I don't have a problem with cutting ties with that disgusting nation until they stop abusing their citizens.
Yeah you do. If you actually wouldn't have a problem cutting ties with them you wouldn't have posted this on Slashdot using your Chinese made computer parts.
So...the standard of whether or not the agreement was violated is decided by a random security firm?
Occam's Razor: What on earth makes you think that a company is honouring such a minor agreement with an adversary that is actively trying to economically punish them?
No the standard of whether or not the agreement was violated should be decided by proof that under the current conditions it is still being adhered to.
Umm...this treatment has recently been proven to work. I can't be bothered looking it up but it's not hard to find.
When you make a claim at odds with the main point of the article which is cited and comes from a reputable source the onus is on you to provide a citation. Not doing so make you look like a pointless twat.
Slashdot to explain to us how this is only one part of a vast malevolent Apple conspiracy against the public.
It's not a malevolent conspiracy. It's just Apple being last to the market copying all the least desirable aspects from other platforms. And honestly it's about time. I was getting sick of well designed purpose built applications and was just thinking the other day why can't everyone be the Universal Windows Platform and write horrible phone applications for the PC.
No it wouldn't. Marvel may be owned by Disney but this content does not exist elsewhere. It was made by Netflix. They only paid to use a story which had never seen a screen adaptation before.
"We take your privacy and security seriously" is the data tech equivalent of saying "We send out thoughts and prayers".
Not quite. Thoughts and prayers are free cop-outs. Taking data and privacy seriously is usually said by companies who at least pay someone to be in charge of data security.
The fact that this person is incompetent is beside the point.
Actually sticking with your theme, maybe a better example would be "We're going to arm every teacher with guns, and every student with hockey pucks!" That sounds more on the theme of blowing money down a hole of incompetence.
My E-mail is free, but its IMAP4. There are no Ads with it.
That doesn't mean there isn't a privacy implication. Google also provides an IMAP4 server and you get your emails without Ads. So does Microsoft. Two companies which openly admit scanning your emails for marketing related reasons.
- Demand to buy Android Devices with unlockable Bootloaders that can run Lineage OS.
You just lose most consumers with this line.
- Maps provided by Osmand on Android
This is one of the few things you said that's doable.
- Self Host a Federated NextCloud/OwnCloud Service for Roaming Storage on a PC they own with a Dynamic DNS Provider.
You now lost a good chunk of the remaining technical crowd and narrowed your solution to only the top tier of nerds.
- Handle Contacts, Calendaring,and Task related services on a Groupware service.
What's a groupware service? Asking for a consumer.
- Instant Messaging/Social Media done Via Libpurple based Spectrum2 Servers. (again, hosted on the same set of Devices as the NextCloud/Groupware Solution.
That's good and all but I just checked and my friend's aren't on it. Regards, a consumer.
These are the only things that will really change the privacy game.
Consider your game lost before the users even got through the instructions for it.
If that were the case, data hungry companies like Google and Facebook, which sell data about you to advertisers, wouldn't even exist.
A security researcher who seems to know about data and privacy doesn't understand the business practice of the two biggest companies in the data and privacy related fields.
Congratulations Zack Whittaker, you've just shown the world that you're out of your depth. Maybe you should go make instructional videos of how to build computers for the Verge and leave the security, data and privacy related talk to someone who actually knows what is going on in their field.
Nothing will change for users who have windows update automatically enabled? You don't say. Just because some users aren't affected doesn't make the article clickbait.
My house has an IKEA factor of over 90%. I sometimes genuinely wonder if people know that IKEA ships all their furniture with pozidrive screws and wonder why their philips head screwdriver never really properly works.
At $15,000 average income this sounds like a shitty economically blighted neighborhood. So in order to improve said neighborhood there has to be an economic driver.
Improving a neighbourhood through economic drivers is called gentrification. All you're doing is pricing the people who aren't part of that economic driver out of their homes into the next shithole.
At some point people stand up and say "leave our shithole alone and take your money elsewhere".
Yea! Tax the rich! What are they gonna do, leave? Well, yeah, they will.
No they won't because as usual when this argument comes up people forget that the cost of paying the tax is usually far lower than the cost incurred of lost access.
It's why there is a paid access market to foreign citizenship, and why countries have laws regarding ownership, profits, and residency.
You're a complete failure as a businessman. No the easiest option is to negotiate an exclusive deal to be paid by a 3rd party to pre-install the filtering software on your phone, while at the same time raising the price, blaming the government, and then enjoying your new captive audience while you light cigars with $100 bills.
Anyone who thinks it's easier to stop doing anything when a government intervenes has utterly failed to see the incredible opportunities which have been offered.
I don't think a timely response is as important as one you have considered.
