Facebook makes money off of advertisement data, they don't have to make it all from advertising.
Mess with their product algorithms. Click ads and add blog links to silly things like dog tampons, lawn gnomes, UFO detection kits, Trump bongs, and pink-pony-themed clothing. You then get more ads for the same things, skewing their user habit trackers, and get a good laugh.
I cannot stand auto-play videos and sound. It hogs bandwidth, slows page loads, and wakes up everybody in the house if you forget to turn the volume off. If I wake up my wife, it's doghouse time for me.
They finally perfected site-selective auto-play prevention plugins for Flash, but not for the newer HTML5 videos. We'll probably have to wait a year or so until those work right.
And now co's are trying to use JavaScript-based movies, as CPU's get faster. They don't force sound (so far), but still are annoying.
Subscription videos and music are arguably a reason to have installed apps, and maybe highly intensive graphics, such as 3D games. There is a place for installed apps, I won't dispute that, but a pizza-ordering app? Come on!
And I see no problem with websites having access to local cameras, sensors, etc. IF the user explicitly grants them. A site can request access to local resources, and the user could see an inventory of requested services with approval check-boxes, and maybe a "more info" to explain in detail why a specific service is requested. If you deny some, hopefully the app will work "good enough" without them if they are not a key data item.
Most of the time the mobile-aware (or responsive design) websites work just fine. Except the m.slashdot.org thing, I could probably write 10 bug reports just by thinking of it
Modern appdot appers appdot other appsdots using appdots, NOT LUDDITE software!
Apps are stupid. Most the same can be done through regular web pages (http/html/dom/js). Improve the bookmarking and perhaps page caching options* if they want web sites/services to act like apps, but otherwise installing software is 1990's, and a security risk.
* Allow a page to check with the server to see if a newer version exists, otherwise cache the page and JS libraries for up to say a week for quicker access. And allow the user to set the upper limit of cache size and time per site so that greedy sites cannot hog too much cache. The defaults should be relatively low. If you are using fat libraries, you are doing it wrong.
Re: MIGA: "We make the best settlements, believe me! Everybody knows it and everyone wants them; that's why there's so much war here, everyone wants our settlements really really bad so they die over them, they are THAT good, even better than my Tower's taco salads. Nobody's died over our salads but I expect it one of these days, let me tell you: bing bing bong Death!"
Whenever talk of "shortage" hits a certain pace, a recession pops up. We are almost due. Recessions have hit roughly around the end of the decade for roughly 40 years, and even longer back if you ignore the Vietnam spending bubble.
It's not about race: when you hire somebody locally, you can evaluate them better. When you pay a firm 2 thousand miles a way to select staff, you have less control over quality, and they are tempted to cut corners to save a buck because that's human nature: less scrutiny, more corner cutting.
Both parody and political statements are usually protected by fair use and other laws.
But that still doesn't prevent a deep-pocketed prick from dragging you through the court system using well-paid and intense lawyers whose goal is to wear you down.
Trump isn't alien enough for you[?] He's got the weird hair, beady little eyes, Messiah complex you see in any Hollywood alien leader. The only thing he's missing is some funny costume
such as a frumpy suit, long red tie, and goofy MAGA cap?
But you'd think an interstellar species would have a cure for A.D.D.
Being that I have reliable acquaintances who have seen really unusual things, I'm not going to outright dismiss it.
I'm curious, what did the clothed being looked like? Why do you categorize the greys as dangerous? Obviously they let you live, although that doesn't rule out other nefarious activities, such as human (or hybrid) breeding programs or genetic experiments.
Researchers who gather stories from (alleged) witness hypnosis suggest the greys plan to either end civilization on Earth or expect that humans will self-destruct soon, perhaps based their knowledge of other civilizations, and are allegedly preparing for a post-human Earth populated by re-engineered humans or human/alien hybrids. Spooky stuff. At least they value SOME of humanity, but would rather have a tamer version.
That depends. If you are talking about alleged actual sightings, then most tend to resemble what you describe: "the Greys". But Hollywood aliens seem to have a lot of variety. Look at the 1953 War of the Worlds flick, 1958's "The Blob", or the 1979 "Alien" alien.
