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Apple didn't use the space saved by removing the headphone jack for anything. They just filled the space with a plastic insert. (The barometric reason Apple fed people is B.S. spouted by marketing doing damage control. You don't need a space to measure barometric pressure. You just need air since it'll all be at the same pressure, and there's plenty of air inside the rest of the iPhone.)

Foursquare is now working behind-the-scenes with Asia's biggest social networks — June 2017

For Korean phone giants Samsung and LG, Foursquare's API will be used in some of their default apps. If you take a picture using a Samsung Galaxy S8 or S8+, the phone will tag your location based on Foursquare's Places database.

This brain damage appears to concern fairly recent models. I'm about six generations further behind, so my mandatory security practice is to enable my data modem less than once a month, and to enable my Wi-Fi modem almost as rarely.

Two birds with one stone.

You're right, it's an obscure phrase that people only used briefly on obscure websites years ago.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/...
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07...
https://mashable.com/article/f...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/t...
https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/...
https://arstechnica.com/inform...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/sc...
https://gizmodo.com/dark-patte...
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-...
https://www.extremetech.com/in...
https://venturebeat.com/2018/0...
https://sdtimes.com/addiction/...
https://9to5mac.com/2018/10/15...

• It's why we strive to further reduce airliner fatalities when it's already one or two orders of magnitudes safer than any other form of transport. The media gives plane accidents disproportionately more coverage than other transportation accidents, causing the public to demand planes be made safer than they already are.
• Same thing with child abductions. Abduction by a stranger is incredibly rare - only a few dozen cases happen each year. But because the media gives those cases wildly disproportionate coverage, every parent is scared to death to let their child out of their sight for 2 minutes.
• Shark attacks always seem to make the national news, even though on average only about 1 person is killed each year by sharks in the U.S. Meanwhile the approx 100 people killed each year by deer go unreported except maybe as a local news story.
• School shootings are another example - they've actually been decreasing over the last two decades. But because the media automatically splashes any school shooting on the national news, the public incorrectly thinks they're becoming more common. Statistically, more high school students are killed by complications from pregnancy (page 3) than from non-gang, non-suicide school shootings. But I've yet to see a news story take that angle against teen pregnancy.
• Terrorism. If you include all the 9/11 fatalities, you're roughly 4x as likely to die from terrorism than lightning. Exclude 9/11 and you're roughly 6x more likely to be killed by lightning. I think I've seen one news story in 40 years of someone being killed by lightning. Yet every terrorist incident, even the ones which fail and cause no damage or injury, seem to automatically make national news.
• Until the last couple years, the media basically ignored the decade-long rise in drug overdose deaths. It wasn't until it surpassed car accident deaths that they finally began taking it seriously. The day which crystallized this in my mind was the 2016 murder-suicide on the UCLA campus. That story immediately made national news with live coverage on all the major networks. On the very same day 2 people died and over 57 were hospitalized from drug overdoses at a music festival in Florida. But that story barely made it beyond the local papers, and I didn't see any coverage of it on TV. I only happened to see it because I clicked on a different story from a Florida newspaper in Google News.
• After overdoses and traffic accidents, suicide is the #3 cause of non-disease death. But it's extraordinarily rare to see a news story about a suicide unless it's a celebrity. Which is a real shame because this is probably the most preventable cause of death we have. And if more people knew how common it was, they probably wouldn't feel as alone with their problems to commit suicide.

And these are the

to fake 2.7 million visits to shops

Really? Let's see: 365 days / year, 18 hours / day (he's got to stop for gas sometime), let's say 45 sites (45 laptops, and I'm ASS-U-ME-ing, and let's say they're all in a circle. (It's been done before.)

Around in the US, I thought a "visit" lasted an hour. Since he's "going" to different store locations, this shouldn't be a problem. And 0 seconds at the store -- he drives up to the front door, the GPS reads his location, and drives off.
For convenience sake, it always takes 10 minutes to reach the next store.

