You are correct. He was born December 25th, 1642 as per the Julian calendar and January 4th, 1643 as per the Gregorian calendar that almost everyone uses today.
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For me, it boils down to reading between 1-3 WSJ articles a month by bypassing the paywall or reading none at all if they don't allow me to, since I don't consider the consumption worth the price (which includes handing over data to a US corporation) I'd have to pay. That money is better spent on a local news outlet that provides me with news I consider more relevant to myself.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypasspaywall...
Not quite. They said it's "technically impossible" and the EU fined them for $122M after Facebook did "the impossible" and started sharing WhatsApp data with Facebook.
https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2017/05/facebook-re...
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/dramatic-statement-e...
https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/index.cfm?pg=opena...
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171205/10255738745/days-...
He sure isn't making a very good job at not looking corrupt beyond any doubt.
Keeping the recent and current state of technology and where it is heading in mind, I think it's fair to say that consumers care a lot more about being able to use their phone than they care about that phone or the apps on the phone to collect data about them.
If I were planning to use these devices for surveillance, I'd of course provide only the utility first while privacy-minded people are still skeptical and then turn on the surveillance gradually after these devices are deployed nearly everywhere, integrated into every-day life, and can't be (easily) removed anymore. [0]
The current version might have a hardware kill switch for the microphone. Will the next batch too? The batch after that? How many people will actually go out of their way to toggle that switch to be certain it isn't listening instead of believing it isn't in good faith, or worse, not even thinking about whether it might?
Perhaps these devices won't ever be used for mass surveillance, or perhaps this is the beginning of Telescreens as they're described in George Orwell's 1984. Both Amazon and Google make vast quantities of their income by excessively undermining privacy in favor of targeted advertising. I'd call it fairly naive to expect them to now build privacy-minded devices that have as much spying potential as the Echo and Dot have.
[0]: https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2017...
I can recommend the book The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention on that subject. It really can't be answered in a short summary.
"My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it."
Although, as a native speaker I can't comment on whether that's actually accurate.
Both nanobots and a genetically engineered super virus, for example, would be very well suited to extinguish humanity in a timeframe that makes resistance / retaliation impossible.
Now if I as a dumb human can come up with that, just imagine what a being incredibly smarter than anything we could imagine could come up with.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/faceb...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/19/opinion/facebook-regulati...
ARM could be a affordable alternative to x86 if that works for you.
And then there's also the thing that, arguably, Google and FB give those people something in return which they might consider worthwhile for just data. I'd question that the majority of the user population is aware of the implications of handing over data about themselves and specifically other people, who may or may not be okay with that.
Neither do we have to. Facebook is grabbing it all anyway. With pre-emptive measures ala ad-, cookie and tracker blocking we can reduce the amount of data they get, but they still get something.
If they'd only collect data about their users, that would be totally fine. But they don't. They build shadow profiles of people who are not on FB and track them just the same way.
FB is a whole lot closer to Orwellian surveillance apparatus than it is to entertainment site.
Until the government comes knocking and can demand pretty much everything with your only option being a secret court that always sides with the government anyway.
Is it too much tinfoil to think that this isn't so much about "putting security over sales" than it is about "making sure that NSA backdoor remains hidden"?
The keyword in your sentence is customers. The people using Facebook aren't its customers, they're the product and thus open season for all kinds of nefarious things you'd never do to your customers.
So, the Russian equivalent of what the NSA has been doing the last 20 years?
I find it far more likely that this is a sensible move to protect the data of Russian citizens from the US, who have shown time and again that they can't be trusted in these matters.
For the non-EVE players: EVE has a system called Time Dilation, TiDi in short, that slows down the gameplay to give the server more time to process. It gets as slow as 10% of normal speed, which doesn't sound all that bad at first, except that stuff tends to no longer work as expected when the server load increases beyond what is manageable on that level. New commands are thrown on a stack and get worked down in order, which causes massive lags between giving a command and the game executing it, if it doesn't get lost somewhere along the way.
Those massive battles with thousands of players sound awesome in writing. They're very boring in reality.
I'm a very bitter vet myself, so take it with a grain of salt, but you're essentially correct. Space hasn't been as empty as it is today in over a decade, if ever before. Active player numbers are in the basement and falling and CCP is now even advertising starter packs with "More weapon slots, More damage, More tank". They are removing valid complexity and gameplay options left and right to "remove developer burden" (they removed the granular sound options a while ago because "almost nobody was using them" and made the game unplayable for me and many others unless we turn sound off completely).
The EVE of today is not the EVE you once knew. It's lost its soul in favor of making as much money as possible out of an ever shrinking player base.
Especially not there. imperium.news is a propaganda website first and a news website second.
EVE is a lot more fun to read about than it is to play it. You aren't missing all that much by not playing it...