I'm kind of confused why Facebook would be responsible for what appears on my feed, except for the ads obviously.
I am the one that agrees to follow people and I can always unfriend or unfollow them. If somebody is posting stuff I find offensive I unfollow them, it's 2 seconds work.
I guess they could make an more obvious way to flag stuff and for me it would be enough if they just hid flagged stuff behind a link (like TD does). I also think some kind of algorithm could be made that if it clears a certain number of flags in a short time it should be put in review since it seems something serious is going on.
For the rest I can manage just fine on my own thank you.
It would be so nice if policies were actually based on facts instead of symbolism (or grandstanding).
Let's disregard the collateral damage of SESTA for the internet for a minute and ask ourselves what would have more impact: Increasing the funding of police investigations connected to human trafficking or SESTA? I don't really need to commission a report to guess the answer.
Perhaps we should divert some funds from the War On Drugs and put it towards those investigations. That way we might arrest more human traffickers and less black people having a joint.
A compass rose would indicate 8 directions usually, not 4. Do a Google image search on compass rose. At the very least if they meant to put a compass rose there they went out of their way to find the most crosshair-like compass they could find and therefore, considering the language used, any misinterpretation is on them.
Calling a cow a unicorn does not magically make it so.
Seems to me the solution is simple: - Set up a company seeded with money from the (whole) news industry. - Build a new search engine, possibly buy news.com from Cnet. - Ask all news outlets to put no-index for Google in their robot.txt. - Make sure all news websites are indexed in the new search engine - grab all the Google moneyz
If they're so convinced Google is only turning a profit because of them it seems fairly easy to grab that sweet dough. If news is only available on that search engine I'm sure people will go there to find news.
Then they could (gasp) innovate as well. Make personalized newsfeeds, create algorithms to determine what is fake news and what is real, set up Patreon-like crowdfunding for special news stories etc. etc.
The fact that this does not yet exist is proof that they also know there is not much money in it. So, just waiting for a handout is much easier.
At the moment UL approval is needed for most (all?) electrical products entering the US. It seems to me that they could also play a role in certifying the software of these IoT devices.
Most likely UL would have to set up a new division/department for that, as well as write new standards, but writing standards is what they do. I don't see why it would be a problem to require all devices that connect to the internet to have UL certified software. Certainly for government tenders that would be just a matter of writing it in the specs.
It could slow down innovation a bit because it'll probably take some months to get the approval but seeing the danger here it could be a possible trade-off.
I think it would also be a benefit to have a big knowledge base in one place about how to secure IoT devices. Well meaning companies could use this knowledge to produce safe devices. Yes I know, well meaning companies are rare/unicorns but still...
I was already discussing it at work. Obviously if this will become a rule you can't take your laptop on flights anymore because they would be either destroyed or stolen during the flight. Of course as soon as the US adopts it the rest of the world will follow.
Our solution was to just have a stack of laptops ready at international meetings. Once you get to the meeting you take one and log in to your company account.
There might even be a business model there. Get off the plane, go to your LapTopEverywhere counter at the airport and pick up your computer. When you leave the country hand it back in. Bonus points if you can just hand it over to the security guy.
of course it will not make us safer because there will be problems with viruses and information left on the laptop. But hey, that's a small price to pay for FEELING safer.
"The us has the LEAST backward government of others"
If you're saying that the US is a shining beacon of progressiveness when it comes to destroying dangerous toys I might agree since I don't have much of an opinion on that. If this is meant as a general statement meaning that in all things the US is the least backward, then I can only assume you meant it as satire or you have no clue what happens in other countries.
The last 2 or 3 decades the US has been moving backward, not forward. This last government seems intent on speeding things up in that regard.
"but USA is a super power for a reason!" Again, not sure what is the connection to toys but if you are looking for the reason how about spending more on defense than the next 6 countries combined? Would that do it? Is that your definition of being "the least backward"? I thought that our utopian future entailed less wars, not more?
Wow... Even though I see where you're coming from your statements are scary.
"If he is innocent he needs only to go ti court and prove it". So let's see where this can lead...
Say you have a website that allows other people to sell T-shirts. Obviously your website is accessible everywhere so now your liability has gone worldwide. One of your customers makes a nice Erdogan=Gollem T-shirt.
