Google -- and any other online site -- cannot possibly know the upload contains "illegal" content until the upload is completed. So much babbling here about "Upload Filters" is even more perplexing, as though filter software will need to be installed on your computer before uploads are even allowed!!!!
The EU politicians are idiots, of course, and YouTube has long since had copyright detection where your video will be blocked from viewing if YT's algorithms think your video has protected content.
As far as news stories, Google is doing the news sites a favour, driving traffic to them. Talk about biting your gift horse.
I am not saying that Google is a shining company, as the recent fiasco with James Damore demonstrates. But come on. Google provides so many free services to everyone, why bitch? Maps is a fine example, and I use that app daily to navigate through the rush hours in Berlin. I would actually pay for that service. And yes, yes, I know they are storing my movements -- for me, they have my movements stored all the way back to 2009. I actually find it useful to see precisely when and where I've travelled around the world. It's a privacy issue for sure, but then you don't have to use Google, or you can simply create a burner account if it matters that much to you.
The EU seems hell-bent on destroying the Internet. At least for Europe. All Google and others have to do is simply block Europe (and I'll have my VPN at the ready!!!). How would Europe get along without Google? Bing? Yahoo? Sure. It would be funny as hell if the big Internet companies boycotted the EU. Funny as hell.
"Google+: Google+ was once supposed to be the one-stop shop for social and support among Google users, but it never really caught on. And then it was revealed that some 50 million users may have had their name, email address, occupation, and age exposed to third-party developers, which accelerated its demise. Now it's going away for good, but we can't imagine that anyone will actually notice."
I guess I am not "anyone" then. I was using a G+ group to support AI research, which I now have migrated to MeWe.
And so, this "nobody" will continue. There were many of us using G+, but just because our numbers never made it to the insane levels of FaceBook -- who basically treats all their members like 5-year-olds -- does not mean we were nobodies. I was a member of many high-quality groups, like Blender and many others, that are all going to go "poof". And the 200GB archive I downloaded from G+ is another sign of just how active I've been there for many, many years.
So PCWorld can shove it where the sun never shines. Besides, they are one of the worst computer magazines ever. Never ever liked them.
on your laptop. One for your Powerpoints or other business apps you want to use, and the other for your private / personal affairs. It does not have to be even separate OS account. I have many Chrome accounts, and I always create a company one for wherever I am working at. A separation of concerns.:)
Well, it's a puerile response from me, and just what the hell is "harmful content", anyway? Smells like leftist claptrap to me. Oh boy, let's make it criminal to hurt your precious little darling feelings. And thus, Free Speech is dead.
...and our choosy mothers here would never choose "Jif" becase we pronounce our "J" like you pronounce your "Y", and it just sounds wrong somehow. Besides, we don't like the wimpy ways you pronounce your "G", anyway.:) Viel Glück!!!
Since when does Mozilla, who has been indirectly supporting the violent Antifa, get off on pushing "ethics" to others??? How about they clean up their own house first?????
And to allow everyone a chance to say something, we had a "token" that was passed around the table to allow everyone a chance to speak. And considering we had 6-10 people to show up, this worked out surprisingly well.
The level of condescension involved here is hard to underscore. I had to deal with exactly this situation at a major network corporation 20 years ago. I really don't get it. Slavery has been a blight on the human race for centuries, up till fairly recently. "Blacks" were not the only ones enslaved. Hardly. Many groups were -- and they've all gotten over it. What makes the "blacks" so special??? Stop it already. Use the terms "master" and "slave" if it makes sense to do so. I will be sure to increase my use of those terms in my own opensource projects, and if someone doesn't like it, too bad.
This is insanely crazy. Many of Google's own software engineers would not qualify either, being degree-less Autodidacts like myself. Maybe I'm missing the point here. Oh well. I'll just stick to my AI projects. Because I am simply too undereducated to test a self-driving car.
I try to get agreements upfront about such matters. Already I've had to grab two open source projects and fix them, and in those cases I did put the fixes back out there in OSS land. Just make the agreement up front.
And there has been those times I wanted to release a new tool I created to open source, because others may have found it useful and they weren't part of the core business. And I was denied. And what can you do? As someone already stated, they are paying for the code, so it's their call.
