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by scholia 10y ago
> What am I missing? You're probably over-estimating the number of privacy-conscious and freedom-conscious people in the general public, who mainly use Windows, Android and Facebook. Windows is arguably the least privacy-invasive
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by scholia 10y ago
Given the number of large organizations that appear to have been paralyzed for much of a decade by the problems of switching from XP/IE6 to Windows 7/IE11, a whole new OS might be a bit of a challenge.....
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by scholia 10y ago
True. But the fact that Google staff felt guilty about ignoring copyright notices and spent years removing evidence from their code is a pretty good indication that they knew they were doing something wrong, even if technically they weren
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by scholia 10y ago
In this case, it's better off without the name in the headline. Many people would probably assume that anything by Glenn Beck would be far-right nonsense (sorry, I would, even if you wouldn't) but it seems to me that it's act
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by scholia 10y ago
The main problem with Twitter is that it's no longer a chat system, it's a broadcasting system, where the broadcasting is done by media stars, sports people, journalists etc. Unless you already have friends on Twitter, there'
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by scholia 10y ago
A website like https://manageflitter.com/ will make the curation much easier. (There are others but that's the one I use.)
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by scholia 10y ago
> I really don't get the anger toward Google. I don't think they did anything wrong here. If you check the internal email records, I suspect you'll find that Google thought that it was doing something wrong.... http:&#x
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by scholia 10y ago
There were touch-screen smartphones with no keyboards before the iPhone... http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/O2-Unveils-Xda-Orbit-Smar...
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by scholia 10y ago
You won't like this, but.... Sun's documentation specified that the APIs were copyright, and in an email on March 24, 2006, Andy Rubin wrote that: "Java.lang apis are copyrighted ... Sun owns the brand and ip [and} Sun gets t
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by scholia 10y ago
Class! ;-)
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by scholia 10y ago
People's browsing histories are regularly used in court....
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by scholia 10y ago
Same here, plus The Diamond Age. I read them all as they came out, and the shorter earlier books (The Big U, Snowcrash) had much more impact on me than the longer later ones. Or course, it's impossible to read Snowcrash today and fee
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by scholia 10y ago
Witness the wailing when people get locked out of their Google accounts and lose access to email, Gdrive, photos, Google Analytics etc. Same thing can happen with any account, of course, but Google users tend to have a larger number of more
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by scholia 10y ago
> They don't seem to care unless there's a chance of other people noticing. Which is one reason why tweeting works well (or it does if you have enough followers). I've had great results that way from several firms, thoug
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by scholia 10y ago
> The lack of extensions I think killed it out of the gate. True, but the extensions are coming. > I actually find what Opera is doing a lot nicer than any other others are the moment though, find myself using it more and more. I
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by scholia 10y ago
> I would guess control. Most big companies want to control their own technology stack and optimize for their own products. So Google wants people using Android phones and Chromebooks (ideally, fed by Google Fiber), with Google Chrome
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by scholia 10y ago
Which is why I install Unchecky on friends' and relatives' machines. It automatically unchecks all those default boxes and avoids not just Chrome but whole heaps of crapware... https://unchecky.com/
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by scholia 10y ago
As a matter of fact, Microsoft won the browser case 2-1 on appeal. It was found guilty in the larger anti-trust case, but not in the browser case. See Microsoft Wins In Appeals Court -- It Gets OK To Require Use Of Its Internet Browser; Spe
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by scholia 10y ago
> Honestly it should notify you even if an @ wasn't included similar to how hashtags essentially don't matter anymore. One problem with that is that dozens of people have identical names. The @name works because it's a u
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by scholia 10y ago
> Your overarching position seems to be that this stuff is too complicated for you to reason about on your own Now you're just being stupid. And insulting. > preferably without swearing Since I've shown no propensity to
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by scholia 10y ago
Average payments have gone down. In my experience, the best rates are for stuff that gets printed, where rates have historically not changed much for decades. However, rates for web-only stories are often much lower than for print, and some
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by scholia 10y ago
But that's a self-selecting audience. Facebook users can either look at tending news or ignore it. It's not a political demographic, or if it is, that's incidental.
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by scholia 10y ago
That sounds like the sort of question you should ask Buzzfeed, HuffPo or a similar website. Like Google and other companies, Facebook is normally very quick to respond to bad publicity.
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by scholia 10y ago
One can be correct and have an opinion at the same time. They're not the same thing. Even if you don't agree with an opinion, that doesn't make it wrong. You may be even more biased the other way. If you are not correct, then
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by scholia 10y ago
> Facebook targets yet another segment Facebook doesn't target a different population segment or a different political segment of the US, or even the US. It wants everybody to be on Facebook (if they're over the age of 13). T
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by scholia 10y ago
Nobody is throwing away their freedom of thought, and consulting independent experts is what journalists do. That's how we work (source: I am one). > we looked up to the U.S. for their people's ability to think critically and
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by scholia 10y ago
Seems to be a reliable source, or it wouldn't be so widely quoted or so widely respected. It's actually a story if it gets something wrong... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politifact-is-wrong-cruz-i...
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by scholia 10y ago
> Anyway, they don't provide stats grouped by people, so that assertion is based on what? The certainly do. You can see that Trump is telling the truth 2% of the time and is mostly true only 6%. Most of his claims are not true. h
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by scholia 10y ago
I didn't think it was a dig or gratuitous. It's a matter of fact that Facebook includes Fox News in its news sources, and as EdHominem points out, it really isn't.
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by scholia 10y ago
You're right, it's a reliable source of newswires. I don't think it does any original news reporting.

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