Oh and by the way, you totally took me off onto a tangent that wasn't even relevant, here, let me fix that: I will NOT have a listening device in my home, EVER, and I think you're all a bunch of FOOLS if you have one of these -- and don't sit there and try to claim it's not a listening device, because it clearly is, has been demonstrated as such. Enjoy having ZERO PRIVACY even at home, because you want 'convenience'. I think you're stupid if you do and you get what you deserve for that.
IDGAF if they know what cell tower it's connected to. That's only an accuracy of, what, a mile? So what. As to the other: Why the actual fuck do you care if I have my goddamned phone on or not? If someone can't be bothered to leave a voicemail then I guess it wasn't important to call me in the first place. Why do you think you have to have a phone on 100% of the time? Do you really think you're such and important person that you need your phone on 100% of the time so you don't miss a call or text? I'd sooner believe that someone *convinced* you that your phone needs to be on all the time, played on your fears, or somesuch. Do you even remember when there were no cellphones, and you'd have to wait until you got home to hear your messages on your answering machine? I sure do, and life went about it's business just fine, the world didn't collapse because people weren't available instantly. Maybe you need to think about that?
I'm really getting tired of this shitty copypasta making me write the same copypasta in response. I'm seriously going to just save it as a text file to literally paste into replies:
I do not currently have, nor do I ever plan to have a 'smartphone', they're about as secure and private as a collander.
I have a $50 plastic LG clamshell phone.
It's 'off' at least 90% of the time.
When it's on I'm either at work or at home. The rest of the time it's 'off'; don't care if you know I'm at home or at work.
It's GPS has been effectively disabled in hardware (took it apart, found the GPS antenna, shorted it to Ground; no GPS).
The Internet settings have been scrambled so no Internet access is possible on it.
I make or receive maybe a dozen calls at most in any given month.
I make or receive maybe 20 or so texts in any given month. There is damned little data for anyone to scrape from my phone and it's too sparse to tell you anything you couldn't guess about me anyway.
If wireless companies piss me off enough I'll just go back to a landline at home and never mind having a cellphone at all, I don't really need one.
Perhaps consumers should consider it "too onerous" to pay for things that aren't listed.
I'm already set for that, regardless of any 'consequences': https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...
I remember life before the Internet, and I got along just fine without it. It's been beneficial but I know better than to think it's a requirement for life to continue. I recommend everyone else be prepared to cancel their service if ISPs get too big for their pants, that's the best way to hurt them: hit them right in the revenues.
Agreed. While we're at it, can we get medical and dental insurance companies to state up front, in ink, what they are and are not going to pay for, BEFORE any procedures/services are performed at the doctors office?
Ajit Pai needs to get bone cancer or pancreatic cancer and die, soon. I'm surprised someone hasn't taken a shot at him already. He's literally going to ruin the Internet, do the exact opposite of what he claims to be doing. ISPs need to be regulated the same way that any other utility is regulated, and politics have no place in the operation of the Internet: it's a packet-delivery system, and that's what it needs to be allowed to do: deliver packets of data, without prejudice or preference.
That's when I disconnect the modem, drive to Comcast's office, plop it down on the counter, tell them I'm cancelling service IMMEDIATELY, and demand a receipt showing I returned their equipment (and therefore have ZERO access to their 'service' anymore). I stand there and repeat "I AM CANCELLING MY SERVICE EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY" until they STFU and process the cancellation, and give me my receipt for their modem. They can call the cops if they want and have me arrested, IDGAF, my one phone call will be to a local TV station news department.
Troll-bots trolling troll-bots. Click-bots clicking ads made by ad-bots, and 'social media' posts made by shill-bots. Chat-bots chatting with other chat-bots, and not a single human being in sight. Server farms full of servers running bots who only interact with other bots, none of them even remotely aware they're just other bots. Everyone will wonder why nobody is actually making any money or making any sales, and they'll claim it's all because of piracy, meanwhile the bots just keep interacting with other bots. Decades go by and most people have forgotten there was a thing called the Internet, because it because 99% SPAM and bots and all the humans got bored and went off to do something else.
