It is the US. You probably can get sued if you promise something and you do not comply. Lawyers do sometimes show common sense, but they tend to try to get any advantage from the law. As stupid as it sounds.
WhatsApp started on BlackBerry, then iPhone, and finally Android. The start price for the application was 5 USD for single perpetual license in the early days. The 1USD/year came years later, with the first year being free.
I read somewhere the future plan to monetize WhatsApp is to let merchants into the game. As in let merchants send you promotional messages. Note that Facebook knows where you have been, so you should see the strategy of targeted marketing in play. Targeted ads are well paid.
The plan to monetize WhatsApp these days involves creating big data records, I fear.
People see me as the odd one that worries about the power of Facebook, that does not have WhatsApp installed, that does not see the point of Twitter when we have RSS... I wish you luck in your future dumbphone aka feature phone live! I heard the Nokia 3310 did a came back, in case you are interested.
I am reading the legal piece on the Venmo website. Venmo is owned by Paypal. They have a 3% fee that is usually waived except for when funds originate from a credit card. Venmo may limit how much money you can send and receive. They can investigate any transaction and cancel it at Venmo discretion. If the recipient does not create an account and/or receives the transfer, your money may be held up to 30 days. Venmo can take money from your bank account. In the reverse situation, Venmo does not automatically send the money to your account - this is a separate action you need to take. If you have a business account, there is a limit on how much money you can withdraw but there is no such limit on the money you may receive.
On the privacy side of things, they get your Facebook credentials and the accounts you relate to in Facebook (let me not call them "friends"). They may use the information to promote other products to you. And you may publish all of your transactions online or just let the people you know know, for whatever reason you can think of.
So far, I only see the 3% fee on credit cards. The held funds do not "typically" give the Company any interests, although they have the right to do so. I might have missed something on the privacy side of things. Is what I listed all the revenue that Venmo gets? Seems somewhat low.
So, how did Harvard get into a Facebook private group? I do not use Facebook, but in my humble opinion, a private group means that unauthorized entities cannot access that group.I understand robots that scan words like "bomb" and maybe the NSA, but not real people with no affiliation to the group or the service or national security.
Be warned, millenials! Nothing is private on the interwebs.
Yeah, I grew tired of pro sports. Where I live, football/soccer is the main sport being followed. And things are getting to very high level of ridicule. The players do not show any sportsmanship, faking injuries in order to get adventages. Players even insult each other and have no respect for the authority that is the referee team. Players play as a brute when they want to get a yellow card in order to miss a not so important match they would be playing next. Boring tactics on the field bored me, and TV broadcasters did not enlighten me at all. Actually, the commentators tend to give extremely annoying remarks without substance all the time.
And everyone is a critic nowadays. You know you would never play as good as the ones you are watching, but oh dear me if the striker misses a penalty kick. There is almost no recognition of the good things the players do. I wonder if it is because they spend half of the time whining in order to get an unfair advantage. I am sure kids these days are learning from the pros. At least the kids do not learn from the fights their fathers contribute to while they play the junior league.
I know these statements are not reason why I would watch eSports, but these ones are the reasons why I do not watch any sport on TV nowadays.
Company broadcasted sevelar months ago that the new policy is to travel with disposable laptops that do not hold any valuable information other than VPN clients. Believe it or not, there are other countries that can and will take your laptop because they think of the children. I mean, those countries do not allow any pornographic material in the country because of reasons. And I am not talking of the US but of some arid country in the middle east, and PRC. It may take weeks for you to recover the laptop.
I decided that I will use tools provided by our IT team. Chrome updates whenever it likes. It may or might not share data with Google. If things break or Chrome does something stupid, I do not want to be liable.
It looks like BAE has recently replaced most of its IT workforce with south Asian contractors. It might or might not be related, as the official statement is power supply failure.
