't do much because ISPs already win this game. And they were forcing the end of net neutrality with this in mind. Just search back and read Google's statements on why Fiber didn't go as planned. You'll see articles and comments about ISPs blocking and delaying as much as possible access to infrastructure to lay down cables and whatnot. The game for Netflix and Google to play here, like it or not, is to wait for ISPs to get even more greedy, unpopular, start using net neutrality to their own benefit, burn the house down, and only then start offering alternatives at a bigger cost which will enable using some different tech like 5G or something else.
A sub billion fine on a case like this is insulting, useless, and only incentivizes other companies to follow similar non-existant security practices. Lets remember this wasn't only a small leak, but one of the biggest multiple leaks where the company purposedly hid for years the whole thing, allowed for it to happen multiple times over, and was unapologetic the entire time.
I'm getting so fucking tired of immature ignorant whinning of dim prepotent politicians trying to vilify and polarize technologies they don't understand and trying to paint a black and white picture that only exists in their fantasy land... or more likely, don't exist at all because they never tried to understand the stuff they are talking about. That is the true problem we have today. This sorta shit. If we had less shitheads berating against anonymity, privacy and encryption - and by now we had a very long time to understand it's not as one sided and clear as some moronic politicians will try to put it -, we'd be dealing with criminals who uses those to their advantage better today. Goddamn it feels like a virus spreading in governments and courts all around the world...
While this might sound as a good thing to curb piracy and stop people from straight uploading copyrighted material, the consequences of a rulling like this have far reaching consequences that goes way beyond that.
It's a preliminary judgement that will most likely be appealed and end up reversed once judges understands the problems with this idea, which they most likely don't.
But if it doesn't get reversed, I fully predict YouTube and Google just ending service in Austria, because it's not feasible for the platform to work in any capacity with a ruling like that. And it's fruitless, because unless the service is fully blocked by ISPs plus VPN services and other circunventing methods, people will keep using it. The loss is entirely on users and the country itself. Prossecuting cases coming from people living in other countries would need deals and hubris that would effectively make this an on paper decision that will never have any consequence.
There is no way for a social network platform to work at scale with potential liability for each and every single video uploaded to the platform. And this is something judges from all countries that work with these platforms should understand. It's a very simple concept that is very unfortunate to see judges in this day and age, no matter how old or disconnected from tech and Internet they are, not knowing about. It's a broad display of ignorance on how things in the Internet works that should put in question the ability of certain judges to accuratly access matters related to an entire class of cases.
YouTube already has the overzealous content ID system plus a whole ton of other custom algorithms and whatnot to detect copyright violations, and they have been tuned to a point where they constantly get false positives - a common complaint of content creators.
If that's not enough, and the platform becomes liable for a lawsuit everytime potential copyrighted content gets uploaded to the platform, it's just better to close doors. Because there isn't any viable way to comply with something like this other than algorithms, which are arguably incredibly advanced for what they do. It's like saying knife makers are now liable for every single murder commited with a knife.
People don't fully appreciate how hard it is to detect such a nebulous idea as "copyright infringement". Highly trained human specialists with extensive knowledge on the matter often cannot do this well enough, having to take it to courts and spend years to decide.
I'm no advocate for any of the crappier stuff social networks do, but what a judgement like this is asking for is fundamentally impossible. It's the same thing as telling these services they are forbidden from operating in the country, period.
Putting things in perspective, YouTube has over one billion users globally (can't account for Austrian users only because the service doesn't put up regional barriers unless explicitly asked to), statistics from 5 years ago points out that it has over 100 hours of video uploaded every minute (with more current non-official estimated projections putting that number up to the 500s), and the only way to be 100% sure that content being uploaded has no copyright infringements on it is by manually watching everything and doing some very extensive research which would most likely not cover every copyright infringement scenario possible.
With those types of numbers, it also isn't feasible in any way, shape or form to cover everything no matter how many people you have working 24/7 on reports, flagging, banning and whatnot because those also have to go through an evaluation process. And that's looking at it after the fact and relying on a flagging system. To completely avoid lawsuits YouTube would have to become a curation platform - videos published only after a process of analysis and approval. Imagine submitting 500 hours of video uploaded every minute to an evaluation process for copyright infringement? Even with a large team of people working only on that, you'd
It's not about people like you. It's about the aggregate data and what businesses have been doing with all that, plus the underground economy that came out of these sorts of deals. Let go of the "I have nothing to hide" mentality and look at the bigger picture.