Tell you what, friend: I don't want Civil War 2 in this country, but I'll tell you what precedent it'll take: armed forces, invading a targeted corporations offices sans warrant, literally putting guns to peoples heads to force them to 'comply', incarcerating people without charging them, denying them legal counsel, and so on. The first time that happens in this country is the last time we have Rule of Law and Government By The People For The People. Then there will be Civil War. And the rest of the world will likely fall with us. Hope, and pray to whatever god you believe in, that day never comes.
And, who knows, maybe also stop drug use, illiteracy, stop global warming and fix the infrastructure.
You forgot "will make colors brighter, and food taste better".
Would some women he's sexually assaulted please step up and accuse him of the crimes he's committed against them, so we can get him thrown out? Thanks.
Star Wars? Yes. Disney is kicking a dead horse and trying to get blood from a stone with that. Doctor Who, though? Don't agree. The BBC finally brought it back in 2005 with a REAL BUDGET, but the minds behind it are still there, and it's been pretty good.
I've been watching The Orville, actually, and if it continues on it's current trend, it's going to continue to be a really great show. I should also point out that Jonathan Frakes directed at least a few episodes of it so far? That tells me something about it. BTW I know about the other things you've mentioned, too, and they're good.
That's the only appropriate response to this. They can't 'force' anything. If they could, then the entire premise behind what the United States was founded on and ostensibly stands on becomes invalid.
It's total chaos, it's unwatchable, and it's time to just admit it: It's dead, Jim. It's all artificially Star Trek-flavored, complete with trans-fats, FD&C Red #2, and NutraSweet, and a mandatory carcinogen warning label if sold in California.
I agree with you, but how about we use different language here: Trump is the manifestation of the symptoms of the real problems. If things weren't fucked up in fundamental ways, no way in hell he'd have been elected, or even nominated. Am I right?
I was basing my opinion on Angela Merkel doing and saying some things that sounded smart and fair. Guess she's the outlier. Sad for Germans, now. Maybe it won't pass into law and they'll be spared this nonsense.
Again here's someone who is a fucking pussy and won't make the hard call to protect what's important, so he can have his shiny toy. Here's some advice for you: get your priorities straight.
Seriously people how much more invasive creepy shit is the rest of the world going to put up with from Facebook before they say no mas! and walk away from it? Facebook does not enhance your life, 'connect' you with anyone in ways you can't do otherwise, or anything else good, all it does is creep on you, collect data from you to sell to other creepy companies, and otherwise encourage the absolute worst humanity has to offer to come out from under the rocks they've been hiding under. Enough already, let's kill Facebook.
Here I thought Germany had it's collective head screwed on straight. Boy was I ever wrong, I guess.
The most dangerous and troubling thing about this: If it gets passed in Germany, it'll be considered precedent in other countries (like the U.S.). In a world where all data security is compromised, there won't be any security for anyone (except the cops, maybe the military, and definitely THE RICH). At that point there won't be any reason to own a cellphone beyond the cheapest clamshell dumbphone, a computer of any kind, or have Internet access, because EVERYTHING will be Open Season. Also if your car can be remotely controlled, you'll be taking your life in your hands every time you get in it; may as well start riding a bike.
I still have a hard time believing how fucktarded people in general are getting, that it's all come to this.:-(
Here's the thing: If Net Neutrality becomes dead and ISPs are not only turning everything into walled gardens, but also tracking and logging everything, things like Tor are going to be the last bastions of any sort of online privacy. Penalizing people for using Tor just makes Cloudflare or anyone else party to whatever bullshit the ISPs want to impose on us.
'Free OTA broadcast TV' + Tivo + '30 second skip turned on' = 'rarely if ever see commercials again, unless you really want to'. You might see a few frames here and there but otherwise they won't really sink in.
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Oh and by the way, you totally took me off onto a tangent that wasn't even relevant, here, let me fix that: I will NOT have a listening device in my home, EVER, and I think you're all a bunch of FOOLS if you have one of these -- and don't sit there and try to claim it's not a listening device, because it clearly is, has been demonstrated as such. Enjoy having ZERO PRIVACY even at home, because you want 'convenience'. I think you're stupid if you do and you get what you deserve for that.
