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I have some friends who work at Motorola. My cousin's hubby is an engineer there. He's worked his ass off on phones, back and forth to factories in china all the time. All for naught.

An interesting read: Lenovo/Motorola repeating the mistakes of HP/Palm

Seriously, what kind of sadistic fucks come up with these idiotic schemes?

UXtards: https://medium.com/@eshan/the-rise-of-the-ux-torturer-7fba47ba6f22

UI: User Interface. The user interfaces with the computer in order to get the computer to do the user's bidding.
UX: User eXperience: The marketing people want to monetize the user. Make the user click on the buttons that make the marketing people money. Hide all the options that don't make money beneath a hamburger menu or a registry edit, and then accuse the user of incompetence for failing to discover them. Meanwhile, 90% of the userbase falls for the dark pattern and marketing makes its bonus.

Microsoft's UX team knows exactly what it's doing here; they're only backtracking here because they got called out for going too far over the line.

If you can legally quit

It's unclear whether or not you can...

The Verge has an article with more details on the timestamped sequence of events in the car's log. http://www.theverge.com/2016/5...

Unfortunately, these warnings were not heeded in this incident. The vehicle logs confirm that the automatic Summon feature was initiated by a double-press of the gear selector stalk button, shifting from Drive to Park and requesting Summon activation. The driver was alerted of the Summon activation with an audible chime and a pop-up message on the center touchscreen display. At this time, the driver had the opportunity to cancel the action by pressing CANCEL on the center touchscreen display; however, the CANCEL button was not clicked by the driver. In the next second, the brake pedal was released and two seconds later, the driver exited the vehicle. Three seconds after that, the driver's door was closed, and another three seconds later, Summon activated pursuant to the driver's double-press activation request. Approximately five minutes, sixteen seconds after Summon activated, the vehicle's driver's-side front door was opened again.

Without regard to the issue of this particular crash, I would be pretty leery about driving a car that logged every action I took to the level of time stamps for every control action. Would you want your car to have information that would potentially be available to law enforcement such as: If you ever exceeded the speed limit (even by one mile per hour for only a second); if you didn't come to a complete stop for a full second at every stop sign; if you failed to use your turn signals within 500 feet (or whatever is required where you are at) from the intersection; if you changed the radio station or volume within 30 seconds of an accident (you were therefore distracted and it was legally your fault - even though the other driver actually did something to cause the accident); etc. Such logs make it easy for the police to enforce the exact letter of the law as opposed to using judgement and forcing the intent of the law.

Or at least that's what he's claiming.

Seems like there's a third option the summary didn't list: Overton intentionally put the car in summon mode in a situation it wasn't suited for, with predictable results, and now wants repairs under warranty anyway.

The Verge has an article with more details on the timestamped sequence of events in the car's log.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/5...

Unfortunately, these warnings were not heeded in this incident. The vehicle logs confirm that the automatic Summon feature was initiated by a double-press of the gear selector stalk button, shifting from Drive to Park and requesting Summon activation. The driver was alerted of the Summon activation with an audible chime and a pop-up message on the center touchscreen display. At this time, the driver had the opportunity to cancel the action by pressing CANCEL on the center touchscreen display; however, the CANCEL button was not clicked by the driver. In the next second, the brake pedal was released and two seconds later, the driver exited the vehicle. Three seconds after that, the driver's door was closed, and another three seconds later, Summon activated pursuant to the driver's double-press activation request. Approximately five minutes, sixteen seconds after Summon activated, the vehicle's driver's-side front door was opened again.

Also, despite the summary's claim, it seems like it would be pretty easy to trigger summon mode accidentally - a double-press of the shifter button could easily occur while getting something out of the passenger seat while distracted. And then there's the key fob option - "press-and-hold then press another button" isn't exactly a complicated tap code - butt-dialing your cell phone requires a more complicated sequence of coincidences. It seems to me like it would be smart to have some sort of active confirmation required before autonomous actions take place.

Driver initiated the command (intentionally or accidentally), Driver ignored warning chime and on screen dialog. Driver then exits vehicle and it starts doing it's thing 3 seconds after he left vehicle. Was he watching, or walking away? Driver did nothing to stop it. Could have used key fob, or touched a door handle.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/5...

