The default should be (and always should have been) opt-out. Don't collect any information or share any information unless the user/customer chooses to opt-in. That way you wouldn't have to read pages and pages of legal crap to find out how to opt-out.
A better question is, have they actually found any viruses? And, if they have found any, have they let the user know about it or have they just quietly deleted it?
An anti-virus that has been running for a year on millions of computers surely has found something by now. If not, then why run it at all?
Look up at the top of the page here at slashdot. It says, "Like us on Facebook". I wonder how many like they have. I also wonder how many people who read slashdot have Facebook accounts. I don't, but I bet nearly all of you do.
"If you roast your coffee in a regular brewer the coffee doesn't get hot enough to generate the chemical. If however you are brewing at high temperature and pressure like in an instant espresso machine well, different story."
You are confusing roasting with brewing. You can't roast coffee at 200 degrees F. You can brew coffee at that temperature, but for roasting coffee you need much higher temperatures.
If you tried roasting green coffee at 200 degrees F, all you'd get is horrible-tasting baked coffee.
You can have the service station coffee. I'll take my home-roasted, ground-right-before-I-brew-it coffee any day of the week.
The main problem is that government employees have "defined benefit" retirements, whereas nearly all private sector employees have "defined contribution" retirements. The math just doesn't work when somebody can work for 25 or 30 years and then draw a large pension for 25 or 30 or 40 more years. States have learned this the hard way and some are switching to "defined contribution" retirement plans. We had state workers here retiring after a 25 year "career" and expecting large retirement checks for the rest of their life. It just does not work and I hate paying taxes so the state can write those checks.
"If local leaders want to protect their constituents' rights"
That made me laugh. Local leaders are no better than national leaders at doing anything for us. Maybe in a small city of 5 or 10 thousand, but in a major city you're no better off than you are nationally. The "leaders" are just as susceptible to corruption and are just as unreachable.
I really don't mind ads IF they are well-behaved. They shouldn't contain malware at the very least. They shouldn't take up half the damned screen. They shouldn't auto-play if they're video based. There should be a way to close the ad after you've seen it, especially if it's covering content you want to see. They shouldn't constantly change size making the content you're reading jump up and down. And, last but not least, they shouldn't track you.
Ads have gotten worse and worse over the past few years. They're now annoying as shit, just in-your-face pure crap. Give me some simple ads, preferably small ones, and I'll put up with them.
Finally, we hear from an experienced human driver. I also drive quite a bit at night, and the one thing you have to do is drive within your headlights. If you're going too fast and out-driving your headlights, you're asking for disaster. One trick is turning down your dash lights. It's hard enough to see at night without an extremely bright light in your face.
There are more things out there to hit at night besides humans. I've come close to hitting dozens of deer, bunches of dogs (large and small), a cow, a couple of trees that had fallen across the road, and all kinds of garbage (ladders, chunks of metal scrap, etc.).
Hell, even in the daytime you can be going the speed limit and STILL be going too fast for the road conditions. Ever top a hill at 55 on a 2-lane road and all of a sudden there's a garbage truck stopped in front of you, or a very slow-moving farm tractor, or a road crew? Ever go around a sharp curve at the speed limit and see the road washed out in front of you or a huge log across the road? How about a bridge you've crossed hundreds of times, but never in a heavy rain, so you didn't know that it became as slippery as ice during a heavy rain? Oh, and try all of those daytime hazards at night and see how you fare.
I've driven about 2 million miles. I've probably seen it all and it can be very scary out there. Would I trust my life to a self-driving car? No way in hell.
Are you saying that people never listen to music written before they were born? Seriously? I listen to classical music all the time, and I am pretty sure I'm not THAT old. My guess is that everybody who has heard a Beethoven symphony in the last few years was not alive when it was written.
"Stairway to Heaven" came out the year I graduated from high school. It's still better than a lot of the crap out there now.
Did you just figure that out today? Most people have known it for years. The left knows it and doesn't care. The right knows it and can't do anything about it. The mainstream media is the propaganda department of the Democrat Party.
You'd be surprised how many people listen to broadcast radio during their commute to and from work. It's the perfect way to get traffic reports, weather, sports, and news while you drive. And it's FREE.
They may not listen to broadcast radio that plays music, but talk to companies that advertise on radio. The numbers are unreal.
I live in the Central Time zone. Today when I leave for work it will be daylight. When I leave Monday morning it will still be dark. I could go along with the time change IF they waited about a month to do it.
I have plenty of daylight left after work right now and a month from now I'll have more, but a month from now it would be daylight when I leave for work. Just wait until about April 15 to change it and I'll be a happy camper.
Humans have also learned how to learn. Whether we realize it or not, we learn something every day of our lives. We are used to learning and since we practice it continually, we're good at it. Our survival depends on it.
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The default should be (and always should have been) opt-out. Don't collect any information or share any information unless the user/customer chooses to opt-in. That way you wouldn't have to read pages and pages of legal crap to find out how to opt-out.
Well, there is this thing called "free will", and humans have an incredible attraction to sin (sinning is usually fun).
Personally, I can resist anything except temptation.
It's also illegal to hire them, harbor them, and in any way aid their illegal entry. But the Dims keep trying anyway.
It's also very irritating that they named that series of processors "Core". That does nothing but confuse people.