And then there is the Grace Hopper approach to things. Do that at your own risk. lol
Indeed. They have long since gotten around the built-in popup block in most browsers by doing the same directly at the HTML level. Nothing is more annoying than the entire page darkening up while I'm reading and then seeing that annoying sneaky pop-up. I usually close the tab at that point.
Tracking is becoming more insidious every day. Now, Hotspots will record the probe requests your cellphones send out looking for a WiFi to connect to, and will include your MAC address for technical reasons (can probe faster that way). Many are storing that MAC and sending up to a central server for analysis.
Imagine as you drive around a city your MAC address is being used to trace your movements. If you go to a posh mall and afterwards go to pick up your kids from day care, that can be used to profile you. And if your own WiFi router is also phoning this info back somewhere... well, you see where this is going.
Every since the publication of "The Fractal Geometry of Nature", my views of our Universe have been transformed.
And in case you haven't noticed, the title here is a paraphrase of a title of a chapter of a story (or film) of another Great that, too, is no longer with us. Let's see if you recognize it.
It is sad that brilliant minds die. But it happens. And may you fall into an infinite trench of Fractal wonders.
Mandelbrot has inspired many, and has inspired me to create Gravity Set Fractals.
What if a rogue app turns on the microphone or camera on command from some central server unbeknownst to you? The app could easedrop and spy on you. Is is my hope no app stoops that low, but you never know!
More importantly, just how are you supposed to know what you can trust or not? If an app zips your private info off to a server somewhere, you'd never know it. Even if you sniff the packets, it could still be encrypted or stenographized.
Google should give the user finer control and log what private info has been requested by what app.
Not just software patents should be denied, but lifeform patents as well. In fact, I would love to see all lifeform patents invalidated, as this would take the wind out of the sails of Monsanto.
The Military sucks up a HUGE portion of the national budget. If you got rid of that alone, we'd probably be OK.
Surprisingly, the military is a more or less fixed cost, and can be dealt with in various ways, by increasing revenue or cutting spending. As you can see from this graph, we've been cutting military spending for a long time
On the graph it states that spending in Iraq and Afghanistan was "mostly" excluded, so we're not looking at a complete picture.
(and replacing it with social programs), and Robert Gates seems to be doing a capable job of continuing that trend. I'm also going to suggest it would be unwise to completely cut military spending (and indeed, we couldn't immediately because a large portion of military spending goes to things like pensions).
The biggest problem with the national budget is actually medicare (there are a number of ways to fix social security, it's just a matter of choosing one and fixing it). As you can see from this graph, medicare will eventually push out all other non-obligatory spending, and actually the problem has gotten worse since that graph was made.
I'm ok with cutting military spending, but let's address the root of the problem.
Yes, entitlements will eat the US alive. It was not sustainable to begin with. Something will have to give, and to "fix" the problem means either raising taxes, which would be devestaving, or cutting the entitlements, which will impact those who have the expectation of getting them.
My retirement plans do NOT include entitlements of any sort. They simply will not be solvent by that time, or will pay so little it'll be a joke.
This is the government's Ponzi at Gunpoint Scheme that it forces us all to "buy" into, but will leave us much worse than high and dry.
If you have to keep borrowing and borrowing, and doing so faster than you can pay it off, meanwhile the basis of your credit is shrinking, it's a disaster waiting to happen.
The Military sucks up a HUGE portion of the national budget. If you got rid of that alone, we'd probably be OK. Or at least not as bad off as we are.
But what's wrong with being cash positive rather than cash negative? Continuous borrowing is always a loosing proposition, both for the borrower and the creditor.
I'm not trolling, actually, but that's besides the point.
The US is no longer on the Gold standard because Gold is worthless.
Worthless? Really? Can I have your gold then?
I watch the financial markets nearly every day and gold is anything but worthless.
What is valuable is debt aka IOUs or promissory notes aka US Dollars otherwise known as Government issued Reserve Notes. Debt is backed by labor or goods and services which have real intrinsic value.
Ah, see, you are proving my point already, but let's continue.
Gold is only useful in niche electronic components and fashion jewelry.
FYI Reserve Notes are backed by Birth Certificates which have an economic value of ~$750000 - $1000000 for the lifetime of the individual, which is how much that Citizen is expected to contribute to the national economy in their lifetime in labor, services, intellectual property, etc.
