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FPOWorld t1_j52occo wrote
Reply to EXCLUSIVE: Woman, 65, seen on video getting attacked by grocery store clerks over $50 bill she found by dayo_aji
Crazy how the store employees are held to a higher standard than the police. This country is a shithole.
FPOWorld t1_j52o6ma wrote
Reply to comment by George_Tirebiter420 in EXCLUSIVE: Woman, 65, seen on video getting attacked by grocery store clerks over $50 bill she found by dayo_aji
They’re known as police
FPOWorld t1_j4ori82 wrote
Reply to comment by SoftwareMaven in NSA asks Congress to let it get on with that warrantless data harvesting, again by Sorin61
This would be a good point if nobody on Jan 6th had ties to any foreign targets (not a single person?) and we didn’t know they were already using it to spy on US citizens.
FPOWorld t1_j4i9pbh wrote
The argument that they’re doing this to protect us from terrorists fell apart on Jan. 6th.
FPOWorld t1_j1bjuqp wrote
Reply to Musk’s Frequent Twitter Polls Are at Risk of Bot Manipulation | New research shows votes can be easily purchased during Twitter polls by MortWellian
Elon Musk: I can’t buy Twitter because of all the bots
Also Elon Musk: the Twitter poll asking if Apple should disclose all censorship actions it has taken says they should… “the people have spoken”
Turns out he’s not that smart after all ☠️
FPOWorld t1_ixmojc2 wrote
Reply to comment by canadave_nyc in With JWST Fully Operational Again, we get Images Like This: Saturn's Moon Titan by The_Weekend_Baker
Are any images from JWST unprocessed? Aren’t they looking at the below visible spectrum? 🤔
FPOWorld t1_itwjtt9 wrote
Reply to comment by Due_Connection179 in Earth's atmosphere could be turned into a giant dark-matter detector by trevor25
Here’s a quick vid about the history of dark matter:
It wasn’t gravitational lensing that made scientists think there was matter they couldn’t see, that was something they discovered later that reinforced the idea that dark matter exists. What initially made them realize dark matter existed is that the stars on the outer edges of a galaxy weren’t being flung out of the galaxy as math predicted they should. Some force they couldn’t see was holding galaxies together…hence dark matter. There has been more confirmation of evidence that it it exists via lensing for example, but we still have no idea what is actually doing the work. Dark isn’t describing the color, it’s more of an indication that it’s completely invisible to science. It’s really just a placeholder until someone figures out where this invisible force is being generated from.
FPOWorld t1_itth11f wrote
Reply to comment by Due_Connection179 in Earth's atmosphere could be turned into a giant dark-matter detector by trevor25
The proof is the effect of its gravity at large scales.
FPOWorld t1_isd33r1 wrote
Reply to comment by iamchairs in Meta’s VR Headset Harvests Personal Data Right Off Your Face - Cameras inside the device that track eye and face movements can make an avatar’s expressions more realistic, but they raise new privacy questions. by speckz
Do you work for Facebook?
I’m well aware of what A/B testing is, as I mentioned, I’m a computer engineer. Why did they apologize for an A/B test, which as you know is almost an industry standard practice? Finding which widget gets the most clicks is an A/B test, not inflicting sadness on users as part of a psy op.
Sure this was not the only factor, but it’s hard to argue that it wasn’t a critical one. It’s especially egregious as it was done in the process of committing a crime that FB covered up. They deserve 0 trust.
FPOWorld t1_isd0ql2 wrote
Reply to comment by iamchairs in Meta’s VR Headset Harvests Personal Data Right Off Your Face - Cameras inside the device that track eye and face movements can make an avatar’s expressions more realistic, but they raise new privacy questions. by speckz
No, I mean where they did an experiment to manipulate users’ emotions: https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/02/facebook-sorry-secret-psychological-experiment-users
Stealing a US presidential election that led to the outlawing of abortion, nationwide voter suppression, and the community spread of Covid and a million dead Americans is right up there with anything I can think of.
FPOWorld t1_iscywk2 wrote
Reply to comment by iamchairs in Meta’s VR Headset Harvests Personal Data Right Off Your Face - Cameras inside the device that track eye and face movements can make an avatar’s expressions more realistic, but they raise new privacy questions. by speckz
NOW we can trust them? This is after they secretly ran psychological experiments on users without their consent (among many other scandals). They didn’t even suspend CA from using Facebook until after the whistleblower. They knew CA broke the law and covered it up for years. They didn’t follow their own policies, were an accessory to one of the greatest crimes of my lifetime, did nothing to stop what CA did with the data, and now we can trust they’re going to start following the rules?
The rot is at the top. There’s no fixing that as long as Zuck the conqueror is running the show. I won’t give meta a goddamn dollar or a click.
FPOWorld t1_iscuq1v wrote
Reply to comment by iamchairs in Meta’s VR Headset Harvests Personal Data Right Off Your Face - Cameras inside the device that track eye and face movements can make an avatar’s expressions more realistic, but they raise new privacy questions. by speckz
CA jacked a bunch of data illegally, Facebook knew for years and didn’t disclose what happened until after that data was used to jack the election for Trump.
Edit: if you can call it a disclosure after it only came out via whistleblower complaint
FPOWorld t1_isctjiy wrote
Reply to comment by iamchairs in Meta’s VR Headset Harvests Personal Data Right Off Your Face - Cameras inside the device that track eye and face movements can make an avatar’s expressions more realistic, but they raise new privacy questions. by speckz
Yes. I’m a computer engineer.
FPOWorld t1_iscsj1l wrote
Reply to comment by iamchairs in Meta’s VR Headset Harvests Personal Data Right Off Your Face - Cameras inside the device that track eye and face movements can make an avatar’s expressions more realistic, but they raise new privacy questions. by speckz
You’ll be waiting a long time because that sentence makes little sense.
FPOWorld t1_iscj1n1 wrote
Reply to comment by BudMcLaine in Meta’s VR Headset Harvests Personal Data Right Off Your Face - Cameras inside the device that track eye and face movements can make an avatar’s expressions more realistic, but they raise new privacy questions. by speckz
I have 0 of these and am quite proud of it.
FPOWorld t1_isciw7z wrote
Reply to comment by BudMcLaine in Meta’s VR Headset Harvests Personal Data Right Off Your Face - Cameras inside the device that track eye and face movements can make an avatar’s expressions more realistic, but they raise new privacy questions. by speckz
Just like how webcams all only turn on when the light is on? 🤔
FPOWorld t1_iscisx3 wrote
Reply to comment by iamchairs in Meta’s VR Headset Harvests Personal Data Right Off Your Face - Cameras inside the device that track eye and face movements can make an avatar’s expressions more realistic, but they raise new privacy questions. by speckz
Like they knew about Cambridge Analytica?
FPOWorld t1_isciktx wrote
Reply to comment by Logical007 in Meta’s VR Headset Harvests Personal Data Right Off Your Face - Cameras inside the device that track eye and face movements can make an avatar’s expressions more realistic, but they raise new privacy questions. by speckz
We all know how Facebook never lies and misuses data!
FPOWorld t1_ir33arx wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in A new drug seeks 'true revenge' on COVID by turning the virus against itself by thisiswhyiamfat
This comment belongs in r/HermanCainAward
FPOWorld t1_jaezn1s wrote
Reply to comment by Laurelindel in Physicists Rewrite a Quantum Rule That Clashes With Our Universe by ChieftainMcLeland
Gravity is a result of the bent spacetime…not some thing that forces spacetime to bend. In other words, mass bends spacetime, and the result of that bend is gravity.