There's zero science in the current EPA, as well as most of Trump's administration. He cannot produce any real science because he has none. Or at most, he'll be giving a bunch of stuff that have some pretty curious links to coal corporations, produced in the late 70s or something. And it'll either be blatant lies that wouldn't pass peer review, or just something vague like "more evidence is needed", which btw, we already have. I needs no repeating, but there is OVERWHELMING evidence and consensus that climate change is man made by the entire scientific community. And this includes people who have been studying it for a good part of their lifetimes. It includes an incredibly substantial body of evidence from multiple perspectives. It comes from analysis with historical records, measurements taken from recent years, modeling and prediction, how the planet is already changing, and the relationship with all sorts of pollution that you can go out and see today. I don't think deniers get how massive the body of evidence is. We even have researchers from a couple of decades ago hired by oil companies saying it was happening back then, only of course these companies chose to hide the research and exploit the information for themselves instead of releasing it in public. "I doubt it" by brainless politicians and by the coal industry do not get a pass. I don't know what else is needed for deniers to get this, but I suspect it's gotten to such an extreme that they'd rather drown in a coastal city while shouting it's not happening rather than considering the idea that they might just have been wrong all this time. It doesn't take a whole lot to step out of your cult-like status and think a bit. All the extreme weather events that are likely related to climate change happening several times a year and somehow it's still hard to believe. This sort of stubborness only ends in death. Asking to produce science will do nothing, because it was never backed by it. It will eventually get to a point where it's either them with their baseless claims or it's us paying the price for their ignorance. The worst thing of it all is that even in the fictional scenario that they were right, there is simply no reason to be against the general measures against climate change. US is just like the anti-social entitled asshole idiot that behaves like a baby while the rest of the world is taking responsibility. Coal, oil and gas dependancy have always been a health hazard, it benefits no one to keep it, and even countries that were highly dependant on those are realizing after too long a time that it's simply not worth the damages it causes... you know, countries like China, famous for cities so heavily polluted during some days of the year with coal mines that people were simply collapsing and dying on the streets. Both China and India already have some generations condemned to live with lung related and respiratory diseases, why would anyone want to follow their past model? Do people really want to get into scenarios like those, or go back to industrial revolution era pollution levels? Like, fortunately the global economy, scientific community, people who already accepted man made climate change as a reality, and people overall against Trump's EPA have enough power to continue the transition... coal dependancy will end whether politicians like it or not. But if it wasn't for that, de-regulation and climate change denial would logically end up resulting in pollution levels of the same scale of China and India. And it's not like the US isn't already littered with superfund sites to show what happens when things like that gets ignored. It's incredibly sad to see how entire groups of people cannot learn anything from history. Makes me think that in the end, our species will meet it's mass extinction event way sooner than other species because of our so called great "intelligence".
Humans are essencial to clean up robots' mess, until robots or routines around robots get to a point that they don't mess up anymore. Extremely simple fix for the example given which I'm sure is happening pretty soon: either make robots that won't drop anything, or make packaging that won't create a mess when dropped. Great defense there Amazon. It's not about whether humans will be needed or not... they always will. It's about scale and environment. Whether it's justified or not, the worry comes from replacing a hundred workers for one robot, one specialized worker and 99 unemployed people. And sure, Amazon employs a huge number of people, but what are the hidden costs there? Smaller to medium businesses that closed doors because they couldn't compete. Multiple times more jobs in diverse areas extinguished. A monopoly that has taken opportunities from too many because of it's heavy handed practices. I always hear this argument that robots are coming first for supposed cumbersome, burdensome, brainless and low paying repetitive jobs... but I think people underestimate how important those are to keep the wage gap from getting even bigger. And we already have lots of signs that those are not the only types of jobs robots will soon be taking over too.
...what I already knew: Amazon is no better than eBay when it comes to costumer responsibility practices. Just recently I read a post about fake SD cards still being a thing on Amazon, and this has been going on for the better part of the last decade, so it's quite obvious that Amazon simply doesn't care anymore. But I've stopped buying on Amazon anyways back since they adopted an extremely aggressive tactic of pre-charging some 120~150% import tax for people living in my country. Brazil does have a very pricy import tax, but it's definitely not as high as Amazon is charging, and the only reason why they'd do something like that would be if they just don't want to bother dealing with our market anymore. But that's fine... it forced me to look for alternatives, and I'm glad I did.
Sure, removing devices with fake FCC and other logos, fine. Stop selling devices in which Kodi can be installed? So... all PCs, all Android smartphones, all Android devices, all devboards, several smart TVs.... at the very least FCC is describing there basically all possible set top Android devices. I'm not sure if they are going for completely different things there just to bunch crap together, or if they just fundamentally don't know what they are asking for, but it doesn't really matter. If Amazon stops selling those people will just go to eBay or Aliexpress. Or, you know, just repurpose devices. Which btw, wouldn't be such a bad thing, but not because FCC is asking for it. Plus, it's always good to note that Kodi has jackshit to do with this. They app functionality is literally a media player for TV, which is not illegal and is no justification for stopping sales of devices. Plugins might enable piracy, but so do most OSs and Internet connected devices.
As someone who lives in a country where electronics have import taxes that are 100% and up, you really have no idea what you are asking for, and all the things you listed that it would be good for really are just fantasies. That's not how it works.
I don't wanna sound racist or anything, but unfortunately I think China will have a very long way 'till it gets even close to western countries on this matter, which is still not ideal. Setting US aside, let's consider some european countries and whatnot. There are very few countries that are really getting there, but still not quite.
Currently, China as a society has evolved at unprecedented speeds in comparison to the history of evolution of other societies.
I still remember a time when China was mostly rural, exporting mostly primary resources, and didn't have much in the way of technology to talk about. This was the case not that long ago. If you are too young to remember this, probably your parents will know. Over just a few decades, less than a lifetime, China went rushing through industrial revolution, raising extremely modern metropolis in cities formerly pretty run down and primitive, and now the country is activelly participating at the forefront of technology and research in some areas.
Some people might not realize this, but it's because lots of people don't really know China. There are cities there that are basically on par with Japan in terms of technology, public transportation, technology in common spaces and whatnot. There are research areas like biomedicine and genetics that China is arguably ahead. Read some of the recent news... China just launched a communication probe in space to aid a mission that will be launched still this year to explore the dark side of the moon.