Do you think that mystery step (2) in Windows is using it for targeted advertising? or something else? I find it hard to make the leap from telemetry like "anonymized data shows Solitaire is the third-most popular program" (made up datapoint) to "targeting ads to this customer is worth $XYZ", but maybe there's something there that I'm just not seeing.

Maybe you need a Spotlight to see it better.

If someone with a tablet hadn't used their stylus, Spotlight might display an image highlighting drawing apps. In his demonstration, Spotlight prompted users to download the Fresh Paint app. That's one of Microsoft's own apps, but Belfiore emphasized that this is about introducing users to the entire Windows ecosystem — a similar app suggestion slot is being placed right in the Start menu, too.

Oh, look! It's already happening.

But I'm sure Microsoft did not profit in any way financially from that ad. After all -- Rise of the Tomb Raider is not a Microsoft game, and I'm sure they're advertising it for Square Enix for free, right? And if you do buy Rise of the Tomb Raider, through the Windows Store as the ad suggests, Microsoft is going to forego their 30% cut. Right?

I myself work at Microsoft -- not in the Windows division; our division's product Visual Studio does collect opt-in telemetry, and our missing step (2) is nothing more sinister than "improve the product so that future customers are more likely to want to use it".

If you're in a different division I don't hold it against you. I'd chalk this up to "one hand not knowing what the other's doing" -- hardly a new thing at Microsoft.

Welcome to The Verge.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/1...
Slashdot should not use them as source of anything. They are allmost as bad as buzzfeed.

I can imagine that working well in the middle of LA rush hour. A Volvo shill are you...?

Been reading /. since the very early days and keep coming back because the site stays out of the contents way (the boycott beta days not withstanding) I also used to read Engadget regularly but no longer. When Topolsky and gang ran off to start TheVerge I was intrigued and was there the day they went live. It was clear they had designed their site to be for the blogger by the blogger. I can't say journalist as the content wasn't always of journalistic integrity/quality. I read an article who's entire purpose was to dissect Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe"! The article itself was the author's self musings on his crush on said artist and the comments section was mostly other bloggers complimenting his use of white space and picture placement in the article. Very little substance. Perhaps that's the reason so many media outlets are dying?

I have one and use it on a daily basis, but primarily as a SIMless podcast player using PocketCasts (which I still hope to see one last update for....).

The lack of apps is the big thing, and a couple of the ones you mention may become more problematic in the near future

• the HERE products are going away (see: Here Maps drops support for Windows Phone and Windows 10 and the in-app message that pops up when you start the app)
• possibly the Waze app (I haven't heard anything, but it's owned by Google and they're unlikely to be spending any developer time on it)
• Is there such a thing as a good text or code editor on WP? I haven't found one.
• Edge edges on being usable, and UC Browser and Surfy make attempts, but overall the browser situation on WP is pathetic. Before MS killed Project Astoria I had hopes that at least Dolphin would consider porting to Windows, but now why bother? And with that, on the Windows Phone side I resign myself to options that feel comparable to the built-in browser back in the Froyo days or even earlier.

There are other more niche apps I'd like to have which either aren't available or can't be available due to the security model - things like SMS, call log and decent location tracking.

As for other aspects, for a Microsoft phone running Outlook it has a terrible time with calendar sync - I'll add a calendar entry on an Android tablet, it'll sync to my company Exchange server, show up on my Android phone, then show up on the Windows phone hours later after the event and only when I actually open the calendar app to see why I didn't have a notification on there. While the keyboard is better than it appears at first, it still has some gaping holes (such as not showing the "secondary" characters available by swiping on the keys).

I don't feel bad about having purchased the phone and might do it again under the same circumstances - it was $80 and I got a free 1-year subscription to Office365 with it, and my previous phone was showing signs of dying - but with the current status of Windows Phone and the application environment I can't imagine the scenario in which I'd actually buy one to use as a daily driver.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/4...

