quite true, so many of those they basically say 4/5 is considered a failing grade, when you know a very large percentage of people believe fair reviews mean that few to no people should ever have a 5/5, as they see it as "literally cannot possibly be better". I mean hypothetically a waitress could donate her kidney to save my life... that would be a real 10/10
Well then this isn't a tablet issue, it's a customer feedback issue. Now my questions, if the person interviewed is noticing less hours, then who's getting the hours? Obviously someone is scoring higher on these reviews and benefiting from it. That being said with that and customer feedback in general. It favors attractive people, over good service. That could be shrugged off and said "well duh but we give customers what they want, if they want an attractive bonehead that will mess up their order over an average or ugly server that will make sure everything comes out right, why not give it to them. The problem is in the dying american dream that often implies if you work harder you will be better off. When the reality is the things that you can't change about yourself can often outweigh the ones you can.
agreed there, many of us wish for a non corporate controlled manipulating the hell out of you with data information etc... but owned by facebook isn't exactly a step up from owned by google.
personally I think pornhub might be the best hope if they chose to get into the game. A company with budget, experiene hosting large amounts of video... and from what I can tell pretty good discression.
honestly I do have to say, it is a bit of both on that end. 100% screw people who think falsely telling the police that there is a life and death situation. But yes doubly screw actual law officers that think innocent until proven guilty is only a thing if they arrest someone.
Why's Bernie Sanders the one you think is dumb for this... Sander's policies are
1. Raise minimum wage. If a job still needs to be done, the people being paid to do it need to be able to survive. People are still going to be replaced by machines even if we somehow got them to work for free.
2. Free college tuition. As these jobs are going away, we need to make sure these cashiers have some education if they want to actually move away from things. We have to get rid of the financial barrier towards having the option to get a decent job.
those 2 things have kind of been centerpieces of bernie's campaign for ages. Longer term we are going to need to work towards something like UBI etc... but to my knowledge those are the best bandaid fixes I can see. Compared to the current model of "pay them crap... allow education to be out of the price range of anyone who doesn't have wealthy parents,
It's pretty true... twitter is meaningful at least partly because the media props it up. Trumps tweets are headline news every day... Rosanne got canceled over her tweet.
Also meanwhile Facebook is getting some pretty bad rap for selling data etc... making people spend more time on twitter and possibly less on facebook.
well, he wanted to be able to inform the people of what he had found, and he wanted to not die in the process. He hasn't exactly hailed russia as a great place, but there just aren't exactly a lot of options.
You know our societies priorities are wrong when there's an apology for not telling us about minor functions being added and removed from people's smartphones, in announcment someone's cancer being cured!.
Well I'd say the bigger thing though is at least some features are lost. Look at say diaspora's social network. (admitted diaspora more likely can be credited with killing themselves, due to it's initial release being filled to the brim with security holes, leading to them basically losing all of the tech journalist support, that origionally had put them on the map). Diaspora's leading feature for the users, would have been Aspects. Which basically let you put people into groups, and chose which group you wanted to share which posts/photo's etc... with. Shortly after diaspora's demo's came out, google plus came out. Which looked almost identical to diaspora, and included "circles" which was basically aspects, and then of course facebook made groups to match both of them.
The big thing is, stuff like privacy, reasonable monotization systems, non tracking etc... aren't big money makers. In order for a liberation from big data, It would take both an improved privacy system, and a practical feature to draw people away from the big companies.
Also many of the companies selling their companies to big names like google etc... aren't doing so because they think their product will flourish there. If you look at the mass graveyard of companies google has bought up, it's pretty clear very few of them actually survived. At least some of the guys would rather have had their company take it's chances, but knew that refusing meant the big giants would kill their product in some other ways... so the choice was "collect a few million and let the company pick up and abandon the project", or "watch the company evicerate the product by either temporally making a competitor (that also will be abandoned), and go bankrupt in the process.
honestly I don't get why we view this as worse than any other targetted ads. At least in my view, ambulance chasers are a pain in the ass, because they tend to add one extra thing to hound you when you are already in a shitty situation. When we are talking advertising on smart phones, they aren't replacing the conversation you should be having with your doctor, they are replacing the ad for dog food at the bottom of your e-mail client or whatever.
