They should be viewed in the same way Anti-Virus software is. Especially in today's Ad-verse. Few of the sites place their own ads. It's mostly 3rd party ad services. It's a crazy bidding process for a lot of companies on both the ad seller end and the display side. There's plenty of broken, abusive or malware infested ads that pop up even with the big player ad services. People should almost be required to block them. I don't mind ads. if they aren't interstitials, don't autoplay video, don't cause 4 cores to spike, don't infect my desktop and aren't 20M in size. Unfortunately i run into all of these all too often. Good for them that sanity prevailed in this instance.
UBI won't be any more successful than any other freebie program. Sure a lot of people will get to feel better because they feel did something. Just like when welfare was created. But the only thing that was actually done was the issue was made worse. You only end up with a larger version of the same problem down the road. More system dependent people. Higher costs for goods over time. (not as a result of the program. just because prices always rise. but now $xxx.xx UBI isn't enough) Fewer people putting into the system. And a group of people who will say UBI isn't enough we have to do more. Back to problem one...
The simple and obvious answer there is start reducing the population. Or at least stop increasing it. It's actually the only workable solution unless you envision a time when all goods and services are free. Otherwise someone has to pay. And that will never happen. And even if it did, how fair would it be to force someone to pay for someone else's procreation habits?
Actually many of these sites are restricting content because of the blowback from groups of people. So aren't those groups using them and their money to fight their battles?
Hiding or silencing this stuff doesn't make it go away.
Deactivated 2 years ago. I missed it for about 4 minutes. I've found out that i still keep in touch with the people i care about. I know how they are doing, what's going on in their lives. I just don't know what they had for lunch. Plus I'm much happier not reading the political BS of people who shouldn't be in the business of running their own lives let alone anyone else's. (Yes FB calls them "Friends". Where's the "Acquaintances" designation when you really want it?)
Any information you share on the internet will be used incorrectly. or at least in a way most people would disagree with.
Anyone who collects the data is a target for thieves wanting it. or they sell it. or they share it. then the people they share or sell it to become the next level of target or seller. Even the good old USofA can't secure our data. Think IRS and OPM.
Personal information will simply become another untrusted form of identification and information. The act of collecting it is the real problem. Because you KNOW it will be stolen or misused. I don't care about their intention or commitment to security. If you collect it someone will figure out how to get it.
"I'm not be. I haven't been me in a very long time. I'm just someone that stole my identity on line and am pretending to be me."
Not to mention the intellectual isolation that accompanies being smart. It really becomes a challenge finding people you enjoy spending time with. What do you talk about? What common interests do you have? And forget about answering the "what do you do for a living" questions. You're splitting the atom during the day and listening to talk about how you can bang sticks together nights and weekends.
Maybe what ever personality quirk it was that caused her to complain over $25/month had something to do with the slimly lower offer. Quirks usually show through in interviews. Or maybe they only had $1k less/more depending on where they were in the budget cycle. Either way, good for you. I bet I know who gets the bigger raise next year. (Assuming all other factors are the same.)
We have many instances when prices between vendors is different for the same type, make and/or model of goods. That's why we comparison shop in our lives. Who here doesn't check the prices of their purchases on multiple sites and multiple stores? As an employee, our skills and time are our "goods". A business is our consumer. They want the best good at the lowest price. Just like we do.
All things equal (skills and quality) if one person settles for 80% of what another is paid to do the same job the person discounted their rate. It's easy enough to find out the range of your expected salary in any location these days. If you don't want to settle for 80%, require more. Take another job where they will pay that. If you're worth it you'll get it. I've met a lot of people who are better (and worse) than what they are compensated. You can refuse an offer or leave your employer for any reason at any time.
And on the employee side of this, I've seen more cases where marginal performers think they are rock stars (mainly because they don't even know what they don't know yet), and great performers think they are simply meeting the expectations of their job. Exposing salaries will only help those that won't help themselves. But now everyone will have something to complain about.
It wasn't a hell hole back then. And the people were a lot better. And those people are the ones that made the social changes happen. It's been downhill the last 20 years. Your comment that "Of course it probably won't have any effect on industry...." is a great reason for a government with $20T in debt shouldn't be spending money there.
No it's ours. Taken by mandate. Who would volunteer to pay it? Usually spent unwisely. Rarely for the common good. Usually to pander to some cause or make someone (or some group) feel good about themselves. What innovation comes from it we end up paying for again if we want to use it.
