First context. I am 56 year old New Zealander. I don't like censorship in general and generally support free speech, both with common sense exceptions. I seldom use Facebook as life is too short to waste scrolling down a screen clicking like buttons. My usage of it would be about 2 hours a week max. Have to confess I'm a bit addicted to Slashdot however.
It is hard to express how deeply the event in Christchurch has affected the nation, it certainly has had exactly the opposite effect of what the to be nameless perpetrator intended.
As much as I would love to think AI could magically block such live streams I think that will never be practical. Disabling it for all would be overkill. I'm surprised it only 17 minutes to stop the live stream given how hard companies like Facebook work to block people from contacting a real live staff member. I think they could improve the communications channels between law enforcement and their staff. That said with modern technology you are never going to be effective at stopping bad stuff being streamed.
The repeated sharing of the content is a different story. Youtube is pretty good at automatically blocking reposts of stuff and this is an area where AIs can be effective. If Facebook can't effective block sharing of this video then they do have something to answer for.
People in senior government roles need to work hard to separate their person views from those of their role. Given it is hard to tell a person's personal views from official views of their roles it is probably best that when they take on such roles they stop personal social media post. In this case I think personal feelings of the commissioner got the better of him and he posted something not well thought through. Mind you if you look at the endless questionable tweets of the POTUS the I think the commissioner's tweet look pretty mild.
At the end of the day I think it is stupid of one government to try an apply its laws to the website in another country with the exception of servers physically hosted within their territory. That should not stop a government from making their views clear to website owners, they just shouldn't expect much as a result. In general I am proud of how our nation, government, politicians and people have handled themselves.
Yep, just like we shifted from going the video rental store to streaming at home. When I had an EV I smiled every trip home when I passed the gas station realising I would never need to waste time in that queue again.
How about we come back in 10 years and read you words. Hydrogen was just a stupid distraction to hold off investment in real EVs. Unfortunately that horse has now bolted, why would people piss around with a complicated hydrogen solution when there is a simple solution that works well and is available now?
Yes, that is how hybrids should have been done from day one and is the proper way to do a hybrid. Not the over engineered under performing mess that most hybrids are.
The irony is with batteries halving in price every decade the use case for hybrids, even done properly the way you suggest, is rapidly disappearing. They would have merit in the market today but in 5 to 10 years they will be meh! and in 10 to 20 years they will be WTF?
It's 7pm on the 2nd of April here at GMT+13, but still 1st April in the last time zones. Really annoying to have to put up it April's Fools jokes a whole day later.
The whole thing reads like a joke yet the links appear real and the paper appears to have been published on the 25th March. If you are really going to do such bizarre research the get a clue and don't publish in late March...
Well Mr Anonymous Coward 95% of use would disagree with you arbitrary impressions and I would point out most of the recent USA tech you are so proud of is mostly NASA, who use the metric system.
I was thinking the same thing, so many numbers to convert to real values, just couldn't be bothered. I guess it was written by and for the 5% of the world's population not using the metric system.
And I bet you none of them will run on a RPI running Windows.
Interestingly I am finding the number Windows only programs is falling off while Linux only and cross platform programs are on the rise. These days I seem to be running into a lot more Windows users who can't run a Linux program than Linux users who can't run a Windows program. I suspect it has a bit to do with the old excuse that "I don't have time to learn Linux" being replaced with "I can't risk another mess like last time I trusted Windows with something important".
The question asked was how the US company behavior was different from the Chinese company. The fact that Microsoft and Cisco choose to behave badly was their choice and they should be embarrassed by such choices. I personal would not trust either of them with my secrets. The point was they had a choice, Huawei don't have a choice. If they are not spying today they could be tomorrow, it is not something they get to choose.
The difference is the management of a USA company can chose to challenge the USA government and the worst that could happen is they would be forced to do it. If you live in China you do not get to challenge the government. The Chinese government does not make requests it makes demands. There is no court process to challenge it, you either do what is requested immediately and without question or go to jail. Once in jail you may never come out.