IDGAF if they know what cell tower it's connected to. That's only an accuracy of, what, a mile? So what. As to the other: Why the actual fuck do you care if I have my goddamned phone on or not? If someone can't be bothered to leave a voicemail then I guess it wasn't important to call me in the first place. Why do you think you have to have a phone on 100% of the time? Do you really think you're such and important person that you need your phone on 100% of the time so you don't miss a call or text? I'd sooner believe that someone *convinced* you that your phone needs to be on all the time, played on your fears, or somesuch. Do you even remember when there were no cellphones, and you'd have to wait until you got home to hear your messages on your answering machine? I sure do, and life went about it's business just fine, the world didn't collapse because people weren't available instantly. Maybe you need to think about that?
It's this: https://www.att.com/cellphones... OFF is OFF and YES the battery comes out. Do you really think I'm that dumb?
I'm really getting tired of this shitty copypasta making me write the same copypasta in response. I'm seriously going to just save it as a text file to literally paste into replies:
I do not currently have, nor do I ever plan to have a 'smartphone', they're about as secure and private as a collander.
I have a $50 plastic LG clamshell phone.
It's 'off' at least 90% of the time.
When it's on I'm either at work or at home. The rest of the time it's 'off'; don't care if you know I'm at home or at work.
It's GPS has been effectively disabled in hardware (took it apart, found the GPS antenna, shorted it to Ground; no GPS).
The Internet settings have been scrambled so no Internet access is possible on it.
I make or receive maybe a dozen calls at most in any given month.
I make or receive maybe 20 or so texts in any given month.
There is damned little data for anyone to scrape from my phone and it's too sparse to tell you anything you couldn't guess about me anyway.
If wireless companies piss me off enough I'll just go back to a landline at home and never mind having a cellphone at all, I don't really need one.
Perhaps consumers should consider it "too onerous" to pay for things that aren't listed.
I'm already set for that, regardless of any 'consequences': https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...
I remember life before the Internet, and I got along just fine without it. It's been beneficial but I know better than to think it's a requirement for life to continue. I recommend everyone else be prepared to cancel their service if ISPs get too big for their pants, that's the best way to hurt them: hit them right in the revenues.
Agreed. While we're at it, can we get medical and dental insurance companies to state up front, in ink, what they are and are not going to pay for, BEFORE any procedures/services are performed at the doctors office?
Ajit Pai needs to get bone cancer or pancreatic cancer and die, soon. I'm surprised someone hasn't taken a shot at him already. He's literally going to ruin the Internet, do the exact opposite of what he claims to be doing. ISPs need to be regulated the same way that any other utility is regulated, and politics have no place in the operation of the Internet: it's a packet-delivery system, and that's what it needs to be allowed to do: deliver packets of data, without prejudice or preference.
135.94 due now or we cut you off.
That's when I disconnect the modem, drive to Comcast's office, plop it down on the counter, tell them I'm cancelling service IMMEDIATELY, and demand a receipt showing I returned their equipment (and therefore have ZERO access to their 'service' anymore). I stand there and repeat "I AM CANCELLING MY SERVICE EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY" until they STFU and process the cancellation, and give me my receipt for their modem. They can call the cops if they want and have me arrested, IDGAF, my one phone call will be to a local TV station news department.
Amazon Bringing Echo and Alexa To 80 Additional Countries in Major Expansion Of It's Surveillance Network
You're clearly confused who is 'grasping at straws' right now.
Troll-bots trolling troll-bots. Click-bots clicking ads made by ad-bots, and 'social media' posts made by shill-bots. Chat-bots chatting with other chat-bots, and not a single human being in sight. Server farms full of servers running bots who only interact with other bots, none of them even remotely aware they're just other bots. Everyone will wonder why nobody is actually making any money or making any sales, and they'll claim it's all because of piracy, meanwhile the bots just keep interacting with other bots. Decades go by and most people have forgotten there was a thing called the Internet, because it because 99% SPAM and bots and all the humans got bored and went off to do something else.
