I won't promise not to hook Ajit Pai's nuts to a car battery and then use the lead to repeat the message in Morris code "Net Neutrality is fundamental to a free internet". Someday I hope regular people in the republican party realize that the party establishment only cares about corporate freedom, individual freedom and the protection of free market competition do not exist in their agenda.
Just to prepare you in such an event, the dots are going hurt like hell, but the dashes will be truly and inhumanely excruciating.
Could they argue that the contents of their site are covered by copyright and that scraping the site and using that info for commercial purposes, or acting to republish the material is a violation?
Ordinarily I side with the freedom of access on these things, but really outside actors scraping the data from Linkedin threatens their business. I don't really want my data on Linkedin if it's going to get misused by third parties. Somehow fraud is always the end result of too much personal information being too accessible.
Ever notice on Bing image search it throws in some odd stuff, like sometimes regular porn, nudist or family photos get mixed together and in that case some nude images of children or families are mixed in with porn. Personally I find that really disturbing because it exposes those images in a sexual context when the images were not intended as sexual. It creates a potential safe space for pedophile type behavior. I also get nude images of dead bodies sometimes mixed with porn images which is disturbing, but the kid stuff really worries me how accessible it's become seemingly by accident on Microsoft's part.
If the Republicans believe in the free market, tearing down Net Neutrality is a failure to practice what they preach. Part of a free market is ensuring competition is encouraged for the benefit of the consumer. When protecting freedoms they seem to favor corporate freedom over individual freedom about 100 to 1. That fucktard has no business making FCC policy. Hooray for regulatory capture!
Uh oh, Slashdot infiltrated with Russian propaganda?...or just a shitty useless article. Boy you could just cut the racial tension with a knife, next we'll hear Ferrari dealers foster the same discrimination.
It's time we make an example and take away any authorization for Equifax to store or maintain any personal information. Not that the other agencies are better, but fuck, these people are fucking useless.
1) Shut them down - Equifax must be no more.
2) Rework with systems we use so that there is real authentication like maybe possessing a smart card / EMV that provides authentication.
3) Social security numbers need to be made invalid / illegal to use as a form of authentication.
4) Credit card account numbers must be made useless by themselves, EMV only protects you if others cannot execute non-EMV transactions on the account. (Yes I know CV1 CVV2 data is generally needed for transactions)
5) We must never again design systems where data that is shared with multiple third parties is used for authentication.
6) Maybe improve EMV with some OTP system in conjunction.
7) Credit agencies need to be completely reworked. Consumers must have reliable and responsive methods of fixing fraud and errors in the data within 45 days from the report date by law.
8) Consumers suffering data loss should have legal standing for class action suit, unauthorized disclosure is a form of harm even if it can't be linked to a monetary loss.
Lenovo, I hope you are listening, because many of us would like this type of configuration. There are no laptops IMO currently on the market which meet these specs in a quality configuration for business users.
They are stupid by design. The typical Samsung TV pushes updates without any option to decline. It just puts up a notice about the upgrade with an "OK" button. No ignore, cancel, or decline, no close, just "OK". I don't think they understand what consent is supposed to mean. Consent is not actual consent if there is no other available option. Samsung, I'd like your product team to eat broken glass, "OK".
Even if one company's grapefruit isn't much different than the other, I just like to know that if the first company gets a little to adamant about always wanting to watch me eat my grapefruit, I can go to another company. I support Bing for one and only one reason, so Google will have competition. I block my computers from talking to Google entirely whenever possible. Microsoft may not get privacy right either, but the world is a better place if Google at least has competition who can at least claim to respect privacy more. I can't depend only on Startpage and Duckduckgo because they won't be able to really offer competition to Google for various reasons. Even if company B watches me eat my grapefruit, I'd rather they exist just to discourage company A from watching me eat my grapefruit in 4K video that they store for 10 years.
They can't let facts get in the way of shaming, bashing and firing someone who dares to challenge the pro-feminist, pro-everyone except white males agenda. Someone making a reasoned argument that some might disagree with doesn't go viral, but if we all just assume the argument is ignorant and is against accepted PC values then it can just go viral without anyone having to read the memo.
