I'd like to reiterate something I said above (which you likely didn't read) in the particular case of your 'Xiaomi' phone: That's a Chinese company, and it's highly likely that it's got malware baked right into the firmware of the phone itself, which means it's compromised as soon as you take it out of the box, and there is NOTHING you can do to remove that malware if that's the case. This is one of the major points I have about why I, personally, don't want a smartphone: things like this can and are being done with them, and because of that there's nothing a smartphone can do for me that mitigates the fact that I'd be walking around with something that's tracking me and logging everything I do.
That's essentially the point you're making, and make no mistake about it: I actually agree with you. The technology itself is not 'evil' or even 'bad' or 'wrong', but I do feel it's being misused and abused by too many people, and corporations are leveraging the technology in ways that is encouraging people to abuse the technology; smartphones are being an enabler of too many people's bad habits and tendencies. That's where the problem is, and just like the texting-while-driving problem, it seems that nothing and nobody is making any headway into remedying that situation.
I know I can completely and totally disable any internet connectivity on a smartphone by intentionally misconfiguring the network parameters, making it into a dumbphone, essentially. For me personally it's just not worth the expense of the device itself if that's what I'd have to do with it to feel like it's secured enough to carry around with me.
I don't have any of my email or other accounts set up on the phone so security is not an issue.
See, here's the thing (which I also mentioned above): With current exploits, websites can be compromised in such a way that just going to them on your smartphone will infect your phone with malware, and you won't even know it happened. Now, someone might next say to me, "Prove it, or you're just another crackpot paranoid conspiracy theorist", but the point is I can't prove it, and neither can most people, unless you've got such thorough access to a given device (would probably require a JTAG connection to the phone, and someone who really knows what they're looking for) that you can examine every single byte of RAM and Flash on that device -- or maybe Wireshark monitoring of it's network traffic over a long period of time, looking for malware communication with it's C&C server. FWIW the major security hole on any given smartphone is the web browser itself, followed closely by the fact that you can't install the sorts of antiviral/antimalware that you can on a full-blown PC, and those points are mainly because of the wireless carriers and to a certain extent the smartphone manufacturers, and how locked-down the OS is on them. The only way I've come up with that I could have a smartphone and feel like I'd secured it well enough for my tastes, would be to completely and totally disable any and all internet access on it, permanently, by doing something like intentionally mis-configuring the network parameters so it's impossible for anything on the phone to connect to the public internet, essentially making it into a dumbphone. Aside from having more data storage capability and a better media player, that's all it would be. Not worth it for what a smartphone costs. YMMV.
I went to a private school through Junior High, because of ADHD, and because I'm brighter than average. Small class sizes (largest I was ever in was 13 kids) and all the individualized attention you could possibly need. That is what I credit with being able to think straight at all. So far as I can see, public schools either don't have the time or don't have the desire to teach kids to actually 'think', all they seem to be interested in is getting them to pass standardized tests so they can continue to receive tax dollars. So far as I can see, kids don't start getting taught to think until they reach college -- assuming it's a decent college or university, that is. Even then if someone hadn't taken them under their wing long ago and started teaching them how to think before that time, they may never really learn to think. Probably has to do with how their brains develop during elementary school years; no stimulous to think, you don't develop the wetware to think all that well. Dunno. But it does seem to me that people are getting dumber and lazier instead of smarter and more overall productive, and the consumer goods industries just seem to be supplying them with more and more toys to enable them to be dumber and lazier. That's just my opinion based on my observations over the last 20 or 30 years; we keep adding to our knowledge base, but people aren't getting smarter. As with all things: your mileage may vary. No warranties implied or otherwise with regard to my opinions.
..but I think smartphones aren't all that great anyway. When some people get so wrapped up in whatever they're looking at on their smartphone that they literally bump into you walking down the street (or into a stationary object, or walk out into traffic, etc), then you have to wonder if they're being misused. Then there's the complete lack of security; any given smartphone, regardless of manufacturer, could be infected with malware, and the owner of the phone might never know about it, even if they never went to any risky URLs, never opened a suspicious email, and never clicked a dubious link. Then there's the fact that your smartphone might have malware baked right into the firmware from the factory. Meanwhile you're paying a premium every month just to have it connected to your wireless companys' network. Think about it: we live in a world where there are people right now who'd rather text each other than talk, even if they're in the same room. Does that seem right? It's easy for someone to say "well, it's a communication tool, I use it to stay in touch with people, and I can research things on the internet, and I can pull up a map to find where I need to go", but when people have their eyes glued to it practically every waking moment? Despite being told not to people are using their smartphones in theatres, and despite hefty fines and risk of being killed in an accident, people are constantly screwing around with their phones while they're driving. Doesn't it really sound like this 'useful' communications tool is being heavily abused to the point where it's more of a nuisance than it is a tool? Let's not even get started on the stories about people who have had thousands (and TENS of thousands) of dollars charged to them because their kids bought things in games or online on their phones..
