You can dig deep into your about:config settings and fix it there ((sorry - setting so obscure can't remember it! You might find it to turn it off but Grandmama won't)) and you are right!!! Firefox only pays lip service to privacy. And like their tieup with Adobe DRM https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-c..., their advertising page for "partners" http://adexchanger.com/ad-exch..., targeting you for advertising based on your browsing http://www.pcworld.com/article..., and now Disconnect.me, they're doing favors for businesses. Google was paying Firefox $300M a year http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/... before they pulled the plug and Firefox reached a deal with Yahoo, and they switched searches to Yahoo -- not because it was the better search engine, but because Yahoo was giving them cash http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
Firefox has become a megacorporation. They are not for profit http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb... so that money doesn't to shareholders but it goes SOMEWHERE like executive salaries and just like a megacorporation they care more about cutting deals with other businesses than they do the public because we are not their customers. They are!
Hackers go to jail for insider trading because it rips off punters without access to the inside information.
So what about High-frequency trading? Investment bankers pay a premium to the stock exchange to connect their computers closer than everyone elses. They get inside information microseconds before those same punters, and milk them for it, and it's all legit. Isn't High-frequency trading just another kind of insider trading?
Most people like Coke and have nothing against Coca Cola corporation. They know Coke has sugar, and sugar makes them fat. They know it's up to them to consume it in moderation and if they don't then they accept the consequences.
So for Coke to do an RJ Reynolds and try and pretend uhhhhhh sugar does NOT make you fat it insults the intelligence of their customers and begs Government to say 'they have gone too far' and to step in and regulate. When that happens Coke, remember you started it.
Right now Australia's Internet is pathetically slow by first world standards - though competitive by third world standards.... YAY! Internet speeds: Australia ranks 44th, study cites direction of NBN as part of problemhttp://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
The Liberals are promising the NBN will deliver at least 25Mbps to most household... YAWN! The Coalition’s rebooted NBN plan proposes to use a mix of technologies, including Telstra’s copper network and cable networks, to deliver minimum broadband download speeds of 25Mbps to 90 per cent of households and businesses by 2020. http://www.businessspectator.c...
If it really was a leak Microsoft would call the FBI. This is just PR:
Leak n. a synonym for a public relations announcement, dressed to sound more exciting, but which by insulting the target audience's intelligence ends up irritating rather than fooling them
Firefox has lost touch with its users over the Adobe DRM pact , redirecting searches to Yahoo - not because it's a better search engine - it's a worse one! - but because Yahoo paid them to, and now the new IN YOUR FACE page promoting "partners" when you open a new tab - mentally interrupting you.
Firefox remains a slow memory pig. I'd ditch it in a minute if there's something better. Opera and Chrome are perhaps better, but are slowish with a large memory footprint too Someone, please give us a fast browse with a small memory footprint. How hard can that be?
PS Some people will say you can't be fast and have a small memory footprint, but if they take 30Mb of memory per page, that takes time to read and write.
> If people don't trust banks with their money, they'll end up with mattresses full of cash.
People don't trust banks anyway. They just know the government will bail them out if the bankers act irresponsibly, which relieves people of the need to choose their banker responsibly.
> I know that if I put my money in the bank, unless the whole country turns to shit, I will get it back, with interest.
Granted people (at least those trying to keep pace with inflation e.g. me included) need somewhere safe to stash their cash - but you yourself say you want *interest* too. The greater the return the greater the risk. Take the UK pension funds who sent their cash to Iceland which was offering too good to be true returns. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_... and http://www.theguardian.com/bus...
Problem is banks get that money cheap, and businesses never say "because I got that for cheap, I don't need much profit." Nope. They'll always try and get the greatest return from it. This was the problem with the US S&L scandal. You can try and regulate the bankers to act responsibly, but they inevitably lobby the government to take off the controls and get into bed with the regulators.
Federal bank insurance is a bit different from what's happened to Greece. Doesn't get around the fact you shouldn't lend someone money if they can't pay it back, and if they walk from the debt, that's on your head. Why should the government pay for your bad judgment? If you say, yes, "for the integrity of the financial system," that works both ways.
