So basically you're saying, yep the British government is going to ship a pro-Freedom political dissident to Soviet America, where he will be tortured and likely thrown in the concentration camp at Gitmo. But that's all a-okay, 'cuz formalist legalism. They filled out their forms correctly!
"IT'S DUH LAHWW!!!1!!!"
Using the legal system to perpetrate notorious immorality serves only to bring the Law itself, and even the very idea of Law, into popular disrepute.
You CANNOT turn off location services. All your can do is ask the factory-p0wned OS, please turn off location services. From what we know of Google, it's pretty safe to assume the OS never honors your request.
NO ONE is okay with this. If people were to vote on the question - "who wants every detail of your life snooped by an evil megacorp 24/7/365 with no warrant, no suspicion, and no recourse?" - the overwhelming majority would vote "fuck no".
The only reason the iron boot of the police state hasn't already stomped Google is... that Google is de facto part of that police state.
Ada certainly looks like a nice language. Unfortunately very few civilian companies seem to use it. A quick search on Indeed.com suggests there are 20x more Python developer jobs than Ada developer jobs listed today. That without controlling for namespace collision with ADA regulations.
Any thoughts on why Ada is so uncommon in private industry?
The semi-official news sources are full of endless stories about economic stagnation/collapse in Europe, especially southern Europe. Maybe it's all fake news?
True, by the grace of God I am not a lawyer. I will not attempt to predict the actions of our kangaroo courts. Most likely they will weigh the suitcases full of cash to decide.
However it is glaringly obvious - to all but the very dimmest or most willfully obtuse observers - that open-to-the-public, free-to-use, everyone-can-join web properties with billions of users are in fact public spaces.
The mountain of skulls resulted from the Leninist idea of the "dictatorship of the proletariat".
On one hand, we must recognize that Leninism _worked_, in the sense of successfully overthrowing several feudalist (or proto-capitalist) governments. On the other hand, it instituted a bunch of goddamned dictatorships. And we all know what happened with that.
Socialism - and even small-c communism - is not the same thing as Leninism. Many people believe there are evolutionary rather than revolutionary routes to socialism. The oft-cited examples are the European welfare states, which achieved a weak (and long term unsustainable, it seems) form of socialism - without piling up a mountain of skulls.
I know lots of small-c communists. None of whom think it would be a good idea to repeat the experience of the Soviet Union.
Why defend cheap ass companies? Their actions demonstrate clearly that they do not value security - like real dollar value, not cheap talk about value.
Keep repeating that your "credit score" only impacts your ability to get a loan. Maybe if enough people repeat that mantra, it will magically become true!
"It's also a form of caste system - born to parents of poor social credit will generally make you have poor social credit as well. And the ways to "get out" are extremely limited. When you're scraping the bottom of the barrel for today's meal, the options to increase your score are limited and you'll likely do things that reduce your score just to eat."
So pretty much just like the American "credit score" system. A little bit more invasive; but also a little bit more honest and open.
"we should have machines learning and alerting on this as they crawl through our electronic medical record systems all day"
CDC already does this, calling it "disease surveillance". There are several systems in place, however none of them is really comprehensive yet. See for example https://wwwn.cdc.gov/nndss/
What the world needs to see is the actual source code. Someone needs to drag Big Brother Google's secret algorithms out into the light of day. Let the world see just how corrupt they really are.
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When the law is virtuous, rule of law is a great benefit to mankind.
When the law is wicked, rule of law is a curse from the gods.
So basically you're saying, yep the British government is going to ship a pro-Freedom political dissident to Soviet America, where he will be tortured and likely thrown in the concentration camp at Gitmo. But that's all a-okay, 'cuz formalist legalism. They filled out their forms correctly!
"IT'S DUH LAHWW!!!1!!!"
Using the legal system to perpetrate notorious immorality serves only to bring the Law itself, and even the very idea of Law, into popular disrepute.
"functioning justice system"
Exactly...
