You know AC's (Anonymous Cowards) post political statements or plain ad hominem (Trump is popular) to distract the first page worth of comments right? People quickly skim the summary and then go straight for the comments. A person who may actually be able to have an intelligent discussion on the subject sees this and is no longer interested in presenting his/her opinion. Feel free to go back over the last few weeks regarding these leaks and privacy policies and see what I mean. I think it's being done on purpose because it's happening so much now. Being started by who, I'm not sure, that's why they're AC. If you don't actually know anything about how this stuff works, then let actual techies talk and let the others stick to sign panting. You're not helping anyone, or is that the point?
I'm not saying Linux is bullet proof but comparatively, I do believe it to be one of the safest options you can have because of how far you can go in customization. The problem with JAVA is that it's JAVA. That was in ~2006 though, and JAVA 8 isn't nearly as vulnerable as 6 was. Hackers were using JMX console and people weren't paying attention to file permissions. You could also use intitle:”JBoss Management Console – Server Information” “application server” inurl:”web-console” OR inurl:”jmx-console” to find servers. They call JBOSS "WildFly" now. You should check out a program called Lynis for looking at server security/Rootkits; they even make suggestions with links at the end. Fail2Ban helps a lot too with any brute force attempts. If you used Centos, you probably know this stuff, but I'm mentioning it just in case anyone else sees this. Also, I have grown to prefer zypper for package management over yum/apt. I'm not sure about the other managers (been a while), but zypper gpg checks all repos and checksums each package whether installing or updating. I gave up on Ubuntu and Debian. They're just too bloated and slow anymore to work on my machines.
But aren't we all students at first? I would rather be proactive than let someone else handle my system. By the way, I got a family member that was 12 when he started his first website and that was about ten years ago, and guess what? YouTube got him started. Now, he does IT work for doctors, manages a radio station, and is helping to construct a small hydroelectric dam; no college and only a single doctor above him (his boss) and no underlings to help manage the servers. So, I don't know what videos you been watching, but they do help. I think people get mad at YouTube because older guys had to pay to learn in school (some still do for whatever reason) with god-awful manuals. As for me, I built my own Linux distro, coordinated EEG research (my degree is in Psychology), and manage a website. So, you're not talking to a 12 year old or anyone like it. I say Window$ because it's fitting, not funny. The only thing it does better than other systems is games and emptying people's pockets. They're even building a laptop similar to Chromebooks soon. What kind of company sells $400, 1.2Gz, 4GB laptops (my guess specs and price) that you have to be connected to their servers and internet to run? I'm running a 32-bit PAE Linux kernel 4.10 on a 9 year old laptop with up to date software that never gets above 2GB in RAM anyway, even with heavy use (Firefox, Kodi, GIMP, LibreOffice, and PCSX running at the same time just to test). So, in my experience, it's all about the money. That's why I spell it the way I do. Most diehard Linux users do.
I would hope reproducing research would take longer because just reproducing it doesn't do anyone any good, you should want to use previous work to incorporate into your own hypothesis and eliminate any confounding variables the original authors may have in their discussion section. Most research papers are only 10 pages...maybe. I've come across a few that are about 40-50 pages long with no skipping on the math or setup. I think people don't go too much into detail because of the expense and time in publishing, or lack confidence in their work (college students are notorious for this), or the researchers have more future ideas that may lead to a patent.
As for me, I try to take down everything I can. Give you an example, I've been creating and maintaining my own Linux distro for personal research for a while now. Everything I do to it, regardless of whether I have a new release as of yet, goes here: https://github.com/theouterlin.... Any updates contradicting what I have said previously gets a note below it either as [See entry...] or [Update "Date":] and so forth. I'm still kind of playing around with the format. But, I have this "journey journal" of sorts not just because it may help someone else create their own distro, but as a way to build trust.
I wish we could all see researcher's lab notebooks, as god-awful as most of them are.
I know what you meant. I have no problem with them working out the math for now, but actually leading people on as if this can be done within the next decade is what bothers me.