It takes 10 * 45 = 450 minutes for a 45 store transit, or 7.5 hours. Say 7, so 3 complete rotations per day. That's 21 hours (a bit over my 18 hours / day, but he hits a lot of green lights. Or pedestrians, your choice.) That's 3x45 = 135 stores per day. In a year that's 49,000 store visits.

So 2.7 Million visits would take 55 years. So a la Mythbusters: CONFIRMED. ;-) (Man, that's a cheap life. They oughta give him a free soda or something.)

And so he really thought he could get away with it? A million visits (over multiple accounts, that's what the 45 computers were for. Yeah I know. But how much did THEY cost?) That's like the guys in Germany who were getting paid to produce solar power. It was fine, but they noticed one company producing it at night. Bright moon I guess.

I've also heard of geniuses who go to WalMart (or wherever) buy thousands of dollars or merchandise and hand the clerk a million dollar bill. AND WANT THEIR CHANGE.

I always chuckle when Krugman goes to his IS-LM graphs and equations, and I think, "You really believe those describe the entire system?"

Considering he always says it does not describe the entire system, that's a rather odd thing to say if you're actually reading what he writes.

Krugman's NYT column is called "The Conscience of a Liberal." Nate Silver and Krugman had a public dispute when Silver left the NYT to form FiveThirtyEight. Silver said, about Krugman, "Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don’t have any discipline in how they look at the world, and so it leads to a lot of bullshit, basically,” Silver said in that interview."

Economic models are data fit to curves. See the 'Philips curve' and 'the breakdown of the Philips curve'. However, this data exists in the context of other systems. "All Models Are Wrong" of course, but it seems to me many economists don't appreciate the error in their models and are willing (and paid) to make grand pronouncements based on highly error-filled models. Often in support of one social narrative or another.

. The economy grows around those sources of money, which aren't geared towards addressing people's needs and wants. They wonder why productivity hasn't improved.

Except productivity has improved. The US, despite that whole "death of manufacturing" thing, is producing 3x the goods we made in the 1980s.....we're doing it with a lot less people because productivity has vastly improved, which is the one of the primary sources of that "death of manufacturing" thing.

Yes, it has since the 1980s, but it started stalling around 2005, and that is the point of curiosity. Here are other links. This is a basic, widely discussed topic.

I think going forward, there's a strong push towards socialist populism. Unless we can come up with a system that is again self-sustaining and self-organizing that allows people to create value and which fairly pays people for their labor. The view is dimming for the latter.

So, your first option is to invent a new economic system that will be highly stable because.....reasons.

No, not because 'reasons'. Because of its fairness and resistance to corruption, cronyism and favoritism. A system which is self-organizing and automatically rewards people based on their contribution would be fair; but then it could lead to vast swaths where people cannot contribute anything of value because offshore labor or machines can do it more cheaply and efficiently. That would be bad for humanitarian reasons and it can lead to social unrest.

Your second option is democratic socialism as practiced by most of Europe. Including Germany that you laud as successful in your post.

There's precisely zero reasons we can't do the latter in the US. The barrier has been the "Me Generation". And they're gonna die soon.

Don't conflate all of Europe as one.

We don't want to emulate France, Spain, Portugal. They have high unemployment and lower standards of living and more volatile economies. We're not like Norway in which we basically rely on vast oil deposits for our national wealth. Not in Europe but

Put yourself in a politician's shoes. You love the power. How do you keep it? You make your constituents lives better and make sure they know about it. But cut to the chase even further - really, you only need to make your constituents think you're making their lives better. If you are, it's secondary. The most important thing is making them think that. That's how you get the precious votes.

Cue a sports stadium or a megacorp like Amazon. Big headline jobs numbers, construction spending, infrastructure spending. But how do you pay for it? Taxes, redeploying money from other priorities, and bond sales. Maryland for example, created a nearly 9 billion dollar subsidy/incentive package for Amazon. Baltimore, in Maryland, has two spectacular stadiums at the gateway to the city. But the rest of the city is a mess, with the highest murder rate of any large city in the country, on a par with Ciudad Juarez, a cartel war zone in a semi-failed state.