That's Moral Hazard: Encouraging bankers to make high-risk loans because they know the public will bail them out if it goes bad, and their customers get the cream if it goes good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The alternative is to let the banks go bust so in future customers think twice before loaning their money to reckless bankers, and jail the bankers as criminals: http://www.independent.co.uk/n... because bailed out bankers go on to do the same thing. And why wouldn't they? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
You take on a risk when you lend money. If the creditor can't repay it, it's your bad for lending them the money in the first place, and you're a fool if you keep lending them money when they know they can't repay it. The EU's stupidity was that they bailed out the private banks and took on the debt on behalf of their citizens. http://www.businessinsider.my/...
Obviously this has ridiculously low security, but the way chargebacks work if there is a fraudulent purchase with it, the merchant wears the cost. Not Mastercard. So there's no downside for Mastercard, and the upside is the novelty value will have narcissists using it... and spending more. "Once approved, the chargeback cancels the financial transaction, and the consumer receives a refund of the money they spent. When a chargeback occurs, the merchant is accountable, regardless of whatever measures they took to verify the transaction. In 2013, LexisNexis reported that merchants pay up to US$2.79 for every $1 lost in fraudulent transactions." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
> For many, the idea of storing nude photos and other data in the cloud seems insane, especially considering the regulatory aspects that mandate how that data is protected. But more and more organizations are doing so as cloud providers start presenting offerings that fulfill regulatory needs — and people realize that nude photos is more likely to be accidentally emailed out to the wrong address then hacked.
And OP was stupid before I changed it to nude photos eg "regulatory aspects that mandate how that data is protected" Is there a regulation for absolute security now? This doesn't even pass the think-about-it-for-10-seconds test.
Firefox cut a deal with Yahoo too, not because Yahoo is a better search engine for their users, either because Yahoo gave Firefox money or, well, why else would they do it? http://www.dispatch.com/conten...
What sucks is Yahoo sucks. I didn't even notice the browser change by the logo, but I did notice it when it gave bad search results. Changed back to Google, and results were accurate again.
Yahoo, you are the RealPlayer of the search world. File Chapter 5.
> "Optus adds our customers' mobile number to the information in select circumstances where we have a commercial relationship with owners of particular websites."
Someone needs to tell the weasel at Optus pushing this excuse that they have a COMMERCIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THEIR CUSTOMERS TOO.
> A lot of well-educated and smart people, including Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking, have stated they are fearful about the dangers that sentient Artificial Intelligence (AI) poses to humanity.
Look at the dangers sentient *humans* have put onto the world: greed, avarice, corruption, war, climate, suppression of rights, mass surveillance, abuse of power, media manipulation. Those dangers are here and now. How about fixing that *NOW* and now, because that danger is *NOW*.
The media love it because scary headlines attract eyeballs, but scare tactics can backfire: Researchers might get more funding, but they also might get their research banned: http://victimsofdsto.byethost3...
Cameron is staunchly anti-freedom. What's tragic is a majority of British liked this and voted for the man and those that didn't are forced at gunpoint to come along for the ride.
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” —Ben Franklin
“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” —Thomas Jefferson
“Democracy... wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
“Democracy is the most vile form of government... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention... incompatible with personal security or the rights of property.” —James Madison
“The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and... breaks up the foundations of society.” —Thomas Jefferson
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You can dig deep into your about:config settings and fix it there ((sorry - setting so obscure can't remember it! You might find it to turn it off but Grandmama won't)) and you are right!!! Firefox only pays lip service to privacy. And like their tieup with Adobe DRM https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-c..., their advertising page for "partners" http://adexchanger.com/ad-exch..., targeting you for advertising based on your browsing http://www.pcworld.com/article..., and now Disconnect.me, they're doing favors for businesses. Google was paying Firefox $300M a year http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/... before they pulled the plug and Firefox reached a deal with Yahoo, and they switched searches to Yahoo -- not because it was the better search engine, but because Yahoo was giving them cash http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
Firefox has become a megacorporation. They are not for profit http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb... so that money doesn't to shareholders but it goes SOMEWHERE like executive salaries and just like a megacorporation they care more about cutting deals with other businesses than they do the public because we are not their customers. They are!
