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Well, nobody asked for Amazon Prime, either.

Jeff Bezos: Nobody asked for one of our most popular services

WhatsApp is owned by Facebook. It's encryption is a joke when the right people are asked nicely, hence the "using techniques that 'cannot be disclosed for security reasons.' What they mean is they can't tell you how they did it because it would look REALLY bad if people realized how stupid it is to put your faith in a company that specializes in profiling and biometric data collection; https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/g.... If you're using WhatsApp on Google anything (Android, Chrome, etc.), you're in even worse shape because it's Google for Christ's sake. Remember Dirty COW? Google waited until after the election to fix it while every other Linux-based OS did months ahead of them.

But anyway, Facebook also invests huge amounts of money into cloud computing and AI. That combination one day will make all encryption and anonymity useless because we will all be digitally fingerprinted whether you have an account or not, especially if quantum computing advances, and you can assume your government will get a copy, just like they get copies of your DNA when you fall for the "fun and easy" TV advertised "ancestry" services. This "profile" is going to replace social security numbers. If you want real encryption (at least for now), use Signal (similar to Telegram but better) or a Tox client (similar to OpenVPN but for messaging). More importantly, use your brain. Both are free and open source and support text, talk, video, and file sharing. I would never use anything that important that I couldn't look at the code for. If you could look at WhatsApp's source code, I think security researchers would be horrified. And, Facebook gets caught spying on their mobile app all the time, so I don't see how WhatsApp would be any different. And just because a lot of people use it, doesn't make it the best. Matter of fact, that would make more of a target.

• https://finance.yahoo.com/news...
• https://www.theregister.co.uk/...
• https://www.thememo.com/2017/0...
• https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...
• https://www.pcworld.com/articl...

Some of the above links are kind of old, but note the ISP one. Legally, your internet service provider in the U.S. can sell your browsing information. Because of this, intelligence agencies can just purchase your data for cheap rather than getting a warrant and paying a government employee to waste their time. I'm mentioning ISP because Facebook has been trying for over a year now to bring the Internet to all kinds of places. They would become an "Internet Service Provider." In any case, if the app has an advertisement, you can be tracked.

The real note to take away from this is to realize data can be created and never destroyed and don't put anything on the internet you don't want found. I wish people would realize privacy settings are a joke; they only protect you from the average person. Anytime you see "convenient" or "secure" for a service, just assume it's complete BS because your government doesn't have the time or resources to actually physically search and seize everyone so they have software for it, contrary to "Martial Law" conspiracies; cloud computing makes it easier.

And since this news regarding terrorism, do you know why it was so hard to find Osama? It's because so far as we know, the most technologically advanced thing he ever personally used was a kidney dialysis machine or the Cold War weapons the U.S. gave him. The wor

Now, you can argue that some other CEO would have done better, or that the main reason for Yahoo!'s success under her tenure was the decision to invest in Alibaba, made by her predecessor, but speculation about what someone else might have done is unproductive, and she decided to stay with that investment.

I think you may have forgotten the details of this event where she sold 1/2 of their Alibaba shares to provide the funding for the turn-around attempt.

She also tried hard to create a tax-free sell/spinoff the rest of the Alibaba investment to Yahoo investors via an ill fated Aabaco manuever, but that didn't happen and what resulted in the end was Yahoo itself was sold off to Verizon leaving the shares Altaba (aka RemainCo which is Yahoo's remaining investments in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan essentially forever tied together in a under-performing tracking stock).

Meanwhile, the uncertainty of this ill-fated tax-free spin-off attempt clobbered most of the remaining value for shareholders until the sale. I'm not so sure this whole episode qualifies as a success under most metrics...

A better outcome (maybe it could be called successful) would be if she had executed the Aabaco tax-free sell/spinoff of the Alibaba shares to investors something that she didn't pull the trigger on even though most tax advisers thought it would work and provide the best stockholder value.