It's crazy how fast it has evolved. It almost doesn't make sense when you think about the comparison on how technology evolves versus societies.
But all that has a huge side effect. China did not evolve uniformly, these transformations had and still has huge costs, and of course things are not that simple. It became a country of enormous contrasts. You have cities that look like Tokyo or modern european capitals, while you have towns in the countryside with people starving and living a life of subsistence. You have billionaires and huge investment groups that are among the richest in the world while you have multitude of workers slaving away to a state they prefer suicide instead of living like that. Most of western societies also have huge wage gaps and inequalities, but it kinda pales in comparison to China when looking at extremes.
Sexism can't be seen and treated in isolation, and people should not have some fantasy that it's gonna be solved anytime soon there because there are major shifts yet to happen before it even starts being addressed.
Remember people, China is a country where not that long ago, baby boys were hugely favored over baby girls. And this is a cultural phenomena that endured over decades. https://www.theguardian.com/wo... https://www.nytimes.com/2009/0... This is a huge problem that cannot be solved in few years time, and it has massive cultural effects. Because it effectively created an artificial distortion... there are way more men than women in China when compared to proportions of other countries. It's not only China too, it's just something that happens a lot in poor countries or developing countries all over the world. https://www.npr.org/sections/g... http://www.ibtimes.com/deadly-... Even though some of these countries don't necessarily have a majority of people of faith in patriarcal religions and systems, it's just a matter of favoring boys because of base manual labor necessities and a prejudiced view that comes with it. The concept also became ingrained in culture, so up to this decade the tendency still remains.
...apart from the lawsuit I guess, and with it broader awareness.
Anime watchers and those familiar with modern japanese society will already have heard of the terms: NEET, hikikomori. But as with many problems in japanese society that often gets picked by international media as some weird thing that must only happen in Japan, this is not by far a japanese exclusive phenomena. https://think.iafor.org/reclus...
International media often exploit, fetishize, and even mock Japan for having these weird cultural things, often painting a picture as if it was commonplace there when it really isn't... but the truth behind this mocking of foreign countries is that more often than not, these things not only do exist back at home, but often it's worse than in Japan - only it's taboo, overlooked by press, and not selected as a subject for exposure.
So yeah... this guy is probably one of these cases. Surprise, bad stuff that happens in other societies is probably happening in sacred US of A too. And probably, a lawsuit is not the best way to deal with it too. Not that I'm ignoring the tribulation that the parents must've gone through already, but hikikomori are often unstable and should be seeking treatment and re-education, not being booted out of home.
There is a high potential of this being a case of throwing gas into the fire. Optimistic scenario, sure, the guy will leave home, get a job and reform himself. But people in the US really should not ignore the potential of someone mentally unstable becoming enraged with the situation and turning into yet another nightmare scenario that we all know pretty well by now having multiple cases a year. He could take his parents money, buy a gun, a go shoot some people plus himself.
Problem is not the numbers, it's the narrative itself. They are effectively saying that they can't do anything, like say regular investigation jobs, if they don't have encryption to backdoors, which would effectively ease up their work on one end while exponentially raising the potential for other types of crimes like identity theft, blackmail, exploitation, stealing of corporate secrets, hacking, and whatnot. The numbers don't matter. The stupidity of breaking encryption for an entire country does.
I'm not saying Amazon is totally right on this, specially if there are clients who were wrongfully banned... but there are plenty of reasons why Amazon would ban people for repeated returns, and the situation isn't as clear cut as this snipped is making it sound.
Basically, they have people who abuse the return system to get money from retailers in exchange for positive reviews on the product. Amazon is not the only one doing this, and it's becoming a widespread problem for online shopping.
This shouldn't be a surprise. The guy is a pathological narcisist, so of course he'll do as he pleases. The only type of respect he has is self-respect, and fuck the rest. He already dismisses everything that was ever done previous to his administration as errors, worst mistakes, wrong, criminal, swamp or whatever. And it hasn't been a problem for him every single time he was proven wrong. It's either treated as a joke, or the new norm. Nobody knew x could be so complicated. President Trump isn't at fault because he just didn't know better. It's just fake news. It's media persecution. Things we hear every freaking day on the news. If it's content he doesn't like, it's fake news. If he does something wrong he was just unaware or it's someone else's fault. Any press that says anything wrong about him is being unfair. Any politician that raises a voice against his command is either a democrat trying to attack him, or a republican traitor. The guy acts exactly like politicians in countries like Venezuela, Phillipines and other proto-dictatorships and populist nations and people are just watching it happen. None of this has put him out of his position up to now, leaking smartphone information also won't. At most, some fuzz will be made about it, they'll create some comitee for investigation, and some people will cry foul, but he'll still be there. I doubt there's anything there to be leaked or hacked anyways... I mean, anything that foreign countries and whatnot don't already know. People shouldn't expect any sort of internal security from the current administration. You just have to see how many incompetent people are occupying all sorts of positions right now. Why would anyone be under some illusion that US government data isn't already being hacked, stolen, spied upon and even directly willingly sent by people on this administration? I'd believe first that the US government is already, knowingly or not, a puppet of other countries. I'd believe first that every piece of communication is already being monitored, specially around Trump. Look at the people he has surrounded himself with. There's a whole ton of people there now or that has come and gonne that I'd have no problems believing they'd just leak stuff or spy for foreign governments with either profit or because they were being blackmailed. Foreign countries probably already have plenty of info on him, it's