How many users are going to disable Location Services if they don't know there's a huge privacy hole in the first place? I would argue that users should have control over how long their location data is retained, not just a coarse option of "save my location or don't".
Personally, I wouldn't be waiting for the government to tell me to move far, far away from a nuclear disaster site. Use whatever level of precaution you see fit.
"To provide the high quality products and services that its customers demand, Apple must have access to the comprehensive location-based information,"
I guess what *other* people want trumps what *I* want. I want to be able to switch this feature off. If I can't get the awesome products and services I need with that feature off, then maybe I'll consider turning it back on. The point is: give me a choice. If what you're doing isn't bad, then be right up front about it.
The government should be forcing companies to be straight up about this stuff, meaning a EULA isn't sufficient communication to alert a user to what is going on, and neither is marketing-speak. Sort of like putting huge warning labels on cigarette packages.
Don't forget that Netflix recently changed the default resolution to a lower grade to save customers bandwidth. Login to their website and make sure your resolution is set to the highest quality.
Look at the cost per "entertainment unit". If you get a very entertaining app for a dollar or maybe 5 dollars your return on investment is very high compared to a great game for sixty dollars. You can't go and say "well the expensive game has lots more technology and bells and whistles and depth" if those things don't add to the entertainment factor.
If dollar games are killing traditional gaming, then so is YouTube. I almost never buy a game these days without researching it on YouTube first. Gone are the days where I get severely ripped off from crummy games that would've been obvious had I seen some gameplay before buying.
If they put as much effort into innovation and research as they do this censorship technology, they wouldn't have to steal other technology from everyone else.
Maybe they've simply chosen what field to innovate and research into: censorship. And my guess is they will be able to export that technology to other nations, just like any other technology.
You could say the same for the USA's defense spending: they research and innovate in that particular area.
Every country will have to import certain technologies no matter what they choose to invest in.
My excitement over the PS3 Move controller was quickly subdued when I discovered I can't play the sports and gladiator games using online multiplayer, only local multiplayer. Now the controllers are sitting and collecting dust. Given that complex games work online I can't see why Move games are any different. From an end-user perspective, it's really lame.
I also grew very tired of buying the latest and greatest hardware to play games. When I run a game on a console, I *know* it will work well.
Console graphics are great - sure they're not quite as good as what's available on a high end PC, but who cares? If you need the latest PC graphics capabilities to make your game good, then maybe your game is lacking in concept.
I don't plan on going back to PC gaming except for basic games that don't require an upgrade.
Sad as I am to say this, I am starting to care less and less about the US security regime. This is something the feds obviously want badly, and damned be innovation, education, and personal freedom. At this pace it's only a matter of time before another country takes advantage of this misguided path and surpasses them in all the areas that are being ignored.:(
I wonder what sort of legal troubles a individual could get themselves into while crawling the web. You'd hit pirate sites, illegal sex sites, all sorts of stuff...
The trouble is that Microsoft is _huge_. While one business division is your friend, another can stab you in the back. Example: open source business unit = friend, word processor unit likes open standards, but the operating system division routinely flaunts its patent portfolio at competitors. Similar with the government. Some of parts of it are your friend, others aren't.
So if we started doing the calculations today, one day someone would have a better computer or algorithm that would surpass all the work we'd done over years. Not really an incentive to getting on that one! Not to mention the code would have gone through countless hardware and software changes, power loss, etc. over a billion years. I figure someone 10000 years from now would go "hey, what's this computer for?" and the other guy would be like "no idea.. just unplug it".
Imagine what the last close flybys would have been like as an observer. Tidal forces ripping up the ground, seeing something massive in the sky getting larger and larger, then whoosh, and fading away. Awesome. That'd probably get people's minds off of war and onto helping one another pretty quick.
3. Extend your search keywords to add "nosite". i.e. nosite:experts-exchange.com
Just put a '-' minus sign in front of 'site:experts-exchange.com' to exclude that one site. Unfortunately, it takes up one of a limited number of search arguments so it's not really scalable.
2) That all life on Earth will eventually disappear.
Getting humans out of our solar system will take ages. Colonize the moon first. Create factories so more can be done in space (less requirements for launching from Earth).
But first, get _life_ off of this planet. Send some organisms, plants, rats, stuff that is hardy off to Titan or Mars and get something going. That way even if Earth is destroyed, at least there is life somewhere else that can evolve or at least live.
Tired, random thoughts... hope you get the gist of it.
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Nothing further to add. lol
How many users are going to disable Location Services if they don't know there's a huge privacy hole in the first place?
I would argue that users should have control over how long their location data is retained, not just a coarse option of "save my location or don't".
Thanks for demonstrating that there are people who will trade health for money.
