On one hand, Google and its competitors provide something in exchange for the privacy loss -- tailored ads...
How does this count as providing something [good]? Tailored ads begin deep in "annoying" territory and don't have very far to go at all before crossing the line into "creepy".
Re: Re: Re: "not sharing consumer data with third parties without the explicit consent of consumers"
Assumed guilty until proven innocent?
Where exactly do you live? Because that's not how we do things in the USA, even for people who have been accused of doing things far worse than what Google's been accused of.
Re: Re: Re: Nuclear disaster? More like sour grapes!
You know what the difference between a mushroom cloud and a meltdown is? All the civilians who lived around Chernobyl and Fukushima who were able to be evacuated safely.
Exactly. It may make for a good movie plot, but the fact of the matter is, nuclear devices, both of the "reactor" and "warhead" variety, are deliberately engineered to make a mushroom cloud showing up by accident virtually impossible.
Well, apparently someone's doing something right; plot those numbers on a graph and you'll see a steadily decreasing line. Assuming those figures are 100% accurate, automobile deaths plunged almost 25% in the 12 years from 2001 to 2013. That's huge!
Not a list of government duties? What does "that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men" if not exactly that? Sorry, but if you're going to make claims that directly contradict the plain meaning of the text as-written, the onus is upon you to support your interpretation.
This is outlining the philosophical justification for the existence of an ideal government, and putting Life ahead of Liberty is actually very important. If we truly valued Liberty (the right to choose to do as we wish) more highly than protecting Life, there would be no valid reason for a government to outlaw any number of harmful things, up to and including murder.
That's not to say that protecting American lives wasn't high on the founding fathers' list of things to do. It certainly was. It appears just below protecting their freedom, however.
Actually, in a very literal sense it appears just ahead of protecting their freedom:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men
Only if you believe that value = scarcity. There are plenty of other axes by which to measure value--just look at the Network Effect, where value is a function of abundance rather than scarcity.
Rabkin has actually issued a statement on the incident -- somewhat of a rarity in litigious situations like these -- in which he argues the hole Davis found isn't a big deal because it would take tools and skill to exploit it.
This guy doesn't understand the exploitation of electronic vulnerabilities. It's a common enough misunderstanding; not getting it is the primary reason why DRM continues to be used today.
Here's the part he doesn't get: Yes, it takes a lot of tools and skill to figure out how to exploit it. But once one person with the tools and skill does all that hard work and publishes his results, it then becomes trivial for people with a much lesser degree of tools and skill to reproduce that work and do the same thing. Cracked once is cracked everywhere, forever.
If I was an FBI agent I'd know exactly when it was swapped, to within a pretty tight tolerance: it happened the day the device left the suspect's home but returned home somewhere else that night.
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How does this count as providing something [good]? Tailored ads begin deep in "annoying" territory and don't have very far to go at all before crossing the line into "creepy".
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Re: Re: Re: "not sharing consumer data with third parties without the explicit consent of consumers"
Where exactly do you live? Because that's not how we do things in the USA, even for people who have been accused of doing things far worse than what Google's been accused of.
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Re: I'm getting a lot of work out of my Rumsfeld paraphrase.
...so what you're saying is:
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-- Isaiah 5: 8
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Re: Re: Re: Nuclear disaster? More like sour grapes!
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Oh, I agree entirely that Christie's working from an invalid premise. My point is simply that that's no good reason for the author to do the same.
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Re: Nuclear disaster? More like sour grapes!
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Re: Save Lives?
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This is outlining the philosophical justification for the existence of an ideal government, and putting Life ahead of Liberty is actually very important. If we truly valued Liberty (the right to choose to do as we wish) more highly than protecting Life, there would be no valid reason for a government to outlaw any number of harmful things, up to and including murder.
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Actually, in a very literal sense it appears just ahead of protecting their freedom:
Just saying...
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And on the latest episode of Techdirt Advertising Irony Theatre...
Gotta love automated relevance algorithms
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This guy doesn't understand the exploitation of electronic vulnerabilities. It's a common enough misunderstanding; not getting it is the primary reason why DRM continues to be used today.
Here's the part he doesn't get: Yes, it takes a lot of tools and skill to figure out how to exploit it. But once one person with the tools and skill does all that hard work and publishes his results, it then becomes trivial for people with a much lesser degree of tools and skill to reproduce that work and do the same thing. Cracked once is cracked everywhere, forever.
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Re: The curse of going public
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