I fully understand people rallying against targetted ads, privacy collection, your phone blurting out everywhere you go and selling it to advertisers etc.... but I honestly don't see why it's any worse.
IMO the only form I would say would be abnormally terrible (or worse than the general concept that allows the practice at all), is if say an alcohol company targetted ads at AA meeting locations etc... Appart from that I'd say either be pissed at your phone tracking you and letting advertisers see where you are at all, or accept the practices as they are.
It may be easier to say... but it kills a lot of the meaning. phrases like "over 99%", or 99.99% or something like that carry a HUGELY different connotation than 100%. Perfect is a very specific thought in peoples mind, IE they couldn't find something it couldn't handle. There's a reason even Lysol doesn't advertise as killing ALL germs, even though from what I understand the.01% that it misses are litterally just germs it doesn't touch.
so by surface, you mean company? Windows defender is an attack surface, in the sense that it is a piece of software with admin access that rests in addition to the OS as a whole and can in some situations be tricked into doing bad things. If you install bitdefender or something else they generally disable windows defender, which closes down those possible attack vectors, and replace them with whatever the other protection's vectors are.
No matter what protection you are using, you've got the same number of attack surfaces, it's just that all attack surfaces are owned by the same company, instead of by 2 companies.
I fully agree. Really the big thing to me is... sending shit back to the owners. Are we really that far away from being able to interpret voice commands on something we can own? I remember dragon naturally speaking not being too terrible at it back when everyone was on windows XP with dialup connections and 512 megs of ram... why on earth can't any of these assistance interpret commands locally 15 years later?
well the question is how do we go about naming anything. Because people are stupid. Assist, Help etc... all wind up meaning "do everything for you and you don't need to check" to an idiot that hopes it is what he wants it to be. People interpret things the way they want to interpret them... and not needing to pay attention is cooler than needing to pay attention.
as many people have noted, the 3 laws of robotics fail on their own rights even if that is the goal. But it gets further moot. Do we really think AI developers aren't going to be demanded by the military with the explicit desire to have AIs that are entirely about the concept of killing those the government wants killed. That is the location where AI will inevitably reach, that has the highest odds of going very wrong.
not just current amount of money in them... but if they are actually alone in their audience. Even if an app pulled in 2 million dollars a week, most of them would pretty quickly get replaced by a competitor the second they vanished from the app store.
No other options? Ever hear of say, torrents? There's technological ways to share data that actually can turn many people needing the data into a good thing that doesn't cost them money. I'm sure there's a technological solution where users don't pay for the data... but the majority of users viewing the data send it to other users. Games have been using systems like that for patches for some time.
Don't all routers pretty much have to have some level of firewall capabilities. A dumb out of the box router with zero configuration... pretty much by default will prevent any external traffic from connecting to your PC.
I've used linux as a primary OS since I was 13... and I repair windows computers for a living. If we are talking non-IT jobs, the basic window manager and libre office will have a near negligable shift between OS's. Most likely as little or less than the inevitable shift between windows 10 and windows 13 or whatever version is next to release. If computers does turn out to be what they want.. then expose them to a bit of everything. They should know windows, and linux etc...
Orwell's books were typically set in place long after everything was concrete and unchangable. As far as I know he didn't write a whole lot on how we got there, just where we wound up. Propoganda usually starts out subtle and slowly builds its way up to in your face you can't miss it unless you've never lived away from it.
honestly while I do like quite a bit of what Elon does, there are indeed times I think he really does jump the gun and start building, long before something is even fully plausible on paper. The technical requirements and problems in the hyper-loop (thermal expansion problems, and just in general trying to make hundred mile long functioning vacume tubes). Those limits and requirements seem... pretty insane to me.
