If you use a window manager and applications that use X primitives rather then drawing everything in bitmapped eyecandy the performance is much faster than RDP. All the anti X forwarding folks have never used the system as it was originally intended which is why we have to see it reinvented again... badly.
ChromeOS is deeply tied into Google's infrastructure so they use the collected data to further their core advertising business. Android is too independent for that as it is possible to use an Android device without ever "phoning home" to mother Google. It was put forward as an impulse rush to get something to compete against iOS fast and maintain mobile mindshare.
CD prices have come down slightly in the last few years. Major pop artists have new music released in the sub-$15 range and often closer to $10 whereas ten years ago the inflated pricing for the chart leaders would be more like $20-$25.
That feature is for power conservation not user security. Many such phones keep the GPS off until an emergency call is made to extend battery life.
For the paranoids out there there is a very real possibility of your phone receiving an "update" that hides the fact that your GPS is transmitting your location. And as the other poster stated, even without GPS, your location can still be approximated from your phones normal interactions with the local cell towers.
Jobs had a massive personality disorder and treated most people like shit. He made it to the top because we have a society that rewards narcissists. For this he deserves to have the history books rewritten to paint him as a saint?
That is something of a falsehood. Most of the oxygen generated by a rainforest is consumed by it during the night. The global supply of oxygen is largely generated by phytoplankton blooms in the oceans.
It's funny that the Liquavista website has a prominent headline on the front page declaring their acquisition by Samsung... dated January 2011. If they can't keep their public face on the web cleared of old cruft I would be concerned about the rest of the company's internals.
Twitter isn't just a web service. They make use of SMS gateways which means interacting with various national phone systems. So long as they purchase telecom services in foreign countries they risk subjugation to those countries laws.
Is there any source of what transactional data is shared
All of it.
Before the modern era of internet driven big data there were companies like Acxiom (est. 1969) aggregating data from credit cards, store cards, gas cards, telephone books(*), and whatever other consumer data they could get their hands on so it could be resold for market analysis.
If you use any form of electronic identification, they know what products you buy at which stores and at which time. This then is used to profile people so that companies like bulk mailers can target the wealthy, or the poor, or fertile women or whatever slice of the population you want to direct advertisements at.
*) They would actually send telephone books out of country so they could be hand transcribed by low rent data entry clerks. This was before OCR was reliable and telephone companies were willing to share their data electronically.
That is an insecure option since checks have your account number on them which can be used for fraudulent access to your money. PayPal's escrow through an email address is far safer.
That's not a fair accusation because you are examining those actions through the lens of modern warfare where precision munitions are a reliable and effective tool. That capability didn't exist back then and they applied the technology they had as best they could.
The constitution says that states can't interfere with cross border transactions as it is a power reserved for the federal government. It also prohibits the federal government from interfering with state affairs like revenue collection. This catch-22 is why the whole issue has been kicked down the road to this day.
This isn't a new problem caused by the internet either. Old fashioned snail mail orders from out of state suppliers (think Sears and Roebuck in the 19th century) were also a thorn in some states sides which is why they expect citizens to declare "use" tax on what they imported from out of state.
There are a lot of companies providing such a service that would balk on the government competing with them. We're lucky the NWS was allowed to keep running weather.gov after Accuweather went after them. When "real" money is involved there's no way the government can hope to provide a competing service.
I lived 1 mile from a CO in a major city in NY and could only get 2.4Mbps (down from 4 Mbps) when I had to be switched to a different line after the first one went bad. Join the club WV.
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For one, they do smart bitmap-caching.
If you use a window manager and applications that use X primitives rather then drawing everything in bitmapped eyecandy the performance is much faster than RDP. All the anti X forwarding folks have never used the system as it was originally intended which is why we have to see it reinvented again... badly.
ChromeOS is deeply tied into Google's infrastructure so they use the collected data to further their core advertising business. Android is too independent for that as it is possible to use an Android device without ever "phoning home" to mother Google. It was put forward as an impulse rush to get something to compete against iOS fast and maintain mobile mindshare.
You can turn off third party cookies and, even better, apply some NoScript action to stop the tracking sites from monitoring your browsing habits.
