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  1. Re:How deleted are the data? on How To Delete Your Data From Google's 'My Activity' (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    Essentially when one deletes tracking data, they just go on a blacklist for viewing permissions for that data subset.

    Also, when a second party logs your activity, they own that data not you, despite the data being about you, because they created the data. You didn't.

  2. Yes, the cell companies care because they have much higher availability on the backbone vs cell transport

  3. Re:LXDE, XFCE, GNOME3, GNOME2, ... on Ubuntu 17.04 'Zesty Zapus', Featuring Unity, Now Available To Download (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Xu and Lu are kinda tricky to download since not released yet in 17.04.

    Ku is out though http://www.kubuntu.org/getkubuntu/

  4. If

    strict privacy rules for ISPs aren't necessary

    then the ISPs wouldn't have a problem with the rules being put in place then, would they? So of course they ARE fsking necessary.

  5. Real high net worth families employ an IT manager to ensure this won't happen. $1M is at least an order too low to be able to sue AIG if they won't pay a claim.

  6. Re:Battery life on Tesla Discontinuing Model S With 60 KWh Battery (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    So they are. But my comment was not about rate.

  7. Battery life on Tesla Discontinuing Model S With 60 KWh Battery (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    I expect that the 75kWh battery constrained to 60kWh max discharge lasts a lot longer that way

  8. The big data companies don't want to be forced to give up the data under subpoena or court order.

    They want to be able to to sell it to the government instead.

    The government won't buy *anything* if they can use the court system to get it for free, or on an actual-cost basis.

  9. Here tumblr note says:

    ...I have agreed to forgo my annual bonus...

    which sounds like it wasn't her idea. Perhaps she could be persuaded to cough up something to the account holders?

  10. I'm sorry, but the statement

    The LMS scientists claim that the software was able to accurately predict patients who would still be alive after a year around 80% of the time

    does not have anywhere near the same meaning as

    ...capable of predicting when patients with a serious heart disorder will die with an 80% accuracy rate

  11. CEO is shown lying by his company's own actions on Hackers Corrupt Data For Cloud-Based Medical Marijuana System (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting
    So we have:

    Keeping our client's data secure has always been our top priority

    then

    all client sites have been migrated to a new, more secure environment

    If the first was true, the second wasn't necessary.

  12. In the garden of Eden lay Adam,
    Complacently stroking his madam
    And loud was his mirth
    For on all of the earth
    There were only two balls and he had 'em

  13. Re:Sole user on Windows 10 Will Soon Lock Your PC When You Step Away From It (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Mr Uzi and Miss Sten prefer you to demonstrate your moves.

  14. Re:No big corporation will ever use Windows 10. on Windows 10 Will Soon Lock Your PC When You Step Away From It (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    How did your two companies handle the telemtry feature?

  15. Up to on Apple Working With Consumer Reports on MacBook Pro's Battery Issue (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Apple says the devices should operate for up to 10 hours between charges

    up to 10 hours includes lasting only 10 minutes.

  16. No, he meant what he said by "...want people to be running Windows 10 from a security perspective".

    But although he implied that he meant "from the end user's computer security perspective", actually he means "from a Microsoft's future financial security perspective".

    Which does include data harvesting, as you point out. But also Win10 is the path to the OS on a subscription model.

  17. Another judgement to be ignored on EU's Highest Court Delivers Blow To UK Snooper's Charter (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    EU also ruled that UK police have to delete it's DNA database of innocent people, but that hasn't happened yet hazzit?

  18. Best gift ever on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Geeky Gift For Children? · · Score: 0

    Money. Then the recipient can choose.

  19. Why does MS care which browser is used? on Windows 10 Informs Chrome and Firefox Users That Edge is 'Safer' (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    Splain to me. Is that the browser tracking can only work on Edge? Or Bing traffic is more likely?

  20. What 2 science fiction authors would you recommend on 'Stranger In a Strange Land' Coming To TV (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    Philip Jose Farmer, Jack L Chalker and Larry Niven. You'll find you don't like half the material, but simply appreciate the half you do like.

    For series, get the first book from your library. Don't buy the set (used or otherwise) until you've had a bash at the first. For example, you may like PJF's World of Tiers series and hate Riverworld, because the settings are completely different.

  21. Doesn't make sense on Red Cross Blood Service Admits To Personal Data Breach Affecting Half a Million Donors (abc.net.au) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why would the website developer have access to the donor database?

  22. unfair to pick on Yahoo for just obeying the law on Yahoo Wants To Know If FBI Ordered Yahoo To Scan Emails (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily so.

    We don't know what the compelling paper was, whether it could be appealed, whether it was and Yahoo lost.

    Yahoo could have said that they would do it, at such a cost, or perhaps gov. would prefer an appeal instead.

  23. objectivity and decent business journalism? on SolidRun x86 Braswell MicroSoM Runs Linux and Full Windows 10, Destroys Raspberry Pi (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes. With noise, as has always been the case. And yes again, the style and intensity and focus of the noise shifts with time.
     
    /., for all anybody's criticisms, is still easily filterable by setting the minimum score for comments presented to you.
     
    So set it to 5, and you'll be a bunny of higher happiness.

  24. Do you have a reference you can cite for it being mandatory?

  25. Re: Other than Brother... on HP Printers Have A Pre-Programmed Failure Date For Non-HP Ink Cartridges (myce.com) · · Score: 1

    My 4P lasted 19 years...