Support your local SJW and help white males understand that their new role in society is to stand quietly in the corner contemplating their past sins until women and people of color grab up their fair share. I'm sure this strategy can't fail.
What they threatened is Doxxing, in a way. A person's name should be viewed as personal information when they post with the expectation of privacy. The internet loses much of it's power to foster free speech if you have to worry about the potential of anonymous speech being attributed to you publicly. Obviously there were always risks, but for a media company to publicly take that into their own hands crosses a line.
Has that been publicly acknowledged by the card issuers? I try and limit what they know by opting for cash on some transactions. If you are saying they are putting it in the marketing database when you make a purchase each item you buy, not just what store you shopped at, even if you don't give a rewards card or number, then that is level of personal violation I haven't seen documented.
It's hard to know what an appropriate system would be. I really hate the idea of everyone getting everything they buy delivered from online retailers. I also look at department stores and question the logic. Many retailers have a store full of stuff, but much of it isn't of any interest to many people. I don't have a better idea, but it's not hard to see the the inefficiency in online individual delivery of every consumer good a person could possibly want, or on the other hand the department stores filled with vast quantities of items nobody will buy.
It's those college students I'm most apt to protect. Everyone says we need to get all these masses of students ready for STEM jobs, but in order for inexperienced workers coming out of school to get good jobs there has to be some pressure on the market so employers are willing to take risks and invest in people. We owe it to young people to protect the market we are so busy telling them is their best path to a future.
I hold an alternate view auto makers are threatened by their belief that they are threatened by tech company autos and ride-sharing. This belief will lead them to lose focus or their core products and waste R&D dollars without ROI.
Autos can partner with tech and both do what they are good at doing. Google and Apple can't out produce auto companies and Ford and GM can't go it alone without great technical partners. Everyone is betting on Autonomous vehicles and ride-sharing side effects 15 years early. While I acknowledge you can't catch up once you get 15 years behind on R&D you can let someone else do the work, partner with the winners and spend the R&D only on integration. The problem is there will only be a handful of winners and some auto makers will not have a place at the table in the end.
Addresses and dates of birth are more than basic marketing data. Nothing is going to change with this shit until until there is some consequence. The law doesn't recognize information disclosure that increases risk of identity theft to be harm, so doesn't allow class action suits. The view is no harm, means no standing, but that is bullshit. Information exposure itself is harm and negligent handling of personal data should be a criminal act.
I could sometimes stomach Whole Foods when they were their own entity, but I'm not interested in my grocery dollars going into Amazon's pocket. Even more so, I'll go out of my way to frequent local specialty markets. I imagine many Whole Foods shoppers being turned off by Amazon's involvement. If the demographics shift they will not be able to maintain the current standards.
I'm a little surprised investors seem to think this is such a great idea. It will be sad if they ruin a good business that a lot of people value.
Running your own mail server isn't for everyone, but I'd say absolutely you have to own the domain if you want control. If someone else owns the domain that your account depends on, you have no control over the future of your own account. This is the fundamental error I made 18+ years ago when I started calling Yahoo my permanent email address and thinking only my employer addresses were transitory.
The YM app recently became a Gmail clone, that's why I had to uninstall it. Now I POP my Yahoo mail in order to limit what data they have sitting around to analyze. The App has started noticeably pulling names and content from mail to add wiz-bangs to the UI. They forced me to upgrade to the current app. It took all of an hour for me to downgrade my trust level from zero to negative 2 and completely uninstall the YM app.
Time to finally kill the yahoo.com address. Whatever Verizon does will not be in the customer's interest.
I was personally really interested in what Andy Rubin, is doing with Essential. The Essential phone seems like a nice design and I like the Titanium concept. I have been a Motorola fan since the original Droid, but Google and then Lenovo pretty much ruined that, since I have no trust in Google or a Chinese company like Lenovo. I don't see any truly trustworthy unlocked quality built off the shelf options on the current market and I'm hopeful the Essential phone will fill that gap.
I'm not much of a mobile geek, the one issue I wasn't sure about the phone is, will the Essential phone still have Google Maps? Yeah, I don't trust Google, but I'm willing to share some info for good navigation, I can turn off location services and limit the app when I don't want too share.
