Unrelated stock photos and innuendo. I love the "is to to have deployed"... said by who? And the spy device that was "likely" used, if used at all, might have been blah blah blah. A troll article for the uber paranoid followed by 52 messages from people with nothing to add.
First, our species is social so avoiding places with people (people with the flu go everywhere) is impractical and you can get the flu from things touched by people (have you ever ordered something off the internet?) without ever actually meeting people. Second, you've either been incredibly lucky to have never contracted influenza, or you live in denial. Third, waiting for a pandemic before getting a vaccination won't work because there won't be enough vaccine available on short notice (companies won't stock-pile it "just in case"). And finally, calling something pointless based on false assumptions, scientific ignorance of how vaccines prevent illnesses and pandemics, and apples to oranges comparisons (comparing human vaccines to antivirus software utility) makes for a poor argument.
Don't be naive, or foolish. It's the major corporations who are doing the tracking and pushing the ads. And I don't buy the "doom and gloom" forecasts of ad blocking. a) in comparison to total web traffic, not that many people will use ad blockers and b) frankly the effectiveness of internet ads is greatly exaggerated.
Health regulators around the world have yet to approve any animals bred as genetically modified organisms (GMOs) for use in food because of long-standing paranoia and social media misinformation campaigns."
The difference between a 24 month installment contract on an iPhone 6s (and getting a new phone every 24 months) and the iPhone upgrade program is way over blown. The only difference is who you pay and what you get in return. In the former you get a phone that in 12 months becomes slightly dated and less efficient and have to purchase either a 3rd party insurance plan (usually through your carrier). In the latter you pay Apple, get Apple Care insurance, and you're always using the most recent version of your smart phone. Pick your poison.
What they're glossing over with their review is that adblocker extensions, password managers, extensions that prevent video from autoplaying and etc. will not be available. And I won't use Edge because if I can't control the behavior of my web browser I won't use that web browser.
Medical devices are very stringently regulated by the FDA. The Apple Watch is a consumer device, end of discussion... unless Apple applies to the FDA for approval of the device including it's manufacturing process and locations.
People do stuff. People watch other people do stuff. People write down what people are doing. People sell the information about what people are doing to other people. People build a business out of using lists of what people do. Someone notices. That someone has imagination, paranoia, a bit of delusion, a computer, the internet, access to an online discussion board, and marginal social skills. That person begins to write on blogs, forums and discussion boards using terms like privacy, government, big-brother, 1984, intrusion, surveillance, spying, and hackers. Other people respond making predictions, drawing ill-conceived conclusions, extrapolating wildly and exaggerating, trolling, and flame-baiting. And, nothing changes and none of the predictions come to pass. And, people do stuff...
This, like so many articles, and commenters, there is a lot of confusion about the terms security, privacy, and secrecy, equating them as being the same thing. One thing they have in common is that they're each inversely proportional to convenience and violating one compounds the breach of the others.
Just recently there was a story about how up to 80% of all cancers were the result of random errors in cell replication and had no link to an environmental cause.
Snail mail and land line phones were never secure, all it took was a search warrant/court order (really easy to get) and the police had it. Email is no different. All the ranting about the NSA and government intrusion just diverts from the fact that; 1) if you don't want anyone to hear what you say, don't say it. 2) if you don't want anyone to read what you write, don't write it down. The USA founding fathers lived with the knowledge that they would be held accountable for what they said and wrote, and today it's no different.
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Unrelated stock photos and innuendo. I love the "is to to have deployed" ... said by who? And the spy device that was "likely" used, if used at all, might have been blah blah blah. A troll article for the uber paranoid followed by 52 messages from people with nothing to add.
First, our species is social so avoiding places with people (people with the flu go everywhere) is impractical and you can get the flu from things touched by people (have you ever ordered something off the internet?) without ever actually meeting people. Second, you've either been incredibly lucky to have never contracted influenza, or you live in denial. Third, waiting for a pandemic before getting a vaccination won't work because there won't be enough vaccine available on short notice (companies won't stock-pile it "just in case"). And finally, calling something pointless based on false assumptions, scientific ignorance of how vaccines prevent illnesses and pandemics, and apples to oranges comparisons (comparing human vaccines to antivirus software utility) makes for a poor argument.
