"This does not affect your statutory rights" is an age-old and totally redundant piece of legalese. Because NOTHING affects your statutory rights, whether they say it or not.
You have a right to not be discriminated against based on your race. I am not sure if you have a statutory right to sue after being discriminated.
Also, I think "unfairly low pay" is not against the law and thus not a right (even if it should be).
Surprised it is still at 73% of old price. I would like it to go bankrupt and take the entire credit reporting industry down with it.
I also would like Equifax to go bankrupt.
However, I think stock price reflects the betting odds that nothing significant will come of it
My understanding is that 1) We are not even the customers of Equifax because someone else handed over our data to them and 2) People suing would have to show standing. So you probably have to wait until your "identity" is "stolen", then prove that it was due to Equifax breach (nearly impossible, of course), and then maybe you can sue.
Who are the idiots still holding onto Equifax stocks?
The idiots who, based on prior evidence, expect this to blow over with no long-term effects.
Is Equifax continuously receiving our data even now? Is Equifax making money from credit reports right now?
Even if they do go bankrupt would someone rescue/buy them to get a hold of our data?
Also, Equifax will earn extra money from people freezing/unfreezing their credit to try and keep safe(er). (I think they offer freezing for free until November? So they'll earn money after November, might even come out ahead at the end.)
They make us prove we did not borrow the money and we were victims of identity theft. It should not be our responsibility.
Yes, that. I hope the person who made up this misnomer "stolen identity" at least received a big bonus.
No one can steal identity. My identity remains intact. Banks just hand out money in my name, because someone said they are me and banks believed them.
Usually because that someone knows my SSN and my address/phone, which is out there now thanks to Equifax.
Not really any different than all the shysters applying for grants for research projects at any University and providing bullshit results for the funding and additional funding?
Eh? Have you ever applied for a grant?
1) Grant application goes through a peer review -- so at the very least you need to convince ~5 peers and at least 1 program officer that your research is worthy of funding.
2) 95% of money goes to the university and to students or postdocs (professors can only pay themselves in the summer for up to 2 months at most)
3) You have to do annual reports, follow a bunch of rules on anything you buy, fill out an ungodly number of conflict-of-interest forms.
I could go on. But it is really, really different from just getting the money, I assure you.
I would like the phone to provide control over what apps do.
If could say "Install app but don't give it GPS access" (or explicitly request permission), then I would know their app is not doing anything bad.
If you leave your property within an item you transfer to someone else, you should pay, not be paid, to recover said item.
I find it more outrageous that the car can be disabled remotely.
This use-case was at most moderately malicious compared to what else can be done with such control.
argument that claims people or businesses only donate because of charitable tax-deductions or write-offs. The failure of that argument is that whatever savings are achieved via the tax writeoffs are far less than the value of what you donated to the charities.
That's only true if the business is donating cash.
I believe quite a few companies (e.g., Microsoft) have been known to donate software. Even donating things like hardware, there may be an opportunity to write off retail price, not the true cost.
I always buy outright. Never borrow money or rent.
I think there is a case to be made that if you don't plan to own that car, then leasing is easier than buying and re-selling later.
Also, sometime you actually can't afford to buy. Have you ever rented an apartment or a house?
No, paper money is at least backed by something. Even if that backing is only the full faith and credit of the US Government it's still better than being backed by absolutely nothing.
Also, one money. You don't see California or New England creating its own US currency in parallel.
people who don't shop around, enjoy their Prime shipping, and are afraid of putting their credit card into a random business's site.
For me, it's not the speed of shipping, it's KNOWING when the product will arrive.
When will someone, anyone, offer that feature? I can spend $50 to overnight something on a website, but I still won't know the day when the item will actually arrive.
we really need better regulations of that business because that is money which should have been more difficult for them to spend.
This always confuses me. There are hard limits of what I could spend on, say, election ($2,700-$5,500 a year according to wikipedia). How is that they can spend $572 million?
Also, weasel words "FCC and other government agencies" to me means total lobbying, including perhaps parking regulations and zoning laws in their office buildings.
Comcast, AT&T, Verizon and the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) have spent $572 million on attempts to influence the FCC and other government agencies since 2008.
A smart speaker, which was hooked up to a surround sound system inside the home, recognized that as a voice command and called 911, Romero said.
The summary sure made it sound like the device learned and reacted to "owner in distress" and not just accidentally mis-interpreted a shouted phrase "Did you call the sheriffs?" (spoken by the perpetrator, not the victim, might I add).
the local taxi company has a perfectly serviceable app and I use it more than anything else.
