'Do Not Track,' the Privacy Tool Used By Millions of People, Doesn't Do Anything
Who was ever foolish enough to think that it would? It's 100% voluntary with no teeth and no enforcement power whatsoever.
It was instantly seen as a scrumptious list of people who didn't want to be tracked, and therefore of immense value to spammers, marketers, government agencies, etc etc etc.
It's like a "Do Not Mug" list, where you publish your name and the amount of cash you have in your pocket, along with your home address.
Helm today unveiled its $499 device that lets consumers send and receive email from their own domain,
Is this an April Fools joke that was posted too early? What dumbass would pay that much money for this?
Oh, trust me- there are plenty of dumbasses out there with $499 to burn. Audiophiles come to mind, but the fact is that it's a target-rich environment. No shortage of people who have more money than sense.
"Portal begins shipping next month and uses A.I. to automatically detect and follow people as they move throughout the frame during a video call.
No way this could ever be misused or exploited or hacked or whatever. I mean, if Facebook does it then it must be 100% safe and wholesome, given their incredible, dare I say outstanding track record on privacy and security.
"No data collected through Portal -- even call log data or app usage data, like the fact that you listened to Spotify -- will be used to target users with ads on Facebook."
Ha ha ha, and if you believe one single word of that weapons-grade horseshit, I have some beachfront property on the Moon that I'd like to sell you.
Trust me, kids- EVERY BIT of the data collected through Portal will be used to target you and everyone else with ads on some platform, including Facebook.
These days, one of the most effective ways to avoid spam calls is to ignore numbers that look like they're from my own exchange.
Exactly. As soon as I see my own exchange as the number, I just press the "Reject" button. It's a dead giveaway that it's a spoofed number. In a way, they're actually making it easier for me to dump their calls.
Funny how these calls ramped up the minute Pai and his fellow Trumpers took over.
I noticed this too. Maybe the timing was just coincidental, and maybe it wasn't. I tend to believe the latter.
I now get dozens and dozens of these calls every week on both cell phones and my landline. I would block the entire exchange but my wife's phone has the same exchange and I don't want to block her calls. (Let the jokes begin!)
But yeah, there's definitely been an increase. The cause remains unclear, but I have my suspicions.
That's an interesting anecdote but, believe it or not there was a time when the internet didn't exist and you couldn't download movies or music to try them out. Yet, people still bought movies and music. They bought *more* movies and music than they do today.
They'll use it so they can correlate any perceived interest in a particular product and then manipulate things to try and get you to buy it.
"Hey, his heart rate and BP spiked when he saw the Chocolate Blammo cereal boxes on aisle 4, but he didn't grab any. Quick, send a text to his phone with a 10% off coupon for Chocolate Blammo."
Don't think for a moment that this isn't the ultimate goal of this "helpful" monitoring. I mean really, do you think Safeway or Kroger gives a shit about your blood oxygen level or heart rate except to use it to sell you more shit?
A lot of employers are now using a program named Vitality, that is ostensibly to improve employee health and reduce their premiums yada yada yada, but we all know they're collecting data with the intent of fucking over people with more serious medical issues, i.e. the "expensive" illnesses.
No one at my company is being fooled for one second about the end-goals of this program. I don't participate (I'm a contractor and blissfully exempt) but I woldn't even if I could. You have to wear a fitbit-type device ALL THE TIME and there are regular "health screenings" where they get blood and urine samples.
No one doubts they're looking for illegal substances or indicators of potentially serious health issues coming up- not so they can help you but so management can eventually find a way to get rid of these soon-to-be-expensive employees.
After all, health insurance companies aren't in business to pay claims...on the contrary, they work hard to deny every claim they can. If you think otherwise, you're a fool.
It's simple- I get hired to do X or produce Y, and as long as those things happen, everyone is satisfied.
If I automate some or all of the process, so what? Those things (doing X or producing Y) are still getting done. My employer is happy, I'm happy, my bank account is happy.
Someone please point out the "problem" here, because I really can't see it.
No, we don't any form of ranking system which bans people from a service based on a highly subjective rating system otherwise we'll end up in the dystopia portrayed in Black Mirror's Nosedive episode.
That's exactly what popped into my mind when I read about this.
And how can a "5" be great, while a "4" means you can't get a ride? What kind of fucked up scale is that? Why even have numbers below 4? It's turning a rating system into a "pass/fail" test.