Freedom is dangerous. Big Brother will save us from Freedom. Because Big Brother loves us all.
Big Brother Bezos is always watching.
Presumably both of those things have been happening for quite a while now. The system is operating as designed.
You CANNOT turn off location services. All your can do is ask the factory-p0wned OS, please turn off location services. From what we know of Google, it's pretty safe to assume the OS never honors your request.
"Is everybody really OK with this?"
NO ONE is okay with this. If people were to vote on the question - "who wants every detail of your life snooped by an evil megacorp 24/7/365 with no warrant, no suspicion, and no recourse?" - the overwhelming majority would vote "fuck no".
The only reason the iron boot of the police state hasn't already stomped Google is... that Google is de facto part of that police state.
Big Brother Google is always watching.
Ada certainly looks like a nice language. Unfortunately very few civilian companies seem to use it. A quick search on Indeed.com suggests there are 20x more Python developer jobs than Ada developer jobs listed today. That without controlling for namespace collision with ADA regulations.
Any thoughts on why Ada is so uncommon in private industry?
The semi-official news sources are full of endless stories about economic stagnation/collapse in Europe, especially southern Europe. Maybe it's all fake news?
American neo-feudal capitalism is medium term unstable, let alone long term.
True, by the grace of God I am not a lawyer. I will not attempt to predict the actions of our kangaroo courts. Most likely they will weigh the suitcases full of cash to decide.
However it is glaringly obvious - to all but the very dimmest or most willfully obtuse observers - that open-to-the-public, free-to-use, everyone-can-join web properties with billions of users are in fact public spaces.
Where do you think Google makes its money?
From Uncle Sam and other oppressive governments?
It's much like elections. MOST PEOPLE do care. They just don't perceive any realistic option to avoid the tyranny.
The mountain of skulls resulted from the Leninist idea of the "dictatorship of the proletariat".
On one hand, we must recognize that Leninism _worked_, in the sense of successfully overthrowing several feudalist (or proto-capitalist) governments. On the other hand, it instituted a bunch of goddamned dictatorships. And we all know what happened with that.
Socialism - and even small-c communism - is not the same thing as Leninism. Many people believe there are evolutionary rather than revolutionary routes to socialism. The oft-cited examples are the European welfare states, which achieved a weak (and long term unsustainable, it seems) form of socialism - without piling up a mountain of skulls.
I know lots of small-c communists. None of whom think it would be a good idea to repeat the experience of the Soviet Union.
Most street drug dealers are too morally upright to consider a career in Big Pharma.
Why defend cheap ass companies? Their actions demonstrate clearly that they do not value security - like real dollar value, not cheap talk about value.
Keep repeating that your "credit score" only impacts your ability to get a loan. Maybe if enough people repeat that mantra, it will magically become true!
"The only thing the US credit score affects is your ability to borrow money in all it's many forms."
It also directly affects one's ability to secure housing and employment.
China's social credit system may be worse, however let's not pretend our "credit score" system is anything but a form of neo-feudal totalitarianism.
"It's also a form of caste system - born to parents of poor social credit will generally make you have poor social credit as well. And the ways to "get out" are extremely limited. When you're scraping the bottom of the barrel for today's meal, the options to increase your score are limited and you'll likely do things that reduce your score just to eat."
So pretty much just like the American "credit score" system. A little bit more invasive; but also a little bit more honest and open.
Cybernetic totalitarianism FTW!
"we should have machines learning and alerting on this as they crawl through our electronic medical record systems all day"
CDC already does this, calling it "disease surveillance". There are several systems in place, however none of them is really comprehensive yet. See for example https://wwwn.cdc.gov/nndss/
What the world needs to see is the actual source code. Someone needs to drag Big Brother Google's secret algorithms out into the light of day. Let the world see just how corrupt they really are.
It is most extremely obvious that they are operating public spaces.
What's unclear now is whether a few discreet suitcases full of cash can persuade a judge to ignore the reality right in front of his face.
My TED talk would be about what all TED talks are about: inane pap.