MikeGale

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by MikeGale 8y ago
I think it a good idea not to pursue happiness at all. Go for satisfaction instead.
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by MikeGale 8y ago
Oh yea. Those were the days those were. HP 21, 29C, 41CX. Great introduction to computing.
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by MikeGale 8y ago
Great for those who want their appreciation of the world micromanaged by an advertising agency. Way to go homo sapiens(?).
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by MikeGale 8y ago
So we have a management team, many of who could have blown the whistle on this. They act like scum. They suffer no personal penalty under law. Wow we must have a sophisticated, moral civilisation here.
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by MikeGale 8y ago
If they call lock-in and making it very hard to leave "Loyalty", then these businesses are truly delusional. If people can leave easily they'll be forced to earn genuine loyalty, not this fake kind.
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by MikeGale 9y ago
I guess they're also putting out tenders to sharpen the guillotines. We'll see a lot of sock and meat puppets from the central panopticon playing in this discussion. They'll say how normal this is, nothing to worry about and
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by MikeGale 9y ago
I presume that Google uses this as part of it's surveillance operation.
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by MikeGale 9y ago
Facebook's officially stated approach of "it's the user's decision" is right, in my view. The problem is that they were, and are, insincere in saying that. The user has no option to say NOPE I'm not giving you
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by MikeGale 9y ago
If you want to take action, like boycott, these rent seekers. Here's a list of associated publishers: S. Fischer Verlag O.W. Barth Wolfgang Krüger Argon Verlag (de) Scherz Verlag (de)
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by MikeGale 9y ago
That is not my experience, and therein may lie an answer. Twitter can be what you make it. You can follow a small group of tweeters who are balanced, post infrequently and have attitudes that work for you. Or not. Thinking that your life
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by MikeGale 9y ago
Many countries are using these pre-crime estimators. What we need to see are the false positive and false negative rates. Anybody got measures of those?
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by MikeGale 9y ago
4. Other people should not be viewing private posts anyway. (Assuming this is limited distribution posts (not public).)
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by MikeGale 9y ago
1. I got the impression that there may be no long term safety net for the enduring impact of this. (Like PTSD support for policemen.) That's not good enough. 2. Reading this piece I don't imagine the system can actually "
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by MikeGale 9y ago
It's your choice. If you don't like the "surveillance capitalism" of Google, don't get their devices, fix your DNS etc. to not be able to contact them, etc.
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by MikeGale 9y ago
This looks like a great example of insecurity through security. Given that Apple is not trustworthy and you need to be able to change and/or inspect a device to have a chance at security, this is a solid strike for a human-thought-free
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by MikeGale 9y ago
And there's more where he's plain wrong, like Aluminium. Despite all that a great antidote to the overhype that I see most days.
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by MikeGale 9y ago
It is just so amazingly refreshing to read something not put together by a know-nothing. I wish I saw more than one or two of these a year.
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by MikeGale 9y ago
I share a lot of Parimal says in this piece. Well worth a read if, you too, are finding ways to escape from and minimise the impact of this web-dystopia. His suggestions are well worth a careful read. I suggest going further. Many of you
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by MikeGale 9y ago
Don't you look forward to the time when these events need to named like this GW1712231509236732?
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by MikeGale 9y ago
I'm guessing the folk around here include some who can make a browser happen. If it takes only well formed x/html/5 it's not that big a deal. Ideally a lot of "hooks" so that the more determined can make it do
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by MikeGale 9y ago
Hamba Gahle.
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by MikeGale 9y ago
Pretty twisted world where provable financial loss is the only or main measure.
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by MikeGale 9y ago
A fascinating analysis, half done. If the whole text were decoded and the indices rebuilt, would be more convincing.
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by MikeGale 9y ago
There's a pattern here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/us/politics/eric-schmidt-...
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by MikeGale 9y ago
I suspect that legislators are so far behind the curve on this, that they'll never protect decent humans from such guys. Answer: Forget the protection afforded by the state. Protect yourself. Blacklist the scum manufacturers, warn y
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by MikeGale 9y ago
One size fits all, doesn't. Aircraft seat design is literally a form of murder, though it'll never be prosecuted.
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by MikeGale 9y ago
An important part of this discussion is using general population statistics, to describe programmers at Google. Programmers at Google are NOT general population. Without seeing that specific data, it may be that female programmers at Google
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by MikeGale 9y ago
I haven't recently found a news organisation that is consistently rational and has done their homework. Given that news is still worth reading, in moderation. I roll my own sources including: 1. A variety of newsfeeds through a deskt
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by MikeGale 9y ago
We're in immoral waters here: 1) NDA's prevent most human's getting closer to the truth. 2) Selected audiences (the drinking friends you share details with) know that companies x, y and z are scammers and criminal, but most
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by MikeGale 10y ago
So these results can't be replicated in controlled situations. Some of this applies to how our bodies work, with many more "uncontrolled variables" than experimenters even thought of. In which universe should we guide our be

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