Sometimes my lamp burns out and I don't notice it's been set to "on" for days before I go replace the bulb. This would give the false impression to people that I am home when I am not.
I know. It sounds like something from a TDWTF story intro, than a Slashdot report. I actually had to read it twice to make sure I understood what it was saying, which wasn't anything a simple link couldn't have accomplished.
The charges will probably be dropped for political reasons, but as a person whose family mostly consists of medical professionals (doctor, surgeon, psychiatrist, psychologist, two RN's, two FNP's, a naval surgeon, an EMT, a BSN with FNP....) they take HIPPA matters like it's sacred. Someone getting hauled off in an ambulance constitutes a medical action. The privacy is intended for the individual, who has to waive his/her rights so that others may possess or even review documentation of these medical events. Any time care is provided (both "provide" and "care" have broad meanings, btw), HIPPA kicks in. It's between you and the provider. So, the man should not have filmed the event if the man had not already received release from the patient to obtain that information. The key word here is documentation. Eye witness accounts are moot because they are not documentation. A/V Recordings are documentation. It's tantamount to roaming a hospital ward and reading people's personal medical charts. Do you get it?
Oh, and sorry so many of you have never ever been in a situation where HIPPA has been to your benefit. I'm guessing all of you have been, you just don't know it. Every time you see a doctor or fill an Rx or file an insurance claim, HIPPA is protecting you. At any rate, I, for one, would not want it documented by some random person that I was carried off in an ambulance. Who are you to waive MY right to privacy? Who are you to say MY privacy concerns are outweighed by your "information is free" mantra?
In Colorado, every B.S. (probably all undergrads) require the exact same 64 credit (2 year's worth of normal terms), so the legislature passed a law that anyone taking those courses -- being identical afterall -- have guaranteed transfer to any other institution that offers that same course. So I take my 2 years at my community college, and my last 2 years at my 4 year (like CU Boulder) and I save money, right? Wrong. The effect was every single community college increased tuition per credit hour or quality hour or whatever the fuck metric they're using now. Suddenly I'm paying only $50 less per Cr at my community college for a course I could take at the 4 year, but the education is not even close to the same quality.
If quality institutions made online per course enrollment an option, this could drastically change the financial landscape and put the students in power. Finally turn higher institutions into knowledge factories rather than scandalous money schemes they've become today. Also it would allow me to double up on credits, take summer credits, etc. This, of course, pending my degree contract, which states among other things no matter what transfer courses I bring in the last 64 credicts are to be taken on campus. ugh.
Just when the nerd hodes scorn and berate Microsoft for bringing the desktop to the mobile, suddenly the FOSS think it makes sense... shit, make up your minds. Can I have a desktop on my phone or not?
Absolutely. This guy's mind is mangled beyond repair from all the MDPV and other cathinones he's been doing for years. He's worse off than a meth addict on a binge, because what he's done to his brain is likely permanent.
So when Microsoft decided to enable do not track me by default, everyone says "you're preventing users from making the choice of being tracked!" The comments here were ridiculous. but Google decides to disable silent extensions and no one is throwing a tantrum about how they're preventing users from making that choice. What gives, people?
It's bad enough I have to sit down in a neutral zone and not multitask now that these days I'm expected to skype or some such with facetime. I usually do a lot of things on the when just speaking, like washing dishes, folding clothes, going to bathroom. But no. Now I have to sit there and do nothing at all. Now they want us to install robotic telefeedback mechanisms? Fuck get real.
People are starving in our very own continental United States and this jerk decides his money is better off spent on a yacht? Why did Congress allow this to happen instead of, oh I don't know, taking it so 25% of American children don't go to bed hungry each night? Or to provide them with water, heat, clothing? This guy voted Democrat, people.
Just don't jump into projects involving involving the technologies (i.e. platforms and tools) of the now. The number of subjects you have to "learn" about are so fragmented it's an utter nightmare. You'll get lost, feel incompetent, and give up; I've seen it a hundred times. What you are going to do is reinforce and awaken your incommunicable knowledge of programming fundamentals; not in a formal, theoretical way, not with simple practice (though consistent routine is required to turn this into a habit again). Like the way most of us learned in high school or whatever when it was just about having fun.
And no this doesn't sugg starting with a beginner or inermediate book. You'll get bored because the concepts will vaguely remind you of things you already kind of know. It's like muscle memory I guess.
