If we can no longer make legal backups of our own discs, the only feasible alternative is to just pirate them all. No DRM, no ads, no unskippable crap... no bullshit. If the disc is damaged, just burn it again... or, keep the video file as part of a digital media library and gain the ability to stream it from anywhere. I see 0 value in physical media anymore.
So wait, the government is ditching phones that are secure to move to phones with lower security? How does this even make sense? Are they trying to have secrets leak? Why not start building their tanks out of glass and bullets out of cotton while they're at it? The USA is going to fall faster than Rome over this stupidity... I hope somebody there comes to their senses soon.
access to any random State enemy's communications device
You seem to be under the impression that there are more enemies of the state than regular civilians. Why should a small percent have to destroy something actually beneficial to the overall majority of people? Doesn't that basically mean the enemy wins?
Also, US Government has nothing to do with other countries that value privacy and encryption. So really, they can still develop it but not release it in the US if it's that big of a deal.
The thing is, those pushes and shoves actually help the robot adapt and adjust to them in the future. As brutal as it sounds, they're not being mean, they're actually really helping them out. And you can also let your wife know that one day they'll end up a step above us humans because we did so well training them. But don't say it too loud, because we won't want to stroke our robot overlords' ego too much.
I could be mistaking it for another Chinese company, but I believe this is not the first time Baidu has come under fire for phoning home excessively and with unrelated data.
I'm somewhat out of the loop on this whole thing. We've got a few major countries trying to ban encryption. So does this mean their schools will also stop teaching math? And does this also mean that medical records, banking information, and account passwords/data will all be stored in plain text? I've never really been too concerned about foreign data policies, but if my sensitive data is going to be stored in plain text, I'm going to be extra cautious as to what I register to, and where I go. I honestly don't understand how anybody could think outlawing encryption is a good thing - especially since "bad guys" aren't in the business of following lawes. While everybody following the legal system will be exposed, the "bad guys" will be extra hidden while they continue breaking laws by using encryption.
Canadian here - we've been using Chip since at least 2008/2009. USA is still stuck in their old ways. I assume they'll start using chip when they start using the metric system.
God damn USA! Get with the times. Still using Imperial, still using mag stripes... Your neighbours to the north are disappointed in you. You guys are better than this!
That's true, but I can't see wireless KBM packages coming with bluetooth adapters any time soon... though if they switch to Bluetooth, it might make the dongles more available and possibly cheaper.
But you'd need a Bluetooth dongle to get that connection... so you'd still be out a USB port. Not sure of many PC's that come with native Bluetooth support
DOJ is requesting remote backdoor capabilities to all phones so that they can browse for hot nudes at any time anywhere. They originally wanted it to stop terrorism, but then realized that every other thing they've done to try to stop terrorism seems to have failed miserably. The DOJ is happy to announce that this time their plans will be used 100% as expected, and will for sure have great success.
We need people to flood the papers and TV with stories about fear of lack of privacy and thought police. Otherwise, the US is gonna be just as bad as Saudi Arabia.
I dig that LG is using the slot to allow them to create 1 base phone and allow the end user to pick the guts inside of it... but I worry that this will lead us down the road of manufacturers creating expensive sub-par devices, and then forcing us to buy a bunch of "PLUS" or "Premium" expansions bring the phone up to a respectable spec.
If they really want to be taken as a serious company, maybe they should first focus on making their website look like a trustworthy, professional search engine instead of a sketchy tabloid-like website with a search function built into it.
Why not just fire off the entire government and vote on which corporation you want to run your country? It's basically what's happening now, but we could fire a whole ton of puppets that are taking our money for nothing.
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How can anybody trust a "security" company that is literally crying to have people accept insecure certificates? Absolutely mindboggling.
It's really unfortunate, too... Symantec used to be top of the game.
Is this not considered libel? Is that legal now?
If we can no longer make legal backups of our own discs, the only feasible alternative is to just pirate them all. No DRM, no ads, no unskippable crap... no bullshit. If the disc is damaged, just burn it again... or, keep the video file as part of a digital media library and gain the ability to stream it from anywhere. I see 0 value in physical media anymore.
