I use my TV mainly to watch movies, it's hard to find an affordable 60" panel that's not also a "smart TV".
If you don't watch broadcast TV, they won't have any data to collect on you. If you use your TV to watch movies and want to keep that fact a secret, don't tell the world by posting to/.
We live in a world where our phones can identify music playing nearby, yet you think a smart TV is incapable of identifying a movie based on some audio/video signature?
Look, I am a huge privacy guy, but I am also a huge freedom guy. If you have a problem with your TV spying on you, use a different TV or provider. Or ditch the TV; who needs one in 2017 with the internet available? No one is forcing you to use these services.
That's fine as long as you have that option, but if spying TV's earn the maker more money, then the non-spying TV's will become harder and harder to find at any price.
I use my TV mainly to watch movies, it's hard to find an affordable 60" panel that's not also a "smart TV".
Why the heck would anyone expect a CEO to know the details of the software implementation? It's not his job to know, nor would I expect him to know, and whatever understanding he might have is probably not to be trusted.
Other people in the company should know, but this, come on?
My company's CEO has a very good understanding of our security that goes deeper than just knowing if it's encrypted or not. For example, he knows exactly how customer keys are protected by an HSM (and how the HSM is mirrored across multiple regions). He's given more than one public talk on our security.
Just like Equifax, we're an information company, so a better question is why the heck doesn't a CEO know how they protect the company's most valuable asset?
You have no way of knowing if theses"experts" are real or just some bored house wife.
Does it matter? If she has some knowledge of the subject writes a factual article backed up with sources, why does it matter if it was written by a bored housewife? You don't get to see their credentials, but you do get to see the references backing up what they write in the wikipedia articles.
I just looked at a half dozen random articles. 2 were short one paragraph biographies, one was a well referenced article about a school district, one was a multipage biography about an author with links to individual articles about her works, one was an article about a public regulatory agency (again, well referenced and not just that agency's site), and the last was an article about some chemical compound.
Of those, only the last looked somewhat technical, but it was on the level of a first year college chemistry class, something that even a bored housewife could write.
You can record the guy all you like, all you're going to have is proof that he killed your pets. They'll still be dead.
The camera is the deterrent -- if he really wants to kill your pet, he doesn't need the Amazon lock to do it. But if he knows his entry to your house is recorded, that's the deterrent.
Dude, I have around 6K in computer gear (gaming and otherwise) and the large TV's that go with that as well as ancillary stuff. I live in a cheap rental cottage by preference. The two do not at all relate.
Shorter response: You're simply wrong.
Sorry, didn't mean to disparage your fine collection of gaming consoles and TV's, but 55" TV's and Xboxes are for crackheads that are going to break in regardless of whether or not they know you have valuables. But the serious thieves are going the higher value stuff like jewelry.
Why would he want to lug around a big TV and 200 lbs of computer and gaming equipment when he can just take the jewelry box and get $25K worth of jewelry that's easier to sell?
I have no interest letting a delivery person into my private space.
Even if there were serious controls around the reliability and safety of these individuals, there's a big difference even between letting a virtual stranger drive me somewhere and allowing them into my potentially unsecured personal possessions. As it is I don't trust unregulated ride sharing companies, why would I trust deliveries from Amazon to access my property?
Right, different risk profile -- the delivery driver with access to your house is less likely to kill you while he's looking at his phone to find his next fare.
How is Amazon going to prevent these delivery personnel from taking five-finger discounts of my stuff, poisoning my cat, or sleeping in my bed on a break?
The service requires that you set up an Amazon cloud camera so the delivery person will have his entry recorded not only from the lock, but also by video.
Exactly that, which nobody else in the thread seems to get. It's trying to solve the same problem as amazon lockers.
Nobody in suburbia is going to buy one of these things.
I thought suburbia was where all of the packages were getting stolen? In the cities most people live in highrises with package delivery rooms, or at least a secured area where the mailboxes are.
None of this prevents the Amazon delivery guy from telling his buddies which houses have good stuff to steal. Thieves can come back months later without any connection to Amazon whatsoever. Sure they could throw a brick through a window on any house but why risk attracting them to yours?