Having decided to employ an intrusive and obnoxious marketing method in their business plan is not my problem.
Delete app ... back to Safari
The sudden rise in the D.C. of take out orders for Mandarin cuisine since 2009.
Don't be naive, or foolish. It's the major corporations who are doing the tracking and pushing the ads. And I don't buy the "doom and gloom" forecasts of ad blocking. a) in comparison to total web traffic, not that many people will use ad blockers and b) frankly the effectiveness of internet ads is greatly exaggerated.
Health regulators around the world have yet to approve any animals bred as genetically modified organisms (GMOs) for use in food because of long-standing paranoia and social media misinformation campaigns."
Edge died too. All subsidies are gone. So the only question you need to ask is who do you prefer to pay.
The difference between a 24 month installment contract on an iPhone 6s (and getting a new phone every 24 months) and the iPhone upgrade program is way over blown. The only difference is who you pay and what you get in return. In the former you get a phone that in 12 months becomes slightly dated and less efficient and have to purchase either a 3rd party insurance plan (usually through your carrier). In the latter you pay Apple, get Apple Care insurance, and you're always using the most recent version of your smart phone. Pick your poison.
When it comes to Google, its logo, its apps and its services, my concern can be measured in micro give-a-shits and I'm working on nano-technology.
What they're glossing over with their review is that adblocker extensions, password managers, extensions that prevent video from autoplaying and etc. will not be available. And I won't use Edge because if I can't control the behavior of my web browser I won't use that web browser.
Yes, Google does an excellent job of ensuring they're the only ones tracking your web behavior and feeding you ads.
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I can't think of a single thing I see on youtube that I would pay even a penny for.
Any more that means the media have nothing else to scream about so trivial issues become "critical".
Medical devices are very stringently regulated by the FDA. The Apple Watch is a consumer device, end of discussion ... unless Apple applies to the FDA for approval of the device including it's manufacturing process and locations.
People do stuff. People watch other people do stuff. People write down what people are doing. People sell the information about what people are doing to other people. People build a business out of using lists of what people do. Someone notices. That someone has imagination, paranoia, a bit of delusion, a computer, the internet, access to an online discussion board, and marginal social skills. That person begins to write on blogs, forums and discussion boards using terms like privacy, government, big-brother, 1984, intrusion, surveillance, spying, and hackers. Other people respond making predictions, drawing ill-conceived conclusions, extrapolating wildly and exaggerating, trolling, and flame-baiting. And, nothing changes and none of the predictions come to pass. And, people do stuff ...
This, like so many articles, and commenters, there is a lot of confusion about the terms security, privacy, and secrecy, equating them as being the same thing. One thing they have in common is that they're each inversely proportional to convenience and violating one compounds the breach of the others.
Privacy - not a normal state of being for any living being. Secrecy - what the vast majority of people really want when they say they want privacy.
We all have them and Vint's agenda is good for Vint, and not much else.
Just recently there was a story about how up to 80% of all cancers were the result of random errors in cell replication and had no link to an environmental cause.
" ... the number of escapees was so small as to be undetectable." Until the undetectable escapees start multiplying and sudeenly they're detectable.
You have to take everyone's perspective into account. He wants all the info he can get, for free.
They thought Google+ and Glass were good ideas too.
Snail mail and land line phones were never secure, all it took was a search warrant/court order (really easy to get) and the police had it. Email is no different. All the ranting about the NSA and government intrusion just diverts from the fact that; 1) if you don't want anyone to hear what you say, don't say it. 2) if you don't want anyone to read what you write, don't write it down. The USA founding fathers lived with the knowledge that they would be held accountable for what they said and wrote, and today it's no different.