"Facial recognition is a stone bitch to do accurately under all conditions"
No need to be accurate in 100% of conditions, when the average citizen is spied by literally hundreds and hundreds of (internet connected) cameras every day.
Look around - how many bug eyes are watching you right now? At one of my favorite cafes downtown customers are surveiled by no fewer than 22 bug eyes. Interestingly, totally apolitical non-paranoid folks tend to become suddenly quite paranoid if I point out to them all the cameras spying us.
Yup, I've seen comments deleted as well. Yes, they were wallotext anti-semitic diatribes that were part of a crapflooding campaign. But still, they were deleted, not just modded down.
An era has ended for Slashdot, and the internet is a poorer place because of it.
"given how much less useful their search has become over the years"
This is one good thing about Google's descent into overt evil: it seems to have destroyed the company's ability to make good products. Google Search results have been getting less and less useful, and have really gone downhill fast in recent years. Likewise the new Fischer Price UI for Gmail is craptastic. Maps is still awesome - so I eagerly await the next version that ruins it too.
Google has always been a surveillance company, but they used to do a good job of pretending to be a product company. At one time the quality of their baitware was head & shoulders above competing, less-malicious software products.
Google has always had contempt for its users - it's unavoidable when their whole business model is based on stalking, snooping, and selling the details of people's private lives to repressive governments. When Google was still growing, they paid lip service to caring about their users. Now that Google has vast monopoly power, this lip service is no longer necessary. Big Brother Google is part of the totalitarian security state and you, the user, are nothing but a deplorable prole.
Stalker organizations, public and private alike, keep dozens of secret scores and dossiers on every American. Your "credit score" is just one of them, albeit the only one you are allowed to see.
Totalitarianism is not a risk for the future - it is the reality of today.
"Advertising" is just a distraction, a convenient excuse for snooping. More and more people are realizing that Big Brother Google and Faceboot make all their money from selling surveillance data to Uncle Sam and other repressive governments.
I met a German traveler the other day. He built a niche app for parking management. (Think big institutional parking lots.). He said that selling data to the gestapo is a big part of his business. Apparently Big Brother pays his collaborators well.
Of the Faceboot employees I've personally encountered, 20% were incompetent Bay Area Progressive assholes, and 80% were incompetent H1B scabs. I met the Bay Area Progressive assholes quite a few years ago. By now they may also have been replaced by H1B scabs.
It appears all the semi-official media outlets are regurgitating the Official Narrative. I believe that is what's now considered journalistic professionalism.
I'm really not convinced Ecuadorian President Moreno was bought. He seems like a pretty traditional upper class, anti-worker Latin American politician. No need to take bribes - he and is family and friends directly benefit from every public policy that kicks the poor or gives a government handout to the super rich. Standard issue banana republic capitalist dog.
Forced-vax nazis bring out the iron boot, force people to undergo controversial medical procedures against their will. Everyone saw this coming.
Corporate Progressive nazis everywhere celebrate this bold transgressionvof human rights as the first step on the march to biopolitical totalitarianism. Big Pharma oligarchs are cackle with delight on their private islands.
If they were intelligent, the upper class twits who are VCs would be on Wall Street making real money. VCs are people with all the family money and connections to be top investment bankers, but who are too dumb to work on JP Morgan's janitorial staff.
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Oh c'mon, there's plenty of room for everyone in the gulag.
Also - what makes you imagine that federal persecutors are particularly interested in locking up dangerous people?
One (brutal, draconian, merciless) Law for human persons.
One (light, permissive, forgiving) Law for corporate "persons".
"Facial recognition is a stone bitch to do accurately under all conditions"
No need to be accurate in 100% of conditions, when the average citizen is spied by literally hundreds and hundreds of (internet connected) cameras every day.
Look around - how many bug eyes are watching you right now? At one of my favorite cafes downtown customers are surveiled by no fewer than 22 bug eyes. Interestingly, totally apolitical non-paranoid folks tend to become suddenly quite paranoid if I point out to them all the cameras spying us.
The Machine is ALWAYS watching.
My farts smell like roses, with just a hint of lavender.