I don't have a smartphone. I can't justify the expense of the hardware or the monthly connectivity cost, and I especially can't justify carrying around something so incapable of being secured properly against intrusion and against malware infection. Nor do I care to carry around an electronic leash that allows anyone with access to know precisely where I am and perhaps even listen in on what I'm doing or turn on the camera and see what I'm doing. The so-called 'benefits' of the connectivity and processing capabilities are just not anywhere near sufficient to mitigate all the expense and all the problems and deficiencies associated with it. Now we find that perhaps the technology itself, because of how it's misused, overused, and abused, is potentially destructive to kids. Really makes me wonder what it is we've allowed to be done to us.
Just to amplify: I roll my eyes at people who claim that EM fields cause all the stuff they claim it does. I have a friend who refuses to own a microwave oven because she doesn't seem to understand the difference between RF radiation and nuclear radiation; I just smile and nod. It's weird though because otherwise she's a logical, rational, above-average intelligence person. Would I want double-digit watts of terahertz RF energy right next to my head? Hell no, I don't need my brain matter cooked, but using Bluetooth headsets? Yeah, no problem. Also as I commented elsewhere I think the anti-vaccination people need to get their heads straightened out.
No worries, I wasn't casting aspersions in the direction of your wife, not in the least. I am agreeing with you, there are plenty of people whose distrust of science has grown to the point where they're totally irrational about it, though, and their gullibility when it comes to 'snake oil' cures for things has risen to epidemic proportions. I think the anti-vaccination people need their heads examined, and that snake-oil salesmen should be run out of town on a rail. Things like 'homeopathic medicine' with it's whole 'water has a memory' riff is beyond the pale. Then there's the 'healthy at every size (HAES)' crowd. All the above raise the noise floor on the Internet so much that it makes it tough to find actual reliable information on some things. I really don't appreciate them for that.
Just goes to show you that not all of us who claim problems with wheat are nutjobs.;-) Thank you for being open-minded; "Some faith in humanity restored":-)
Ironically enough I have really bad allergies to pretty much everything that grows and blows; it's easier to list what I'm not allergic to (bird feathers, animal dander, and house dust, i.e. dust mite corpses), I've taken antigen injections for years now, there's no antihistamine on the market that really works as advertised (I currently take 360mg of fexofenadine daily, twice the normal dose, barely does anything, and sometimes also take montelukast daily), have to keep an albuterol inhaler with me, and perform a sinus rinse anywhere from twice to a dozen times daily, depending on what state I'm in (i.e. if I'm sick, it's closer to a dozen) which actually helps quite a bit -- but so far as my allergist can tell, I don't have food allergies, so The Search Continues.
I don't necessarily 'distrust the medical profession'. "The beginning of wisdom is in admitting you don't know"; I know I don't know everything. I also know that your garden-variety doctor doesn't necessarily know everything, just like I know that all doctors didn't graduate at the top of their class, aren't 160IQ geniuses, and are as subject to personal beliefs and biases as much as anyone else; they are just mortal men, not gods, therefore fallible. So I 'trust but verify' for myself. If something a doctor tells me doesn't make sense, I check it out thoroughly myself.
I don't have 'beliefs' to speak of, and I don't 'believe' in so-called 'alternative medicine'. I make the most rational choices I can based on the best information I can. Some of that information may be personally anecdotal; you have to do what works best for you. The 'Blood Type Diet' turned out to be largely nonsense, but it did get me to stop eating wheat long enough for the problems I was having to reverse themselves.
It's really too bad that doctors aren't trained to be more like engineers.
I don't have a college degree; I couldn't afford to get one. But I will claim to have an 'engineering background', and have been a Maker of Things in places I've worked. If you've got an engineering background, then you know there are 'engineers', then there are 'Engineers', if you catch my drift. The same goes for doctors. There are doctors who just learned everything by rote, they don't think too hard or too deep about most things, and for the most part they could be replaced by a robot. Then there's Doctors, who are a cut (or several) above the rest; they are few and far between. I've met a few. They're hard to get in to see usually. So you get people with weird digestive problems, and your garden-variety doctor, more interested in quantitiy than quality, labels it 'Irritable Bowel Syndrome' and sends you home, never looking deeper into the problem. it's a cookie-cutter approach to medicine, when peoples' physiology can be as varied as anything.