They really really struggled during The Great Recession. Come on people have a heart. Take pity on these poor souls, just look at their stock performance over the past 10 years:

Comcast
AT&T

We really should have a social safety net for these little guys. Whaddya say folks? Have a heart!

They really really struggled during The Great Recession. Come on people have a heart. Take pity on these poor souls, just look at their stock performance over the past 10 years:

Comcast
AT&T

We really should have a social safety net for these little guys. Whaddya say folks? Have a heart!

I'm glad someone posts this offtopic shit, because I wouldn't have otherwise known about it.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/thr...

Meanwhile, the fucking lie is this http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/18/...

So, please elucidate how CNN has "swept this under the rug.

I'm glad someone posts this offtopic shit, because I wouldn't have otherwise known about it.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/thr...

A gunman with an apparent dislike of white people and government killed three people in downtown Fresno, California, on Tuesday, before he was taken into custody while shouting "Allahu Akhbar," police said.

The suspect, identified as 39-year-old Kori Ali Muhammad, was also wanted in connection with the fatal shooting last week of an unarmed security guard at a Motel 6 in Fresno, Police Chief Jerry Dyer told reporters at a press conference.

Dyer said Muhammad fired at least 16 rounds in less than a minute at four downtown Fresno locations at about 10:45 a.m. local time before he was spotted running through the streets by a police officer.

"Immediately upon the individual seeing the officer he literally dove onto the ground and was taken into custody and as he was taken into custody he yelled out 'Allahu Akhbar,'" Dyer said. The term means "God is great" in Arabic.

"He does not like white people," Dyer said, citing the black suspect's statements after being arrested and his Facebook postings. At least two of his victims were white.

The air strip was not destroyed.

It was operational in 24 hours.

https://www.google.com/search?q=pussy+hat

Let's just hope it stops at hats.

Ford. Price to Earnings ratio of 9.95, Earnings per share of 1.15. Revenue of $151.8 billion in 2016.

Tesla. Price to Earnings ratio of -63.79 (they lost money). Earnings per share of -4.68 (Tesla lost 4x more per share than Ford made). Revenue of $7 billion in 2016.

Basically, for Tesla to be priced where it is (assuming a "reasonable" P/E ratio of 10), you're betting that its earnings are going to reach $16 billion/yr. If you go by the average 5% profit margin for major automakers, this means you expect Tesla to become a $320 billion/yr revenue company. Or the third biggest company in the world after Walmart and China's national power company.

Good luck with that bet. The Chevy Bolt has set a really high bar for the Tesla Model 3 to meet. If you're one of those people expecting the Model 3 to give you Model S quality and features at a Bolt price, you're going to be in for a major disappointment.

Ford. Price to Earnings ratio of 9.95, Earnings per share of 1.15. Revenue of $151.8 billion in 2016.

Tesla. Price to Earnings ratio of -63.79 (they lost money). Earnings per share of -4.68 (Tesla lost 4x more per share than Ford made). Revenue of $7 billion in 2016.

Basically, for Tesla to be priced where it is (assuming a "reasonable" P/E ratio of 10), you're betting that its earnings are going to reach $16 billion/yr. If you go by the average 5% profit margin for major automakers, this means you expect Tesla to become a $320 billion/yr revenue company. Or the third biggest company in the world after Walmart and China's national power company.

Good luck with that bet. The Chevy Bolt has set a really high bar for the Tesla Model 3 to meet. If you're one of those people expecting the Model 3 to give you Model S quality and features at a Bolt price, you're going to be in for a major disappointment.

Ford. Price to Earnings ratio of 9.95, Earnings per share of 1.15. Revenue of $151.8 billion in 2016.

Tesla. Price to Earnings ratio of -63.79 (they lost money). Earnings per share of -4.68 (Tesla lost 4x more per share than Ford made). Revenue of $7 billion in 2016.

