Greene: These telecommunication companies, if they go along with this, they will be shut down.
If Big Tech (which Big Telecom is a part of these days) really does have the influence over elections that the GOP (amongst others) has been touting, and especially because you are currently the minority party, is this really a wise thing to say to them?
You say you don't do Facebook, eh? Then I guess you're not the one to ask just what the fuck is this Facebook thing I keep reading about....
You don't have to participate in something to know about it.
I don't participate in Nazism, genocide, terrorism, rape, mass shootings, torture, Hinduism and other religions, and so on. Doesn't mean I am not aware of them or have verying levels of knowledge about them. Enough to know I don't want a bar of them.
Well, no. It'll just make it more permanent than the current policy directive.
Legislation can be overturned, either by the Supreme Court or via the legislature themselves if they pass an act to overturn it or otherwise make it irrelevant.
Even the constitution can be amended as it already has been 27 times (and counting), including an amendment, the 21st, that repealed an earlier amendment, the 18th (i.e. prohibition).
t's arguably deceptive to pin the blame on Facebook rather than on the individuals spreading the disinformation
If I go to a QANON meeting (I wouldn't, but just for the sake of argument), and they produce a pamphlett with their stupid crap on it, and I pick up a stack of the pamphletts and when I return home to my neighbourhood and I walk the streets putting pamphlets in peoples letter boxes, who spread the QANON disinformation? QANON or me?
In my opinion, QANON created the disinformation, but I spread it, I amplified it.
In the same way, Facebook is 'spreading' and amplifying it. They are the ones who are picking up the bits/bytes of the disinformation created by whoever it is, and carrying it to other people. Facebook decides who gets to see it (whose letter boxes to put the pampheltt in in my above analogy) and displays it to other people. They are the ones who wrote the algorithms that decide what other users get to see, what gets placed in newsfeeds, where it gets place in newsfeeds (what prominence to give it) etc. They are not a 'dumb' transport like the data pipes and backbone providers that blindly (at least in theory) move bits from one location to another, they consciously and deliberately choose who gets to see what - by proxy of the algorithms they created.
Surely a civil contract cannot bind the legislative process of a legislative body - the city council?
I could understand if the Mayor made an executive decision, but a city council vote? No fucking way.
Is this much different from expecting a contract between a company and the state government from preventing/forcing state legislatures to pass/not-pass certain acts?
There will always be new moral panics from people who are:
afraid of change
afraid of different
afraid of what they don't understand ("I don't understand young people these days")
think they know better than anyone else
think that their way is the only way
think they (and those who think like them) are the only ones who matter
see a way to hold onto or gain power (whether that means wealth or political power) by stoking the moral panic
people who enjoy causing trouble for the shits and giggles therefore stoke the moral panic
control freaks
people who always need to find something else to blame for their own failings ("they're taking our jobs" - if uneducated, shoeless, starving Mexicans are better qualified for their jobs, then, well, just fuck me)
people who always need something else to blame for everything (can't accept that "sometimes shit happens")
There are different uses of facial recognition tech, and I suspect that some of the agencies that 'use' facial recognition tech could be caught up in the "do you use facial recognition tech" question.
For example, to me at least, it would seem perfectly reasonable for an Access Control System for, say, NASA's facilities to use facial recognition tech. Say a staff member walks into the security gate/entrance at JPL and swipes/waves/whatever they do with their ID card to enter the building. Having a facial recognition tech camera automatically pull up the swipee's staff personel record's biometric image and compare that to the image the camera has just taken to confirm the person swiping is the same person the employee records indicate, seems reasonable to me (assuming it actually works!).
Does this decision prohibit the President from appointing an APJ to be confirmed by the senate?
Could we end up concurrently with 2 types of APJs, "inferior" judges appointed by the PTO Director, and, err, "superior"? judges appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate?
I feel for everyone who lost their stuff, and perhaps I'm just naive, but with the seemingly ever shrinking cost of storage I have never been able to find a downside to backing up all of my stuff to an external drive that is intentionally only local, and never sees the internet.
The problem is this device was marketed at people who are technically literate enough to know about one or both:
1) that backups are good;
2) that they want to be able to remotely access, or share with others, their family photos etc.
But they aren't technically literate enough to understand backups or exposing their stuff on the Internet. Ye Olde "A little knowledge is dangerous" situation.
It indicates how much traffic goes to Cloudfare's websites, not the CDN it runs that host (caches) other people's data.
The way Cloudflare and other similar CDNs work is they take delegation of IPs owned by, for example Walmart. That means that as far as web metrics are concerned, you are visiting Walmart, as it's Walmart's IP addresses, Walmart's DNS, Walmart's website, but the physical hardware the data is coming from is Cloudfare's, as the internet routing tables direct the traffic for that Walmart-owned IP address to Cloudflares infrastructure.