It's far more important than one which arrives too late. Seriously some people need to learn to send a quick reply even if it's "Give me a week to get back to you" and then use the flag for follow-up feature in Outlook.
I've lost count of the number of times certain people have replied to me long after the window for their opinion to matter had closed. The sad part there is they've flushed themselves down this toilet of inefficiency.
Your email was late and as a result you completely wasted your time writing it, and as a result someone else's email is now late.
So, Europe imposes user protection and they are progressive champions of the people
You're not reading the same Slashdot I am. Based on what I've seen Europe is a repressive regime who has destroyed businesses and exists as a bureaucratic hellhole funded exclusively from levying fines and taxes on poor innocent American megacorporations.
People are free to believe anything they want until their belief starts having an impact on others. Frankly we should form lists of people for the sake of the species. You believe the earth is flat? You're on the list. You're on the list? You don't get to vote or have your opinion heard on anything that has an impact on the life of someone else.
Because they're not idiots. They're just trying to find out how many other people know how to prove that the earth isn't flat.
Again, how do you know? I mean I like to think my fellow man is a brainiac, but the reality and statistics will often point to a considerable portion of them being true idiots.
The difference is with flat earthers identifying the trolling isn't as scientifically subjective as say for example the current increasing trend of malaria is indicative of anti-vaxxers.
The world is sadly quite full of very smart idiots, and the most perfect smart troll is a person completely indistinguishable from the dumbest idiot.
We don't. None of these words are new and none of them seem to mean what you think they do. Espionage though typically used to describe an act by governments is not exclusively used so.
Embrace the english language. "Sophisticated" tells us about the attack quality, "state actor" tells us about the attacker, "espionage" or "sabotage" tells us about the purpose.
You want to know why the words espionage and sabotage aren't being used? Well that's because not every government wants to resort to unsubstantiated hyperbole, in this case the purpose is either unknown (as stated) or willfully obfuscated.
There's nothing different in Europe / Scandinavia. The only difference is where the profits come from, the sick person, or the taxes they paid. Healthcare is still a profit driven business, even if the person filling out the prescription and the person paying for the drugs is covered by socialised healthcare.
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I don't have a problem with cutting ties with that disgusting nation until they stop abusing their citizens.
Yeah you do. If you actually wouldn't have a problem cutting ties with them you wouldn't have posted this on Slashdot using your Chinese made computer parts.
So...the standard of whether or not the agreement was violated is decided by a random security firm?
Occam's Razor: What on earth makes you think that a company is honouring such a minor agreement with an adversary that is actively trying to economically punish them?
No the standard of whether or not the agreement was violated should be decided by proof that under the current conditions it is still being adhered to.
Umm...this treatment has recently been proven to work. I can't be bothered looking it up but it's not hard to find.
When you make a claim at odds with the main point of the article which is cited and comes from a reputable source the onus is on you to provide a citation. Not doing so make you look like a pointless twat.
Why did you even post?
Slashdot to explain to us how this is only one part of a vast malevolent Apple conspiracy against the public.
It's not a malevolent conspiracy. It's just Apple being last to the market copying all the least desirable aspects from other platforms. And honestly it's about time. I was getting sick of well designed purpose built applications and was just thinking the other day why can't everyone be the Universal Windows Platform and write horrible phone applications for the PC.
No it wouldn't. Marvel may be owned by Disney but this content does not exist elsewhere. It was made by Netflix. They only paid to use a story which had never seen a screen adaptation before.
"We take your privacy and security seriously" is the data tech equivalent of saying "We send out thoughts and prayers".
Not quite. Thoughts and prayers are free cop-outs. Taking data and privacy seriously is usually said by companies who at least pay someone to be in charge of data security.
The fact that this person is incompetent is beside the point.
Actually sticking with your theme, maybe a better example would be "We're going to arm every teacher with guns, and every student with hockey pucks!" That sounds more on the theme of blowing money down a hole of incompetence.
My E-mail is free, but its IMAP4. There are no Ads with it.
That doesn't mean there isn't a privacy implication. Google also provides an IMAP4 server and you get your emails without Ads. So does Microsoft. Two companies which openly admit scanning your emails for marketing related reasons.
Let's break this down:
- Demand to buy Android Devices with unlockable Bootloaders that can run Lineage OS.
You just lose most consumers with this line.
- Maps provided by Osmand on Android
This is one of the few things you said that's doable.
- Self Host a Federated NextCloud/OwnCloud Service for Roaming Storage on a PC they own with a Dynamic DNS Provider.
You now lost a good chunk of the remaining technical crowd and narrowed your solution to only the top tier of nerds.
- Handle Contacts, Calendaring,and Task related services on a Groupware service.
What's a groupware service? Asking for a consumer.
- Instant Messaging/Social Media done Via Libpurple based Spectrum2 Servers. (again, hosted on the same set of Devices as the NextCloud/Groupware Solution.