I have lived in China and on a day to day basis the people live a more free life than people in the USA, but once you come to the attention of the authorities their you don't fuck around, you do what you are told without delay. I have coworkers who spent days in jail because they did not have the right papers on them when the authorities visited the office. They where there until the company could produce suitable documents. And these jails were not the fancy ones you have in the USA, these are 20 people locked in a room with a hole in the floor for a toilet.
Also the USA government is PR risk adverse. If what they are doing leaks out to the press it will have consequences at the polls so they have tread a line between what requests they can get away with and how important that access is. The Chinese government controls the media and is not voted in so does not have to worry about accountability. They can demand anything from anyone without consequences.
I laugh every time I read something like "Huawei is linked to the Chinese government". Well duh! Businesses in China exist because the government let them. When the Chinese government asks a business to jump there are two options "ask how high" or shutdown you business. As a result there are only two types of Chinese tech companies in China, those that spy for the government and those that have not be asked to yet. There is no such thing as a Chinese tech company that has been asked to spy for the government but refused.
You could also say that men's brains are 'Four Years Older' than women's. So by assuming men's brain's are the reference and women's are younger I suspect you will annoy some. Just saying...
What a bizarre statement "U.S. officials have repeatedly pressed Chinese companies to demonstrate to them one example of a time they resisted a request for data from the Chinese government". News flash, China has a communist government. No individual or company has the right to resist the government. Bad things happen to anyone/thing that does try it. Any company stupid enough to try that in China would quickly cease to exist and therefore would not be able to demonstrate anything to anyone.
Assuming nothing has been lost in translation he could be technically not lying.
"Huawei has never handed data to Beijing" because the Chinese government will simply take any data they want.
"Huawei and me personally have never received any request from any government to provide improper information" because it will not be a request, it will be a demand.
Bottom line here is you don't get to be a big company in China unless you work properly with government.
Want make my blood boil then say stupid shit like "We use city and zip level location which we collect from IP addresses and other information such as check-ins and current city from your profile to ensure we are providing people with a good service -- from ensuring they see Facebook in the right language". The right language is NOT related to where I am, it related to my OS and browser. It pisses me off that some smart ass has decided that because I am visiting some countries that I have instantly become fluent in the local language and no longer want to use the language I chose when I set up my device. Facebook are not alone in this shit. I though these companies employed clever people so why can't they work this out?
It is annoying that politicians think they can actually pass laws to block encryption. At the end of the day encryption is just maths and passing laws is not going to change how maths works. Currently politicians seem to think that government laws can override the fundamental laws of the universe.
I would love to see Apple and Google team up and point that out, then back it up by showing that since they can't change maths then they can not longer offer their services in Australia. Simply block the whole country from using any iOS or Android product. I suspect a few hours of the whole country without such modern technology would help the politicians understand what they are really asking for.
The closest that happened before was when Google was required by law to pay news companies for links in a European country, so Google simply stopped linking at all and the news companies not only got no money they lost the follow on traffic, effective shooting themselves in the foot.
It was ok but not great. The 'Time travel' was just a time loop, think Groundhog Day but for many episodes they did basically the same thing every time, unlike Groundhog Day where the main character often did radically different things. As a result it made for boring viewing for quite a while. I almost got to the point of skipping episodes and certainly paid a lot less attention after the third loop.
I can see why you posted anonymously, boy would I love to have you as a customer! If yet really think it is between $750 and $1200 per box then I could make somewhere in the region $700 and $1180 profit on each one I sold you!
I worked once directly with an SOC supplier that makes set top box solutions. We only needed 7,000 systems making us a tier 5 customer, their lowest rank. I asked what a tier 1 supplier was, apparently anyone who orders in 1,000,000 up quantities. When I asked who could possibly be placing orders that size I was told set top boxes for cable companies. Based on my experience manufacturing similar stuff I would put the current cost of a cable set top box in the range $20 to $50 depending on the features offered.