URL in posted item has too many hyphens between hoverboard and interview

Except all you're able to point at is a single case of one guy's lawyers trying to make Wikipedia and Deutschlandradio internet archives to remove his name - and failing at that.

Google has already received 280000 "right to be forgotten" requests.

As for Wikipedia, European courts have no jurisdiction over it anyway.

Except they specifically list exemptions for legal, archival, scientific research, public interest, freedom of expression etc.

Yes precisely. What isn't exempt is foreign corporations, search engines, and other such entities. And low information voters like you think that's a good thing.

I never got why people like development on Mac.

Because of this:
https://developer.apple.com/li...

Yeah in Windows you have PowerShell, which is so awesome Microsoft is doing this:

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3...

...then you'd think they'd build their data center on a barge or something...

Why float it when you can sink it?

It is very unwise to purchase non-core telecommunications products from Verizon, as they do not last.

Digital and/or software products are an especially risky purchase.

You don't have to update to play a game or watch a movie.

Unless your movie is on Netflix or some other online service, or your movie is a BluRay that requires you to update your firmware.

Right, activities that require access to the Internet, require access to the Internet. But the thing provides lots of ways to 'watch a movie' (which was the original assertion) that don't require Internet access. You can 'watch a movie': via Plex, via a DLNA server, via USB drive, or via DVD, for example.

You realize that was debunked, right?

http://www.theverge.com/2015/1...

I mean, it's great because it fits the assumed narrative, but there's actually no evidence to back up the claim.

That doesn't apply to this Revolv thing though; I have no idea what the hell they're thinking here at all.

Don't worry, the good folks at MIT have been able to track you for years.

Damn! According to the link you provided they can "determine subtle differences in body shapes" and "determine a person's breathing patterns and heart rate". That means I have to forego the tin-foil hat in favour of a full-body Faraday suit! I guess it's time to get me some copper mesh and pay a visit to my tailor...

Don't worry, the good folks at MIT have been able to track you for years.

As a matter of fact, this new method seems a lot more limited. The old method requires only an active access point in the area, tracks your body's precise movements in a 3D, allows for positive identification, and can even monitor things like heart-rate and breathing.

Skype was already switching away from P2P when they were acquired. This was fairly widely reported. Their P2P algorithm sucked, and was responsible for at least a couple global service outages. It just didn't scale as well as dedicated hardware.

It's almost like Microsoft hosted an annual developers conference today an announced a bunch of news http://www.theverge.com/2016/3...

All joking aside, I have to respond to this:

There's no particular evidence that she's a "corrupt, serially lying manipulator" other than the intensive media campaign saying so being put forth by the Republican machine.

You mean the Republican machine running the FBI that is investigating actual classified information found in the emails?

The FBI has at no time concluded that Hillary is a "corrupt, serially lying manipulator". So far, what they seem to have concluded is the she used a private e-mail server, a practice also done by previous secretaries of state (including ones working for Bush), a practice that was not illegal at the time; and that some e-mails on that server were later reclassified as classified information. but was, as it turns out, probably safer on her server than it was on the government's server (which was hacked into in the "biggest government hack ever".)

It is hard to screw up worse than that in the government, and if I did half the shit that is coming out, I would already have been through the court system and locked up for life, but I am not as connected as her.

Since there's no allegation that she actually released classified information to anybody who was not authorized to access it, at worst, she is accused of having had classified information stored in an unsecure location (although that's only an accusation so far; there was no evidence that her server wasn't secure.). The usual punishment for that is that the person who did it has to attend mandatory training.

Steaming music subscription instead of MP3s/CDs. Video streaming subscription instead of DVDs. Satellite radio instead of free radio. Cable TV instead of OTA. Pay-to-play games instead of one-time-cost games. Office365 instead of MS Office Suite. Hell, Windows 10 is the last Windows OS that you can "own" instead of "rent" (where "own" means a perpetual license and "rent" means time-limited license). This is all part of a wider trend to a Rentier Economy where ownership is a privilege only the very rich can afford and everyone else is on a treadmill of ever-increasing subscription fees.

Any comment on this?

You're forgetting one tiny little thing:

Us geeks influence friends and family.