just more convenient to let the guy wreck havok in US international relations as this weakens US economy and gives more opportunities for foreign countries to strenghten theirs. And should Trump do too much against other countries with access to his dirt, the information just comes in handy for blackmailing and whatnot, something I wouldn't doubt already happened anyways. His supporters already blindly follow him. I'm willing to be that for the vast majority of them, should news come tomorrow that his phones were hacked and all the info stolen, they'd see no fault in Trump's position. It'd only be something to fuel his and his followers nationalist spew, more reason for isolationism, more fuel for immigrant persecution, more reasons for baseless accusations against foreign companies, and overall more reasons for the FUD that this administration feeds on. When people have bought the narrative that every single mistake of the current administration is the fault of someone else, and even some of the most obvious errors and problems there is either fake or intrigue by the opposition, the country already set itself on a downward spiral. It will go on as long as it's to the benefit of those in power. I pitty the non-supporters who are currently on this trap without any sight of getting out, but it is what it is. And I say this as a non US citizen. I live in a country that has gone through that downward spiral. It has destroyed the entire country's economy, it has put the country as a place no foreign investors wants to deal with, it has provoked a massive runaway of scientists, researchers, technology overall, among other stuff t
Media should cover Tesla accidents as long as it's fair and of public interest, and that is not something that Musk should have any right to say if it's ok or not... he should just shut the fuck up and have a better PR strategy than whinning about it being unfair, like Trump with it's "fake media" claims. If you are gonna offer a disruptive technology that is going against traditional brands and whatnot, of course it'll get coverage, and that includes the bad stuff. I don't see Musk complaining about tech bloggers who are constantly babbling and licking his sack about Hyperloop, selling flamethrowers and other far fetched idiotic ideas. And he'd better get used to it because when some of those plans comes crashing down, the media will cover the downfall too. Just as much as they are covering good results like SpaceX and others. You don't get to pick and choose what media will publish on your stunts, unless you are a dictator.
On the subject, I'm a bit curious to know how patent infringement cases go in China... hard to wrap my head around. I mean, up until decades or years ago that basically didn't exist, did it? I'm not sure if it's the case on this one, but if it's patent trolling, how would something like this go in China? I'm not sure if it's following a western/US model, or if things could be different. In Brazil it follows mostly a western model, but I think this should change at some point. Patent trolls should be automatically counter suited and end up in jail for all I care.
Stop spreading the false myth that a new standard, biometrics, or whatever is gona "replace" passwords, or that there is a post password future, or bullshit like that. What passwords provides is fundamentally different from what biometrics can offer. If you can't understand this, you should not be reporting on these things, period, because you are only contributing to misinformation and misunderstandings on the very basics of security.
It's because of shitty practices like these that we are in the deep privacy end hole that we are now. There is no foreseeable "post password future". And not by a long stretch when it's relying on proprietary and closed off systems for it.
For something to completely replace passwords it needs to be something you know, that can be easily changed, and cannot be taken from you by force, when you are unconscious or something like that. If it can't, it cannot replace passwords, period. It won't end the era of passwords, it won't take it's place, and it cannot by definition, be used in several cases where passwords are required.
Biometrics and this new standard will add convenience to a form of authentication that while it can be enough for lots of things, or can be paired with passwords for added security, it does not offer the same level of security as passwords because it can be taken from you, some of them without you even knowing. They cannot be easily replaced as they are part of your identity, uniquely tied to you. And they'll be highly dependant on proprietary hardware and software schemes to maintain integrity.
And pointing out phishing as a flaw of passwords is just stupid. As soon as biometrics becomes more widespread, social engineering strategies to get what's needed to unlock them will rise. It's just the way it is. And yes, some of them might be very secure these days, but methods will arise to spoof, replicate, and just take it straight from the source. The proper way to see webauthn and biometrics is as a layer of security that is convenient, but isn't perfect and isn't impossible to bypass. You use as many layers you need, and weight the pros and cons of each for your usage. But f*cking stop saying that they'll be replacing passwords. We've been there before. Look how many biometric authentication methods were broken so far, look how many problems this assumption of replacing stuff with biometrics has already brought. Just. Stop. It.
This isn't the right way to go about this. If the worry is about government destroying records, what needs to be done is government being forced to conduct business using services that guarantees record keeping. Simple as that. Gmail is not the only mail server there is out there, people have plenty of choice to use services that already have a self destruct option for years now, so it makes no sense to put the burden on Gmail or any other singular service while taking the functionality out for everyone else just because "government records". Gmail was not created to attend government needs, it was made for a bigger public. If government requires a service with specific traits, they need to have one made custom.
It's a reverse backdoor encryption thing. Just because the police wants to have easier access on potential criminals under investigation that does not justify forcing secure systems to shit all over the privacy and security of their clients.
And quite frankly, stuff like this should be obvious at this point.
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The reason why Google Fiber rollout did not happen as expected, and Alphabet eventually got tired of the whole thing is exactly because of the corporations they are supposed to be fighting against. Redoubling efforts won't do much because ISPs already win this game. And they were forcing the end of net neutrality with this in mind.
Just search back and read Google's statements on why Fiber didn't go as planned. You'll see articles and comments about ISPs blocking and delaying as much as possible access to infrastructure to lay down cables and whatnot.
