I've already left the walled garden of Apple for greener pastures. The buggy mess known as Apple TV, gen 4 was the last straw. I left Apple behind before the rest of Apple's products caught the low-contrast text cancer that seems to be spreading. I'm happy to be off the Apple Hardware Upgrade Treadmill.
Not really. In order to utilize it smartly, you have to harvest it. Unless, of course, you are just making up the data as you go along. But that wouldn't be so smart.
If there were any doubts remaining that Microsoft was pushing the Windows 10 malware upon the world for the purpose of starting up a massive data harvesting campaign, this deal with LinkedIn should put those doubts to rest.
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The amount of data that Microsoft has purchased, and will be able to harvest on a continual basis, has just increased by orders of magnitude.
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Data harvesting appears to be Microsoft's new strategic focus.
...For example, "A key success factor for agile projects is the ability for every team member to talk expectations down at every possible juncture. Agile should inherently involve frequent 1:1 contact with users: use that time to lower expectations! Without this habit, the inevitable scope creep and the impulse to believe "of course the system will do X for me" will get you."...
I am not a fan of Agile, but the excerpt I quote is blaming Agile for what should be a routine conversation among users and developers. Of course, users have high hopes and expectations, they don't have to write the software, they only have to come up with ideas for new features.
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It is then the responsibility of the developers, in conjunction with the users, to prioritize those expectations within the constraints of the current business. This process is not limited to Agile, it is a part of every development process.
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The overall cost-benefit ratio for Apple products no longer justifies their continued use in my environment.
Apple's apparent planned obsolescence has made it difficult to justify the money required to remain on Apple's Hardware Upgrade Treadmill. I suspect, looking at Apple's declining stock price, that I'm not the only one making that decision.
...The cover letter demands police sign a confirmation that their request is legal in their home country and affirm that it is "made in connection with the enforcement, investigation, or prosecution of violations of publicly promulgated criminal laws and not the control, suppression, or punishment of peaceful expression of political or religious opinion."...
a solution looking for a problem.. that causes other problems.
It was a solution for two problems:
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1) how to gather information about the interior of people's houses
2) how to get people to install yet another advertisement screen in their houses.
To your point, the problem with Nest is that the solutions were not for problems that the people buying the device had, Nest was a solution to Nest's business partners' problems.
With the IoT controlling many physical aspects of our lives, e.g., door locks, indoor climate control, etc.,we are making it more and more difficult to take back control of the "intelligence" we are creating.
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While it is good that google are thinking about this topic, it may be too late....
...As Facebook came to understand long ago, the posts people want to see aren't necessarily those that are the newest. They're those that matter to you, personally....
What if the posts that matter to me, personally, the most are the newest.
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Why doesn't fb's super special algorithm pick that up? Why, when I tell it that I want to see newest posts first (MULTIPLE TIMES!!!), it constantly overrides that directive and shows me stuff in what appears to me to be random order?
Microsoft is just digging itself deeper and deeper into a hole, from which it may never be able to extract itself. Enjoy your sprint to the bottom, Microsoft.
I made the decision years ago. The TV in my house is a display device, not a content origination device..Keeping the TV as a single-purpose device makes it easier to upgrade and change the content origination devices in my setup.
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If a content origination device starts doing something stupid because of a software "upgrade," then that device is history.
e.g., the AppleTV that was a part of my home entertainment system is now history because of the disaster that is AppleTV gen 4. What a buggy pile of goo that was. So it's been replaced (along with iTunes and my sole Mac). I've been using AppleTV since gen 1, but Apple's lost me as a customer because of the bugs and because the walls got way too high.
The TV is usually a more expensive part of the home entertainment equation, so I try to keep it to a singular purpose: Display.
... its a much better OS than either Win7 or Win8....
"Better" depends upon what your needs are. So far, it seems that everyone who has been saying that Windows 10 is "better" seems to think that their needs are appropriate for everyone else. That alone disqualifies the opinion.
...Yes the HARDCORE FOLKS will cry "SECURITY! MALWARE! INVASION OF PRIVACY!!11!" and more nonsense. The average person who asks me if they should upgrade I say yes....
When I have been asked by "average persons" about the upgrade, I explain the data harvesting that Microsoft will be doing to them and their family. These are not the HARDCORE FOLKS you seem to look down upon, but regular computer users. I showed them Microsoft's comments on the data that are being harvested. I did not add my opinion, I just showed them what Microsoft was saying about the data harvesting.
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So far, not one has said they wanted to go forward with the Windows 10 installation.
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I've already left the walled garden of Apple for greener pastures. The buggy mess known as Apple TV, gen 4 was the last straw. I left Apple behind before the rest of Apple's products caught the low-contrast text cancer that seems to be spreading. I'm happy to be off the Apple Hardware Upgrade Treadmill.
Symantec is buying Blue Coat Systems. Avira Anti-Virus installs the MixPanel data harvester. What's going on with security companies nowadays?