Since we're having a rational intelligent conversation about this, I'll share with you the current Plan to discover if glyphosate residue in modern wheat is what causes me the problems I used to have: I train for and race bicycles, and it's race season, but when that's over in September or so, I'll get some non-GMO, certified 'organically grown' wheat bread, and try eating that every day for a while. The point is the non-GMO/Organic stuff never has Roundup (or any other herbicide, so far as I know) touch it, so there shouldn't be any glyphosate residue. If I don't have problems, then I might be on to something (although it could be something else associated with 'traditional' farming techniques and practices, too). If I do have the same sorts of problems occur again, then I'm back to Square One. Sound rational enough?
For the record, the problems that wheat cause me, cumulatively over time, run like this: First, progressively worse constipation, with death-farts. Over time I start experiencing bouts of excruciating pain in one of two areas of my lower abdomen, which can last for a week. Over time I begin to progressively lose physical endurance; in my current state of good health I can ride for 4 or 5 hours, no problem, or run on a treadmill for as long as I can stand it, but as the problems progress, I lose endurance to the point where 20 or so minutes on a treadmill makes me feel like I'm going to collapse. Meanwhile I experience bouts of inexplicable depression, and overall mental fogginess.
Back in the day, six weeks after I stopped eating all wheat products, all the above symptoms started to disappear; I remember running on a treadmill for a full hour, and being a little scared at the sudden change enough so that I stopped even though I felt otherwise like I could keep going.
Once I made a huge mistake and bought a gigantic box of Quaker-brand granola breakfast cereal at Costco; I hadn't noticed
Damnit.. I have more questions than I have answers when it comes to eating wheat and what it does to me and I get shouted down and name-called when I even BOTHER to try to find answers to those questions. Worse, I get people telling me "LOL it's all in your head, eat your wheat and STFU" when I've proven over and over again that it's not the case. I've even accidentally eaten something with wheat in it, for weeks on end, only discovering it had wheat in it after wondering why I was having problems again. It's not gluten because I can eat other grains that contain gluten (spelt, oats) and I have no problems, so it's clearly something else in wheat. Having read all that, are you going to sit there, having been a 'medicinal chemist for 20 years', and tell me it's all in my head? If you're going to mock or ridicule me don't even bother responding, I've had quite enough of that over this subject over the last 15 or so years, but if you want to have a rational, intelligent conversation about it, then please do.
Oh STFU. We're not talking about 'falling over dead from glyphosate poisoning' here, we're talking about strange chronic health problems that doctors can't figure out WHY you have them, but that started showing up in countries that use Roundup shortly after Roundup use started to skyrocket.
I'm not even going to bother debating this. Nobody will know the truth about any of it until long after we're all dead from old age, or Monsanto goes out of business, whichever comes first. Believe whatever the fuck you want.
Here's a different possible reason why: Amazon is considering getting into the patent-troll business, and if anyone else tries this, they'll sue the living daylights out of them. If they try to get the 'technology' licensed to them, they'll find the price to be beyond exorbitant.
Actually the summary says as much as their 'patent' specifies essentially a man-in-the-middle attack, intercepting and modifying the datastream to and from your browser, not just outright blocking certain requests. The obvious workaround would be to use your cell connection instead of in-store WiFi. The more obvious solution would be to indict Amazon on the basis of cyber-hacking laws, which is essentially what they're doing. I don't think they could even force you to sign a waiver and have it be legal. I'm glad I don't have or want a smartphone, I'll never have to put up with bullshit like this.
It's not the GMO part of GMO that's the problem, it's the fact that it's been genetically modified to be resistant to herbicide, and the fact that crops are drenched in glyphosate herbicide just before harvest in a process called 'dessication', which leaves detectable amounts of glyphosate residue in those crops, which ends up in your body, fucking up your metabolic processes that's the problem.
The guy who has changed his story three times about Russian hacking now tries out a new strategy.
Does Russia have it's own version of Twitter? Does Putin use it, like, all the time? I think you see where I'm going with this. How do you say 'fake news' in Russian?