The videos are just to get you started. IT people hate it when you use anything other than Window$, yeah I'll do it again, because they would be out of a job without it. Linux forces users to be more proactive. If you blindly follow a video without knowing a little bit as to how servers or Linux works, of course that could cause problems. But, you can be an expert with Window$ and still have more security issues than you will ever come across with a proper Linux setup; that's the beauty of TRUE open source and not the half-baked, hidden spyware kind Micro$oft pushes. If you don't like that fact, take it up with Red Hat; they're the best. If you setup using Ubuntu, then you probably a newbie. Besides, guess which company Canonical partnered with a few years ago? Just one of many reasons I stopped using Ubuntu.
P.S. I take it you're a "gamer" or an IT guy because no one else gets offended by my spelling but those nut jobs. Apple people are crazy, but the Window$ equivalents love their Kool-Aid, if you know what I mean. Glutens for punishment if you ask me.
Those that like the privacy of cash are going to have to use something like it. The only problem is crypto currency has its own value of sorts, like stock, and can become worthless in an instant or make you a millionaire the next day. There's also the argument that in order to be legal in most countries, some information is still having to be tied to the spender to avoid tax evasion issues, or at least that's the claim.
The true goal of AI is to destroy encryption while digitally fingerprinting all of us for those that use SSL and VPN, or whatever comes next. If an AI can recreate your voice, than it can definitely know who is typing what on the Internet. Uploading biometric data to social networks isn't helping much either. Cloud computing was designed from open source software at the start to make better use of mobile devices. But now, it is currently utilized by corporations to destroy the freedoms of the desktop, the privacy of software users, and removing control. This does not set well with most Linux people and the irony is that most cloud servers are running Linux. This allows companies to "love" open source and actually mean it, but it's really a kick in the nuts for anyone that loves FOSS and a huge financial advantage for not paying for licenses, ergo using server-based open source to destroy its desktop competition. I can get access to your API? O'lordy sir. Thankya fors ya scraps. Fuck API's. Cloud computing is just an excuse to get people who will buy mobile devices but not new laptops stuck into something they have to pay for and no control over. They could try to standardize a new architecture like they did in the late 2000s to get people to buy tech, but the cloud way is cheaper and they make more money and save more by not having the demand to improve hardware. I saw a new laptop the other day for $400 and it only sports 1.2Gz and 4GB of RAM. WTF is this shit? Y'all need to wake up because the millennial "It's 1984, oh well" syndrome is going to put us into something we average consumers can't get out of.
Seriously, why do people even use Window$ on servers? Any real advantage to it? It's not like the command line dark ages anymore with Linux to figure out how to do it. Tons of videos on how to set it up too. And if you want, you can set it up graphically and then run it without graphics to save resources.
True. Everyone with a smart phone being taught to care about something they have no real control over to keep information flowing so it's authors can profit from it. Rather than following our own unique narrative in life with the true freedoms we do have, we model ourselves after television and literature, hence placing ourselves in externally controlled mental prisons, expecting plot twists, irony, poetic justice, and so forth. And when there isn't any drama, because of the current zeitgeists and peer pressures of social Darwinism, people create it anyway and the wheel keeps on spinning. And to the contrary, governments love it when people bring this up because it offers red herrings and distractions while they passing legislature. I'm just using this as an example, but that's how gay marriage passed federally in the U.S.. They took advantage of the church shooting and rebel flag reactions and passed it when no one was paying attention.
So, I know how everyone feels. If something goes bad code wise, it goes bad for all of us, whether we update or not thanks to a thousand apps running the same single API. Open source used to destroy open source only to kill the desktop because they can't invent a new architecture fast enough to sell new computers. And, the new ones now aren't that much different, if not less powerful than the ones five years ago. So, the Google and Window$ come up with as many apps that need Internet to work as they can to lock you into their bs. And now, Mark Shuttleworth wants to focus on cloud computing for Ubuntu as well. They're killing the desktop and money is the only reason. More problems from bad code means more money to fix or replace computers. I like how they say things like open source to describe their server based software. Ok, but what good does that do for the average person? Do we all buy our own servers? Companies using open source to destroy privacy and control on desktops and AI to destroy encryption. That's the future.
by describing a physicist as lanky and soft spoken. If the guy is skinny, what the hell does that have to do with anything? His brain is what's important. I can do it too: "Paralyzed old guy that talks with a computer is ironically good at physics." Sound familiar? -_- Almost sounds like a weird attempt to open up conservative readers by making fun with stereotyping and still talk about climate change.