Even if it is optional, many people share files between Linux and Windows. At work we are using RHEL6 and I sometimes share share files between the OS I use for work and the OS I use for drawing shiny little slides. Many average consumers that bought a home NAS use SMB protocol for sharing stuff. The issue is that for the average consumer, SMB just works.
I know that support for Windows XP ended after 10 years or so, and most people were satisfied with that (not on this week, though!). But that extended support will not be there for this TV. Most Smart TV functions only get between one and two years of updates, becoming obsolete afterwards. So, buyers beware! It is usually better to spend a few notes on a set top box or a chromecast.
As a side note, does anybody have any Android TV (e.g. from Sony), Tizen TV (Samsung) or similar? I would like to know if you still use the Smart TV functions.
I got a message a few weeks ago from an intranet website (maybe an old version of Jira or Confluence?): Internet Explorer not supported. It looks like you do not need to target IE anymore.
Similar situation here. I do have less subscriptions to RSS feeds than OP, but I do still use them. Feedly is aggregating these feeds and synching what I do on mobile and what I do on the desktop. As reported, a few of these feeds are just a link to the website, a few others have the first two or three paragraphs without any image, and the few remaining have the whole article in there. Webcomics are a mixed bag. Dilbert RSS included the webcomic in the past, but it is now a link to the website. XKCD still shows the full strip on RSS, and - I am not sure if it is feedly or not - has a button on mobile to show the alt text to the img tag.
As a second source of aggregation, I try Google Kiosk. However, Kiosk is not available on the desktop. So I only use it as a way to explore new feeds when I am done with feedly and I am really really bored. Note that Google News is not available where I live.
Note that I did remove a lot of weblogs that were just aggregating articles from other websites. I really hate when I read "Digital Foundry is telling this", "Anandtech did that analysis", "Ars Technica complains about Mac", etc. I do not see the point on those websites if they are not adding any value at all.
DRM are a necessary evil if you want a rental market. Rentals and/or borrowing have been used a lot for movies and books, as many movies and many books are the kind of "read once" type (however, this is another story). With the ability to easily copy and distribute digital media, it is hard to tell if extra copies are being made unlawfully. DRM is the solution to this question that we have right now. And it is fairly restrictive, as you cannot have your movies and books in the media you want.
I believe that even dead tree media can have restrictions at a time. Want to read the latest best-seller that is only made available in hardcover format instead of your preferred paperback? Well, somebody decided for you how you are going to consume the media.
In my opinion, the "buy" option that has DRM is a fairly bad proposal for the buyer. It is basically a perpetual license to the media with the risks of depending on what the media provider company is doing. If the provider is gone, so are your licenses.
So, I know DRM is evil and we do not want that. What are the alternatives that can keep traditional shops open? I am all ears.
You can also start your washer/dryer while you are at work, or even better, while you are on your conmute. But please, do not drive and use apps at the same time.
Other people you do not know will use your washer/dryer as a way to either attack any other device on your network or be part of a botnet. You might be even unlucky and somebody might overheat your dryer thus causing a fire.
The reason why there are so many mobile applications for room chats is that they want to harvest your data. If you are not paying, then you are not their customer. In a country where 98% of the smartphones use Facebook's Whatsapp, the expectation is that you need to give Facebook your personal data. I do not want that, so I do not have a Whatsapp account.
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It is the US. You probably can get sued if you promise something and you do not comply. Lawyers do sometimes show common sense, but they tend to try to get any advantage from the law. As stupid as it sounds.
I read somewhere the future plan to monetize WhatsApp is to let merchants into the game. As in let merchants send you promotional messages. Note that Facebook knows where you have been, so you should see the strategy of targeted marketing in play. Targeted ads are well paid.
The plan to monetize WhatsApp these days involves creating big data records, I fear.
I am amazed that there are over thousand million active mobile phone lines. Wow, mobile internet is almost everywhere.
The comic book I bought is da bomb, dude!