So wait, the government is ditching phones that are secure to move to phones with lower security? How does this even make sense? Are they trying to have secrets leak? Why not start building their tanks out of glass and bullets out of cotton while they're at it? The USA is going to fall faster than Rome over this stupidity... I hope somebody there comes to their senses soon.
You seem to be under the impression that there are more enemies of the state than regular civilians. Why should a small percent have to destroy something actually beneficial to the overall majority of people? Doesn't that basically mean the enemy wins?
Also, US Government has nothing to do with other countries that value privacy and encryption. So really, they can still develop it but not release it in the US if it's that big of a deal.
The thing is, those pushes and shoves actually help the robot adapt and adjust to them in the future. As brutal as it sounds, they're not being mean, they're actually really helping them out. And you can also let your wife know that one day they'll end up a step above us humans because we did so well training them. But don't say it too loud, because we won't want to stroke our robot overlords' ego too much.
We should just ship things th the US in same size as everywhere else, but with ugly sizes printed on the container.
I could be mistaking it for another Chinese company, but I believe this is not the first time Baidu has come under fire for phoning home excessively and with unrelated data.
Also product reviews.
I'm somewhat out of the loop on this whole thing. We've got a few major countries trying to ban encryption. So does this mean their schools will also stop teaching math? And does this also mean that medical records, banking information, and account passwords/data will all be stored in plain text? I've never really been too concerned about foreign data policies, but if my sensitive data is going to be stored in plain text, I'm going to be extra cautious as to what I register to, and where I go. I honestly don't understand how anybody could think outlawing encryption is a good thing - especially since "bad guys" aren't in the business of following lawes. While everybody following the legal system will be exposed, the "bad guys" will be extra hidden while they continue breaking laws by using encryption.
Canadian here - we've been using Chip since at least 2008/2009. USA is still stuck in their old ways. I assume they'll start using chip when they start using the metric system.
God damn USA! Get with the times. Still using Imperial, still using mag stripes... Your neighbours to the north are disappointed in you. You guys are better than this!
That's true, but I can't see wireless KBM packages coming with bluetooth adapters any time soon... though if they switch to Bluetooth, it might make the dongles more available and possibly cheaper.
But you'd need a Bluetooth dongle to get that connection... so you'd still be out a USB port. Not sure of many PC's that come with native Bluetooth support
DOJ is requesting remote backdoor capabilities to all phones so that they can browse for hot nudes at any time anywhere. They originally wanted it to stop terrorism, but then realized that every other thing they've done to try to stop terrorism seems to have failed miserably. The DOJ is happy to announce that this time their plans will be used 100% as expected, and will for sure have great success.
We need people to flood the papers and TV with stories about fear of lack of privacy and thought police. Otherwise, the US is gonna be just as bad as Saudi Arabia.
I dig that LG is using the slot to allow them to create 1 base phone and allow the end user to pick the guts inside of it... but I worry that this will lead us down the road of manufacturers creating expensive sub-par devices, and then forcing us to buy a bunch of "PLUS" or "Premium" expansions bring the phone up to a respectable spec.
If they really want to be taken as a serious company, maybe they should first focus on making their website look like a trustworthy, professional search engine instead of a sketchy tabloid-like website with a search function built into it.
Why the sudden implementation of gifs now? They're about 15 years too late... shouldn't they be pushing for gifv/webm?
What the fuck does a bank know about VR, AR, and tech trends? They're eons behind on tech.. probably still running COBOL servers.
A sarcasm detector? Oh that's a really useful invention...
Thanks Tim-o-thy
Pff, 1%ers don't surf the regular web. I call shens. Shouldn't you be on like... Billiondollardot or something? haha
Why not just fire off the entire government and vote on which corporation you want to run your country? It's basically what's happening now, but we could fire a whole ton of puppets that are taking our money for nothing.
I thought we could already do this? I remember hiding .rar archives in .jpg images. Is Amazon able to detect this magic?