This is a nice little gem from the International version of their ToS that clearly exemplifies my point about understanding the legal aspects. ( http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/ )
The laws of California, U.S.A., excluding California’s conflict of laws rules, will apply to any disputes arising out of or relating to these terms or the Services. All claims arising out of or relating to these terms or the Services will be litigated exclusively in the federal or state courts of Santa Clara County, California, USA, and you and Google consent to personal jurisdiction in those courts.
So even if I am very well versed in the laws of my country that is of of no use for me to determine if it would even be worth the effort to start a litigation, as even if I would have good grounds in my home country that might not be the case in California.
I give you that as far as Terms of Service and Privacy Policy go Google have done an unusually good job on keeping it understandable, I haven't read the thing for about 8 years so it is possible that I remembered it wrong or that it since then have been simplified. However, that being said that does not alter the fact that many if not most people are unable to understand the legal implications nor the technical aspects in regards to privacy and how Google effectively track and store pretty much everything you do while logged in to their services and how limited your control over what is done with this data really are.
As far as the ability of the French to read and comprehend the ToS go, I doubt that they have greater difficulty to than the average US citizen but as I'm not French I am not able to comment on this and while I am fluent in 4 languages French is not one of them so that version would have done me little good had you taken the effort to dig it up.
This seems like a dig for France to extort money more than anything else.
Are you actually serious and believe the 5th largest economy in the world spend more money in legal costs alone than they ever will recuperate from fines just so they can extort Google out of 150K? I normally refrain from insulting people but will make an exception in your case as you just displayed a level of intelligence that genuinely make me wonder how many chromosomes you are equipped with.
What about the fact that everyone using Google Already Consented?
As in consented to a legalese riddled EULA that only a small minority understand and an even smaller group ever read, wherein Google reserve the right to change the conditions at any time, right? That people have consented in the legal meaning of the word doesn't mean that they ultimately know or understand how much of their privacy they have given away for the dubious benefit of becoming Google's product.
Likely that would be about as effective with rats as it is with dogs, i.e. not at all. What might work is to use urine from an animal that prey on rats, ferrets in particular come to mind as they are extraordinarily efficient on hunting rodents and therefore it would make sense that rats have an instinctive fear of them.
"Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany.
Unfortunately there is a billion dollar industry that do want war and combined with the all too prevalent revolving door politics little will change for the better anytime soon.
Pfft that's nothing compared to Sabine Moreau whose 90 mile trip became a 800 mile trip due to a combination of stupidity and GPS.
We need to get something out of the way.
Croatia is not Belgium. Neither is it in Belgium. Nor was it ever, in some strange historical time before America existed, Belgian in any way.
This does not seem to have prevented a Belgian lady from trusting her GPS enough to end up in Zagreb, Croatia's capital, when she was actually trying to go 90 miles from her home in Hainault Erquelinnes to Brussels.
Both, remarkably, are in Belgium. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57563958-71/gps-sends-belgian-woman-to-croatia-810-miles-out-of-her-way/
Stupidity is universal and not limited to users of any specific brand. But if you really want to have a cheap shot at iPhone users I'd recommend that you aim at the ones that fell for the waterproof iOS 7 prank and sent their devices to an early demise as at least this one is brand specific (for now) in difference from GPS fuck ups caused by ignorant drivers since the first GPS hit the market.
Belgium is in possession of 10-20 nuclear warhead under the NATO nuclear weapons sharing program.
NATO's Central Command is in Belgium.
The European Commssion is in Belgium.
The second largest container port in Europe is in Belgium.
Europe's second largest chemical plant is BASF in Belgium where they also have the HQ for their own banking operation which have enough financial power to influence currency exchange rates of a country by dumping for example the SEK.
Many of the worlds best beers are brewed in Belgium.
I hope for your sake that the there's truth to Thomas Gray's words "ignorance is bliss"
This is what I got when I went to download the trial of Cobalt Strike:
Due to United States export control requirements, we can not make Cobalt Strike available for download to your country yet. Please accept our apologies--we're very actively working on this.