Who really knows for sure what the net economic benefit will be? I suspect it's a lot like sports stadiums. Realize that the economy is a competition for resources and Amazon is a very successful competitor. And that politicians are not spending their own money, only trying to make their constituents think they are making those constituents' lives better.

Ultimately I think it's like a blood transfusion to yourself - diverting resources away from other priorities and taking on debt to pay for the shiny now. Ultimately, the source of wealth is creating things that people value. Does Amazon create value? I guess so. But they are also very good at retaining that value for themselves. Think of the WalMart effect. Or Facebook lights-out datacenters. These competitors are much better at retaining value they generate than any politician, whose primary skills like in raising money and getting votes. And they're also quite good at sloughing off costs on others, like the environmental polluters of yore. But this is "financial pollution" - company keeps the profits and socializes the losses, like WalMart and foodstamps. Or most famously, Wall Street after the financial crisis and bailouts.

Don't get me wrong, technology increases the productivity of people, which leads to the "Consolidation of the production of value." It's been going on since before the Industrial Revolution, but it leaps forward with the various technological revolutions. But just because a company is big doesn't mean that landing in your area is going to bring a prosperity windfall, and should get vast subsidies in anticipation of such.

"it wasn't possible for Zuckerberg to appear before all parliaments"

Funny, he seems to have the time to court nearly every country's MARKETS, but not to speak to their government. What, he's got a lot of paperwork to do?

He had the time to basically wander across America on his apologia tour https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0... (that was turned into an hilarious meme https://mashable.com/2017/09/2...). But not for, say, the democratically elected representatives of a major western government to speak with him?

And the linked article isn't news. It is now October, but this was news in 8 months ago: https://mashable.com/2018/02/2...

Instead of using Mathematica, Romer discovered that he could use a Jupyter notebook for sharing his research. Jupyter notebooks are web applications that allow programmers and researchers to share documents that include code, charts, equations, and data.

Oddly enough that was one of the possibilities for Google Wave before they cancelled it.

https://mashable.com/2009/05/2...

You continue to assert that the backup source must be fossil fuel. It does not. I don't know where you got the 80~90% base load number from since there are places that already exceed 20% renewable energy:

https://www.greenbiz.com/blog/...

And places that have almost gone fossil-fuel-free:

https://mashable.com/2017/01/0...

But if you must include these distant and difficult to estimate costs, let's include them on both sides.

On the fossil fuel side, let's include the flooding, the levy-building/land reclamation costs, the refugee crises, the wars, the oceanic mass extinctions, everything bad that global warming has in store for us. These are about as far off as renewables' storage costs and we don't know exactly what they'll be. Do you think those will be cheaper than renewables and energy storage? Looks like it won't:

https://www.greentechmedia.com...

And that's not even accounting for the wars and such.

You can trust in any app there

Really!!! I've got a bridge to sell you!

The App Stores make headlines every so often when they catch somebody stealing your data, or inserting malware. But they only catch a tiny, tiny amount of what really goes on. For one example, see https://mashable.com/2018/07/2...

https://arstechnica.com/featur... Fuck off with that bullshit lie. They were hacked because of Apple's basic security failures, like basic brute force protection. There was at least 8 deficiencies from standard operating security practises and they implemented most of them after the Fappening was public. Several companies reverse engineered iCloud (Elcomsoft and Cellubrite). Tools and exploits available for years. Elcomsoft boasted how they reverse engineered it and criticized them at the same time for allowing it to be possible. https://mashable.com/2014/09/0...

Yes OnStar cars have been similarly hacked, despite GM producing many millions of cars....

I'm not saying Tesla's security is perfect either, I am saying:

A) How much more important security is with a self-driving car where a hacker could literally drive a car, and

B) Tesla has had a much longer time with cars in production to think about this.

It's worth noting that the hack YOU linked to involved going in through the web browser that was actually IN THE CAR ITSELF. So you'd have to direct someone to visit a web site using the in-car browser.