Basically, for Tesla to be priced where it is (assuming a "reasonable" P/E ratio of 10), you're betting that its earnings are going to reach $16 billion/yr. If you go by the average 5% profit margin for major automakers, this means you expect Tesla to become a $320 billion/yr revenue company. Or the third biggest company in the world after Walmart and China's national power company.

Good luck with that bet. The Chevy Bolt has set a really high bar for the Tesla Model 3 to meet. If you're one of those people expecting the Model 3 to give you Model S quality and features at a Bolt price, you're going to be in for a major disappointment.

From a website called "Cover32", via Yahoo's front page crawl.

This is the future that the 99% will live in: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/sing...

Some are already there.

It includes LAN play according to the trailer.

What the hell are you reading? Or do you just open your mouth and let whatever pops into your head spew out of your mouth?

https://esports.yahoo.com/star...

Congratulations. You know when people talk about signal-to-noise ratio in forums? You're officially noise.

Windows 10 default security features, such as this keystroke logger, make it unsuitable for many uses. This operating system clearly violates HIPAA and FERPA in the United States.

Tax Corporation Revenues, Not Profits; http://news.yahoo.com/warren-b...

And when Lord Dampnut ends the Meals on Wheels (created by Republican Eisenhower by the way) and starves your granny to death - I'm sure that will make you feel so much better.

No, I'm not exagerating, The Orange Fuhrer's latest budget proposal includes complete defunding of both meals on wheels and food for peace.

And lo and behold, Meals on Wheels reports that they've seen a 500 percent increase in donations after the budget announcement.

Thank you fellow Americans for proving we don't need daddy government to do everything for us. And a big fuck you to progressives like silentcoder who whine and virtue signal without lifting a god damn finger for those in need.

Trump's LIE is the issue and guess what?
Your LIES about Sweden being "overrun" came from a fraud!

Amazon was profitable in 2015 and 2016. http://finance.yahoo.com/quote...

The safety and security of the homeland trumps your so called privacy every time

Maybe, it would have if it actually helped. But it is so trivial for anyone to bypass the entire problem — such as by resetting their phone when the plane is landing and restoring from the cloud after checking-in to their hotel — that no terrorist will be thwarted by this.

If any, the safety gain will be temporarily while the lost liberty — substantial. Do the words I just used remind you of a quote by one of the Founding Fathers? They better...

STAY HOME.

During Obama's last fiscal year, the practice quintupled — and is targeting not only foreigners, but US citizens as well. Surrendering your privacy to a random guard's unfounded suspicions or hunches shall not be a condition for returning home.

I've repeatedly pointed out that they seem to ignore emails to "abuse@yahoo.com", and if you're a non-Yahoo recipient of spam from the Yahoo domain you have to surf out to this incredibly complex URL, manually separate the message header from the body and solve a CAPTCHA to report it. They may not be getting paid directly by the spammers, but the web traffic a spammer creates to use a compromised account web page to kick off a PHP-based spam campaign from Yahoo's email domain looks good on the books. It's evidence that Yahoo's hosted web servers and Yahoo's hosted email solution are heavily used and relevant. The fact that they aren't really something Yahoo can monetize doesn't get mentioned, just "Hey, look how relevant we are!".

You know, Hotmail (and presumably Live email) also impose a "ninety day cooloff" period on account cancellations. Hotmail/Live at least accept and act on emails sent to their abuse address, while Yahoo doesn't.

According to their Help articles they purge inactive accounts anyway:

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN2...

The Tesla already accelerates faster than the Veyron.

Imagine the carnage if they build a ludicrous mode into the "consumer-level" Model 3... damned thing should be hooked to a breathalyzer device - and an IQ test.

While it would be likely in this Tesla crash, in Walker's crash there was another aggravating factor: aged tires. Nine-year-old tires on a high-performance car are a recipe for disaster.

Citation needed.

Here ya go .