Hahahah...-_-. We usually say "trash" or "garbage" where I am from, where as other countries say "waste bin" or " waste basket." So, I'm blaming auto-correct on that one.
Good research is reproducible and those that conduct it should be able to defend any claims and not rely on peer pressure, social media zeitgeist, or half-baked statistics no one will check. Research isn't out to prove anything but to enlighten the capable and intelligent to make their own inferences and act on them. Problem is, anyone reading this on mobile device probably do not fit such criteria and should just stick with Facebook where it's safe and comfortable. Google search has a nice cookie/IP bubble for you too.
They "leak" them on purpose to see what the public opinion is rather than just being honest about it so they can claim "it's not true" when things look bad and Apple and Google patent hunters don't get more ammunition against them. Heaven forbid they taste their own medicine.
...not more cloud shit...Can they not make a computer with the same specs as the one I got that's a decade old and not be cloud based, or are Window$ sales that bad? Micro$oft can't standardize a new architecture fast enough to force device sales, so they get you with a platform they have complete control over ($$$). $400 (just guessing) for 4 GB of RAM, 16-32GB is hard drive, and 1.2 Gz is not worth it in 2017. You're better off making a desktop, maybe a laptop (it'd be big), from a Raspberry Pi cluster. http://www.instructables.com/i...
When I see a new feature to software I've been using for years, I cringe because I know that means unnecessary bugs and that the guy that put his two cents into making it happen isn't thinking about compatibility, just as long as it works with his $3K 64-bit GPU monster of a machine, to which we don't all have. Even the people willing to test software are usually above average with their hardware. If this is a cloud computing issue, all that's happening is companies using open source software to destroy the point of open source software. Why would letting a server have all the final say be a good idea? That's just Window$ 10 level nonsense. We can't all have a server in our house to run our own settings or prevent from being spied on like cattle just because I want to run a graphic editing program; that's asking too much.
Personally, I think it's because they can't push a new architecture to trick people into to buying new computers like they did in the late 2000's, so they profit off of cloud services and advertising instead, creating "business standards" along the way that were never actually there (free-market murder), locking Fortune 500 companies and government agencies into licenses and contracts. Besides, please don't be that asshole trying to coin a phrase that is just going to end up contributing to the "newer is better" zeitgeists. There has been absolutely nothing invented in the last 5-10 years worth a damn to the average person. It's all been Kickstarter level BS, selling "solutions," or "look what our new super computer can do!"
The reality: "Oh that's awesome! When do I get a turn on that billion dollar tax payed badboy?:)...Why aren't you answering? Oh never?:(...You say there will be applications for it soon? Well, until then I'll enjoy contributing to biometric databases via Facebook & dating apps and and talk to my "friends" I've never seen in real life and play shitty mobile games. I have followers, ergo I have worth." Those "applications" are nothing more than over-glorified web browsers using incredibly limited or expert level API and offers an excuse to not improve hardware for the last 5-10 years while still charging outrageous prices. They can do this because your computer isn't doing any work, the "cloud" is. You have no privacy or freedom and people actually pay for this. And the bandwidth ISP's keep bitching about, the reality on that is because they can sell your browsing history, which would also include unencrypted cloud computing, this means that your government can legally "purchase" that information rather than going through warrants and red tape to only get the same information.
