Just think about it, twice a year we'll be getting these new and improved versions that are major O/S upgrades. I'm really done with Win 10, it's time to relegate it to a VM for those things that absolutely require Windows, everything else is on Linux including Host O/S that doesn't necessitate this twice yearly PITA.
Please define personal information. In the age of everything connected, facial recognition, cell phone always on what's personal. We've voluntarily given up the right to a sense of person and privacy. Facebook takes this to the evil extreme linking you location to your preferences for profiling making your privacy and your personal information their property. you don't have to tell them anything. I for one welcome this kind of ruling but Facebook is the tip of the iceberg and once companies realized that they can go beyond their modest data collection interests what's to stop any company that has a profile of you, your habits and your locations to sell or misuse it?
It's not CO2, it's you. They won't tell you this outright but you're taking up space, resources and just you being here is causing damage to the planet. Until we have reasonable population controls in place it won't matter if the temps go up 20C, we'll have the four horseman of the apocalypse sooner.
In the words of George Carlin: The planet will be fine, the people will be fucked.
All along we thought there was a shortage of women for STEM professions, there's not they've just decided to become cheerleaders. Now if we only had a way to convey this knowledge? A calendar perhaps? A Sports Illustrated special edition?
If a nation truly wants to ignore the UN, it can ignore it. The repercussions for Russia are negligible because they're on the Security Council as a permanent member, they'll veto any resolutions that have any teeth attempting to sanction them.
They shouldn't have been given any authority to manage.dev, period..dev has been used for years for local like.local*/.test et al. Since I don't use crappy Chrome I don't have an issue, besides anyone dumb enough to trust public DNS servers before their own deserves this nice FU from them. I'm sorry if I seem a bit jaded but this is another example of why this 800lb gorilla needs to be broken up.
A big multinational corporation finds a loophole that allows them to make money hand over fist? Say it isn't so?!?! How can that be? Oh yeah
1) They have huge teams of lawyers that have one job, protecting their profits and them from legal risks. 2) There are professional consulting legal firms that specialize in setting this up. 3) The tribal nations also advertise the fact and knock on company doors soliciting this kind of business. 4) Congress is bought/paid for by lobbying dollars. Shit, no congressman even writes their own legislation, lobbyists do and then they attach their name to it.
Do any of us think that what's been described here hasn't been discussed/known for decades in the halls of DC? It's not new, it's not shocking it's just business.
It's because developers always seem to, given an inch, take a mile.
Those decisions are typically above their pay grade. Some don't even know they're giving this kind of sensitive data up when they use an API that does it surreptitiously. This needs to be defined as criminal activity, simple.
Legislation, Legislation, Legislation. Yes let's worry about shit that happened 170 years ago instead of current issues where a company decides capriciously that where you are, what you do and who you communicate with belongs to them. Way to go Congress!
Infrastructure costs money. That's how politicians get greased, streets get paved and licensed monopolies come into being. Public good, improving service have nothing to do with that so they're all secondary to how much can they charge for it.
Obviously, costs exceeded expected revenue in this case.
Legislation on consumer devices and software needs to be enacted to prevent this stuff from happening. Until then, intelligent firewalls, leaving devices "unplugged" and rigorous use of privacy settings are the only defense.
I'm not sure I agree with all you've indicated. If I'm an employee for a Federal Agency, doing my job and not at a senate confirmation level then my information should be redacted in FOIA. If there's criminal issues, the DOJ and Judicial process has ways of extracting that. The current Judicial Watch lawsuits are showing how that works. Are agencies deliberately blocking FOIA? I think in a lot of cases, yes especially when it deals with some high profile political issues, IRS, State Dept. but that's why we have a process and courts. As far as information the gov't is collecting on us, there is a political process to address that. It's called an election. If people in this country don't like how things are being run they have the ballot box and SCOTUS has affirmed in numerous cases that certain decisions are political and that requires the people to elect representatives who do what the people want. Does that work? Not in practice when almost 80% of congress is re-elected every election. That's where the corruption comes in, the obstruction, the pay to play, the runaway spending, legislation getting passed w/o reading it. FOIA wasn't meant to be a cure all for people sitting on their asses and not voting and holding elected officials accountable.
