The government is concerned about spreading lies and that it may dupe people into making choices that they wouldn't make if they knew the real facts? Talk about blistering irony...
If you RTFA AirBNB isn't providing free rooms for people displaced by the hurricance, the hosts that rent out through them are providing the free rooms. AirBNB is not paying them and then letting the displaced stay there, the hosts are offing the usage of their properties for free.
AirBNB is "waiving the service fee for those free hosts" (how nice of them/sarcasm) and seemingly taking all the credit for places for these people to stay when it's actually the goodwill of those hosts helping out...
Is this news to anyone? If you are willing use a "free email" that mines your mail for "value" (marketing, etc.) to be sold off are you really surprised when they are using the same platform to get paid by the govt. to search that same data? If you don't physically control the server and manage the software then you don't control the data stored there. Period, this is why you manage your own data. You can ask secretary Clinton about the privacy benefits of a directly owned and managed email server.
The bottom line is that no one cares as much about your privacy/data as you do. To these companies your data is a resource to exploit. Shit, we used to have "personnel" departments at work, now we have "human resources", which by the way is very appropriate - they want to strip mine everything of value then discard the husk, we are a resource... just like coal or iron ore.
Serious question - why does your printer have access to the Internet? This is poor security protocol. Proper security is to drop traffic by default, white list what you need. You never truly know what your devices will try to do. As an example, I installed security cameras outside my home and linked them to a linux based PVR for the interface/recording. I noticed that my firewall was dropping tons of data from the IPs assigned to the cameras. A quick dump of the traffic uncovered all cameras trying to connect out to a pair of IPs hosted on amazonaws. I never asked or gave consent for this to happen. The same thing would go with a printer, I don't want it to have access to the Internet. The only thing I want it to do is to print pages I send to it. It doesn't need to update firmware unless I manually push it, in which case I'd have a pretty damn good reason - which wouldn't include limiting my ink cartridge choices. For reference, here is a data dump from one of those cameras.
master@EdgeRouter:~$ sudo tcpdump -i eth0 host 192.168.1.248
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes
22:13:46.947684 IP 192.168.1.248.58611 > 192.168.1.1.domain: 895+ A? www.nwsvr1.com. (32)
22:13:46.948215 IP 192.168.1.1.domain > 192.168.1.248.58611: 895 1/0/0 A 54.247.103.91 (48)
22:13:46.996373 IP 192.168.1.248.33102 > 239.255.255.250.1900: UDP, length 421
22:13:48.191871 IP 192.168.1.248.14620 > ec2-54-245-98-57.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com.32100: UDP, length 4
22:13:48.192026 IP 192.168.1.248.14620 > 123.56.159.92.32100: UDP, length 4
22:13:48.192104 IP 192.168.1.248.14620 > ec2-54-217-201-148.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com.32100: UDP, length 4
Do you want your devices to serve you, or do you want your devices to serve the device maker and their will? It might seem extreme to some but as far as I'm concerned the only sane thing to do is treat *every* device as hostile until you know otherwise, drop all packets with a hardware firewall by default, and only approve the traffic you want to go out.
Wait, so an agency that hacks/exploits into others people's devices and data traffic with complete disregard for due process doesn't like it when it happens to them? Say it ain't so Tommy!!
What the fuck does new device availability have to do with "having to buy a new phone"? My phone is over two years old and I plan on getting 4+ years out of it. It does what I need it to do. It's a tool, you replace it when it needs replacement/updating based on functionality not just because there is a newer one. Everyone wonders why people are broke, have no retirement savings, etc. This is why, abysmal money management skills.
Windows 7 doesn't access the Windows Store. The Windows 7 install base is HUGE. They want those people off Windows 7 and on an OS that has their store built in. Windows 7 runs on almost 60% of general user PCs, this number includes Macs. https://www.netmarketshare.com... That's a shit ton of potential people buying from your store. Let's face it, most people running W7 won't pay to upgrade, but their logic will be "hey if it's free, why not?!?". There you go, more money extracted from what would otherwise be a zero revenue generating install.
MS takes 30% of sales on their Windows store. MS wants everyone purchasing from their store so they get a 30% cut of every other company's programming work.