The game for Netflix and Google to play here, like it or not, is to wait for ISPs to get even more greedy, unpopular, start using net neutrality to their own benefit, burn the house down, and only then start offering alternatives at a bigger cost which will enable using some different tech like 5G or something else.
A sub billion fine on a case like this is insulting, useless, and only incentivizes other companies to follow similar non-existant security practices.
Lets remember this wasn't only a small leak, but one of the biggest multiple leaks where the company purposedly hid for years the whole thing, allowed for it to happen multiple times over, and was unapologetic the entire time.
I'm getting so fucking tired of immature ignorant whinning of dim prepotent politicians trying to vilify and polarize technologies they don't understand and trying to paint a black and white picture that only exists in their fantasy land... or more likely, don't exist at all because they never tried to understand the stuff they are talking about.
That is the true problem we have today. This sorta shit. If we had less shitheads berating against anonymity, privacy and encryption - and by now we had a very long time to understand it's not as one sided and clear as some moronic politicians will try to put it -, we'd be dealing with criminals who uses those to their advantage better today. Goddamn it feels like a virus spreading in governments and courts all around the world...
People have very short term memory, it's like this never happebed at all ever:
https://www.theverge.com/2016/...
While this might sound as a good thing to curb piracy and stop people from straight uploading copyrighted material, the consequences of a rulling like this have far reaching consequences that goes way beyond that.
It's a preliminary judgement that will most likely be appealed and end up reversed once judges understands the problems with this idea, which they most likely don't.
But if it doesn't get reversed, I fully predict YouTube and Google just ending service in Austria, because it's not feasible for the platform to work in any capacity with a ruling like that.
And it's fruitless, because unless the service is fully blocked by ISPs plus VPN services and other circunventing methods, people will keep using it. The loss is entirely on users and the country itself. Prossecuting cases coming from people living in other countries would need deals and hubris that would effectively make this an on paper decision that will never have any consequence.
There is no way for a social network platform to work at scale with potential liability for each and every single video uploaded to the platform. And this is something judges from all countries that work with these platforms should understand. It's a very simple concept that is very unfortunate to see judges in this day and age, no matter how old or disconnected from tech and Internet they are, not knowing about. It's a broad display of ignorance on how things in the Internet works that should put in question the ability of certain judges to accuratly access matters related to an entire class of cases.
YouTube already has the overzealous content ID system plus a whole ton of other custom algorithms and whatnot to detect copyright violations, and they have been tuned to a point where they constantly get false positives - a common complaint of content creators.
If that's not enough, and the platform becomes liable for a lawsuit everytime potential copyrighted content gets uploaded to the platform, it's just better to close doors. Because there isn't any viable way to comply with something like this other than algorithms, which are arguably incredibly advanced for what they do. It's like saying knife makers are now liable for every single murder commited with a knife.
People don't fully appreciate how hard it is to detect such a nebulous idea as "copyright infringement". Highly trained human specialists with extensive knowledge on the matter often cannot do this well enough, having to take it to courts and spend years to decide.
I'm no advocate for any of the crappier stuff social networks do, but what a judgement like this is asking for is fundamentally impossible. It's the same thing as telling these services they are forbidden from operating in the country, period.
Putting things in perspective, YouTube has over one billion users globally (can't account for Austrian users only because the service doesn't put up regional barriers unless explicitly asked to), statistics from 5 years ago points out that it has over 100 hours of video uploaded every minute (with more current non-official estimated projections putting that number up to the 500s), and the only way to be 100% sure that content being uploaded has no copyright infringements on it is by manually watching everything and doing some very extensive research which would most likely not cover every copyright infringement scenario possible.
With those types of numbers, it also isn't feasible in any way, shape or form to cover everything no matter how many people you have working 24/7 on reports, flagging, banning and whatnot because those also have to go through an evaluation process. And that's looking at it after the fact and relying on a flagging system. To completely avoid lawsuits YouTube would have to become a curation platform - videos published only after a process of analysis and approval.
Imagine submitting 500 hours of video uploaded every minute to an evaluation process for copyright infringement? Even with a large team of people working only on that, you'd
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It's not about people like you. It's about the aggregate data and what businesses have been doing with all that, plus the underground economy that came out of these sorts of deals.
Let go of the "I have nothing to hide" mentality and look at the bigger picture.
There's zero science in the current EPA, as well as most of Trump's administration. He cannot produce any real science because he has none. Or at most, he'll be giving a bunch of stuff that have some pretty curious links to coal corporations, produced in the late 70s or something.
And it'll either be blatant lies that wouldn't pass peer review, or just something vague like "more evidence is needed", which btw, we already have.
I needs no repeating, but there is OVERWHELMING evidence and consensus that climate change is man made by the entire scientific community. And this includes people who have been studying it for a good part of their lifetimes. It includes an incredibly substantial body of evidence from multiple perspectives. It comes from analysis with historical records, measurements taken from recent years, modeling and prediction, how the planet is already changing, and the relationship with all sorts of pollution that you can go out and see today.
I don't think deniers get how massive the body of evidence is. We even have researchers from a couple of decades ago hired by oil companies saying it was happening back then, only of course these companies chose to hide the research and exploit the information for themselves instead of releasing it in public.