Hackers go to jail for insider trading because it rips off punters without access to the inside information.
So what about High-frequency trading? Investment bankers pay a premium to the stock exchange to connect their computers closer than everyone elses. They get inside information microseconds before those same punters, and milk them for it, and it's all legit. Isn't High-frequency trading just another kind of insider trading?
http://www.motherjones.com/pol...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04...
http://www.wsj.com/articles/re...
http://faculty.chicagobooth.ed...
Most people like Coke and have nothing against Coca Cola corporation. They know Coke has sugar, and sugar makes them fat. They know it's up to them to consume it in moderation and if they don't then they accept the consequences.
So for Coke to do an RJ Reynolds and try and pretend uhhhhhh sugar does NOT make you fat it insults the intelligence of their customers and begs Government to say 'they have gone too far' and to step in and regulate. When that happens Coke, remember you started it.
Sad how Japan's yesterday is Australia's future:
Right now Australia's Internet is pathetically slow by first world standards - though competitive by third world standards.... YAY! Internet speeds: Australia ranks 44th, study cites direction of NBN as part of problem http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
The Liberals are promising the NBN will deliver at least 25Mbps to most household... YAWN! The Coalition’s rebooted NBN plan proposes to use a mix of technologies, including Telstra’s copper network and cable networks, to deliver minimum broadband download speeds of 25Mbps to 90 per cent of households and businesses by 2020. http://www.businessspectator.c...
And the best you can get if you pay through the nose is 100Mbps? WHAT A JOKE! http://www.whistleout.com.au/B...
http://www.crikey.com.au/2014/...
http://blendertorenderman.blog...
If it really was a leak Microsoft would call the FBI. This is just PR:
Leak n. a synonym for a public relations announcement, dressed to sound more exciting, but which by insulting the target audience's intelligence ends up irritating rather than fooling them
What they don't tell you: Australia's new DTCA laws jail technologists and entrepreneurs
http://defencereport.com/australias-defence-trade-control-act-clamps-down-on-researchers/
http://www.cla.asn.au/News/defence-pilloried-by-senate-test-pilot/
http://delimiter.com.au/2015/07/13/cryptographers-issue-belated-complaint-about-defence-trade-controls-fix/
No Bill of Rights in Australia, no free speech in Australia, and corruption that would make Boss Tweed blush.
Firefox has lost touch with its users over the Adobe DRM pact , redirecting searches to Yahoo - not because it's a better search engine - it's a worse one! - but because Yahoo paid them to, and now the new IN YOUR FACE page promoting "partners" when you open a new tab - mentally interrupting you.
Firefox remains a slow memory pig. I'd ditch it in a minute if there's something better. Opera and Chrome are perhaps better, but are slowish with a large memory footprint too Someone, please give us a fast browse with a small memory footprint. How hard can that be?
PS Some people will say you can't be fast and have a small memory footprint, but if they take 30Mb of memory per page, that takes time to read and write.
> If people don't trust banks with their money, they'll end up with mattresses full of cash.
People don't trust banks anyway. They just know the government will bail them out if the bankers act irresponsibly, which relieves people of the need to choose their banker responsibly.
> I know that if I put my money in the bank, unless the whole country turns to shit, I will get it back, with interest.
Granted people (at least those trying to keep pace with inflation e.g. me included) need somewhere safe to stash their cash - but you yourself say you want *interest* too. The greater the return the greater the risk. Take the UK pension funds who sent their cash to Iceland which was offering too good to be true returns. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_... and http://www.theguardian.com/bus...
Problem is banks get that money cheap, and businesses never say "because I got that for cheap, I don't need much profit." Nope. They'll always try and get the greatest return from it. This was the problem with the US S&L scandal. You can try and regulate the bankers to act responsibly, but they inevitably lobby the government to take off the controls and get into bed with the regulators.
Federal bank insurance is a bit different from what's happened to Greece. Doesn't get around the fact you shouldn't lend someone money if they can't pay it back, and if they walk from the debt, that's on your head. Why should the government pay for your bad judgment? If you say, yes, "for the integrity of the financial system," that works both ways.