The thieves already know by your house and the car you drive.
If you drive a beat up Hyundai parked on the street in front of your apartment, you probably don't have much worth stealing. If you have a BMW and Tesla parked in the drive way, chances are good that they'll be able to find something of value.
But there's still value in your buddy tipping you off about which houses use this service, because all of them are guaranteed to have at least one Amazon cloud camera watching the house since that's a requirement of the service.
I'm actually kinda surprised Amazon didn't see this one coming?
I mean, they're not generally stupid.....Do all the people at Amazon working on this "solution" freely admit strangers into their homes when they are away?
I think this is probably targeted at the people that have no safe place to leave packages at their house and want a way to receive Amazon packages at home without someone stealing them.
For those people, this could be an attractive service.
For the most accurate, albeit US-centric operating system and browser numbers, I prefer to use data from the federal government's Digital Analytics Program (DAP). Unlike the others, DAP's numbers come from billions of visits over the past 90 days to over 400 US executive branch government domains
I'm skeptical that hits to.gov websites capture a representative subset of web users. I'd think that many people rarely visit.gov sites.
While I may spend more time on the mobile web -- reading news on the train, etc, it's still way less usable than my computer, so anytime I need more interaction with a site (i.e. purchasing an item, doing research on a subject where I want to reference several tabs, etc), I use my computer.
And I hate the responsive design trend that gives me a watered down experience with functionality either hidden or completely removed from the mobile experience.
It's really not necessary. I work in IT. I've had jobs with small 10 man shops up through 100K-employee giants. None of those jobs were obtained due to a LinkedIn profile, which I do not have and never had.
Don't be so quick to drink the coolaid or put all your eggs in one basket. People were getting jobs just fine before LinkedIn was a thing. Just like you don't require Facebook to talk to your friends, you don't need LinkedIn to get a job.
Depends where you live and how easy it is to find a job. I've never gotten a job directly through LinkedIn myself, but I have a good network and lots of opportunities where I live.
However, I've helped several former colleagues that live outside of my area get a job at my company through them contacting me about a job through LinkedIn (they all worked at the same company which was shutting down after their division was disbanded after an acquisition). At least one had sent a resume through the normal channels but it was lost in the noise.
It earned me over $10K in referral bonuses, so well worth the time to have a LinkedIn account and look at it periodically to screen out spam.
After a basic hello world intro, I had to write a calculator to add subtract multiply and divide in the first week of college. Had mine worked like apples Iâ(TM)d have likely failed. How does this happen?
You didn't have a GUI keyboard with animated keys.
This is why I still keep my trusty HP-15C calculator on my desk -- for when I need to do some quick arithmetic, it's still easier to use the calculator than my computer or worse (as this example shows), a phone.
Hard to give tickets to self-driving cars, so they gotta find a new way to fill the coffers.
Self driving cars are not the problem, texting drivers are, but it's also hard to ticket texting drivers, so it's much easier to target texting pedestrians even though the drivers are the ones killing people.
Interesting that a government is having to go to these drastic lengths to try and get people to live in the real world.
I think it's kind of interesting that Millennials and other constant users of smart phones, especially singles, who walk around all day looking at a screen, complain that they can't meet any decent people, when in fact they likely pass decent and interesting people all the time, but nobody is able to catch anyone's eye anymore, so potential connections are missed.
People have always found it hard to meet potential dates, but I found it much easier to meet people when online dating became mainstream than before. Without technology, it's harder to meet people outside of your social circle, online dating opens up a much wider circle. So yeah, you need to weed out the liars and fakes, but you have a much wider pool to choose from.
I bring thee from the unexplored land called The Fine Article:
Did you read what you posted? I read TFA before I asked the question -- a recursive definition is not a definition. Saying that the Asana plugin lets you use Asana doesn't really help - what is Asana and why would I want to use it over some other product? Similarly, saying that the Trello plugin lets me use Trello doesn't really help. Are Trello and Asana the same? What about Wrike, which is not mentioned at all?
The company shares a list of the currently available add-ons:
Asana: Turn communication with clients, customers and teammates into tasks that can be tracked with your team in Asana, all from your inbox.