So you were mostly right, starting of with relatively less cumbersome languages, environments and tools related to technology you are familiar with. Powershell is really cool and that's what got me back into programming. I wrote myself a dozen cool utilities, many of which already existed, just to encourage my ingenuity and creativity.
One last tip. Comment and comment well instead of doing design docs detached from the code. Treat your commenting and coding as a sort of tutorial; you're showing yourself and others how to accomplish tasks and solve problems. If you get distracted by planning and design in documents outside your code, you may feel less enthusiastic about completing a project, since that is the most time consuming and least interesting part of programming. You can get formal and theoretical later on.
Windows 8 market has way more options than Android. Look, mobile computing is moving from this bullshit app centric nonsense to "computer in my hand". Win 8 delivers. Android does not. Now I am liberated from software limited vendor devices, I have an OS that challenges hardware vendors to accommodate full featured hardware for mobile computing functionality that parallels desktop. Stop whining about it, it is the future. I was meant to have a tiny computer in my hands. I was not meant to have a half functional software crippled computer that only works when I submit to a data plan and buy apps for every task I would want the device to do. and HTML5+JS ? Sounds like someone in Redmond realized every app you use is just a shitty rendition of something that should be browser accessible, i.e. virtually free to the end user. How anyone can be opposed to this notion is beyond me....
Give me metrics. Give me measurements. Give me science. This shit? This is just software politics. Corporate hate. There is so very little wrong with Windows that it has market dominance. Do you not get that? How do you not understand that this is what people want from their computers? WE WANT full featured computing on our mobiles. Not app store machines. Win8 brings that. Nothing else does. What is wrong with you that you fail to comprehend the general population is RIGHT when it comes to usability? MS dominance... This wasn't due to unethical business tactics. This was due to it being a product people actually used effectively. MS declining in dominance? The only factor there is politics. MS didn't release a product that sucked. It was just hard for other companies to market with MS as your primary partner. Evidence: Android instead of Linux; OS X instead of Unix. If your platform is so much better, howcome no one calls it by name? So you may like your Android/OSX/whatever but for fucks sake if you can't bring reason to your hate against MS then why the hell do we call what we do "computer science" ? There's no science here. Not at all. None of the shit I hear about these reviews remotely resembles a scientific, analytical intellectual discourse. It's just some jerk's stupid opinion. Put on Slashdot, and 100,000 people will be swayed that way, right? News for nerds, yea right.
Look, this thing people do where if you don't win it all then you're a loser entirely misses the point. I'd rather slow terrorism than not bother with it. And committing to the tactic of "censorship" does NOT preclude me from pursuing other strategies, so why would anyone even bother arguing against it? People's lives are a lot more important to me than whether you think some principality has wasted money and infringed on a terrorists' right to have a website.
In the U.S. having a medical condition presented in a mere 3% of a population is considered medically significant and mitigation factors are set in place if the condition exceeds 3%. We just read a study where 50% had a condition. That is an order of magnitude above what should be tolerated medically speaking. That's more than the number of health defects caused by smoking cigarettes! I hope a wider study lowers the number, but if it doesn't... if we don't put up with cigarettes being bad for health, how can we justify allowing for a game that is bad for our health?
Whenever companies like Facebook or Google do things with our data that raise serious privacy concerns, the majority of slashdotters' reaction is "meh, if you don't like it, then don't use it." Oh the irony that you complain about this then.
In the IT you *might* get away with certification. But in general, you CANNOT get employed without a degree. And community colleges/vocational schools in the U.S. basically find every available blue collar occupation, design a curriculum for it, and start offering a degree. Meaning your unskilled labor job suddenly requires an education, and you can bet some jerk paid for the 9 month course. Here are some examples I've encountered recently. These are a few things that are supposed to be ON THE JOB TRAINING at WORST, and at best, unskilled non-requirements. I live in a city of 8,000 and the economy here is in the tank, due to a host of construction jobs that brought in out of town workers who compete with the local available work force directly when they're not actively on their construction assignments. I lost my job and had to start searching for low wage work, and here's what I found out.
- Receptionist. This is answering calls and making photocopies. It's a 2 year degree plan at my local CC. Fuckin bullshit. I need a degree now, that costs $4,000 of mine and taxpayer money, to answer your god damn phone?
- Construction tech (I actually did this work. It's where you haul around materials dropped at a job site, manually. Yes, now they "educate" you to lift sheet metal and carry it 50 feet. After the CC introduced THAT degree, I was no longer considered employable versus the guys who shelled out for the degree.)
