If someone climbs onto a piece of heavy machinery like a crane and proceeds to kill someone - they are still prosecuted. If someone picks up a handgun and shoots someone, they are still prosecuted even if they have no training or knowledge on how to use the handgun.
Ignorance is NOT a defense. Especially in a situation where someone is put into a position of power. You could even extend the prosecution to the people who PUT the CTO in the position, because they knew he / she didn't have the experience or knowledge necessary to execute the job.
Why are we trying to teach machines the ability to debate? Decisions should be made based on quantitative methods that relate the most desired outcomes. Even when picking the best of two bad options, quantitative methods are superior.
Even when we are discussing things like medical treatment of seniors with all the motions involved, the option that results in the most positive outcome for the largest group of people is always the right one.
The ONLY arena I see Debate as useful is in the Political arena, where you can cherry pick your statistics and studies to try to prove your side. Why the hell would we want to teach computers to be as duplicitous as politicians?
Bullshit. American manufacturing can make anything - if you are willing to spend the money. Apple easily could have paid for the manufacturer to increase the manufacturer's capacity.
This is corporate bullshit double speak and you're buying in. The reality is that American manufacturing couldn't make it cheaply enough. That's it. And that's a direct result of the wage imbalances and government structure that's caused a giant manufacturing drain from every 1st world country into China for the last 20 or 30 years.
I have yet to see a single coherent argument for digital license plates. They cost a ton, have wireless (means they can be hacked), batteries will die....just so many many reasons.
They are totally WORTHLESS for displaying amber alerts. Whichever idiot came up with that should be shitcanned now. You can't read license plates half the time right now because of dirt or covers or - reasons. Now you're what - going to obscur my license plate number and flash different colors? And you think the guy behind me is going to give a shit? Or read it?
I could go on and on. But pretty much everyone agrees this is a horrible idea that has it's roots in yet another way to track people.
The windows-key then type style search has been broken on 90% of our work computers. Does nothing. Much like searching in explorer. Broken too. The windows search features are so fucked up that it doesn't take me long to get pissed at it and just install a third party search program like agent ransack or it's equivalent.
If google is going after anyone, it's because they don't want those people having the same access GOOGLE has. There's no vested company interest in preventing app creators from harvesting your data, and google does nothing just to be nice.
Except I don't. There's only three "apps" I want to constantly update. That's my phone (so it rings when people call), my email, and my text messaging.
Not instagram, snapchat, etc. Nevermind that I don't use them, there is NO good way in the android ecosystem to prevent them from staying resident in the background if you run them once. Many other apps have this same problem. For no good reason at all, they are sitting in the background. There is no one ounce of functionality they add to my user experience by doing so. And I actually suspect many of them are bad actors and are sending location and other data.
Give me an option that kills every process with a given program when I exit out of it. I'll be happy. I've long had this complaint with android.
And let's be realistic - convenience is a huge factor. I really don't want to have to go to this streaming site, then that stream site, then that other one over there to find my content. As a result, this continued fragmentation and proliferation of anti-VPN measures and IP limitations is simply going to increase the number of these shows that get pirated.
Unfortunately for you, a huge percent of the population totally disagrees with your viewpoint. As evidenced by the movie tickets sold and the profit made.
I suggest you look up the definition of elitest, then try to reconcile it with your viewpoints on the movie. Then compare it to actual metrics that movies are judged by - profit, opening weekend, worldwide sales, etc. You may want to strut around and call movies crap because they have too many special effects for your tastes, or too weak a storyline. But YOU and the small percentage of people that might agree with you are definitely not why these movies get made.
Everything this man does is focused on his business in making money. In this case, one should focus on this statement:
"the tradeoffs we face"
This is just a continuing damage control tour where he will very careful phrase things to make government officials believe that he should be allowed to do what he does because it's necessary for his business model. The reality of the situation is there may be trade offs, but it should be a decision left up to the consumer. The consumer should has the easy, straightforward ability to opt in of every type of data collection. Otherwise they are by default opted OUT. The problem right now is that by default, every person on the planet is opted IN and has no way to tell the corporations and governments to stop collecting data on them.
He'll even try making the point that they have to know who you are and what you are doing so that they won't collect the data. This is the famous "send us all your nude pics so we can make sure we don't post them somewhere". Again - the reality to that situation is to enforce a stop on all anoonymous data collection as well that ties back to any single entity. Because even that can easily be distilled back down to the individual through geolocation and other means.