That's good and all but I just checked and my friend's aren't on it. Regards, a consumer.
These are the only things that will really change the privacy game.
Consider your game lost before the users even got through the instructions for it.
If that were the case, data hungry companies like Google and Facebook, which sell data about you to advertisers, wouldn't even exist.
A security researcher who seems to know about data and privacy doesn't understand the business practice of the two biggest companies in the data and privacy related fields.
Congratulations Zack Whittaker, you've just shown the world that you're out of your depth. Maybe you should go make instructional videos of how to build computers for the Verge and leave the security, data and privacy related talk to someone who actually knows what is going on in their field.
Found the anti-vaxxer.
tldr; nothing will change for these users
Nothing will change for users who have windows update automatically enabled? You don't say. Just because some users aren't affected doesn't make the article clickbait.
My house has an IKEA factor of over 90%. I sometimes genuinely wonder if people know that IKEA ships all their furniture with pozidrive screws and wonder why their philips head screwdriver never really properly works.
At $15,000 average income this sounds like a shitty economically blighted neighborhood. So in order to improve said neighborhood there has to be an economic driver.
Improving a neighbourhood through economic drivers is called gentrification. All you're doing is pricing the people who aren't part of that economic driver out of their homes into the next shithole.
At some point people stand up and say "leave our shithole alone and take your money elsewhere".
Yea! Tax the rich! What are they gonna do, leave? Well, yeah, they will.
No they won't because as usual when this argument comes up people forget that the cost of paying the tax is usually far lower than the cost incurred of lost access.
It's why there is a paid access market to foreign citizenship, and why countries have laws regarding ownership, profits, and residency.
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Hold the phone! I have to draw a line here!
To just stop selling phones in Kansas.
You're a complete failure as a businessman. No the easiest option is to negotiate an exclusive deal to be paid by a 3rd party to pre-install the filtering software on your phone, while at the same time raising the price, blaming the government, and then enjoying your new captive audience while you light cigars with $100 bills.
Anyone who thinks it's easier to stop doing anything when a government intervenes has utterly failed to see the incredible opportunities which have been offered.
So if you want to fight this out, you are gonna lose.
Sure just remember when you fire your nuke we are 8.339 distance units away, and make sure you double check your units with NASA before you fire.
I don't think a timely response is as important as one you have considered.
It's far more important than one which arrives too late. Seriously some people need to learn to send a quick reply even if it's "Give me a week to get back to you" and then use the flag for follow-up feature in Outlook.
I've lost count of the number of times certain people have replied to me long after the window for their opinion to matter had closed. The sad part there is they've flushed themselves down this toilet of inefficiency.
Your email was late and as a result you completely wasted your time writing it, and as a result someone else's email is now late.
How rude!
So, Europe imposes user protection and they are progressive champions of the people
You're not reading the same Slashdot I am. Based on what I've seen Europe is a repressive regime who has destroyed businesses and exists as a bureaucratic hellhole funded exclusively from levying fines and taxes on poor innocent American megacorporations.
Or so Slashdot has told me.
people can't believe in what they want?
People are free to believe anything they want until their belief starts having an impact on others. Frankly we should form lists of people for the sake of the species. You believe the earth is flat? You're on the list. You're on the list? You don't get to vote or have your opinion heard on anything that has an impact on the life of someone else.
Because they're not idiots. They're just trying to find out how many other people know how to prove that the earth isn't flat.
Again, how do you know? I mean I like to think my fellow man is a brainiac, but the reality and statistics will often point to a considerable portion of them being true idiots.
The difference is with flat earthers identifying the trolling isn't as scientifically subjective as say for example the current increasing trend of malaria is indicative of anti-vaxxers.
The world is sadly quite full of very smart idiots, and the most perfect smart troll is a person completely indistinguishable from the dumbest idiot.
Why do we keep inventing new words?
We don't. None of these words are new and none of them seem to mean what you think they do. Espionage though typically used to describe an act by governments is not exclusively used so.
Embrace the english language. "Sophisticated" tells us about the attack quality, "state actor" tells us about the attacker, "espionage" or "sabotage" tells us about the purpose.
You want to know why the words espionage and sabotage aren't being used? Well that's because not every government wants to resort to unsubstantiated hyperbole, in this case the purpose is either unknown (as stated) or willfully obfuscated.
I only wish Slashdot's dupe detection mechanism was as sophisticated as a foreign state actor.
Unless the "news" here is the word could has been replaced by the word was. https://it.slashdot.org/story/...
There's nothing different in Europe / Scandinavia. The only difference is where the profits come from, the sick person, or the taxes they paid. Healthcare is still a profit driven business, even if the person filling out the prescription and the person paying for the drugs is covered by socialised healthcare.