First it's "sign into Google accounts". But next it's "not get flagged as a bot by reCaptcha3"
^^^ This. ^^^ . . . How long before google becomes the effective gatekeeper on the net? How long before you need to allow google to track you (via javascript) in order to log into a website you want to visit?
The reason is that Google uses JavaScript to run risk assessment checks on the users
Google is all about tracking people on the net. Anything google does is about tracking people. The reason google needs javascript to be enabled is so that the javascript can help track people. Enabling javascript does not increase security, it decreases security. Javascript is a huge attack surface.
So I'm guessing they are paying around $400 for the hardware in bulk
Let's go with that for a second or two.... Please explain why the rental price is constantly increasing? The cost of computing hardware is dropping each year. Why doesn't the set top box (which is, effectively, a computer) rental fee drop as well? OK, let me ask that a different way --- if the rental fee of a set top box rises over the years, what is the basis for that rise? What part or aspect of a set top box costs more for the cable company to purchase as time progresses?
... No one really knows but it's between $750 and $1200 per box
I call BS. I am quite sure that Comcast's accounting department knows exactly what a set top box costs. Additionally, I think your guess (and that seems to be all it is, since you admit you do not know) is way too high.
In order to have a market-based approach, there first needs to be a market. In order for there to be a market, there first needs to be competition. Without competition, all you'll ever have is a "take it or leave it" transaction, with the seller in control of the price.
... otherwise it appears that google blocks you from continuing. google must assume that all humans will allow google trackers on to their computers and bots won't.
Soon? I figure this is years, if not longer, before brain waves replace passwords entirely. It's another case of things looking best before they have to be widely used. Unfounded optimism abounds.
... in a car. It is an entirely different problem to build reliable cars en masse. The recent tear-down video of a Tesla shows that they still appear to be grappling with the building of a car around their electronics.
...Every year in the USA, around 30K people are killed in traffic accidents....
You assume that self-driving cars will have a lower "kill" rate. We won't know if that is a correct assumption until we can look at the full picture when all the cars on the road are self-driving. I remember when over-the-air digital TV was promised to be "either a perfect picture or no picture at all." Well, I see lots of blocking and pixelation in the picture at times. So the "perfect picture or no picture" promise was nothing more than technological marketing speak.
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Technology always looks its best before it is widely implemented.
...The proposal is largely symbolic, since Zuckerberg holds absolute control of the board.... If you want to fix a problem, then you need to put into place different thinking than that which caused the problem in the first place.
Preserving perceived quality by which metrics? Comcast recently moved to downgrading the quality of the HD cable programming it provides. Some people see a significant problem with the downgraded video, especially during action video such as sport events. Yet Comcast says that ~the perceived quality is the same.~ So I ask again, how is "perceived quality" going to be measured? And by whom? By those who want to push out the new technology for monetary gain, or by those who are subject to the inferior results of the new technology?
Did anybody really expect "do not track" to do anything? The "do not track" flag asks low-life web advertisers not to track you, not to harvest your personal information. Why would those advertisers follow your wishes to not track you.
if Silicon Valley's UBI fans really wanted to repair the economic operating system, they should be looking not to universal basic income but universal basic assets
The problem to solve is not an economic problem, but a political one. The wealthy are continuing to purchase laws that siphon more and more of the country's wealth in their direction. If anything, it is that transfer of wealth that will create the tool for the further enslavement of which the author of TFA speaks.
It seems that Microsoft does not instruct its spiders to obey the robots.txt instructions I provide. The spiders download parts of the site that I do not want indexed. When I talked with the bing support people on this, they said something along the lines of, "yeah, it's a known bug in the spider." Yet they do not fix it. So I just block the spider now. Microsoft's QA quality problems seem to extend from Windows 10 updates to Bing spiders. Maybe the reality is just that Microsoft is a bug-laden company?
How many times does bad software have to get out into the wild before Microsoft realizes that they have a significant QA problem? I thought all that telemetry that Microsoft was harvesting from out PCs was supposed to improve software quality?
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First it's "sign into Google accounts". But next it's "not get flagged as a bot by reCaptcha3"
^^^ This. ^^^ . . . How long before google becomes the effective gatekeeper on the net? How long before you need to allow google to track you (via javascript) in order to log into a website you want to visit?
