Two years ago, someone did something similar for a prank. He used Facebook targeted ads to target his roommate -- for a hilarious prank that also demonstrates how creepily specific the targeting can be.
This is the fundamental and fatal problem with the "reasonable expectation of privacy" standard. It guarantees that all privacy will be eliminated in the long term.
That quote always makes me think two things simultaneously: First, what an incredibly absolutist thing to say, and second, fuck you -- I can take any view I like, particularly when I can support it.
If they're really using the cable box as the "trusted gatekeeper", then they really should fix that problem. Security equipment that is physically in the hands of the people it's trying to secure against is a massive weakness right off the bat. If the cable industry really is concerned about such security, then they should have been working of fixing this obvious hole years ago.
That they haven't tells me it's not their actual concern.
Not with this sort of issue. YouTube has a long history of bending over backwards to make major media companies happy -- even doing things that nobody ever required them to do.
Who said anything about telling people's grandparents to switch to another OS?
I think that what Skeeter was saying is that if you find Windows 10 too objectionable, Linux provides an escape route. I don't think he was saying to go out and forcibly switch other people who aren't having a problem.
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I agree about Ubuntu: I've tried it numerous times over the years, and it has never given me anything but grief. But that is a problem with Ubuntu, not Linux.
The tech industry wouldn't leave the US, but the crypto industry would. The end result is that we'll return to the situation the US was in before the last crypto wars: cutting edge crypto will not be done in the US, except in the underground communities.
It's hard to say if that was an issue for him. If you have no relatives or people who you specifically want to ensure will inherit your stuff, then it's not stupid to skip making a will. Doing so would just be hassle for no benefit.
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"How confident are you in that statement, and particularly in its relevance to things that I would actually ever care about doing?"
It depends on what you think I said. I was talking here about specialty applications (which seems fair in the context of this discussion.)
If we're talking about the sorts of use that the average computer user cares about, then the criticisms of both Linux and Windows that we've aired here don't apply anyway.
I've shifted a fair number of average computer users to Linux, and with a single exception, every one of them has been happy.
The only serious downside to Linux that I can see is the game issue, but that's not an issue at all for lots of people.
I just want to be clear here: I'm not a Linux evangelist. I believe in using the tool that helps you the best. If that's Windows, then fantastic! I have no problem.
However, to broadly say that Windows is the superior choice or that Linux is inferior (or the stronger way you put it: completely worthless) is simply, objectively, incorrect.
I disagree about content creation, but to a certain degree it depends on what kind you're doing. Certain very specialized things are dependent on Windows software.
What you say about games still has some truth to it, but it isn't nearly as true as it used to be, and the situation is constantly improving.
But saying it "can't actually do anything because all the programs are written for Windows" is simply incorrect. The vast majority of things you can do with Windows you can do with Linux. And there's a number of things you can do with Linux that you can't do with Windows (at least not without great difficulty).
In the end, this is no different than any other tech choice: it depends on your particular situation. In my experience, the majority Windows users could switch to Linux without losing functionality. Whether or not that's something they should so is impossible to say without knowing their situation.
However, for those who really don't want to get onto Microsoft's Windows 10 train, Linux is likely to provide a perfectly acceptable alternative.
It didn't? The US looks very much like a great fascist empire to me. I think it panned out just fine in the big picture -- it just didn't help the steel and auto industries as much as they hoped.
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Probably because that is meaningless in this discussion.
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By itself, this does not meet the standard of stalking in any state in the US.
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A million times this.
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That they haven't tells me it's not their actual concern.
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I think that what Skeeter was saying is that if you find Windows 10 too objectionable, Linux provides an escape route. I don't think he was saying to go out and forcibly switch other people who aren't having a problem.
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It depends on what you think I said. I was talking here about specialty applications (which seems fair in the context of this discussion.)
If we're talking about the sorts of use that the average computer user cares about, then the criticisms of both Linux and Windows that we've aired here don't apply anyway.
I've shifted a fair number of average computer users to Linux, and with a single exception, every one of them has been happy.
The only serious downside to Linux that I can see is the game issue, but that's not an issue at all for lots of people.
I just want to be clear here: I'm not a Linux evangelist. I believe in using the tool that helps you the best. If that's Windows, then fantastic! I have no problem.
However, to broadly say that Windows is the superior choice or that Linux is inferior (or the stronger way you put it: completely worthless) is simply, objectively, incorrect.
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What you say about games still has some truth to it, but it isn't nearly as true as it used to be, and the situation is constantly improving.
But saying it "can't actually do anything because all the programs are written for Windows" is simply incorrect. The vast majority of things you can do with Windows you can do with Linux. And there's a number of things you can do with Linux that you can't do with Windows (at least not without great difficulty).
In the end, this is no different than any other tech choice: it depends on your particular situation. In my experience, the majority Windows users could switch to Linux without losing functionality. Whether or not that's something they should so is impossible to say without knowing their situation.
However, for those who really don't want to get onto Microsoft's Windows 10 train, Linux is likely to provide a perfectly acceptable alternative.
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It didn't? The US looks very much like a great fascist empire to me. I think it panned out just fine in the big picture -- it just didn't help the steel and auto industries as much as they hoped.
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