As for the FBI, shit who cares? The DHS has my fingerprints & my background and that's so I can fly on an airplane. Does it violate 4th amendment? I'd say yes but SCOTUS has said "we're good with it" the laws haven't changed and until then we're all getting tracked one way or another because "terrorists"
I've worked with a few Federal agencies and watched how much time is spent on FOIA requests. It takes a lot of effort to get some of the data together and along with the approval process, i.e., "Will this compromise any ongoing operations? Does it need redaction based on PII and other rules? Where is the data?" Then there's the approval of the response which always has to be reviewed by Lawyers, discussed in triplicate and then dispatched to the requester. Some agencies have huge departments just dedicated to handling FOIA requests and even with that I've seen them impact day to day operations where front line management has to deal with data collection and validation as well.
To a point, FOIA is a great law and I think it's definitely opened up the inner workings of gov't. A lot of this would go away if the gov't was more transparent to begin with especially in matters not dealing in PII/4th amendment issues (Tax Returns for individuals) or national security. I do think some FOIA requests are fishing expeditions and in all cases the costs should be paid for by the requester. It's also not applied uniformly across all agencies and while the National Park Service may respond quickly, the DoD or DOJ may take years or in the case of the IRS or State Department might get derailed altogether.
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More Chrome nonsense. Don't use it, don't want it and never recommend it.
More data going to Google, more walled garden.
No Thanks.
Cut & Paste, All your base are belong to us.
Just think about it, twice a year we'll be getting these new and improved versions that are major O/S upgrades. I'm really done with Win 10, it's time to relegate it to a VM for those things that absolutely require Windows, everything else is on Linux including Host O/S that doesn't necessitate this twice yearly PITA.
If it was take the money and run or bananas then you'd be onto something ðYZ
Please define personal information. In the age of everything connected, facial recognition, cell phone always on what's personal. We've voluntarily given up the right
to a sense of person and privacy. Facebook takes this to the evil extreme linking you location to your preferences for profiling making your privacy and your personal information their property. you don't have to tell them anything.
I for one welcome this kind of ruling but Facebook is the tip of the iceberg and once companies realized that they can go beyond their modest data collection interests what's to stop any company that has a profile of you, your habits and your locations to sell or misuse it?
"I refuse to join any club that will have me as a member." - Groucho Marx
At least the NSA won't be able to use those exploits anymore.
It's not CO2, it's you. They won't tell you this outright but you're taking up space, resources and just you being here is causing damage to the planet. Until we have reasonable population controls in place it won't matter if the temps go up 20C, we'll have the four horseman of the apocalypse sooner.
In the words of George Carlin: The planet will be fine, the people will be fucked.
The Chinese version will be available in 2032, they'll just steal the plans and paint a red star on it.
All along we thought there was a shortage of women for STEM professions, there's not they've just decided to become cheerleaders. Now if we only had a way to convey this knowledge? A calendar perhaps? A Sports Illustrated special edition?
If a nation truly wants to ignore the UN, it can ignore it. The repercussions for Russia are negligible because they're on the Security Council as a permanent member, they'll veto any resolutions that have any teeth attempting to sanction them.
Since when is a tatt a binding legal document?
They shouldn't have been given any authority to manage .dev, period. .dev has been used for years for local like .local*/.test et al. Since I don't use crappy Chrome I don't have an issue, besides anyone dumb enough to trust public DNS servers before their own deserves this nice FU from them. I'm sorry if I seem a bit jaded but this is another example of why this 800lb gorilla needs to be broken up.
Oh yeah, before I forget.
Fuck Google, fuck *their* rules, period.
Don't forget all the commercial tools that allow enterprises to snoop on traffic using TLS, e.g., WebSense
Yeah, right.
Fuck Google, Fuck Chrome, Fuck Walled Garden nonsense.
