Should we also force everyone to buy top IIHS safety car picks and ban cars of last model from the roads, because they are just not as safe as the new models?
I think as a consumer I should not be forcibly prevented from driving a potentially flaming death trap as long as I am clearly informed of the risks. Less Big Brother is always a good thing.
Personally, one of the key reasons I would not consider buying Tesla is that I have no way of keeping Tesla out of my car. If this rooting allows me to lock out Tesla, then I may take another look at buying one.
The problem is that common sense is uncommon, most people confuse having it with practicing a narrow set of rules of thumb and deferring to authority. Critical thinking is a very rare skill and you can't really teach it to people without aptitude for this. I know this first-hand, I do various causal analysis and investigations as part of my work. So I both have to look into issues created by other people and try to hire people that can do this type of work.
So unfortunately my conclusion is that expecting a substantial part of population to be able to apply critical thinking and common sense is a lapse of critical thinking and common sense on your part.
This is very true. I browse in a way that Google's YouTube doesn't have any history on me. So default page starts with various pop and cat videos. Multiple times I have ended with suggested videos all going to conspiracy theories with just 1-2 search terms. It always goes to most radical version of what you are searching. I can easily see this in action as there is no search term history to cushion or slow this transition down.
YouTube is a radicalization engine, so why are we acting surprised when large segment of population got radicalized?
Integration really means- sharing information about users between Microsoft and Amazon so that they can spy on you better.
Exactly. More so, Cortana is baked in into all recent Windows OS versions, to the point that it is not possible to fully disable this functionality.
What this integration really means is that Amazon is going to have the same level of unprecedented access to your Windows-based system as Microsoft. This is not limited to what you are voice-searching using Cortana, this includes all aspects of your OS operation, file system, and so on.
More accurately stated, young people are not positive about how Capitalism is practiced in America.
You are quick to blame people without closely examining how corrupt and rotten the system become. From debtor's prison of student loans, to bank bailouts, to suppression of tech wages by no-poaching agreements and H1Bs, there is plenty reasons to be skeptical.
As to idealized version of Capitalism, that would be great, but what country has it implemented?
Alex Jones should be deplatformed for the slander he committed against the Sandy Hook parents.
Alex Jones should be made responsible for his vile words, but censoring him is not a way to do it. All deplatforming will do is lend his claims of persecution some credibility. It won't, however, stop his falsehoods from spreading.
More so, even if you set out to disprove a paper - publishing "unable to duplicate findings" paper is even harder than methods paper. Almost nobody is interested in doing this, almost nobody would publish your results, and as such questionable papers go unchecked. This leads to "body of knowledge" poisoned by bad data.
A dark secret is that even in peer reviewed journals that take peer review seriously you have bad papers. Bad, as in someone took unjustifiable liberties with methods and/or data to show correlation. It is nearly impossible to catch this in most fields, as information allowing to verify claims isn't part of 3000 or so words allowed by the journal.
I think peer review need to adopt a model that is close to open source - if you are publishing, you have to also open your data, so your findings can be independently verified by anyone, and not just 3 often not randomly selected peers.
Peer review process is insufficient to guarantee scientific rigor is practiced. For example, you have whole disciplines, like gender studies, going off the deep end and into mysticism, unfalsifiable claims, and politically-driven demagoguery and peer review does nothing to curtail even the worst of these excesses.
So how are these pay to play journals are categorically different from, for example, a "legitimate" journal of Feminist Studies?
It doesn't matter Google does this, as long as they are fully inclusive about how they do it, and sufficiently apologetic about their privilege of doing it.
It is very clear to me that big players like Google, Facebook, and Twitter are not going to voluntarily allow people to retain their privacy. This story is an example of a large company intentionally misleading and gathering data despite user explicitly telling them not to. It is likely that such brazen violation is not even against the law.
The law must change. Call for punitive regulation, it is the only way the learn.
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I use PaleMoon myself. While lead dev is an odd duck, and keeps ranting about NoScript, the browser is stable and NoScript does work.
By widely misleading, Google is referring to a missing Oxford comma on page 78 of the report. Everything else is spot-on.
At this point they are just hammering additional nails into Firefox's coffin.
Should we also force everyone to buy top IIHS safety car picks and ban cars of last model from the roads, because they are just not as safe as the new models?
I think as a consumer I should not be forcibly prevented from driving a potentially flaming death trap as long as I am clearly informed of the risks. Less Big Brother is always a good thing.
Can you please provide more information on this?