CD prices have come down slightly in the last few years. Major pop artists have new music released in the sub-$15 range and often closer to $10 whereas ten years ago the inflated pricing for the chart leaders would be more like $20-$25.
That feature is for power conservation not user security. Many such phones keep the GPS off until an emergency call is made to extend battery life.
For the paranoids out there there is a very real possibility of your phone receiving an "update" that hides the fact that your GPS is transmitting your location. And as the other poster stated, even without GPS, your location can still be approximated from your phones normal interactions with the local cell towers.
Don't leave any loose ends then.
Pay the homeless guy to take out a hit on you?
After the electricity supply, security forces and tracking technology are the things least likely to work reliably
That strategy didn't work out so well for a lot of Taliban and Al Qaeda members.
At least a bowl of steaming hot grits.
Actually the nomenclature wasn't set in stone during the 60's. Pels and rasters were strongly in the running through the 70's.
Your welcome.
Don't despair. All the lawyers got paid a few metric assloads of loot. That's trickle-down economics in action. Working for the people.
Jobs had a massive personality disorder and treated most people like shit. He made it to the top because we have a society that rewards narcissists. For this he deserves to have the history books rewritten to paint him as a saint?
That is something of a falsehood. Most of the oxygen generated by a rainforest is consumed by it during the night. The global supply of oxygen is largely generated by phytoplankton blooms in the oceans.
There is some copper in an optical fiber cable which is needed to supply power to the repeaters spaced along its length.
And some US presidents even think atheists shouldn't be a part of our country.
"I don't know that atheists should be regarded as citizens, nor should they be regarded as patriotic. This is one nation under God."
-- GHW Bush
Slashdot is hiring editors.
It's funny that the Liquavista website has a prominent headline on the front page declaring their acquisition by Samsung... dated January 2011. If they can't keep their public face on the web cleared of old cruft I would be concerned about the rest of the company's internals.
Twitter isn't just a web service. They make use of SMS gateways which means interacting with various national phone systems. So long as they purchase telecom services in foreign countries they risk subjugation to those countries laws.
Is there any source of what transactional data is shared
All of it.
Before the modern era of internet driven big data there were companies like Acxiom (est. 1969) aggregating data from credit cards, store cards, gas cards, telephone books(*), and whatever other consumer data they could get their hands on so it could be resold for market analysis.
If you use any form of electronic identification, they know what products you buy at which stores and at which time. This then is used to profile people so that companies like bulk mailers can target the wealthy, or the poor, or fertile women or whatever slice of the population you want to direct advertisements at.
*) They would actually send telephone books out of country so they could be hand transcribed by low rent data entry clerks. This was before OCR was reliable and telephone companies were willing to share their data electronically.
That is an insecure option since checks have your account number on them which can be used for fraudulent access to your money. PayPal's escrow through an email address is far safer.
Let's see what happens after the current BitCoin bubble pops before making any prognostications about is long term viability.
That's not a fair accusation because you are examining those actions through the lens of modern warfare where precision munitions are a reliable and effective tool. That capability didn't exist back then and they applied the technology they had as best they could.
Yeah, the Interstate Commerce Clause.
The constitution says that states can't interfere with cross border transactions as it is a power reserved for the federal government. It also prohibits the federal government from interfering with state affairs like revenue collection. This catch-22 is why the whole issue has been kicked down the road to this day.
This isn't a new problem caused by the internet either. Old fashioned snail mail orders from out of state suppliers (think Sears and Roebuck in the 19th century) were also a thorn in some states sides which is why they expect citizens to declare "use" tax on what they imported from out of state.
There are a lot of companies providing such a service that would balk on the government competing with them. We're lucky the NWS was allowed to keep running weather.gov after Accuweather went after them. When "real" money is involved there's no way the government can hope to provide a competing service.
In my case it did since there was an old railroad right of way nearby that was used for the trunk lines and it was almost a direct shot to the CO.
I lived 1 mile from a CO in a major city in NY and could only get 2.4Mbps (down from 4 Mbps) when I had to be switched to a different line after the first one went bad. Join the club WV.