I didn't keep in close touch before Facebook, and I have no reason to suspect that I would in a post-Facebook life. I like knowing what my relatives are up to, but I don't actually care what they are up to. It's a subtle difference, but the difference is definitely there.
It's as if they're honestly trying to get everyone to delete their facebook account. I've been considering it almost daily for the past couple years, definitely more in the past several months. The only thing keeping me on there is how much of my family resides far from my current location.
Kind of makes you wonder, "How much do I really like my cousins?" I'm very close to saying, "Not enough to keep this account."
Any time middlemen are fighting for their existence, it's time to let them fail. I don't fundamentally need a car dealer. It's just the current method of acquiring new vehicles. The only real service they provide to a car-buyer is test-drives and a pick-up location. There are surely more cost-effective and straightforward ways to get past those obstacles.
Boeing has been posting about it even on their Flickr. The QF-16 drones are not armed, but I can imagine they easily could be. Watching these old warbirds get resurrected as drones really makes me question our fiscal commitment to new stealthy fighters. Why build those when we can just build an updated drone version of an existing fighter design for what probably would be pennies on the dollar that cost us zero pilot lives if they go down?
Even if we had to new-build some fighter drones, it would be significantly cheaper to delete all the parts designed for carrying a human payload. Better to flood a sky with a swarm of unmanned fighters than to bear the burden of potentially losing a pilot and the increased cost of extremely advanced stealthy fighters.
In fact, this could obsolete the concept of aircraft carriers as anything but drone recovery vehicles. A drone could be launched without difficulty from just about anything if you can get past the idea of needing to recover it. Or if you redesign it for water-landings. Parachute and raft design maybe, with a crane on a cruiser? With no pilot to recover, the worst that happens is we have to remote detonate it if it sinks.
The Chicken Tax is still alive and well, adding a 25% tarriff to commercial vehicles built overseas. There's a reason all those Ford Transit Connects come from Turkey with windows and seats, which are shredded and the windows replaced with sheet metal when they arrive in the US. It is far more cost effective to build in Turkey, ship it to the US, destroy brand new seats and windows, and put in sheet metal plugs than it is to build it here. And the cost? well, that just gets passed on to the consumer.
it's crazy to me that I'm left thinking how much better off we were when we had pre-Microsoft hotmail and geocities, all from public terminals. I was basically untraceable, as I didn't even have Internet at home. At best, they could have come up with a city...if the hosts even had enough storage devoted to logs for that data to even exist.
I've switched to https/ssl DDG, and am much more comfortable searching there because I know that my Google account - which has tentacles everywhere - is not going to magically forget my "don't track my browsing history" setting. The idea that Google could still store the search and connect it to my account is a problem.
I wish that really applied here. The problem is, they're not giving them YOUR data. They're giving them ALL data. It's unfortunate, but the law still pretends that your legal name is your only name, rather than the understanding you and I have that your name, social security number, email address, telephone number(s), browser ID, the hash associated with your account, and every username you have ever had are also your "name" for all intents and purposes these days. but only a few of those are actually protected accordingly.
I'm not sure what part of what I said it is that you disagree with. However, I will bite and say that the biggest difference between a company like Microsoft and some examples you have provided is that open-source is not dependent upon holding a dominant market share like Microsoft is to sustain its existence.
I think we are arguing two different things. You argue that tablets have a place in business, and I agree. However, I do not believe that Microsoft can dominate the tablet market because business tablets and personal tablets, in terms of usage, are apples and oranges. And entertainment-oranges are way more numerous than the business-apples.
People don't want Microsoft on their tablet. They've lost this war. Ironically, they're losing for the same reason IBM lost control of the PC: They can make all the products they want, but the software that people want runs on an OS owned by someone else.
problematically, the records are not ours. They belong to the telcos, and the telcos are legally welcome to share them with anyone they please. I'd love to see new protections to the contrary.
The fundamental difference between this and the Smith case is that the agencies had to do their own recording to accomplish it, as opposed to demanding (and getting, whether coerced, cooperative, or compelled) records. I have been saying for weeks that the most disturbing part of this is that even if your data is handed over by the telcos, you have no recourse because the documents searched were not yours in the first place. Even with the fourth amendment.
Indeed, I very frequently metamod myself positively. I just can't always decide whether I'm insightful, interesting, or informative. My foes get an awful lot of "redundant" metamods...
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I didn't keep in close touch before Facebook, and I have no reason to suspect that I would in a post-Facebook life. I like knowing what my relatives are up to, but I don't actually care what they are up to. It's a subtle difference, but the difference is definitely there.
Exactly. HIPAA puts a pretty stiff fine on anyone giving out this kind of information.
It's as if they're honestly trying to get everyone to delete their facebook account. I've been considering it almost daily for the past couple years, definitely more in the past several months. The only thing keeping me on there is how much of my family resides far from my current location.