The "local" part cannot be emphasized enough. Half the time I need a taxi is when I travel -- just flew back from Boston this morning and used Uber to get to the airport from suburbia.
Also, depending on location, the price can be about half of what local taxi company charges, although in other places prices are quite similar.
Perhaps it is time for some sort of aggregate "connect me to the local taxi app" app?
If you need to fly, better reconsider until the software comparing the before & after photos gets at least a couple of updates:)
Isn't it nice, that the guys running this system
1. Don't care how much they inconvenience you
2. Don't care how accurate the system is
3. Don't even care if it catches anyone, because clearly catching terrorists is not directly related to their job performance evaluation
The only thing they really care about is how much taxpayer money it will cost and maybe how much useful data it will generate for them.
So given the (theoretical) miracle of free market, where is non-TSA, pre-9-11 airport I can fly from?
This is excellent news because it restricts one avenue in which apps can violate user privacy.... prepare for delusional hatred of Apple.
Oooh, can we bash Android instead?
You'd think that a cool OS such as Android would naturally have the option "install the app but deny it location access" (or give it fake info automatically?). But no...
So a flash-light app can insist that it must have access to my phone book, take pictures without notifying me and make international calls on my behalf.
It would be helpful to readers if the summary contained any info at all about the company's main product or reason why this is significant.
Oh, it is actually all there in the summary. LeEco is clearly a company that sold wild Orcas... or pool supplies... Plus the TFA refuses to work in presence of adblocker, so we are keeping the article and the discussion strictly separated as is tradition.
LeEco, a Chinese company that made a big splash in the U.S. last fall, is preparing for a round of layoffs that may happen as soon as Tuesday,
Consider tolls. Wouldn't one think at the introduction of EZ-Pass that the days of toll clerks would have been numbered? Yet when do you ever not see a long line of cars in toll clerk lanes? These workers are super busy.
So your evidence for toll clerk's days not being numbered: the few remaining ones have to handle long lines? That does not follow. What you are seeing is 10% of clerks overwhelmed by a line of 20% of customers (non-locals, etc.).
In my area, there are lots of smaller toll exits that have no humans. Very annoying if you have no ez-pass and these jobs are certainly gone.
The idea behind Uber is a good one, but I hope the company itself goes out of business
But if it does, we may have to deal with cabs.
Back to the days of:
Having to find a taxi phone number (if you could) and spend 5 minutes explaining to the operator where they should send the cab.
And then sometimes cab might never show up for which you may or may not get an apology.
Cab drivers refusing to take you because it is not worth the trip (not far enough or not enough fares at the destination).
Cab credit card reader mysteriously breaking when you are about to pay.
Sometime the credit card reader is actually broken (of that you'd be notified when you get in)
Card reader having tip options that start at 25% (Just a few days ago -- Options were 25% or 30% or 35% tip, and the card reader was at the driver seat, not in the back, so he had to choose the option you told him!)
Uber can go out of business as long as Lyft survives.
and I suspect that most people are using way more RAM than they think.
I agree, but I think you mean that Chrome is using way more RAM than a sane person would expect. I just opened a tab listing folders on a web server (5 files and 5 directories, no index.html). According to Chrome task manager, this tab is taking 18.94 MB! That's for 10 lines of text and white background all around.
Google says it will automatically upgrade the version of Chrome that some Windows users are running, in what it describes as a bet to improve stability, performance, and security.
In other news, Google will automatically search for results that it considers relevant, regardless of what you type in the search bar, in what it describes as a bet to improve quality of searches.
(I know on average they are right and users can't spell, but I find it really annoying when my perfectly correct search term is changed to something more common automatically)
I'd bet 95% of politicians are not tech-savvy. They tend to be older individuals, and also come from backgrounds not dependent in tech.
No, please stop saying that.
I actually bet that 95% of politicians know exactly what they are doing. They might not be tech-savvy, but they are smart and someone could easily explain to them what they don't know. Or sometimes the aides or lobbyists writes the laws for them anyway.
They are just not working for us. Please don't explain it away by "they don't know what they are doing".
Oh, I so hope the author of the article at least got paid for all that marketing.
I asked what the S in Windows 10 S stands for, and "student" was not the correct answer.
"It's not literally any particular word. It's about Windows being streamlined, secure, having superior performance. You've seen us use this with Xbox One S;
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"This does not affect your statutory rights" is an age-old and totally redundant piece of legalese. Because NOTHING affects your statutory rights, whether they say it or not.