Are you saying that we should email all of our naked porn pics to Bali so it can insure it doesn't collect or use that data? I seem to remember that not working out well in the past.
Google purportedly gives you access to control a lot of your 'data' on their apps and websites. It only takes digging through hundreds of obscure settings and un-obvious control schemes, individual devices, and individual applications.
And even then you'll find that they add new "settings" without telling you and default them to the on position, so they're getting information you never even knew they were grabbing.
An opt-in system is the ONLY system that should be allowed, and not the EULA opt-in system. A system where you have to click every single checkbox for every bit of information they intend to collect.
Or you could just avoid all this and download my awesome Android Flashlight app. I swear it only turns your phone's LED on and off. Promise.
How did you come to be an editor with statements like that? Seriously. With reasoning as flawed as yours, how do they expect you to pick reasonable stories? Let me help you out though. The Supreme Court had nothing to do with Donald Trump becoming president.
And while you're thinking about improving your critical thinking skills and learning what "whataboutism" is, why don't you also go realize that our goverment officials really don't represent the people very well. Classifying Americans into a group like you are is exactly like saying the Chinese government represents the will of the people there. It'd be very very wrong.
My only broadband offering is satellite. And the satellite providers know it and are actually pricing accordingly! The price points for packages go up or down drastically depending on your location (even within the same general area). In some cases they have removed all their low-cost plans and won't offer them to rural areas because they know they've got ya.
Most people don't see a value in paying $70 a month for reasonable internet. Yet that's the cheapest and only option in my area that actually WORKS. The rest of the so-called broadband options (satellite companies as well) are so over-sold that you can't do anything with them in prime time.
Pai is a liar and is doing to the FCC exactly what Trump is doing to the country. But hey, he's got a big cool mug he drinks from.
They're a Russian company - in a country of companies not known for high tech consumer products. Next to China, and just a little way from Korea. Unless Yandex gets some major government protection, they'll either go under or be acting as someone's distributor pretty quickly.
Considering how poor the initial LTE offerings were, I expect this to be no better. I remember trying to use my phone and having it jump back and forth between LTE and 3G because the coverage was shit as we traveled when LTE was being rolled out. Of course, the early LTE phones didn't really have a way to tell them not to use LTE, so what you got was an experience WORSE that 3G as your interconnection connection swapped back and forth and back and forth.
5G is going to be that. But much much worse. Unless they are smart and maintain the LTE connection at the same time so there is seamless fall-back.
Since the article lists temporary workers and contractors, it may be possible that this includes foreign workers brought over to work specifically for google through the government "get your cheap labor here" programs.
Yes and no. Sending a stupid person to college doesn't make them any more useful. I think it's more correct to say sending SMART kids to college creates a massive ROI for the government. And if the government stopped backing education loans, those loans would only become available to smart people - i.e. the ones that the loan companies expect will actually pay them back.
It does have a high washout rate. Yet most of that washing out takes place in the first two years, when huge debts haven't really been accrued. Removing the responsibility of due diligence from the loan companies that hand out the loans just encourages them to hand out as many loans as they can, and make those loans as large as they can.
Government should have never gotten involved in paying for kids to college.
I think you meant to say "things for the small portion of the US population that have ACCESS to built up areas and fiber are about to change".
You see, last I checked there's a pretty sizeable chunk of the US who can't get cable at all, much less fiber optic lines. I happen to fall into that chunk. In fact, my 4G LTE coverage maxes out at about 8 mb/s. Yeah. You read that correctly. And considering that 5G requires even MORE towers closer together, I don't see that 5G build out covering the large rural areas.
It's an increasingly large problem as the profitable areas of the country get served and the less profitable areas do not. Once upon a time we had an FCC with balls who actually worked to fix problems like areas that couldn't get phone service. The new improved FCC that only works for lobbying dollars just doesn't give a shit about making sure the entire country gets served.
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If someone climbs onto a piece of heavy machinery like a crane and proceeds to kill someone - they are still prosecuted. If someone picks up a handgun and shoots someone, they are still prosecuted even if they have no training or knowledge on how to use the handgun.