Go back to Russia and tell Putin you failed.
Tell you what, friend: I don't want Civil War 2 in this country, but I'll tell you what precedent it'll take: armed forces, invading a targeted corporations offices sans warrant, literally putting guns to peoples heads to force them to 'comply', incarcerating people without charging them, denying them legal counsel, and so on. The first time that happens in this country is the last time we have Rule of Law and Government By The People For The People. Then there will be Civil War. And the rest of the world will likely fall with us. Hope, and pray to whatever god you believe in, that day never comes.
And, who knows, maybe also stop drug use, illiteracy, stop global warming and fix the infrastructure.
You forgot "will make colors brighter, and food taste better".
Would some women he's sexually assaulted please step up and accuse him of the crimes he's committed against them, so we can get him thrown out? Thanks.
Star Wars? Yes. Disney is kicking a dead horse and trying to get blood from a stone with that. Doctor Who, though? Don't agree. The BBC finally brought it back in 2005 with a REAL BUDGET, but the minds behind it are still there, and it's been pretty good.
Pro-tip: YOU CAN'T
Facebook, Google, and all other so-called 'social media' can fuck off and die, they're CANCEROUS.
I've been watching The Orville, actually, and if it continues on it's current trend, it's going to continue to be a really great show. I should also point out that Jonathan Frakes directed at least a few episodes of it so far? That tells me something about it. BTW I know about the other things you've mentioned, too, and they're good.
That's the only appropriate response to this. They can't 'force' anything. If they could, then the entire premise behind what the United States was founded on and ostensibly stands on becomes invalid.
It's total chaos, it's unwatchable, and it's time to just admit it: It's dead, Jim. It's all artificially Star Trek-flavored, complete with trans-fats, FD&C Red #2, and NutraSweet, and a mandatory carcinogen warning label if sold in California.
I agree with you, but how about we use different language here: Trump is the manifestation of the symptoms of the real problems. If things weren't fucked up in fundamental ways, no way in hell he'd have been elected, or even nominated. Am I right?
I was basing my opinion on Angela Merkel doing and saying some things that sounded smart and fair. Guess she's the outlier. Sad for Germans, now. Maybe it won't pass into law and they'll be spared this nonsense.
Again here's someone who is a fucking pussy and won't make the hard call to protect what's important, so he can have his shiny toy. Here's some advice for you: get your priorities straight.
Seriously people how much more invasive creepy shit is the rest of the world going to put up with from Facebook before they say no mas! and walk away from it? Facebook does not enhance your life, 'connect' you with anyone in ways you can't do otherwise, or anything else good, all it does is creep on you, collect data from you to sell to other creepy companies, and otherwise encourage the absolute worst humanity has to offer to come out from under the rocks they've been hiding under. Enough already, let's kill Facebook.
Here I thought Germany had it's collective head screwed on straight. Boy was I ever wrong, I guess.
:-(
The most dangerous and troubling thing about this: If it gets passed in Germany, it'll be considered precedent in other countries (like the U.S.). In a world where all data security is compromised, there won't be any security for anyone (except the cops, maybe the military, and definitely THE RICH). At that point there won't be any reason to own a cellphone beyond the cheapest clamshell dumbphone, a computer of any kind, or have Internet access, because EVERYTHING will be Open Season. Also if your car can be remotely controlled, you'll be taking your life in your hands every time you get in it; may as well start riding a bike.
I still have a hard time believing how fucktarded people in general are getting, that it's all come to this.
Here's the thing: If Net Neutrality becomes dead and ISPs are not only turning everything into walled gardens, but also tracking and logging everything, things like Tor are going to be the last bastions of any sort of online privacy. Penalizing people for using Tor just makes Cloudflare or anyone else party to whatever bullshit the ISPs want to impose on us.
'Free OTA broadcast TV' + Tivo + '30 second skip turned on' = 'rarely if ever see commercials again, unless you really want to'. You might see a few frames here and there but otherwise they won't really sink in.