So if I read your statements correct you would be fine with Turkey taking all of your stuff and you would be willing to personally go to court in Turkey to explain that you're innocent of insulting the Mustache in Chief?
I was reading the first paragraphs and caught myself thinking: "I bet Paul Stephens is black." Then I thought, am I not being prejudiced against cops now?
Next: Then it somehow got worse for Stephens. DeGiovanni arrested Stephens and made it clear what he thought of black people. (Or immigrants. Stephens is originally from Jamaica.)
So, maybe prejudiced but it seems the prejudice is there for a reason...
So, in serving their corporate overlords they managed to increase attention for anonymity tools and encryption. To me it sounds like they made the NSA's job a bit harder.
They also increased the market for good solutions to stay anonymous online so it's a matter of time before somebody finds one.
Doesn't sound like a good deal for the Dodgers. If nobody watches, their brand value will go down quite a lot. Also all their sponsoring will be worth less.
It's also likely to reduce the number of fans but it's clear they're only considered as a profit center.
Hi land of the free and home of the brave, commie country here (sometimes colloquially referred to as "Western Europe").
I pay 70 Euros a month and for that I get: - Cable TV (most channels HD) - I'm allowed to connect 5 TV's using cards directly in the TV, so no set top box (15 Euro one time cost for a card) - Additional 5 screens where I can stream all TV channels with an app (tablet or laptop) - HBO - 300 Mb/s internet (no data caps) - Landline for phone (convenient for screening sales calls)
"Literally, that’s the standard. No helicopters hovering overhead."
I'm confused about this statement. If a helicopter is hovering overhead, I think the conclusion that the police is knocking is more logical since I don't know many criminal gangs that employ helicopter coverage. So then what, they exceeded the knock and talk and you're free to shoot them?
Exactly. I buy all my e-books because I enjoy supporting the writer but I make conscious decisions. If a book costs more than 10 $, I'm thinking really hard and will usually not buy unless it's a more business oriented book. If the digital copy is more expensive than the physical copy I'm not buying.
It's not a matter of money. I can pay. It's more that you don't want to be ripped off.
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"Their patent was for a firewall that's not user-configurable," Kniser said in an interview with Ars. "They knew ours was configurable."
So it seems they were confident the patent didn't apply to them but they were not confident it was actually an invalid patent.
Anyway, I'm sure a company that calls itself after bridge dwelling creatures has some more patents stockpiled somewhere.
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Selfgovernance
I am the one that agrees to follow people and I can always unfriend or unfollow them. If somebody is posting stuff I find offensive I unfollow them, it's 2 seconds work.
I guess they could make an more obvious way to flag stuff and for me it would be enough if they just hid flagged stuff behind a link (like TD does). I also think some kind of algorithm could be made that if it clears a certain number of flags in a short time it should be put in review since it seems something serious is going on.
For the rest I can manage just fine on my own thank you.
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Shocked
People paid 99 US$ for watching one single boxing match? Between a boxer and a not so much a boxer?
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Facts?
Let's disregard the collateral damage of SESTA for the internet for a minute and ask ourselves what would have more impact: Increasing the funding of police investigations connected to human trafficking or SESTA? I don't really need to commission a report to guess the answer.
Perhaps we should divert some funds from the War On Drugs and put it towards those investigations. That way we might arrest more human traffickers and less black people having a joint.
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Re: Re: Re: Stylised Crosshairs ?
A compass rose would indicate 8 directions usually, not 4. Do a Google image search on compass rose. At the very least if they meant to put a compass rose there they went out of their way to find the most crosshair-like compass they could find and therefore, considering the language used, any misinterpretation is on them.
Calling a cow a unicorn does not magically make it so.
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Innovate?
- Set up a company seeded with money from the (whole) news industry.
- Build a new search engine, possibly buy news.com from Cnet.
- Ask all news outlets to put no-index for Google in their robot.txt.
- Make sure all news websites are indexed in the new search engine
- grab all the Google moneyz
If they're so convinced Google is only turning a profit because of them it seems fairly easy to grab that sweet dough. If news is only available on that search engine I'm sure people will go there to find news.
