Laaw

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by Laaw 11y ago
Setting aside any hatred for the government and mistrust, how does Company A share information with Company B (or the FBI) about how a hacker got into their networks? Is the concern that Google is going to hand over your browser history und
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by Laaw 11y ago
But there's no real value in adding someone who plays this game to a watchlist. If analysts are discounting the value of membership to a watchlist because of the amount of noise such as what you're suggesting, then the watchlist i
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by Laaw 11y ago
The comparison is inaccurate, though. You're supporting being factually incorrect to scare people?
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You'd be alarmed and surprised to find that not nearly as many as 102 people would say no.
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Yeah, your view here is pretty obtuse. The whole point is to explore the differences in decisions between people, and by saying "no one could convince me of a different decision" is to completely ignore the reason the hypothetica
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by Laaw 11y ago
Sometimes, sites accept feedback related to their ads, and will take actions based on that feedback. pyhs.org might consider this, if they don't do it already. I feel this to be the most constructive way to deal with complaints about
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by Laaw 11y ago
> No, it doesn't. Yes, it does. It literally has that, right there, in the text. As quoted, you are factually incorrect.
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So? The point remains the article specifically cites a situation where the adoption process fails, which directly contradicts the previous statement, and lends credence to the theory that the commenter hadn't actually read the majorit
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by Laaw 11y ago
It does, but there's no technical reason to even involve YouTube at all; there's simply no way Google on the backend would rather split the audio off of the video than just play the audio from an album directly.
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The word "stupid" has no valuable meaning in rational discourse, so I've appropriated it in this case to mean, "evokes a negative emotional reaction." I hope this wasn't too harmful to the conversation, though
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Google seems to be trying a bunch of different things to leverage this downright stupid mentality embedded in a subset of the Internet population that YouTube is a platform for music (sans video). It's not Google's fault that f
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by Laaw 11y ago
Well, not to be pedantic, but the article actually does say the adoption tactic failed, at least once: > There had been an article in The Advocate about a couple in the Midwest who unsuccessfully tried to adopt each other in order to f
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by Laaw 11y ago
Last word.
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Playing with Maps one evening led me to find that at one point I had enabled some kind of tracking, and every single day of my movement was graphed in Maps. Where I went and how long I was there was recorded by Google. I should do someth
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by Laaw 11y ago
What you've just done to my comment is common on the Internet, but extremely harmful to an intelligent discourse. I wrote what I did all together because each sentence informs and provides context for the others. In isolation, each s
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The same reason unicorns and fairies don't exist.
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I don't know everything they monitor/measure, but times you've accessed your data would be something that isn't yours, if they collect that.
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I didn't say anything of the sort. I said metadata isn't data and just because metadata is about you/your data, doesn't mean you own it. I've been intentionally vague so as to discuss this in more macro terms rathe
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by Laaw 11y ago
I never said what you're claiming I said, all I said was metadata isn't data insofar that it's not the 'data' you give to 1Password. I never said anything specific was or wasn't data. And I'm not using an
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Because people seem to think everything they do on a computer is or should be private. It's not and shouldn't be.
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Well, that's not metadata, it's just data.
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Some metadata is yours. This metadata isn't, and lots of other metadata isn't yours.
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Metadata is also not yours in the first place. Data about you or the things you do isn't yours. Does Julian Edelman own the fact that he caught a pass?
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1Password isn't leaking passwords.
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There's a reason it's not called 'data', is my point. It's false, insofar that it's not the 'data' you give to 1Password.
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by Laaw 11y ago
No, metadata is not data. It's metadata.
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I might create a dummy account, install this, and view the volume of likes it'd produce...
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Counterpoint: Beats.
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by Laaw 11y ago
Conversely: "Hey Uber driver? I need you to pick up a duffel bag located at Cicero and X, under the bridge. Do NOT look in the bag. You will be tipped an extra $500 in cash if you obey these instructions."
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by Laaw 11y ago
This is one of those things that even the people in positions of power won't ruin because they're users as well. You think members of city council or whomever want to ride in taxis any more than you do?

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