Note that Alexa metrics also only care about the 'website', i.e. forbes.com, not the IP addresses underlying that, which might be dozens of pooled addresses underlying that that each runs on a different hosting provider. Even if 1 access load balances/round robin DNSes to AWS, then another access of the same site gets directed to Azure, and yet another gets directed to IBM's cloud service, Alexa will pool them all into "forbes.com" because, well, they are all access of the Forbes website, even though they are hosted in (at least) three different datacenters provided by 3 different hosting services which might be on three different continents.
Let's choose some arbitrary large number of Youtube subscribers (for simplicitly, could be a per-video viewer numbers, or revenue, or whatever) say 10 million.
So, will it apply to a Canadian-based channel that has 10 million subscribers? What about non-Canadian channels, say a German channel, it's still 'on' Youtube, so it can be viewed by Canadian Youtube subscribers, it's got 10+ million subscribers, so would it apply to this German users/business/organisation channel?
Is it 10 million Canadian subscribers? How about a Canadian-based channel that has 1 million Canadian subscribers, but 9 million+ foreign subscribers. Would it apply to them?
What about a German-based channel with 10 million Canadian subscribers and a buttload of non-Canadian subscribers?
You might need set theory to start trying to work this all out.
Unfortunately, if this comes down to fines, the City of Portland will just dig into its bag of "Other People's Money" and pay them.
How about the sanctions be stripping qualified immunity from any officers - and their supervisors - for any incidents considered in breach of the restraining order?
When it comes to pissing off your own customers, who are often paying $60 for your product, there is no more comprehensive way to irritate them than by forcing advertisements upon them that are shitty and not useful. While this practice would be irritating for any game, it is especially so for NBA 2K, which is a retail game customers pay for and which already is chockablock full of in-game sponsorship advertising to go alongside microtransactions. And making the ads un-skippable seems to indicate just what media the 2K Sports folks think they're delivering, because this is more of a television thing than a practice for video games.
Just like going to a real game!
They are just trying to accurately replicate the sporting experience:
Buy your tickets ("paying $60 for your product", "game customers pay for").
Going to the stadium and being bombarded with buying overpriced food and drink, team merchandise being pushed - flags, banners, track suits, jerseys - ("being micro-transactioned ").
Having all the advertising signs, banners they spread around the stadium, on teams clothing, and so on ("full of in-game sponsorship advertising").
The advertising announcements, sponsored events/shows before, after and during the game ("making the ads un-skippable").
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
Then what is this? Constitution of Australia (wikipedia article, most convenient link)
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If Big Tech (which Big Telecom is a part of these days) really does have the influence over elections that the GOP (amongst others) has been touting, and especially because you are currently the minority party, is this really a wise thing to say to them?
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Re: Re: Facebook what?
You don't have to participate in something to know about it.
I don't participate in Nazism, genocide, terrorism, rape, mass shootings, torture, Hinduism and other religions, and so on. Doesn't mean I am not aware of them or have verying levels of knowledge about them. Enough to know I don't want a bar of them.
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Hvae you tried adding porn?
I hear that's a good money spinner. Maybe add some chatrooms a'la chaturbate, onlyfans, etc.?
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Legislation could make it permanent,
Well, no. It'll just make it more permanent than the current policy directive.
Legislation can be overturned, either by the Supreme Court or via the legislature themselves if they pass an act to overturn it or otherwise make it irrelevant.
Even the constitution can be amended as it already has been 27 times (and counting), including an amendment, the 21st, that repealed an earlier amendment, the 18th (i.e. prohibition).
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If I go to a QANON meeting (I wouldn't, but just for the sake of argument), and they produce a pamphlett with their stupid crap on it, and I pick up a stack of the pamphletts and when I return home to my neighbourhood and I walk the streets putting pamphlets in peoples letter boxes, who spread the QANON disinformation? QANON or me?
In my opinion, QANON created the disinformation, but I spread it, I amplified it.
In the same way, Facebook is 'spreading' and amplifying it. They are the ones who are picking up the bits/bytes of the disinformation created by whoever it is, and carrying it to other people. Facebook decides who gets to see it (whose letter boxes to put the pampheltt in in my above analogy) and displays it to other people. They are the ones who wrote the algorithms that decide what other users get to see, what gets placed in newsfeeds, where it gets place in newsfeeds (what prominence to give it) etc. They are not a 'dumb' transport like the data pipes and backbone providers that blindly (at least in theory) move bits from one location to another, they consciously and deliberately choose who gets to see what - by proxy of the algorithms they created.
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Re:
A pre-emptive: "And don't call me Shirley".
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Surely a civil contract cannot bind the legislative process of a legislative body - the city council?
I could understand if the Mayor made an executive decision, but a city council vote? No fucking way.