When are people going to realise that hydrogen based vehicle are never going to amount to anything. I have been reading about them since the 1980s and it has gone nowhere in all that time. I can't help but wonder how many hydrogen vehicles were bank rolled by big oil to muddy the waters around EV development. News flash, EVs are here now and for most people practical (but still over priced) and hydrogen solutions will not be able to catch up with EVs.
I stopped buying HP printers when they stopped supporting Linux properly. I stopped recommending them when the introduced region locked protection on consumables. Given their anti-user policies does anyone still use them as the benchmark for a good printer like they used to be a decade ago? For me HP printers are just a sad footnote in history of a company who once understood their customers, then lost the plot just to keep bean counters happy.
Nope, I did the first RV offering used by Airstream. I was just disappointed the customers would not be able load their own apps on it, kind of defeated the purpose of running Android. I put one in my own car during development, a great motivator to ensure it worked well.
In my option the bundling of Google apps is less of an issue than Google's blocking of installing apps. When I was working for Garmin I developed an Android vehicle head unit but I could not preinstall Google Play Store because we installed our own navigation app that was customised to suit the on road limitations of the target vehicle. I would have liked to give end users an easy ability to install apps on the system but because we installed a nav app that could do things that Google nav app can not we were block by Google from offering customers the normally expected Android experience.
I'm reading that as saw 124.3 degrees and though holy fuck, that was on Earth, not some other planet? My browser width was just right (wrong) that real number, 51.3 Celsius, was on the next line. That sounds more real, yea, just that one country on the planet who still donesn't know how to measure temperature yet. Guess I should be glad they bother to put Celsius at all. Wait spoke too soon, only 25% of the temperatures had conversions. I'm going to dig out a conversion tool just to read this, nope, have whinge instead.
Ok, I get it "The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it." but at least put some F's after those numbers so we know they are USA only numbers, not international standard!
Yea, go on score me down as a troll, my karma score can handle it and after decades of dealing with this rubbish I feel the need to bitch occasionally.
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First context. I am 56 year old New Zealander. I don't like censorship in general and generally support free speech, both with common sense exceptions. I seldom use Facebook as life is too short to waste scrolling down a screen clicking like buttons. My usage of it would be about 2 hours a week max. Have to confess I'm a bit addicted to Slashdot however.
It is hard to express how deeply the event in Christchurch has affected the nation, it certainly has had exactly the opposite effect of what the to be nameless perpetrator intended.
As much as I would love to think AI could magically block such live streams I think that will never be practical. Disabling it for all would be overkill. I'm surprised it only 17 minutes to stop the live stream given how hard companies like Facebook work to block people from contacting a real live staff member. I think they could improve the communications channels between law enforcement and their staff. That said with modern technology you are never going to be effective at stopping bad stuff being streamed.
The repeated sharing of the content is a different story. Youtube is pretty good at automatically blocking reposts of stuff and this is an area where AIs can be effective. If Facebook can't effective block sharing of this video then they do have something to answer for.
People in senior government roles need to work hard to separate their person views from those of their role. Given it is hard to tell a person's personal views from official views of their roles it is probably best that when they take on such roles they stop personal social media post. In this case I think personal feelings of the commissioner got the better of him and he posted something not well thought through. Mind you if you look at the endless questionable tweets of the POTUS the I think the commissioner's tweet look pretty mild.
At the end of the day I think it is stupid of one government to try an apply its laws to the website in another country with the exception of servers physically hosted within their territory. That should not stop a government from making their views clear to website owners, they just shouldn't expect much as a result. In general I am proud of how our nation, government, politicians and people have handled themselves.
Yep, just like we shifted from going the video rental store to streaming at home. When I had an EV I smiled every trip home when I passed the gas station realising I would never need to waste time in that queue again.
How about we come back in 10 years and read you words. Hydrogen was just a stupid distraction to hold off investment in real EVs. Unfortunately that horse has now bolted, why would people piss around with a complicated hydrogen solution when there is a simple solution that works well and is available now?
Yes, that is how hybrids should have been done from day one and is the proper way to do a hybrid. Not the over engineered under performing mess that most hybrids are.