Ignorance is NOT a defense. Especially in a situation where someone is put into a position of power. You could even extend the prosecution to the people who PUT the CTO in the position, because they knew he / she didn't have the experience or knowledge necessary to execute the job.
Why are we trying to teach machines the ability to debate? Decisions should be made based on quantitative methods that relate the most desired outcomes. Even when picking the best of two bad options, quantitative methods are superior.
Even when we are discussing things like medical treatment of seniors with all the motions involved, the option that results in the most positive outcome for the largest group of people is always the right one.
The ONLY arena I see Debate as useful is in the Political arena, where you can cherry pick your statistics and studies to try to prove your side. Why the hell would we want to teach computers to be as duplicitous as politicians?
"I'm sorry Dave, I afraid can't do that...."
Bullshit. American manufacturing can make anything - if you are willing to spend the money. Apple easily could have paid for the manufacturer to increase the manufacturer's capacity.
This is corporate bullshit double speak and you're buying in. The reality is that American manufacturing couldn't make it cheaply enough. That's it. And that's a direct result of the wage imbalances and government structure that's caused a giant manufacturing drain from every 1st world country into China for the last 20 or 30 years.
I have yet to see a single coherent argument for digital license plates. They cost a ton, have wireless (means they can be hacked), batteries will die....just so many many reasons. They are totally WORTHLESS for displaying amber alerts. Whichever idiot came up with that should be shitcanned now. You can't read license plates half the time right now because of dirt or covers or - reasons. Now you're what - going to obscur my license plate number and flash different colors? And you think the guy behind me is going to give a shit? Or read it?
I could go on and on. But pretty much everyone agrees this is a horrible idea that has it's roots in yet another way to track people.
The windows-key then type style search has been broken on 90% of our work computers. Does nothing. Much like searching in explorer. Broken too. The windows search features are so fucked up that it doesn't take me long to get pissed at it and just install a third party search program like agent ransack or it's equivalent.
If google is going after anyone, it's because they don't want those people having the same access GOOGLE has. There's no vested company interest in preventing app creators from harvesting your data, and google does nothing just to be nice.
Except I don't. There's only three "apps" I want to constantly update. That's my phone (so it rings when people call), my email, and my text messaging.
Not instagram, snapchat, etc. Nevermind that I don't use them, there is NO good way in the android ecosystem to prevent them from staying resident in the background if you run them once. Many other apps have this same problem. For no good reason at all, they are sitting in the background. There is no one ounce of functionality they add to my user experience by doing so. And I actually suspect many of them are bad actors and are sending location and other data.
Give me an option that kills every process with a given program when I exit out of it. I'll be happy. I've long had this complaint with android.
And let's be realistic - convenience is a huge factor. I really don't want to have to go to this streaming site, then that stream site, then that other one over there to find my content. As a result, this continued fragmentation and proliferation of anti-VPN measures and IP limitations is simply going to increase the number of these shows that get pirated.
Unfortunately for you, a huge percent of the population totally disagrees with your viewpoint. As evidenced by the movie tickets sold and the profit made.
I suggest you look up the definition of elitest, then try to reconcile it with your viewpoints on the movie. Then compare it to actual metrics that movies are judged by - profit, opening weekend, worldwide sales, etc. You may want to strut around and call movies crap because they have too many special effects for your tastes, or too weak a storyline. But YOU and the small percentage of people that might agree with you are definitely not why these movies get made.
Get off your high horse.
Everything this man does is focused on his business in making money. In this case, one should focus on this statement:
"the tradeoffs we face"
This is just a continuing damage control tour where he will very careful phrase things to make government officials believe that he should be allowed to do what he does because it's necessary for his business model. The reality of the situation is there may be trade offs, but it should be a decision left up to the consumer. The consumer should has the easy, straightforward ability to opt in of every type of data collection. Otherwise they are by default opted OUT. The problem right now is that by default, every person on the planet is opted IN and has no way to tell the corporations and governments to stop collecting data on them.
He'll even try making the point that they have to know who you are and what you are doing so that they won't collect the data. This is the famous "send us all your nude pics so we can make sure we don't post them somewhere". Again - the reality to that situation is to enforce a stop on all anoonymous data collection as well that ties back to any single entity. Because even that can easily be distilled back down to the individual through geolocation and other means.
Stop collecting data on us you assholes.