If anything, there's a "It's 1984; oh well" millennial syndrome, like they're "cultured" or something. They have so few life-threatening fears that they evolved to ignore privacy instead of physical threats. Currently, needs are being created over a bed of social Darwinist peer pressure that has been around too long for a company's customers to care about or remember. New features would of been great ten or twenty years ago, but now it's just tech companies taking advantage of the short-term memory "drones" that they themselves have carefully cultivated over the last decade. Some software even goes as far as removing features to only bring them back for "premium" users. That's bullshit. That's also why I use Linux and desktop FOSS software when ever possible.
He becomes the next RU president with a nice retirement and in the meantime, he has mafia ties for protection. If a guy is that good, he shouldn't be sent to prison, but made to work in cyber security. If anything, they just helped him find other criminals to make friends with. What a waist. Besides, last time I checked, they considered hacking a form of terrorism, and their SWAT shoots first and asks questions later in that regard. So, it wouldn't surprise me that they're telling the public one thing and really doing something else.
HBI (Human Brain Indices) Database is what is used: https://bio-medical.com/hbi-hu.... WinEEG did have this as an add-on option, but the department wouldn't splurge for it, so I was stuck using experience versus whatever WinEEG was nice enough to include for cleanup, to which presents another problem. If you clean up artifacts, you have to use the same processes whether it is the same or another person. And no matter how many artifacts you can remove, time, temperature, clothing, hair style, health, etc. affects the waves. The power source (50 Hz vs 60Hz for example) and hardware also affect the waves. At no point in time is a normal human being just a "normal" slate of consciousness. Facebook would have to use a computer to fill in the blanks and that computer would have to have immense processing power to keep up, to which AI quantum computers could do. You might want to take a look at this too: http://www.pnas.org/content/11.... It's about how many (~40,000) fMRI studies could be wrong do to software miscalculations and so forth. Here's a counter-argument: https://analyticalcortex.org/2.... And, I can assure you an EEG (electric activity) is not as accurate as an fMRI (metabolic changes), though they do complement each other.
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You know AC's (Anonymous Cowards) post political statements or plain ad hominem (Trump is popular) to distract the first page worth of comments right? People quickly skim the summary and then go straight for the comments. A person who may actually be able to have an intelligent discussion on the subject sees this and is no longer interested in presenting his/her opinion. Feel free to go back over the last few weeks regarding these leaks and privacy policies and see what I mean. I think it's being done on purpose because it's happening so much now. Being started by who, I'm not sure, that's why they're AC. If you don't actually know anything about how this stuff works, then let actual techies talk and let the others stick to sign panting. You're not helping anyone, or is that the point?
I'm not saying Linux is bullet proof but comparatively, I do believe it to be one of the safest options you can have because of how far you can go in customization. The problem with JAVA is that it's JAVA. That was in ~2006 though, and JAVA 8 isn't nearly as vulnerable as 6 was. Hackers were using JMX console and people weren't paying attention to file permissions. You could also use intitle:”JBoss Management Console – Server Information” “application server” inurl:”web-console” OR inurl:”jmx-console” to find servers. They call JBOSS "WildFly" now. You should check out a program called Lynis for looking at server security/Rootkits; they even make suggestions with links at the end. Fail2Ban helps a lot too with any brute force attempts. If you used Centos, you probably know this stuff, but I'm mentioning it just in case anyone else sees this. Also, I have grown to prefer zypper for package management over yum/apt. I'm not sure about the other managers (been a while), but zypper gpg checks all repos and checksums each package whether installing or updating. I gave up on Ubuntu and Debian. They're just too bloated and slow anymore to work on my machines.