Another way to discriminate against people you may not like or who didn't tip enough or whatever it was that pushed your button that day. Wonderful.
Fortunately, I see no way this 'feature' could ever be abused or hacked or spoofed, especially with such a fine, upstanding company like Uber running the system.
"mSpy, the makers of a software-as-a-service product that claims to help more than a million paying customers spy on the mobile devices of their kids and partners, has leaked millions of sensitive records online, including passwords, call logs, text messages, contacts, notes and location data secretly collected from phones running the stealthy spyware."
I don't want a bezel-less cell phone, because that makes it hard to hold without covering part of the screen and accidentally triggering things.
I don't want a bezel-less tablet, because that makes it hard to hold without covering part of the screen and accidentally triggering things.
I DO want a bezel-less tablet, because I hold it by the keyboard part, so a bezel-less design could improve the screen size without reducing usability even slightly.
^^^^^^^^ THIS, times a million billion.
Stop with the bezel-less bullshit. Pretty soon they'll have to ship their new shiny shit with a handle on the back because you won't be able to hold the fucking thing any other way.
Reading your post gave me brain cancer. But congrats on spelling "Skype" three different ways in a single sentence.
"I’m not shore" "dropping odf skyp our hat" "to to wit regulations" "reqiereing calls terminated" "there where kegal reasons" "Gatways wit enugh capasety" "not en op in a 95% chance og geting busy due to caoasety"
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'Do Not Track,' the Privacy Tool Used By Millions of People, Doesn't Do Anything
Who was ever foolish enough to think that it would? It's 100% voluntary with no teeth and no enforcement power whatsoever.
It was instantly seen as a scrumptious list of people who didn't want to be tracked, and therefore of immense value to spammers, marketers, government agencies, etc etc etc.
It's like a "Do Not Mug" list, where you publish your name and the amount of cash you have in your pocket, along with your home address.
Helm today unveiled its $499 device that lets consumers send and receive email from their own domain,
Is this an April Fools joke that was posted too early? What dumbass would pay that much money for this?
Oh, trust me- there are plenty of dumbasses out there with $499 to burn. Audiophiles come to mind, but the fact is that it's a target-rich environment. No shortage of people who have more money than sense.
"Portal begins shipping next month and uses A.I. to automatically detect and follow people as they move throughout the frame during a video call.
No way this could ever be misused or exploited or hacked or whatever. I mean, if Facebook does it then it must be 100% safe and wholesome, given their incredible, dare I say outstanding track record on privacy and security.
But but but how else will you keep up with what your neighbor's cousin's ex's plumber's newest parolee-girlfriend is currently eating/buying/fucking?
How else will you be able to see blurry pictures of amazing shitty food that some random drunken goober took at some shithole diner at 3AM?
How else will you keep abreast of what some pompous douchebag who went to the same high school as you is doing day in and day out?
How, I ask you, HOW??? Won't someone think of the douchebags?!?!?!?!
"No data collected through Portal -- even call log data or app usage data, like the fact that you listened to Spotify -- will be used to target users with ads on Facebook."
Ha ha ha, and if you believe one single word of that weapons-grade horseshit, I have some beachfront property on the Moon that I'd like to sell you.
Trust me, kids- EVERY BIT of the data collected through Portal will be used to target you and everyone else with ads on some platform, including Facebook.
What Facebook needs is a one-button "Delete my account and all my data" button, with a single confirmation dialog box.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you were demonstrating TDS, for those less sophisticated you and I.
It must be hard on you, being so stupid.
These days, one of the most effective ways to avoid spam calls is to ignore numbers that look like they're from my own exchange.
Exactly. As soon as I see my own exchange as the number, I just press the "Reject" button. It's a dead giveaway that it's a spoofed number. In a way, they're actually making it easier for me to dump their calls.
You should see your doctor about your TDS.
You mean the "Trump is a Dumb Shit" syndrome?
Funny how these calls ramped up the minute Pai and his fellow Trumpers took over.
I noticed this too. Maybe the timing was just coincidental, and maybe it wasn't. I tend to believe the latter.
I now get dozens and dozens of these calls every week on both cell phones and my landline. I would block the entire exchange but my wife's phone has the same exchange and I don't want to block her calls. (Let the jokes begin!)
But yeah, there's definitely been an increase. The cause remains unclear, but I have my suspicions.