The OnStar hacks have been purely remote, initialed from afar. And the hack you linked to did not affect the self-driving features, just the brakes.

Tesla is clearly being very careful and doing something right when they deliver car updates over the air and yet have not had any serious real-world exploits.

Scrap metal drives were propaganda, pure and simple, to make citizens think they were doing something. https://mashable.com/2016/02/0...

So yeah, about the same as your 'personal level' - it might make a few people feel good, but ultimately it would be better to take large scale action.

1. Musk sends engineers to site and they speak to 'subject matter expert' about possibilities
2. Inflatable Wing assign 30% staff to task, drop production in half. Ship inflatable 'pod'
3. Continued interaction with on-site experts sees 'mini-sub' idea evolve, similar crunch for development and delivery
4. Someone not involved in this interaction who is _not_ a diver (as commonly reported, he's familiar with the caves and relatively local and did some early co-ordination) made some insulting comments.
5. Got insulting comments back.

Musk was in communication with divers and on-site engineers. This was not some 'out of the blue', uninformed decision to turn up with a mini-sub.
The uninformed opinion was the ex-pat cave explorer who wasn't involved in the loop and made some assumptions about Musk's involvement. He made some public comments disparaging Musk, Musk fired back. Neither behaved well, but you're holding Musk to a double standard if you condemn him and not the instigator, and you've got your 'facts' from the 'spin' that sold this story.

See https://mashable.com/2018/07/0... and https://www.teslarati.com/elon... for eg. Try to look for links before his Twitter storm and you'll avoid all the 'journalists' quoting/sourcing each other.

I am a libtard thru and thru, but holy shit that vanity fair article is just too much. They specifically say that they movie makes the women right and good and vice versa, but act like that is a good thing! How do these people not realize they are overcompensating? I have no problem with strong female characters, but when they are the leaders and heroes nearly exclusively in so much, it is too obvious it is to manipulate society.

Third wave feminists are the left wing's version of White Supremacists and conspiracy kooks.

Not all right of center people agree with the American Nazi Party or the Klan, and hopefully few on the left of center side identify with the third wavers and their version of social cancer. Which is - as the VF article illustrates - pure sexist bigotry. And lest we forget the other bugaboo, the people who are demanding that Star wars resape itself in a non-male fashion, the problem is apparent that it isn't just males - it is White males

https://mashable.com/2018/02/0...

Yes, the peopel who will take to the streets to protest against racism and sexism are themselves both racist bigots and sexist bigots. Replace every "white" with "black" and every male with "women", and look what we get when the text is altered:

But make no mistake: By continuing to hire only black women, Lucasfilm is not helplessly reflecting some unfortunate but unchangeable norm. It's making an active choice to reinforce a status quo that rewards black women while systematically shutting out anyone else.

Racist and sexist bigotry is racist and sexist bigotry, be it left or white ^H^H^H^H^H^ right

Oh, I'm sorry, were my words just enough to break your mind so badly that you couldn't do one fucking google search and get this as a top result?

https://mashable.com/2018/06/2...

My bad, next time, I'll use baby words so the search is easier for you.

Oh, and in that link lists the other 3/4 million bribe from AT&T as well.

Lazy fuck.

Or have a significant portion of our dwellings underground.

Not really an option in a lot of places and a LOT more expensive to build than above ground dwellings. Plus you have to deal with removing groundwater in most places so you'd better have some pretty reliable power for the pumps and well designed drainage.

Not only would the damage from a tornado be much less, heating/cooling would require much less energy.

Then you drown when the rain and floods that routinely accompanies the tornado floods your underground bunker. Or you get trapped inside from debris that lands on top of your hobbit hole. No this isn't hypothetical either. Plus you have to live underground with limited natural light which isn't as much fun as you might imagine. Yes there are some advantages to being underground but there are a lot more disadvantages for most of us.

Even the POTUS doesn't believe in climate change (induced by men)

Yes, he absolutely does.