I'm going to have to completely disagree with you. The Do Not Track flag in browsers worked out perfectly.
Are you saying that we should email all of our naked porn pics to Bali so it can insure it doesn't collect or use that data? I seem to remember that not working out well in the past.
Google purportedly gives you access to control a lot of your 'data' on their apps and websites. It only takes digging through hundreds of obscure settings and un-obvious control schemes, individual devices, and individual applications.
And even then you'll find that they add new "settings" without telling you and default them to the on position, so they're getting information you never even knew they were grabbing.
An opt-in system is the ONLY system that should be allowed, and not the EULA opt-in system. A system where you have to click every single checkbox for every bit of information they intend to collect.
Or you could just avoid all this and download my awesome Android Flashlight app. I swear it only turns your phone's LED on and off. Promise.
How did you come to be an editor with statements like that? Seriously. With reasoning as flawed as yours, how do they expect you to pick reasonable stories? Let me help you out though. The Supreme Court had nothing to do with Donald Trump becoming president.
https://www.independent.co.uk/...
So they want us to upload nude photos to stop revenge porn, then they allow access to all these other photos. Ho boy.
And while you're thinking about improving your critical thinking skills and learning what "whataboutism" is, why don't you also go realize that our goverment officials really don't represent the people very well. Classifying Americans into a group like you are is exactly like saying the Chinese government represents the will of the people there. It'd be very very wrong.
Huh? Most rural people have a well, a septic field, and propane. What in the hell are you talking about water mains for?
Incorrect. Most "rural" people aren't even offered DSL.
Cable loops? In rural areas? Good luck with that.
My only broadband offering is satellite. And the satellite providers know it and are actually pricing accordingly! The price points for packages go up or down drastically depending on your location (even within the same general area). In some cases they have removed all their low-cost plans and won't offer them to rural areas because they know they've got ya.
Most people don't see a value in paying $70 a month for reasonable internet. Yet that's the cheapest and only option in my area that actually WORKS. The rest of the so-called broadband options (satellite companies as well) are so over-sold that you can't do anything with them in prime time.
Pai is a liar and is doing to the FCC exactly what Trump is doing to the country. But hey, he's got a big cool mug he drinks from.
They're a Russian company - in a country of companies not known for high tech consumer products. Next to China, and just a little way from Korea. Unless Yandex gets some major government protection, they'll either go under or be acting as someone's distributor pretty quickly.
Considering how poor the initial LTE offerings were, I expect this to be no better. I remember trying to use my phone and having it jump back and forth between LTE and 3G because the coverage was shit as we traveled when LTE was being rolled out. Of course, the early LTE phones didn't really have a way to tell them not to use LTE, so what you got was an experience WORSE that 3G as your interconnection connection swapped back and forth and back and forth.
5G is going to be that. But much much worse. Unless they are smart and maintain the LTE connection at the same time so there is seamless fall-back.
Since the article lists temporary workers and contractors, it may be possible that this includes foreign workers brought over to work specifically for google through the government "get your cheap labor here" programs.
Yes and no. Sending a stupid person to college doesn't make them any more useful. I think it's more correct to say sending SMART kids to college creates a massive ROI for the government. And if the government stopped backing education loans, those loans would only become available to smart people - i.e. the ones that the loan companies expect will actually pay them back.
It does have a high washout rate. Yet most of that washing out takes place in the first two years, when huge debts haven't really been accrued. Removing the responsibility of due diligence from the loan companies that hand out the loans just encourages them to hand out as many loans as they can, and make those loans as large as they can.
Government should have never gotten involved in paying for kids to college.
I think you meant to say "things for the small portion of the US population that have ACCESS to built up areas and fiber are about to change".
You see, last I checked there's a pretty sizeable chunk of the US who can't get cable at all, much less fiber optic lines. I happen to fall into that chunk. In fact, my 4G LTE coverage maxes out at about 8 mb/s. Yeah. You read that correctly. And considering that 5G requires even MORE towers closer together, I don't see that 5G build out covering the large rural areas.
It's an increasingly large problem as the profitable areas of the country get served and the less profitable areas do not. Once upon a time we had an FCC with balls who actually worked to fix problems like areas that couldn't get phone service. The new improved FCC that only works for lobbying dollars just doesn't give a shit about making sure the entire country gets served.