"Law-enforcement agencies will also be granted access to any user's messages without any judicial oversight. Several key provisions will directly affect the internet and telecom industry. In particular, telecom operators and internet resources will need to store the recordings of all phone calls and the content of all text messages for a period of six months. They will be required to cooperate with the Federal Security Service (FSB) to make their users' communications fully accessible to this organization."
We will marvel at this here in the US, but it's on the way here as well. It won't just be terrorism fears, it'll be cries from the other side of the aisle about political corruption and tax evasion and everything else.
Unless we resist it, government will always be seeking more power, as will the half of the political spectrum that is always seeking ever-more government.
As if any other big chain retailer is different...
Anyway, this story is about a better way to mobile-pay, IMO. QR scanning rates higher than the "touch your phone to the pad" customer experience. At least it seems more reliable, in my experience. And scanners are always present at checkouts today... the specialized pads for proximity readers are not.
Then they could take all the new things you are interested in, and not show them to you. Instead, they could show you old things that you already saw or don't care about, interspersed with what they think you should care about based on the data they have mined about you, your physical location, what your Aunt Gertie liked 13 weeks ago, etc.
LMFTFA: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took another step in his pet project to harvest and sell every bit of personal information about every product, er- person, living in every corner of the planet.
Nice to see the security features of an *nix based OS working here. Gatekeeper will prevent most from installing it, and for those who disable security features, you ought to know what you are doing anyway.
And - unwritten in TFA is the fact that there will probably be a fix for this post haste.
Well, if you're being paid to run a McDonald's and are just flailing - trying to find any revenue stream at all to keep the store open another week or two... you'll try burritos.
"Video calls are also limited to a maximum of 10 people during the first two months. After that, the maximum number of participants drops to three people."
Well, what business won't be lining up around the block to use such a helpful product?::eyeroll::
The criminals who are most likely to stay out of jail are the ones smart enough to not bother with this parking lot when many, many others are unguarded.
Well at least with an empty chair, there would be far less legislation enacted which almost always means a reduction in our rights and growth in the government.
They'll lose if they take Netflix on head-to-head. But they can treat them like HBO, take a cut off the top, and then later start capping bandwidth and charging overages, or making people buy premium service in order to use Netflix.
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It already has worked. For example, Walgreens recently dumped the pilot they were doing with Theranos.
A company that had considered working with them has to maintain its legitimacy. Your company's reputation is a market force.
And your results would be just as accurate as hers.
it's on the way here as well.
It's already been here, you just haven't been paying attention.
Who is being targeted by it only depends on what regime is currently in power.
It's already here that telecom operators are required to record and store all phone calls?
"Law-enforcement agencies will also be granted access to any user's messages without any judicial oversight. Several key provisions will directly affect the internet and telecom industry. In particular, telecom operators and internet resources will need to store the recordings of all phone calls and the content of all text messages for a period of six months. They will be required to cooperate with the Federal Security Service (FSB) to make their users' communications fully accessible to this organization."
We will marvel at this here in the US, but it's on the way here as well. It won't just be terrorism fears, it'll be cries from the other side of the aisle about political corruption and tax evasion and everything else.
Unless we resist it, government will always be seeking more power, as will the half of the political spectrum that is always seeking ever-more government.
Instead of naming a new COO, a to-be-determined executive will suddenly find themself at a desk in the COO's office one day, wondering what happened.
As if any other big chain retailer is different...
Anyway, this story is about a better way to mobile-pay, IMO. QR scanning rates higher than the "touch your phone to the pad" customer experience. At least it seems more reliable, in my experience. And scanners are always present at checkouts today... the specialized pads for proximity readers are not.
Then they could take all the new things you are interested in, and not show them to you. Instead, they could show you old things that you already saw or don't care about, interspersed with what they think you should care about based on the data they have mined about you, your physical location, what your Aunt Gertie liked 13 weeks ago, etc.
Its more like "Nice to see Apple defaulting to only allowing developers who pay them rent to be able to install applications"
You can install any developer's things onto an OSX machine. You just have to uncheck a checkbox to do it.
LMFTFA: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took another step in his pet project to harvest and sell every bit of personal information about every product, er- person, living in every corner of the planet.
It's not "just an excuse to jack the price" if usability on the latest iOS would be limited by having only 16GB, for example
Nice to see the security features of an *nix based OS working here. Gatekeeper will prevent most from installing it, and for those who disable security features, you ought to know what you are doing anyway.
And - unwritten in TFA is the fact that there will probably be a fix for this post haste.
With crash test dummies, of course!
Actually, McDonald's already tried burritos. The Mac Snack Wrap.
Apple will now sell your kidney directly to a donor, at a 30% markup.
If we pay Slashdot we'll get many more types of grammar that we'll rarely use, but no improvement to that which we are using.
it's more like "same package, different crap. still crap."
Well, if you're being paid to run a McDonald's and are just flailing - trying to find any revenue stream at all to keep the store open another week or two... you'll try burritos.
"Video calls are also limited to a maximum of 10 people during the first two months. After that, the maximum number of participants drops to three people."
Well, what business won't be lining up around the block to use such a helpful product? ::eyeroll::
The grammar used in the summary works about as well as Skype.
The expense incurred by employing someone is much higher than their hourly wage.
The criminals who are most likely to stay out of jail are the ones smart enough to not bother with this parking lot when many, many others are unguarded.
Destroying a giant robot alarm system which is bristling with cameras - a perfect strategy for crimes of subtlety.
Well at least with an empty chair, there would be far less legislation enacted which almost always means a reduction in our rights and growth in the government.
a non-X1 box that supports Netflix would be a lot better. X1 is slow, hot garbage
They'll lose if they take Netflix on head-to-head. But they can treat them like HBO, take a cut off the top, and then later start capping bandwidth and charging overages, or making people buy premium service in order to use Netflix.