So us human citizens are being used as collateral for the debt! Ah, therein lies the rub! Unless you have infinite growth, this model fails. The planet is only so big, and there are only so many resources, places to live, farmland, etc. Population growth cannot continue to grow indefinitely -- it's mathematically impossible.
So now what happens when your assumptions of infinite growth are dashed to the hills? You have enslaved all of your citizens into paying off this debt, and you have to use force to "exact tribute
" -- the IRS -- but now the bottom falls out because you hit zero population growth, or perhaps population begins to decline.
So now your creditors become restless and may wish to call back in the loan in full. Or drop you as a basis. Hello, what has China been doing recently? Making lots of noise about switching from the USD to some other standard for world currency -- like GOLD!
Why don't you explain to China and India how "worthless" gold is. Go ahead. I dare ya.
So to summarize we exchanged an economy backed by a semi-rare earth mineral for an economy backed by a population of contributing citizens and abstracted into a commodity by the vehicle of debt and debt reserve notes ( US Dollars).
To rephrase what you've just stated, "we" -- really the US government, not us -- took us off a solid standard with builtin accountability, sold us all out and decided to use you and me as collateral for a debt they keep running up, higher and deeper.
The wars fought today have nothing to do with "National Security" and everything to do with control of resources to keep the illusion going that the debt model will continue indefinitely -- which it will not.
You may love a world of debt servitude, but I do not. You and I did not choose to become debt slaves -- we were signed up for it at birth, and you fully admit it.
So thank you for making my point for me. I couldn't have said it better myself!!!!!
You miss my point entirely. We've become a nation that floats on debt. Always in the red. It's the mode of operation that's the problem. You cannot keep borrowing forever without repayment; something has to give eventually. When was the last time the US actually had a surplus? My point entirely.
The debt model that the US has been operating under for the many decades is simply not sustainable.
You only resort to these extreme measures if you have a negative ROI. If you have sustained negative ROI, that's actually worse than actual bankruptcy, which is an admission that you failed and promise to restructure. Nope, the rampant spending continues, and the fiat money flows. The broken system becomes even more broken, as fiscal fantasy becomes even more out of line with fiscal reality.
That party cannot continue forever, I don't think.
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If it does not like the topic of conversation, will it shut itself down for 30 days just to "teach you a lesson?"
Google -- and any other online site -- cannot possibly know the upload contains "illegal" content until the upload is completed. So much babbling here about "Upload Filters" is even more perplexing, as though filter software will need to be installed on your computer before uploads are even allowed!!!!
The EU politicians are idiots, of course, and YouTube has long since had copyright detection where your video will be blocked from viewing if YT's algorithms think your video has protected content.
As far as news stories, Google is doing the news sites a favour, driving traffic to them. Talk about biting your gift horse.
I am not saying that Google is a shining company, as the recent fiasco with James Damore demonstrates. But come on. Google provides so many free services to everyone, why bitch? Maps is a fine example, and I use that app daily to navigate through the rush hours in Berlin. I would actually pay for that service. And yes, yes, I know they are storing my movements -- for me, they have my movements stored all the way back to 2009. I actually find it useful to see precisely when and where I've travelled around the world. It's a privacy issue for sure, but then you don't have to use Google, or you can simply create a burner account if it matters that much to you.
The EU seems hell-bent on destroying the Internet. At least for Europe. All Google and others have to do is simply block Europe (and I'll have my VPN at the ready!!!). How would Europe get along without Google? Bing? Yahoo? Sure. It would be funny as hell if the big Internet companies boycotted the EU. Funny as hell.
"Google+: Google+ was once supposed to be the one-stop shop for social and support among Google users, but it never really caught on. And then it was revealed that some 50 million users may have had their name, email address, occupation, and age exposed to third-party developers, which accelerated its demise. Now it's going away for good, but we can't imagine that anyone will actually notice."
I guess I am not "anyone" then. I was using a G+ group to support AI research, which I now have migrated to MeWe.
And so, this "nobody" will continue. There were many of us using G+, but just because our numbers never made it to the insane levels of FaceBook -- who basically treats all their members like 5-year-olds -- does not mean we were nobodies. I was a member of many high-quality groups, like Blender and many others, that are all going to go "poof". And the 200GB archive I downloaded from G+ is another sign of just how active I've been there for many, many years.