When you strip away the reference to the original Politico article that claimed to quote from the actual application but conveniently failed to provide a copy, the only verifiable fact in your link is that Trump wants to build walls to control erosion that's actually happening today.

If you're presenting that as evidence that he believes in climate change, what does that say about all the environmental groups that oppose the walls?

Even the POTUS doesn't believe in climate change (induced by men)

Yes, he absolutely does.

Don't make the mistake of believing anything Trump says. Like anyone else, by their actions shall you know them.

Yeah, but their actions are subject to interpretation and selective sight. I watch Trump and I see a corrupt, bloated, amoral lecher, a failed business man, a racist, a serial liar ... and those are just a few of the things he is. Evangelical Christians and a large number of Republicans took one look at Trump and saw the greatest negotiator in history, a business genius without peer, a savvy politician and after the Jerusalem thing he has now been promoted to the exalted status of 'fulfiller of biblical prophecy'.

Even the POTUS doesn't believe in climate change (induced by men)

Yes, he absolutely does.

Don't make the mistake of believing anything Trump says. Like anyone else, by their actions shall you know them.

eGods can tweet from jail:

https://mashable.com/2018/04/1...

What's the worth of living in a place where you can die of exposure (or get eaten by a moose*/bear/wolf)? Here I just stay out of the ocean and I'm safe from sharks. I stay out of rivers if they are north of the tropic and I'm safe from crocodiles. Kangaroos or emus may kill me but at least they won't eat me!

Ah yes, Australia. Well known for its completely safe wild life and environment. A place so popular to many of the early settlers only got to move there after fighting a court case.

Seriously. It's hilarious to watch the mental gymnastics of Google's CEO openly tauting that he's DIRECTLY working with a presidential candidate to "use our data" to help the candidate.

  - Facebook sold some ads. Who the fuck reads Facebook ads?
  - Google literally used their entire platform (read: tracking your information) + "muh algorithms" to assist a candidate.

And IN RETURN, the CEO got, and I quote, "a virtual open door to access the White House at will"

https://www.googletransparency...

https://theintercept.com/2016/...

https://mashable.com/2009/04/2...

https://www.wired.com/2008/11/...

https://www.politico.com/story...

https://www.theguardian.com/te...

"Eric Schmitt, 'CEO of America' "

And these are LIBERAL WEBSITES running these articles. So you can't even play the whole "alt-right / foxnews / fakenews / Russia-wrote-it" Red Herring bullshit.

Of course, I don't know why we're restricting to Obama either. Under Hillary, they did the same thing (for likely the same quid-pro-quo arrangement):

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

http://www.googletransparencyp...

https://qz.com/823922/eric-sch...

https://www.politico.com/magaz...

https://qz.com/520652/groundwo...

So with literally DOZENS upon dozens of professional articles dedicated to the subject from dozens of separate news organizations, anyone who ignores this well-established fact is throwing their head in the sand and humming, and not worthy of a debate response and should be downvoted accordingly for low signal-to-noise ratio.

  -> Google did everything Facebook did, and far more.

Depends on what country you are in, Australia's recent metadata laws collect all, no warrant required to look up.

The trouble with using encryption when such sweeping items become the norm is that using encryption places you as a target. Even if you have nothing to hide simply not wanting to be passively stalked can mark you as a person of interest for further scrutiny. Which could be a less than fun position to be put in.

Even not using the internet at all would not render you immune. It is one piece of a far larger puzzle Have a drivers license? congratulations your face is now in the national face recognition database.

Catch public transport recently? The scan cards used in different states can be linked to identities and profile your usage and location. While giving your names for the card is optional even if you always pay cash to top up and regularly change cards, the cctv footage combined with facial recognition can be enough to still get a pattern on you.

Welcome to the future, 1984 has nothing on our present. The craziest thing is not even the lack of oversight of the organizations in charge, but how quickly the public has become complacent with it all.

I suppose those that are critical of the security circus and try to bring attention to potential abuses are either dismissed as nutters or do not last if they are competent at bringing awareness to the many issues mass surveillance can bring to a society.

