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Let me remind you its Apple which didnt allow access to GPU to flash dev.
What the author does not understands is that this clause (3.3.1) was originally absent from the agreement and was added for sole purpose of pissing off Adobe. That is anti competitive for sure. IMHO its equivalent to what MSFT tried to do when it started distributing IE for free.
The author of the article has got no CS knowledge. What are the qualifications for being a geek? Apple Logo and Star Wars?
I can write better articles than this guy.
It made total sense. However the hoi polloi is in search of a charismatic Messiah who has answer to all questions. And when someone mocks their expectation by presenting statistical evidence, the general argument is how arrogant that person is.
The idea of something can be predicted by using mathematical formulas (F=MA) is extremely attractive, however in Chaos filled practice one finds it more of an exception rather than a rule. The worst part being our inability to choose a proper null model.
Both programs are installed on the sites by explicit request of the website owners. If you should have problem with then that should be with the website owners "redtube" and not Google.
Also if you can prove that the TOS (Terms of Services) and Privacy Policy of the website you are visiting are violated by the Analytics or AdSense. Then you can petition in court as violation of policy. However if you still visit the same website which have set the privacy policy and Tos compliant with AdSense and Analytics, and are crying about google watching you then i offer you a simle solution.
Dont visit those websites! If you find lot like minded people then the traffic will automatically vanish.
Till then keep your mouth shut.
IR aims to retrieve information and not sentiments from the text. This kind of work is related to sentiment analysis, where use of stops words as signal is common. Thus the whole argument that some holy criteria in IR has been shown to false is clearly incorrect. Even original authors don't make such assertions.