That would be the CIA/NSA, not DHS. Surveillance of US citizens requires a warrant, assuming that Obama followed the law on that for the last 8 years (all indications are he ignored the Muslim community, opting instead to investigate reporters who didn't carry his water: https://www.yahoo.com/news/blo... ). Surveillance on the rest of the world is open season and the purview of the CIA and NSA, but at the direction of the president. Since Obama hated the idea of US supremacy and actively tried to make the US just another global citizen, pretty sure we don't have anything that is less than 8 years old on 99.99% of the world population.

You are right that we have a long history of people crying wolf. As part of a course on the policy and ethical implications of AI, I am teaching the history of Luddite reactions from the printing press to the more recent robotic "revolution". Even recently with ATMs, there was a prediction of fewer branches and tellers which did not happen. So we're good right? Well...

Unfortunately, there is one thing that should stand out as being potentially different this time -- in previous instances of the Chicken Little scenarios, it was those who were worried about being displaced that were sounding the alarm, not those creating the technology. This time, it's the other way around. The vast majority of AI researchers, particularly in the private sector, are bullish on the elimination of most blue-collar and service jobs (even management and hedge fund investors are not safe) in the not too distant future. And if you have doubts, we have ample room to believe that the changes are not 50 years away:

• Manufacturing jobs are finally returning to North America...for robots
• Chinese factory replaces 90% of human workers with robots. Production rises by 250%, defects drop by 80%
• BBC News: Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots'
• Attention all humans of Shanghai! Robo chefs will now whip you up a bowl of ramen in 90 seconds flat
• Japanese white-collar workers are already being replaced by artificial intelligence
• Mining 24 Hours a Day with Robots
• China Has Launched the Robocops You Have Been Waiting For
• Robots are already replacing fast-food workers Trump’s pick for labor chief, the CEO of Hardee's and Carl’s Jr., likes the idea.
• Inside Silicon Valley’s Robot Pizzeria
• Fmr. McDonald's USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour
• Fast-food CEO says he's investing in machines because the government is making it difficult to afford employees

And other things to think about....

• Dallas Police Used Robot With Bomb to Kill Ambush Suspect
• Microsoft Foresees AR Tracking Your Keys, Milk, Entire Life
• White House: US Needs a Stronger Social Safety Net To Help Workers Displaced by Robots
• McKinsey's 2016 Analy

See e.g. Yahoo Finance. One of the strongest according to the article.

I'm off topic, but the worst fucking search results are the ones at Yahoo Answers like this one about a tomato.

>(You won't find them on any news site I've found, including CNN, FOX or MSNBC, but you will find a LOT of commentary about them..)

You can find the text of executive orders on several news sites. I Googled "executive order" and "text of executive order" and sites include Yahoo News, Business Insider, and The New York Times.

"Below you'll find the full text"
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pre...

"You can read the full text of the executive order below"
http://www.businessinsider.com...

"The full text can be found here"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

According to ECON101, when demand outstrips supply, the price of a good goes up.

In this case, that means wages so I decided to take a look. According to the Federal Bureau of lagor statistics, STEM salaries grew at ~2% a year from 2013-2015 nationally. Meanwhile wages for "Computer Systems Design and Related Services" grew at ~2.3 a year. Inflation last year was 2.1% so if there is a STEM shortage, it must be very small.

In comparison if you are part of the ownership class, your NASDAQ index fund grew by 50%.

Anyone else have any good numbers to back up the anecdotes?

The subject matter Is interesting, but first of all, please link to the original article, and secondly, tone down the sycophancy.

Have the claims been verified by anyone but a Yahoo reporter who knows slightly less than nothing about electrochemistry?

You also might mention that the entire thing is promotion for a NOVA special ("Search for the Superbattery") which will hopefully have more information. (trailer on YouTube.)

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

Avaya is probably 40-50% of the business phones out there and probably 90% of the phones used in call centers. There's no way they shouldn't be profitable.