"I doubt it" by brainless politicians and by the coal industry do not get a pass. I don't know what else is needed for deniers to get this, but I suspect it's gotten to such an extreme that they'd rather drown in a coastal city while shouting it's not happening rather than considering the idea that they might just have been wrong all this time. It doesn't take a whole lot to step out of your cult-like status and think a bit.
All the extreme weather events that are likely related to climate change happening several times a year and somehow it's still hard to believe. This sort of stubborness only ends in death. Asking to produce science will do nothing, because it was never backed by it. It will eventually get to a point where it's either them with their baseless claims or it's us paying the price for their ignorance.
The worst thing of it all is that even in the fictional scenario that they were right, there is simply no reason to be against the general measures against climate change. US is just like the anti-social entitled asshole idiot that behaves like a baby while the rest of the world is taking responsibility. Coal, oil and gas dependancy have always been a health hazard, it benefits no one to keep it, and even countries that were highly dependant on those are realizing after too long a time that it's simply not worth the damages it causes... you know, countries like China, famous for cities so heavily polluted during some days of the year with coal mines that people were simply collapsing and dying on the streets. Both China and India already have some generations condemned to live with lung related and respiratory diseases, why would anyone want to follow their past model?
Do people really want to get into scenarios like those, or go back to industrial revolution era pollution levels? Like, fortunately the global economy, scientific community, people who already accepted man made climate change as a reality, and people overall against Trump's EPA have enough power to continue the transition... coal dependancy will end whether politicians like it or not. But if it wasn't for that, de-regulation and climate change denial would logically end up resulting in pollution levels of the same scale of China and India.
And it's not like the US isn't already littered with superfund sites to show what happens when things like that gets ignored.
It's incredibly sad to see how entire groups of people cannot learn anything from history. Makes me think that in the end, our species will meet it's mass extinction event way sooner than other species because of our so called great "intelligence".
Humans are essencial to clean up robots' mess, until robots or routines around robots get to a point that they don't mess up anymore. Extremely simple fix for the example given which I'm sure is happening pretty soon: either make robots that won't drop anything, or make packaging that won't create a mess when dropped.
Great defense there Amazon.
It's not about whether humans will be needed or not... they always will. It's about scale and environment. Whether it's justified or not, the worry comes from replacing a hundred workers for one robot, one specialized worker and 99 unemployed people.
And sure, Amazon employs a huge number of people, but what are the hidden costs there? Smaller to medium businesses that closed doors because they couldn't compete. Multiple times more jobs in diverse areas extinguished. A monopoly that has taken opportunities from too many because of it's heavy handed practices.
I always hear this argument that robots are coming first for supposed cumbersome, burdensome, brainless and low paying repetitive jobs... but I think people underestimate how important those are to keep the wage gap from getting even bigger. And we already have lots of signs that those are not the only types of jobs robots will soon be taking over too.
...what I already knew: Amazon is no better than eBay when it comes to costumer responsibility practices.
Just recently I read a post about fake SD cards still being a thing on Amazon, and this has been going on for the better part of the last decade, so it's quite obvious that Amazon simply doesn't care anymore.
But I've stopped buying on Amazon anyways back since they adopted an extremely aggressive tactic of pre-charging some 120~150% import tax for people living in my country. Brazil does have a very pricy import tax, but it's definitely not as high as Amazon is charging, and the only reason why they'd do something like that would be if they just don't want to bother dealing with our market anymore.
But that's fine... it forced me to look for alternatives, and I'm glad I did.
I don't wanna contribute to fuck all. Keeping my egotistical Personal Computer, thank you.
Sure, removing devices with fake FCC and other logos, fine.
Stop selling devices in which Kodi can be installed? So... all PCs, all Android smartphones, all Android devices, all devboards, several smart TVs.... at the very least FCC is describing there basically all possible set top Android devices.
I'm not sure if they are going for completely different things there just to bunch crap together, or if they just fundamentally don't know what they are asking for, but it doesn't really matter. If Amazon stops selling those people will just go to eBay or Aliexpress. Or, you know, just repurpose devices. Which btw, wouldn't be such a bad thing, but not because FCC is asking for it.
Plus, it's always good to note that Kodi has jackshit to do with this. They app functionality is literally a media player for TV, which is not illegal and is no justification for stopping sales of devices. Plugins might enable piracy, but so do most OSs and Internet connected devices.
As someone who lives in a country where electronics have import taxes that are 100% and up, you really have no idea what you are asking for, and all the things you listed that it would be good for really are just fantasies. That's not how it works.
I don't wanna sound racist or anything, but unfortunately I think China will have a very long way 'till it gets even close to western countries on this matter, which is still not ideal.
Setting US aside, let's consider some european countries and whatnot. There are very few countries that are really getting there, but still not quite.
Currently, China as a society has evolved at unprecedented speeds in comparison to the history of evolution of other societies.
I still remember a time when China was mostly rural, exporting mostly primary resources, and didn't have much in the way of technology to talk about. This was the case not that long ago. If you are too young to remember this, probably your parents will know.
Over just a few decades, less than a lifetime, China went rushing through industrial revolution, raising extremely modern metropolis in cities formerly pretty run down and primitive, and now the country is activelly participating at the forefront of technology and research in some areas.
Some people might not realize this, but it's because lots of people don't really know China. There are cities there that are basically on par with Japan in terms of technology, public transportation, technology in common spaces and whatnot. There are research areas like biomedicine and genetics that China is arguably ahead. Read some of the recent news... China just launched a communication probe in space to aid a mission that will be launched still this year to explore the dark side of the moon.