Dialpad: Message or call colleagues on your device, any time. Automatically view recent communications or save a new contact straight from Gmail.
DocuSign (coming soon): Sign and execute contracts, agreements and other documents directly in Gmail using the DocuSign add-on.
Hire: Add candidates, manage candidate information and upload resumes without leaving Gmail. You can access full job applications from the Hire add-on.
Intuit QuickBooks Invoicing: Create and send professional invoices directly in Gmail. Let customers pay you online and track invoice status and payments no matter where you are.
ProsperWorks: Easily access prospect or customer data, and log activities from calls, demos and meetings. You can also scan related opportunities, tasks and events.
RingCentral: See the online/offline status of RingCentral contacts, review recent call history, make outbound calls (requires RingCentral for Mobile) and view and send SMS messages.
Smartsheet: Add email content and desired attachments directly to Smartsheet without leaving Gmail.
Streak: Add email threads to deals, view enriched contact info and quickly respond with snippets directly from Gmail with the Streak add-on.
Trello: Turn email into actionable tasks in Trello to give your team a shared perspective on the work that needs to be done.
The first intermediate step which we are fully capable of doing is creating a much larger space station to use as the jumping off point for other missions into the solar system. The most expensive and dangerous piece of manned space travel is getting out of the gravity well. We have enough available lift capacity to move construction supplies, man power, and the supplies need to support human life.
That sounds like an expensive and wasteful way to prepare for space travel to an unknown destination and unknown timeframe with a spacecraft of unknown design. What supplies do you send? How do you know they'll be useful 10 years from now when you're ready to use them?
You could send water and assume it'll be used for *something*, but if you find a way to get it from an asteroid (or from the moon) you may have wasted a lot of fuel and space launches when you could have been launching aluminum I-Beams for construction. Oh, but when you're ready to build your ion-jet spacecraft, you find that you've launched beams that are much too heavy for the task. Or you're using hydrogen-oxygen engines and now you've found that you underestimated the strength needed.
The most expensive and dangerous piece of manned space travel is getting out of the gravity well
Launching those supplies ahead of time doesn't make it easier to get out of the gravity well. Finding the supplies you need outside of the gravity well does.
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I use my TV mainly to watch movies, it's hard to find an affordable 60" panel that's not also a "smart TV".
If you don't watch broadcast TV, they won't have any data to collect on you. If you use your TV to watch movies and want to keep that fact a secret, don't tell the world by posting to /.
We live in a world where our phones can identify music playing nearby, yet you think a smart TV is incapable of identifying a movie based on some audio/video signature?
Look, I am a huge privacy guy, but I am also a huge freedom guy. If you have a problem with your TV spying on you, use a different TV or provider. Or ditch the TV; who needs one in 2017 with the internet available? No one is forcing you to use these services.
That's fine as long as you have that option, but if spying TV's earn the maker more money, then the non-spying TV's will become harder and harder to find at any price.
I use my TV mainly to watch movies, it's hard to find an affordable 60" panel that's not also a "smart TV".
Why the heck would anyone expect a CEO to know the details of the software implementation? It's not his job to know, nor would I expect him to know, and whatever understanding he might have is probably not to be trusted.
Other people in the company should know, but this, come on?
My company's CEO has a very good understanding of our security that goes deeper than just knowing if it's encrypted or not. For example, he knows exactly how customer keys are protected by an HSM (and how the HSM is mirrored across multiple regions). He's given more than one public talk on our security.
Just like Equifax, we're an information company, so a better question is why the heck doesn't a CEO know how they protect the company's most valuable asset?
Who certifies an editor as an expert?
Do we get to see their credentials?
You have no way of knowing if theses"experts" are real or just some bored house wife.
Does it matter? If she has some knowledge of the subject writes a factual article backed up with sources, why does it matter if it was written by a bored housewife? You don't get to see their credentials, but you do get to see the references backing up what they write in the wikipedia articles.
I just looked at a half dozen random articles. 2 were short one paragraph biographies, one was a well referenced article about a school district, one was a multipage biography about an author with links to individual articles about her works, one was an article about a public regulatory agency (again, well referenced and not just that agency's site), and the last was an article about some chemical compound.