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quite true, so many of those they basically say 4/5 is considered a failing grade, when you know a very large percentage of people believe fair reviews mean that few to no people should ever have a 5/5, as they see it as "literally cannot possibly be better". I mean hypothetically a waitress could donate her kidney to save my life... that would be a real 10/10
Well then this isn't a tablet issue, it's a customer feedback issue. Now my questions, if the person interviewed is noticing less hours, then who's getting the hours? Obviously someone is scoring higher on these reviews and benefiting from it. That being said with that and customer feedback in general. It favors attractive people, over good service. That could be shrugged off and said "well duh but we give customers what they want, if they want an attractive bonehead that will mess up their order over an average or ugly server that will make sure everything comes out right, why not give it to them. The problem is in the dying american dream that often implies if you work harder you will be better off. When the reality is the things that you can't change about yourself can often outweigh the ones you can.
agreed there, many of us wish for a non corporate controlled manipulating the hell out of you with data information etc... but owned by facebook isn't exactly a step up from owned by google. personally I think pornhub might be the best hope if they chose to get into the game. A company with budget, experiene hosting large amounts of video... and from what I can tell pretty good discression.
host a diaspora server. Lucky for you "other people using it" enough users to be worth doing anything on, wasn't among your requirements.
that would make more sense in the US than norway. how many military conflicts is norway involved in right now, or in the last 10 years.
honestly I do have to say, it is a bit of both on that end. 100% screw people who think falsely telling the police that there is a life and death situation. But yes doubly screw actual law officers that think innocent until proven guilty is only a thing if they arrest someone.
those 2 things have kind of been centerpieces of bernie's campaign for ages. Longer term we are going to need to work towards something like UBI etc... but to my knowledge those are the best bandaid fixes I can see. Compared to the current model of "pay them crap... allow education to be out of the price range of anyone who doesn't have wealthy parents,
It's pretty true... twitter is meaningful at least partly because the media props it up. Trumps tweets are headline news every day... Rosanne got canceled over her tweet. Also meanwhile Facebook is getting some pretty bad rap for selling data etc... making people spend more time on twitter and possibly less on facebook.
Seriously, we've got google... giving technology to the US Millitary. I'm sure who's less trustworthy to keep their word.
depending on the resolution, good chance you wouldn't be able to tell the difference without an interface that allows you to switch. views
well, he wanted to be able to inform the people of what he had found, and he wanted to not die in the process. He hasn't exactly hailed russia as a great place, but there just aren't exactly a lot of options.
You know our societies priorities are wrong when there's an apology for not telling us about minor functions being added and removed from people's smartphones, in announcment someone's cancer being cured!.
Well I'd say the bigger thing though is at least some features are lost. Look at say diaspora's social network. (admitted diaspora more likely can be credited with killing themselves, due to it's initial release being filled to the brim with security holes, leading to them basically losing all of the tech journalist support, that origionally had put them on the map). Diaspora's leading feature for the users, would have been Aspects. Which basically let you put people into groups, and chose which group you wanted to share which posts/photo's etc... with. Shortly after diaspora's demo's came out, google plus came out. Which looked almost identical to diaspora, and included "circles" which was basically aspects, and then of course facebook made groups to match both of them. The big thing is, stuff like privacy, reasonable monotization systems, non tracking etc... aren't big money makers. In order for a liberation from big data, It would take both an improved privacy system, and a practical feature to draw people away from the big companies. Also many of the companies selling their companies to big names like google etc... aren't doing so because they think their product will flourish there. If you look at the mass graveyard of companies google has bought up, it's pretty clear very few of them actually survived. At least some of the guys would rather have had their company take it's chances, but knew that refusing meant the big giants would kill their product in some other ways... so the choice was "collect a few million and let the company pick up and abandon the project", or "watch the company evicerate the product by either temporally making a competitor (that also will be abandoned), and go bankrupt in the process.