It's crazy how fast it has evolved. It almost doesn't make sense when you think about the comparison on how technology evolves versus societies.
But all that has a huge side effect. China did not evolve uniformly, these transformations had and still has huge costs, and of course things are not that simple.
It became a country of enormous contrasts. You have cities that look like Tokyo or modern european capitals, while you have towns in the countryside with people starving and living a life of subsistence. You have billionaires and huge investment groups that are among the richest in the world while you have multitude of workers slaving away to a state they prefer suicide instead of living like that. Most of western societies also have huge wage gaps and inequalities, but it kinda pales in comparison to China when looking at extremes.
Sexism can't be seen and treated in isolation, and people should not have some fantasy that it's gonna be solved anytime soon there because there are major shifts yet to happen before it even starts being addressed.
Remember people, China is a country where not that long ago, baby boys were hugely favored over baby girls. And this is a cultural phenomena that endured over decades.
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/0...
This is a huge problem that cannot be solved in few years time, and it has massive cultural effects. Because it effectively created an artificial distortion... there are way more men than women in China when compared to proportions of other countries.
It's not only China too, it's just something that happens a lot in poor countries or developing countries all over the world.
https://www.npr.org/sections/g...
http://www.ibtimes.com/deadly-...
Even though some of these countries don't necessarily have a majority of people of faith in patriarcal religions and systems, it's just a matter of favoring boys because of base manual labor necessities and a prejudiced view that comes with it. The concept also became ingrained in culture, so up to this decade the tendency still remains.
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...apart from the lawsuit I guess, and with it broader awareness.
Anime watchers and those familiar with modern japanese society will already have heard of the terms: NEET, hikikomori.
But as with many problems in japanese society that often gets picked by international media as some weird thing that must only happen in Japan, this is not by far a japanese exclusive phenomena.
https://think.iafor.org/reclus...
International media often exploit, fetishize, and even mock Japan for having these weird cultural things, often painting a picture as if it was commonplace there when it really isn't... but the truth behind this mocking of foreign countries is that more often than not, these things not only do exist back at home, but often it's worse than in Japan - only it's taboo, overlooked by press, and not selected as a subject for exposure.
So yeah... this guy is probably one of these cases. Surprise, bad stuff that happens in other societies is probably happening in sacred US of A too. And probably, a lawsuit is not the best way to deal with it too. Not that I'm ignoring the tribulation that the parents must've gone through already, but hikikomori are often unstable and should be seeking treatment and re-education, not being booted out of home.
There is a high potential of this being a case of throwing gas into the fire. Optimistic scenario, sure, the guy will leave home, get a job and reform himself. But people in the US really should not ignore the potential of someone mentally unstable becoming enraged with the situation and turning into yet another nightmare scenario that we all know pretty well by now having multiple cases a year. He could take his parents money, buy a gun, a go shoot some people plus himself.
Problem is not the numbers, it's the narrative itself.
They are effectively saying that they can't do anything, like say regular investigation jobs, if they don't have encryption to backdoors, which would effectively ease up their work on one end while exponentially raising the potential for other types of crimes like identity theft, blackmail, exploitation, stealing of corporate secrets, hacking, and whatnot.
The numbers don't matter. The stupidity of breaking encryption for an entire country does.
Rather than this unbalanced snippet.
http://www.businessinsider.com...
I'm not saying Amazon is totally right on this, specially if there are clients who were wrongfully banned... but there are plenty of reasons why Amazon would ban people for repeated returns, and the situation isn't as clear cut as this snipped is making it sound.
Basically, they have people who abuse the return system to get money from retailers in exchange for positive reviews on the product. Amazon is not the only one doing this, and it's becoming a widespread problem for online shopping.
This shouldn't be a surprise.
The guy is a pathological narcisist, so of course he'll do as he pleases. The only type of respect he has is self-respect, and fuck the rest.
He already dismisses everything that was ever done previous to his administration as errors, worst mistakes, wrong, criminal, swamp or whatever.
And it hasn't been a problem for him every single time he was proven wrong. It's either treated as a joke, or the new norm.
Nobody knew x could be so complicated. President Trump isn't at fault because he just didn't know better. It's just fake news. It's media persecution. Things we hear every freaking day on the news.
If it's content he doesn't like, it's fake news. If he does something wrong he was just unaware or it's someone else's fault. Any press that says anything wrong about him is being unfair. Any politician that raises a voice against his command is either a democrat trying to attack him, or a republican traitor. The guy acts exactly like politicians in countries like Venezuela, Phillipines and other proto-dictatorships and populist nations and people are just watching it happen.
None of this has put him out of his position up to now, leaking smartphone information also won't. At most, some fuzz will be made about it, they'll create some comitee for investigation, and some people will cry foul, but he'll still be there.
I doubt there's anything there to be leaked or hacked anyways... I mean, anything that foreign countries and whatnot don't already know. People shouldn't expect any sort of internal security from the current administration. You just have to see how many incompetent people are occupying all sorts of positions right now. Why would anyone be under some illusion that US government data isn't already being hacked, stolen, spied upon and even directly willingly sent by people on this administration? I'd believe first that the US government is already, knowingly or not, a puppet of other countries. I'd believe first that every piece of communication is already being monitored, specially around Trump. Look at the people he has surrounded himself with. There's a whole ton of people there now or that has come and gonne that I'd have no problems believing they'd just leak stuff or spy for foreign governments with either profit or because they were being blackmailed.