I got my whole family switched over to Macs ~ 10 years back. It was an dead easy "sell" as my Dad was so fed up with Microsoft's constantly nickeling and diming. IF Microsoft would be reasonable and sell Windows (licenses) for $20 instead of $200 Windows 10 Pro USB flash drive then MAYBE people would stick with them but that ship has sailed LONG AGO in our family. Macs are just easier to use & support for non-technical people.

I am sticking with Windows 7 Pro only because of a few Direct3D 11 games and I need a version of Windows for game dev that supports my 32 GB RAM. But future Microsoft upgrades? Fuck 'em. I already have used two MacBook Pro's from work that I've been using for the past 4 years and absolute love them; I just bought my own MacBook Pro once I found out I can I can use my GTX 980Ti as en eGPU.

I tell my friends, "Sorry, I no longer support Windows past ver 7. I recommend a Mac or Linux box unless you have a specific reason you _need_ Windows. Microsoft has no respect for your privacy nor for empowering the UI. Why would you continue to give them money to allow them to constantly abuse you??"

I work for a Fortune 50 company -- you would be surprised at how many Mac's we have here. WAY, WAY, more then I would ever expect. The IT guys love Mac OSX significantly more then Windows. Hell, we're STILL upgrading Windows XP systems to Windows 7 systems.

The harder MS pushes Windows 10 the more people they are going to piss off. Push too hard and they could find themselves irrelevant much like IBM is today. Don't think this is a possibility? Consider the facts:

Android is already used by over 1.4 Billion people.
* http://www.theverge.com/2015/9...

Linux powers 98.8% of the top 500 supercomputers in the world; this is something Microsoft can only *dream* about.
* http://www.top500.org/statisti...

Free is eventually going to win over corporate greed. It doesn't really matter how long it takes; Microsoft's days are numbered. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but 20 years down the road MS will be struggling to maintain any sense of relevancy.

So yeah, MS _does_ undermine themselves. They are just to big to recognized it and they don't care. That's fine. I'll just take my business elsewhere. Apparently a lot of us geeks do as well.

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Microsoft Windows 8 and 10, noun: A 64-bit compilation of 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition with 0 bit of understanding good UI.

powered by Google's self driving software.

Powered by their own software:

http://www.theverge.com/transp...

http://www.wsj.com/articles/is...

Most threats will come from the network, which means malware attacks.

The fact that 'most threats will come from the network'; does not necessarily mean that this is always your highest risk.

That's why physical security is important, too. (See Qubes anti-evil-maid, USBVM, etc.)

Actually, I have yet to hear of any malware stealing GPG keys and doing anything meaningful with them.
So i'm going to say your suggested post-compromise abuse by malware is plausible but theoretical.

Not so theoretical...
https://motherboard.vice.com/r...
http://www.theverge.com/2015/2...

They even seem willing to steal a vendor's SIM keys in order to steal an individual's PGP key. You can say they don't seem to be doing anything with stolen keys, but decryption has no obvious effects.

They could also use stolen keys to launch _targetted_ attacks, such as signing backdoored code that is inserted into an update MITM fashion.

If it's a targeted attack, when malware would take specific actions to do with GPG, then why couldn't I target Qubes' hypervisor itself? Spawn some arbitrary code into the host node.... then seek out the disk image files, until I find ones that look like they have a bootsector, and infect those as well...

The point of Qubes is that its isolation mechanisms are simple and strong, and usual channels for vm breakouts are sealed off. The hypervisor in this case is baremetal Xen, at just over 1MB in size and is what runs Amazon EC2. Most hypervisors were designed for administrative convenience (and run on top of a traditional OS), whereas security has been a top priority with Xen. The exploits logged against it are a fraction of what Linux gets and even then they are overwhelmingly DoS. So 'just use a vm breakout attack' is kind of specious. If the community feels they need to strengthen security, they can focus on that tiny bit of code instead of having to wrestle with the unbelievable mess of kernel-based architecture.