I don't care for Apple, and Samsung has some odd ideas about how the interface and device settings should be presented. I'd really welcome the Essential phone if it's a rugged sound design with a logically executed interface.
Sounds like Walmart is sending their people to the Dwight Schrute school of management.
Jim: [to Pam] Hey. Jim: [Dwight hands Jim a piece of paper] Oh, what's this? Dwight: That is a demerit. Jim: [reads demerit] "Jim Halpert, tardiness." Ugh. I love it already. Dwight: You've gotta learn, Jim. You are second in command, but that does not put you above the law. Jim: Oh, I understand. And I also have lots of questions, like, what does a demerit mean? Dwight: [scoffs] Let's put it this way. You do not want to receive three of those. Jim: Lay it on me. Dwight: Three demerits and you'll receive a citation. Jim: Now that sounds serious. Dwight: Oh, it is serious. Five citations and you're looking at a violation. Four of those and you'll receive a verbal warning. Keep it up, and you're looking at a written warning. Two of those, that'll land you in a world of hurt... in the form of a disciplinary review written up by me and placed on the desk of my immediate superior. Jim: Which would be me. Dwight: That is correct. Jim: OK, I want a copy on my desk by the end of the day or you will receive a full disadulation. Dwight: What's a dis... what's that? Jim: Oh, you don't want to know.
Season 3 - Episode 21 "Women's Appreciation" Written by Gene Stupnitsky & Lee Eisenberg Directed by Tucker Gates
Skype is a useful tool for business, if they fuck it up with a bunch of social media integration I won't trust it anymore. We probably put too much trust in it now, but if it gets a social media upgrade it's going strait in the garbage for me.
Facebook harms my mental health and I don't even use it. Just the anguish of trying to minimize the information they collect about me and how many images of me that normal people share is enough to cause me stress. Maybe those of us who don't use Facebook can sue for the mental anguish of knowing Facebook exists.
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I won't promise not to hook Ajit Pai's nuts to a car battery and then use the lead to repeat the message in Morris code "Net Neutrality is fundamental to a free internet". Someday I hope regular people in the republican party realize that the party establishment only cares about corporate freedom, individual freedom and the protection of free market competition do not exist in their agenda. Just to prepare you in such an event, the dots are going hurt like hell, but the dashes will be truly and inhumanely excruciating.
Could they argue that the contents of their site are covered by copyright and that scraping the site and using that info for commercial purposes, or acting to republish the material is a violation? Ordinarily I side with the freedom of access on these things, but really outside actors scraping the data from Linkedin threatens their business. I don't really want my data on Linkedin if it's going to get misused by third parties. Somehow fraud is always the end result of too much personal information being too accessible.
Ever notice on Bing image search it throws in some odd stuff, like sometimes regular porn, nudist or family photos get mixed together and in that case some nude images of children or families are mixed in with porn. Personally I find that really disturbing because it exposes those images in a sexual context when the images were not intended as sexual. It creates a potential safe space for pedophile type behavior. I also get nude images of dead bodies sometimes mixed with porn images which is disturbing, but the kid stuff really worries me how accessible it's become seemingly by accident on Microsoft's part.
If the Republicans believe in the free market, tearing down Net Neutrality is a failure to practice what they preach. Part of a free market is ensuring competition is encouraged for the benefit of the consumer. When protecting freedoms they seem to favor corporate freedom over individual freedom about 100 to 1. That fucktard has no business making FCC policy. Hooray for regulatory capture!
Uh oh, Slashdot infiltrated with Russian propaganda? ...or just a shitty useless article. Boy you could just cut the racial tension with a knife, next we'll hear Ferrari dealers foster the same discrimination.
