President Trump- The Implications

[TeeDub]

Have you ever looked at your "timeline" on google maps?   Wonder where you went (and how you went there, and how long you stayed) two weeks ago?   Two months ago?    Take a look at it.  

To think they aren't sharing that information with someone is just being naive.

I can't see how Facebook would be any different.   If you want privacy, sadly, you loose the privilege of convenience.

[erfalf]

How people thought that a company (like Facebook among others) that literally made nothing of value, was able to rake in millions upon millions of dollars by just selling ad space is beyond me. The commodity they were dealing was information, not ad space. Anybody that thought any different was just fooling themselves.

The Onion has a pretty cute take on the forthcoming testimony of Zuck...

Mark Zuckerberg Prepares For Congressional Testimony By Poring Over Lawmakers' Personal Data
https://www.theonion.com/mark-zuckerberg-prepares-for-congressional-testimony-by-1824149833?utm_content=Main&utm_campaign=SF&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing

I know the Onion is quite literally supposed to be fake news, but this one seems to be ringing true.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Most did not.


The data stemmed from a personality quiz app developed in 2013 by a Cambridge University researcher. Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said last week that about 300,000 users installed the app, giving the researcher access to their information, as well as data from "tens of millions" of their friends based on Facebook's platform settings at the time.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-facebook-privacy-20180328-story.html

The terms of service to be on FB, in addition to the default privacy settings, lets them do pretty much anything they want.  And they wanted to do this...

And when people sign up for apps, same thing and more. 

[heironymouspasparagus]

I have been 'hiding out' from the biggest news for the last 3 days.  Like Trump has been doing...

So I missed the 60 Minutes interview completely and have not been to the usual 'haunts' to see what was going on - just heard about the interview a little while ago from my wife.  I immediately realized there is a huge business opportunity here for the print shops that make those fake magazines, newspapers, etc with people's own faces or pictures on them.  Now the extremist right tea party minions have an example for their next Mazola party....   Get their custom magazines and their favorite porn star and have that star spank them, just like their mentor and example!!

Trump.  Giving 'kinky' a new lease on life in the new millennium!!

[TeeDub]

Get their custom magazines and their favorite porn star and have that star spank them, just like their mentor and example!!

I still prefer a quiet rendezvous in the oval office.    Perhaps with a cigar.   Or a sexy rendition of Happy Birthday.

[erfalf]

I have been 'hiding out' from the biggest news for the last 3 days.  Like Trump has been doing...

So I missed the 60 Minutes interview completely and have not been to the usual 'haunts' to see what was going on - just heard about the interview a little while ago from my wife.  I immediately realized there is a huge business opportunity here for the print shops that make those fake magazines, newspapers, etc with people's own faces or pictures on them.  Now the extremist right tea party minions have an example for their next Mazola party....   Get their custom magazines and their favorite porn star and have that star spank them, just like their mentor and example!!

Trump.  Giving 'kinky' a new lease on life in the new millennium!!

I have a sneaking suspicion that the media enjoys doing "research" for this story.

[patric]

I still prefer a quiet rendezvous in the oval office.    Perhaps with a cigar.

Channeling James Mason in Yellowbeard.

[patric]

For the White House to respond to the sadness and anger of millions of Americans as a "local matter" is the very height of immoral analysis.
The White House's statement is at best ignorant and at worst neglectfully dismissive. Families mourning the loss of loved ones in Sacramento, Baton Rouge, Ferguson, St. Paul, North Charleston, Staten Island, Baltimore, Tulsa and other communities would disagree with the White House's assessment that this is a local matter.

https://www.theroot.com/sarah-suckabee-says-police-shooting-and-killing-black-m-1824163201

[swake]

Just curious.....   Will we have the same outrage when we find out Google and Apple are doing exactly the same thing?

Apple pointedly does not.

Google does much worse. You are Google's product, not customer.

[erfalf]

Apple pointedly does not.

Google does much worse. You are Google's product, not customer.

I like to refer to it as a "commodity". Google (or whomever) didn't make it, they just harvested it.

[patric]

Rather we set up a situation where engineers who have studied and lived in the US for over a decade working for the most advanced companies in the world (Boeing, Intel, SpaceX) who were overseas for work and now can't come back to the US for an undetermined period of time because they are from a "suspect country." Students, college professors, and researchers.  Where women and children who have been vetted by a dozen agencies over 4 years can't come because we are afraid of them.  

After a successful takeoff, SpaceX confirmed that all 10 Iridium satellites had deployed into orbit. However, no one got to watch the deployment since SpaceX cut off its live stream mid-way through the flight, citing restrictions from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Apparently, NOAA said that the cameras on the upper portion of the Falcon 9 qualified as a "remote sensing space system," and required an additional license for the flight.



SpaceX didnt buy a license from NOAA so they had to cut their launch feed.

Here's a leaked photo of the negotiations:

[Conan71]

After a successful takeoff, SpaceX confirmed that all 10 Iridium satellites had deployed into orbit. However, no one got to watch the deployment since SpaceX cut off its live stream mid-way through the flight, citing restrictions from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Apparently, NOAA said that the cameras on the upper portion of the Falcon 9 qualified as a "remote sensing space system," and required an additional license for the flight.



SpaceX didnt buy a license from NOAA so they had to cut their launch feed.

Here's a leaked photo of the negotiations:

Great scene from one of the best comedies ever.

[heironymouspasparagus]

I have a sneaking suspicion that the media enjoys doing "research" for this story.

No doubt...what red blooded American male wouldn't??

[heironymouspasparagus]

I still prefer a quiet rendezvous in the oval office.    Perhaps with a cigar.   Or a sexy rendition of Happy Birthday.

And avoid getting to pay $130,000+ per hooker...!

[Conan71]

No doubt...what red blooded American male wouldn't??

Meh, a skank is a skank.  Doesn't do much for me.