I feel like a lot of these articles get into this "That's not what the Creator envisioned, so this is wrong" line of thinking. But you know? Things evolve to fit the needs of the person using them in their project. Boo hoo, Tim Berners-Lee doesn't like something... Well, he's not on my project team anyway.
As for the employees, they "will get one week's severance, COBRA insurance until November, and payouts for unused paid time off,"
Apperently they had quite a bit of money left if the payouts to 140 employees are this good after "running out of money".... Wonder what's really going on? Wonder where their Intellectual Property is going? Sounds shady.
True, but they have a huge competitive advantage with linking that name and their very popular cloud service. At some point, the regulators will start taking a more active interest in Amazon, but Iâ(TM)m sure Amazon already has a significant number of lawyers working on this very issue.
OMG! OMG! OMG! My social circles will be aghast at my new secret online business selling "Genuine" Canadian Viagra, BitCoin initial offerings, and pornography of 18 year old virgin Russian girls! What shall I do?
By the way, who is Timehop? 21 million users, 21 million bots? Or 21 million downloads?
Why do companies / people do this when there is *100 percent chance* that they will be discovered and excommunicated from the Internet Universe? One would think they would be a little more sneaky about it.
A relative handful of inbred upper class twits will live in splendor and ease sufficient to make Nero envious. While the rest of us die in the street like dogs.
"WE ARE NOT A BANK" "WE CANNOT REFUND YOUR BITCOIN TRANSACTION" "WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU ENTER AN INCORRECT PAYMENT ADDRESS" "WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU GIVE YOUR PRIVATE KEY TO A THIRD PARTY SITE"
Simply because they say these things does not make it legally so. If I say to you "I am not committing fraud", but in fact I am, your "agreement" to my statement does not absolve me.
the core of facebooks data is not the data but application of the data. follow the money.
Absolutly, how else could they monetize it? We don't need congressional hearings to know that these platforms are collection nodes for complex user data into a Big Data Cloud to get crunched by guys who read Soylent News in their spare time.
By the way, what the fuck is an "Instagram Star"? I see in the news that an "Instagram Star" was killed in a small plane crash. Help me out, I don't do Instagram, do they just post millions of pictures of them doing whatever it is that fills their lives? Eating at posh restaurants, spread across the hood of some hot car? I don't get it.
But, two questions: first, can they compete with companies like Garmin and Google who have tons of money and clients, plus smart people who could try to reverse-engineer these improvements and roll them out basically for free?
Perhaps their probabilistic model suggests that one of the Big Dogs will buy them out at a ridiculous Silicon Valley rate and all the top folks will be flush with lots of cash-ola.
Why? Because by itself, there's really no way to adequately monetize this app, the amount of money they can make selling it through the app stores or directly to the phone companies just isn't all that much comparatively speaking.
Ryan Ng is a 19-year-old freshman at Baruch College in Manhattan. He studies finance, lives at home with his parents in Queens and is a member of the college's "League of Legends" video game club.
And has a fixation on Wikipedia subway articles...
The is certainly one thing we can say for sure: Young Mr. Ng is not getting laid.
Many would not think so, but the NYC subway system (and the London tubes as well. Not to mention the Moscow subway) has a big following that includes lots of YouTube videos and actual established tours. Check out: https://www.youtube.com/result...
Ever been to Utah? Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too. When they canceled the project it almost did me in. One day my mind was full to bursting. The next day - nothing. Swept away. But I'll show them. I had a lobotomy in the end. Friend of mine had one. Designer of the neutron bomb. You ever hear of the neutron bomb? Destroys people - leaves buildings standing. Fits in a suitcase. It's so small, no one knows it's there until - BLAMMO. Eyes melt, skin explodes, everybody dead. So immoral, working on the thing can drive you mad. That's what happened to this friend of mine. So he had a lobotomy. Now he's well again.
Facebook's bottom line isn't about connecting people - and what they believe in "so strongly" isn't "connecting people". Facebook's entire business model is collecting personal information from their users and allowing advertisers to have access to that information so those advertisers can hopefully stuff to those users.
And how do you suppose they persuade people to use their platform such that they can collect personal information? That's right, by providing some service "free" - like connecting people.
Thankfully, Adobe is allowing users to completely opt out all of their devices from the services
Why not opt in? If the service is valuable to me I'd want to opt in, wouldn't I?
Oh come on, you know the answer. The service is extremely valuable, just not to you.
But again, don't fool yourself. It's not smoke and mirrors to the average consumer, who will think this is fabulous. It's just that you are not the average consumer.
Inside, most Facebook users *know* nothing is for free and Facebook is making money on them and their "demographic". They just don't really care.
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I feel like a lot of these articles get into this "That's not what the Creator envisioned, so this is wrong" line of thinking. But you know? Things evolve to fit the needs of the person using them in their project. Boo hoo, Tim Berners-Lee doesn't like something... Well, he's not on my project team anyway.
As for the employees, they "will get one week's severance, COBRA insurance until November, and payouts for unused paid time off,"
Apperently they had quite a bit of money left if the payouts to 140 employees are this good after "running out of money".... Wonder what's really going on? Wonder where their Intellectual Property is going? Sounds shady.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/s...
True, but they have a huge competitive advantage with linking that name and their very popular cloud service. At some point, the regulators will start taking a more active interest in Amazon, but Iâ(TM)m sure Amazon already has a significant number of lawyers working on this very issue.
I post as âoeFrosty Pissâ, thatâ(TM)s all I need to maintain my privacy.