Is this much different from expecting a contract between a company and the state government from preventing/forcing state legislatures to pass/not-pass certain acts?
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Why Do We So Quickly Blame The Internet And Anonymity For Things
"because alcohol"
"because drugs"
"because blacks"
"because asians"
"because latinos"
"becuase Irish"
"because democrats"
"because republicans"
"because catholics"
"becuase muslims"
"because protestants"
"because communists"
"because kids these days"
"because the internet"
"because anonymous"
There will always be new moral panics from people who are:
On the post: Federal Watchdog Finds Lots Of Facial Recognition Use By Gov't Agencies, Very Little Internal Oversight
There are different uses of facial recognition tech, and I suspect that some of the agencies that 'use' facial recognition tech could be caught up in the "do you use facial recognition tech" question.
For example, to me at least, it would seem perfectly reasonable for an Access Control System for, say, NASA's facilities to use facial recognition tech. Say a staff member walks into the security gate/entrance at JPL and swipes/waves/whatever they do with their ID card to enter the building. Having a facial recognition tech camera automatically pull up the swipee's staff personel record's biometric image and compare that to the image the camera has just taken to confirm the person swiping is the same person the employee records indicate, seems reasonable to me (assuming it actually works!).
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Re: Re: Re: Cheap local storage is cheap!
Right, or phrased another way "they aren't technically literate enough to understand backups". ;)
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Does this decision prohibit the President from appointing an APJ to be confirmed by the senate?
Could we end up concurrently with 2 types of APJs, "inferior" judges appointed by the PTO Director, and, err, "superior"? judges appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate?
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Re: Cheap local storage is cheap!
The problem is this device was marketed at people who are technically literate enough to know about one or both:
1) that backups are good;
2) that they want to be able to remotely access, or share with others, their family photos etc.
But they aren't technically literate enough to understand backups or exposing their stuff on the Internet. Ye Olde "A little knowledge is dangerous" situation.
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Re: Helpful hacker says...
Ahh yes, the BOFH solution to complaints about running out of storage.
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Re: Re: What about hosting
It indicates how much traffic goes to Cloudfare's websites, not the CDN it runs that host (caches) other people's data.
The way Cloudflare and other similar CDNs work is they take delegation of IPs owned by, for example Walmart. That means that as far as web metrics are concerned, you are visiting Walmart, as it's Walmart's IP addresses, Walmart's DNS, Walmart's website, but the physical hardware the data is coming from is Cloudfare's, as the internet routing tables direct the traffic for that Walmart-owned IP address to Cloudflares infrastructure.
Note that Alexa metrics also only care about the 'website', i.e. forbes.com, not the IP addresses underlying that, which might be dozens of pooled addresses underlying that that each runs on a different hosting provider. Even if 1 access load balances/round robin DNSes to AWS, then another access of the same site gets directed to Azure, and yet another gets directed to IBM's cloud service, Alexa will pool them all into "forbes.com" because, well, they are all access of the Forbes website, even though they are hosted in (at least) three different datacenters provided by 3 different hosting services which might be on three different continents.
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This sounds complicated.
Let's choose some arbitrary large number of Youtube subscribers (for simplicitly, could be a per-video viewer numbers, or revenue, or whatever) say 10 million.
So, will it apply to a Canadian-based channel that has 10 million subscribers? What about non-Canadian channels, say a German channel, it's still 'on' Youtube, so it can be viewed by Canadian Youtube subscribers, it's got 10+ million subscribers, so would it apply to this German users/business/organisation channel?
Is it 10 million Canadian subscribers? How about a Canadian-based channel that has 1 million Canadian subscribers, but 9 million+ foreign subscribers. Would it apply to them?
What about a German-based channel with 10 million Canadian subscribers and a buttload of non-Canadian subscribers?
You might need set theory to start trying to work this all out.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Guess it's the lawyers who get the most of t
So about a 0.3%/year over the last 10 years?
Wow, massive hit to their ability to do work /rolleyes.
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Re: Re: Re: Guess it's the lawyers who get the most of the money
Are you really saying that a $1Trillion+ company, with more than $150b/year in revenue and over 100k employees can only do one thing at a time?
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How about the sanctions be stripping qualified immunity from any officers - and their supervisors - for any incidents considered in breach of the restraining order?
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accurately reproducing the sporting experience
Just like going to a real game!
They are just trying to accurately replicate the sporting experience:
Buy your tickets ("paying $60 for your product", "game customers pay for").
Going to the stadium and being bombarded with buying overpriced food and drink, team merchandise being pushed - flags, banners, track suits, jerseys - ("being micro-transactioned ").
Having all the advertising signs, banners they spread around the stadium, on teams clothing, and so on ("full of in-game sponsorship advertising").
The advertising announcements, sponsored events/shows before, after and during the game ("making the ads un-skippable").
Just like being there in real life.
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