IIt's likely that a fair amount of those using cracked versions are doing so as they cannot get a legitimate copy without jumping through hoops and potentially end up on all kinds of watchlists in the process, that make his move of detailing on how to backdoor the software for malware distribution a bit of an asshat move.
If the tracks are continuously mixed by a DJ for MoS (very common), there could be a claim that they have some rights to that compilation.
The closest to that you can get with a playlist is auto fade of the songs in the same order which is not even close to the original mix if it's done by a DJ.
"What we do is a lot more than putting playlists together: a lot of research goes into creating our compilation albums"
Ouch! My sides are hurting from laughing after reading that.
Seriously, how much research does selecting a a number of Top 100 chart songs that aren't too dissimilar really involve that make it so vastly different from the mixtapes many of us made back in the days?
how on earth is psychology not a science? You start with a hypothesis, you then collect data as it relates to your hypothesis (observation and experiment), then you analyze the data to see if your hypothesis holds water. Other people run similar exeriment and affirm or dispute your results...
That is a crude simplification of the definition of science. Misunderstandings such as yours on the definition of science is what allow creationists sell their ideology to Joe Public under the disguise of it being scientific.
So now you're assuming such people also have a list of your credit card purchases
Many businesses would have, yes. In the case of chain retailers, restaurants an so forth it would be quite a simple feat to match up your personal data with the MAC address of your device.
that you always use a credit card and it's always the same one
Why would that be necessary? it would be enough to match credit card X with Device Y on just 10 different occasions to with quite a high degree of certainty determine who device Y belong to. If a second credit (or debit) card with the same owner likewise can be correlated with device Y then the degree of certainty would of whom the device belong to would increase, not decrease as you suggest?
my wife and I often use the same card which means the MAC address correlation fails
Really? "Memari said he was working on a proposal for a bar that would install five tracking devices: one by the entrance, one on the roof, one near the cash register, and one in each of the bathrooms. That would allow the bar to know each person’s gender (from the bathroom trackers), how long they stay ("dwell time" is the official metric), and what they were there for (a drink outside or a meal inside). And targeted advertising for the pub could follow those people around London on Renew’s omniscient recycling bins." Source
And then you also have the fact that most people turn over their phones at 2 years max
I am tempted to ask for a citation on that but won't as statistics probably vary quite a lot from country to country on this. But even if the average turnover of devices is 2 years as you write it would have little effect as once your credit card usage cease to correlate with the MAC address it is just a matter of doing a rinse and repeat of Steps 1 and 2.
the question of 'Why?' still stands
Because; Marketing, PRISM, XKeyscore, NSA, GCHQ, FSM take your pick.
1. Record time and place of a handful of your credit card purchases.
2. Run a search for all MAC addresses that were at these locations within a set time frame and find the one that pop up at each one.
3. ?
4. Profit!
Copyrights are not unlimited in any major country that I know of. Can you specify contract are you talking about that makes it ok for you to break the law if, in your opinion, the duration of copyright is too long?
While not unlimited US copyright is definitely long enough to be viewed as such as most works created today will be under copyright way past your and my lifetime:
As a general rule, for works created after January 1, 1978, copyright protection lasts for the life of the author plus an additional 70 years. For an anonymous work, a pseudonymous work, or a work made for hire, the copyright endures for a term of 95 years from the year of its first publication or a term of 120 years from the year of its creation, whichever expires first. http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-duration.html
It should be obvious to anyone including the most hardcore defenders of the current model for whose benefit these asinine copyright terms have been put in place.
Pro tip: It is not for the benefit of the creators.
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The laws of California, U.S.A., excluding California’s conflict of laws rules, will apply to any disputes arising out of or relating to these terms or the Services. All claims arising out of or relating to these terms or the Services will be litigated exclusively in the federal or state courts of Santa Clara County, California, USA, and you and Google consent to personal jurisdiction in those courts.
