It needs a countdown timer - a timer that starts when you his send and counts down five minutes before the post is actually sent, giving impulsive big mouths time to reflect on their spewings, and in which time the post can be withdrawn or modified.

Technology solving people's personal inadequacies which have been exacerbated and magnified by technology (social media).

That would be a start.

Can confirm, in Firefox incognito mode, disabling scripts on nytimes.com (using umatrix) will remove their incognito cock-block and allow you to read the articles.

>They just want the consumer-base to think they are more pissed than they would be from pirating, which is just stupid - there's no way in hell, no loophole, no technicality that would make selling keys worse than pirating copies.

Well, this is where you show your ignorance on the matter, I'm afraid, as do a number of other commenters here.

The problem arises from people using stolen credit cards to buy game keys. They then sell those keys on sites like G2A. The people whose cards have been stolen, discover this and reclaim the money/cancel the purchases through chargebacks. This hits the developers who have sold the keys and costs them more than a simple refund, so they lose money. The credit card thief, meanwhile has a nice tidy profit form their G2A sales.

So, it's a little more complicated than people would have imagined and results in real financial losses for the little indie developer.

>We'll have to start digitally signing video and audio somehow...

At least until they develop a means for doing this shit 'in the camera' on the fly, signing the output.

Y'know - replace every "cut taxes" with "raise taxes"; "lower mortality rates" with "murder infants in their cots" or some such shit.

>If I tell you the sky is green, is that in any real way dishonest?

If it is blue and you also don't believe it to be green (ie. are deluded) and say it is green, then yes, it is dishonest. In not just a 'real' way, but in a very simple and basic way.

To make such an argument suggests you are, in fact, not being honest with yourself.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsearch.slashdot.org%2Fst...

Starting Thursday and following a software update, users in the EU opening Google's mobile app store will be presented with a choice of alternatives to Google search and Chrome. The Alphabet unit said options will vary by market, but Microsoft's Bing and Norway's Opera are notable competitors in the European search and browser market respectively.

The changes could help Google avoid additional fines after being scrutinized by the EU for almost a decade. The European Commission, the bloc's antitrust body, last year fined Google $4.8 billion for strong-arming device makers into pre-installing its Google search and Chrome browser, giving it a leg up because users are unlikely to look for alternatives if a default is already preloaded. The EU ordered Google to change that behavior and threatened additional fines if it failed to comply. In a statement, FairSearch, a group that includes Czech search engine Seznam.cz and Oracle, rejected the changes as insufficient. "It does nothing to correct the central problem that Google apps will remain the default on all Android devices," the group said. FairSearch filed one of the first complaints to the EU on Android.

"Google said today it will start giving European Union smartphone users a choice of browsers and search apps on its Android operating system, in changes designed to comply with an EU antitrust ruling [...]"

Meanwhile, in other unrelated news:

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt in a new interview rejected the notion that [governments have] a role to play in regulating big tech companies [...] "It's generally better to let the tech companies do these things[.]"

So, Eric, you're saying Google would have given mobile users a choice of browser had the EU not ruled that it violated antitrust law? Pull the other one, mate.

>As a content provider my self (photographer), it's disheartening to see my work pop up on social media in numbers without end and I only get compensation from the tiny Internet real estate that I initially did business with.

Mate, none of those people sharing your images on social media would have paid you to do that anyway. You realise that, right? Nothing, as such, not even the *opportunity* to make money from those images, has been lost in that respect.

One problem with IP law and the mentality that can surround it is that it gives some people the false impression that creative cultural expression is exactly the same as tangible material property. And it isn't.

I'm not saying that commercial operations should be free to use any image as they see fit without financial and legal obligations to the coyright holder, but I am saying that to expect people who use non-licensed copyrighted material casually on social media the same as if they should have paid for a license, is ridiculous.

European law, with this new copyright law, as well as others such as the so-called 'right to be forgotten' law, has shown itself to still hold to a pre-digital, pre-internet mentality. Copyright is not fit for the modern age, and laws such as the one just passed are, if anything, a step backward.

Stuckists stamping around in their sabots. Except this time, it's not the working classes calling a halt to the new age, it's the establishment and factory owners (which is why it's succeeding and will probably get a lot worse).

The problem is the opaqueness of what Google and other service providers, advertisers and tracking companies do. It's all secretive and so very well hidden from their users/customers/targets.

This surveillance, monitoring and logging needs to be made readily available to anyone whose interested in knowing, a couple of clicks and it's all laid out to see. Until that happens, you're damn right people aren't going to realise the extent. Why would they? How can they possibly know all the stuff scripts and cookies are doing behind the scenes?

As for asking questions about how much people really care about this sort of thing, I would say this: how can they know how much to care about it all if they have no idea what it is that's going on and the extent of it all?

People need to be made aware and become informed, and only then can they decide if they're happy about it all.

Christianity may have reformed itself by superseding the Old Testament with the New Testament, but modern Christianity in the United States can often be little different from the unreformed version, and in many ways, in the attitudes and behaviours of its members , resembles little more than some old world war cult.

It sometimes appears that American Jesus is little more than Odin in a kaftan.