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Isn't it remarkable that the benefits of not using fb are clearly observed, defined, and expressed, but the only benefit given for using it is:
The authors wrote in their conclusions: Our results leave little doubt that Facebook produces large benefits for its users. A majority of people in our sample value four weeks of access at $100 or more, and these valuations could imply annual consumer surplus gains in the hundreds of billions of dollars in the US alone. The 60 minutes our participants spend on Facebook each day is itself suggestive of the substantial value it provides.
So, if I've got this right, the only benefit of using fb is an imaginary amount of money, which, if you live in a world of unicorns and flying pigs, you can pretend pretend is real money, and further imagine what effect it would have on the world if it were real money, not imaginary money in a world that doesn't exist.
Which essentially proves that, to use fb, you have to be out of your bleeding mind.
Case closed. Next!
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Pioneered by Tesla, over-the-air-software updates allow automakers to make changes to cars without owners having to go to a dealership. Just wait until we get a car running on Windows
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Is it just me, or is it bleeding obvious that such a machine should:
0. Reject update requests if the vehicle is in use?
1. Allow users to get out of the car after having made an update request (since you presumably can make such requests from the interior controls)?
Sorry, but if the guys working on them are making mistakes that are at that level of moronic, you won't catch me alive near one of those cars.
But you'd possibly find me there dead, because of some "minor design flaw" that makes them decide to run into groups of people at high speed.
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BigInternetOfShit
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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We’ve all seen the action movie trope where our hero needs to defeat a ridiculously complicated doomsday device, and the plucky engineer has to explain how to reverse the polarity or engage the spatio-temporal hyperlink. The hero inevitably responds, “In English, please?” "What we've got here is... failure to communicate"
I'm sensing a theme forming today.
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IDEO wrote: [waffle expunged]
So "act like you're a member of a team"?
OK, gotcha.
I wish you'd said that in the first place -- and then not bothered to subject us to the rest of that awful waffle.
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Coding is not done to "have a conversation", it is a formulated answer to a problem, that has been reduced to steps, and is achieved by issuing commands to a central processing unit.
So, it will remain a list of commands, in whatever form.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Well yes, if it were simply a case of "Hey computer! Tell me our monthly turnover in a format that won't ring too many alarm bells at the tax office" even accountants would be able to code.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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That's why you have people who translate from human to PC. Google knows where to find them 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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How would we talk if we forgot about code? We’d go back to being programmers, software developers, and computer scientists. If we got rid of 'code', everything would be so much better
Or something like that.
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While at it, let's stop those chemists from talking about "formulas" and "compounds". And what's up with calling water H20?
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RJ Zaworski wrote: I have got my head stuck so far up my @rse that I haven't seen sunlight for weeks.
I only paraphrase to avoid the tl;dr effect
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"Where we're going, we don't need codes." 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Quote: In a clever linguistic flourish we detach a familiar end product (“our apps”) from an arcane production process (“their code”), showering unnecessary mystery on what ought to be a rather mundane project.
Sooo.. we're not mentioning tires, clutch, exhaust pipes, steering wheels et al anymore? That's good, so the shop can't elevate themselves above me anymore! Just call it small truck, and do make it work.
There are specific words within domains of work, to make it easier for people savyy in that domain to exchange information - I'm as much needed to know where a radial shaft seal fits as much as a user of my app is supposed to know what dependency injection or CI/CD is. They pay to get an app, and they will get an app - The way there is the expert's responsiblity.
I only have a signature in order to let @DalekDave follow my posts.
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Collection #2-5 contains 2.2 billion unique usernames and passwords, and was apparently leaked, as previously announced. That's roughly 850GB of data and more than 25 billion records. Of course, one billion of them are 'qwerty' and '123456'
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OK, so we've been through the naming and shaming of companies that allow easy security breaches, and laws set in place in Europe, at least, have set protocols and given an iron gauntlet to those who investigate breaches, but it's perfectly clear that the hackings ain't ever going to stop -- all we can do is stop all but the most dedicated hackers.
I can't find anything that says this breach was helped by poor security practices or incompetence, so this is the work of one of "the most dedicated". Bad luck.
However, rolling out the "let's suck up to the huge data-slurpers" bull about multi-factor authentication is no help (you want multi-factor? Use two passwords -- trust technology that works, not the word of data-slurpers).In the last paragraph of the article, itproportal finally wrote wrote something useful: Consumers are advised to use a password manager
However, showing a lack of common sense that verges on the criminal, it did not advise anyone to change their passwords.
Nor did it mention the biblical-level advice on password security:
Check on haveibeenpwned, to see if your passwords for important things have been hacked, then change them regardless.
Let's be honest, you could replace the entire article with that sentence, and it would be more useful.
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Based on new research Google is accused of using deceptive design and misleading information, which results in users accepting to be constantly tracked Did they find out by Googling themselves?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: accused of using deceptive design and misleading information, which results in
If they (and I mean not only Google) would start to speak crystal clear and easy to understand, then many people would still ignore it because:
1) it is for free
2) it would show how stupid and naive they have been until now
[EDIT:] spelling
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
modified 4-Feb-19 8:43am.
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I don't believe a word of it.
Google is our friend.
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The strangest new feature is that you can now launch and run regular Win32 apps—2D apps built for the desktop—in the Windows Mixed Reality environment that's used for both virtual reality headsets and the HoloLens augmented reality headset. The feature that no one would think to ask for is finally available
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The feature that no one would think to ask for is finally available
Welcome to the "collateral effects" of a every day worse product / process.
I bet they will try to sell it as a cool "feature" that was thought from the very beginning
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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In other news, bugs in microsoft software are enjoying long and happy lives, and are even marrying and having children.
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[^] Appl says FB slurping selfie-land teenagers' iPhone iWhatever is not okay: okay ?Quote: Apple, too, has benefited from just doing business with the biggest privacy offenders in the tech sector. Despite Cook’s claim in Brussels that the “stockpiles of personal data serve only to enrich the companies that collect them,” Apple does lots of deals with those companies. Safari, the web browser that comes with every iPhone, is set up by default to route web searches through Google. For this privilege, Google reportedly paid Apple $9 billion in 2018, and as much as $12 billion this year. All those searches help funnel out enormous volumes of data on Apple’s users, from which Google extracts huge profits. Apple might not be directly responsible for the questionable use of that data by Google, but it facilitates the activity by making Google its default search engine, enriching itself substantially in the process.
"What goes around comes around" is like so analog.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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