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Surprisingly interesting (given that one of the opening statements is: "a story about how a collaborative effort to improve a popular standard devolved into one of the most contentious forks in the history of open-source software development", which led me to believe that I would sleep through it).
I was never into feeds, channels, portals, etc, so the article partly filled a gap in my knowledge, which makes a pleasant change.
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RSS (in contrast to popular perception) is not dead, it has only been assimilated most notably by services like JSON friendly web APIs. The unfortunate side-affect of RSS simile is that control is often relinquished to the whims of API providers, so no argument there.
I was unaware of that...
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Last year, four of the largest U.S. cell carriers were caught selling and sending real-time location data of their customers to shady companies that sold it on to big spenders, who would use the data to track anyone “within seconds” for whatever reason they wanted. They're so sorry...that you caught them (again)
Or I could go with a quote from Animal House, but some people might be offended by it. But it is so appropriate.
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And whoever bought my location data is now sending nasty letters asking for their money back.
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Do it!
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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The problem is that The Machine exists, but it's not governed by Harold's ethics.
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Windows sysadmins wake up on Wednesday with an almighty Patch Tuesday headache. Now Win7 users can get the full Win10 experience!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Now Win7 users can get the full Win10 experience!
... Is the perfect comment.
There is a slight difference, though: my machines won't just update on microsoft's the hackers' command, and then stop working properly; I have to actively tell them to update and stop working properly.
I wonder if its better to do that now or later. Ms' current standards dictate that machines and programs should not work efficiently or well, and I do like to maintain standards, so sooner is probably better.
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It's all conditioning.
Migration is in full effect now.
Butcher 7 up real good then 10 might not seem so bad, right? 
I was unaware of that...
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This is my story of the first successful open source project at Microsoft and how it paved the way to where we are today. "The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love"
Of course I could have gone with, "You say you want a revolution?"
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Hmm.
Another one of those sites with a 900,000-word explanation of what data they slurp, but that does not give an opt-out.
Actually, that's not strictly true. You can opt out if you create an account with them.
The full process for opting out (after having created an account)?
Delete the account.
I love it when greedy idiots think they're being clever. Watching them dance is very entertaining.
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I recently figured out how to get images (such as wall papers) without actually going to a site and clicking buttons to download. In google (and using FireFox), right click the image, and select "View image info" in the menu. You'll get a dialog box that lists all of the images on the download site page, with your image selected. Simply copy the url and paste it into the address bar in your browser, and then right click to save the image.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Cool. It works in PaleMoon, too!
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Did you mis-post this? I don't see the connection to the op... 
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I feel it's my duty to note web-sites that try perverse or sneaky ways to get around obeying European privacy laws (and I then 0.0.0.0 them in my .hosts file).
You should be happy that those laws were put in place. You might not get the full benefit of them, because of where you are, but some of it filters through, as it makes the worst offenders more visible (and reviled).
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So your argument is with medium.com, not the article per se??
ok.
Their privacy policy is 11 pages or about 3000 words, give or take. Medium Privacy Policy – Medium Policy – Medium[^]
Seems more digestible than "900,000" words as you claimed.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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It links through to several other pages, none of which provide a suitable method for maintaining one's privacy, as required by European law.
Another stipulation of the law is that privacy policies must be explicit, simple, and in plain language. They have clearly, and intentionally, subverted that.
Strange how you care about my understandable PoV-exaggeration of the number of words in their deceptive documents, but don't seem to care that they are taking you for a ride and playing you for a mug.
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Dude, you assume way too much. I'm just trying to understand where you're coming from. It wasn't and isn't still clear to me. I was confused as to why you replied the way you did, and I'm still kinda confused now. Ok, I get using hyperbole to try to make a point. Sorry, but I just don't see it.
I get wanting to have privacy and all, I just don't see what medium is doing to violate yours or mine. Are you saying because medium has links to other sites that are less-than-compliant (in your view) that makes medium less-than-compliant? That seems like an odd requirement and doubtful the law does or could require such.
Also, it seems to be a misplaced complaint in context of the OP, which is what is also confusing.
Anyway, have a great day. Sorry to have caused you distress.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Microsoft is now hard at work on the next feature update for Windows 10, codenamed 19H1 and scheduled for release this April. To be fore-warned is to be fore-armed
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Don't be so negative! This is good news!
I love it when winio updates!
So many computers go off-line that my Internet speed increases by an order of magnitude.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: winio whineio
FTFY!
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: whineio
Ah, the sweet sound the chip's cooling fan makes, when another update has gone t1ts-up.
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Well, let's look at the bright side of things...
yeah, yeah I've got nothing; sorry, wrong discussion.
I was unaware of that...
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How smart is the form of artificial intelligence known as deep learning computer networks, and how closely do these machines mimic the human brain? They have improved greatly in recent years, but still have a long way to go, according to a team of cognitive psychologists. "Ceci n'est pas une pipe."
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From the machine's perspective:- A teapot is a bunch of pixels
- A golf ball is a bunch of pixels
- A picture is a bunch of pixels
- a pixel is a few ones and zeroes
An AI doesn't "tell things apart"; it just reads in ones and zeroes, processes stuff, and outputs ones and zeroes as a result of the process.
"Journalists" really need to stop thinking that AIs are thinking, because they're not.
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