This reminds me about a certain form of government that has proven itself to be a failure countless times, yet is still promoted as being "good". To its believers, the repeated failures aren't proof that the system is bad, just that the wrong people were in charge of it.
It makes it easier to know when you should pilfer the mail of your victim.
The majority of rural delivery boxes can't be locked, because the rural carrier would not be able to open them to deliver mail. And locked group mailboxes are only as secure as the keyed-alike master key.
... group of employees to complain that their hard work is being used for evil government surveillance and hold walk-outs to protest their work being used for evil purposes, other than marketing?
Sexual assault is a crime. Harassment, in and of itself, generally is not.
And, in many cases, the victims do not want to be identified. Forcing it to be public would prevent a lot of victims from reporting, since THEIR names would be public, too.
They don't need to bring a lawsuit. But the letter positions them as being "sympathetic to the cause" when the transgender activists appear on their doorsteps.
Since when has ANY government shown the ability to EFFICIENTLY run ANYTHING?
It isn't their money, so spending it wisely is inconvenient to maintaining oversized pensions.
As for the surcharge - government agencies do the same thing. There is a "convenience fee" for using a credit or debit card to pay a tax or license fee, because the government agency is not to be deprived of the FULL VALUE of what you are required to pay. Most businesses will negotiate for a lower rate, because it is a fee they pay. AT&T doesn't charge me for paying my bill with a credit card, but my license plate incurs a "2.5% fee, minimum $2.50" if I don't pay with cash or check.
I have no desire to have my one Win10 computer "upgraded", I just want bugs fixed. It came with one "upgrade" installed, and wouldn't do much of anything until I installed the second "upgrade", and I'm afraid to let it near an working wifi access point until I figure out how to stop it from installing this latest one. I'm still trying to find how to remove the CRAP I didn't want from those previous "upgrades".
Of course, the promise is that the new "update" allows me to remove a few more of unwanted applications from the previous "updates", but that's not enough to let me trust them.
But, Apple is the same way - To fix security issues on iOS11, I have to go through and disable all the new crap in iOS12, including the things I disabled when 11 was installed that 12 turned back on. Of course, one of the things turned back on (the "app bar" in messaging) now removes functionality from the app if you disable it, as as punishment for disagreeing with Apple's vision of the perfect interface...
> As The New Yorker wrote: "A human driver could easily have handled the situation by slowing down and letting the Camry merge into traffic..."
Rather funny to read anything that involves a "New Yorker" suggesting that human driver would exercise courtesy, let alone courtesy that wasn't required by law....
It's OK to use facial recognition as a convenient way to unlock your phone, but not to track you when you walk down the street. It's OK to use facial recognition as a way to find friends by the pictures they post, but not to track your known associates in defying the government.
The tech is the same, just who uses it. If you want to object to selling it to China, why didn't you object to doing it for InstaFaceTwits?
Skype 8 for the desktop is a mobile app that can run on a desktop. It has all the limitations of the mobile version, including making it difficult to manage multiple text conversations.
Big companies and small companies alike are addicted to WEBSTATS. It's hard to find a page out there that doesn't have 14 bits of Javascript code dedicated to giving better, targeted advertising and "customer service experience", so people would hardly be suspicious of code that sends information to "neweggstats.com".
There are HSTS headers that can be put on HTTPS pages to make sure the browser doesn't fall for this sort of thing, but using them tells the browser not to talk to those precious stat servers... so the stat-addicts won't.
NewEgg informed me via email before the story broke.
It was the first time I'd purchased through NewEgg in a long time.
An hour later, the information that may or may not have been stolen (I don't show net traffic to that domain) was invalid, so it's minimal impact to me.
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Why is it so surprising? Under the original management, it might have done as well, but probably not.
Kudos really should go to Take Two Interactive, for recognizing what the future COULD bring.
Because it would be Amazon would be making that 3-4% on new hardware, rather than a commission on the used/refurbished machines sold by others.
And what if the agreement specified that Amazon got a bigger margin?
Remember, Apple and Amazon haven't disclosed what the agreement says - just how it affects those that have not been anointed as holy enough by Apple.
Allowing others to sell used/refurbished hardware is certainly less profitable than being allowed to sell new stuff yourself.
... it was a bad idea in the first place?