As far as clothing, in Star Trek aliens usually have clothes. Even the Gorn had a metallic skirt-like thingy.
It seems in general, Hollywood thinks aliens are scarier without clothes, as if it invokes more primitive fears. After all, the dancing alien in Space Balls looked less intimidating with a cane and top-hat then the "Alien" version it spoofed. Trek probably puts clothes on them because the concept is more often meeting new and interesting intelligent beings rather than battling murderous space-beasts. Thus, Hollywood's alien design mirrors the emotion and intent of the presentation.
Project Viking in 1970s goal was to find life on Mars. It found none and we never went back until 20 years later. Nowadays it is endless Mars mission but it seems nobody wants to have detecting life as a requirement
That's because NASA learned the hard way that it's difficult to distinguish between life and "funny soil chemistry" (FSC). Viking results are still heavily debated.
To do it "right" probably requires devising progressively more-specific experiments based on early ones to distinguish between competing theories. That could require several feedback cycles (new missions), and in the end still not rule out FSC.
Until several microbe specimens are observed moving and/or reproducing under a microscope, the question will likely never be settled. Since any microbes are probably small and few in number, probe-based microscopic observation is not trivial. But advances in scope miniaturization may make it so one day. However, the radiation on Mars is so strong that there may be a limit to practical miniaturization, unless maybe samples are robotically delivered to a "cave lab" probe.
By the way, the 2003 UK Beagle 2 lander mission had life-detection instruments, but unfortunately failed to fully deploy. It's a bummer because in-orbit photos suggest that it landed okay, but some mechanical problem prevented it from fully deploying the solar panels. Its particular "daisy" design required all the solar panels to open before the antenna could function. They should have included a non-hidden low-bandwidth backup antenna for status and engineering communication.
Such a backup saved NASA's Galileo Jupiter orbiter mission when the main antenna failed to deploy properly. Couldn't send a lot of images, but it did other wonderful science.
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That's what he gets for helping to screw up FireFox.
Mess with their product algorithms. Click ads and add blog links to silly things like dog tampons, lawn gnomes, UFO detection kits, Trump bongs, and pink-pony-themed clothing. You then get more ads for the same things, skewing their user habit trackers, and get a good laugh.
I cannot stand auto-play videos and sound. It hogs bandwidth, slows page loads, and wakes up everybody in the house if you forget to turn the volume off. If I wake up my wife, it's doghouse time for me.
They finally perfected site-selective auto-play prevention plugins for Flash, but not for the newer HTML5 videos. We'll probably have to wait a year or so until those work right.
And now co's are trying to use JavaScript-based movies, as CPU's get faster. They don't force sound (so far), but still are annoying.
This is why mainframe software lives: applications that ran in 1966 still mostly work as-is. Pretty, no, but the lack of a rework bill *is* pretty.
How about cows that photosynthesize? You know, Monsanto-style gene splicing. If they can make cows spherical, they can make them panel-shaped.
It's amazing the different products they can make with snake oil.
dyslexic jihadists get 27 vegans.
He could have rejected it diplomatically at least. He's a bull in a china shop.
Subscription videos and music are arguably a reason to have installed apps, and maybe highly intensive graphics, such as 3D games. There is a place for installed apps, I won't dispute that, but a pizza-ordering app? Come on!
And I see no problem with websites having access to local cameras, sensors, etc. IF the user explicitly grants them. A site can request access to local resources, and the user could see an inventory of requested services with approval check-boxes, and maybe a "more info" to explain in detail why a specific service is requested. If you deny some, hopefully the app will work "good enough" without them if they are not a key data item.
There's an app for that: http://www.app-cow.com/
Modern appdot appers appdot other appsdots using appdots, NOT LUDDITE software!
Apps are stupid. Most the same can be done through regular web pages (http/html/dom/js). Improve the bookmarking and perhaps page caching options* if they want web sites/services to act like apps, but otherwise installing software is 1990's, and a security risk.
* Allow a page to check with the server to see if a newer version exists, otherwise cache the page and JS libraries for up to say a week for quicker access. And allow the user to set the upper limit of cache size and time per site so that greedy sites cannot hog too much cache. The defaults should be relatively low. If you are using fat libraries, you are doing it wrong.