The reason is that Google uses JavaScript to run risk assessment checks on the users
Google is all about tracking people on the net. Anything google does is about tracking people. The reason google needs javascript to be enabled is so that the javascript can help track people. Enabling javascript does not increase security, it decreases security. Javascript is a huge attack surface.
So I'm guessing they are paying around $400 for the hardware in bulk
Let's go with that for a second or two.... Please explain why the rental price is constantly increasing? The cost of computing hardware is dropping each year. Why doesn't the set top box (which is, effectively, a computer) rental fee drop as well? OK, let me ask that a different way --- if the rental fee of a set top box rises over the years, what is the basis for that rise? What part or aspect of a set top box costs more for the cable company to purchase as time progresses?
I call BS. I am quite sure that Comcast's accounting department knows exactly what a set top box costs. Additionally, I think your guess (and that seems to be all it is, since you admit you do not know) is way too high.
In order to have a market-based approach, there first needs to be a market. In order for there to be a market, there first needs to be competition. Without competition, all you'll ever have is a "take it or leave it" transaction, with the seller in control of the price.
... otherwise it appears that google blocks you from continuing. google must assume that all humans will allow google trackers on to their computers and bots won't.
Soon? I figure this is years, if not longer, before brain waves replace passwords entirely. It's another case of things looking best before they have to be widely used. Unfounded optimism abounds.
The Smart City is just another illustration of that. Why is anyone surprised?
... Afraid to compete because they are unable to compete without a self-granted advantage.
Anyone who expected otherwise has not done a major migration. But once the move off of Oracle is complete, Amazon may be in a much better place.
... in a car. It is an entirely different problem to build reliable cars en masse. The recent tear-down video of a Tesla shows that they still appear to be grappling with the building of a car around their electronics.
...Every year in the USA, around 30K people are killed in traffic accidents. ...
You assume that self-driving cars will have a lower "kill" rate. We won't know if that is a correct assumption until we can look at the full picture when all the cars on the road are self-driving. I remember when over-the-air digital TV was promised to be "either a perfect picture or no picture at all." Well, I see lots of blocking and pixelation in the picture at times. So the "perfect picture or no picture" promise was nothing more than technological marketing speak.
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Technology always looks its best before it is widely implemented.
So far self-driving cars have shown that they cannot navigate the roads as well as humans can.
Looks to me like a false choice.
...The proposal is largely symbolic, since Zuckerberg holds absolute control of the board.... If you want to fix a problem, then you need to put into place different thinking than that which caused the problem in the first place.
Preserving perceived quality by which metrics? Comcast recently moved to downgrading the quality of the HD cable programming it provides. Some people see a significant problem with the downgraded video, especially during action video such as sport events. Yet Comcast says that ~the perceived quality is the same.~ So I ask again, how is "perceived quality" going to be measured? And by whom? By those who want to push out the new technology for monetary gain, or by those who are subject to the inferior results of the new technology?
Did anybody really expect "do not track" to do anything? The "do not track" flag asks low-life web advertisers not to track you, not to harvest your personal information. Why would those advertisers follow your wishes to not track you.
... as a cover to get an always-on camera in your living room? How much creepier can facebook get?
if Silicon Valley's UBI fans really wanted to repair the economic operating system, they should be looking not to universal basic income but universal basic assets
The problem to solve is not an economic problem, but a political one. The wealthy are continuing to purchase laws that siphon more and more of the country's wealth in their direction. If anything, it is that transfer of wealth that will create the tool for the further enslavement of which the author of TFA speaks.
It seems that Microsoft does not instruct its spiders to obey the robots.txt instructions I provide. The spiders download parts of the site that I do not want indexed. When I talked with the bing support people on this, they said something along the lines of, "yeah, it's a known bug in the spider." Yet they do not fix it. So I just block the spider now. Microsoft's QA quality problems seem to extend from Windows 10 updates to Bing spiders. Maybe the reality is just that Microsoft is a bug-laden company?
Any snow in Phoenix lately? How about heavy rain?
that means bad software has to get out into the wild first
So, for the past couple of years, there hasn't been enough bad software released by Microsoft for them to realize that they have a quality problem?
... now Microsoft can lower the quality of open source software also....
How many times does bad software have to get out into the wild before Microsoft realizes that they have a significant QA problem? I thought all that telemetry that Microsoft was harvesting from out PCs was supposed to improve software quality?
Given Facebook's behavior to date, I'd say it loos more like an intended feature. That it affected only a subset of people, well, that's the bug.