Because someone else in the meeting might say "I'm working on X, I'm stuck and I need help" whereby you might say "Hey, I've worked on X before, chat me up after this meeting and I'll try and help out".
If everything is going well, it's five minutes spent.
If anything -isn't-, it's five minutes spent highlighting where additional interaction needs to take place.
Even if everything is going well, a status update can be "I'm working on X, no blockers", and someone else can still say "Oh! I've done X! Let me know if you need help", setting the team up for avoiding future obstacles.
Without it, you'll have people hammering at the same problem for days without raising it up because they don't realize anyone else can help them. Or reinventing the wheel because they don't realize someone else has already done it.
Etc. Done right, it's an excellent way to spend 5 minutes. Done wrong, it's a waste of an hour.
Oh, I'm aware it's "boxes". But, I got into the "boxen" habit in the middle 90s and now that I'm "old" I've chosen to become stubborn and stuck in my ways. Also, I think it's more fun. I've got other things to be pedantic about.
What to me _seems_ to be much more likely though is that multiple cookies are connected to a classification ID that multiple other users may also be connected to and that to identify your PII within their system you'll need to provide your user name.
Is this comment and that website [0] sarcasm? What exactly are you automating? The theft of my PII or the opposite? On this matter your privacy policy[1] confuse me.
Certainly seems like theft to me. Just because computers spew ridiculous amounts of PII does not mean company xyz llc has a right to collect that information or to use it for anything without educated and explicit opt in disclosure that verbosely enumerates every single instance in which said PII will be used between the time of collection and the heat death of the universe.
'server logs' fails to account for how that data is used which should explicitly defined. Failures to do so is misappropriation. A good litigation firm couls retire by challenging reckless companies on these grounds.
>does not mean company xyz llc has a right to collect that information or to use it for anything...
I guess this is where our opinions differ. In order for them to be absent the right to collect it you must force them to forget. That's where it doesn't seem like your information, after all they need to erase it. I'm all for legislation to regulate it's use.
Yeah, that’s a grey area actually. It’s why Google Analytics has the option of chopping off the last byte of IP addresses, for example.
Better to assume all PII and PI even if not identifying, belongs to the user. GDPR is explicit on some of this and not on others. Shared information, or that deemed necessary, won’t be deleted on request for say Uber/Lyft. There is a financial transaction and a driver etc, they won’t delete. They could sever the link to your profile though. Facebook offers something like this, but don’t do it. You will never be able to authenticate yourself again, and they will keep building the “anonymous” profile. It’s complicated for users out there...
>Better to assume all PII and PI even if not identifying, belongs to the user.
I agree from a liability standpoint, from a company's perspective. From a user perspective, better to assume all information that can be captured will be, it will eventually be available to all humanity and it doesn't belong to you.
Not sarcasm, we issue GDPR requests from an app on device, and you can request data (back to your device and not through us unless stated). Deletion requests are done as well. Data brokers, as a group, are obviously very anti-consumer, and getting them to comply in CA has been a huge headache (most simply do not). Prop 24 should help, so it’s going to be a long burn for consumers to take control. CCPA made hiring an agent (like us) explicit, but almost no one accepts that at the moment.
Alright, that's good, because I would really love for there to be a service that would streamline the way I request data from service providers or request the deletion of data connected to my account, as well as the account itself.
However, your site says:
>> We import and analyze all of your data across your online accounts and give you an audit and a plan of action.
Doesn't that mean that apart from all the, possibly bad, actors out there that have gotten their hands on my activities _you_ are now also in possession of PII connected to me? How does that improve things for me?
No, you are. Which has been a pain on our side to not have possession of the data, and also why it is an app for desktop if you want to have a copy of your data. It can be really large for a mobile device, and processing in the background is generally not available on mobile. Trying to get some things on mobile though -- deletion is easier than copies of data.
And yeah, we don't want to become a honeypot for what is the largest profile on you -- the combination of all the others.
Not really to be honest. The web does a lot more today than just transmit text documents. SPAs are overused and generally too bloated, but the idea that JS is not necessary (or should not be necessary) is a non starter.
For a decent browsing experience I'll take a plain ol' HTTP POST that causes my browser to reload the whole page giving me as a user a clear indication the app has understood my intentions (I wanted to submit information) over the initial page load time, elements jumping around, making me click the wrong element, any day of the week.
I remember when mapping sites worked that way: image in the middle. Want to move it to the right? Click the right arrow button and the page will reload with the map shifted a little.
Compared to Google Maps it was the Stone Age. I get it, a lot of sites use an unnecessary amount of JS and bog down the user. But there are very clear benefits to having JS in browsers.
It is pretty rare that a website requires JS for a good reason though (from a point of view of someone that would ratter not use JS). But many website are completely broke when JS is disabled...
Businesses have a tendency to optimize for making money so if the only way for them to do so is by having people click on ads, guess what they'll eventually become great at.
If you meant to say that Google's top engineers _used to_ work on the search engine but nowadays they work on making people click on ads because that's were the money is, then I wholeheartedly agree with you
No, it's like saying the best athletes of our generation use their gifts to get people to buy stuff. That's how they make their money, but ultimately it's not what they spend their gifts doing. They work to be at the top of their sport and other people figure out how to make money on that.
Successful/rock star athletes spend 99.9% of their time honing their athletic skills and the rest on advertising deals. Google on the other hand spend 99.9% of its time on making people click on ads. Because that's their athletic skill? No. Because money.
>> find an old recording of Haitian voodoo drums give it a listen using good headphones with your eyes closed, and after about twenty minutes you will enter an altered state
I followed your trance recipe to the letter and soon entered a state of mind that on this day was novel to me. It seriously made me happy to be alive and to be human. However, that feeling didn't linger. Now I'm back to my usual miserable self, a blob of cells that all try but mostly they fail to communicate with each other in a way that is pleasant for the vessel, me. I don't think I was in a trance. Perhaps I should have danced.
I'm very intrigued, though, by the idea of rhythm being a protagonist ingredient of "flow". I'm a programmer, musician only by heart, but on Wednesdays instead of instruments I play the rhythmic game of tennis. One time me and my brother, two racket-throwing outwards-acting tennis brats in need of anger management therapy both entered "flow" at the same time and it lasted a good hour and a half. In the middle of our match a large group of youngsters, perhaps thirty individuals, entered the yard and became our audience. They started to discuss our game. They correctly dismissed us as being "not top notch". They chit-chatted. They said this and that. They were merely meters away from us but acted like they were watching TV and that e could not possibly hear them. After the game we both said: were you ever bothered by the ruckus? We concluded that no, we weren't but that we could still paraphrase almost all of the comments we've heard from the audience. But during the game it seemed to us that nothing could get us out of the state of flow. In fact, neither of us understood we were in the flow state until the ruckus began.
This was an out-of-mind, out-of-body and out-of-this-world experience for me that I have not been able to reproduce since. I was untouchable and I loved it.
"I was so poor I had to sell my body so as to not starve to death but selling my body made me depressed and so I spent all my money on drugs leaving no money for food, throwing me into a life of starvation."
fixed that for you to make the two sentences equal. Making prostitution illegal doesn't prevent the men and women who sell their bodies from starving to death after they lost their source of income. I'm all for social programs preventing people from starving to death though, that seems like a much better solution than banning prostution.