So even if I am very well versed in the laws of my country that is of of no use for me to determine if it would even be worth the effort to start a litigation, as even if I would have good grounds in my home country that might not be the case in California.
I give you that as far as Terms of Service and Privacy Policy go Google have done an unusually good job on keeping it understandable, I haven't read the thing for about 8 years so it is possible that I remembered it wrong or that it since then have been simplified. However, that being said that does not alter the fact that many if not most people are unable to understand the legal implications nor the technical aspects in regards to privacy and how Google effectively track and store pretty much everything you do while logged in to their services and how limited your control over what is done with this data really are.
As far as the ability of the French to read and comprehend the ToS go, I doubt that they have greater difficulty to than the average US citizen but as I'm not French I am not able to comment on this and while I am fluent in 4 languages French is not one of them so that version would have done me little good had you taken the effort to dig it up.
This seems like a dig for France to extort money more than anything else.
Are you actually serious and believe the 5th largest economy in the world spend more money in legal costs alone than they ever will recuperate from fines just so they can extort Google out of 150K? I normally refrain from insulting people but will make an exception in your case as you just displayed a level of intelligence that genuinely make me wonder how many chromosomes you are equipped with.
What about the fact that everyone using Google Already Consented?
As in consented to a legalese riddled EULA that only a small minority understand and an even smaller group ever read, wherein Google reserve the right to change the conditions at any time, right? That people have consented in the legal meaning of the word doesn't mean that they ultimately know or understand how much of their privacy they have given away for the dubious benefit of becoming Google's product.
Google do not offer a single essential service that cannot be replaced by another provider.
Likely that would be about as effective with rats as it is with dogs, i.e. not at all. What might work is to use urine from an animal that prey on rats, ferrets in particular come to mind as they are extraordinarily efficient on hunting rodents and therefore it would make sense that rats have an instinctive fear of them.
"Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany.
Unfortunately there is a billion dollar industry that do want war and combined with the all too prevalent revolving door politics little will change for the better anytime soon.
We need to get something out of the way. Croatia is not Belgium. Neither is it in Belgium. Nor was it ever, in some strange historical time before America existed, Belgian in any way. This does not seem to have prevented a Belgian lady from trusting her GPS enough to end up in Zagreb, Croatia's capital, when she was actually trying to go 90 miles from her home in Hainault Erquelinnes to Brussels. Both, remarkably, are in Belgium. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57563958-71/gps-sends-belgian-woman-to-croatia-810-miles-out-of-her-way/
Stupidity is universal and not limited to users of any specific brand. But if you really want to have a cheap shot at iPhone users I'd recommend that you aim at the ones that fell for the waterproof iOS 7 prank and sent their devices to an early demise as at least this one is brand specific (for now) in difference from GPS fuck ups caused by ignorant drivers since the first GPS hit the market.
On second thought, that would be a horrid act of animal cruelty.
But not as fun as televised (reality show format) deportation to Ilha da Queimada Grande
A couple of reasons that many do care:
Belgium is in possession of 10-20 nuclear warhead under the NATO nuclear weapons sharing program.
NATO's Central Command is in Belgium.
The European Commssion is in Belgium.
The second largest container port in Europe is in Belgium.
Europe's second largest chemical plant is BASF in Belgium where they also have the HQ for their own banking operation which have enough financial power to influence currency exchange rates of a country by dumping for example the SEK.
Many of the worlds best beers are brewed in Belgium.
I hope for your sake that the there's truth to Thomas Gray's words "ignorance is bliss"
Due to United States export control requirements, we can not make Cobalt Strike available for download to your country yet. Please accept our apologies--we're very actively working on this.
IIt's likely that a fair amount of those using cracked versions are doing so as they cannot get a legitimate copy without jumping through hoops and potentially end up on all kinds of watchlists in the process, that make his move of detailing on how to backdoor the software for malware distribution a bit of an asshat move.