Yup, I've seen comments deleted as well. Yes, they were wallotext anti-semitic diatribes that were part of a crapflooding campaign. But still, they were deleted, not just modded down.
An era has ended for Slashdot, and the internet is a poorer place because of it.
"Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity - the old adage"
Hanlon's Razor is obsolete. Consider instead using the Silicon Valley Razor:
"Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by malice."
"given how much less useful their search has become over the years"
This is one good thing about Google's descent into overt evil: it seems to have destroyed the company's ability to make good products. Google Search results have been getting less and less useful, and have really gone downhill fast in recent years. Likewise the new Fischer Price UI for Gmail is craptastic. Maps is still awesome - so I eagerly await the next version that ruins it too.
Google has always been a surveillance company, but they used to do a good job of pretending to be a product company. At one time the quality of their baitware was head & shoulders above competing, less-malicious software products.
Google has always had contempt for its users - it's unavoidable when their whole business model is based on stalking, snooping, and selling the details of people's private lives to repressive governments. When Google was still growing, they paid lip service to caring about their users. Now that Google has vast monopoly power, this lip service is no longer necessary. Big Brother Google is part of the totalitarian security state and you, the user, are nothing but a deplorable prole.
Google: Be Evil.
Fuck you, plebs, that's why!
That's awesome!
Really? You're using the spectacularly dysfunctional American healthcare system as an example of capitalism _working well_? Really?!
Stalker organizations, public and private alike, keep dozens of secret scores and dossiers on every American. Your "credit score" is just one of them, albeit the only one you are allowed to see.
Totalitarianism is not a risk for the future - it is the reality of today.
If you have nothing to hide, comrade, you have nothing to fear.
Big Brother knows every detail of our lives, and that's a good thing. We can always trust Big Brother. Because Big Brother loves us all.
It's a nicer-sounding euphemism for "blackmail database".
Pervasive spying in _all_ ecosystems. Welcome to Soviet America, comrade. Papers please!
"Advertising" is just a distraction, a convenient excuse for snooping. More and more people are realizing that Big Brother Google and Faceboot make all their money from selling surveillance data to Uncle Sam and other repressive governments.
I met a German traveler the other day. He built a niche app for parking management. (Think big institutional parking lots.). He said that selling data to the gestapo is a big part of his business. Apparently Big Brother pays his collaborators well.
Are you joking? "Disabling" your Google location history does nothing but prevent you from seeing your own data.
We live in a totalitarian police state. Big Brother Google is ALWAYS watching.
Of the Faceboot employees I've personally encountered, 20% were incompetent Bay Area Progressive assholes, and 80% were incompetent H1B scabs. I met the Bay Area Progressive assholes quite a few years ago. By now they may also have been replaced by H1B scabs.
"professional journalism"
It appears all the semi-official media outlets are regurgitating the Official Narrative. I believe that is what's now considered journalistic professionalism.
I'm really not convinced Ecuadorian President Moreno was bought. He seems like a pretty traditional upper class, anti-worker Latin American politician. No need to take bribes - he and is family and friends directly benefit from every public policy that kicks the poor or gives a government handout to the super rich. Standard issue banana republic capitalist dog.
Forced-vax Nazis sure do love stomping pious Jews under the iron boot of the police state.
Where have we seen this before?...
Article summarized:
Forced-vax nazis bring out the iron boot, force people to undergo controversial medical procedures against their will. Everyone saw this coming.
Corporate Progressive nazis everywhere celebrate this bold transgressionvof human rights as the first step on the march to biopolitical totalitarianism. Big Pharma oligarchs are cackle with delight on their private islands.
It appears our cousins over in limey-land also enjoy the sweet smell of coerced false confession in the morning.
What we really need is millions and millions of two ton autonomous networked robots rolling around our cities. What could possibly go wrong?!?!?
"intelligent people's venture capital"
If they were intelligent, the upper class twits who are VCs would be on Wall Street making real money. VCs are people with all the family money and connections to be top investment bankers, but who are too dumb to work on JP Morgan's janitorial staff.
How's that bootleather taste?