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  1. Re:Don't buy a listening device for your home? on How To Stop Amazon From Listening To Your Alexa Recordings (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    If you think it's beyond an Orwellian nightmare, you may want to read 1984, or Animal Farm. It's a bit more surveillance than Road to Wigan Pier I grant you.

  2. Re:Step 0: Become a person! on How To Stop Amazon From Listening To Your Alexa Recordings (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 0

    if you value security over everything else, your probably an american.

  3. Re: Step 0: Become a person! on How To Stop Amazon From Listening To Your Alexa Recordings (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 0

    Yes they are all the same, every single one of them throughout the world. I know people said that about my generation, and that was obviously wrong, but these kids...

  4. Re:Step 0: Become a person! on How To Stop Amazon From Listening To Your Alexa Recordings (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    Totally unoriginal thoughts, and lack of individuality. This post tediously parroting. It's like the flat earthers saying "do the research", the crowds in life of Bryan chanting "we are all individuals" and hundreds of thousands of levellers fans singing "there's only one way of life and that's your own".

  5. Re: No you don't on Amazon Workers Are Listening To What You Tell Alexa (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Do read it again old chap.

  6. Re:If you care that much, poison the well on Amazon Workers Are Listening To What You Tell Alexa (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet you share this on a publicly available website...

  7. Re:why do people use these things? on Amazon Workers Are Listening To What You Tell Alexa (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They are definitely not taking my data. I still have it. Copying it? well yes obviously. But so what?

  8. Re:No you don't on Amazon Workers Are Listening To What You Tell Alexa (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't mind to be honest. Let them listen. I only pity the poor person listening in. I not saying if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear, but I have no fear of this at all. What's the worst they can do with it? Laugh at me behind my back, well I haven't been afraid of that since I was 6. A data breach is another matter, but if that happens then the voice recordings are probably the least interesting. I also get it that other people don't feel the same way, and good for you if you don't. Just don't think those of us who are fine with it are somehow stupid with no technical nous. I'm happy for a corporation to have a good profile of me as long as they comply with GDPR. I would rather not have advertising everywhere, but if I want free products they have to fund it somehow.

  9. Books were sold before Amazon was created, but that doesn't mean that Amazon doesn't sell books. Same as tools to recruit terrorists existed before the internet, but that does not mean that the internet isn't a tool to recruit terrorists. It's not an either or, you can have more than one tool.

  10. Re:Need to be careful on YouTube To Curb Conspiracy Theory Video Recommendations (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a big difference between them though isn't there. We have evidence showing we went to the moon, so any contrary view can be dismissed. We have evidence that trump said "Mexico will pay for it" so when he says he didn't say it we can show it's a lie and the Honey Monster can be categorised as a a spreader of factual inexactitudes. CIA testing LSD? Some thought that the US wouldn't do such a thing as it was immoral, and no hard evidence to show that they did. This is a very dependable position. No one though it was beyond the capabilities of them to do it though. It's not a slippery slope, nor thin edge of the wedge.

  11. Re:It's censorship on YouTube To Curb Conspiracy Theory Video Recommendations (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I demand you get "OYAHHH is an idiot" tattooed on your forehead. Does it conflict with your personal world-view? It contradicts your view of the word and you refuse to do it? Which is .... wait for it ... perfectly fine. Why do you think google have to publish any wild musings you want out there? There is a word for that - "entitlement".

  12. Re:Another motherfucker in a motorcade on YouTube To Curb Conspiracy Theory Video Recommendations (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Flowers on a razor wire, you can't trust them.

  13. Re:Rabbit hole leading to an echo chamber ... on YouTube To Curb Conspiracy Theory Video Recommendations (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, quick question. Do you believe "Assad is an evil dictator who gassed his own people"? If you do so, you're in the bottom quintile, quartile, third, half or bottom 80%. Syria never used chemical weapons and if they did so there is no proof of it.

    Proof? No, but then you can only get proof in maths. Evidence, yes lots of it, and evidence of evidence being removed by russia and Syria. And evidence that they give contradictory accounts about the gassing. And those that were gassed. Believing that Assad, with help and backing by putin gassed his own people is taking the evidence and choosing the most probable. It might not have been him, but if it isn't then a long series of accidents and coincidences have occurred so it looks like him. Much more evidence that he did it than you would need to get a conviction.

  14. Re:Who gets cut? on YouTube To Curb Conspiracy Theory Video Recommendations (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing that's a joke, but just in case it grows like the flat earth joke, or the joke about a magic man in the sky telling us what to do.. Facts.