Kind of makes you wonder, "How much do I really like my cousins?" I'm very close to saying, "Not enough to keep this account."
Any time middlemen are fighting for their existence, it's time to let them fail. I don't fundamentally need a car dealer. It's just the current method of acquiring new vehicles. The only real service they provide to a car-buyer is test-drives and a pick-up location. There are surely more cost-effective and straightforward ways to get past those obstacles.
Boeing has been posting about it even on their Flickr. The QF-16 drones are not armed, but I can imagine they easily could be. Watching these old warbirds get resurrected as drones really makes me question our fiscal commitment to new stealthy fighters. Why build those when we can just build an updated drone version of an existing fighter design for what probably would be pennies on the dollar that cost us zero pilot lives if they go down?
Even if we had to new-build some fighter drones, it would be significantly cheaper to delete all the parts designed for carrying a human payload. Better to flood a sky with a swarm of unmanned fighters than to bear the burden of potentially losing a pilot and the increased cost of extremely advanced stealthy fighters.
In fact, this could obsolete the concept of aircraft carriers as anything but drone recovery vehicles. A drone could be launched without difficulty from just about anything if you can get past the idea of needing to recover it. Or if you redesign it for water-landings. Parachute and raft design maybe, with a crane on a cruiser? With no pilot to recover, the worst that happens is we have to remote detonate it if it sinks.
The Chicken Tax is still alive and well, adding a 25% tarriff to commercial vehicles built overseas. There's a reason all those Ford Transit Connects come from Turkey with windows and seats, which are shredded and the windows replaced with sheet metal when they arrive in the US. It is far more cost effective to build in Turkey, ship it to the US, destroy brand new seats and windows, and put in sheet metal plugs than it is to build it here. And the cost? well, that just gets passed on to the consumer.
Be that as it may, it's a lot simpler for them to distribute open-sourced drivers than closed-source ones with heavier license restrictions.
it's crazy to me that I'm left thinking how much better off we were when we had pre-Microsoft hotmail and geocities, all from public terminals. I was basically untraceable, as I didn't even have Internet at home. At best, they could have come up with a city...if the hosts even had enough storage devoted to logs for that data to even exist.
I've switched to https/ssl DDG, and am much more comfortable searching there because I know that my Google account - which has tentacles everywhere - is not going to magically forget my "don't track my browsing history" setting. The idea that Google could still store the search and connect it to my account is a problem.
That assumes a lot. Not everyone will switch distros (or choose SteamOS) when Steam is available for Linux as a whole.
I'm not so sure that analogy means what you think it means.
Nothing like putting the douche in fiduciary, eh?
Anyone else think this is a result of Valve's announcement of focus on Linux-based Steam?
I share that concern...about over half of what class time is spent on.
In High School, most of the people I saw wearing DARE T-shirts were stoned out of their gourds.
That said, if there was any doubt that schools have vastly strayed from the job of educating, here's proof.
and every time they announce something, I feel ever more satisfied with that decision. Keep up the good work, Gnome!
I wish that really applied here. The problem is, they're not giving them YOUR data. They're giving them ALL data. It's unfortunate, but the law still pretends that your legal name is your only name, rather than the understanding you and I have that your name, social security number, email address, telephone number(s), browser ID, the hash associated with your account, and every username you have ever had are also your "name" for all intents and purposes these days. but only a few of those are actually protected accordingly.
That's fine and well until the iPhone users show up and can't take out their batteries. I can imagine Apple's lawsuit at that point...
I'm not sure what part of what I said it is that you disagree with. However, I will bite and say that the biggest difference between a company like Microsoft and some examples you have provided is that open-source is not dependent upon holding a dominant market share like Microsoft is to sustain its existence.
I think we are arguing two different things. You argue that tablets have a place in business, and I agree. However, I do not believe that Microsoft can dominate the tablet market because business tablets and personal tablets, in terms of usage, are apples and oranges. And entertainment-oranges are way more numerous than the business-apples.
People don't want Microsoft on their tablet. They've lost this war. Ironically, they're losing for the same reason IBM lost control of the PC: They can make all the products they want, but the software that people want runs on an OS owned by someone else.
problematically, the records are not ours. They belong to the telcos, and the telcos are legally welcome to share them with anyone they please. I'd love to see new protections to the contrary.
The fundamental difference between this and the Smith case is that the agencies had to do their own recording to accomplish it, as opposed to demanding (and getting, whether coerced, cooperative, or compelled) records. I have been saying for weeks that the most disturbing part of this is that even if your data is handed over by the telcos, you have no recourse because the documents searched were not yours in the first place. Even with the fourth amendment.
I don't share your optimism that the newly-purchased business unit will last 2 more years.
Indeed, I very frequently metamod myself positively. I just can't always decide whether I'm insightful, interesting, or informative. My foes get an awful lot of "redundant" metamods...
Sunblock. Lots of sunblock.