If your threat model includes any sovereign state's intelligence agency then a warrant canary is worse than useless.
Given their other widely abused powers it is likely trivial to force a normal company to continue business as normal and make any statement.
I submit that warrant canaries are at best legally and politically naive virtue signalling and at worst deliberate obfuscation of the actual threat model.
> Well, your cat will also likely be very cruel if it ever caches a mouse or a bird
I'm no expert but I vaguely recall hearing from non-trivial sources that this is a common but inaccurate misrepresentation as regards their "intent".
They are not "toying" with their hunting target so much as obeying a powerful instinct to be careful to kill it with the minimum risk of infection from getting even a small scratch in return from a target that is "playing dead" as a defense/evade tactic.
>What does privacy rules have to do with monopoly or anti-trust?
They are becoming related.
Monopoly laws traditionally apply to commercial transactions.
Facebook's customers are not experiencing a monopoly, they can easily switch to other ad-space vendors.
Many of Facebook's "crop" however happen to be voters who feel new laws are required to deal with Facebook's "network monopoly" especially as it is entirely arbitrary, harmful and very profitable.
Privacy aka legal ownership and control of data is one way to erode that "network monopoly".
>they needed the higher-tax countries to bail them out just a few years ago:
You have that the wrong way around.
The Irish taxpayers, unwillingly, covered the massive gambling losses of private individuals and companies(including a group of businesses called "banks") who were playing in the (German-lead US-style) light-touch bank de-regulation "bank-casinos" of Europe. The "casinos" in Ireland had a disproportionate share of that action at approx 40% of the EU total.
The total cost to the Irish tax-payer was approx 65 billion euro I've heard.
We bailed them out using money we _borrowed_ from them and have paid back in full (recently i think?) with interest.
Thats like borrowing money from your loan shark to cover his poker losses.
I usually don't engage in this sort of trivial nationalism. But I just have to inject that your retelling of this story omits the fact that Irish banks were obviously first in line to go belly-up.
It is true that those banks had various lenders in Germany/France/wherever, and that the consequences of an all-out collapse of the Irish economy would have had negative effects in those countries as well.
But presenting it as some sort of altruistic sacrifice to allow them to rescue Ireland from a potato-based future is just adding moral bankruptcy to the other.
This is not nationalism. There should be no pride in our creation or solution to our portion of this moronic mess.
The obvious was ommitted because it was obvious. The banks are only "Irish" in a nominal sense. The people or state as a whole didn't own them. Don't forget they are international commerical businesses and can and should be shut down when they fail like any other business.
Obviously they are a critical piece of modern infrastructure and there was already plans in place for their failure such as "deposit protection insurance" schemes etc. The big question is if those plans were/are robust enough in modern countries.
We _all_ need to be able to confidentaly able to "cull" bad components of our modern infrastructure without fear of causing wider problems.
Nothing about it was altruistic. Fear and panic very obviously gripped the politicians involved on all sides.
Quite a lot of that was down to AIB, Sean FitzPatrick and Sean Quinn; at the height of the property boom there was all sorts of extraordinary conduct going on. Much of it on property loans within Ireland to other Irish companies.
> To ensure that these rates were not artificially low due to usability issues, we also confirmed in a separate qualitative test that users were indeed able to find and operate the disable functionality if they desired to disable Page previews.
(From their AB article)
I just tested it and it's trivial to click. Are you actually having difficulty or just pretending it's hard so you can be condescending?
I think the best place for these controls are usually on the feature itself. I don't want to have to search in some independent preferences UI every I want to see if something can be tweaked, but it makes sense to offer it there as well.
“We thought the floating pop-up billboard showing you a preview of what’s inside when you glance at a building was a great feature as you walk down times square”