- Vet tech (this is where you wash out cages of animals the vets keep. Your job is to clean up poop. Literally. Rather than spend the 48 hours training you to do it, they'd rather hire someone who picked up the 2 semester "degree" from the local CC.)
- Solar energy tech (this is someone who, using pre-fab hardware, places solar panels on a house, in a field, etc etc. The job is to place a screw to attach the solar panel to its frame. That's it. You run around with a cordless drill with a socket attached to it. They will hire someone with a solar tech "degree" over someone who does not have one.)
- Stocking/inventory tech. (This is someone who takes things and puts them onto shelves at retailers.) I applied for one of these jobs and was asked, by a straight face, if I had any education that qualified me for this job.
So don't tell me you don't need a degree to work. Even the most bullshit mindless jobs now require the distinction of a college education.
I know Slashdot ran a story before about a court case in the United States involving an encrypted hdd. The information stored by the data on the hdd was crucial evidence, so the judge ordered the defendent to reveal the encryption key. The defendant failed to comply and was held in contempt. Somewhere in the comments or articles were references to some great legal scholars who contested this sort of judicial action should not be considered constitutional, because there are apparently some analogous cases fx. a court cannot order a defendant to reveal combinations to safes/vaults/locks, but CAN order them to open the safes. As a more obvious liberty, a police search cannot require a suspect to reveal incriminating evidence, but a warrant can force them to allow physical access to properties where the evidence is thought to exist. The general idea is the courts have almost universal dominion when it comes to my things but not when it comes to my thoughts. Anyways, the point of what I'm saying is that there already is precedent for this digital stuff.
... Do you think they would believe me if I said I don't have one? It should be the decision of the plaintiffs to provide that information as evidence, not the position of the judge to order private information.....
If they can convince the judge that you've used the account (they'd have to identify you as the user) then I'm sure they have reasonable grounds to believe you have the specific knowledge they're after, like account credentials. Your denial of this knowledge would probably result in contempt. I don't think it's fair, and I don't like they can do these things, but only the most paranoid schizo would create the elaborate technical means to hide such evidence as would indicate the fact that his accounts are known to him to be his accounts. That kind of person probably is doing something super illegal, or is super paranoid, or just doesn't use computers. I'm sure there are people like that out there. I'm sure they'll be fine if they're ever brought to court. People like us, we're out of luck.
Citations through slashdot search box. Sorry, I'd provide them, but the Slashdot comment box in IE does not have a blinking cursor and editing my comment is more painful than it should be.
This guy is wrong. The "return" owed to tax payers is called interest, paid on the loan. That's the only social obligation required of someone who gets a degree using state funds. To suggest some broader social obligation overrides individual preferences, is nonsense. Put that in your promissory note. It will never get signed. Chances are those scientists are going into private sector, whose work could really be anything, and patentend, and not of any necessary impact on the taxpayer. Did you know there are scientists figuring out how to put different flavors into frozen yogurt? Moving humanity forward! Funds based on discrimination is becoming a huge burden. My local college allows 30% of its students a free ride based on sports scholarships. 30% for free. Is it fair for 70% to have a higher tuition, and therefore higher debt, so others can play games?
Last article I read on SD was about Microsoft enabling tracking protection by default. Most users here claimed MS pro-privacy measure violated the user's rights. But in this thread, the consensus is that tracking is problematic and we are recommended to block certain sites? Odd, Slashdot. Odd. So walk me through this.
I'm convinced that tracking, data collection and data sharing, among various other obviously unethical privacy violations by hundreds or more large companies on the web is a major concern and in general an undesireable term of use for most users.But I can't opt-out of these privacy breaches, except on the very rare occasion where an individual company's privacy policy allows it (or makes opt-in the default).
And no, choosing not to use the web or some services on the web is not the same as opting out. Otherwise, MS default to enabled tracking protection wouldn't equate to opt-in tracking; if you wouldn't use it, you've already opted-in. So don't tell me, if I don't like the sites, don't use them.
So which is it, Slashdot ? Should I go with a tracking protection list or should I not even worry about it? Can we get some facts up in here?
As an aside, I enabled tracking protection with the default list in IE9, and I could not sign into Yahoo via its web interface. See, this is why Congress or some neutral private company needs to get involved....
Anyways, carry on,....
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Sometimes my lamp burns out and I don't notice it's been set to "on" for days before I go replace the bulb. This would give the false impression to people that I am home when I am not.