Then they could (gasp) innovate as well. Make personalized newsfeeds, create algorithms to determine what is fake news and what is real, set up Patreon-like crowdfunding for special news stories etc. etc.
The fact that this does not yet exist is proof that they also know there is not much money in it. So, just waiting for a handout is much easier.
On the post: US Senators Unveil Their Attempt To Secure The Internet Of Very Broken Things
UL certification
Most likely UL would have to set up a new division/department for that, as well as write new standards, but writing standards is what they do. I don't see why it would be a problem to require all devices that connect to the internet to have UL certified software. Certainly for government tenders that would be just a matter of writing it in the specs.
It could slow down innovation a bit because it'll probably take some months to get the approval but seeing the danger here it could be a possible trade-off.
I think it would also be a benefit to have a big knowledge base in one place about how to secure IoT devices. Well meaning companies could use this knowledge to produce safe devices. Yes I know, well meaning companies are rare/unicorns but still...
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Re: What is the problem here?
Our solution was to just have a stack of laptops ready at international meetings. Once you get to the meeting you take one and log in to your company account.
There might even be a business model there. Get off the plane, go to your LapTopEverywhere counter at the airport and pick up your computer. When you leave the country hand it back in. Bonus points if you can just hand it over to the security guy.
of course it will not make us safer because there will be problems with viruses and information left on the laptop. But hey, that's a small price to pay for FEELING safer.
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Re: Re: contributions = priority
The Trump Memorial Golf Course though... I can see that happening.
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If you don't like Obama, fine. Is it too much to ask you read a few books about the region that you seem to have an opinion on though?
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Re: Re:
"The us has the LEAST backward government of others"
If you're saying that the US is a shining beacon of progressiveness when it comes to destroying dangerous toys I might agree since I don't have much of an opinion on that. If this is meant as a general statement meaning that in all things the US is the least backward, then I can only assume you meant it as satire or you have no clue what happens in other countries.
The last 2 or 3 decades the US has been moving backward, not forward. This last government seems intent on speeding things up in that regard.
"but USA is a super power for a reason!" Again, not sure what is the connection to toys but if you are looking for the reason how about spending more on defense than the next 6 countries combined? Would that do it? Is that your definition of being "the least backward"? I thought that our utopian future entailed less wars, not more?
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"If he is innocent he needs only to go ti court and prove it".
So let's see where this can lead...
Say you have a website that allows other people to sell T-shirts. Obviously your website is accessible everywhere so now your liability has gone worldwide.
One of your customers makes a nice Erdogan=Gollem T-shirt.
So if I read your statements correct you would be fine with Turkey taking all of your stuff and you would be willing to personally go to court in Turkey to explain that you're innocent of insulting the Mustache in Chief?
You're a braver man than I!
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Prejudice
Next: Then it somehow got worse for Stephens. DeGiovanni arrested Stephens and made it clear what he thought of black people. (Or immigrants. Stephens is originally from Jamaica.)
So, maybe prejudiced but it seems the prejudice is there for a reason...
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Reason to buy?
I suggest they call it "Beast beats monster!"
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Going dark?
They also increased the market for good solutions to stay anonymous online so it's a matter of time before somebody finds one.
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Brand value
It's also likely to reduce the number of fans but it's clear they're only considered as a profit center.
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I pay 70 Euros a month and for that I get:
- Cable TV (most channels HD)
- I'm allowed to connect 5 TV's using cards directly in the TV, so no set top box (15 Euro one time cost for a card)
- Additional 5 screens where I can stream all TV channels with an app (tablet or laptop)
- HBO
- 300 Mb/s internet (no data caps)
- Landline for phone (convenient for screening sales calls)
Isn't it time you became a bit more free?
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Re: We all breathe air
It's time all walls are made of glass. Next we'll outlaw drapes.
Obviously Big Brick will be against us but think of the children!
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Helicopters
I'm confused about this statement. If a helicopter is hovering overhead, I think the conclusion that the police is knocking is more logical since I don't know many criminal gangs that employ helicopter coverage. So then what, they exceeded the knock and talk and you're free to shoot them?
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Re: heheheh
If the digital copy is more expensive than the physical copy I'm not buying.
It's not a matter of money. I can pay. It's more that you don't want to be ripped off.
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