You have a right to not be discriminated against based on your race. I am not sure if you have a statutory right to sue after being discriminated.
Also, I think "unfairly low pay" is not against the law and thus not a right (even if it should be).
Surprised it is still at 73% of old price. I would like it to go bankrupt and take the entire credit reporting industry down with it.
I also would like Equifax to go bankrupt.
However, I think stock price reflects the betting odds that nothing significant will come of it
My understanding is that
1) We are not even the customers of Equifax because someone else handed over our data to them and
2) People suing would have to show standing. So you probably have to wait until your "identity" is "stolen", then prove that it was due to Equifax breach (nearly impossible, of course), and then maybe you can sue.
Who are the idiots still holding onto Equifax stocks?
The idiots who, based on prior evidence, expect this to blow over with no long-term effects.
Is Equifax continuously receiving our data even now?
Is Equifax making money from credit reports right now?
Even if they do go bankrupt would someone rescue/buy them to get a hold of our data?
Also, Equifax will earn extra money from people freezing/unfreezing their credit to try and keep safe(er). (I think they offer freezing for free until November? So they'll earn money after November, might even come out ahead at the end.)
They make us prove we did not borrow the money and we were victims of identity theft. It should not be our responsibility.
Yes, that. I hope the person who made up this misnomer "stolen identity" at least received a big bonus.
No one can steal identity. My identity remains intact. Banks just hand out money in my name, because someone said they are me and banks believed them.
Usually because that someone knows my SSN and my address/phone, which is out there now thanks to Equifax.
Not really any different than all the shysters applying for grants for research projects at any University and providing bullshit results for the funding and additional funding?
Eh? Have you ever applied for a grant?
1) Grant application goes through a peer review -- so at the very least you need to convince ~5 peers and at least 1 program officer that your research is worthy of funding.
2) 95% of money goes to the university and to students or postdocs (professors can only pay themselves in the summer for up to 2 months at most)
3) You have to do annual reports, follow a bunch of rules on anything you buy, fill out an ungodly number of conflict-of-interest forms.
I could go on. But it is really, really different from just getting the money, I assure you.
I'm interested in what they actually do.
I would like the phone to provide control over what apps do.
If could say "Install app but don't give it GPS access" (or explicitly request permission), then I would know their app is not doing anything bad.
And they are still not a bank from any regulatory perspective (in US).
Anybody with an IQ over room temperature has known this for years.
In Canada, that actually includes quite a few people!
Normal room temperature there would be about 20 Celsius
If you leave your property within an item you transfer to someone else, you should pay, not be paid, to recover said item.
I find it more outrageous that the car can be disabled remotely.
This use-case was at most moderately malicious compared to what else can be done with such control.
argument that claims people or businesses only donate because of charitable tax-deductions or write-offs. The failure of that argument is that whatever savings are achieved via the tax writeoffs are far less than the value of what you donated to the charities.
That's only true if the business is donating cash.
I believe quite a few companies (e.g., Microsoft) have been known to donate software. Even donating things like hardware, there may be an opportunity to write off retail price, not the true cost.
I always buy outright. Never borrow money or rent.
I think there is a case to be made that if you don't plan to own that car, then leasing is easier than buying and re-selling later.
Also, sometime you actually can't afford to buy. Have you ever rented an apartment or a house?
No, paper money is at least backed by something. Even if that backing is only the full faith and credit of the US Government it's still better than being backed by absolutely nothing.
Also, one money.
You don't see California or New England creating its own US currency in parallel.
people who don't shop around, enjoy their Prime shipping, and are afraid of putting their credit card into a random business's site.
For me, it's not the speed of shipping, it's KNOWING when the product will arrive.
When will someone, anyone, offer that feature?
I can spend $50 to overnight something on a website, but I still won't know the day when the item will actually arrive.
we really need better regulations of that business because that is money which should have been more difficult for them to spend.
This always confuses me. There are hard limits of what I could spend on, say, election ($2,700-$5,500 a year according to wikipedia). How is that they can spend $572 million?
Also, weasel words "FCC and other government agencies" to me means total lobbying, including perhaps parking regulations and zoning laws in their office buildings.
Comcast, AT&T, Verizon and the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) have spent $572 million on attempts to influence the FCC and other government agencies since 2008.
A smart speaker, which was hooked up to a surround sound system inside the home, recognized that as a voice command and called 911, Romero said.
