kova12

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wtf is happening to internet these days...

I dread the day which will certainly eventually come, when Google disables my account for some bullshit reason. So many things will stop working all at once, and there practically no way I can expedite restoring it

It's not just that; there's a new capability unlocked. You can now have self driving cars charge at remote places and come back without human interaction. Imagine you live in a place with no grid power

Oh no, it only works one way. When one starts signaling virtue, there's nothing wrong he can possibly do

Why this thread reads like it's from Reddit?

The system of capitalism works fine with one exception: it doesn't handle negative value. And this is what's being exploited here. You can lose customer's data and it's their problem. Borrow, take risk, lost money, and declare corporate bankruptcy - no personal loss. Destroy environment - say sorry and that's it. That's not free market. When CEOs have their personal assets taken, and kidneys removed to pay for the corporate debts - this is when things start changing

I have a govee kettle which has a limited Bluetooth support, which is mostly used to configure WiFi, but can also turn kettle on and off and reports temperature. Not sure if this is interesting to anybody, but if yes I can wrap it up in GitHub project

No matter how much the business makes, at some point their stock price comes up to the equilibrium with the rest of market. And since for CEO to get bonus he needs stock to go up, the businesses inevitably start applying dirty tricks at one point or another. That's just a system

I did not say a thing about attribution. This specific case might be a slam-dunk. The takeaway I got however was that the methods mathematicians use - they wanted some sort of rights to it. I no longer can access the article to quote prompted me to understand it that way, but to me that screams we are now approaching the next level of absurdity in patenting

Do I understand it right that people now claim an ownership of the actual mathematical methods? What next, people patenting the letters and the numbers? And then the sounds? This starts going ridiculous.

Laws would not fix the root cause, which is: world became too globalized, and that brought an onslaught of bad actors. Unless some sort of social score system is introduced, it will be very hard to make a quick decision whether someone makes a claim in good faith. But then everybody loses their privacy and ultimately their agency, which arguably many of us already lost to google and facebook. I don't think there is a simple soilution.

Latter is probably a factor, because merely being right doesn't mean you won't run out of money while defending yourself from lawyers

I can't agree more strongly with this statement. It is mind-blowing how can it be socially acceptable to treat other people's confidential data so mindlessly

We should have a law which penalizes businesses for leaking other people's private data

Got John's driver license exposed? Write him $1k cheque. Second time this happened? Make it $3k. And another 1% of his assets, since you put them at risk. $10k in the bank? That's extra $100. Guy has property worth 500k? Too bad for you, that's another 5 thou.

And no blaming sub-contractors either. You hired them to do validation and they leaked data? Too bad, must have verified that they are reliable. This is when all of these Hertzies and Targets and Fedexes start thinking twice before storing confidential data. Why do they need to hold on to your driver's license? I know why. They hope to make some extra cash by datamining it. Well, get your checkbook ready then.

You are selling alcohol and wanna make sure I'm older than 21? You don't need to scan ID. You definitely don't need to store it. You CHOOSE to store it, and if you do, be prepared to pay if you expose it.

I wish it worked like that, but yeah, it never will