People see me as the odd one that worries about the power of Facebook, that does not have WhatsApp installed, that does not see the point of Twitter when we have RSS... I wish you luck in your future dumbphone aka feature phone live! I heard the Nokia 3310 did a came back, in case you are interested.
Slow down and move to the south. Stress can kill you, you know!
May I suggest Facebook Messenger? /duck
Nada software, the only one without bugs or security holes. http://www.bernardbelanger.com... Just a kindly reminder: you get what you pay for.
Let us not feed the trolls! Every country has its own share of problems.
On the privacy side of things, they get your Facebook credentials and the accounts you relate to in Facebook (let me not call them "friends"). They may use the information to promote other products to you. And you may publish all of your transactions online or just let the people you know know, for whatever reason you can think of.
So far, I only see the 3% fee on credit cards. The held funds do not "typically" give the Company any interests, although they have the right to do so. I might have missed something on the privacy side of things. Is what I listed all the revenue that Venmo gets? Seems somewhat low.
Be warned, millenials! Nothing is private on the interwebs.
And everyone is a critic nowadays. You know you would never play as good as the ones you are watching, but oh dear me if the striker misses a penalty kick. There is almost no recognition of the good things the players do. I wonder if it is because they spend half of the time whining in order to get an unfair advantage. I am sure kids these days are learning from the pros. At least the kids do not learn from the fights their fathers contribute to while they play the junior league.
I know these statements are not reason why I would watch eSports, but these ones are the reasons why I do not watch any sport on TV nowadays.
Company broadcasted sevelar months ago that the new policy is to travel with disposable laptops that do not hold any valuable information other than VPN clients. Believe it or not, there are other countries that can and will take your laptop because they think of the children. I mean, those countries do not allow any pornographic material in the country because of reasons. And I am not talking of the US but of some arid country in the middle east, and PRC. It may take weeks for you to recover the laptop.
I decided that I will use tools provided by our IT team. Chrome updates whenever it likes. It may or might not share data with Google. If things break or Chrome does something stupid, I do not want to be liable.
Here you have the BBC report on the matter: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-400...
Maybe not today, though.
As a side note, does anybody have any Android TV (e.g. from Sony), Tizen TV (Samsung) or similar? I would like to know if you still use the Smart TV functions.
I got a message a few weeks ago from an intranet website (maybe an old version of Jira or Confluence?): Internet Explorer not supported. It looks like you do not need to target IE anymore.
As a second source of aggregation, I try Google Kiosk. However, Kiosk is not available on the desktop. So I only use it as a way to explore new feeds when I am done with feedly and I am really really bored. Note that Google News is not available where I live.
Note that I did remove a lot of weblogs that were just aggregating articles from other websites. I really hate when I read "Digital Foundry is telling this", "Anandtech did that analysis", "Ars Technica complains about Mac", etc. I do not see the point on those websites if they are not adding any value at all.
I believe that even dead tree media can have restrictions at a time. Want to read the latest best-seller that is only made available in hardcover format instead of your preferred paperback? Well, somebody decided for you how you are going to consume the media.
In my opinion, the "buy" option that has DRM is a fairly bad proposal for the buyer. It is basically a perpetual license to the media with the risks of depending on what the media provider company is doing. If the provider is gone, so are your licenses.
So, I know DRM is evil and we do not want that. What are the alternatives that can keep traditional shops open? I am all ears.
Other people you do not know will use your washer/dryer as a way to either attack any other device on your network or be part of a botnet. You might be even unlucky and somebody might overheat your dryer thus causing a fire.
I hope it will be decline next. The Internet Of Hazards have brought too many clickbait stories already.
Slashdot, (not) news for nerds. Stuff that doess (not) matter.
I am still intrigued the arguments in favour of this Frankenphone.
The reason why there are so many mobile applications for room chats is that they want to harvest your data. If you are not paying, then you are not their customer. In a country where 98% of the smartphones use Facebook's Whatsapp, the expectation is that you need to give Facebook your personal data. I do not want that, so I do not have a Whatsapp account.