Personally, I wouldn't be waiting for the government to tell me to move far, far away from a nuclear disaster site. Use whatever level of precaution you see fit.
"To provide the high quality products and services that its customers demand, Apple must have access to the comprehensive location-based information,"
I guess what *other* people want trumps what *I* want. I want to be able to switch this feature off. If I can't get the awesome products and services I need with that feature off, then maybe I'll consider turning it back on. The point is: give me a choice. If what you're doing isn't bad, then be right up front about it.
The government should be forcing companies to be straight up about this stuff, meaning a EULA isn't sufficient communication to alert a user to what is going on, and neither is marketing-speak. Sort of like putting huge warning labels on cigarette packages.
Don't forget that Netflix recently changed the default resolution to a lower grade to save customers bandwidth. Login to their website and make sure your resolution is set to the highest quality.
Look at the cost per "entertainment unit". If you get a very entertaining app for a dollar or maybe 5 dollars your return on investment is very high compared to a great game for sixty dollars. You can't go and say "well the expensive game has lots more technology and bells and whistles and depth" if those things don't add to the entertainment factor.
If dollar games are killing traditional gaming, then so is YouTube. I almost never buy a game these days without researching it on YouTube first. Gone are the days where I get severely ripped off from crummy games that would've been obvious had I seen some gameplay before buying.
If they put as much effort into innovation and research as they do this censorship technology, they wouldn't have to steal other technology from everyone else.
Maybe they've simply chosen what field to innovate and research into: censorship. And my guess is they will be able to export that technology to other nations, just like any other technology.
You could say the same for the USA's defense spending: they research and innovate in that particular area.
Every country will have to import certain technologies no matter what they choose to invest in.
My excitement over the PS3 Move controller was quickly subdued when I discovered I can't play the sports and gladiator games using online multiplayer, only local multiplayer. Now the controllers are sitting and collecting dust.
Given that complex games work online I can't see why Move games are any different. From an end-user perspective, it's really lame.
Just priceless
I also grew very tired of buying the latest and greatest hardware to play games. When I run a game on a console, I *know* it will work well.
Console graphics are great - sure they're not quite as good as what's available on a high end PC, but who cares? If you need the latest PC graphics capabilities to make your game good, then maybe your game is lacking in concept.
I don't plan on going back to PC gaming except for basic games that don't require an upgrade.
Sad as I am to say this, I am starting to care less and less about the US security regime. This is something the feds obviously want badly, and damned be innovation, education, and personal freedom. At this pace it's only a matter of time before another country takes advantage of this misguided path and surpasses them in all the areas that are being ignored. :(
Not necessarily. Look at sites like scroogle and ixquick.com which add a privacy layer.
I wonder what sort of legal troubles a individual could get themselves into while crawling the web. You'd hit pirate sites, illegal sex sites, all sorts of stuff...
I was going for the +1 funny mod? ;)
hehe
The trouble is that Microsoft is _huge_. While one business division is your friend, another can stab you in the back. Example: open source business unit = friend, word processor unit likes open standards, but the operating system division routinely flaunts its patent portfolio at competitors.
Similar with the government. Some of parts of it are your friend, others aren't.
Re-read your comment with the following changes:
Food for thought?
So if we started doing the calculations today, one day someone would have a better computer or algorithm that would surpass all the work we'd done over years. Not really an incentive to getting on that one! Not to mention the code would have gone through countless hardware and software changes, power loss, etc. over a billion years. I figure someone 10000 years from now would go "hey, what's this computer for?" and the other guy would be like "no idea.. just unplug it".
Imagine what the last close flybys would have been like as an observer. Tidal forces ripping up the ground, seeing something massive in the sky getting larger and larger, then whoosh, and fading away. Awesome.
That'd probably get people's minds off of war and onto helping one another pretty quick.
Well, being on a different continent can't hurt.
This is no time to joke. And stop calling me Shirley.
Once computer AI evolves beyond our comprehension, that'll be true AI.
Just put a '-' minus sign in front of 'site:experts-exchange.com' to exclude that one site. Unfortunately, it takes up one of a limited number of search arguments so it's not really scalable.
I'd like to remove entire classes of websites from my search results: by country, for starters.
I'd suggest breaking the problem into two parts:
1) That human kind may someday soon disappear.
2) That all life on Earth will eventually disappear.
Getting humans out of our solar system will take ages. Colonize the moon first. Create factories so more can be done in space (less requirements for launching from Earth).
But first, get _life_ off of this planet. Send some organisms, plants, rats, stuff that is hardy off to Titan or Mars and get something going. That way even if Earth is destroyed, at least there is life somewhere else that can evolve or at least live.
Tired, random thoughts... hope you get the gist of it.