The night of long knives was amateurish and crude compared to what is capable with such sweeping surveillance of the populace. Anyone even partially trying to evade it becoming a potential target.

So long as the pot is boiled slowly, the frogs never jump.

You don't need to be dead for the cops to force you to unlock your phone with your fingerprint.

Sounds like fingerprint readers need to be repurposed into "reset to factory default" buttons, just use a pin all of the time when the cop forces you to "unlock" the phone he instead wipes it back.

You don't need to be dead for the cops to force you to unlock your phone with your fingerprint.

Like his most recent press release

Flippy is a failure, stop using it as an example
And stop conflating AI with automation while you're at it.

Another problem is sites that send SMS for every login attempt even for users who have a TOTP app set up as a second factor. This policy, adopted by Twitter among others, hurts users who choose TOTP because the user A. carries a tablet but not a cell phone, B. lives in North America and carries a cell phone on a pay-as-you-go plan (which costs less per month than an unlimited plan) and therefore pays for each incoming text message, or C. wants to reduce exposure to the vulnerabilities of SMS: exploiting known SS7 protocol security problems or social engineering the user's cellular carrier into issuing a replacement. But some companies that offer 2FA appear to just not care.

The following approach approach fixes cases A and B:

1. Enter username
2. Enter password
3. A form with a field for a number from a TOTP app and a button "Send a text message instead"

Google used to require SMS for 2FA but now appears to allow authentication using an Android device logged into Google Play Services.

Please provide evidence of your assertion.

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
http://business.financialpost....
https://www.denverpost.com/201...
https://money.usnews.com/money...
https://www.moneywise.co.uk/ne...
https://mashable.com/2014/11/2... (a bit off, but works for boomers just as well)
http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/i...
https://www.buxtonco.com/blog/...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_...
https://www.amazon.de/Boomer-N... (don't worry, not a make-me-rich link)
https://www.bisnow.com/nationa...

And so on, but I think that should suffice. Pick the publication you are the most inclined to not cry "fake news" about.

Ironically cleaning toilets, moping floors, de-dusting offices and a lot of menial tasks are very hard to fully or cheaply automate.

And please, don't get all "Roomba!" on me, because what a Roomba can do is but a small fraction of what a passably good cleaning person can do.

Agreed.

You have to add a mobile number to set up FIDO U2F key or a TOTP client but you can just remove it right after. IDK why they do it that way.

Last I checked, removing your mobile number from your account had the side effect of also removing FIDO U2F or TOTP from your account. At least Twitter does that. From "Twitter's 2-factor authentication has a serious problem" by Jack Morse:

What about just deleting your phone number from your Twitter account? Then it can't send you texts, right? Go ahead, but then you can no longer use the 3rd-party authenticator app.

Does Google also disable TOTP access after you have removed your phone number?

So to have significant effect, such a system would need to be installed on many flat-topped buildings in urban areas, or open ground. If you're going to do that, why not install solar power generators in the same places, which reduce need for dirty power generation? The system is de facto using clean power generation potential for air filtering, albeit in efficient manner (due to direct utilization of solar thermal energy), but I question it's total utility value. China is already pushing electric cars etc heavily so that source is not a long term problem.

I would supposition that plant based air cleaning systems, whethe normal plants like http://mashable.com/2017/02/09... or moss like https://futurism.com/4-citytre... can be installed even more places, even filling vertical walls, effect not dependent on large single areas to support 'chimney' etc, and actively clean the air in even more ways, as well as adding oxygen.

Although on the other hand, the chimney filter system can very well be applied where heat chimneys already inherently serve climate control cooling function for buildings, and designing buildings with this approach in mind reduces need for air conditioning etc thus reducing electric consumption.

>> This is like buying a car and the dealership says they are not going to fix your engine under warranty because you are using the car to...

Then don;t ever buy a Tesla.
http://mashable.com/2016/02/03...
https://www.reddit.com/r/tesla...

AIM was originally designed in secret and AOL execs wanted to kill it"

Because as Lena Dunham said, we always believe the accusers in these situations...