That's Moral Hazard: Encouraging bankers to make high-risk loans because they know the public will bail them out if it goes bad, and their customers get the cream if it goes good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The alternative is to let the banks go bust so in future customers think twice before loaning their money to reckless bankers, and jail the bankers as criminals: http://www.independent.co.uk/n... because bailed out bankers go on to do the same thing. And why wouldn't they? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
You take on a risk when you lend money. If the creditor can't repay it, it's your bad for lending them the money in the first place, and you're a fool if you keep lending them money when they know they can't repay it. The EU's stupidity was that they bailed out the private banks and took on the debt on behalf of their citizens. http://www.businessinsider.my/...
Nooooooooooooo! Nooooooooooooo! Nooooooooooooo! For the love of Hawing, Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
Never heard of it until now but thanks! http://www.crunchyroll.com/swo...
What if you're playing a virtual reality game, click logout, and the system says "I can't let you do that, Dave" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Obviously this has ridiculously low security, but the way chargebacks work if there is a fraudulent purchase with it, the merchant wears the cost. Not Mastercard. So there's no downside for Mastercard, and the upside is the novelty value will have narcissists using it... and spending more. "Once approved, the chargeback cancels the financial transaction, and the consumer receives a refund of the money they spent. When a chargeback occurs, the merchant is accountable, regardless of whatever measures they took to verify the transaction. In 2013, LexisNexis reported that merchants pay up to US$2.79 for every $1 lost in fraudulent transactions." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Wot me worry? Let me rewrite OP:
> For many, the idea of storing nude photos and other data in the cloud seems insane, especially considering the regulatory aspects that mandate how that data is protected. But more and more organizations are doing so as cloud providers start presenting offerings that fulfill regulatory needs — and people realize that nude photos is more likely to be accidentally emailed out to the wrong address then hacked.
And OP was stupid before I changed it to nude photos eg "regulatory aspects that mandate how that data is protected" Is there a regulation for absolute security now? This doesn't even pass the think-about-it-for-10-seconds test.
Google was paying Firefox $300M a year. http://www.reddit.com/r/techno... http://www.computerworld.com/a... Wonder what Yahoo is paying?
Firefox cut a deal with Yahoo too, not because Yahoo is a better search engine for their users, either because Yahoo gave Firefox money or, well, why else would they do it? http://www.dispatch.com/conten...
What sucks is Yahoo sucks. I didn't even notice the browser change by the logo, but I did notice it when it gave bad search results. Changed back to Google, and results were accurate again.
Yahoo, you are the RealPlayer of the search world. File Chapter 5.
> "Optus adds our customers' mobile number to the information in select circumstances where we have a commercial relationship with owners of particular websites."
Someone needs to tell the weasel at Optus pushing this excuse that they have a COMMERCIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THEIR CUSTOMERS TOO.
> UrtheCast has released high resolution videos of three Earth cities taken from its camera on ISS.
So taxpayers have been pouring billions into the ISS so some company sticks a camera on it and sells you photos? Screw that. Should be public domain.
> A lot of well-educated and smart people, including Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking, have stated they are fearful about the dangers that sentient Artificial Intelligence (AI) poses to humanity.
Look at the dangers sentient *humans* have put onto the world: greed, avarice, corruption, war, climate, suppression of rights, mass surveillance, abuse of power, media manipulation. Those dangers are here and now. How about fixing that *NOW* and now, because that danger is *NOW*.
The media love it because scary headlines attract eyeballs, but scare tactics can backfire: Researchers might get more funding, but they also might get their research banned: http://victimsofdsto.byethost3...
Judge and Jury nullification is a sure bet on this one.
... cheerleaders abandoning jocks for nerds, supermodels marrying geeks in increasing numbers, and my alarm goes off in half an hour.
Cameron is staunchly anti-freedom. What's tragic is a majority of British liked this and voted for the man and those that didn't are forced at gunpoint to come along for the ride.
... wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
... breaks up the foundations of society.” —Thomas Jefferson
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” —Ben Franklin
“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” —Thomas Jefferson
“Democracy
“Democracy is the most vile form of government... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention... incompatible with personal security or the rights of property.” —James Madison
“The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and
http://democracyisnotfreedom.c... https://encyclopediadramatica....