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It should be prevented by law in most cases.

FB has used "security" as an excuse for creating shadow profiles on non-FB users, and people didn't think they'd use privacy as an excuse, too?

It's all been downhill since we heard that they stopped developing the e2e encrypted iCloud solution because it might upset the FBI even more.

Tesla pretends the concept is new to get the patent. The concept isn't actually new.

Would be far from the first time patents were granted this way...

Doesn't 3090 use well north of 400W of power?

> To put it straight, Google’s advertising ID (GAID) can no longer be accessed by advertisers if the user disables it from their settings.

> Now that Google is pulling the plug by making GAID almost obsolete, Facebook is about to stare at a bigger loss. If their loss from iOS 14 was in the range of $80bn, Android the more dominant platform will only increase their losses and woes.

Almost obsolete? This means users have to OPT-OUT of tracking as opposed to OPTING-IN to tracking on iOS.

The two "solutions" could not be more different. I hate all of these new articles saying that "Google joins Apple" in restricting FB. Apple is restricting FB 95%, Google is restricting it maybe 5% at best.

> But Apple account / emails are "in the cloud", so Apple has full access to it.

PSA: So are your iCloud backed-up "e2e encrypted iMessages".

Not really, because M1 was probably meant as a stop-gap, and it's mostly a rehash of A12.

M2 is probably based on the Arm v9 ISA and has been in design for years.

It's pretty sad the M1 devices come with expensive 16GB variants and Apple doesn't even offer 32GB configurations, though.

Qualcomm has had this tech for about a decade, but failed to commercialize/improve on it:

https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/23/3178117/qualcomm-mirasol-...

> If* a small chunk of plutonium can output 1.21GW

How many tens of billions of dollars (of mostly taxpayer money) does it cost to build, run, and maintain a nuclear power plant?

This is an issue I've always hated about Steemit.com, too.

There were a few writing mediocre at best content making up to $1,500 a day/post at some point, just because they managed to gain a lot of followers initially, while everyone else had to deal with writing dozens of posts and making only a few dollars a month, if that.

Social platforms should take this "inequality" issue a lot more seriously. It's in their long-term benefit to have thousands, millions of people who "make it big" on their platform, not just a handful that make it "really big."

Let's be real. The whole idea of this "Ethics Board" was only ever done for PR. Period.

Google never actually intended to follow through with any of their recommendations if it meant going against its financial interests.

Well I'm guessing the constant focus on inserting backdoors into everything and giving the NSA/FBI easy access to as many systems as possible "for security" must not have helped, either.

Is any of this stuff anywhere near as nutritious as real beef?

I wonder what chronic diseases the next generations will have because of eating so much low-nutrition food.

So they shouldn't have more than 200-500 users per satellite.

And I believe they promised much lower than that with laser links (although only the Polar North satellites will use those for now).

"The only winning move is not to play."

But what will that really mean in practice?

What if someone fakes an attack coming from say Estonia, and then the US' autonomous weapons annihilate Estonia?

Didn't they actually blame the pilots initially?

Same for Minority Report ("predictive policing" idea) and the 1984 book in general. Just wait until they discover the Black Mirror show, too.

These sociopath politicians and intelligence officials watch and read these things and really do take them as instruction manuals, not as the warnings they were meant to be.

So please stop giving them ideas everyone, I guess.

Pretty much how 99% of this data robbery happens by all surveillance companies.

This is why Facebook is so pissed off at Apple that it dares to ASK users first.

"Most users aren't aware what data is gathered about them" is about 10x more accurate than "users don't care about privacy", even though it's the latter that gets repeated all the time (with some help from the surveillance companies themselves spreading this propaganda).

This is kind of hilarious, considering one of the top (public) reasons why David Cameron and Theresa May have been supporting Brexit is so that UK no longer has to abide by the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, because the top EU court has slapped down the UK's mass surveillance regime a couple of times.

Is it the checks that indebted the governments or the economy lockdown? I'd have to imagine the economy lockdown/slowdown has an orders of magnitude larger impact.

Tell that to John Carmack, who apparently is quite fine with tainting his legacy and wasting his last few good work years working for Facebook of all companies. And to top it all off, they're going to ruin Oculus, too (where Carmack is working), going by the latest moves in that division.

Absolutely. Have you tried telling a random friend, or someone older, that the government can spy on everything they do and they can use that against them?

They'll most likely think you're exaggerating and maybe a little bit of a conspiracy theorist. Most people really do trust the government to act in good faith, even if you see them badmouthing various politicians.

If the US had a Constitutional Court (like some European countries do) that verified bills for constitutionality after being signed by the President, 90%-95% of these obviously unconstitutional bills Congress passes these days would get rejected. They wouldn't take 10-40 years to reach the Supreme Court and finally be verified for constitutionality.

And before anyone says "but the US only has adversarial courts" - well, the US had a secret spy court for more than a decade that rubberstamped anything the NSA/FBI requested, and it didn't seem to be an issue until the Snowden documents leaked and there was major backlash against it.

But honestly, a Constitutional Court is what the US needs right now. Something to stop the insanity of politicians in the mid-term.

Long-term, you stop their insanity by actually preventing them from getting elected in the first place. You do that by getting rid of money in politics, the FPTP voting system that promotes party a 2-party system and extreme polarization, and gerrymandering (a proportional representation voting system would fix both of the last 2 issues).

If I were them I wouldn't even bother with anything pre-Arm v9. That's going to draw all the hype, especially when Apple announces the Arm v9-based M2 next year.

And then I'm sure most sheep-like OEMs will say "Oh, we want THAT, too. Where is it - we want it yesterday!" But AMD won't be able to provide one too soon, because they would've gone all in on Arm v8, and they'd want to squeeze at least a couple of generations out of that microarchitecture.

Something similar happened when Apple announced the first Armv8 processor and it took Qualcomm and all the rest 2 years to catch-up.

People are way too quick to defend Google around here - and I'm saying that as a former Google evangelist.

Google does a LOT of crap like that these days. Most people just aren't aware just how "evil" they've become, or prefer to defend them with nonsensical arguments like "see, Google still throws the Don't Be Evil motto somewhere at the very end of their multi-page work of conduct document, so technically they still believe in it!"

That SHOULD be a powerful argument, too. Unfortunately, most people tend to roll their eyes when you start suggesting that the government might use such powers against them in the future.

They ultimately just "trust the government" to do the "right thing" no matter how flawed that thinking is. This is partially the fault of the education system and them not "knowing their history" that well.

It's only when such abuses of privacy happen to them personally that they become ultra-privacy activists. We've seen this even with politicians that fought to expand mass surveillance powers and then did an 180 when they saw those powers were used against them, too (who would've thought?!).

The fbi does it s lot these days and gets away with it. Actually the latest FISA renewal gives FBI and 16 other gov agencies access to full raw internet data and they can search it all they want...but they need a warrant to bring it to court. However, by now they've become experts at parallel construction and they usually outsmart judges and even defence attorneys on technical issues.