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I'd like to reiterate something I said above (which you likely didn't read) in the particular case of your 'Xiaomi' phone: That's a Chinese company, and it's highly likely that it's got malware baked right into the firmware of the phone itself, which means it's compromised as soon as you take it out of the box, and there is NOTHING you can do to remove that malware if that's the case. This is one of the major points I have about why I, personally, don't want a smartphone: things like this can and are being done with them, and because of that there's nothing a smartphone can do for me that mitigates the fact that I'd be walking around with something that's tracking me and logging everything I do.
Guns don't kill people, people kill people
That's essentially the point you're making, and make no mistake about it: I actually agree with you. The technology itself is not 'evil' or even 'bad' or 'wrong', but I do feel it's being misused and abused by too many people, and corporations are leveraging the technology in ways that is encouraging people to abuse the technology; smartphones are being an enabler of too many people's bad habits and tendencies. That's where the problem is, and just like the texting-while-driving problem, it seems that nothing and nobody is making any headway into remedying that situation.
I don't have children, BTW.
I know I can completely and totally disable any internet connectivity on a smartphone by intentionally misconfiguring the network parameters, making it into a dumbphone, essentially. For me personally it's just not worth the expense of the device itself if that's what I'd have to do with it to feel like it's secured enough to carry around with me.
I don't have any of my email or other accounts set up on the phone so security is not an issue.
See, here's the thing (which I also mentioned above): With current exploits, websites can be compromised in such a way that just going to them on your smartphone will infect your phone with malware, and you won't even know it happened. Now, someone might next say to me, "Prove it, or you're just another crackpot paranoid conspiracy theorist", but the point is I can't prove it, and neither can most people, unless you've got such thorough access to a given device (would probably require a JTAG connection to the phone, and someone who really knows what they're looking for) that you can examine every single byte of RAM and Flash on that device -- or maybe Wireshark monitoring of it's network traffic over a long period of time, looking for malware communication with it's C&C server. FWIW the major security hole on any given smartphone is the web browser itself, followed closely by the fact that you can't install the sorts of antiviral/antimalware that you can on a full-blown PC, and those points are mainly because of the wireless carriers and to a certain extent the smartphone manufacturers, and how locked-down the OS is on them. The only way I've come up with that I could have a smartphone and feel like I'd secured it well enough for my tastes, would be to completely and totally disable any and all internet access on it, permanently, by doing something like intentionally mis-configuring the network parameters so it's impossible for anything on the phone to connect to the public internet, essentially making it into a dumbphone. Aside from having more data storage capability and a better media player, that's all it would be. Not worth it for what a smartphone costs. YMMV.
I went to a private school through Junior High, because of ADHD, and because I'm brighter than average. Small class sizes (largest I was ever in was 13 kids) and all the individualized attention you could possibly need. That is what I credit with being able to think straight at all. So far as I can see, public schools either don't have the time or don't have the desire to teach kids to actually 'think', all they seem to be interested in is getting them to pass standardized tests so they can continue to receive tax dollars. So far as I can see, kids don't start getting taught to think until they reach college -- assuming it's a decent college or university, that is. Even then if someone hadn't taken them under their wing long ago and started teaching them how to think before that time, they may never really learn to think. Probably has to do with how their brains develop during elementary school years; no stimulous to think, you don't develop the wetware to think all that well. Dunno. But it does seem to me that people are getting dumber and lazier instead of smarter and more overall productive, and the consumer goods industries just seem to be supplying them with more and more toys to enable them to be dumber and lazier. That's just my opinion based on my observations over the last 20 or 30 years; we keep adding to our knowledge base, but people aren't getting smarter. As with all things: your mileage may vary. No warranties implied or otherwise with regard to my opinions.
..but I think smartphones aren't all that great anyway. When some people get so wrapped up in whatever they're looking at on their smartphone that they literally bump into you walking down the street (or into a stationary object, or walk out into traffic, etc), then you have to wonder if they're being misused. Then there's the complete lack of security; any given smartphone, regardless of manufacturer, could be infected with malware, and the owner of the phone might never know about it, even if they never went to any risky URLs, never opened a suspicious email, and never clicked a dubious link. Then there's the fact that your smartphone might have malware baked right into the firmware from the factory. Meanwhile you're paying a premium every month just to have it connected to your wireless companys' network. Think about it: we live in a world where there are people right now who'd rather text each other than talk, even if they're in the same room. Does that seem right? It's easy for someone to say "well, it's a communication tool, I use it to stay in touch with people, and I can research things on the internet, and I can pull up a map to find where I need to go", but when people have their eyes glued to it practically every waking moment? Despite being told not to people are using their smartphones in theatres, and despite hefty fines and risk of being killed in an accident, people are constantly screwing around with their phones while they're driving. Doesn't it really sound like this 'useful' communications tool is being heavily abused to the point where it's more of a nuisance than it is a tool? Let's not even get started on the stories about people who have had thousands (and TENS of thousands) of dollars charged to them because their kids bought things in games or online on their phones..
