Because they care about following the law, and have moral fiber?
Hulu is partially owned by NBC whose stock symbol is GE. A publicly owned corporation can not and does not have "moral fiber". That's an impossibility.
If this "anonymous, unique identifier" is a fiction, the "privacy abuse" is obvious.
On the other hand, if the "anonymous, unique identifier" truly is anonymous, where is the "privacy abuse"? We're going to have ads served to us regardless. Better to have ads that are relevant to my interests than random, irrelevant ads.
I disagree. Ads that don't concern me are easier to ignore. "Targeted Advertizing" is a pretty name for "Manipulation of Potential Customers".
If I had mod points you'd definitely get one. It seems like, over time, people forget why things like this are important. It is worse now because this new privacy invasion is not in your face. No one is pushing their way into your home to rummage through your things. It's invisible, and many people choose not to see it for what it is and for what it will become.
I just wish Nissan would ditch the weird styling while they're at it.
This is why Tesla is getting so much public attention: the cars they make look like cars people actually want to drive. Stop making every electric car look like a midget minivan (a miniminivan?) and more people would actually buy them.
Right. For most people, the way a car looks is a high priority. The question electric car manufacturers should always ask themselves is: "How well would this car sell if it had a gas engine in it?"
Investors welcomed the announcement by Netflix, which had suffered from a consumer exodus and stock plunge after it announced an unpopular price increase in July 2011.
Well, the first price increase cost us customers so the stock plunged. What will make the stock soar? A price increase!
So let me get this straight, it's perfectly OK to kill people with drones as long as they're not American citizens?
Welcome to Planet Earth.
AKA "The REAL World!"
It ain't a nice place, and it ain't gonna be a nice place, in spite of all the sheltered urban first-world fantasies you can conjure.
Right. You have no right to complain unless your country is a third world shithole. It's just stupid to think that things could be better. Our founding fathers had it all wrong. People in other places have no rights so why should we? Thank you so much, AC. Without your wisdom and foresight, we would all be lost.
Simpson 260 Series 8 Analog VOM. Built like a fricking tank. Simple, beautiful and reliable. Reads when a DMM wont. Will probably outlast the guy that buys it from a garage sale after I'm gone.:)
There was a time in my life when I would have thought the "Internet of Things" was really cool. Now, things like this are a huge turnoff to me because of constant surveillance by governments and corporations. The fun is over.
Putin's Russia, oddly enough where Snowden now lives, has already been exploiting the information Snowden revealed to strengthen their intelligence apparatus and exploit gaps in those of the West. Snowden doesn't deserve a Nobel but maybe the cover of Time magazine, a distinction he could share with various other notables of ill repute. (Was John Walker or Kim Philby ever on the cover?) On top of that Snowden deserves prosecution.
Maybe next time the NSA decides to go too far and aim for total surveillance of every connected person on the planet, they should remember the downsides of forcing someone to blow the whistle.
* organizations could disclose subscriber or customer personal information without a court order to law enforcement with full legal immunity from liability
* organizations could disclose subscriber or customer personal information without a court order to any other organization claiming investigation of an actual or potential contractual breach or legal violation
* the disclosures would be kept secret from the affected individuals
* the disclosing organizations would be under no obligation to report on their practices or past disclosures
Wow. Good thing I live in the US where a citizens privacy is a high priority and its importance is well understood by our government.
the news here is that the website doesn't turn on the microphone, google turns on the microphone and starts making transcriptions of everything you say. the website just accesses the transcriptions. why is goog recording everything? rhetorical question, they are looking for keywords that they can advertise against. did you just say "cancun"? they will give you hotel and airline ads.
that is super creepy.
I have been very interested to see what will cause a large number of people to stop using Google products. We have got to be getting close.
I have OpenVPN installed on my portable devices, and it connects back to my VPN server, using my own CA. I have the devices set to use the VPN server as the gateway so when I'm doing any kind of data retrieval that I want to keep confidential, it's going through an encrypted tunnel. Yes, it does slow things down a bit, but I find most public WiFi sucks pretty serious donkey balls anyways.
Nothing is 100% secure, but I pretty much treat any public network; airport, airplane, hotel, restaurant, or the like as hostile territory.
That's all pointless. They've tapped your home connection too. Your ISP gives them anything they want on a silver platter.
I wouldn't say pointless. He's protected from public wifi that is easily monitored/manipulated by anybody with physical access to it.
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Because they care about following the law, and have moral fiber?
Hulu is partially owned by NBC whose stock symbol is GE. A publicly owned corporation can not and does not have "moral fiber". That's an impossibility.
If this "anonymous, unique identifier" is a fiction, the "privacy abuse" is obvious.
On the other hand, if the "anonymous, unique identifier" truly is anonymous, where is the "privacy abuse"? We're going to have ads served to us regardless. Better to have ads that are relevant to my interests than random, irrelevant ads.