This could lead upto a Volkswagen situation--where they blame the engineers

Not so good with teh Googles, eh? Here, LMGTFY:

"Most Americans still think Apple should comply with FBI orders, new poll shows "

"Poll: Apple Should Help FBI Unlock Terrorism Suspect's iPhone"

"More Support for Justice Department Than for Apple in Dispute Over Unlocking iPhone"

This was a great proof of concept for some "intuition" in AI, one of the behavioral aspects people believed hard to reproduce.

Now I am really looking forward to see the real applications for this, and their consequences:
- smart AI assistants, "a Siri that actually works" and similar
- AI assisted science
- AI assisted healthcare

There is a great interview with Demis Hassabis about this. There is hope for noticeable progress in mass products within 3-5 years.

This new tech will help a lot of people directly, and the related mass unemployment threat should force us to adopt better social policies. I already start hearing about base income experiments and the like more often.

If Google AI you can beat Lee Se-dol at Go, can it beat the IRS and Her Majesty's government at Tax Evasion? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... http://www.theverge.com/2016/1... http://www.thelocal.it/2016021... http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi... http://news.yahoo.com/italy-cl...

Further, it CAN scale, quite easily, if people want it to. All you do is fork it and increase the transaction size.

...Which is exactly what has happened, yet here we are.

The doom and gloom bullshit is being parroted by retards with a monied interest in Bitcoin transactions - these people stand to lose money if they have to pay fees

Mike Hearn is hardly a retard, and he wouldn't make or lose any money if the block size changes, or if bitcoin users pay fees or not.

Everyone else, including the core developers of the client that every user considers to be the "official" client, say "Nah, that's dumb, transaction fees are good and by design."

You don't know what you're talking about. It's the miners who are saying this, not "everyone else". The core developers (Bitcoin Core) have forked the software to support larger blocks. Additionally, it's the miners who control which fork will dominate, and right now they're running Bitcoin Classic because that is where their $ interests lie.

If and when the issue is such that the majority of people WANT to use Bitcoin for 40 small transactions a day, then it'll fork (and people will keep their balances).

It HAS forked, and the decision to fork had nothing to do with users wanting to do 40 small transactions a day.

People accepting Bitcoin will have to choose whether to stay with the existing branch or go with the fork.

The majority of MINERS decide which fork is adopted, not merchants accepting bitcoin, not consumers spending bitcoin. BTW, mining has become so centralized that a couple of guys in China control more than 50% of the network's hashing power. That fact alone indicated the system is broken.

But by all means, keep prattling on like you know what you're talking about.

Now consumers have mostly rejected it

You say that as if it were, in fact, actually true. I really respect your willingness to demonstrate such a high level of "flexibility." ;)

Vizio announces its first consumer 4K TVs, kills all 3D support
Sky drops 3D channel
BBC drops 3D programmes due to lack of interest
The End Of 3D? ESPN Drops 3D Channel
DirecTV scales back 3D content due to lack of demand
Poll: Is 3D TV dead? Do you care?

A quote from the last one:

3D's biggest issue has always been lack of 3D movies and TV shows, however, and they're only getting more scarce. ESPN's highly hyped 3D channel quietly got put to rest two years ago. Many other 3D-only channels, like 3net, Xfinity 3D, Foxtel 3D, Sky 3D and more, are also gone.

Some download services, like Vudu, still offer 3D, but the total number of 3D Blu-ray movies has dropped off significantly. They peaked in 2013 at 77, up from 66 and 68 the two years previous. Last year? 44, and only 22 so far this year. There will certainly be more in the second half, but I doubt we'll break 40.

Maybe you liked it, I'm not to argue with personal taste. But it's barely been mentioned as a feature for a couple years now, there's no plans for 4K in 3D in the new Bluray standard and nobody really seems to care. It works for most people at the cinema for a few hours every now and then, but at home it's been a dud.

The advantages are for Microsoft, to create a platform that is a walled garden and move away from Windows proper to this new floating platform that can work across devices, called Universal Windows Platform.

Thunderbolt 3 is fierce and could do it. The issue is always market, even with standardization.
Meanwhile we have morons like Palmer Luckey attacking Apple; basically the kingmaker in pushing to market modular, externalized resources like Thunderbolt 3 / USB-C.