I don't know what the pay is but the retirement package is 72 virgins.
If the tracks are continuously mixed by a DJ for MoS (very common), there could be a claim that they have some rights to that compilation.
The closest to that you can get with a playlist is auto fade of the songs in the same order which is not even close to the original mix if it's done by a DJ.
"What we do is a lot more than putting playlists together: a lot of research goes into creating our compilation albums"
Ouch! My sides are hurting from laughing after reading that.
Seriously, how much research does selecting a a number of Top 100 chart songs that aren't too dissimilar really involve that make it so vastly different from the mixtapes many of us made back in the days?
how on earth is psychology not a science? You start with a hypothesis, you then collect data as it relates to your hypothesis (observation and experiment), then you analyze the data to see if your hypothesis holds water. Other people run similar exeriment and affirm or dispute your results...
That is a crude simplification of the definition of science. Misunderstandings such as yours on the definition of science is what allow creationists sell their ideology to Joe Public under the disguise of it being scientific.
Fool me once..
Kinect is known (not just presumed) to have the best movement detection framework in the gaming industry.
Which matters very little when Kinect can completely ruin your gaming experience as it did with Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor
I take it you mean Sony, though I don't recall which scenario you meant in particular since they'd done a lot of garbage in the past.
cbhacking probably refer to the removal of the PS3 feature otherOS that were disabled with a firmware update.
He used a Xerox
So now you're assuming such people also have a list of your credit card purchases
Many businesses would have, yes. In the case of chain retailers, restaurants an so forth it would be quite a simple feat to match up your personal data with the MAC address of your device.
that you always use a credit card and it's always the same one
Why would that be necessary? it would be enough to match credit card X with Device Y on just 10 different occasions to with quite a high degree of certainty determine who device Y belong to. If a second credit (or debit) card with the same owner likewise can be correlated with device Y then the degree of certainty would of whom the device belong to would increase, not decrease as you suggest?
my wife and I often use the same card which means the MAC address correlation fails
Really? "Memari said he was working on a proposal for a bar that would install five tracking devices: one by the entrance, one on the roof, one near the cash register, and one in each of the bathrooms. That would allow the bar to know each person’s gender (from the bathroom trackers), how long they stay ("dwell time" is the official metric), and what they were there for (a drink outside or a meal inside). And targeted advertising for the pub could follow those people around London on Renew’s omniscient recycling bins." Source
And then you also have the fact that most people turn over their phones at 2 years max
I am tempted to ask for a citation on that but won't as statistics probably vary quite a lot from country to country on this. But even if the average turnover of devices is 2 years as you write it would have little effect as once your credit card usage cease to correlate with the MAC address it is just a matter of doing a rinse and repeat of Steps 1 and 2.
the question of 'Why?' still stands
Because; Marketing, PRISM, XKeyscore, NSA, GCHQ, FSM take your pick.
1. Record time and place of a handful of your credit card purchases.
2. Run a search for all MAC addresses that were at these locations within a set time frame and find the one that pop up at each one.
3. ?
4. Profit!
Cabin Fever 2.0, based on a true story.
EZTV should have their DNS servers point to SKY's IP addresses and sit back and watch as hilarity ensues.
Copyrights are not unlimited in any major country that I know of. Can you specify contract are you talking about that makes it ok for you to break the law if, in your opinion, the duration of copyright is too long?
While not unlimited US copyright is definitely long enough to be viewed as such as most works created today will be under copyright way past your and my lifetime:
As a general rule, for works created after January 1, 1978, copyright protection lasts for the life of the author plus an additional 70 years. For an anonymous work, a pseudonymous work, or a work made for hire, the copyright endures for a term of 95 years from the year of its first publication or a term of 120 years from the year of its creation, whichever expires first. http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-duration.html
It should be obvious to anyone including the most hardcore defenders of the current model for whose benefit these asinine copyright terms have been put in place.
Pro tip: It is not for the benefit of the creators.