There is nothing to "engineer" - this is just censorship.
This is a correct observation. But it does get me thinking about some questions:
As a private business, Google is in the business of data quality, that is, filtering out spam, link-farmed content, and so on. Is that censorship too? Or is that just maintaining data quality?
As a private business - with no first amendment obligations, I might point out - what is their responsibility to facilitate distribution of intentional falsehoods?
Does deliberate misinformation and propaganda merit the less / more / same weight as other factual content?
A plurality of the average American voter have demonstrated their inability to detect fact from fiction, or even know how easily they are getting played by well funded enemy states that are plotting our demise. Isn't it in our national security interests to combat false data, which is individually hyper-tuned to punch the buttons of each mark's biases, fears, and beliefs?
From a technical point of view, you are of course correct.
But the sad, unfortunate truth is that even hard core techies haven't been able to do this among ourselves. We could use certificates and PGP (or GPG) to secure our communications, but who in real life actually does that? If we can't do it, how can one expect the increasingly dumbed-down masses to?
To your point on small, scattered databases: gathering them all into a single point of contact sounds like a business plan that would easily get funded, with the hope of becoming the next Equifax.
The font changes are interesting but...... until other browsers support it, who in their right mind is going to design a chrome-only website?
If you hadn't noticed, this is standard play from the Chrome playbook. They go for the first mover advantage by implementing something before anyone else. When the standards groups finally start taking notice, Chrome has an already-working implementation that serves as the basis for new standards. We've seen this in the HTTP/2 an QUIC protocols.
This is SO tiring. Everywhere there is someone looking for some way to sell us out for a quick buck. Here we go again, the carriers trying to get their pound of flesh and avoid being disintermediated by the Facebooks and Alphabets of the world.
Not really related, but last night I saw the 60 Minutes piece showing how Rep. Tom Marino, a Pennsylvania Republican, shepherded big-pharma-written legislation to prevent the DEA from prosecuting Fortune 500 companies which deliberately make opiates available for diversion to the black market, fueling the epidemic and their profits. All with congressional cover.
It's just nonstop. Seems like it is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
You do realize they were kicked off the internet for writing a disrespectful article about a someone killed while marching with antifa, right? This isn't a slippery slope, this is reaching the bottom of the slope and is very, very scary.
Oh, puh-leeze. Restrictions on free speech are only an issue when it is government dictating or suppressing political speech. This is a situation where a private ISP is choosing not to have a relationship with a private customer. Google owes the fascist cucks exactly squat. Not slippery. Not scary. Plenty more ISPs and registrars that cater to the underbelly.
Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences.
In another day and age, you would have justified deportation to the gulag with the exact same words.
Ah yes, the second classic - or intentional - misunderstanding of free speech. The right to free speech only applies to political speech and the government's attempt to suppress it. In a private context -- the case here -- there is no requirement for one party to provide another party with anything.
Nice try to put words in my mouth, but of course that not what I said or implied.
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Question: when you say density, are you referring to average density over the entire volume? Shirley, the density is not uniform?
Microsoft Stick now generally available for everyone's eye.
BSD did nothing wrong.
"Just following orders."
There is nothing to "engineer" - this is just censorship.
This is a correct observation. But it does get me thinking about some questions:
$vi Brian Madeux
:%s/badgene/goodgene/g
:wq
He's all cured.
Passive --> Active
From a technical point of view, you are of course correct.
But the sad, unfortunate truth is that even hard core techies haven't been able to do this among ourselves. We could use certificates and PGP (or GPG) to secure our communications, but who in real life actually does that? If we can't do it, how can one expect the increasingly dumbed-down masses to?
To your point on small, scattered databases: gathering them all into a single point of contact sounds like a business plan that would easily get funded, with the hope of becoming the next Equifax.
Well, considering their 1.2 billion people DB hasn't leaked .. that we know about.
FTFY :)
The font changes are interesting but...... until other browsers support it, who in their right mind is going to design a chrome-only website?
If you hadn't noticed, this is standard play from the Chrome playbook. They go for the first mover advantage by implementing something before anyone else. When the standards groups finally start taking notice, Chrome has an already-working implementation that serves as the basis for new standards. We've seen this in the HTTP/2 an QUIC protocols.
This is SO tiring. Everywhere there is someone looking for some way to sell us out for a quick buck. Here we go again, the carriers trying to get their pound of flesh and avoid being disintermediated by the Facebooks and Alphabets of the world.
Not really related, but last night I saw the 60 Minutes piece showing how Rep. Tom Marino, a Pennsylvania Republican, shepherded big-pharma-written legislation to prevent the DEA from prosecuting Fortune 500 companies which deliberately make opiates available for diversion to the black market, fueling the epidemic and their profits. All with congressional cover.
It's just nonstop. Seems like it is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
Film at 11.
This guy has proven himself a fucking moron over and over and over again.
--Rex Tillerson
They had banks of Amiga 2000/3000 doing the rendering.
Assuming the original models are available, there's no reason why a modern Beowolf cluster of <something> couldn't be redone at a higher res.
Sigh, replying to undo unintended mod. Meant to mark interesting.
Wish I had more mod points for you. I had a good chuckle at "No one wants to use a terminal to unfuck their packages on a tap-to-type keyboard."
I'm sure that this could all be worked out if Yelp just purchased some advertising space on Google.
Posting to remove accidental mod
Wish I had mod points for you today.
Elon Musk or Daft Punk?
It was those graphics that essentially got me to stop watching commercial TV.
Oh, yeah? Well, I don't even own a television.
You haven't heard of DRY? Don't Repeat Yourself.
I'm sorry, what'd you say? :^)
I don't usually reply to ACs, but our friend Napoleon has something to say on this topic.
You do realize they were kicked off the internet for writing a disrespectful article about a someone killed while marching with antifa, right? This isn't a slippery slope, this is reaching the bottom of the slope and is very, very scary.
Oh, puh-leeze. Restrictions on free speech are only an issue when it is government dictating or suppressing political speech. This is a situation where a private ISP is choosing not to have a relationship with a private customer. Google owes the fascist cucks exactly squat. Not slippery. Not scary. Plenty more ISPs and registrars that cater to the underbelly.
You want slippery and scary? Look at the story where Orange45 is trying to get all the records from one ISP to identify all users of a website and what content each user saw.
If you aren't free of consequences for speech then you have no freedom of speech. That's a fact.
No, that's your opinion. If it's a "fact," then please cite a reference.
Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences.
In another day and age, you would have justified deportation to the gulag with the exact same words.
Ah yes, the second classic - or intentional - misunderstanding of free speech. The right to free speech only applies to political speech and the government's attempt to suppress it. In a private context -- the case here -- there is no requirement for one party to provide another party with anything.
Nice try to put words in my mouth, but of course that not what I said or implied.