It's time we make an example and take away any authorization for Equifax to store or maintain any personal information. Not that the other agencies are better, but fuck, these people are fucking useless. 1) Shut them down - Equifax must be no more. 2) Rework with systems we use so that there is real authentication like maybe possessing a smart card / EMV that provides authentication. 3) Social security numbers need to be made invalid / illegal to use as a form of authentication. 4) Credit card account numbers must be made useless by themselves, EMV only protects you if others cannot execute non-EMV transactions on the account. (Yes I know CV1 CVV2 data is generally needed for transactions) 5) We must never again design systems where data that is shared with multiple third parties is used for authentication. 6) Maybe improve EMV with some OTP system in conjunction. 7) Credit agencies need to be completely reworked. Consumers must have reliable and responsive methods of fixing fraud and errors in the data within 45 days from the report date by law. 8) Consumers suffering data loss should have legal standing for class action suit, unauthorized disclosure is a form of harm even if it can't be linked to a monetary loss.
Possibility four: Jobs are not under serious threat, despite the media focus on automation, robots and AI.
Lenovo, I hope you are listening, because many of us would like this type of configuration. There are no laptops IMO currently on the market which meet these specs in a quality configuration for business users.
They are stupid by design. The typical Samsung TV pushes updates without any option to decline. It just puts up a notice about the upgrade with an "OK" button. No ignore, cancel, or decline, no close, just "OK". I don't think they understand what consent is supposed to mean. Consent is not actual consent if there is no other available option. Samsung, I'd like your product team to eat broken glass, "OK".
Even if one company's grapefruit isn't much different than the other, I just like to know that if the first company gets a little to adamant about always wanting to watch me eat my grapefruit, I can go to another company. I support Bing for one and only one reason, so Google will have competition. I block my computers from talking to Google entirely whenever possible. Microsoft may not get privacy right either, but the world is a better place if Google at least has competition who can at least claim to respect privacy more. I can't depend only on Startpage and Duckduckgo because they won't be able to really offer competition to Google for various reasons. Even if company B watches me eat my grapefruit, I'd rather they exist just to discourage company A from watching me eat my grapefruit in 4K video that they store for 10 years.
They can't let facts get in the way of shaming, bashing and firing someone who dares to challenge the pro-feminist, pro-everyone except white males agenda. Someone making a reasoned argument that some might disagree with doesn't go viral, but if we all just assume the argument is ignorant and is against accepted PC values then it can just go viral without anyone having to read the memo. Support your local SJW and help white males understand that their new role in society is to stand quietly in the corner contemplating their past sins until women and people of color grab up their fair share. I'm sure this strategy can't fail.
What they threatened is Doxxing, in a way. A person's name should be viewed as personal information when they post with the expectation of privacy. The internet loses much of it's power to foster free speech if you have to worry about the potential of anonymous speech being attributed to you publicly. Obviously there were always risks, but for a media company to publicly take that into their own hands crosses a line.
Has that been publicly acknowledged by the card issuers? I try and limit what they know by opting for cash on some transactions. If you are saying they are putting it in the marketing database when you make a purchase each item you buy, not just what store you shopped at, even if you don't give a rewards card or number, then that is level of personal violation I haven't seen documented.
It's hard to know what an appropriate system would be. I really hate the idea of everyone getting everything they buy delivered from online retailers. I also look at department stores and question the logic. Many retailers have a store full of stuff, but much of it isn't of any interest to many people. I don't have a better idea, but it's not hard to see the the inefficiency in online individual delivery of every consumer good a person could possibly want, or on the other hand the department stores filled with vast quantities of items nobody will buy.
It's those college students I'm most apt to protect. Everyone says we need to get all these masses of students ready for STEM jobs, but in order for inexperienced workers coming out of school to get good jobs there has to be some pressure on the market so employers are willing to take risks and invest in people. We owe it to young people to protect the market we are so busy telling them is their best path to a future.
Valid point, ignorance is bliss.
I hold an alternate view auto makers are threatened by their belief that they are threatened by tech company autos and ride-sharing. This belief will lead them to lose focus or their core products and waste R&D dollars without ROI. Autos can partner with tech and both do what they are good at doing. Google and Apple can't out produce auto companies and Ford and GM can't go it alone without great technical partners. Everyone is betting on Autonomous vehicles and ride-sharing side effects 15 years early. While I acknowledge you can't catch up once you get 15 years behind on R&D you can let someone else do the work, partner with the winners and spend the R&D only on integration. The problem is there will only be a handful of winners and some auto makers will not have a place at the table in the end.