I wonder if they just automatically generate statistics on everything they can and then crunch them all to see what stats maximize revenue. Hell I have email accounts at work, on google, time warner, consolidated, Misrosoft, etc. So my rick to them changes by which account I decided to email them from? Maybe I secretly have a hotmail account I didn't tell them about. Hey! I'm finally beating the system!! This is just so well thought out.
That's how long it will take some motivated person to hack the safe mode out of it. It's going to be abused. All technology is. Spend the money on developing plans to deal with it. These conversations always bring me back to the DVD encryption attempts. Spend millions on developing unbreakable encryption that gets broken in a few weeks and for free.
Now that it's getting this easy we won't be able to believe anything we see. Piss someone off and you'll be getting famous because someone slapped your face on a webcam stream of someone stealing, holding up a store, or just about anything. At least porn won't have the cops knocking on your door because someone recognized the thug in the video.
So after having months and months to create a patch to their borked design, they fail. Now in a few measly weeks (days) they have a real patch that's going to do the job. For everyone (including me) that started performance testing patches before you deploy them.... back to Step 1.
The low skilled jobs in China are also accompanied by very low wages. Maybe automation just isn't cost effective when you don't have to pay so much for low-skilled work. The reality is as it always has been. Jobs that are repetitive and/or don't require skill will be eliminated through advancement as soon as it's cheaper to automate them.
There is no reason people can't read all sorts of things and make a determination on what to believe. They do it all the time. UFOs, Aliens, bigfoot,and yes even politics. Facebook stay out of it. Be a platform, period.
Well after 10 years of only building AMD boxes for myself, this year I built my first Intel box. Their described "solution" leaves me with little confidence. Fast and unsecure by default seems contrary to every security model I'm aware of. We may as well go back to logging in as administrator or root while we're at it. Lucky me. Lesson learned.
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They should be viewed in the same way Anti-Virus software is. Especially in today's Ad-verse.
Few of the sites place their own ads. It's mostly 3rd party ad services. It's a crazy bidding process for a lot of companies on both the ad seller end and the display side. There's plenty of broken, abusive or malware infested ads that pop up even with the big player ad services.
People should almost be required to block them.
I don't mind ads. if they aren't interstitials, don't autoplay video, don't cause 4 cores to spike, don't infect my desktop and aren't 20M in size.
Unfortunately i run into all of these all too often.
Good for them that sanity prevailed in this instance.
UBI won't be any more successful than any other freebie program. Sure a lot of people will get to feel better because they feel did something. Just like when welfare was created. But the only thing that was actually done was the issue was made worse.
You only end up with a larger version of the same problem down the road.
More system dependent people.
Higher costs for goods over time. (not as a result of the program. just because prices always rise. but now $xxx.xx UBI isn't enough)
Fewer people putting into the system.
And a group of people who will say UBI isn't enough we have to do more.
Back to problem one...
The simple and obvious answer there is start reducing the population. Or at least stop increasing it. It's actually the only workable solution unless you envision a time when all goods and services are free. Otherwise someone has to pay. And that will never happen. And even if it did, how fair would it be to force someone to pay for someone else's procreation habits?
Can't wait to wake up one morning and discover my fridge decided to drain my bank account to help some poor Prince somewhere.
Actually many of these sites are restricting content because of the blowback from groups of people. So aren't those groups using them and their money to fight their battles?
Hiding or silencing this stuff doesn't make it go away.
I can't come into work today. It was a hot night and the AC was on constantly. My car batteries are dead.
Deactivated 2 years ago. I missed it for about 4 minutes. I've found out that i still keep in touch with the people i care about. I know how they are doing, what's going on in their lives. I just don't know what they had for lunch. Plus I'm much happier not reading the political BS of people who shouldn't be in the business of running their own lives let alone anyone else's. (Yes FB calls them "Friends". Where's the "Acquaintances" designation when you really want it?)
Any information you share on the internet will be used incorrectly. or at least in a way most people would disagree with.
Anyone who collects the data is a target for thieves wanting it. or they sell it. or they share it. then the people they share or sell it to become the next level of target or seller. Even the good old USofA can't secure our data. Think IRS and OPM.
