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Comment Several years too late and this is? (Score 1) 60

Considering Google is supposed to have some of the best designers and product people in the world I'm surprised this is what they came up with.

It's basically just a me-too device, coming out much too late. It does nothing the MotoTag or AirTag didn't already do, and worst of all, it's a different size and shape. Motorola wisely made the dimensions of the MotoTag almost the exact same as the AirTag. Meaning the wide selection of accessories, cases, bags, etc that are designed to accomodate AirTags can fit MotoTags instead.

Comment Opt out of all FOG DATA SCIENCE data sets (Score 5, Insightful) 62

"Opt out of all FOG DATA SCIENCE data sets"

What -- exactly -- does that do, how quickly, and what are some of the side-effects?\

Underneath, it says "You will be removed from all our data sets." And yet I doubt that very much. Surely there will be an entry in a database somewhere saying "Device identifier ________-____-_____-_____-_____ requested removed date-and-time _____ from IP address _____", etc.
And does that only retroactively remove data? Suppose they snarf up another dataset, bought from someone else or collected by themselves. Is that data also removed from their datasets, or does another removal request have to be made?

Comment Re:"Research" = modelling (Score 1) 73

"Science is about a specific process: you make a hypothesis, you set up a test of your hypothesis, you test it, find it true or not and based on that your hypothesis becomes a scientific theory or a rejected hypothesis."

That's the junior-high version of science. The one done poorly on cardboard. It's sad that people still trot out the whole "it's a process" trope.

And yet that one sentence makes more sense than the rest of the post.

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