How I interpret MS's a long term goal - it's likely that they want to at some point force you go through the "Windows Store" to buy programs, just like Apple does on their "App Store". Hey,if you can't ignore the forced update that makes this change, then too bad for you. Here's how I see it as a general outline:
1. Develop New Windows OS that Data Mines (read new MS agreements @ https://edri.org/microsofts-ne... ), "cloud services", and more importantly includes the windows store and forced OS updates to add/remove features as they see fit. - Check
2. Offer "Free" windows upgrades - Check
3. Gain Installs / market penetration for new windows OS - In Progress
4. Sell / Use mined data for marketing purposes - Check (See above)
5. Leverage "cloud" services as a vendor lock in - Future
6. Sell more "windows services" - Future
7. Use forced Os updates to lock windows program installation down to their store just like Apple does on iOS - More Distant Future
8. Utilize a 90%+ PC device install base to profit massively off the "windows store" ( http://www.windowscentral.com/... ) - More Distant Future
Show me a backpack style electric leaf blower that puts out a constant 750+ CFM, can run for 3 hours straight, weighs less than 20 pounds, and costs less than $500.
Hell, show me an electric blower that meets my requirements at *any* price.
Yeah... crickets...
My neighbor picked up one of these )http://egopowerplus.com/products/480-cfm-blower#tab1) new this summer and it was basically a worthless piece of shit, and it's about as powerful as electric blowers get. He was outside for over an hour and had less than half of his lawn cleaned up. I tossed on my echo 770 and cleared my whole yard on 20ish minutes, we both had roughly the same amount of debris. Then I walked over and asked him if he wanted a hand, cleared out the remainder of his yard in short order too. He returned the electric piece of crap and a couple weeks later bought a good backpack blower (Stihl 600).
Let me know when you have a backpack leaf blower that puts out 750+ CFM, runs for 3 hours straight, and weighs 20 pounds or less - for $500. Until then, no thanks.
You can't paint personal automobiles as a time waste and squander of money with one brush. I live in a mid size American city with OK public transport, not terrible but not great either. I live ~15 miles from work and worked the night shift ending at midnight for many years. Buses stop boarding new passengers at 11:30 PM. What am I supposed to do - Walk home 15 miles every night? Bring a bicycle on a bus that forbids you from bringing bicycles on-board? Pay a taxi $35/day for a ride home from work ($700/month @20 days worked per month) which ends up costing more than a car? Get a new job and cut my income in half losing well over $2000/month in income?
1. Install and run your own privoxy and configure HTTP, install HTTPS filtering certificates
2. Install custom ad filters (it's easy to do - I know, I've done it)
3. Assuming you are on your own private network, which I usually am, use NAT to redirect all HTTP/HTTPS traffic blind to your privoxy.
4. Profit!
5. There is no ??? step, just profit.
Side note, I've had built in ad blocking on iOS and Android for years this way. No addon's required. If you use my network, you're automatically protected.
I'd use a Chinese encryption system with a back door before I'd use an American one with a back door. Simply put Chinese laws have no jurisdiction where I live and American laws do. That being said, I'd prefer that China read my email over America. I think that the govt. realizes this. Hypothetically speaking, if you were an American and you could pick that either the Chinese or American govt. could decrypt your email that shows tax cheating, which one would you prefer have access?
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The government is concerned about spreading lies and that it may dupe people into making choices that they wouldn't make if they knew the real facts? Talk about blistering irony...
If you RTFA AirBNB isn't providing free rooms for people displaced by the hurricance, the hosts that rent out through them are providing the free rooms. AirBNB is not paying them and then letting the displaced stay there, the hosts are offing the usage of their properties for free.
/sarcasm) and seemingly taking all the credit for places for these people to stay when it's actually the goodwill of those hosts helping out...
AirBNB is "waiving the service fee for those free hosts" (how nice of them
The judicial system can force you to wear a tracker and most people would be horrified at the thought of wearing one.
Somewhere out there someone in a marketing department figured out a way to make people pay to wear a tracking device... KUDOS!
Is this news to anyone? If you are willing use a "free email" that mines your mail for "value" (marketing, etc.) to be sold off are you really surprised when they are using the same platform to get paid by the govt. to search that same data? If you don't physically control the server and manage the software then you don't control the data stored there. Period, this is why you manage your own data. You can ask secretary Clinton about the privacy benefits of a directly owned and managed email server.
The bottom line is that no one cares as much about your privacy/data as you do. To these companies your data is a resource to exploit. Shit, we used to have "personnel" departments at work, now we have "human resources", which by the way is very appropriate - they want to strip mine everything of value then discard the husk, we are a resource... just like coal or iron ore.
How do they manage to lock you out for your own router? By "own router" I mean a router that you either purchased or built yourself.
