If you use Flickr, that's Yahoo. And Flickr is a pretty good service for photographers.
That's just one example; these big companies usually own "smaller" sites that you might use without even knowing it's the big company behind the scenes.
A regular public WiFi, that you can connect to without installing profiles, etc... is indeed unencrypted. But most services that matter these days use SSL so it's not an issue.
But if you have to install a profile, it can do things like set proxies, install SSL client certificates and so on. It can spy on you VERY deeply. You're actually better off connecting to unencrypted open WiFi than one of these.
Yeah, Golden Beach, FL has this problem. Over a mile of beach with absolutely no public access, except for a small park in the middle where you can't park unless you're a town resident and the police will harass you if you use the facilities there.
Beaches should be public. Period. They are a very limited resource and it shouldn't be possible for the 1% to own them and deny access.
I've eaten at McD's many times and not once have I seen someone watching porn there. Also, it's not the sort of environment that makes sense for watching that content; you don't have any privacy to do the sort of things that someone watching porn tends to want to do.
In retrospect I'm surprised at how well my phone worked when at an Orioles game this past Sunday. No problem sending photos from the game and looking up player info. Usually in such crazy crowded conditions my phone becomes useless.
I guess AT&T has seriously beefed up network capacity at Orioles Park.
There's a good chance that many of your favorite YouTube videos have been deleted over the years. Downloading is the only sure way to save YouTube videos you like.
The Internet in general is a temporary place. We need to be able to save content we like.
Nearly every single movie featuring an AI has shown it eventually trying to destroy/enslave humanity. So we've had it programmed into our heads from when we were kids to distrust AIs. Even if the movies have little to no grounding in reality, seeing ways things can go wrong depicted can be pretty powerful on our overal psyche.
I thought the entire point of console gaming was that the hardware is always identical?
This means that:
- All games work on all hardware. - You only have to target one piece of hardware in development, which saves money. - You can buy a new console and feel like you made a good investment because a "slightly faster one" won't come out in a year or two.
If MS is going to start upgrading consoles mid-generation, people might as well stick to PC gaming.
>Racing to the bottom, until nobody has anything, which certainly fulfills the requirements for equality but I somehow fail to see how this is a goal to aspire to.
Wow, you pretty much exactly described what happened in countries like the Soviet Union and Cuba.
At least China managed to figure out it's a bad idea and tweaked the system.
They can be pretty nasty. Since it's illegal, they don't mind using illegal means to try to make money, such as compromising your computer and installing malware.
Are there really that many of these people out there? I've yet to encounter any of them in real life, nor have I seen drones trying to spy on anyone in the neighborhood.
You should probably stop watching the news so much. The media tends to make people paranoid.
The ridiculous thing here is the labels get paid ANYWAY when you stream the music, regardless of whether it's on Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music, Amazon, etc... It's in the contract.
What point is there to have an exclusive? They should be trying to get the music on as many services as possible, so the stream count is as high as possible (across all services) since they are paid by the stream.
I see very little content that's actually from the people I follow. 99% of what I see is just stuff reshared from other places. I hardly ever use Facebook anymore because most of that reshared content doesn't interest me anyway.
I've read that scammers tend to write their E-mails using bad grammar and spelling on purpose, because they only want the most dimwitted people out there falling for their scam; idiots tend to part with their money and private information a lot more easily.
These guys seem to be going in the other direction, making the E-mails look as legitimate and official as possible, thus going after more savvy individuals too.
>They require access to a remote server to function.
This seems to be becoming the case for nearly everything.
One of the reasons I bought into the Philips HUE lighting system is that it requires no remote servers. Everything operates locally. We need more products like this rather than crap that breaks when the Internet is not available or the manufacturer retires the product line.
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Umm, the base 15" Macbook Pro costs $1,999. Just increase any spec and it's +$2K.
If you use Flickr, that's Yahoo. And Flickr is a pretty good service for photographers.
That's just one example; these big companies usually own "smaller" sites that you might use without even knowing it's the big company behind the scenes.
A regular public WiFi, that you can connect to without installing profiles, etc... is indeed unencrypted. But most services that matter these days use SSL so it's not an issue.
But if you have to install a profile, it can do things like set proxies, install SSL client certificates and so on. It can spy on you VERY deeply. You're actually better off connecting to unencrypted open WiFi than one of these.
Oh, I should also mention that configuration profiles can install SSL certificates too. Gee, that can't be abused at all, can it? :)
I went to use one of these and it wanted to install an iOS configuration profile on my phone.