But aren't we all students at first? I would rather be proactive than let someone else handle my system. By the way, I got a family member that was 12 when he started his first website and that was about ten years ago, and guess what? YouTube got him started. Now, he does IT work for doctors, manages a radio station, and is helping to construct a small hydroelectric dam; no college and only a single doctor above him (his boss) and no underlings to help manage the servers. So, I don't know what videos you been watching, but they do help. I think people get mad at YouTube because older guys had to pay to learn in school (some still do for whatever reason) with god-awful manuals. As for me, I built my own Linux distro, coordinated EEG research (my degree is in Psychology), and manage a website. So, you're not talking to a 12 year old or anyone like it. I say Window$ because it's fitting, not funny. The only thing it does better than other systems is games and emptying people's pockets. They're even building a laptop similar to Chromebooks soon. What kind of company sells $400, 1.2Gz, 4GB laptops (my guess specs and price) that you have to be connected to their servers and internet to run? I'm running a 32-bit PAE Linux kernel 4.10 on a 9 year old laptop with up to date software that never gets above 2GB in RAM anyway, even with heavy use (Firefox, Kodi, GIMP, LibreOffice, and PCSX running at the same time just to test). So, in my experience, it's all about the money. That's why I spell it the way I do. Most diehard Linux users do.
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I would hope reproducing research would take longer because just reproducing it doesn't do anyone any good, you should want to use previous work to incorporate into your own hypothesis and eliminate any confounding variables the original authors may have in their discussion section. Most research papers are only 10 pages...maybe. I've come across a few that are about 40-50 pages long with no skipping on the math or setup. I think people don't go too much into detail because of the expense and time in publishing, or lack confidence in their work (college students are notorious for this), or the researchers have more future ideas that may lead to a patent.
As for me, I try to take down everything I can. Give you an example, I've been creating and maintaining my own Linux distro for personal research for a while now. Everything I do to it, regardless of whether I have a new release as of yet, goes here: https://github.com/theouterlin.... Any updates contradicting what I have said previously gets a note below it either as [See entry ...] or [Update "Date":] and so forth. I'm still kind of playing around with the format. But, I have this "journey journal" of sorts not just because it may help someone else create their own distro, but as a way to build trust.
I wish we could all see researcher's lab notebooks, as god-awful as most of them are.
I know what you meant. I have no problem with them working out the math for now, but actually leading people on as if this can be done within the next decade is what bothers me.
I did not know the technical term for it or forgot. Thanks. A lot of people doing that lately.
The videos are just to get you started. IT people hate it when you use anything other than Window$, yeah I'll do it again, because they would be out of a job without it. Linux forces users to be more proactive. If you blindly follow a video without knowing a little bit as to how servers or Linux works, of course that could cause problems. But, you can be an expert with Window$ and still have more security issues than you will ever come across with a proper Linux setup; that's the beauty of TRUE open source and not the half-baked, hidden spyware kind Micro$oft pushes. If you don't like that fact, take it up with Red Hat; they're the best. If you setup using Ubuntu, then you probably a newbie. Besides, guess which company Canonical partnered with a few years ago? Just one of many reasons I stopped using Ubuntu.
P.S. I take it you're a "gamer" or an IT guy because no one else gets offended by my spelling but those nut jobs. Apple people are crazy, but the Window$ equivalents love their Kool-Aid, if you know what I mean. Glutens for punishment if you ask me.
Those that like the privacy of cash are going to have to use something like it. The only problem is crypto currency has its own value of sorts, like stock, and can become worthless in an instant or make you a millionaire the next day. There's also the argument that in order to be legal in most countries, some information is still having to be tied to the spender to avoid tax evasion issues, or at least that's the claim.
The true goal of AI is to destroy encryption while digitally fingerprinting all of us for those that use SSL and VPN, or whatever comes next. If an AI can recreate your voice, than it can definitely know who is typing what on the Internet. Uploading biometric data to social networks isn't helping much either. Cloud computing was designed from open source software at the start to make better use of mobile devices. But now, it is currently utilized by corporations to destroy the freedoms of the desktop, the privacy of software users, and removing control. This does not set well with most Linux people and the irony is that most cloud servers are running Linux. This allows companies to "love" open source and actually mean it, but it's really a kick in the nuts for anyone that loves FOSS and a huge financial advantage for not paying for licenses, ergo using server-based open source to destroy its desktop competition. I can get access to your API? O'lordy sir. Thankya fors ya scraps. Fuck API's. Cloud computing is just an excuse to get people who will buy mobile devices but not new laptops stuck into something they have to pay for and no control over. They could try to standardize a new architecture like they did in the late 2000s to get people to buy tech, but the cloud way is cheaper and they make more money and save more by not having the demand to improve hardware. I saw a new laptop the other day for $400 and it only sports 1.2Gz and 4GB of RAM. WTF is this shit? Y'all need to wake up because the millennial "It's 1984, oh well" syndrome is going to put us into something we average consumers can't get out of.