I know. It sounds like something from a TDWTF story intro, than a Slashdot report. I actually had to read it twice to make sure I understood what it was saying, which wasn't anything a simple link couldn't have accomplished.
If I had written this I would have been modded down to troll. All of my very similar rants have been. But this guy gets a +4 Insightful ?
The charges will probably be dropped for political reasons, but as a person whose family mostly consists of medical professionals (doctor, surgeon, psychiatrist, psychologist, two RN's, two FNP's, a naval surgeon, an EMT, a BSN with FNP. ...) they take HIPPA matters like it's sacred. Someone getting hauled off in an ambulance constitutes a medical action. The privacy is intended for the individual, who has to waive his/her rights so that others may possess or even review documentation of these medical events. Any time care is provided (both "provide" and "care" have broad meanings, btw), HIPPA kicks in. It's between you and the provider. So, the man should not have filmed the event if the man had not already received release from the patient to obtain that information. The key word here is documentation. Eye witness accounts are moot because they are not documentation. A/V Recordings are documentation. It's tantamount to roaming a hospital ward and reading people's personal medical charts. Do you get it?
Oh, and sorry so many of you have never ever been in a situation where HIPPA has been to your benefit. I'm guessing all of you have been, you just don't know it. Every time you see a doctor or fill an Rx or file an insurance claim, HIPPA is protecting you. At any rate, I, for one, would not want it documented by some random person that I was carried off in an ambulance. Who are you to waive MY right to privacy? Who are you to say MY privacy concerns are outweighed by your "information is free" mantra?
In Colorado, every B.S. (probably all undergrads) require the exact same 64 credit (2 year's worth of normal terms), so the legislature passed a law that anyone taking those courses -- being identical afterall -- have guaranteed transfer to any other institution that offers that same course. So I take my 2 years at my community college, and my last 2 years at my 4 year (like CU Boulder) and I save money, right? Wrong. The effect was every single community college increased tuition per credit hour or quality hour or whatever the fuck metric they're using now. Suddenly I'm paying only $50 less per Cr at my community college for a course I could take at the 4 year, but the education is not even close to the same quality.
If quality institutions made online per course enrollment an option, this could drastically change the financial landscape and put the students in power. Finally turn higher institutions into knowledge factories rather than scandalous money schemes they've become today. Also it would allow me to double up on credits, take summer credits, etc. This, of course, pending my degree contract, which states among other things no matter what transfer courses I bring in the last 64 credicts are to be taken on campus. ugh.
Just when the nerd hodes scorn and berate Microsoft for bringing the desktop to the mobile, suddenly the FOSS think it makes sense... shit, make up your minds. Can I have a desktop on my phone or not?
Absolutely. This guy's mind is mangled beyond repair from all the MDPV and other cathinones he's been doing for years. He's worse off than a meth addict on a binge, because what he's done to his brain is likely permanent.
Took your intro to ethics course and think you know it all, don't you?
So when Microsoft decided to enable do not track me by default, everyone says "you're preventing users from making the choice of being tracked!" The comments here were ridiculous. but Google decides to disable silent extensions and no one is throwing a tantrum about how they're preventing users from making that choice. What gives, people?
It's bad enough I have to sit down in a neutral zone and not multitask now that these days I'm expected to skype or some such with facetime. I usually do a lot of things on the when just speaking, like washing dishes, folding clothes, going to bathroom. But no. Now I have to sit there and do nothing at all. Now they want us to install robotic telefeedback mechanisms? Fuck get real.
People are starving in our very own continental United States and this jerk decides his money is better off spent on a yacht? Why did Congress allow this to happen instead of, oh I don't know, taking it so 25% of American children don't go to bed hungry each night? Or to provide them with water, heat, clothing? This guy voted Democrat, people.
Is Slashdot the official Valve PR outlet or what is going on here? Get a new topic already...
Just don't jump into projects involving involving the technologies (i.e. platforms and tools) of the now. The number of subjects you have to "learn" about are so fragmented it's an utter nightmare. You'll get lost, feel incompetent, and give up; I've seen it a hundred times. What you are going to do is reinforce and awaken your incommunicable knowledge of programming fundamentals; not in a formal, theoretical way, not with simple practice (though consistent routine is required to turn this into a habit again). Like the way most of us learned in high school or whatever when it was just about having fun.
And no this doesn't sugg starting with a beginner or inermediate book. You'll get bored because the concepts will vaguely remind you of things you already kind of know. It's like muscle memory I guess.