And Vlasic had a huge percentage of the pickle market before it filed for bankruptcy. Market share by itself tells you nothing.

Avaya was sitting on $6 billion in debt and most recently reported $58 million in quarterly profits. Do the math.

Moody's downgraded them twice last year, from nearly the junkiest of junky junk to something a bit junkier.

The only surprising thing is that they held off the inevitable as long as they did.

The legislators' push to punish renewable energy use "clearly picks a preferred energy source regardless of cost. This may not only cost ratepayers and consumers in Wyoming, but it could harm our potential to attract new industry," Godby said.

Paywalled...... Sucks, I would have loved to read that.

Or read it on Yahoo for free.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-factories-working-again-factory-170300301.html

I'll admit, since I started aggressively using Yahoo's kludgy abuse reporting system, I'm seeing a lot less spam from the "at yahoo dot com" domain. Will this incentivize the current leadership at Yahoo! to finally fix their busted crap?

You're like, joking, right?

I'll admit, since I started aggressively using Yahoo's kludgy abuse reporting system, I'm seeing a lot less spam from the "at yahoo dot com" domain. Will this incentivize the current leadership at Yahoo! to finally fix their busted crap?

ZeniMax is seeking $2 billion in damage, which matches the value that Facebook paid for Oculus in 2014. The trial is expected to last three weeks.

If the Instagram and Whatsapp overtures are taken into account, that could loosely translate into tens of dollars.

FALSE!
The REAL reason Ford won't go to Mexico has nothing to do with Trump says Ford CEO

$256 Million! Hey, that's about 1/3 of the amount the state of New York is investing in this project!

New York state has committed $750 million to build and outfit the plant at Buffalo's RiverBend site, the centerpiece of Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's "Buffalo Billion" program to revitalize the upstate region's largest city.

To put that in perspective, they could have simply given each of the 1,400 people expected to be employed in this operation a half million dollars and still come out ahead on the deal.

Not that it is necessarily a bad investment long term, but a half million per job up front for something in this tough and competitive of a market is risky, to say the least.

Twitter's IPO price was $26 a share. After the initial climb following the IPO, it's been more or less downhill since then.

Since they didn't do any stock splits, the price of a single share is directly proportional to the entire company's valuation. So if the price of a single share is going down, that means the company's valuation is going down. Every investor should care about that.

Clearly, you haven't paid any attention to defense stocks. The link here is to a five year chart showing four major defense contractors.

https://finance.yahoo.com/char...

We are writing to inform you about a data security issue that may involve your Yahoo account information. We have taken steps to secure your account and are working closely with law enforcement.

What Happened?

Law enforcement provided Yahoo in November 2016 with data files that a third party claimed was Yahoo user data. We analyzed this data with the assistance of outside forensic experts and found that it appears to be Yahoo user data. Based on further analysis of this data by the forensic experts, we believe an unauthorized third party, in August 2013, stole data associated with a broader set of user accounts, including yours. We have not been able to identify the intrusion associated with this theft. We believe this incident is likely distinct from the incident we disclosed on September 22, 2016.

What Information Was Involved?

The stolen user account information may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords (using MD5) and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers. Not all of these data elements may have been present for your account. The investigation indicates that the stolen information did not include passwords in clear text, payment card data, or bank account information. Payment card data and bank account information are not stored in the system we believe was affected.

What We Are Doing

We are taking action to protect our users:

• We are requiring potentially affected users to change their passwords.
• We invalidated unencrypted security questions and answers so that they cannot be used to access an account.
• We continuously enhance our safeguards and systems that detect and prevent unauthorized access to user accounts.

What You Can Do

We encourage you to follow these security recommendations:

• Change your passwords and security questions and answers for any other accounts on which you used the same or similar information used for your Yahoo account.
• Review all of your accounts for suspicious activity.
• Be cautious of any unsolicited communications that ask for your personal information or refer you to a web page asking for personal information.
• Avoid clicking on links or downloading attachments from suspicious emails.