These profiles can configure your phone on a fairly deep level, doing things like adding proxies, restricting functionality, and so on.
I hit cancel and just continued to use my data plan. Screw that.
I read this and I'm just shaking my head at how incredibly ludicrous every word in that statement was.
If it weren't for the fact that millions of people live under the oppression of this sort of thinking, it would actually be funny.
When will these people finally join the 21st century and stop basing their entire lives around this bullshit?
Yeah, Golden Beach, FL has this problem. Over a mile of beach with absolutely no public access, except for a small park in the middle where you can't park unless you're a town resident and the police will harass you if you use the facilities there.
Beaches should be public. Period. They are a very limited resource and it shouldn't be possible for the 1% to own them and deny access.
I've eaten at McD's many times and not once have I seen someone watching porn there. Also, it's not the sort of environment that makes sense for watching that content; you don't have any privacy to do the sort of things that someone watching porn tends to want to do.
What's the point?
Why didn't they just have a typical sibling argument, maybe at most throw a few punches, and call it a day?
I'm sorry that all the joy got sucked out of your life. I hope someday you find it again.
In retrospect I'm surprised at how well my phone worked when at an Orioles game this past Sunday. No problem sending photos from the game and looking up player info. Usually in such crazy crowded conditions my phone becomes useless.
I guess AT&T has seriously beefed up network capacity at Orioles Park.
Whenever I search for music on YouTube it's pretty much always a VEVO video, which I presume is licensed.
What exactly are they complaining about?
There's a good chance that many of your favorite YouTube videos have been deleted over the years. Downloading is the only sure way to save YouTube videos you like.
The Internet in general is a temporary place. We need to be able to save content we like.
Nearly every single movie featuring an AI has shown it eventually trying to destroy/enslave humanity. So we've had it programmed into our heads from when we were kids to distrust AIs. Even if the movies have little to no grounding in reality, seeing ways things can go wrong depicted can be pretty powerful on our overal psyche.
I thought the entire point of console gaming was that the hardware is always identical?
This means that:
- All games work on all hardware.
- You only have to target one piece of hardware in development, which saves money.
- You can buy a new console and feel like you made a good investment because a "slightly faster one" won't come out in a year or two.
If MS is going to start upgrading consoles mid-generation, people might as well stick to PC gaming.
>Racing to the bottom, until nobody has anything, which certainly fulfills the requirements for equality but I somehow fail to see how this is a goal to aspire to.
Wow, you pretty much exactly described what happened in countries like the Soviet Union and Cuba.
At least China managed to figure out it's a bad idea and tweaked the system.
Rather than:
"I'm offended by this! So I just won't use it."
People are all...
"I'm offended by this! IT MUST BE BANNED!"
If this keeps catching on, it'll be like Chinese censorship in no time.
They can be pretty nasty. Since it's illegal, they don't mind using illegal means to try to make money, such as compromising your computer and installing malware.
Be careful, folks. :)
We laugh, but failures are how one learns how to do things; we had many dozens of rockets fail before we perfected the technology.
Eventually they'll figure it out. Then what? I don't trust that crazy government with ICBMs.
It's somewhat comforting to know that nothing has changed in ten years. :)
Are there really that many of these people out there? I've yet to encounter any of them in real life, nor have I seen drones trying to spy on anyone in the neighborhood.
You should probably stop watching the news so much. The media tends to make people paranoid.
The ridiculous thing here is the labels get paid ANYWAY when you stream the music, regardless of whether it's on Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music, Amazon, etc... It's in the contract.
What point is there to have an exclusive? They should be trying to get the music on as many services as possible, so the stream count is as high as possible (across all services) since they are paid by the stream.
I see very little content that's actually from the people I follow. 99% of what I see is just stuff reshared from other places. I hardly ever use Facebook anymore because most of that reshared content doesn't interest me anyway.
I've read that scammers tend to write their E-mails using bad grammar and spelling on purpose, because they only want the most dimwitted people out there falling for their scam; idiots tend to part with their money and private information a lot more easily.
These guys seem to be going in the other direction, making the E-mails look as legitimate and official as possible, thus going after more savvy individuals too.
I guess maybe they're running out of suckers?
>They require access to a remote server to function.
This seems to be becoming the case for nearly everything.
One of the reasons I bought into the Philips HUE lighting system is that it requires no remote servers. Everything operates locally. We need more products like this rather than crap that breaks when the Internet is not available or the manufacturer retires the product line.