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by mtgx 5y ago
It should be prevented by law in most cases.
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by mtgx 5y ago
FB has used "security" as an excuse for creating shadow profiles on non-FB users, and people didn't think they'd use privacy as an excuse, too?
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by mtgx 5y ago
It's all been downhill since we heard that they stopped developing the e2e encrypted iCloud solution because it might upset the FBI even more.
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by mtgx 5y ago
Tesla pretends the concept is new to get the patent. The concept isn't actually new. Would be far from the first time patents were granted this way...
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by mtgx 5y ago
Doesn't 3090 use well north of 400W of power?
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by mtgx 5y ago
> To put it straight, Google’s advertising ID (GAID) can no longer be accessed by advertisers if the user disables it from their settings. > Now that Google is pulling the plug by making GAID almost obsolete, Facebook is about to star
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by mtgx 5y ago
> But Apple account / emails are "in the cloud", so Apple has full access to it. PSA: So are your iCloud backed-up "e2e encrypted iMessages".
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by mtgx 5y ago
Not really, because M1 was probably meant as a stop-gap, and it's mostly a rehash of A12. M2 is probably based on the Arm v9 ISA and has been in design for years.
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by mtgx 5y ago
It's pretty sad the M1 devices come with expensive 16GB variants and Apple doesn't even offer 32GB configurations, though.
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by mtgx 5y ago
Qualcomm has had this tech for about a decade, but failed to commercialize/improve on it: https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/23/3178117/qualcomm-mirasol-...
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by mtgx 6y ago
> If* a small chunk of plutonium can output 1.21GW How many tens of billions of dollars (of mostly taxpayer money) does it cost to build, run, and maintain a nuclear power plant?
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by mtgx 6y ago
This is an issue I've always hated about Steemit.com, too. There were a few writing mediocre at best content making up to $1,500 a day/post at some point, just because they managed to gain a lot of followers initially, while every
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by mtgx 6y ago
Let's be real. The whole idea of this "Ethics Board" was only ever done for PR. Period. Google never actually intended to follow through with any of their recommendations if it meant going against its financial interests.
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by mtgx 6y ago
Well I'm guessing the constant focus on inserting backdoors into everything and giving the NSA/FBI easy access to as many systems as possible "for security" must not have helped, either.
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by mtgx 6y ago
Is any of this stuff anywhere near as nutritious as real beef? I wonder what chronic diseases the next generations will have because of eating so much low-nutrition food.
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by mtgx 6y ago
So they shouldn't have more than 200-500 users per satellite.
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by mtgx 6y ago
And I believe they promised much lower than that with laser links (although only the Polar North satellites will use those for now).
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by mtgx 6y ago
"The only winning move is not to play." But what will that really mean in practice? What if someone fakes an attack coming from say Estonia, and then the US' autonomous weapons annihilate Estonia?
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by mtgx 6y ago
Didn't they actually blame the pilots initially?
50.
by mtgx 6y ago
Same for Minority Report ("predictive policing" idea) and the 1984 book in general. Just wait until they discover the Black Mirror show, too. These sociopath politicians and intelligence officials watch and read these things and r
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by mtgx 6y ago
Pretty much how 99% of this data robbery happens by all surveillance companies. This is why Facebook is so pissed off at Apple that it dares to ASK users first. "Most users aren't aware what data is gathered about them" is ab
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by mtgx 6y ago
This is kind of hilarious, considering one of the top (public) reasons why David Cameron and Theresa May have been supporting Brexit is so that UK no longer has to abide by the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, because the top EU court has
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by mtgx 6y ago
Is it the checks that indebted the governments or the economy lockdown? I'd have to imagine the economy lockdown/slowdown has an orders of magnitude larger impact.
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by mtgx 6y ago
Tell that to John Carmack, who apparently is quite fine with tainting his legacy and wasting his last few good work years working for Facebook of all companies. And to top it all off, they're going to ruin Oculus, too (where Carmack is
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by mtgx 6y ago
Absolutely. Have you tried telling a random friend, or someone older, that the government can spy on everything they do and they can use that against them? They'll most likely think you're exaggerating and maybe a little bit of a
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by mtgx 6y ago
If the US had a Constitutional Court (like some European countries do) that verified bills for constitutionality after being signed by the President, 90%-95% of these obviously unconstitutional bills Congress passes these days would get rej
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by mtgx 6y ago
If I were them I wouldn't even bother with anything pre-Arm v9. That's going to draw all the hype, especially when Apple announces the Arm v9-based M2 next year. And then I'm sure most sheep-like OEMs will say "Oh, we wa
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by mtgx 6y ago
People are way too quick to defend Google around here - and I'm saying that as a former Google evangelist . Google does a LOT of crap like that these days. Most people just aren't aware just how "evil" they've beco
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by mtgx 6y ago
That SHOULD be a powerful argument, too. Unfortunately, most people tend to roll their eyes when you start suggesting that the government might use such powers against them in the future. They ultimately just "trust the government&quot
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by mtgx 6y ago
The fbi does it s lot these days and gets away with it. Actually the latest FISA renewal gives FBI and 16 other gov agencies access to full raw internet data and they can search it all they want...but they need a warrant to bring it to cour

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