honestly I don't get why we view this as worse than any other targetted ads. At least in my view, ambulance chasers are a pain in the ass, because they tend to add one extra thing to hound you when you are already in a shitty situation. When we are talking advertising on smart phones, they aren't replacing the conversation you should be having with your doctor, they are replacing the ad for dog food at the bottom of your e-mail client or whatever. I fully understand people rallying against targetted ads, privacy collection, your phone blurting out everywhere you go and selling it to advertisers etc.... but I honestly don't see why it's any worse. IMO the only form I would say would be abnormally terrible (or worse than the general concept that allows the practice at all), is if say an alcohol company targetted ads at AA meeting locations etc... Appart from that I'd say either be pissed at your phone tracking you and letting advertisers see where you are at all, or accept the practices as they are.
It may be easier to say... but it kills a lot of the meaning. phrases like "over 99%", or 99.99% or something like that carry a HUGELY different connotation than 100%. Perfect is a very specific thought in peoples mind, IE they couldn't find something it couldn't handle. There's a reason even Lysol doesn't advertise as killing ALL germs, even though from what I understand the .01% that it misses are litterally just germs it doesn't touch.
so by surface, you mean company? Windows defender is an attack surface, in the sense that it is a piece of software with admin access that rests in addition to the OS as a whole and can in some situations be tricked into doing bad things. If you install bitdefender or something else they generally disable windows defender, which closes down those possible attack vectors, and replace them with whatever the other protection's vectors are. No matter what protection you are using, you've got the same number of attack surfaces, it's just that all attack surfaces are owned by the same company, instead of by 2 companies.
I fully agree. Really the big thing to me is... sending shit back to the owners. Are we really that far away from being able to interpret voice commands on something we can own? I remember dragon naturally speaking not being too terrible at it back when everyone was on windows XP with dialup connections and 512 megs of ram... why on earth can't any of these assistance interpret commands locally 15 years later?
well the question is how do we go about naming anything. Because people are stupid. Assist, Help etc... all wind up meaning "do everything for you and you don't need to check" to an idiot that hopes it is what he wants it to be. People interpret things the way they want to interpret them... and not needing to pay attention is cooler than needing to pay attention.
as many people have noted, the 3 laws of robotics fail on their own rights even if that is the goal. But it gets further moot. Do we really think AI developers aren't going to be demanded by the military with the explicit desire to have AIs that are entirely about the concept of killing those the government wants killed. That is the location where AI will inevitably reach, that has the highest odds of going very wrong.
not just current amount of money in them... but if they are actually alone in their audience. Even if an app pulled in 2 million dollars a week, most of them would pretty quickly get replaced by a competitor the second they vanished from the app store.
No other options? Ever hear of say, torrents? There's technological ways to share data that actually can turn many people needing the data into a good thing that doesn't cost them money. I'm sure there's a technological solution where users don't pay for the data... but the majority of users viewing the data send it to other users. Games have been using systems like that for patches for some time.
Don't all routers pretty much have to have some level of firewall capabilities. A dumb out of the box router with zero configuration... pretty much by default will prevent any external traffic from connecting to your PC.
I've used linux as a primary OS since I was 13... and I repair windows computers for a living. If we are talking non-IT jobs, the basic window manager and libre office will have a near negligable shift between OS's. Most likely as little or less than the inevitable shift between windows 10 and windows 13 or whatever version is next to release. If computers does turn out to be what they want.. then expose them to a bit of everything. They should know windows, and linux etc...
Orwell's books were typically set in place long after everything was concrete and unchangable. As far as I know he didn't write a whole lot on how we got there, just where we wound up. Propoganda usually starts out subtle and slowly builds its way up to in your face you can't miss it unless you've never lived away from it.
honestly while I do like quite a bit of what Elon does, there are indeed times I think he really does jump the gun and start building, long before something is even fully plausible on paper. The technical requirements and problems in the hyper-loop (thermal expansion problems, and just in general trying to make hundred mile long functioning vacume tubes). Those limits and requirements seem... pretty insane to me.