Additionally, please consider using Yahoo Account Key, a simple authentication tool that eliminates the need to use a password on Yahoo altogether.

For More Information

For more information about this issue and our security resources, please visit the Yahoo Security Issues FAQs page available at https://yahoo.com/security-upd....

  Protecting your information is important to us and we work continuously to strengthen our defenses.

  Sincerely,

  Bob Lord
  Chief Information Security Officer
  Yahoo

I wonder what they do with the abuse reports I manually submit via Yahoo's 'blessed' spam reporting site? Pretty sad that they won't just check "abuse@yahoo.com" - I wonder what happens to reports which get sent to that altogether predictable and logical address?

Cut executive salaries in half, put the savings in your hypothetical fund, and I bet you'll find it has plenty of money.

Amazon has a salary cap. No one makes more than ~$180k in salary. Perhaps you wanted a different word? In total executive compensation, the CEO made 1.6M, and one other guy made $230k. So try doing the research next time. http://finance.yahoo.com/quote...

Bezos is vastly wealthy because he founded the company and owns a non-trivial percentage of the stock. The other executives are no doubt also worth many millions, for the same reason - they held on to early stock grants. Amazons average profit per employee is ~$2600. Of course, their gross profit is much higher, but they spend most of it hiring more people, and buying servers.

All of this is public record. But you seem to prefer ignorance.

See subject: "... of the united states of america & to the REPUBLIC for which it stands, 1 nation, under God, INDIVISIBLE - with liberty & justice for ALL" - We're a Constitutional Republic specifically http://www.conservapedia.com/Constitutional_Republic/ that's being subverted by FALSE NARRATIVES like yours is due to the above!

(Jill Stein tried saying that too falsely, just like you, that we're democracy-> "If you believe in democracy, if you believe in the credibility of your victory" from https://www.yahoo.com/news/fed... )

The PROBLEM with democracy, pure democracy?

Is that 51% of folks can TAKE AWAY THE RIGHTS of 49% - & yes, that's WHY we use the Electoral College!

All per "rule of law" that constitutional republics elect officials with - it's all in the link above!

For keeping largely populated urban centers in heavily populated states from doing it. This IS what Shillary SOROS was after (soros funds BLM & wants to break the USA & has said so, he also thinks he's God, + led his own jew people into captivity & stole from them - he'd do you that way too!)

I do see our right to bear arms being assaulted, our freedom of speech too ('hate crime' bs - don't LIKE it? Don't listen... what ARE you afraid of!) in 'Free Speech Zones' (WTF? I was taught the WHOLE USA IS THAT) & so is the electoral college lately too!

WTF!

* Get RIGHT man - read the 1st link, be enlightened...

APK

P.S.=> Most folks, including BLM ones, are being PLAYED badly & yes, it's part your own faults... why? You're ignorant of FACTS - yes truth & facts - your post proves it! apk

See subject: That's what we live in under 'rule of law' (that per Hillary Benghazi email doesn't apply equally to all) & it uses electoral college so that 51% majorities don't steal the rights of 49% minorities (in other words, large population centers in cities with welfare votes Shillary SOROS Saudi Arabia was after along w/ those doing well under the present lousy results regime, especially in employment, another lawyer like her has failed in) - states get 'weights' in electoral college representation under this CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC to stop that from happening.

* AND, that IS how it REALLY WORKS, for good reasons noted above...

APK

P.S.=> I saw Jill Stein say this falsehood:

"If you believe in democracy, if you believe in the credibility of your victory, put down your arms, end your bureaucratic obstruction" FROM https://www.yahoo.com/news/fed... & NEWSFLASH TO HER & ALL THOSE WHO DO UNDERSTAND THE RULE OF LAW HERE - electoral college is HOW it works, with good reason - it's NOT a PURE democracy! apk

El oh el.