So you were mostly right, starting of with relatively less cumbersome languages, environments and tools related to technology you are familiar with. Powershell is really cool and that's what got me back into programming. I wrote myself a dozen cool utilities, many of which already existed, just to encourage my ingenuity and creativity.
One last tip. Comment and comment well instead of doing design docs detached from the code. Treat your commenting and coding as a sort of tutorial; you're showing yourself and others how to accomplish tasks and solve problems. If you get distracted by planning and design in documents outside your code, you may feel less enthusiastic about completing a project, since that is the most time consuming and least interesting part of programming. You can get formal and theoretical later on.
"Weird, I got an email just like that. I opened and the same thing happened! So I think it's a virus." No blame, no shame.
Windows 8 market has way more options than Android. Look, mobile computing is moving from this bullshit app centric nonsense to "computer in my hand". Win 8 delivers. Android does not. Now I am liberated from software limited vendor devices, I have an OS that challenges hardware vendors to accommodate full featured hardware for mobile computing functionality that parallels desktop. Stop whining about it, it is the future. I was meant to have a tiny computer in my hands. I was not meant to have a half functional software crippled computer that only works when I submit to a data plan and buy apps for every task I would want the device to do. and HTML5+JS ? Sounds like someone in Redmond realized every app you use is just a shitty rendition of something that should be browser accessible, i.e. virtually free to the end user. How anyone can be opposed to this notion is beyond me....
Someone hacks your shit, you wouldn't like it, so stop acting like it is OK when it happens to people you don't like. CRLF, not stfu.
Give me metrics. Give me measurements. Give me science. This shit? This is just software politics. Corporate hate. There is so very little wrong with Windows that it has market dominance. Do you not get that? How do you not understand that this is what people want from their computers? WE WANT full featured computing on our mobiles. Not app store machines. Win8 brings that. Nothing else does. What is wrong with you that you fail to comprehend the general population is RIGHT when it comes to usability? MS dominance... This wasn't due to unethical business tactics. This was due to it being a product people actually used effectively. MS declining in dominance? The only factor there is politics. MS didn't release a product that sucked. It was just hard for other companies to market with MS as your primary partner. Evidence: Android instead of Linux; OS X instead of Unix. If your platform is so much better, howcome no one calls it by name? So you may like your Android/OSX/whatever but for fucks sake if you can't bring reason to your hate against MS then why the hell do we call what we do "computer science" ? There's no science here. Not at all. None of the shit I hear about these reviews remotely resembles a scientific, analytical intellectual discourse. It's just some jerk's stupid opinion. Put on Slashdot, and 100,000 people will be swayed that way, right? News for nerds, yea right.
Look, this thing people do where if you don't win it all then you're a loser entirely misses the point. I'd rather slow terrorism than not bother with it. And committing to the tactic of "censorship" does NOT preclude me from pursuing other strategies, so why would anyone even bother arguing against it? People's lives are a lot more important to me than whether you think some principality has wasted money and infringed on a terrorists' right to have a website.
How susceptible to DoS attack is this set up anyways ? Real talk.
In the U.S. having a medical condition presented in a mere 3% of a population is considered medically significant and mitigation factors are set in place if the condition exceeds 3%. We just read a study where 50% had a condition. That is an order of magnitude above what should be tolerated medically speaking. That's more than the number of health defects caused by smoking cigarettes! I hope a wider study lowers the number, but if it doesn't... if we don't put up with cigarettes being bad for health, how can we justify allowing for a game that is bad for our health?
Whenever companies like Facebook or Google do things with our data that raise serious privacy concerns, the majority of slashdotters' reaction is "meh, if you don't like it, then don't use it." Oh the irony that you complain about this then.
In the IT you *might* get away with certification. But in general, you CANNOT get employed without a degree. And community colleges/vocational schools in the U.S. basically find every available blue collar occupation, design a curriculum for it, and start offering a degree. Meaning your unskilled labor job suddenly requires an education, and you can bet some jerk paid for the 9 month course. Here are some examples I've encountered recently. These are a few things that are supposed to be ON THE JOB TRAINING at WORST, and at best, unskilled non-requirements. I live in a city of 8,000 and the economy here is in the tank, due to a host of construction jobs that brought in out of town workers who compete with the local available work force directly when they're not actively on their construction assignments. I lost my job and had to start searching for low wage work, and here's what I found out.
- Receptionist. This is answering calls and making photocopies. It's a 2 year degree plan at my local CC. Fuckin bullshit. I need a degree now, that costs $4,000 of mine and taxpayer money, to answer your god damn phone?