So PCWorld can shove it where the sun never shines. Besides, they are one of the worst computer magazines ever. Never ever liked them.
on your laptop. One for your Powerpoints or other business apps you want to use, and the other for your private / personal affairs. It does not have to be even separate OS account. I have many Chrome accounts, and I always create a company one for wherever I am working at. A separation of concerns. :)
Well, it's a puerile response from me, and just what the hell is "harmful content", anyway? Smells like leftist claptrap to me. Oh boy, let's make it criminal to hurt your precious little darling feelings. And thus, Free Speech is dead.
...and our choosy mothers here would never choose "Jif" becase we pronounce our "J" like you pronounce your "Y", and it just sounds wrong somehow. Besides, we don't like the wimpy ways you pronounce your "G", anyway. :) Viel Glück!!!
The US. Whittling away your freedoms and liberty and dignity -- one device at a time.
By "interefering", do they mean crackers breaking into online voter servers? Or just posting opinions and the like in social media?
If the latter, that hardly "interfering". Just voicing opinions. Double-plus good oh my brother!
Since when does Mozilla, who has been indirectly supporting the violent Antifa, get off on pushing "ethics" to others??? How about they clean up their own house first?????
And to allow everyone a chance to say something, we had a "token" that was passed around the table to allow everyone a chance to speak. And considering we had 6-10 people to show up, this worked out surprisingly well.
The level of condescension involved here is hard to underscore. I had to deal with exactly this situation at a major network corporation 20 years ago. I really don't get it. Slavery has been a blight on the human race for centuries, up till fairly recently. "Blacks" were not the only ones enslaved. Hardly. Many groups were -- and they've all gotten over it. What makes the "blacks" so special??? Stop it already. Use the terms "master" and "slave" if it makes sense to do so. I will be sure to increase my use of those terms in my own opensource projects, and if someone doesn't like it, too bad.
This is insanely crazy. Many of Google's own software engineers would not qualify either, being degree-less Autodidacts like myself. Maybe I'm missing the point here. Oh well. I'll just stick to my AI projects. Because I am simply too undereducated to test a self-driving car.
And there has been those times I wanted to release a new tool I created to open source, because others may have found it useful and they weren't part of the core business. And I was denied. And what can you do? As someone already stated, they are paying for the code, so it's their call.
And then there is the Grace Hopper approach to things. Do that at your own risk. lol
If only I were the Star Child.
Tracking is becoming more insidious every day. Now, Hotspots will record the probe requests your cellphones send out looking for a WiFi to connect to, and will include your MAC address for technical reasons (can probe faster that way). Many are storing that MAC and sending up to a central server for analysis.
Imagine as you drive around a city your MAC address is being used to trace your movements. If you go to a posh mall and afterwards go to pick up your kids from day care, that can be used to profile you. And if your own WiFi router is also phoning this info back somewhere... well, you see where this is going.
And in case you haven't noticed, the title here is a paraphrase of a title of a chapter of a story (or film) of another Great that, too, is no longer with us. Let's see if you recognize it.
It is sad that brilliant minds die. But it happens. And may you fall into an infinite trench of Fractal wonders.
Mandelbrot has inspired many, and has inspired me to create Gravity Set Fractals.
http://www.fredmitchell.net/fractals/index.html
Long Live Self-Similarity!!!
What if a rogue app turns on the microphone or camera on command from some central server unbeknownst to you? The app could easedrop and spy on you. Is is my hope no app stoops that low, but you never know!
Isn't that a bit of a tautology?
More importantly, just how are you supposed to know what you can trust or not? If an app zips your private info off to a server somewhere, you'd never know it. Even if you sniff the packets, it could still be encrypted or stenographized.
Google should give the user finer control and log what private info has been requested by what app.
Not just software patents should be denied, but lifeform patents as well. In fact, I would love to see all lifeform patents invalidated, as this would take the wind out of the sails of Monsanto.
The Military sucks up a HUGE portion of the national budget. If you got rid of that alone, we'd probably be OK.
Surprisingly, the military is a more or less fixed cost, and can be dealt with in various ways, by increasing revenue or cutting spending. As you can see from this graph, we've been cutting military spending for a long time
On the graph it states that spending in Iraq and Afghanistan was "mostly" excluded, so we're not looking at a complete picture.