That's an interesting anecdote but, believe it or not there was a time when the internet didn't exist and you couldn't download movies or music to try them out. Yet, people still bought movies and music. They bought *more* movies and music than they do today.
Yes, because they didn't have any other choice.
Now they do, and the game has changed.
It may be that the underlying reason is that much of the music produced today is pure shit and not worth paying for.
They'll use it so they can correlate any perceived interest in a particular product and then manipulate things to try and get you to buy it.
"Hey, his heart rate and BP spiked when he saw the Chocolate Blammo cereal boxes on aisle 4, but he didn't grab any. Quick, send a text to his phone with a 10% off coupon for Chocolate Blammo."
Don't think for a moment that this isn't the ultimate goal of this "helpful" monitoring. I mean really, do you think Safeway or Kroger gives a shit about your blood oxygen level or heart rate except to use it to sell you more shit?
A lot of employers are now using a program named Vitality, that is ostensibly to improve employee health and reduce their premiums yada yada yada, but we all know they're collecting data with the intent of fucking over people with more serious medical issues, i.e. the "expensive" illnesses.
No one at my company is being fooled for one second about the end-goals of this program. I don't participate (I'm a contractor and blissfully exempt) but I woldn't even if I could. You have to wear a fitbit-type device ALL THE TIME and there are regular "health screenings" where they get blood and urine samples.
No one doubts they're looking for illegal substances or indicators of potentially serious health issues coming up- not so they can help you but so management can eventually find a way to get rid of these soon-to-be-expensive employees.
After all, health insurance companies aren't in business to pay claims...on the contrary, they work hard to deny every claim they can. If you think otherwise, you're a fool.
It's simple- I get hired to do X or produce Y, and as long as those things happen, everyone is satisfied.
If I automate some or all of the process, so what? Those things (doing X or producing Y) are still getting done. My employer is happy, I'm happy, my bank account is happy.
Someone please point out the "problem" here, because I really can't see it.
$46 for a suit of armor?
If I ever had any interest in playing Eve*, this pricing would instantly cure me of that notion.
*Which I don't, but still...
It's also known as "Spreadsheet Simulator".
"Eve Online", also affectionately known as "Spreadsheet Simulator".
What a completely fucked up mess.
I mean, how can a "5" be great, while a "4" means you're so awful that you can't even get a ride?
If they do it that way, why even have numbers below 4? What kind of fucked up scale is that?
It's turning a rating system into a "pass/fail" test.
No, we don't any form of ranking system which bans people from a service based on a highly subjective rating system otherwise we'll end up in the dystopia portrayed in Black Mirror's Nosedive episode.
That's exactly what popped into my mind when I read about this.
And how can a "5" be great, while a "4" means you can't get a ride? What kind of fucked up scale is that? Why even have numbers below 4? It's turning a rating system into a "pass/fail" test.
Another way to discriminate against people you may not like or who didn't tip enough or whatever it was that pushed your button that day. Wonderful.
Fortunately, I see no way this 'feature' could ever be abused or hacked or spoofed, especially with such a fine, upstanding company like Uber running the system.
"mSpy, the makers of a software-as-a-service product that claims to help more than a million paying customers spy on the mobile devices of their kids and partners, has leaked millions of sensitive records online, including passwords, call logs, text messages, contacts, notes and location data secretly collected from phones running the stealthy spyware."
And now they can spy on you!
I don't want a bezel-less cell phone, because that makes it hard to hold without covering part of the screen and accidentally triggering things.
I don't want a bezel-less tablet, because that makes it hard to hold without covering part of the screen and accidentally triggering things.
I DO want a bezel-less tablet, because I hold it by the keyboard part, so a bezel-less design could improve the screen size without reducing usability even slightly.
^^^^^^^^ THIS, times a million billion.
Stop with the bezel-less bullshit. Pretty soon they'll have to ship their new shiny shit with a handle on the back because you won't be able to hold the fucking thing any other way.
Reading your post gave me brain cancer. But congrats on spelling "Skype" three different ways in a single sentence.
"I’m not shore"
"dropping odf skyp our hat"
"to to wit regulations"
"reqiereing calls terminated"
"there where kegal reasons"
"Gatways wit enugh capasety"
"not en op in a 95% chance og geting busy due to caoasety"
Let me guess, you're the type of person who yells at the TV.
Yes, I am exactly like you (except smarter, better looking, and with more savings and disposable income).