I don't have a smartphone. I can't justify the expense of the hardware or the monthly connectivity cost, and I especially can't justify carrying around something so incapable of being secured properly against intrusion and against malware infection. Nor do I care to carry around an electronic leash that allows anyone with access to know precisely where I am and perhaps even listen in on what I'm doing or turn on the camera and see what I'm doing. The so-called 'benefits' of the connectivity and processing capabilities are just not anywhere near sufficient to mitigate all the expense and all the problems and deficiencies associated with it. Now we find that perhaps the technology itself, because of how it's misused, overused, and abused, is potentially destructive to kids. Really makes me wonder what it is we've allowed to be done to us.
Just to amplify: I roll my eyes at people who claim that EM fields cause all the stuff they claim it does. I have a friend who refuses to own a microwave oven because she doesn't seem to understand the difference between RF radiation and nuclear radiation; I just smile and nod. It's weird though because otherwise she's a logical, rational, above-average intelligence person. Would I want double-digit watts of terahertz RF energy right next to my head? Hell no, I don't need my brain matter cooked, but using Bluetooth headsets? Yeah, no problem. Also as I commented elsewhere I think the anti-vaccination people need to get their heads straightened out.
No worries, I wasn't casting aspersions in the direction of your wife, not in the least. I am agreeing with you, there are plenty of people whose distrust of science has grown to the point where they're totally irrational about it, though, and their gullibility when it comes to 'snake oil' cures for things has risen to epidemic proportions. I think the anti-vaccination people need their heads examined, and that snake-oil salesmen should be run out of town on a rail. Things like 'homeopathic medicine' with it's whole 'water has a memory' riff is beyond the pale. Then there's the 'healthy at every size (HAES)' crowd. All the above raise the noise floor on the Internet so much that it makes it tough to find actual reliable information on some things. I really don't appreciate them for that.
Just goes to show you that not all of us who claim problems with wheat are nutjobs. ;-) Thank you for being open-minded; "Some faith in humanity restored" :-)
Ironically enough I have really bad allergies to pretty much everything that grows and blows; it's easier to list what I'm not allergic to (bird feathers, animal dander, and house dust, i.e. dust mite corpses), I've taken antigen injections for years now, there's no antihistamine on the market that really works as advertised (I currently take 360mg of fexofenadine daily, twice the normal dose, barely does anything, and sometimes also take montelukast daily), have to keep an albuterol inhaler with me, and perform a sinus rinse anywhere from twice to a dozen times daily, depending on what state I'm in (i.e. if I'm sick, it's closer to a dozen) which actually helps quite a bit -- but so far as my allergist can tell, I don't have food allergies, so The Search Continues.
I don't have 'beliefs' to speak of, and I don't 'believe' in so-called 'alternative medicine'. I make the most rational choices I can based on the best information I can. Some of that information may be personally anecdotal; you have to do what works best for you. The 'Blood Type Diet' turned out to be largely nonsense, but it did get me to stop eating wheat long enough for the problems I was having to reverse themselves.
It's really too bad that doctors aren't trained to be more like engineers.
I don't have a college degree; I couldn't afford to get one. But I will claim to have an 'engineering background', and have been a Maker of Things in places I've worked. If you've got an engineering background, then you know there are 'engineers', then there are 'Engineers', if you catch my drift. The same goes for doctors. There are doctors who just learned everything by rote, they don't think too hard or too deep about most things, and for the most part they could be replaced by a robot. Then there's Doctors, who are a cut (or several) above the rest; they are few and far between. I've met a few. They're hard to get in to see usually. So you get people with weird digestive problems, and your garden-variety doctor, more interested in quantitiy than quality, labels it 'Irritable Bowel Syndrome' and sends you home, never looking deeper into the problem. it's a cookie-cutter approach to medicine, when peoples' physiology can be as varied as anything.