Addresses and dates of birth are more than basic marketing data. Nothing is going to change with this shit until until there is some consequence. The law doesn't recognize information disclosure that increases risk of identity theft to be harm, so doesn't allow class action suits. The view is no harm, means no standing, but that is bullshit. Information exposure itself is harm and negligent handling of personal data should be a criminal act.
I could sometimes stomach Whole Foods when they were their own entity, but I'm not interested in my grocery dollars going into Amazon's pocket. Even more so, I'll go out of my way to frequent local specialty markets. I imagine many Whole Foods shoppers being turned off by Amazon's involvement. If the demographics shift they will not be able to maintain the current standards.
I'm a little surprised investors seem to think this is such a great idea. It will be sad if they ruin a good business that a lot of people value.
Running your own mail server isn't for everyone, but I'd say absolutely you have to own the domain if you want control. If someone else owns the domain that your account depends on, you have no control over the future of your own account. This is the fundamental error I made 18+ years ago when I started calling Yahoo my permanent email address and thinking only my employer addresses were transitory.
The YM app recently became a Gmail clone, that's why I had to uninstall it. Now I POP my Yahoo mail in order to limit what data they have sitting around to analyze. The App has started noticeably pulling names and content from mail to add wiz-bangs to the UI. They forced me to upgrade to the current app. It took all of an hour for me to downgrade my trust level from zero to negative 2 and completely uninstall the YM app.
Time to finally kill the yahoo.com address. Whatever Verizon does will not be in the customer's interest.
I was personally really interested in what Andy Rubin, is doing with Essential. The Essential phone seems like a nice design and I like the Titanium concept. I have been a Motorola fan since the original Droid, but Google and then Lenovo pretty much ruined that, since I have no trust in Google or a Chinese company like Lenovo. I don't see any truly trustworthy unlocked quality built off the shelf options on the current market and I'm hopeful the Essential phone will fill that gap.
I'm not much of a mobile geek, the one issue I wasn't sure about the phone is, will the Essential phone still have Google Maps? Yeah, I don't trust Google, but I'm willing to share some info for good navigation, I can turn off location services and limit the app when I don't want too share.
I don't care for Apple, and Samsung has some odd ideas about how the interface and device settings should be presented. I'd really welcome the Essential phone if it's a rugged sound design with a logically executed interface.
Sounds like Walmart is sending their people to the Dwight Schrute school of management.
Jim: [to Pam] Hey.
Jim: [Dwight hands Jim a piece of paper] Oh, what's this?
Dwight: That is a demerit.
Jim: [reads demerit] "Jim Halpert, tardiness." Ugh. I love it already.
Dwight: You've gotta learn, Jim. You are second in command, but that does not put you above the law.
Jim: Oh, I understand. And I also have lots of questions, like, what does a demerit mean?
Dwight: [scoffs] Let's put it this way. You do not want to receive three of those.
Jim: Lay it on me.
Dwight: Three demerits and you'll receive a citation.
Jim: Now that sounds serious.
Dwight: Oh, it is serious. Five citations and you're looking at a violation. Four of those and you'll receive a verbal warning. Keep it up, and you're looking at a written warning. Two of those, that'll land you in a world of hurt... in the form of a disciplinary review written up by me and placed on the desk of my immediate superior.
Jim: Which would be me.
Dwight: That is correct.
Jim: OK, I want a copy on my desk by the end of the day or you will receive a full disadulation.
Dwight: What's a dis... what's that?
Jim: Oh, you don't want to know.
Season 3 - Episode 21
"Women's Appreciation"
Written by Gene Stupnitsky & Lee Eisenberg
Directed by Tucker Gates
Skype is a useful tool for business, if they fuck it up with a bunch of social media integration I won't trust it anymore. We probably put too much trust in it now, but if it gets a social media upgrade it's going strait in the garbage for me.
Facebook harms my mental health and I don't even use it. Just the anguish of trying to minimize the information they collect about me and how many images of me that normal people share is enough to cause me stress. Maybe those of us who don't use Facebook can sue for the mental anguish of knowing Facebook exists.