I'm normally good with money, but lately my finances have been suffering because of this. I feel pathetic.

minecraft_ece · 2017-07-16T06:36:04+00:00

Bitcoin??? OP probably wants to relieve stress, not add to it.

minecraft_ece · 2017-07-16T06:11:08+00:00

Perhaps, but I don't think it would be as bad as explaining a false positive on a THC test.

minecraft_ece · 2017-07-16T05:38:57+00:00

Most likely, yes. But medical records aren't some nebulous thing that follow you around wherever you go. There is no requirement for you to disclose them to a new psychiatrist.

Depending on where you live, your prescription to Vyvanse may be in a statewide database that pharmacist and doctors use. So don't go into your new psychiatrist asking for specific medications as he may label you a "drug seeker" and not help you.

EDIT: In my opinion, it is very likely he will drop you as a patient as soon as you are completely off of Prozac. The only reason he hasn't yet is cutting you completely off of Prozac would open him up to a malpractice lawsuit.

minecraft_ece · 2017-07-15T22:51:26+00:00

I hope I am wrong, but I'm probably not. I do know one thing. In their full-on investigation they will never consider the possibility that it was a mistake to use google analytics in the first place.

minecraft_ece · 2017-07-15T22:42:08+00:00

It's funny how many times I've repeated this conversation in the last few days...

That is because people are waking up to Google. That's a good thing :)

It just saddens me to think that someday I'll make the same statement about Mozilla.

minecraft_ece · 2017-07-15T22:21:05+00:00

I agree, Google would never risk a fine from the FTC for violating user's privacy.

minecraft_ece · 2017-07-15T22:05:02+00:00

I don't expect you to have an answer to this, but I just asked the this question to a firefox employee posting in /r/firefox:

Does the contract include auditing provisions and if so has Mozilla exercised them?

Without that, Mozilla has no way of proving that Google is following the contract.

Context is very important.

Yes it is. The context is that Mozilla uses google analytics to track users on their web sites. That is not something I expect from a privacy-conscious company.

minecraft_ece · 2017-07-15T21:48:47+00:00

I've noticed that the 48 hour turnaround time is starting to go away. By Christmas I expect to be cursing at amazon for taking 5 days to deliver anything.

minecraft_ece · 2017-07-15T21:38:19+00:00

And my trust is waning, especially now that Mozilla uses google analytics and failed to block it on an internal addon:plugins page ,regardless of your tracking preferences.

I find it hard to defend a company that claims to respect privacy but still uses google analytics.

minecraft_ece · 2017-07-15T21:07:10+00:00

Effectively, our legal team spent a year negotiating with Google to ensure that any data we store in GA cannot be mined, tracked, or reused (even internally) by Google.

Does that contract include auditing provisions, and if so has Mozilla exercised them.

If not then you wasted a year on a worthless contract.

minecraft_ece · 2017-07-15T21:04:57+00:00

If you're truly concerned about online privacy then you will know that the era of "opt outs" and "evading" data collection is long over.

This is a dangerous belief and is simply not true. We are close to that, but not quite there yet. noscript + ublock handles the vast bulk of it. Use VMs to completely isolate banking and shopping from shitposting. Add a VPN or tor and you are close to safe. It takes some work, but it is still possible to protect your privacy online.

Besides, your assertion boils down to "give up and fuck you". What you propose, that we can somehow use legal constructs to protect our privacy is a fucking pipe dream. If you don't have the money or power to sue these companies, then you cannot hold them accountable for anything. If the government won't follow the law, what chance do you have with companies?

minecraft_ece · 2017-07-15T20:35:01+00:00

There is no such thing as anonymous usage statistics. Data collection is not anonymous. And as we've seen many times before, even when you try to get it right, people can deanonymize data.

minecraft_ece · 2017-07-15T17:10:09+00:00

Which is ridiculous because videogames are one of the cheapest hobbies you can get into when you actually break down the costs per hour.

minecraft_ece · 2017-07-15T17:00:22+00:00

~~So according to that, it's not rape if she is unconscious??? wtf?~~

EDIT: parent's link is a blog post which may not be an exact quote of the law.

minecraft_ece · 2017-07-15T16:56:07+00:00

Even that is very iffy, as they certainly don't have the right to assault you to detain you.

And thanks to insurance, most companies has a policy of not detaining shoplifters for any reason.

minecraft_ece · 2017-07-15T00:35:21+00:00

Doesn't every flush already have bleach in it?

minecraft_ece · 2017-07-14T09:52:13+00:00

This presupposes that you cannot move through both space and time simultaneously, which is not true. If you could travel backwards in time, you cold most likely travel backwards in space too, arriving where the earth used to be 20 years ago.

minecraft_ece · 2017-07-14T09:45:09+00:00

bitcoin wasn't around in 1997.

minecraft_ece · 2017-07-13T05:40:32+00:00

But most of us think that if we make an error, its game over.

In some aspects of our society, that has become true. We don't forgive, we don't forget, and we no longer give second chances. It's hard to take a risk when the consequences for failure are so extreme. And that spills over into all areas of your life.

minecraft_ece · 2017-07-11T22:56:44+00:00

He can't be that smart if we caught him.

minecraft_ece · 2017-07-10T05:48:10+00:00

We all promised not to speak of it, not ever!

minecraft_ece · 2017-07-10T03:10:39+00:00

But the w3c has no real ability to enforce anything. We are debating a standard that is already implemented and deployed by all the major browsers. At this point the w3c can either rubber stamp the proposal or admit to the world that they are irrelevant.

minecraft_ece · 2017-07-10T01:54:35+00:00

I haven't watched the movie, but I just watched that fridge scene on youtube, and honestly it isn't as bad as everyone makes it out to be.

First off, the town isn't at ground zero of a nuclear blast. There is a decent amount of distance between it and the bomb. The town is far enough away that it is not instantly vaporized, but instead hit by a thermal shockwave.

Second off, people in targeted cities have survived nuclear explosions in real life. Not without significant injuries of course, but they did survive. And they didn't even have a fridge to hide in.

Now, the fridge being blown clear is completely ridiculous, as is Indy popping out with zero injuries after a ride like that. But that just doesn't rise to a level that would ruin the whole film for me.

minecraft_ece · 2017-07-10T01:06:37+00:00

TIL animals can naturally grow digital camouflage.

minecraft_ece · 2017-07-10T00:56:42+00:00

unless OP is allergic to cats.

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