OMG! OMG! OMG! My social circles will be aghast at my new secret online business selling "Genuine" Canadian Viagra, BitCoin initial offerings, and pornography of 18 year old virgin Russian girls! What shall I do?
By the way, who is Timehop? 21 million users, 21 million bots? Or 21 million downloads?
I wonder if there would be a market for a US company that was "beyond reproach" whose business was to certify foreign tech as being "safe"?
Why do companies / people do this when there is *100 percent chance* that they will be discovered and excommunicated from the Internet Universe? One would think they would be a little more sneaky about it.
They should be able to sell it, as long as they're willing to pay for the damages in any accident associated with its use.
The people this device is involved in killing might disagree with you.
Soooo.... How long have you lived in your momâ(TM)s basement?
A relative handful of inbred upper class twits will live in splendor and ease sufficient to make Nero envious. While the rest of us die in the street like dogs.
Soylent Green is made of PEEEEEEEEEEOPLE!
They often say things like:
"WE ARE NOT A BANK"
"WE CANNOT REFUND YOUR BITCOIN TRANSACTION"
"WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU ENTER AN INCORRECT PAYMENT ADDRESS"
"WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU GIVE YOUR PRIVATE KEY TO A THIRD PARTY SITE"
Simply because they say these things does not make it legally so. If I say to you "I am not committing fraud", but in fact I am, your "agreement" to my statement does not absolve me.
What next, evacuating an entire shopping mall because someone wrote "Bomb" on a sticky note and slapped it on a garbage can?
Yes.
We ARE at that point.
But for easier shits and giggles, do it in the men's room at the airport and watch all hell break loose.
I see Slashdot is right on top of the important things in tech!
Musk tried to spin it in his favor, like he always does...
Why wouldn't he? Why wouldn't anyone?
These days, about the only jaw-dropping tech coming out of the America
This is not "jaw-dropping tech" except in its stupidity.
the core of facebooks data is not the data but application of the data. follow the money.
Absolutly, how else could they monetize it? We don't need congressional hearings to know that these platforms are collection nodes for complex user data into a Big Data Cloud to get crunched by guys who read Soylent News in their spare time.
By the way, what the fuck is an "Instagram Star"? I see in the news that an "Instagram Star" was killed in a small plane crash. Help me out, I don't do Instagram, do they just post millions of pictures of them doing whatever it is that fills their lives? Eating at posh restaurants, spread across the hood of some hot car? I don't get it.
But, two questions: first, can they compete with companies like Garmin and Google who have tons of money and clients, plus smart people who could try to reverse-engineer these improvements and roll them out basically for free?
Perhaps their probabilistic model suggests that one of the Big Dogs will buy them out at a ridiculous Silicon Valley rate and all the top folks will be flush with lots of cash-ola.
Why? Because by itself, there's really no way to adequately monetize this app, the amount of money they can make selling it through the app stores or directly to the phone companies just isn't all that much comparatively speaking.
No, they want Google to buy them.
I'm trying desperately not to whip out my roll of tinfoil. But...
While we need some logging to prevent abuse and debug issues, we couldn't imagine any situation where we'd need that information longer than 24 hours.
Don't you suppose they would say that? Do you really think they would say...
We collect TONS of logs just like everyone else, but please trust us, we're not giving them up yo anyone...
Good grief, you think they just walked into that IP address? Got to be some WEIGHT to get that IP and be "allowed" to use it for commercial purposes.
If this isn't a Honey Pot for the Three Letter Agencies *now*, it certainly will be shortly.
Ryan Ng is a 19-year-old freshman at Baruch College in Manhattan. He studies finance, lives at home with his parents in Queens and is a member of the college's "League of Legends" video game club.
And has a fixation on Wikipedia subway articles...
The is certainly one thing we can say for sure: Young Mr. Ng is not getting laid.
Many would not think so, but the NYC subway system (and the London tubes as well. Not to mention the Moscow subway) has a big following that includes lots of YouTube videos and actual established tours. Check out: https://www.youtube.com/result...
Ever been to Utah? Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too. When they canceled the project it almost did me in. One day my mind was full to bursting. The next day - nothing. Swept away. But I'll show them. I had a lobotomy in the end. Friend of mine had one. Designer of the neutron bomb. You ever hear of the neutron bomb? Destroys people - leaves buildings standing. Fits in a suitcase. It's so small, no one knows it's there until - BLAMMO. Eyes melt, skin explodes, everybody dead. So immoral, working on the thing can drive you mad. That's what happened to this friend of mine. So he had a lobotomy. Now he's well again.
Facebook's bottom line isn't about connecting people - and what they believe in "so strongly" isn't "connecting people". Facebook's entire business model is collecting personal information from their users and allowing advertisers to have access to that information so those advertisers can hopefully stuff to those users.
And how do you suppose they persuade people to use their platform such that they can collect personal information? That's right, by providing some service "free" - like connecting people.
Thankfully, Adobe is allowing users to completely opt out all of their devices from the services
Why not opt in? If the service is valuable to me I'd want to opt in, wouldn't I?
Oh come on, you know the answer. The service is extremely valuable, just not to you.
But again, don't fool yourself. It's not smoke and mirrors to the average consumer, who will think this is fabulous. It's just that you are not the average consumer.
Inside, most Facebook users *know* nothing is for free and Facebook is making money on them and their "demographic". They just don't really care.
You obviously have no idea how much lithium we have on the planet
I take it daily.