This reminds me about a certain form of government that has proven itself to be a failure countless times, yet is still promoted as being "good". To its believers, the repeated failures aren't proof that the system is bad, just that the wrong people were in charge of it.
It makes it easier to know when you should pilfer the mail of your victim.
The majority of rural delivery boxes can't be locked, because the rural carrier would not be able to open them to deliver mail. And locked group mailboxes are only as secure as the keyed-alike master key.
They just use much smaller sockets now. :)
... wouldn't that allow you to NOT hire so many PART timers?
... group of employees to complain that their hard work is being used for evil government surveillance and hold walk-outs to protest their work being used for evil purposes, other than marketing?
Sexual assault is a crime. Harassment, in and of itself, generally is not.
And, in many cases, the victims do not want to be identified. Forcing it to be public would prevent a lot of victims from reporting, since THEIR names would be public, too.
They don't need to bring a lawsuit. But the letter positions them as being "sympathetic to the cause" when the transgender activists appear on their doorsteps.
Since when has ANY government shown the ability to EFFICIENTLY run ANYTHING?
It isn't their money, so spending it wisely is inconvenient to maintaining oversized pensions.
As for the surcharge - government agencies do the same thing. There is a "convenience fee" for using a credit or debit card to pay a tax or license fee, because the government agency is not to be deprived of the FULL VALUE of what you are required to pay. Most businesses will negotiate for a lower rate, because it is a fee they pay. AT&T doesn't charge me for paying my bill with a credit card, but my license plate incurs a "2.5% fee, minimum $2.50" if I don't pay with cash or check.
... to remove those Win10 applications that Microsoft forbids you to remove?
I have no desire to have my one Win10 computer "upgraded", I just want bugs fixed. It came with one "upgrade" installed, and wouldn't do much of anything until I installed the second "upgrade", and I'm afraid to let it near an working wifi access point until I figure out how to stop it from installing this latest one. I'm still trying to find how to remove the CRAP I didn't want from those previous "upgrades".
Of course, the promise is that the new "update" allows me to remove a few more of unwanted applications from the previous "updates", but that's not enough to let me trust them.
But, Apple is the same way - To fix security issues on iOS11, I have to go through and disable all the new crap in iOS12, including the things I disabled when 11 was installed that 12 turned back on. Of course, one of the things turned back on (the "app bar" in messaging) now removes functionality from the app if you disable it, as as punishment for disagreeing with Apple's vision of the perfect interface...
... to make it impossible to remove or hide transactions? It would seem that this would outlaw the use of blockchain in China.
> As The New Yorker wrote: "A human driver could easily have handled the situation by slowing down and letting the Camry merge into traffic ..."
Rather funny to read anything that involves a "New Yorker" suggesting that human driver would exercise courtesy, let alone courtesy that wasn't required by law....
It's OK to use facial recognition as a convenient way to unlock your phone, but not to track you when you walk down the street.
It's OK to use facial recognition as a way to find friends by the pictures they post, but not to track your known associates in defying the government.
The tech is the same, just who uses it. If you want to object to selling it to China, why didn't you object to doing it for InstaFaceTwits?
... it's a guaranteed scam. NOTHING legitimate has my cell phone number.
Skype 8 for the desktop is a mobile app that can run on a desktop. It has all the limitations of the mobile version, including making it difficult to manage multiple text conversations.
I thought it was short for "Windows Made Difficult".
The public wants bitcoin because it isn't regulated by any government.
They just don't like the risk that lack of regulation entails.
Big companies and small companies alike are addicted to WEBSTATS. It's hard to find a page out there that doesn't have 14 bits of Javascript code dedicated to giving better, targeted advertising and "customer service experience", so people would hardly be suspicious of code that sends information to "neweggstats.com".
There are HSTS headers that can be put on HTTPS pages to make sure the browser doesn't fall for this sort of thing, but using them tells the browser not to talk to those precious stat servers... so the stat-addicts won't.
NewEgg informed me via email before the story broke.
It was the first time I'd purchased through NewEgg in a long time.
An hour later, the information that may or may not have been stolen (I don't show net traffic to that domain) was invalid, so it's minimal impact to me.
... than this? https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
Aren't there EU laws regarding not being allowed to geofence their service?
How do you give "30% local" to every EU country when you can't restrict the content by country?
So, it is also setting making it possible to define "unlawful traffic", and require ISPs to block it in the future. Unlawful traffic like streaming.