Posts by Dinanziame 1153 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Sep 2019
Google has the power here and yet they act like the victims.
I'd like to note here that Google got fined billions by the EU for wielding that very same power you want them to use now.
Well, they used that power to force phone makers to preinstall Google apps like Chrome and YouTube and Google Maps, but the mechanism is the same. I'm not sure that "the ACLU made me do it" is a valid counter to EU regulations.
If I understand correctly, they want Google to refuse to grace those phones with their apps, Google Play Services and the like, unless the phone makers accept letting users deinstall anything they want.
In fact, it's (ab)using Google's monopoly on their highly sought-after Google Play Services to force phone makers to do something they don't want to do. It's essentially the same thing that Google got fined billions by the EU for... Except that this time, it's for the good of users. Maybe.
It is fine to have a folder keeping all deleted mail. The problem is making it easily accessible. If every single thing deleted could be rescued, but only by a technical person who knows the proper incantations, users would learn, but important items chucked out by mistake could still be retrieved.
The problem here is that it's exactly as easy to read an item from the deleted folder as from any other folder. It should be harder.
"It's unfair that I was the only one fined for speeding even though others are also doing it!" Yeah, Glibmedia doesn't seem like a convincing victim here.
That said, Google could totally make more efforts in applying their rules more consistently. I guess it would cost them MONEY *shudder*, but that's why there are regulators to gently prod them on with a slap on the wrist.
There is one commentard above complaining that photon torpedoes don't belong to Star Wars (indeed, they belong to Star Trek. Let it be known that they were introduced in 1967, a full ten years before Star Wars had proton torpedoes. See this full comparison of the technologies). I guess some people still get caught by the Reg's trolling...
As I understand it, every time you visit a website and you get this cookies warning, it covers your acceptance of the Google cookie on that website.
For Google's properties, I can only assume they somehow request and get approval for having an account, and point you towards their privacy settings to choose whatever options you want. No idea how that works.
It's probably going to take a while before we get clarity on this though. Like, ten years.
Well, students who use Apple are more likely to succeed than those who use Chromebooks!
S Welch – W Pelican – South Dakota – W Flamingo
Price-Fixing Truck Makers Get Record E.U. Fine: $3.2 Billion
She's not exactly overlooking EU companies either.
> I fondly remember that accuracy. Google search result quality has fallen a great deal from those heady days.
I simply don't believe you. I remember a time where I often needed to go to the third page of results to find what I was looking for. I would bet that now 99% of users never see the second page.
Well, nobody in the business was surprised that this was happening. But what will particularly annoy the privacy conscious is that no matter how will anonymized your recordings are, they are still connected to your account, and therefore at the mercy of the government.
As they say, the United States is a democracy, because they listen to the people. That's what the NSA is for.
Fair enough. Only, in order to convincingly demonstrate gender discrimination, she needs to show that it applied to more than just her. If other women in the group get the same salaries and promotions as men, then it stops being gender discrimination, and it's just that she gets a lower salary than other people, for reasons unrelated to her gender.
So she was a victim of discrimination because she was a woman... After being hired as a director when the "Cloud CEO" of Google was Diane Greene? Hmm...
I guess if she had been a man, she might have complained of being passed over for promotion because Google, as everybody learned from the famous memo, unfairly advantantages women over men.
It's the great thing these days, no matter who you are and what happens to you, it's always unfair.
Ah but see, there is no need to associate so much negativity with the color black, or positivity with the color white... It's only reinforcing negative stereotypes!
So let's change these old expressions with unfortunate connotations, hmmmm?
I'd say it was whitewashing, if only that didn't also have negative connotations.
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