Not really. In order to utilize it smartly, you have to harvest it. Unless, of course, you are just making up the data as you go along. But that wouldn't be so smart.
.
The amount of data that Microsoft has purchased, and will be able to harvest on a continual basis, has just increased by orders of magnitude.
.
Data harvesting appears to be Microsoft's new strategic focus.
...For example, "A key success factor for agile projects is the ability for every team member to talk expectations down at every possible juncture. Agile should inherently involve frequent 1:1 contact with users: use that time to lower expectations! Without this habit, the inevitable scope creep and the impulse to believe "of course the system will do X for me" will get you."...
I am not a fan of Agile, but the excerpt I quote is blaming Agile for what should be a routine conversation among users and developers. Of course, users have high hopes and expectations, they don't have to write the software, they only have to come up with ideas for new features.
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It is then the responsibility of the developers, in conjunction with the users, to prioritize those expectations within the constraints of the current business. This process is not limited to Agile, it is a part of every development process.
Facebook looks as if it is rapidly becoming a walled community, a platform separate from the rest of the Internet.
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The overall cost-benefit ratio for Apple products no longer justifies their continued use in my environment.
Apple's apparent planned obsolescence has made it difficult to justify the money required to remain on Apple's Hardware Upgrade Treadmill. I suspect, looking at Apple's declining stock price, that I'm not the only one making that decision.
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"...system-wide, hardware-enforced trusted environments..."
Sounds expensive already...
..."Those who will give up fundamental data security for a little perceived safety are morons" -Abraham Lincoln 1859...
"Don't believe everything you read on the Internet" --- Abraham Lincoln 1854
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From TFA:
...The cover letter demands police sign a confirmation that their request is legal in their home country and affirm that it is "made in connection with the enforcement, investigation, or prosecution of violations of publicly promulgated criminal laws and not the control, suppression, or punishment of peaceful expression of political or religious opinion."...
Does the XBox process the commands, or are they sent to "The Cloud" for processing?
a solution looking for a problem.. that causes other problems.
It was a solution for two problems:
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1) how to gather information about the interior of people's houses
2) how to get people to install yet another advertisement screen in their houses.
To your point, the problem with Nest is that the solutions were not for problems that the people buying the device had, Nest was a solution to Nest's business partners' problems.
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While it is good that google are thinking about this topic, it may be too late....
Yes, it can be done by those knowledgeable or motivated enough. What percent of users? 1%?
I didn't have to do anything, and my PC started using privacy extensions for IPv6.
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Please take your tin-foil hat somewhere else....
Partly it was because it is a little embarrassing (in 2016) to have a technology focused website that is not making use of IPv6."
Amazon AWS, are you listening?
Since this change went into effect, my company's reach on Instagram has been cut in half....
I'm sure Instagram now will gladly take your advertising dollars, so that the algorithm will place you higher.
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See, it's not worthless, at least not to instagram.
...As Facebook came to understand long ago, the posts people want to see aren't necessarily those that are the newest. They're those that matter to you, personally....
What if the posts that matter to me, personally, the most are the newest.
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Why doesn't fb's super special algorithm pick that up? Why, when I tell it that I want to see newest posts first (MULTIPLE TIMES!!!), it constantly overrides that directive and shows me stuff in what appears to me to be random order?
Why do these social media companies insist on telling me what I want and like to see when I visit the site?
Overtly or covertly where is the data collected being sent?
... it's helpful to make jokes...
So... where were the jokes? Don't be a tease.
Microsoft is just digging itself deeper and deeper into a hole, from which it may never be able to extract itself. Enjoy your sprint to the bottom, Microsoft.
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If a content origination device starts doing something stupid because of a software "upgrade," then that device is history.
e.g., the AppleTV that was a part of my home entertainment system is now history because of the disaster that is AppleTV gen 4. What a buggy pile of goo that was. So it's been replaced (along with iTunes and my sole Mac). I've been using AppleTV since gen 1, but Apple's lost me as a customer because of the bugs and because the walls got way too high.
The TV is usually a more expensive part of the home entertainment equation, so I try to keep it to a singular purpose: Display.
It's not "nonsense. The auto-upgrade is, at best, a breach of trust, at worst an unethical upgrade to a customer's system.
... its a much better OS than either Win7 or Win8....
"Better" depends upon what your needs are. So far, it seems that everyone who has been saying that Windows 10 is "better" seems to think that their needs are appropriate for everyone else. That alone disqualifies the opinion.
...Yes the HARDCORE FOLKS will cry "SECURITY! MALWARE! INVASION OF PRIVACY!!11!" and more nonsense. The average person who asks me if they should upgrade I say yes....
When I have been asked by "average persons" about the upgrade, I explain the data harvesting that Microsoft will be doing to them and their family. These are not the HARDCORE FOLKS you seem to look down upon, but regular computer users. I showed them Microsoft's comments on the data that are being harvested. I did not add my opinion, I just showed them what Microsoft was saying about the data harvesting.
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So far, not one has said they wanted to go forward with the Windows 10 installation.