That's fair. I personally don't care. It's an open-shut case in my book. There's nothing to discuss.

I like Chrome. It does what I need it to do and has features I like to use (mainly that history is shared between all devices, that's just huge for me. I have a lot of devices.) Besides, frankly, I read that article more closely, and Google already made an extension that ensures you always see the full URL.

But it's still stupid. People need to become smarter, not have everything dumbed down to their stupidity.

Frankly, that's where computing went all wrong in the 90's with the introduction of Windows and Macintosh OS. Computers dumbed down to the point any idiot could use one. News flash: Idiots shouldn't be using computers, and even less so the Internet. But that's all water under the bridge now. Computers continue to get more and more aimed toward the less intelligent of our species, while irritating the hell out of the smart people with all the stupidity baked in.

I swear, using a modern Windows computer, it's making me less smart with every passing day. The stupidity is just infectious.

Hey, if it wasn't for all the jackoffs building bots to create fake accounts, post spam, and all the other nefarious activities that CAPCHA's help curtail, we wouldn't need them. And they do help curtail a lot of it. All of it? Dunno.

I'm not sure Google is going to be very forthcoming with statistics regarding the effectiveness of reCAPCHA. I'm not even sure how Google could go about quantifying it's effectiveness.

Now, the article mentions something rather conspiracy-theory styled: Google is just doing this to train this AI's. Uhhh, no. Google is doing this to help ward off the spam and bots. It's just a bonus they can use it to train AI recognition systems too.

I really don't think Google is turning around and selling their AI know-how to spammers/scammers to defeat their own reCAPCHA system. That's why you see things like buses, traffic lights, cross walks, etc. They're trying to improve their self-driving AI. Is that really so wrong? Kill two birds with one stone? Seems pretty efficient to me. Ward off spam, get some AI training as a payback.

And most people don't seem to mind. I've clicked on the buses many times myself, it's not the end of the world. You see, you don't see the 'payoff' for this necessary evil, cuz the whole point is to ward off unwanted spam. If you're not seeing the effect, well, duh, that's the frickin' point.

Free speech. Yet again.

And all the people screaming bloody murder over free speech rights. News flash: Hosting providers also have a right to free speech, same as those wanting to be hosted. Free speech includes the right to NOT SPEAK.

So please, pack your outrage in a box and send it off to Santa, cuz no one here cares. Everything working as intended.

Everyone gets free speech, including the right to not speak. Your free speech cannot override my free speech. Hence, 8chan can't waggle the free speech flag, when they are themselves impugning other's free speech by saying we have to host their stuff. No, we don't. We have right to say "we don't want to be associated with your speech. go away."

Now I know what you're thinking, "But cheetah, how can we exercise our free speech if no one will host us?" "How can I exercise my free speech if I'm forced to speak on your behalf?" is my reply.

And here's some fresh criticism: THIS IS STUPID.

Put it back the way it's supposed to be, or I'm switching to Firefox. Don't want to, I like Chrome a lot, but this is unacceptable.

So, was GitHub ever notified of the data being on their platform?

When did this GitHub user notify Capital One? Did they notify GitHub too? This is the important question, if GitHub was notified in April, then yeah, they're on the hook for this too. Also, if Capital One was notified in April, did they notify GitHub? What about the FBI? Did they notify GitHub?

Seems goofy GitHub is on the hook for this, given what limited information we have. A lot of failure here with people neglecting to tell GitHub (from what we know) or GitHub just failed to respond, which seems very unlikely.

I know security breaches are embarrassing and all, but neglecting to tell involved parties, if that's what happened, is quite frankly just as irresponsible as whatever was neglected that permitted the data breach to take place.

Except it is bad. It's actually creating more waste, emissions than if they didn't exist at all.

This is a core issue of combating climate change. A whole lot of snakeoil being peddled as 'silver bullets' that will fix everything, but they do absolutely nothing to address the problem, and usually just add to it, not remove. So yeah, we do need to be calling out the BS, especially when the BS is making the problem even worse.

Whole lot of greedy people out there who don't care about climate change, but they sure as hell will pretend they do so they can peddle 'green' garbage to a naive population. So yeah, we need to point the finger at things of this nature and go 'BAD!'

Wouldn't touch anything that Facebook has anything to do with regardless of this story, or the veracity of the claims for and against backdoors in their subsidiary apps.

This is a shady company. Period. Couldn't pay me to deal with them or use anything they have their fingers in. They cannot be trusted. Period.

Their users are their product. Let me say that again, YOU are what Facebook sells. Your interests are irrelevant to them. You are just another data point to leech off. All the other shenanigans aside, this should be more than enough to blacklist this company.

This defeats the entire purpose of open source. I can't believe you even suggested this.

If you're not giving the source out, then, low-and-behold, it's not open source anymore. It's proprietary.

Back when most websites were plain HTTP, this was definitely an activity to be discouraged.

But now that most of the web is all HTTPS, with certs and such, public wifi access points aren't quite the hazard they used to be.

But you know, be careful. Be mindful when using them. It's harder to do shenanigans to HTTPS, but not impossible. Pay attention to security warnings should they arise!

All these various license are fine and dandy. With clauses for this case and that case.

But really, at the end of the day, it comes down to enforcement. If a team of half a dozen grunts work on a project in their spare time and release it under GPL, they don't have a prayer if a larger entity grabs it, makes a few changes and declares it 'theirs.'

Even if the small potatoes can prove they were ripped off, can they really fight this in a court? That's expensive! They weren't paid for their work, so it's not like they're swimming in money. While the big fish could be profiting from their work and using those profits to fight them in court.

Without a system that treats all sides fairly in regards to court proceedings, all this license mumbojumbo is pretty moot IMHO. If the big fish wanna eat the little fish, they're little they can do.

And the other side of the coin is forking. Open source is nice in a lot of ways, but if someone doesn't like how you're running a project, they can just fork your project and go their own way. This is both good and bad, especially regarding licensing. At which point does a forked project become thing all on it's own that is permitted to change it license model? Never? Who's gunna stop them from doing that? The forked project? Court battles between two entities that have no money?

...who has more money!

Because that's all this will be. It will not be on the merits of the case. It'll be whom can afford to clog up the courts longer.

Let us not forget, Apple was on the ropes as a business before their new found success with the iPod and iPhone.

The summary mentions falling iPhone sales repeatedly. Remember, this is the device that saved Apple from the brink.

Apple can't make computers anyone actually wants. That much was clear two decades ago. And now the iPhone is mostly 'nothing special.'

Good. Apple should've been gone and buried 20 years ago. Let's get this over with.

Fuck the people, fuck the children. Think of the planet!

At last! Real tangible action, real behavior change. Beats the heck out of just taxing people for flying.

I tip my hat to you, Ethiopia. Well done. An example for others to follow.