- Construction tech (I actually did this work. It's where you haul around materials dropped at a job site, manually. Yes, now they "educate" you to lift sheet metal and carry it 50 feet. After the CC introduced THAT degree, I was no longer considered employable versus the guys who shelled out for the degree.)
- Vet tech (this is where you wash out cages of animals the vets keep. Your job is to clean up poop. Literally. Rather than spend the 48 hours training you to do it, they'd rather hire someone who picked up the 2 semester "degree" from the local CC.)
- Solar energy tech (this is someone who, using pre-fab hardware, places solar panels on a house, in a field, etc etc. The job is to place a screw to attach the solar panel to its frame. That's it. You run around with a cordless drill with a socket attached to it. They will hire someone with a solar tech "degree" over someone who does not have one.) - Stocking/inventory tech. (This is someone who takes things and puts them onto shelves at retailers.) I applied for one of these jobs and was asked, by a straight face, if I had any education that qualified me for this job.
So don't tell me you don't need a degree to work. Even the most bullshit mindless jobs now require the distinction of a college education.
I know Slashdot ran a story before about a court case in the United States involving an encrypted hdd. The information stored by the data on the hdd was crucial evidence, so the judge ordered the defendent to reveal the encryption key. The defendant failed to comply and was held in contempt. Somewhere in the comments or articles were references to some great legal scholars who contested this sort of judicial action should not be considered constitutional, because there are apparently some analogous cases fx. a court cannot order a defendant to reveal combinations to safes/vaults/locks, but CAN order them to open the safes. As a more obvious liberty, a police search cannot require a suspect to reveal incriminating evidence, but a warrant can force them to allow physical access to properties where the evidence is thought to exist. The general idea is the courts have almost universal dominion when it comes to my things but not when it comes to my thoughts. Anyways, the point of what I'm saying is that there already is precedent for this digital stuff.
If they can convince the judge that you've used the account (they'd have to identify you as the user) then I'm sure they have reasonable grounds to believe you have the specific knowledge they're after, like account credentials. Your denial of this knowledge would probably result in contempt. I don't think it's fair, and I don't like they can do these things, but only the most paranoid schizo would create the elaborate technical means to hide such evidence as would indicate the fact that his accounts are known to him to be his accounts. That kind of person probably is doing something super illegal, or is super paranoid, or just doesn't use computers. I'm sure there are people like that out there. I'm sure they'll be fine if they're ever brought to court. People like us, we're out of luck.
Citations through slashdot search box. Sorry, I'd provide them, but the Slashdot comment box in IE does not have a blinking cursor and editing my comment is more painful than it should be.
This guy is wrong. The "return" owed to tax payers is called interest, paid on the loan. That's the only social obligation required of someone who gets a degree using state funds. To suggest some broader social obligation overrides individual preferences, is nonsense. Put that in your promissory note. It will never get signed. Chances are those scientists are going into private sector, whose work could really be anything, and patentend, and not of any necessary impact on the taxpayer. Did you know there are scientists figuring out how to put different flavors into frozen yogurt? Moving humanity forward! Funds based on discrimination is becoming a huge burden. My local college allows 30% of its students a free ride based on sports scholarships. 30% for free. Is it fair for 70% to have a higher tuition, and therefore higher debt, so others can play games?
Last article I read on SD was about Microsoft enabling tracking protection by default. Most users here claimed MS pro-privacy measure violated the user's rights. But in this thread, the consensus is that tracking is problematic and we are recommended to block certain sites? Odd, Slashdot. Odd. So walk me through this.
.But I can't opt-out of these privacy breaches, except on the very rare occasion where an individual company's privacy policy allows it (or makes opt-in the default).
....
Anyways, carry on, ....
I'm convinced that tracking, data collection and data sharing, among various other obviously unethical privacy violations by hundreds or more large companies on the web is a major concern and in general an undesireable term of use for most users
And no, choosing not to use the web or some services on the web is not the same as opting out. Otherwise, MS default to enabled tracking protection wouldn't equate to opt-in tracking; if you wouldn't use it, you've already opted-in. So don't tell me, if I don't like the sites, don't use them.
So which is it, Slashdot ? Should I go with a tracking protection list or should I not even worry about it? Can we get some facts up in here?
As an aside, I enabled tracking protection with the default list in IE9, and I could not sign into Yahoo via its web interface. See, this is why Congress or some neutral private company needs to get involved