(and replacing it with social programs), and Robert Gates seems to be doing a capable job of continuing that trend. I'm also going to suggest it would be unwise to completely cut military spending (and indeed, we couldn't immediately because a large portion of military spending goes to things like pensions). The biggest problem with the national budget is actually medicare (there are a number of ways to fix social security, it's just a matter of choosing one and fixing it). As you can see from this graph, medicare will eventually push out all other non-obligatory spending, and actually the problem has gotten worse since that graph was made. I'm ok with cutting military spending, but let's address the root of the problem.
Yes, entitlements will eat the US alive. It was not sustainable to begin with. Something will have to give, and to "fix" the problem means either raising taxes, which would be devestaving, or cutting the entitlements, which will impact those who have the expectation of getting them.
My retirement plans do NOT include entitlements of any sort. They simply will not be solvent by that time, or will pay so little it'll be a joke.
This is the government's Ponzi at Gunpoint Scheme that it forces us all to "buy" into, but will leave us much worse than high and dry.
The Military sucks up a HUGE portion of the national budget. If you got rid of that alone, we'd probably be OK. Or at least not as bad off as we are.
But what's wrong with being cash positive rather than cash negative? Continuous borrowing is always a loosing proposition, both for the borrower and the creditor.
I know you're trolling but I'll bite.
I'm not trolling, actually, but that's besides the point.
The US is no longer on the Gold standard because Gold is worthless.
Worthless? Really? Can I have your gold then? I watch the financial markets nearly every day and gold is anything but worthless.
What is valuable is debt aka IOUs or promissory notes aka US Dollars otherwise known as Government issued Reserve Notes. Debt is backed by labor or goods and services which have real intrinsic value.
Ah, see, you are proving my point already, but let's continue.
Gold is only useful in niche electronic components and fashion jewelry.
FYI Reserve Notes are backed by Birth Certificates which have an economic value of ~$750000 - $1000000 for the lifetime of the individual, which is how much that Citizen is expected to contribute to the national economy in their lifetime in labor, services, intellectual property, etc.
So us human citizens are being used as collateral for the debt! Ah, therein lies the rub! Unless you have infinite growth, this model fails. The planet is only so big, and there are only so many resources, places to live, farmland, etc. Population growth cannot continue to grow indefinitely -- it's mathematically impossible.
So now what happens when your assumptions of infinite growth are dashed to the hills? You have enslaved all of your citizens into paying off this debt, and you have to use force to "exact tribute " -- the IRS -- but now the bottom falls out because you hit zero population growth, or perhaps population begins to decline.
So now your creditors become restless and may wish to call back in the loan in full. Or drop you as a basis. Hello, what has China been doing recently? Making lots of noise about switching from the USD to some other standard for world currency -- like GOLD!
Why don't you explain to China and India how "worthless" gold is. Go ahead. I dare ya.
So to summarize we exchanged an economy backed by a semi-rare earth mineral for an economy backed by a population of contributing citizens and abstracted into a commodity by the vehicle of debt and debt reserve notes ( US Dollars).
To rephrase what you've just stated, "we" -- really the US government, not us -- took us off a solid standard with builtin accountability, sold us all out and decided to use you and me as collateral for a debt they keep running up, higher and deeper.
The wars fought today have nothing to do with "National Security" and everything to do with control of resources to keep the illusion going that the debt model will continue indefinitely -- which it will not.
You may love a world of debt servitude, but I do not. You and I did not choose to become debt slaves -- we were signed up for it at birth, and you fully admit it.
So thank you for making my point for me. I couldn't have said it better myself!!!!!
The debt model that the US has been operating under for the many decades is simply not sustainable.
AND it's paying for your enormous deficit, which is likely to bankrupt US pretty soon..
Ok, you've got two unwinnable wars, then what?
The US went bankrupt many years ago. Why do you think all the gold was confiscated back in 1933
http://www.the-privateer.com/1933-gold-confiscation.html
and Nixon took the USD completely off the gold standard?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Shock
You only resort to these extreme measures if you have a negative ROI. If you have sustained negative ROI, that's actually worse than actual bankruptcy, which is an admission that you failed and promise to restructure. Nope, the rampant spending continues, and the fiat money flows. The broken system becomes even more broken, as fiscal fantasy becomes even more out of line with fiscal reality.
That party cannot continue forever, I don't think.
And that is why I say "NO" to Apple. They are darned too controlling of the User Experience. I'll take my Android over the iPhone anytime!!!