Men-In-Black gave me a zero to hide the truth?
Re: MIGA: "We make the best settlements, believe me! Everybody knows it and everyone wants them; that's why there's so much war here, everyone wants our settlements really really bad so they die over them, they are THAT good, even better than my Tower's taco salads. Nobody's died over our salads but I expect it one of these days, let me tell you: bing bing bong Death!"
Whenever talk of "shortage" hits a certain pace, a recession pops up. We are almost due. Recessions have hit roughly around the end of the decade for roughly 40 years, and even longer back if you ignore the Vietnam spending bubble.
It's not about race: when you hire somebody locally, you can evaluate them better. When you pay a firm 2 thousand miles a way to select staff, you have less control over quality, and they are tempted to cut corners to save a buck because that's human nature: less scrutiny, more corner cutting.
Uh, the planet.
Not to mention bigly ratings, even after the election. Trump is a goose who lays golden media/news ratings eggs for them.
Both parody and political statements are usually protected by fair use and other laws.
But that still doesn't prevent a deep-pocketed prick from dragging you through the court system using well-paid and intense lawyers whose goal is to wear you down.
such as a frumpy suit, long red tie, and goofy MAGA cap?
But you'd think an interstellar species would have a cure for A.D.D.
Being that I have reliable acquaintances who have seen really unusual things, I'm not going to outright dismiss it.
I'm curious, what did the clothed being looked like? Why do you categorize the greys as dangerous? Obviously they let you live, although that doesn't rule out other nefarious activities, such as human (or hybrid) breeding programs or genetic experiments.
Researchers who gather stories from (alleged) witness hypnosis suggest the greys plan to either end civilization on Earth or expect that humans will self-destruct soon, perhaps based their knowledge of other civilizations, and are allegedly preparing for a post-human Earth populated by re-engineered humans or human/alien hybrids. Spooky stuff. At least they value SOME of humanity, but would rather have a tamer version.
That depends. If you are talking about alleged actual sightings, then most tend to resemble what you describe: "the Greys". But Hollywood aliens seem to have a lot of variety. Look at the 1953 War of the Worlds flick, 1958's "The Blob", or the 1979 "Alien" alien.
As far as clothing, in Star Trek aliens usually have clothes. Even the Gorn had a metallic skirt-like thingy.
It seems in general, Hollywood thinks aliens are scarier without clothes, as if it invokes more primitive fears. After all, the dancing alien in Space Balls looked less intimidating with a cane and top-hat then the "Alien" version it spoofed. Trek probably puts clothes on them because the concept is more often meeting new and interesting intelligent beings rather than battling murderous space-beasts. Thus, Hollywood's alien design mirrors the emotion and intent of the presentation.
That's because NASA learned the hard way that it's difficult to distinguish between life and "funny soil chemistry" (FSC). Viking results are still heavily debated.
To do it "right" probably requires devising progressively more-specific experiments based on early ones to distinguish between competing theories. That could require several feedback cycles (new missions), and in the end still not rule out FSC.
Until several microbe specimens are observed moving and/or reproducing under a microscope, the question will likely never be settled. Since any microbes are probably small and few in number, probe-based microscopic observation is not trivial. But advances in scope miniaturization may make it so one day. However, the radiation on Mars is so strong that there may be a limit to practical miniaturization, unless maybe samples are robotically delivered to a "cave lab" probe.
By the way, the 2003 UK Beagle 2 lander mission had life-detection instruments, but unfortunately failed to fully deploy. It's a bummer because in-orbit photos suggest that it landed okay, but some mechanical problem prevented it from fully deploying the solar panels. Its particular "daisy" design required all the solar panels to open before the antenna could function. They should have included a non-hidden low-bandwidth backup antenna for status and engineering communication.
Such a backup saved NASA's Galileo Jupiter orbiter mission when the main antenna failed to deploy properly. Couldn't send a lot of images, but it did other wonderful science.
Kind of: He worries his hair might want to go home if it knows there's a ride nearby.
If your job heavily depends on international politics and trade, expect instability.
Then again, most jobs do to various degrees. Career stability is so last century.