Seriously, why do people even use Window$ on servers? Any real advantage to it? It's not like the command line dark ages anymore with Linux to figure out how to do it. Tons of videos on how to set it up too. And if you want, you can set it up graphically and then run it without graphics to save resources.
True. Everyone with a smart phone being taught to care about something they have no real control over to keep information flowing so it's authors can profit from it. Rather than following our own unique narrative in life with the true freedoms we do have, we model ourselves after television and literature, hence placing ourselves in externally controlled mental prisons, expecting plot twists, irony, poetic justice, and so forth. And when there isn't any drama, because of the current zeitgeists and peer pressures of social Darwinism, people create it anyway and the wheel keeps on spinning. And to the contrary, governments love it when people bring this up because it offers red herrings and distractions while they passing legislature. I'm just using this as an example, but that's how gay marriage passed federally in the U.S.. They took advantage of the church shooting and rebel flag reactions and passed it when no one was paying attention.
So, I know how everyone feels. If something goes bad code wise, it goes bad for all of us, whether we update or not thanks to a thousand apps running the same single API. Open source used to destroy open source only to kill the desktop because they can't invent a new architecture fast enough to sell new computers. And, the new ones now aren't that much different, if not less powerful than the ones five years ago. So, the Google and Window$ come up with as many apps that need Internet to work as they can to lock you into their bs. And now, Mark Shuttleworth wants to focus on cloud computing for Ubuntu as well. They're killing the desktop and money is the only reason. More problems from bad code means more money to fix or replace computers. I like how they say things like open source to describe their server based software. Ok, but what good does that do for the average person? Do we all buy our own servers? Companies using open source to destroy privacy and control on desktops and AI to destroy encryption. That's the future.
by describing a physicist as lanky and soft spoken. If the guy is skinny, what the hell does that have to do with anything? His brain is what's important. I can do it too: "Paralyzed old guy that talks with a computer is ironically good at physics." Sound familiar? -_- Almost sounds like a weird attempt to open up conservative readers by making fun with stereotyping and still talk about climate change.
I'm convinced.
But to answer your question, yes it it is. Big spoon versus little spoon issues.
Hahahah...-_-. We usually say "trash" or "garbage" where I am from, where as other countries say "waste bin" or " waste basket." So, I'm blaming auto-correct on that one.
Good research is reproducible and those that conduct it should be able to defend any claims and not rely on peer pressure, social media zeitgeist, or half-baked statistics no one will check. Research isn't out to prove anything but to enlighten the capable and intelligent to make their own inferences and act on them. Problem is, anyone reading this on mobile device probably do not fit such criteria and should just stick with Facebook where it's safe and comfortable. Google search has a nice cookie/IP bubble for you too.
That's what you get with cloud computing. No privacy or control.
With current technology, that's all you'll be doing. Focus on Mars or Moon bases for now.
They "leak" them on purpose to see what the public opinion is rather than just being honest about it so they can claim "it's not true" when things look bad and Apple and Google patent hunters don't get more ammunition against them. Heaven forbid they taste their own medicine.
...not more cloud shit...Can they not make a computer with the same specs as the one I got that's a decade old and not be cloud based, or are Window$ sales that bad? Micro$oft can't standardize a new architecture fast enough to force device sales, so they get you with a platform they have complete control over ($$$). $400 (just guessing) for 4 GB of RAM, 16-32GB is hard drive, and 1.2 Gz is not worth it in 2017. You're better off making a desktop, maybe a laptop (it'd be big), from a Raspberry Pi cluster. http://www.instructables.com/i...