  15. We wouldn't even have the Internet if the original culture hadn't been one of freedom. .

    The US DoD who created ARPANET that the internet is based in were far from promoting freedom. Note the number of military dictators that they propped up. You might be right about the PARC hippies strung out in LSD

  16. Re: Blame the Russians on YouTube To Curb Conspiracy Theory Video Recommendations (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Hillary used - "I dont recall"

    I'm not even going to check this but if true is not a lie. "I can't recall" could be a lie. That's the difference. "I never slept with that woman" not a lie even if he had sex with her, but never slept in the same bed as her. "I never said that Mexico will pay for the wall", provable lie. Documented provable lie.

  17. Re:Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True on YouTube To Curb Conspiracy Theory Video Recommendations (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Not all of them are equal, we can prove that we went to the moon and the earth is flat, we can prove the bible is not the direct word of god. We can disprove the hundreds of lies trump spews out daily. We can't prove either way if the queen isn't a lizard. If you can prove it true or false label it, if it's opinion, it doesn't get a true or false label.

  18. Re:Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True on YouTube To Curb Conspiracy Theory Video Recommendations (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup you got it. If the information in the video is provably false, it's marked. If it's backed by evidence to a stated level then mark it as so. If it's unmarked the poster does not care either way then it's not marked anything unmarked can be classed as "I dunno, could be true, could be made up."

  19. Re:9/11 truther video Loose Change is 6 years old on YouTube To Curb Conspiracy Theory Video Recommendations (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    If Seth Rich was the guy who leaked the DNC emails, then they had motive to do him in. His wallet with all it's money was still on him, which is very odd if it was just an ordinary mugging.

    Before it got out, possibly. After the fact, it just looks like incompetence. It's not even a punishment, if the conspiracy is as much as you believe (judging from your first paragraph, wow that's a big red flag there) they could easily have made his life so much hell he would publicly commit suicide. I love reading from those that believe the conspiracy is vast and complex, but yet leaving hints, but not evidence of the conspiracy. Do you know how many bungled muggings occur when the victim is shot and no money taken? Neither do I, so it's impossible to say if it was more unusual than other attempted muggings that end in the death of the victim. Perhaps the shot was in panic and the shooter legged it as fast as they could from the scene rather than stopping to check each and every pocket, removing jacket, turning them over to check the other pockets all while the police are speeding towards them. That Hilary, the police department, the FBI, the local news, the national news, the international news are all in the conspiracy but none of them remembered to take the cash is a little more than far fetched.

  20. Re:9/11 truther video Loose Change is 6 years old on YouTube To Curb Conspiracy Theory Video Recommendations (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, now your on my territory. The planning department, as part of GLC as it would've been then would be duty bound to disseminate the road plans to those effected and a compulsory purchase order put in place before the yellow bulldozers even came close. Adams was brilliant at comedy, and he took liberties with the rules and regulations regarding road building in the 1970s. Google, Alphabet, Youtube, or whatever branch you want of those is under no such obligation and can remove anything without even telling you why.

  21. Re:9/11 truther video Loose Change is 6 years old on YouTube To Curb Conspiracy Theory Video Recommendations (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    As a young man I was aware of, and saw some Beatles footage. They disbanded way before I was born. Youtube wasn't around until way after.I think the human memory and access to moving images is a little more than youtube. As for it costing you rather than generating income for you, I really don't care. Google don't exist to make you money.

  22. Re:9/11 truther video Loose Change is 6 years old on YouTube To Curb Conspiracy Theory Video Recommendations (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    You are confusing censorship and not giving a platform. Let me break it down for you. If they remove the video it's not giving you a platform. If you are forced to remove the video from the internet then it's censorship. They are under no obligation as a private company to give you a platform.

  23. Re:THis is stupid on The Economics of Streaming is Making Songs Shorter (qz.com) · · Score: 1
    Have you used a time machine and travelling forward from 1976? Looks like you missed punk. They wrote some pretty short songs. You may have missed post punk too, they wrote some short and some long songs.

    When you were back in the time you came from, did you notice a lot of songs had tambourines in them? That's because the sound of the tambourine is at a frequency that works well in crappy am radio in the terrible gas guzzling steel boxes people used to drive around.

    The thing is it may be fashionable to write short songs with punch openings to get plaid on a playlist, but music is more than the fashion which will change in a few years anyway.

  24. As for a: Brunel wasn't certified as a professional engineer in Oregon. But I would think he would be considered an engineer. You are correct.

  25. Re:Nuclear fusion power on Ask Slashdot: Is Today's Technology As Cool As You'd Predicted When You Were Young? · · Score: 1

    We have a radio programme in this country called "Infinite Monkey Cage". One of the presenters is Brian Cox (the scientist not the actor.) Just this week they were discussing the future of humanity. The other presenter (Robin Ince, geeky comedian) said to Brian something along the lines of "You've learnt a lot over the years haven't you Brian. You used to think that if you gave people enough data they'd reject astrology and such bunk". No matter how simple the explanation someone is going to believe the wrong answer. Religions are still making a shit load of money.