No they can't. Not without signing agreements with existing companies. Communities sign franchise agreements that give exclusive rights to that company. You are very ignorant of how this works. http://www.theverge.com/2016/2...

You're ignorant of the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992, Pub. L. No. 102-385, 106 Stat. 1460 (1992).

It bans exclusive agreements.

No they can't. Not without signing agreements with existing companies. Communities sign franchise agreements that give exclusive rights to that company. You are very ignorant of how this works. http://www.theverge.com/2016/2...

Was going to call you on that, but you mentioned Gates and his backpedaling. Microsoft actually claims to back Apple, but Gates, who is now mainly a board member and technical adviser, was waffling on that one.

I work in an enterprise and can tell you that Microsoft does provide the ability to disable all remote connectivity, including those connections used for its telemetry services. You just need to actually do the research on how to achieve the desired results. I have seen the Win 10 hate thread abound, and would just like to say that rather than childishly gripping about the company that produced the software, how about an intelligent conversation about what MS improved from a UI, usability, and security perspective? I am a firm believer in the right tool for the right job, and personally employ several flavors of Linux to achieve the technology goals I set. Blind hate only makes you uniformed, come to the light side.

The only job that Windows is the 'right tool' for is running programs that were written for Windows, where no Free alternative exists, and that can't be made to run via WINE or something similar.

Besides, this is not only a matter of being pragmatic. Using the right tool for the right job makes sense, but an operating system that contains telemetry with no easy way to turn it off (not all home users have access to Enterprise editions, and even fewer would know how to edit the registry, etc, without fouling something up) means that the Operating System now not only doesn't do what I tell it to do (disable all telemetry), but it now gives ads on the lock screen, reinstalls apps to "try Office" or "try Skype" after updates, and so on. That's the definition of malware, and, as such, has no place on any computer that I have control over.

"In an interview with Bloomberg, Bill Gates says he was 'disappointed' by reports that he supported the FBI in its legal battle with Apple, saying "that doesn't state my view on this.' "

http://www.theverge.com/2016/2...

What they have one? A dozen? Is that enough or are they going to have to PRODUCE more? Sorry, but that was a pretty moronic comment you made.

News flash: Volkswagen is an automaker. That is to say, they make automobiles. If they have to produce more, well, they can do that. Besides the e-Golf, they've recently shown an electric minivan, to show off their new EV platform. VW wants us to believe that they are ready to produce EVs if they so choose, so... their bluff has been called. They can put up, or fuck off.

EVs are selling like dookie right now, because OPEC. But they'll pick up again, with the fuel prices. It's not a matter of whether fuel prices will rise again, but how long before it happens. Auto company economists are betting that it won't be exceptionally soon, but they are expecting it in the mid-term, not the long-term.

The article is vague, but the DoD is moving en masse to Windows 10.

There are very important security enhancements for enterprise customers, which I assume is the reason for the big push.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/2...

New documents reveal which encryption tools the NSA couldn't crack

Snowden files reveal NSA had 'major problems' tracking Tor dark web users and cracking encryption

Snowden docs show Tor, TrueCrypt, Tails topped NSA's 'most wanted' list in '12

Expect this to become an issue that politicians focus on. They are already saying "there's got to be a way". This will give them more ammo. Just imagine: "they couldn't help us unlock that San Bernadino terrorist's data, so we need them to build in a way around this".

Honestly, Apple is kinda fucked either way, now that the FBI has asked in public. Either they unlock it and prove to everyone that their phones aren't secure, or they say they can't and thus look like they are refusing to help in the Fight Against Terrorism. Either way they look bad. This was a calculated move on the FBI's part, I think.

It has been done before: http://www.theverge.com/2014/5...