+1 mod this up.
A big multinational corporation finds a loophole that allows them to make money hand over fist? Say it isn't so?!?! How can that be? Oh yeah
1) They have huge teams of lawyers that have one job, protecting their profits and them from legal risks.
2) There are professional consulting legal firms that specialize in setting this up.
3) The tribal nations also advertise the fact and knock on company doors soliciting this kind of business.
4) Congress is bought/paid for by lobbying dollars. Shit, no congressman even writes their own legislation, lobbyists do and then they attach their name to
it.
Do any of us think that what's been described here hasn't been discussed/known for decades in the halls of DC? It's not new, it's not shocking it's just business.
It's because developers always seem to, given an inch, take a mile.
Those decisions are typically above their pay grade. Some don't even know they're giving this kind of sensitive data up when they use an API that does it surreptitiously. This needs to be defined as criminal activity, simple.
Legislation, Legislation, Legislation. Yes let's worry about shit that happened 170 years ago instead of current issues where a company decides capriciously that where you are, what you do and who you communicate with belongs to them. Way to go Congress!
Infrastructure costs money. That's how politicians get greased, streets get paved and licensed monopolies come into being. Public good, improving service have nothing to do with that so they're all secondary to how much can they charge for it.
Obviously, costs exceeded expected revenue in this case.
Best Buy sales people are the new Fuller Brush Men..
No Thanks, if I don't shop in their stores why would I want them at my door?
And Accuweather and others. You're the product!
Legislation on consumer devices and software needs to be enacted to prevent this stuff from happening. Until then, intelligent firewalls, leaving devices "unplugged" and rigorous use of privacy settings are the only defense.
I'm not sure I agree with all you've indicated. If I'm an employee for a Federal Agency, doing my job and not at a senate confirmation level then my information should be redacted in FOIA. If there's criminal issues, the DOJ and Judicial process has ways of extracting that. The current Judicial Watch lawsuits are showing how that works. Are agencies deliberately blocking FOIA? I think in a lot of cases, yes especially when it deals with some high profile political issues, IRS, State Dept. but that's why we have a process and courts. As far as information the gov't is collecting on us, there is a political process to address that. It's called an election.
If people in this country don't like how things are being run they have the ballot box and SCOTUS has affirmed in numerous cases that certain decisions are political and that requires the people to elect representatives who do what the people want. Does that work? Not in practice when almost 80% of congress is re-elected every election. That's where the corruption comes in, the obstruction, the pay to play, the runaway spending, legislation getting passed w/o reading it. FOIA wasn't meant to be a cure all for people sitting on their asses and not voting and holding elected officials accountable.
As for the FBI, shit who cares? The DHS has my fingerprints & my background and that's so I can fly on an airplane. Does it violate 4th amendment? I'd say yes but SCOTUS has said "we're good with it" the laws haven't changed and until then we're all getting tracked one way or another because "terrorists"
"Simple FOIA Request?" There's no such thing.
I've worked with a few Federal agencies and watched how much time is spent on FOIA requests. It takes a lot of effort to get some of the data together and along with the approval process, i.e., "Will this compromise any ongoing operations? Does it need redaction based on PII and other rules? Where is the data?" Then there's the approval of the response which always has to be reviewed by Lawyers, discussed in triplicate and then dispatched to the requester. Some agencies have huge departments just dedicated to handling FOIA requests and even with that I've seen them impact day to day operations where front line management has to deal with data collection and validation as well.
To a point, FOIA is a great law and I think it's definitely opened up the inner workings of gov't. A lot of this would go away if the gov't was more transparent to begin with especially in matters not dealing in PII/4th amendment issues (Tax Returns for individuals) or national security. I do think some FOIA requests are fishing expeditions and in all cases the costs should be paid for by the requester. It's also not applied uniformly across all agencies and while the National Park Service may respond quickly, the DoD or DOJ may take years or in the case of the IRS or State Department might get derailed altogether.
Another great solution looking for a problem to solve.