When I see a new feature to software I've been using for years, I cringe because I know that means unnecessary bugs and that the guy that put his two cents into making it happen isn't thinking about compatibility, just as long as it works with his $3K 64-bit GPU monster of a machine, to which we don't all have. Even the people willing to test software are usually above average with their hardware. If this is a cloud computing issue, all that's happening is companies using open source software to destroy the point of open source software. Why would letting a server have all the final say be a good idea? That's just Window$ 10 level nonsense. We can't all have a server in our house to run our own settings or prevent from being spied on like cattle just because I want to run a graphic editing program; that's asking too much.
Personally, I think it's because they can't push a new architecture to trick people into to buying new computers like they did in the late 2000's, so they profit off of cloud services and advertising instead, creating "business standards" along the way that were never actually there (free-market murder), locking Fortune 500 companies and government agencies into licenses and contracts. Besides, please don't be that asshole trying to coin a phrase that is just going to end up contributing to the "newer is better" zeitgeists. There has been absolutely nothing invented in the last 5-10 years worth a damn to the average person. It's all been Kickstarter level BS, selling "solutions," or "look what our new super computer can do!"
The reality: "Oh that's awesome! When do I get a turn on that billion dollar tax payed badboy? :)...Why aren't you answering? Oh never? :(...You say there will be applications for it soon? Well, until then I'll enjoy contributing to biometric databases via Facebook & dating apps and and talk to my "friends" I've never seen in real life and play shitty mobile games. I have followers, ergo I have worth." Those "applications" are nothing more than over-glorified web browsers using incredibly limited or expert level API and offers an excuse to not improve hardware for the last 5-10 years while still charging outrageous prices. They can do this because your computer isn't doing any work, the "cloud" is. You have no privacy or freedom and people actually pay for this. And the bandwidth ISP's keep bitching about, the reality on that is because they can sell your browsing history, which would also include unencrypted cloud computing, this means that your government can legally "purchase" that information rather than going through warrants and red tape to only get the same information.
If anything, there's a "It's 1984; oh well" millennial syndrome, like they're "cultured" or something. They have so few life-threatening fears that they evolved to ignore privacy instead of physical threats. Currently, needs are being created over a bed of social Darwinist peer pressure that has been around too long for a company's customers to care about or remember. New features would of been great ten or twenty years ago, but now it's just tech companies taking advantage of the short-term memory "drones" that they themselves have carefully cultivated over the last decade. Some software even goes as far as removing features to only bring them back for "premium" users. That's bullshit. That's also why I use Linux and desktop FOSS software when ever possible.
He becomes the next RU president with a nice retirement and in the meantime, he has mafia ties for protection. If a guy is that good, he shouldn't be sent to prison, but made to work in cyber security. If anything, they just helped him find other criminals to make friends with. What a waist. Besides, last time I checked, they considered hacking a form of terrorism, and their SWAT shoots first and asks questions later in that regard. So, it wouldn't surprise me that they're telling the public one thing and really doing something else.
HBI (Human Brain Indices) Database is what is used: https://bio-medical.com/hbi-hu.... WinEEG did have this as an add-on option, but the department wouldn't splurge for it, so I was stuck using experience versus whatever WinEEG was nice enough to include for cleanup, to which presents another problem. If you clean up artifacts, you have to use the same processes whether it is the same or another person. And no matter how many artifacts you can remove, time, temperature, clothing, hair style, health, etc. affects the waves. The power source (50 Hz vs 60Hz for example) and hardware also affect the waves. At no point in time is a normal human being just a "normal" slate of consciousness. Facebook would have to use a computer to fill in the blanks and that computer would have to have immense processing power to keep up, to which AI quantum computers could do. You might want to take a look at this too: http://www.pnas.org/content/11.... It's about how many (~40,000) fMRI studies could be wrong do to software miscalculations and so forth. Here's a counter-argument: https://analyticalcortex.org/2.... And, I can assure you an EEG (electric activity) is not as accurate as an fMRI (metabolic changes), though they do complement each other.