I disagree. Ads that don't concern me are easier to ignore. "Targeted Advertizing" is a pretty name for "Manipulation of Potential Customers".
nobody believes the outcomes will be fair or properly enforced.
Over time, they won't be. Power corrupts. That's why it should be forcibly limited on those who have it.
If I had mod points you'd definitely get one. It seems like, over time, people forget why things like this are important. It is worse now because this new privacy invasion is not in your face. No one is pushing their way into your home to rummage through your things. It's invisible, and many people choose not to see it for what it is and for what it will become.
I'd just be happy with self-driving cars, so I can spend my time reading a book and not watching out for the intoxicated or incompetent on the roads.
Not me. I like to drive.
The summary answers itself:
I just wish Nissan would ditch the weird styling while they're at it.
This is why Tesla is getting so much public attention: the cars they make look like cars people actually want to drive. Stop making every electric car look like a midget minivan (a miniminivan?) and more people would actually buy them.
Right. For most people, the way a car looks is a high priority. The question electric car manufacturers should always ask themselves is: "How well would this car sell if it had a gas engine in it?"
Investors welcomed the announcement by Netflix, which had suffered from a consumer exodus and stock plunge after it announced an unpopular price increase in July 2011.
Well, the first price increase cost us customers so the stock plunged. What will make the stock soar? A price increase!
So let me get this straight, it's perfectly OK to kill people with drones as long as they're not American citizens?
Welcome to Planet Earth.
AKA "The REAL World!"
It ain't a nice place, and it ain't gonna be a nice place, in spite of all the sheltered urban first-world fantasies you can conjure.
Right. You have no right to complain unless your country is a third world shithole. It's just stupid to think that things could be better. Our founding fathers had it all wrong. People in other places have no rights so why should we? Thank you so much, AC. Without your wisdom and foresight, we would all be lost.
experimenting with 15 inch golf holes the size of pizzas to stop people from quitting the game.
Why not make the entire green the hole? People would never be able to quit.
15 inch holes
Is goatse.cx the connection? It's goatse.cx isn't it?
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No!!!
comes with a new 'Lens Blur' feature that lets you adds creamy bokeh to your pictures.
Yeah, hi, I have a question. Does it have to be creamy?
I would have paid to watch him smash it!
Simpson 260 Series 8 Analog VOM. Built like a fricking tank. Simple, beautiful and reliable. Reads when a DMM wont. Will probably outlast the guy that buys it from a garage sale after I'm gone. :)
There was a time in my life when I would have thought the "Internet of Things" was really cool. Now, things like this are a huge turnoff to me because of constant surveillance by governments and corporations. The fun is over.
Putin's Russia, oddly enough where Snowden now lives, has already been exploiting the information Snowden revealed to strengthen their intelligence apparatus and exploit gaps in those of the West. Snowden doesn't deserve a Nobel but maybe the cover of Time magazine, a distinction he could share with various other notables of ill repute. (Was John Walker or Kim Philby ever on the cover?) On top of that Snowden deserves prosecution.
Maybe next time the NSA decides to go too far and aim for total surveillance of every connected person on the planet, they should remember the downsides of forcing someone to blow the whistle.
So if you are a white straight male, or in some cases a male period, you are not a "protected class"
Think of the male periods!
Mental image horror! Male tampons! Ah!
One of the best posts I've read on /. in a long while.
Yes. Very good. Thank you for that, Opportunist.
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Oh well.
* organizations could disclose subscriber or customer personal information without a court order to law enforcement with full legal immunity from liability
* organizations could disclose subscriber or customer personal information without a court order to any other organization claiming investigation of an actual or potential contractual breach or legal violation
* the disclosures would be kept secret from the affected individuals
* the disclosing organizations would be under no obligation to report on their practices or past disclosures
Wow. Good thing I live in the US where a citizens privacy is a high priority and its importance is well understood by our government.
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No self respecting nerd uses Facebook! Who are you trying to reach with this?
the news here is that the website doesn't turn on the microphone, google turns on the microphone and starts making transcriptions of everything you say. the website just accesses the transcriptions. why is goog recording everything? rhetorical question, they are looking for keywords that they can advertise against. did you just say "cancun"? they will give you hotel and airline ads.
that is super creepy.
I have been very interested to see what will cause a large number of people to stop using Google products. We have got to be getting close.
I have OpenVPN installed on my portable devices, and it connects back to my VPN server, using my own CA. I have the devices set to use the VPN server as the gateway so when I'm doing any kind of data retrieval that I want to keep confidential, it's going through an encrypted tunnel. Yes, it does slow things down a bit, but I find most public WiFi sucks pretty serious donkey balls anyways.
Nothing is 100% secure, but I pretty much treat any public network; airport, airplane, hotel, restaurant, or the like as hostile territory.
That's all pointless. They've tapped your home connection too. Your ISP gives them anything they want on a silver platter.
I wouldn't say pointless. He's protected from public wifi that is easily monitored/manipulated by anybody with physical access to it.
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Who decides if you are a political radical or not? What about your loved ones?