The irony is with batteries halving in price every decade the use case for hybrids, even done properly the way you suggest, is rapidly disappearing. They would have merit in the market today but in 5 to 10 years they will be meh! and in 10 to 20 years they will be WTF?
It's 7pm on the 2nd of April here at GMT+13, but still 1st April in the last time zones. Really annoying to have to put up it April's Fools jokes a whole day later.
The whole thing reads like a joke yet the links appear real and the paper appears to have been published on the 25th March. If you are really going to do such bizarre research the get a clue and don't publish in late March...
Well Mr Anonymous Coward 95% of use would disagree with you arbitrary impressions and I would point out most of the recent USA tech you are so proud of is mostly NASA, who use the metric system.
I was thinking the same thing, so many numbers to convert to real values, just couldn't be bothered. I guess it was written by and for the 5% of the world's population not using the metric system.
And I bet you none of them will run on a RPI running Windows.
Interestingly I am finding the number Windows only programs is falling off while Linux only and cross platform programs are on the rise. These days I seem to be running into a lot more Windows users who can't run a Linux program than Linux users who can't run a Windows program. I suspect it has a bit to do with the old excuse that "I don't have time to learn Linux" being replaced with "I can't risk another mess like last time I trusted Windows with something important".
The question asked was how the US company behavior was different from the Chinese company. The fact that Microsoft and Cisco choose to behave badly was their choice and they should be embarrassed by such choices. I personal would not trust either of them with my secrets. The point was they had a choice, Huawei don't have a choice. If they are not spying today they could be tomorrow, it is not something they get to choose.
The difference is the management of a USA company can chose to challenge the USA government and the worst that could happen is they would be forced to do it. If you live in China you do not get to challenge the government. The Chinese government does not make requests it makes demands. There is no court process to challenge it, you either do what is requested immediately and without question or go to jail. Once in jail you may never come out.
I have lived in China and on a day to day basis the people live a more free life than people in the USA, but once you come to the attention of the authorities their you don't fuck around, you do what you are told without delay. I have coworkers who spent days in jail because they did not have the right papers on them when the authorities visited the office. They where there until the company could produce suitable documents. And these jails were not the fancy ones you have in the USA, these are 20 people locked in a room with a hole in the floor for a toilet.
Also the USA government is PR risk adverse. If what they are doing leaks out to the press it will have consequences at the polls so they have tread a line between what requests they can get away with and how important that access is. The Chinese government controls the media and is not voted in so does not have to worry about accountability. They can demand anything from anyone without consequences.
That is how Huawei is different from Cisco.
I laugh every time I read something like "Huawei is linked to the Chinese government". Well duh! Businesses in China exist because the government let them. When the Chinese government asks a business to jump there are two options "ask how high" or shutdown you business. As a result there are only two types of Chinese tech companies in China, those that spy for the government and those that have not be asked to yet. There is no such thing as a Chinese tech company that has been asked to spy for the government but refused.
You could also say that men's brains are 'Four Years Older' than women's. So by assuming men's brain's are the reference and women's are younger I suspect you will annoy some. Just saying...
What a bizarre statement "U.S. officials have repeatedly pressed Chinese companies to demonstrate to them one example of a time they resisted a request for data from the Chinese government". News flash, China has a communist government. No individual or company has the right to resist the government. Bad things happen to anyone/thing that does try it. Any company stupid enough to try that in China would quickly cease to exist and therefore would not be able to demonstrate anything to anyone.
Assuming nothing has been lost in translation he could be technically not lying.
"Huawei has never handed data to Beijing" because the Chinese government will simply take any data they want.
"Huawei and me personally have never received any request from any government to provide improper information" because it will not be a request, it will be a demand.
Bottom line here is you don't get to be a big company in China unless you work properly with government.
Want make my blood boil then say stupid shit like " We use city and zip level location which we collect from IP addresses and other information such as check-ins and current city from your profile to ensure we are providing people with a good service -- from ensuring they see Facebook in the right language ". The right language is NOT related to where I am, it related to my OS and browser. It pisses me off that some smart ass has decided that because I am visiting some countries that I have instantly become fluent in the local language and no longer want to use the language I chose when I set up my device. Facebook are not alone in this shit. I though these companies employed clever people so why can't they work this out?