Personally, one of the key reasons I would not consider buying Tesla is that I have no way of keeping Tesla out of my car. If this rooting allows me to lock out Tesla, then I may take another look at buying one.
Your lack of imagination shows.
Steganographic encryption on top of Hillary email archive dump. Even if FBI suspects there is data hidden in these, nobody would want to look into it.
The problem is that common sense is uncommon, most people confuse having it with practicing a narrow set of rules of thumb and deferring to authority. Critical thinking is a very rare skill and you can't really teach it to people without aptitude for this. I know this first-hand, I do various causal analysis and investigations as part of my work. So I both have to look into issues created by other people and try to hire people that can do this type of work.
So unfortunately my conclusion is that expecting a substantial part of population to be able to apply critical thinking and common sense is a lapse of critical thinking and common sense on your part.
This is very true. I browse in a way that Google's YouTube doesn't have any history on me. So default page starts with various pop and cat videos. Multiple times I have ended with suggested videos all going to conspiracy theories with just 1-2 search terms. It always goes to most radical version of what you are searching. I can easily see this in action as there is no search term history to cushion or slow this transition down.
YouTube is a radicalization engine, so why are we acting surprised when large segment of population got radicalized?
The only Fake News in this area is profits from your Tesla shorting.
Platforms that offer free service don't do enough to vet news? Well, you get what you pay for - a bunch of clickbait of dubious authenticity.
Ignore? Digital assistants are there to spy on you, not actively using them does not even slow them down in that role.
Integration really means- sharing information about users between Microsoft and Amazon so that they can spy on you better.
Exactly. More so, Cortana is baked in into all recent Windows OS versions, to the point that it is not possible to fully disable this functionality.
What this integration really means is that Amazon is going to have the same level of unprecedented access to your Windows-based system as Microsoft. This is not limited to what you are voice-searching using Cortana, this includes all aspects of your OS operation, file system, and so on.
More accurately stated, young people are not positive about how Capitalism is practiced in America.
You are quick to blame people without closely examining how corrupt and rotten the system become. From debtor's prison of student loans, to bank bailouts, to suppression of tech wages by no-poaching agreements and H1Bs, there is plenty reasons to be skeptical.
As to idealized version of Capitalism, that would be great, but what country has it implemented?
Alex Jones should be deplatformed for the slander he committed against the Sandy Hook parents.
Alex Jones should be made responsible for his vile words, but censoring him is not a way to do it. All deplatforming will do is lend his claims of persecution some credibility. It won't, however, stop his falsehoods from spreading.
More so, even if you set out to disprove a paper - publishing "unable to duplicate findings" paper is even harder than methods paper. Almost nobody is interested in doing this, almost nobody would publish your results, and as such questionable papers go unchecked. This leads to "body of knowledge" poisoned by bad data.
A dark secret is that even in peer reviewed journals that take peer review seriously you have bad papers. Bad, as in someone took unjustifiable liberties with methods and/or data to show correlation. It is nearly impossible to catch this in most fields, as information allowing to verify claims isn't part of 3000 or so words allowed by the journal.
I think peer review need to adopt a model that is close to open source - if you are publishing, you have to also open your data, so your findings can be independently verified by anyone, and not just 3 often not randomly selected peers.
Peer review process is insufficient to guarantee scientific rigor is practiced. For example, you have whole disciplines, like gender studies, going off the deep end and into mysticism, unfalsifiable claims, and politically-driven demagoguery and peer review does nothing to curtail even the worst of these excesses.
So how are these pay to play journals are categorically different from, for example, a "legitimate" journal of Feminist Studies?
If it is self-identified women, then we are already compliant. Just have Bob fill the form.
A car analogy - I offer to wash your car for free, but then when you give me the keys I end up going Ferris Bueller on it.
This is what-about-ism. While Government collecting data is also a problem, it is a different problem that requires different solutions.
Insofar as marketing goes, these are all different CPUs. Insofar as performance goes, all these are about the same since Haswell.
It doesn't matter Google does this, as long as they are fully inclusive about how they do it, and sufficiently apologetic about their privilege of doing it.
It is very clear to me that big players like Google, Facebook, and Twitter are not going to voluntarily allow people to retain their privacy. This story is an example of a large company intentionally misleading and gathering data despite user explicitly telling them not to. It is likely that such brazen violation is not even against the law.
The law must change. Call for punitive regulation, it is the only way the learn.
More things change, more they stay the same. We need strong unions back or everyone's quality of life will keep going down.