Personal information will simply become another untrusted form of identification and information. The act of collecting it is the real problem. Because you KNOW it will be stolen or misused. I don't care about their intention or commitment to security. If you collect it someone will figure out how to get it.
"I'm not be. I haven't been me in a very long time. I'm just someone that stole my identity on line and am pretending to be me."
Not to mention the intellectual isolation that accompanies being smart.
It really becomes a challenge finding people you enjoy spending time with. What do you talk about? What common interests do you have? And forget about answering the "what do you do for a living" questions.
You're splitting the atom during the day and listening to talk about how you can bang sticks together nights and weekends.
Maybe what ever personality quirk it was that caused her to complain over $25/month had something to do with the slimly lower offer. Quirks usually show through in interviews.
Or maybe they only had $1k less/more depending on where they were in the budget cycle.
Either way, good for you. I bet I know who gets the bigger raise next year. (Assuming all other factors are the same.)
We have many instances when prices between vendors is different for the same type, make and/or model of goods. That's why we comparison shop in our lives. Who here doesn't check the prices of their purchases on multiple sites and multiple stores? As an employee, our skills and time are our "goods". A business is our consumer. They want the best good at the lowest price. Just like we do.
All things equal (skills and quality) if one person settles for 80% of what another is paid to do the same job the person discounted their rate. It's easy enough to find out the range of your expected salary in any location these days. If you don't want to settle for 80%, require more. Take another job where they will pay that. If you're worth it you'll get it. I've met a lot of people who are better (and worse) than what they are compensated. You can refuse an offer or leave your employer for any reason at any time.
And on the employee side of this, I've seen more cases where marginal performers think they are rock stars (mainly because they don't even know what they don't know yet), and great performers think they are simply meeting the expectations of their job.
Exposing salaries will only help those that won't help themselves. But now everyone will have something to complain about.
Never signed any contract.
It wasn't a hell hole back then. And the people were a lot better. And those people are the ones that made the social changes happen. It's been downhill the last 20 years. Your comment that "Of course it probably won't have any effect on industry...." is a great reason for a government with $20T in debt shouldn't be spending money there.
No it's ours. Taken by mandate. Who would volunteer to pay it? Usually spent unwisely. Rarely for the common good. Usually to pander to some cause or make someone (or some group) feel good about themselves. What innovation comes from it we end up paying for again if we want to use it.
rick -> rate
I wonder if they just automatically generate statistics on everything they can and then crunch them all to see what stats maximize revenue.
Hell I have email accounts at work, on google, time warner, consolidated, Misrosoft, etc. So my rick to them changes by which account I decided to email them from? Maybe I secretly have a hotmail account I didn't tell them about. Hey! I'm finally beating the system!! This is just so well thought out.
Or do they just keep forgetting to adjust for leap seconds.
Or decide that people just aren't worth it's effort and switch itself off.
That's how long it will take some motivated person to hack the safe mode out of it.
It's going to be abused. All technology is. Spend the money on developing plans to deal with it.
These conversations always bring me back to the DVD encryption attempts.
Spend millions on developing unbreakable encryption that gets broken in a few weeks and for free.
Now that it's getting this easy we won't be able to believe anything we see. Piss someone off and you'll be getting famous because someone slapped your face on a webcam stream of someone stealing, holding up a store, or just about anything. At least porn won't have the cops knocking on your door because someone recognized the thug in the video.
Intel Inside!
(Sorry about your luck dude)
So after having months and months to create a patch to their borked design, they fail.
Now in a few measly weeks (days) they have a real patch that's going to do the job.
For everyone (including me) that started performance testing patches before you deploy them.... back to Step 1.
The low skilled jobs in China are also accompanied by very low wages. Maybe automation just isn't cost effective when you don't have to pay so much for low-skilled work.
The reality is as it always has been. Jobs that are repetitive and/or don't require skill will be eliminated through advancement as soon as it's cheaper to automate them.
There is no reason people can't read all sorts of things and make a determination on what to believe. They do it all the time. UFOs, Aliens, bigfoot,and yes even politics. Facebook stay out of it. Be a platform, period.
Well after 10 years of only building AMD boxes for myself, this year I built my first Intel box. Their described "solution" leaves me with little confidence. Fast and unsecure by default seems contrary to every security model I'm aware of. We may as well go back to logging in as administrator or root while we're at it. Lucky me. Lesson learned.