Foreign countries probably already have plenty of info on him, it's just more convenient to let the guy wreck havok in US international relations as this weakens US economy and gives more opportunities for foreign countries to strenghten theirs.
And should Trump do too much against other countries with access to his dirt, the information just comes in handy for blackmailing and whatnot, something I wouldn't doubt already happened anyways.
His supporters already blindly follow him. I'm willing to be that for the vast majority of them, should news come tomorrow that his phones were hacked and all the info stolen, they'd see no fault in Trump's position. It'd only be something to fuel his and his followers nationalist spew, more reason for isolationism, more fuel for immigrant persecution, more reasons for baseless accusations against foreign companies, and overall more reasons for the FUD that this administration feeds on.
When people have bought the narrative that every single mistake of the current administration is the fault of someone else, and even some of the most obvious errors and problems there is either fake or intrigue by the opposition, the country already set itself on a downward spiral. It will go on as long as it's to the benefit of those in power.
I pitty the non-supporters who are currently on this trap without any sight of getting out, but it is what it is.
And I say this as a non US citizen. I live in a country that has gone through that downward spiral. It has destroyed the entire country's economy, it has put the country as a place no foreign investors wants to deal with, it has provoked a massive runaway of scientists, researchers, technology overall, among other stuff t
Media should cover Tesla accidents as long as it's fair and of public interest, and that is not something that Musk should have any right to say if it's ok or not... he should just shut the fuck up and have a better PR strategy than whinning about it being unfair, like Trump with it's "fake media" claims.
If you are gonna offer a disruptive technology that is going against traditional brands and whatnot, of course it'll get coverage, and that includes the bad stuff. I don't see Musk complaining about tech bloggers who are constantly babbling and licking his sack about Hyperloop, selling flamethrowers and other far fetched idiotic ideas.
And he'd better get used to it because when some of those plans comes crashing down, the media will cover the downfall too. Just as much as they are covering good results like SpaceX and others. You don't get to pick and choose what media will publish on your stunts, unless you are a dictator.
Confusing article with annedoctal evidence. Dismissed.
...it helps writting titles that actually do reflect studies.
Better grades is not the same as being "smarter".
On the subject, I'm a bit curious to know how patent infringement cases go in China... hard to wrap my head around.
I mean, up until decades or years ago that basically didn't exist, did it?
I'm not sure if it's the case on this one, but if it's patent trolling, how would something like this go in China?
I'm not sure if it's following a western/US model, or if things could be different.
In Brazil it follows mostly a western model, but I think this should change at some point. Patent trolls should be automatically counter suited and end up in jail for all I care.
Man, I'm f*cking tired of this shit.
Stop spreading the false myth that a new standard, biometrics, or whatever is gona "replace" passwords, or that there is a post password future, or bullshit like that.
What passwords provides is fundamentally different from what biometrics can offer.
If you can't understand this, you should not be reporting on these things, period, because you are only contributing to misinformation and misunderstandings on the very basics of security.
It's because of shitty practices like these that we are in the deep privacy end hole that we are now. There is no foreseeable "post password future". And not by a long stretch when it's relying on proprietary and closed off systems for it.
For something to completely replace passwords it needs to be something you know, that can be easily changed, and cannot be taken from you by force, when you are unconscious or something like that. If it can't, it cannot replace passwords, period. It won't end the era of passwords, it won't take it's place, and it cannot by definition, be used in several cases where passwords are required.
Biometrics and this new standard will add convenience to a form of authentication that while it can be enough for lots of things, or can be paired with passwords for added security, it does not offer the same level of security as passwords because it can be taken from you, some of them without you even knowing. They cannot be easily replaced as they are part of your identity, uniquely tied to you. And they'll be highly dependant on proprietary hardware and software schemes to maintain integrity.
And pointing out phishing as a flaw of passwords is just stupid. As soon as biometrics becomes more widespread, social engineering strategies to get what's needed to unlock them will rise. It's just the way it is. And yes, some of them might be very secure these days, but methods will arise to spoof, replicate, and just take it straight from the source. The proper way to see webauthn and biometrics is as a layer of security that is convenient, but isn't perfect and isn't impossible to bypass. You use as many layers you need, and weight the pros and cons of each for your usage. But f*cking stop saying that they'll be replacing passwords. We've been there before. Look how many biometric authentication methods were broken so far, look how many problems this assumption of replacing stuff with biometrics has already brought. Just. Stop. It.
...on the Right to Forget thing.
This isn't the right way to go about this.
If the worry is about government destroying records, what needs to be done is government being forced to conduct business using services that guarantees record keeping. Simple as that.
Gmail is not the only mail server there is out there, people have plenty of choice to use services that already have a self destruct option for years now, so it makes no sense to put the burden on Gmail or any other singular service while taking the functionality out for everyone else just because "government records". Gmail was not created to attend government needs, it was made for a bigger public. If government requires a service with specific traits, they need to have one made custom.
It's a reverse backdoor encryption thing. Just because the police wants to have easier access on potential criminals under investigation that does not justify forcing secure systems to shit all over the privacy and security of their clients.
And quite frankly, stuff like this should be obvious at this point.