The summary sure made it sound like the device learned and reacted to "owner in distress" and not just accidentally mis-interpreted a shouted phrase "Did you call the sheriffs?" (spoken by the perpetrator, not the victim, might I add).
the local taxi company has a perfectly serviceable app and I use it more than anything else.
The "local" part cannot be emphasized enough. Half the time I need a taxi is when I travel -- just flew back from Boston this morning and used Uber to get to the airport from suburbia.
Also, depending on location, the price can be about half of what local taxi company charges, although in other places prices are quite similar.
Perhaps it is time for some sort of aggregate "connect me to the local taxi app" app?
If you need to fly, better reconsider until the software comparing the before & after photos gets at least a couple of updates :)
Isn't it nice, that the guys running this system
1. Don't care how much they inconvenience you
2. Don't care how accurate the system is
3. Don't even care if it catches anyone, because clearly catching terrorists is not directly related to their job performance evaluation
The only thing they really care about is how much taxpayer money it will cost and maybe how much useful data it will generate for them.
So given the (theoretical) miracle of free market, where is non-TSA, pre-9-11 airport I can fly from?
This is excellent news because it restricts one avenue in which apps can violate user privacy. ... prepare for delusional hatred of Apple.
Oooh, can we bash Android instead?
You'd think that a cool OS such as Android would naturally have the option "install the app but deny it location access" (or give it fake info automatically?). But no...
So a flash-light app can insist that it must have access to my phone book, take pictures without notifying me and make international calls on my behalf.
It would be helpful to readers if the summary contained any info at all about the company's main product or reason why this is significant.
Oh, it is actually all there in the summary. LeEco is clearly a company that sold wild Orcas... or pool supplies...
Plus the TFA refuses to work in presence of adblocker, so we are keeping the article and the discussion strictly separated as is tradition.
LeEco, a Chinese company that made a big splash in the U.S. last fall, is preparing for a round of layoffs that may happen as soon as Tuesday,
Consider tolls. Wouldn't one think at the introduction of EZ-Pass that the days of toll clerks would have been numbered? Yet when do you ever not see a long line of cars in toll clerk lanes? These workers are super busy.
So your evidence for toll clerk's days not being numbered: the few remaining ones have to handle long lines?
That does not follow. What you are seeing is 10% of clerks overwhelmed by a line of 20% of customers (non-locals, etc.).
In my area, there are lots of smaller toll exits that have no humans. Very annoying if you have no ez-pass and these jobs are certainly gone.
The idea behind Uber is a good one, but I hope the company itself goes out of business
But if it does, we may have to deal with cabs. Back to the days of:
Having to find a taxi phone number (if you could) and spend 5 minutes explaining to the operator where they should send the cab.
And then sometimes cab might never show up for which you may or may not get an apology.
Cab drivers refusing to take you because it is not worth the trip (not far enough or not enough fares at the destination).
Cab credit card reader mysteriously breaking when you are about to pay.
Sometime the credit card reader is actually broken (of that you'd be notified when you get in)
Card reader having tip options that start at 25% (Just a few days ago -- Options were 25% or 30% or 35% tip, and the card reader was at the driver seat, not in the back, so he had to choose the option you told him!)
Uber can go out of business as long as Lyft survives.
and I suspect that most people are using way more RAM than they think.
I agree, but I think you mean that Chrome is using way more RAM than a sane person would expect.
I just opened a tab listing folders on a web server (5 files and 5 directories, no index.html). According to Chrome task manager, this tab is taking 18.94 MB! That's for 10 lines of text and white background all around.
Google says it will automatically upgrade the version of Chrome that some Windows users are running, in what it describes as a bet to improve stability, performance, and security.
In other news, Google will automatically search for results that it considers relevant, regardless of what you type in the search bar, in what it describes as a bet to improve quality of searches.
(I know on average they are right and users can't spell, but I find it really annoying when my perfectly correct search term is changed to something more common automatically)
I'd bet 95% of politicians are not tech-savvy. They tend to be older individuals, and also come from backgrounds not dependent in tech.
No, please stop saying that.
I actually bet that 95% of politicians know exactly what they are doing. They might not be tech-savvy, but they are smart and someone could easily explain to them what they don't know. Or sometimes the aides or lobbyists writes the laws for them anyway.
They are just not working for us. Please don't explain it away by "they don't know what they are doing".
I asked what the S in Windows 10 S stands for, and "student" was not the correct answer.
"It's not literally any particular word. It's about Windows being streamlined, secure, having superior performance. You've seen us use this with Xbox One S;