I see here that there are lot of people who are trying to figure out which photo/video app to use next. Google Photos and Flickr good products, but SnapsBoard app leaves Google Photos and Flickr in the dust. So, if you are planning to move to either of them, I recommend reviewing SnapsBoard app first. If anyone has strong opinion about Google Photos or Flickr, I suggest them to do a side by side comparison with SnapsBoard. I would be very interested in learning about your findings. Here is my list of options that you can look at: 1) SnapsBoard provides unlimited free storage. Google Photos provides 15GB with free plan and Flickr 1TB. 2) Google Photos with free plan reduces size of your photo if photo size is more than 16mega pixels. SnapsBoard does not downgrade resolution of any of your photos or videos. If you got any of those new 4k videos, go ahead and load them up to SnapsBoard. 3) SnapsBoard provides a simple and secure option to crowd-source your event photos/videos such as birthdays, weddings, or school graduation. There are only couple of apps out there that provide this option and they are not secure at all. 4) SnapsBoard allows you to share a photo or video in one click to all the following sites: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Google+, Gmail contacts, Yahoo email contacts, Hotmail contacts, and mobile message. BTW, you can share your photos/videos with any number of your email contacts. SnapsBoard does all the heavy lifting for you. You don't have to move a finger. 5) If you are iPhone or iPad users and upload a large number of photos/videos, Google Photos and Flickr would stop uploading after three minutes if you turn device's home screen off. SnapsBoard optimally continues to upload in background relieving you from baby sitting the app. 6) If you are uploading large number of event photos and videos in small batches, SnapsBoard will intuitively suggest you to use photo/video details that match with your previously uploaded photos/videos. No any other app has this capability. You do not have to spend hours and days in tagging your photos/videos to organize them. BTW, how many people remember the following? http://www.theverge.com/2015/7... 7) SnapsBoard is the only app that provides options to organize photos/videos by any number of personal groups and circles. 8) SnapsBoard provides tons of photo editing and decoration features - filters, brightness, adjust color, add emojis/stickers/text/frames, crop, rotate. 9) Create photo collages 10) Create musical collages 11) Privacy: SnapsBoard is the only app that allows you to set the privacy to yourself, your friends, your circle members, all SnapsBoard app members, or public. 12) SnapsBoard is the only app that shows you the privacy setting on all your photos/videos on a Privacy Dashboard. You can review and change privacy on your photos/videos right on the dashboard, on your mobile device. We want to be completely transparent. Do you know of any other app that could claim this feature? 13) Artists/professional Photographers can showcase and make their art/photos available for purchase in SnapsBoard. 14) Send the photo print orders to your local Walgreens store in USA right within the SnapsBoard app.

Chicago introduced a tax last summer on streaming and cloud-based services.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/7...

Sure, I'll buy that, yeah , alrightythen.

Further, users who had enabled the "Ask before accept" feature have had that preference silently changed to, "Accept normally." The proffered excuse for the removal was that the feature was unmaintained, and that its users were, "probably crashing multiple times a day as a result" (although no evidence was presented to support this assertion).

So, basically Firefox has decided to permanently become a steaming pile of shit, and they focus on interface designs and features nobody cares about, while ignoring the features which made us use it in the first place?

You know, a lean standard compliant browser which allowed us control over our privacy and security? The things we actually want out of it.

Removing that feature is fucking moronic, because it allowed us to say "yes, I trust this site and they can set cookies, but all these sites can piss off, never ask me again".

Basically Firefox is now suffering from the Open Source feature rot ... if nobody is maintaining it, it's because it's not a shiny feature, which means it gets neglected.

I've used this feature for years, and it has NEVER caused a browser crash, not once. Silently saying "sure, go ahead, set all the cookies you want, we don't care" is a bullshit outcome from an organization which has become far too focused on shiny baubles instead of maintaining the good pieces in there.

Over the last bunch of years I'm more or less forced to conclude that the Mozilla foundation has lost the plot of what we wanted out of that browser in the first place.

OK, folks, so what's the best cookie manager plugin for Firefox? Because for those of us who run multiple browsers for multiple purposes with different levels of security and the like, the options seem to keep dwindling.

I have to say, it seems like Mozilla is just running themselves into the ground, and are jumping from one thing to another ... apparently now it's killing off Firefox OS and jumping into IoT.

Sorry Mozilla, you act like you're driven by marketing idiots with ADHD these days. Pathetic.