There are plenty of alternatives. Google knows they can't do this, or they'll just drive people to competing search engines and competing cloud document providers. Even if they manage to get the laws changed, they'll have lost a significant user mindshare and will have an incredibly tough time winning it back.
I am inclined to argue with you, but really, I hope you're right, this would be a great step (even if I'm not in Ontario, it may spill over provincial lines). Still, the cynic in me is convinced that anything that makes sense is going to get screwed up by parliament...
In Canadian politics, private members bills (bills presented by an individual representative rather than the party in power) almost never get passed. This one is doubly unlikely as it was proposed by an MPP of an opposition party, under the majority government of a right-wing, pro-business, quasi-populist premier.
So, move along, nothing to see here. It's not going to happen.
Calculate the value of the IP by examining the revenue generated from it.
No, let the owner of the data set the price. That's the way property works. If I have a house, and you offer me "reasonable price" (or even 100x its reasonable value) for my house, I am in no way obligated to sell you my house.
Also, it should be opt-in, not opt-out...
That explains why despite being "free" they have no traction to be proud of.
No, the lack of traction is explained by the fact that it's free. As a result, it has no money to waste on marketing. Quality is not what sells software. Or hardware. Or any other product. Consumers (and IT departments) are not rational actors.
Will these apps still run on de-googleled android distributions that don't include gapps? That is to say, will they work in other implementations of webviews, or will they be chrome-specific?
What Linux distro does this target? The only one without an existing (and better) package management system is Slackware... and it's that way because the users want it that way...
A couple more reasons ad blocking is a moral imperative:
* (Most) ads promote materialism and the myth that accumulating will lead to happiness
* (Most) ads use psychologically manipulative methods that an uninformed person is completely unequipped to fight (and even well informed people would have trouble doing so)
> just being able to learn a language quickly
Please, tell me how. I've been living and working in my second language for a decade and I'm still learning... If you mean being able to decipher a street sign, or order breakfast, fine, but that isn't language learning...
The problem is that software doesn't get adopted for being the best, it gets adopted by being well marketed, which is pretty much antithetical to FLOSS software, unless it's sponsored by a massive company, like Google's rendering engine.
Oddly, they both return the same first result for me... though you're right, that quick result from Google is of by.... just slightly less than 200 billion...
This is about as much a "service" as email itself is. It is a standard that lets anyone build a service and interact with others. Sure, there are services that do it for you, just as there are services that offer you an email account, but it is definitely not the same thing.
In fact, it is a lot more like TFA's idea than it is like Facebook. The analog would be that HTTP/HTML is to activitypub what the personal web page is to mastodon.
This is just another reason to avoid IoT devices altogether. Apart the spying risks and the general lack of security patches, the ability of random companies to, on a whim, render completely inoperable stuff you've paid good money makes a trifecta of user-hostile design. I can stick with old-fashioned wall mounted light switches, thanks.
But water isn't destroyed when it's used... I mean, yeah, in California there are shortages, but not everywhere, and stats like this make it seem like somehow making meat destroys water...
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There are plenty of alternatives. Google knows they can't do this, or they'll just drive people to competing search engines and competing cloud document providers. Even if they manage to get the laws changed, they'll have lost a significant user mindshare and will have an incredibly tough time winning it back.
So if a company can't make money of of cleaning up your mess, you should be exempt from doing it too?
Seems like a perfect example of economic analysis being insufficient analysis.
If the women don't find you high-tech, they should at least find you handy.
I am inclined to argue with you, but really, I hope you're right, this would be a great step (even if I'm not in Ontario, it may spill over provincial lines). Still, the cynic in me is convinced that anything that makes sense is going to get screwed up by parliament...
In Canadian politics, private members bills (bills presented by an individual representative rather than the party in power) almost never get passed. This one is doubly unlikely as it was proposed by an MPP of an opposition party, under the majority government of a right-wing, pro-business, quasi-populist premier.
So, move along, nothing to see here. It's not going to happen.
More importantly, the researchers could sell any significant vulnerability for waaaay more than $150,000....
When did measures like "five times lighter" and "100 times smaller" become accepted? Comparisons don't work that way...
No, let the owner of the data set the price. That's the way property works. If I have a house, and you offer me "reasonable price" (or even 100x its reasonable value) for my house, I am in no way obligated to sell you my house. Also, it should be opt-in, not opt-out...
No, the lack of traction is explained by the fact that it's free. As a result, it has no money to waste on marketing. Quality is not what sells software. Or hardware. Or any other product. Consumers (and IT departments) are not rational actors.
Will these apps still run on de-googleled android distributions that don't include gapps? That is to say, will they work in other implementations of webviews, or will they be chrome-specific?
What Linux distro does this target? The only one without an existing (and better) package management system is Slackware... and it's that way because the users want it that way...
A couple more reasons ad blocking is a moral imperative :
* (Most) ads promote materialism and the myth that accumulating will lead to happiness
* (Most) ads use psychologically manipulative methods that an uninformed person is completely unequipped to fight (and even well informed people would have trouble doing so)
> just being able to learn a language quickly Please, tell me how. I've been living and working in my second language for a decade and I'm still learning... If you mean being able to decipher a street sign, or order breakfast, fine, but that isn't language learning...
Like a keyboard attachment...
The problem is that software doesn't get adopted for being the best, it gets adopted by being well marketed, which is pretty much antithetical to FLOSS software, unless it's sponsored by a massive company, like Google's rendering engine.
Oddly, they both return the same first result for me... though you're right, that quick result from Google is of by.... just slightly less than 200 billion...
This seems like an oddly unique situation to ditch a whole browser and sign up for all of google's tracking over.
So who is required to pay for the employees who will filter and handle the incoming torrent of bogus takedown requests?
This is about as much a "service" as email itself is. It is a standard that lets anyone build a service and interact with others. Sure, there are services that do it for you, just as there are services that offer you an email account, but it is definitely not the same thing. In fact, it is a lot more like TFA's idea than it is like Facebook. The analog would be that HTTP/HTML is to activitypub what the personal web page is to mastodon.
This is just another reason to avoid IoT devices altogether. Apart the spying risks and the general lack of security patches, the ability of random companies to, on a whim, render completely inoperable stuff you've paid good money makes a trifecta of user-hostile design. I can stick with old-fashioned wall mounted light switches, thanks.
In other words, "paying our workers a reasonable wage is not necessary."
Source?
A kilogram is not a measure of weight. It is a measure of mass. So it's not the weight of 1 liter of water, it is the mass of 1l of water.
The US one is about 0.45 kilos? I think they call it the pound...
But water isn't destroyed when it's used... I mean, yeah, in California there are shortages, but not everywhere, and stats like this make it seem like somehow making meat destroys water...