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The value in coming up with a list of ethical services is the conversation around defining ethical and how those services conform with that definition.

No, be upfront with your definition, engage in discussion, and don't patronize criticisms.

You don't get to proclaim something ethical and then move along. That's close-minded and ripe for abuse.

Can you provide a justification for using any user-centric analytics at all past gross-request counts?

That's a useless definition when it comes to software and software services.

It's easy to think of good arguments for Twitter being ethical and unethical.

You shouldn't use the term "ethical" without very clearly defining your definition of ethical upfront.

If someone proposes to me that murder isn't ethical, I can more-or-less get on board with that without a bunch of defining and qualifying. You're talking about software though. To suggest that Open Office is ethically superior to MS Office is not at all self-evident or the general consensus of most people.

It comes off as you being oblivious or close-minded to competing ideas of ethics, which doesn't lend credibility to your use of the term.

>Things that were significant were preserved when the people involved decided they were important

Sounds like you answered your own question.

I think it's very fair to say that your average user absolutely does not care about privacy past catastrophic and specific leaks or revelations based on their own private data.

Wether that's wise or not is definitely up for debate. I think we'd be much better off instilling a higher value for privacy than we'd be trying to legislate and regulate the problem away. Companies will find ways to skirt legal measures, but an evaporating user base cannot be ignored.

What defines an "engineer", the work or the risks?

Well this is the most casually elitist thing I've read in a long time.

Anyone that's gotten through a 200 level programming course can probably throw together some kind of chat program that will let a few people talk.

That's lightyears from a scalable, non-buggy, chat system with modern features deployed at scale.

And I think it's very arguable that there have been. There have been provable infiltrations of infrastructure, undermining of democratic processes, and that's not counting the more 'mundane' cyberattacks. STUXNET was an attack on a nuclear facility that had real-world, hardware effects; that's a digital disaster, just one in which the outcome isn't objectionable to a good chunk of western observers.

I'd imagine that that would be less common (or at least, they would use headphones with a lesser effect) with commercial jets. They're far enough from the engines that the noise should be pretty tollerable.

Look up any given commercial airframe and you will see multiple crashes.

Literally every one would have been grounded had the FAA grounded the type after 2 accidents.

They absolutely do not. Interns are adults, not children.

Jeff Atwood's blog is great and still (very infrequently) updated.

https://blog.codinghorror.com

That seems really obnoxious for anyone that has your number. Do you just not give your number out?

Those aren't examples of the contrary, those are examples of in-precise recognition. That's miles away from being the same thing as "always recording".

You can filter the captured traffic for anything coming from Alexa's IP or mac, or transmitting to any amazon-owned server.

You'd have to break your numbers out a bit, but it sounds to me like you're lumping in GA with commercial flights.

Working on the systems in a technical capacity doesn't necessarily inform you of how those systems were used.

No doubt, but we're people talking to other people. We can afford that overhead, and neglecting it incurs down-stream costs that can be unpredictable and significant.

Who is and is not a terrorist is very fluid.

I try very hard to not use hyperbolic, overly-passionate political rhetoric, and maybe I'm making a mistake this time, but I can't help but say:

Your mentality is what enables fascism, despotism, genocide, and gross in-humanity.

You do realize how regional this is right? I'm liberal and in a very red area. I have the exact opposite experience.

Could you point out some of those examples?

It is most certainly not a smoking gun. That is a dishonest descriptor.

I don't think that analogy holds up. Maybe: does the typewriter manufacturer own meta data such as letter frequency, average work length, etc that their product calculates based on your usage?

This is absolutely not the case. I can install any app-store app I'd like, and it can install apps on my phone. I can even download raw apk file and install them myself.

Is that a serious suggestion to buy a second phone, or is it supposed to be absurd?

How does having prime lock you into Amazon, at all? You're not disallowed to shop elsewhere after signing up for Prime. You don't even have to sign up for someone else's "free shipping membership program" to buy your Nest.

You're argument doesn't work for me.

This is an incredibly un-helpful comment.

In a stuck elevator in a run-down medical office on the way to a dentists appointment.

Well that's silly.