Your yard is only noticed by passing cars going by the area or people driving by.
A specific yard is only seen on google street view by someone who is planning a route to drive through the area. specifically looking for a house near or around that area. Your privacy on google street is about equal to your privacy in the real world. There is probably pretty equal number of people looking at that specific yard in google street view, as there are driving past it, actually possibly more, because if someone is planning a route or something, they would only have motivation to go into street view near where they are planning on leaving their car and not on most random streets.
We have privacy in more or less publicly viewable places, due only to having very large masses of data that we are lost in the noise. With the exception of to tracking and advertising bots designed to sift through that noise we have the same privacy on the internet.
Well it's on 2 parts here, google street view IMO isn't that much more high risk then your front lawn. I mean sure you are no more then 1 person in a few billion that someone might be driving down at any given time, so it's unlikely that your boss or someone would see it. But who randomly checks people's front yards on google streets for the heck of it either, and then a big question I have
She lost her job? Where the heck can you work that you would get fired if your boss discovered that you had granny panties, hanging on a zipline, in your own home? My theory is she lost her job because she started raving like a lunatic about it, pointed it out to everyone and freaked out loud enough that she was fired for being a disturbance to the workplace.
Riight, because 35 year old males never have friends over to watch the game on sunday and still have everyone over for a while after (mainstream example)
And 35 year olds are never DMing their next D&D game and need something to relax and earn the friendship back of their buddies after supprising their players with a supprise TPK. (Nerd example)
As well no 35 year olds of any kinds ever have kids or wives that also play the games either with them or with their friends.
Dosn't need a large account, Home users aren't a proffit margain for MS the way businesses are. They most likely could care less if you spent the 150 on a home edition of MS office, they are more worried about the 45k giant business contract they have with your company. Have nothing in common you think?
Here's microsoft's fear. Joe Midlevel in the company goes home, can't afford or can't justify spending 150 on something he only uses for work, because some reason the company won't buy him a copy, he discovers open/libre office or google docs. Lets others in the company try it, they discover there are no features they use in MS office that they are lacking. Maybe someone in the right place even likes the interface better. cost on the line, 20k-500k depending on company size
Scenerio 2, Joe Midlevel goes home finds a pirate copy of office, uses that instead, lost income $150
very true, and for roughly the same reasons. Norton, Mcaffee, webroot have one thing protecting them, regardless of how bad their products get. It dosn't have to catch anything, because 75-80% of consumers don't bother to contact any technical relatives friends etc... They just go to the local store and ask what's good, not knowing that the salesmen have been bribed and trained to push one of the established ones.
(staples salesmen get a bonus few bucks for every copy of norton they sell, geek squad's numbers and ratings are based off of webroot sales, I'm sure mcaffee has a deal with someone, etc...)
There's always remixes of major distro's designed for older hardware. I believe linux mint (pretty much exactly ubuntu made more user friendly), has a fluxbox based remix, system requirements being 256 MB of ram and 4 gigs of HD space. The main distrobutions all have offshoots designed to run the majority of the software on much less demanding hardware.
It's a messed up system no matter how you look at it, but there are legitimate problems it can address. There are teachers and professors who are not as professional or don't always have the students best interest in mind, and this limit's the ability to screw over a student based on personal bias.
I've seen and heard of many occasions where "participation" was up to 40% of the grade. The student turned in all of the assignments getting grades in the upper 80s, lower 90s. Got 90s on every test, and then given a 0% for participation, due to some personal bias via the professor, failed the class, GPA shot down the toilet etc..
Do I think this is the best solution, hell no. There should be a greater system of accountability for students to be able to challenge grades. Have one test or project to show they actually learned the material etc.
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Your yard is only noticed by passing cars going by the area or people driving by. A specific yard is only seen on google street view by someone who is planning a route to drive through the area. specifically looking for a house near or around that area. Your privacy on google street is about equal to your privacy in the real world. There is probably pretty equal number of people looking at that specific yard in google street view, as there are driving past it, actually possibly more, because if someone is planning a route or something, they would only have motivation to go into street view near where they are planning on leaving their car and not on most random streets. We have privacy in more or less publicly viewable places, due only to having very large masses of data that we are lost in the noise. With the exception of to tracking and advertising bots designed to sift through that noise we have the same privacy on the internet.
Well it's on 2 parts here, google street view IMO isn't that much more high risk then your front lawn. I mean sure you are no more then 1 person in a few billion that someone might be driving down at any given time, so it's unlikely that your boss or someone would see it. But who randomly checks people's front yards on google streets for the heck of it either, and then a big question I have She lost her job? Where the heck can you work that you would get fired if your boss discovered that you had granny panties, hanging on a zipline, in your own home? My theory is she lost her job because she started raving like a lunatic about it, pointed it out to everyone and freaked out loud enough that she was fired for being a disturbance to the workplace.
Riight, because 35 year old males never have friends over to watch the game on sunday and still have everyone over for a while after (mainstream example) And 35 year olds are never DMing their next D&D game and need something to relax and earn the friendship back of their buddies after supprising their players with a supprise TPK. (Nerd example) As well no 35 year olds of any kinds ever have kids or wives that also play the games either with them or with their friends.
Dosn't need a large account, Home users aren't a proffit margain for MS the way businesses are. They most likely could care less if you spent the 150 on a home edition of MS office, they are more worried about the 45k giant business contract they have with your company. Have nothing in common you think? Here's microsoft's fear. Joe Midlevel in the company goes home, can't afford or can't justify spending 150 on something he only uses for work, because some reason the company won't buy him a copy, he discovers open/libre office or google docs. Lets others in the company try it, they discover there are no features they use in MS office that they are lacking. Maybe someone in the right place even likes the interface better. cost on the line, 20k-500k depending on company size Scenerio 2, Joe Midlevel goes home finds a pirate copy of office, uses that instead, lost income $150
very true, and for roughly the same reasons. Norton, Mcaffee, webroot have one thing protecting them, regardless of how bad their products get. It dosn't have to catch anything, because 75-80% of consumers don't bother to contact any technical relatives friends etc... They just go to the local store and ask what's good, not knowing that the salesmen have been bribed and trained to push one of the established ones. (staples salesmen get a bonus few bucks for every copy of norton they sell, geek squad's numbers and ratings are based off of webroot sales, I'm sure mcaffee has a deal with someone, etc...)
There's always remixes of major distro's designed for older hardware. I believe linux mint (pretty much exactly ubuntu made more user friendly), has a fluxbox based remix, system requirements being 256 MB of ram and 4 gigs of HD space. The main distrobutions all have offshoots designed to run the majority of the software on much less demanding hardware.
It's a messed up system no matter how you look at it, but there are legitimate problems it can address. There are teachers and professors who are not as professional or don't always have the students best interest in mind, and this limit's the ability to screw over a student based on personal bias. I've seen and heard of many occasions where "participation" was up to 40% of the grade. The student turned in all of the assignments getting grades in the upper 80s, lower 90s. Got 90s on every test, and then given a 0% for participation, due to some personal bias via the professor, failed the class, GPA shot down the toilet etc.. Do I think this is the best solution, hell no. There should be a greater system of accountability for students to be able to challenge grades. Have one test or project to show they actually learned the material etc.