Of those, only the last looked somewhat technical, but it was on the level of a first year college chemistry class, something that even a bored housewife could write.
You can record the guy all you like, all you're going to have is proof that he killed your pets. They'll still be dead.
The camera is the deterrent -- if he really wants to kill your pet, he doesn't need the Amazon lock to do it. But if he knows his entry to your house is recorded, that's the deterrent.
Dude, I have around 6K in computer gear (gaming and otherwise) and the large TV's that go with that as well as ancillary stuff. I live in a cheap rental cottage by preference. The two do not at all relate.
Shorter response: You're simply wrong.
Sorry, didn't mean to disparage your fine collection of gaming consoles and TV's, but 55" TV's and Xboxes are for crackheads that are going to break in regardless of whether or not they know you have valuables. But the serious thieves are going the higher value stuff like jewelry.
Why would he want to lug around a big TV and 200 lbs of computer and gaming equipment when he can just take the jewelry box and get $25K worth of jewelry that's easier to sell?
Suuure.
Your neighborhood is so bad that you can't leave packages outside, yet you're fine with having a delivery person just let themselves in.
Perfect self-nuke.
There are lots of reasonably safe, suburban neighborhoods that are targeted by package thieves where residents might want to use this service.
I have no interest letting a delivery person into my private space.
Even if there were serious controls around the reliability and safety of these individuals, there's a big difference even between letting a virtual stranger drive me somewhere and allowing them into my potentially unsecured personal possessions. As it is I don't trust unregulated ride sharing companies, why would I trust deliveries from Amazon to access my property?
Right, different risk profile -- the delivery driver with access to your house is less likely to kill you while he's looking at his phone to find his next fare.
How is Amazon going to prevent these delivery personnel from taking five-finger discounts of my stuff, poisoning my cat, or sleeping in my bed on a break?
The service requires that you set up an Amazon cloud camera so the delivery person will have his entry recorded not only from the lock, but also by video.
Exactly that, which nobody else in the thread seems to get. It's trying to solve the same problem as amazon lockers.
Nobody in suburbia is going to buy one of these things.
I thought suburbia was where all of the packages were getting stolen? In the cities most people live in highrises with package delivery rooms, or at least a secured area where the mailboxes are.
None of this prevents the Amazon delivery guy from telling his buddies which houses have good stuff to steal. Thieves can come back months later without any connection to Amazon whatsoever. Sure they could throw a brick through a window on any house but why risk attracting them to yours?
The thieves already know by your house and the car you drive.
If you drive a beat up Hyundai parked on the street in front of your apartment, you probably don't have much worth stealing. If you have a BMW and Tesla parked in the drive way, chances are good that they'll be able to find something of value.
But there's still value in your buddy tipping you off about which houses use this service, because all of them are guaranteed to have at least one Amazon cloud camera watching the house since that's a requirement of the service.
I'm actually kinda surprised Amazon didn't see this one coming?
I mean, they're not generally stupid.....Do all the people at Amazon working on this "solution" freely admit strangers into their homes when they are away?
I think this is probably targeted at the people that have no safe place to leave packages at their house and want a way to receive Amazon packages at home without someone stealing them.
For those people, this could be an attractive service.
You obviously didn't order a video camera using Alexa or you would have proof on camera.
You have to have the Amazon camera installed to use the service. (which, for me, is another reason not to use it)
For the most accurate, albeit US-centric operating system and browser numbers, I prefer to use data from the federal government's Digital Analytics Program (DAP). Unlike the others, DAP's numbers come from billions of visits over the past 90 days to over 400 US executive branch government domains
I'm skeptical that hits to .gov websites capture a representative subset of web users. I'd think that many people rarely visit .gov sites.
That's why mobile browsers have an option to display the "desktop" version of a site.
But that fails to work on some websites.
While I may spend more time on the mobile web -- reading news on the train, etc, it's still way less usable than my computer, so anytime I need more interaction with a site (i.e. purchasing an item, doing research on a subject where I want to reference several tabs, etc), I use my computer.
And I hate the responsive design trend that gives me a watered down experience with functionality either hidden or completely removed from the mobile experience.