Since we're having a rational intelligent conversation about this, I'll share with you the current Plan to discover if glyphosate residue in modern wheat is what causes me the problems I used to have: I train for and race bicycles, and it's race season, but when that's over in September or so, I'll get some non-GMO, certified 'organically grown' wheat bread, and try eating that every day for a while. The point is the non-GMO/Organic stuff never has Roundup (or any other herbicide, so far as I know) touch it, so there shouldn't be any glyphosate residue. If I don't have problems, then I might be on to something (although it could be something else associated with 'traditional' farming techniques and practices, too). If I do have the same sorts of problems occur again, then I'm back to Square One. Sound rational enough?
For the record, the problems that wheat cause me, cumulatively over time, run like this: First, progressively worse constipation, with death-farts. Over time I start experiencing bouts of excruciating pain in one of two areas of my lower abdomen, which can last for a week. Over time I begin to progressively lose physical endurance; in my current state of good health I can ride for 4 or 5 hours, no problem, or run on a treadmill for as long as I can stand it, but as the problems progress, I lose endurance to the point where 20 or so minutes on a treadmill makes me feel like I'm going to collapse. Meanwhile I experience bouts of inexplicable depression, and overall mental fogginess.
Back in the day, six weeks after I stopped eating all wheat products, all the above symptoms started to disappear; I remember running on a treadmill for a full hour, and being a little scared at the sudden change enough so that I stopped even though I felt otherwise like I could keep going.
Once I made a huge mistake and bought a gigantic box of Quaker-brand granola breakfast cereal at Costco; I hadn't noticed
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Damnit.. I have more questions than I have answers when it comes to eating wheat and what it does to me and I get shouted down and name-called when I even BOTHER to try to find answers to those questions. Worse, I get people telling me "LOL it's all in your head, eat your wheat and STFU" when I've proven over and over again that it's not the case. I've even accidentally eaten something with wheat in it, for weeks on end, only discovering it had wheat in it after wondering why I was having problems again. It's not gluten because I can eat other grains that contain gluten (spelt, oats) and I have no problems, so it's clearly something else in wheat. Having read all that, are you going to sit there, having been a 'medicinal chemist for 20 years', and tell me it's all in my head? If you're going to mock or ridicule me don't even bother responding, I've had quite enough of that over this subject over the last 15 or so years, but if you want to have a rational, intelligent conversation about it, then please do.
Oh STFU. We're not talking about 'falling over dead from glyphosate poisoning' here, we're talking about strange chronic health problems that doctors can't figure out WHY you have them, but that started showing up in countries that use Roundup shortly after Roundup use started to skyrocket.
I'm not even going to bother debating this. Nobody will know the truth about any of it until long after we're all dead from old age, or Monsanto goes out of business, whichever comes first. Believe whatever the fuck you want.
*Drum hit*
Technologically ignorant people (you know, 99% of everyone?), that's who. "Oh look, free WiFi, I can save my dataplan!"
Actually I think the real question is how you can get a patent on a 'technology' that runs afoul of cyberhacking laws?
Here's a different possible reason why: Amazon is considering getting into the patent-troll business, and if anyone else tries this, they'll sue the living daylights out of them. If they try to get the 'technology' licensed to them, they'll find the price to be beyond exorbitant.
Actually the summary says as much as their 'patent' specifies essentially a man-in-the-middle attack, intercepting and modifying the datastream to and from your browser, not just outright blocking certain requests. The obvious workaround would be to use your cell connection instead of in-store WiFi. The more obvious solution would be to indict Amazon on the basis of cyber-hacking laws, which is essentially what they're doing. I don't think they could even force you to sign a waiver and have it be legal. I'm glad I don't have or want a smartphone, I'll never have to put up with bullshit like this.
It's not the GMO part of GMO that's the problem, it's the fact that it's been genetically modified to be resistant to herbicide, and the fact that crops are drenched in glyphosate herbicide just before harvest in a process called 'dessication', which leaves detectable amounts of glyphosate residue in those crops, which ends up in your body, fucking up your metabolic processes that's the problem.
..while publicly declaring he proposed in essence, a cyberwar treaty that "might have avoided all this".
Here's what Obamas' reaction to that email must have been. Only a fool (and someone with the initials 'D.T.') would fall for something as obvious as that.
Our intelligence services may be corrupt and inept, but they can at least tell the difference between a legit pic and one that's been shooped.
I'm beginning to think that cyberwarfare is a negative-sum game for all involved and the only way to 'win' is if NOBODY plays.
The guy who has changed his story three times about Russian hacking now tries out a new strategy.
Does Russia have it's own version of Twitter? Does Putin use it, like, all the time? I think you see where I'm going with this. How do you say 'fake news' in Russian?
Your move, Putin.