Zuck is an ass, so I'm really surprised that Cook doesn't love him.
:)
There, I've insulted BOTH of them.
A better question is, have they actually found any viruses? And, if they have found any, have they let the user know about it or have they just quietly deleted it?
An anti-virus that has been running for a year on millions of computers surely has found something by now. If not, then why run it at all?
Any answers, Google?
You're not the goatse guy are you?
Look up at the top of the page here at slashdot. It says, "Like us on Facebook". I wonder how many like they have. I also wonder how many people who read slashdot have Facebook accounts. I don't, but I bet nearly all of you do.
Shame on you.
"If you roast your coffee in a regular brewer the coffee doesn't get hot enough to generate the chemical. If however you are brewing at high temperature and pressure like in an instant espresso machine well, different story."
You are confusing roasting with brewing. You can't roast coffee at 200 degrees F. You can brew coffee at that temperature, but for roasting coffee you need much higher temperatures.
If you tried roasting green coffee at 200 degrees F, all you'd get is horrible-tasting baked coffee.
You can have the service station coffee. I'll take my home-roasted, ground-right-before-I-brew-it coffee any day of the week.
The main problem is that government employees have "defined benefit" retirements, whereas nearly all private sector employees have "defined contribution" retirements. The math just doesn't work when somebody can work for 25 or 30 years and then draw a large pension for 25 or 30 or 40 more years. States have learned this the hard way and some are switching to "defined contribution" retirement plans. We had state workers here retiring after a 25 year "career" and expecting large retirement checks for the rest of their life. It just does not work and I hate paying taxes so the state can write those checks.
"If local leaders want to protect their constituents' rights"
That made me laugh. Local leaders are no better than national leaders at doing anything for us. Maybe in a small city of 5 or 10 thousand, but in a major city you're no better off than you are nationally. The "leaders" are just as susceptible to corruption and are just as unreachable.
I really don't mind ads IF they are well-behaved. They shouldn't contain malware at the very least. They shouldn't take up half the damned screen. They shouldn't auto-play if they're video based. There should be a way to close the ad after you've seen it, especially if it's covering content you want to see. They shouldn't constantly change size making the content you're reading jump up and down. And, last but not least, they shouldn't track you.
Ads have gotten worse and worse over the past few years. They're now annoying as shit, just in-your-face pure crap. Give me some simple ads, preferably small ones, and I'll put up with them.
Those critters can cause cancer!
Finally, we hear from an experienced human driver. I also drive quite a bit at night, and the one thing you have to do is drive within your headlights. If you're going too fast and out-driving your headlights, you're asking for disaster. One trick is turning down your dash lights. It's hard enough to see at night without an extremely bright light in your face.
There are more things out there to hit at night besides humans. I've come close to hitting dozens of deer, bunches of dogs (large and small), a cow, a couple of trees that had fallen across the road, and all kinds of garbage (ladders, chunks of metal scrap, etc.).
Hell, even in the daytime you can be going the speed limit and STILL be going too fast for the road conditions. Ever top a hill at 55 on a 2-lane road and all of a sudden there's a garbage truck stopped in front of you, or a very slow-moving farm tractor, or a road crew? Ever go around a sharp curve at the speed limit and see the road washed out in front of you or a huge log across the road? How about a bridge you've crossed hundreds of times, but never in a heavy rain, so you didn't know that it became as slippery as ice during a heavy rain? Oh, and try all of those daytime hazards at night and see how you fare.
I've driven about 2 million miles. I've probably seen it all and it can be very scary out there. Would I trust my life to a self-driving car? No way in hell.
Are you saying that people never listen to music written before they were born? Seriously? I listen to classical music all the time, and I am pretty sure I'm not THAT old. My guess is that everybody who has heard a Beethoven symphony in the last few years was not alive when it was written.
"Stairway to Heaven" came out the year I graduated from high school. It's still better than a lot of the crap out there now.
You mean the makers of a browser I don't use anymore because they don't care about privacy at all? That Mozilla?
That's rich, really rich.
Did you just figure that out today? Most people have known it for years. The left knows it and doesn't care. The right knows it and can't do anything about it. The mainstream media is the propaganda department of the Democrat Party.
Be careful what you wish for. You may just get it.
Things like this just give our own politicians (would-be dictators all) evil ideas.
What I can't believe is that some of you actually think it's a good idea.
You'd be surprised how many people listen to broadcast radio during their commute to and from work. It's the perfect way to get traffic reports, weather, sports, and news while you drive. And it's FREE.
They may not listen to broadcast radio that plays music, but talk to companies that advertise on radio. The numbers are unreal.
I thought it was named after a sex robot.
I live in the Central Time zone. Today when I leave for work it will be daylight. When I leave Monday morning it will still be dark. I could go along with the time change IF they waited about a month to do it.
I have plenty of daylight left after work right now and a month from now I'll have more, but a month from now it would be daylight when I leave for work. Just wait until about April 15 to change it and I'll be a happy camper.
Humans have also learned how to learn. Whether we realize it or not, we learn something every day of our lives. We are used to learning and since we practice it continually, we're good at it. Our survival depends on it.
Why not set up a video camera pointing outside and then stream the scene to the television? Instant window!
I'm 65, and if someone gave me one for a gift, I'd sell it. Don't underestimate the intelligence of your elders. They built the world you live in.