This is an absolutely mind-blowing quote, thanks for sharing.
Easier to do in some places than others. Public transport is nonexistent in several places here in Texas for example - you have to have a car (or know someone who does) to get to your job in the first place. But…
Local software != map data, necessarily.
One might begin to wonder if there's more than mere correlation between those who adopt socially conservative beliefs and those who seem unable to paint their environment in anything other than such broad strokes...
That is actually incredibly good advice. Sounds obvious on its face, but isn't necessarily obvious in the moment.
That still leaves unanswered questions: What encoding - ASCII or Unicode? UTF-8, or UTF-16? What type of filesystem - FAT32, exFAT, ext4? What physical medium - HDD or SSD? OP's question goes deeper than just the file…
Do you have a source to cite for "the approach that the vast majority of purchasers prefer"? That seems pretty speculative. The market can be manipulated or directed by more than simply consumer choice, e.g. by business…
`self`, `this`, `$1`, etc. are also fun to sprinkle in there.
The problem is that this wasn't the only way they were gathering this info, and that they misled consumers by allowing them to turn off a setting that supposedly stopped this kind of tracking, while still continuing to…
Definitely worse, but also the next logical step given that an ad company has achieved relative browser dominance and has such weight to throw around in defining web standards. Moves like this were inevitable. Writing's…
Please read TFA. It answers this question.
"What about $otherthing?" Neither is good, but that doesn't necessarily make the topic you're attempting to pivot to relevant in this situation. Also, Cloudflare (provider of the external service you mention, assuming…
> but it is objectively the best selection system one could possibly devise Your determination of objectivity seems a little... subjective. Maybe this was objectively best at the time but at minimum the race part seems…
Can anyone cite a source for this? I don't doubt the legitimacy, but would like to know more about it.
"Expected" != "Acceptable" though, IMHO.
They then hired the guy creating those exploit chains.
While this is correct, surveillance in the physical call center wasn't physically taking place in these people's homes, which IMHO is the critical difference.
Having worked in a call center myself at one point, I'd say the primary difference is the directly-customer-facing nature of that work. When a call comes in (and there are often a large number of simultaneous calls)…
> "wild beef" ?
You could use grep with vim or nano for quick searches and viewing without even leaving your terminal. Why bother with a GUI at all for that use case?
> Their parents can't afford a laptop? They can't afford an Internet connection? The kids don't have a good place to learn in their house? They don't have time? All of the above, and it's surprising this isn't obvious.…
Unless they have a carefully-worded Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
This is already happening, only it's the credit card company doing the tracking and not to grocery store.
Useful as well to overreaching governments and law enforcement. Certainly not the type of thing you could legally inform your customers of, either.
This comment sounds like something Linus Torvalds would say - completely eviscerating but entirely accurate.
This is an absolutely mind-blowing quote, thanks for sharing.
Easier to do in some places than others. Public transport is nonexistent in several places here in Texas for example - you have to have a car (or know someone who does) to get to your job in the first place. But…
Local software != map data, necessarily.
One might begin to wonder if there's more than mere correlation between those who adopt socially conservative beliefs and those who seem unable to paint their environment in anything other than such broad strokes...
That is actually incredibly good advice. Sounds obvious on its face, but isn't necessarily obvious in the moment.
That still leaves unanswered questions: What encoding - ASCII or Unicode? UTF-8, or UTF-16? What type of filesystem - FAT32, exFAT, ext4? What physical medium - HDD or SSD? OP's question goes deeper than just the file…
Do you have a source to cite for "the approach that the vast majority of purchasers prefer"? That seems pretty speculative. The market can be manipulated or directed by more than simply consumer choice, e.g. by business…
`self`, `this`, `$1`, etc. are also fun to sprinkle in there.
The problem is that this wasn't the only way they were gathering this info, and that they misled consumers by allowing them to turn off a setting that supposedly stopped this kind of tracking, while still continuing to…
Definitely worse, but also the next logical step given that an ad company has achieved relative browser dominance and has such weight to throw around in defining web standards. Moves like this were inevitable. Writing's…
Please read TFA. It answers this question.
"What about $otherthing?" Neither is good, but that doesn't necessarily make the topic you're attempting to pivot to relevant in this situation. Also, Cloudflare (provider of the external service you mention, assuming…
> but it is objectively the best selection system one could possibly devise Your determination of objectivity seems a little... subjective. Maybe this was objectively best at the time but at minimum the race part seems…
Can anyone cite a source for this? I don't doubt the legitimacy, but would like to know more about it.
"Expected" != "Acceptable" though, IMHO.
They then hired the guy creating those exploit chains.
While this is correct, surveillance in the physical call center wasn't physically taking place in these people's homes, which IMHO is the critical difference.
Having worked in a call center myself at one point, I'd say the primary difference is the directly-customer-facing nature of that work. When a call comes in (and there are often a large number of simultaneous calls)…
> "wild beef" ?
You could use grep with vim or nano for quick searches and viewing without even leaving your terminal. Why bother with a GUI at all for that use case?
> Their parents can't afford a laptop? They can't afford an Internet connection? The kids don't have a good place to learn in their house? They don't have time? All of the above, and it's surprising this isn't obvious.…
Unless they have a carefully-worded Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
This is already happening, only it's the credit card company doing the tracking and not to grocery store.
Useful as well to overreaching governments and law enforcement. Certainly not the type of thing you could legally inform your customers of, either.
This comment sounds like something Linus Torvalds would say - completely eviscerating but entirely accurate.