Seems cheaper to create an enclosed room on the 29th floor where smokers can get their fix in 5 minutes instead of 15 minutes.
It's really not necessary. I work in IT. I've had jobs with small 10 man shops up through 100K-employee giants. None of those jobs were obtained due to a LinkedIn profile, which I do not have and never had.
Don't be so quick to drink the coolaid or put all your eggs in one basket. People were getting jobs just fine before LinkedIn was a thing. Just like you don't require Facebook to talk to your friends, you don't need LinkedIn to get a job.
Depends where you live and how easy it is to find a job. I've never gotten a job directly through LinkedIn myself, but I have a good network and lots of opportunities where I live.
However, I've helped several former colleagues that live outside of my area get a job at my company through them contacting me about a job through LinkedIn (they all worked at the same company which was shutting down after their division was disbanded after an acquisition). At least one had sent a resume through the normal channels but it was lost in the noise.
It earned me over $10K in referral bonuses, so well worth the time to have a LinkedIn account and look at it periodically to screen out spam.
After a basic hello world intro, I had to write a calculator to add subtract multiply and divide in the first week of college. Had mine worked like apples Iâ(TM)d have likely failed. How does this happen?
You didn't have a GUI keyboard with animated keys.
This is why I still keep my trusty HP-15C calculator on my desk -- for when I need to do some quick arithmetic, it's still easier to use the calculator than my computer or worse (as this example shows), a phone.
I've met some of the Amazon delivery drivers, and I wouldn't trust any of them with the key to my mailbox, let alone the key to my house.
Hard to give tickets to self-driving cars, so they gotta find a new way to fill the coffers.
Self driving cars are not the problem, texting drivers are, but it's also hard to ticket texting drivers, so it's much easier to target texting pedestrians even though the drivers are the ones killing people.
Interesting that a government is having to go to these drastic lengths to try and get people to live in the real world.
I think it's kind of interesting that Millennials and other constant users of smart phones, especially singles, who walk around all day looking at a screen, complain that they can't meet any decent people, when in fact they likely pass decent and interesting people all the time, but nobody is able to catch anyone's eye anymore, so potential connections are missed.
People have always found it hard to meet potential dates, but I found it much easier to meet people when online dating became mainstream than before. Without technology, it's harder to meet people outside of your social circle, online dating opens up a much wider circle. So yeah, you need to weed out the liars and fakes, but you have a much wider pool to choose from.
I bring thee from the unexplored land called The Fine Article:
Did you read what you posted? I read TFA before I asked the question -- a recursive definition is not a definition. Saying that the Asana plugin lets you use Asana doesn't really help - what is Asana and why would I want to use it over some other product? Similarly, saying that the Trello plugin lets me use Trello doesn't really help. Are Trello and Asana the same? What about Wrike, which is not mentioned at all?
The company shares a list of the currently available add-ons:
What are Trello, Wrike and Asana and why would I want them (either for business or personal use)?
don't waste space on dead people
it makes no sense you even have a choice about this
Or skip the energy waste of cremation and just go with a natural burial in a compostable coffin:
https://www.livescience.com/74...
The first intermediate step which we are fully capable of doing is creating a much larger space station to use as the jumping off point for other missions into the solar system. The most expensive and dangerous piece of manned space travel is getting out of the gravity well. We have enough available lift capacity to move construction supplies, man power, and the supplies need to support human life.
That sounds like an expensive and wasteful way to prepare for space travel to an unknown destination and unknown timeframe with a spacecraft of unknown design. What supplies do you send? How do you know they'll be useful 10 years from now when you're ready to use them?
You could send water and assume it'll be used for *something*, but if you find a way to get it from an asteroid (or from the moon) you may have wasted a lot of fuel and space launches when you could have been launching aluminum I-Beams for construction. Oh, but when you're ready to build your ion-jet spacecraft, you find that you've launched beams that are much too heavy for the task. Or you're using hydrogen-oxygen engines and now you've found that you underestimated the strength needed.
The most expensive and dangerous piece of manned space travel is getting out of the gravity well
Launching those supplies ahead of time doesn't make it easier to get out of the gravity well. Finding the supplies you need outside of the gravity well does.