...until she doesn't.

A rep for the Santa Clara Police Department (SCPD) told the San Francisco Chronicle the leaflets included, "something about free speech and his belief that television stations are corrupt."

source

Yes, I know Facebook fancies itself to be all things to all people and has incorporated a lot of functionality that has been around for ages in other systems. I personally wouldn't use the word "innovative" to describe that process.

The only thing on your list that possibly could have been innovative at the time Facebook adopted it is the 360-degree video, and that certainly doesn't appear to me to be the case. About 30 seconds of searching confirmed that YouTube introduced 360-degree video support in March 2015 while Facebook didn't introduce it until September 2015. So yeah, it appears it actually was Google.

How did we get here, I wonder?

I can remember when GMail first came out and they were scanning the messages for spam. Everyone thought it was creepy, and an invasion of privacy, and maybe we shouldn't be using GMail for our personal messages...

...but Google said it only correlates words, it doesn't interpret the *meaning* of the text, and your privacy is safe. E-mail is unencrypted when it goes out over the net, by the way, you have no expectation of privacy.

Fast forward and we have Twitter and Facebook reading our feeds and automatically banning people. With no warnings, no explanation or identification of what caused the ban, just "you were saying inappropriate things, you're gone".

And of course their system can't be everywhere all the time, so they have "report this post" links where people can helpfully alert the companies about posts that should be examined.

...but now being reported itself is enough to get banned. Instead of examining the content, the system just goes ahead and *assumes* that if several people were concerned, the content is inappropriate.

(This, of course, gets abused in so many ways for political spite.)

Google is now scanning peoples' documents stored online, and simply banning access to the docs if the topics are deemed "unnecessary " (as in: "needlessly graphic or violent content". You didn't *need* to have that, so we're banning your short story.)

They don't give warnings or even explanation of what was detected, simply remove the person's 1st amendment right: you can't share the document with others. Or, apparently, copy it back to your local system.

Now they look over your shoulder, helpfully telling you that someone is snooping on your video chat.

Great. Wonderful. Completely useful feature, helps us keep our privacy. It's creepy, but for a good cause.

How did we get here again?

Really, how about this:

http://mashable.com/2017/11/15...

And another tibit: I was interviewed by a mobile app company that will remain nameless, but my primary job would have been to organize and analytic database so the company could find data trends to sell. They had so much raw data they didn't know how to use it yet. Company rep said: "People have idea how much data they are giving".

This isn't scare mongering, this is reality, until we start saying "no thanks". There are ways.

Well, a STD actor already accused someone of sexual harassment. Does that count?

I'm surprised why more people are not enabling authentication.

It's in part because these providers insist on using SMS as the preferred second factor despite its disadvantages compared to U2F or TOTP. SMS has two problems:

This wouldn't be a problem if services like Google, Twitter, and Steam offered a way to set up TOTP without first setting up SMS. But they don't. Google says "first you need to complete SMS/Voice setup", and the instructions for Twitter include "set up your personal account with the service on your phone" as part of the first step. Nor do they offer a way for someone who has set up TOTP to disable SMS without also disabling TOTP. Twitter in particular sends SMS on every 2-factor login attempt, in effect treating TOTP as a backup for SMS rather than vice versa.

Meh.

Somebody already figured out how to make a 30,000 character post on Twitter.

It's kind of boggling that ALL of these people are wrong, but I guess "sexconker" IS the DDOS expert...

Unlike they're demoing Face ID.

Meantime, nobody is complaining about the smaller Pixel 2, made by HTC with AMOLED screen by Samsung.

Small screen OLED is only hard for LG.
http://mashable.com/2017/10/23...

Meantime, nobody is complaining about the smaller Pixel 2, made by HTC with AMOLED screen by Samsung.

Small screen OLED is only hard for LG.

http://mashable.com/2017/10/23...

To be fair, it sounds like yet another case of pattern matching without human level oversight working too well. If you want actual bugs look at the fake baby registry emails sent out yesterday in mass.