It is annoying that politicians think they can actually pass laws to block encryption. At the end of the day encryption is just maths and passing laws is not going to change how maths works. Currently politicians seem to think that government laws can override the fundamental laws of the universe.
I would love to see Apple and Google team up and point that out, then back it up by showing that since they can't change maths then they can not longer offer their services in Australia. Simply block the whole country from using any iOS or Android product. I suspect a few hours of the whole country without such modern technology would help the politicians understand what they are really asking for.
The closest that happened before was when Google was required by law to pay news companies for links in a European country, so Google simply stopped linking at all and the news companies not only got no money they lost the follow on traffic, effective shooting themselves in the foot.
I was disappointed the post failed to work in a Kerblam! man reference, Doctor Who's Differing Approaches Find A Shared Fear In The Future Of Amazon.
It was ok but not great. The 'Time travel' was just a time loop, think Groundhog Day but for many episodes they did basically the same thing every time, unlike Groundhog Day where the main character often did radically different things. As a result it made for boring viewing for quite a while. I almost got to the point of skipping episodes and certainly paid a lot less attention after the third loop.
Am I the only one who finds it amusing that America can defend the use of Imperial measurements and yet is it daylights savings that is too hard?
Yea, sorry, mark down as flame bait if you must, but I still find this funny.
I can see why you posted anonymously, boy would I love to have you as a customer! If yet really think it is between $750 and $1200 per box then I could make somewhere in the region $700 and $1180 profit on each one I sold you!
I worked once directly with an SOC supplier that makes set top box solutions. We only needed 7,000 systems making us a tier 5 customer, their lowest rank. I asked what a tier 1 supplier was, apparently anyone who orders in 1,000,000 up quantities. When I asked who could possibly be placing orders that size I was told set top boxes for cable companies. Based on my experience manufacturing similar stuff I would put the current cost of a cable set top box in the range $20 to $50 depending on the features offered.
When are people going to realise that hydrogen based vehicle are never going to amount to anything. I have been reading about them since the 1980s and it has gone nowhere in all that time. I can't help but wonder how many hydrogen vehicles were bank rolled by big oil to muddy the waters around EV development. News flash, EVs are here now and for most people practical (but still over priced) and hydrogen solutions will not be able to catch up with EVs.
I stopped buying HP printers when they stopped supporting Linux properly. I stopped recommending them when the introduced region locked protection on consumables. Given their anti-user policies does anyone still use them as the benchmark for a good printer like they used to be a decade ago? For me HP printers are just a sad footnote in history of a company who once understood their customers, then lost the plot just to keep bean counters happy.
Nope, I did the first RV offering used by Airstream. I was just disappointed the customers would not be able load their own apps on it, kind of defeated the purpose of running Android. I put one in my own car during development, a great motivator to ensure it worked well.
In my option the bundling of Google apps is less of an issue than Google's blocking of installing apps. When I was working for Garmin I developed an Android vehicle head unit but I could not preinstall Google Play Store because we installed our own navigation app that was customised to suit the on road limitations of the target vehicle. I would have liked to give end users an easy ability to install apps on the system but because we installed a nav app that could do things that Google nav app can not we were block by Google from offering customers the normally expected Android experience.
I'm reading that as saw 124.3 degrees and though holy fuck, that was on Earth, not some other planet? My browser width was just right (wrong) that real number, 51.3 Celsius, was on the next line. That sounds more real, yea, just that one country on the planet who still donesn't know how to measure temperature yet. Guess I should be glad they bother to put Celsius at all. Wait spoke too soon, only 25% of the temperatures had conversions. I'm going to dig out a conversion tool just to read this, nope, have whinge instead.
Ok, I get it "The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it." but at least put some F's after those numbers so we know they are USA only numbers, not international standard!
Yea, go on score me down as a troll, my karma score can handle it and after decades of dealing with this rubbish I feel the need to bitch occasionally.