Serious question - why does your printer have access to the Internet? This is poor security protocol. Proper security is to drop traffic by default, white list what you need. You never truly know what your devices will try to do. As an example, I installed security cameras outside my home and linked them to a linux based PVR for the interface/recording. I noticed that my firewall was dropping tons of data from the IPs assigned to the cameras. A quick dump of the traffic uncovered all cameras trying to connect out to a pair of IPs hosted on amazonaws. I never asked or gave consent for this to happen. The same thing would go with a printer, I don't want it to have access to the Internet. The only thing I want it to do is to print pages I send to it. It doesn't need to update firmware unless I manually push it, in which case I'd have a pretty damn good reason - which wouldn't include limiting my ink cartridge choices. For reference, here is a data dump from one of those cameras.
master@EdgeRouter:~$ sudo tcpdump -i eth0 host 192.168.1.248
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes
22:13:46.947684 IP 192.168.1.248.58611 > 192.168.1.1.domain: 895+ A? www.nwsvr1.com. (32)
22:13:46.948215 IP 192.168.1.1.domain > 192.168.1.248.58611: 895 1/0/0 A 54.247.103.91 (48)
22:13:46.996373 IP 192.168.1.248.33102 > 239.255.255.250.1900: UDP, length 421
22:13:48.191871 IP 192.168.1.248.14620 > ec2-54-245-98-57.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com.32100: UDP, length 4
22:13:48.192026 IP 192.168.1.248.14620 > 123.56.159.92.32100: UDP, length 4
22:13:48.192104 IP 192.168.1.248.14620 > ec2-54-217-201-148.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com.32100: UDP, length 4
Do you want your devices to serve you, or do you want your devices to serve the device maker and their will? It might seem extreme to some but as far as I'm concerned the only sane thing to do is treat *every* device as hostile until you know otherwise, drop all packets with a hardware firewall by default, and only approve the traffic you want to go out.
Wait, so an agency that hacks/exploits into others people's devices and data traffic with complete disregard for due process doesn't like it when it happens to them? Say it ain't so Tommy!!
What the fuck does new device availability have to do with "having to buy a new phone"? My phone is over two years old and I plan on getting 4+ years out of it. It does what I need it to do. It's a tool, you replace it when it needs replacement/updating based on functionality not just because there is a newer one. Everyone wonders why people are broke, have no retirement savings, etc. This is why, abysmal money management skills.
Good luck regulating equations and math.
The Big Mac disagrees....
McDonald's estimates 550 million Big Macs are sold each year in the U.S. alone.
Since the "iPhone" as an entire product line has been in existence the Big Mac as a single product has outsold it 5:1
Eats at McDonalds....
Is concerned about public health...
You need to look harder.
Here's something original that you likely never heard: https://youtu.be/AS6AA6Pe2lo?t...
Personally I' surprised they didn't use buzz words like "disruptive" and "paradigm".
Let's connect our nuclear arsenal to the Internet, what could possibly go wrong?!
Well, that is WHY Wendy's does have to comply with the health code, yes.
It'd be easier for them if they didn't, but they do.
Sometimes.....
To be fair, my Honda AWD CR-V is rated for 31 MPG highway. I get an actual 33 MPG on the highway.
Quick typo fix, that should have been windows 7 runs on about 50% of all general user PCs.
Windows 7 doesn't access the Windows Store. The Windows 7 install base is HUGE. They want those people off Windows 7 and on an OS that has their store built in. Windows 7 runs on almost 60% of general user PCs, this number includes Macs. https://www.netmarketshare.com... That's a shit ton of potential people buying from your store. Let's face it, most people running W7 won't pay to upgrade, but their logic will be "hey if it's free, why not?!?". There you go, more money extracted from what would otherwise be a zero revenue generating install.
MS takes 30% of sales on their Windows store. MS wants everyone purchasing from their store so they get a 30% cut of every other company's programming work.
How I interpret MS's a long term goal - it's likely that they want to at some point force you go through the "Windows Store" to buy programs, just like Apple does on their "App Store". Hey,if you can't ignore the forced update that makes this change, then too bad for you. Here's how I see it as a general outline:
1. Develop New Windows OS that Data Mines (read new MS agreements @ https://edri.org/microsofts-ne... ), "cloud services", and more importantly includes the windows store and forced OS updates to add/remove features as they see fit. - Check
2. Offer "Free" windows upgrades - Check
3. Gain Installs / market penetration for new windows OS - In Progress
4. Sell / Use mined data for marketing purposes - Check (See above)
5. Leverage "cloud" services as a vendor lock in - Future
6. Sell more "windows services" - Future
7. Use forced Os updates to lock windows program installation down to their store just like Apple does on iOS - More Distant Future
8. Utilize a 90%+ PC device install base to profit massively off the "windows store" ( http://www.windowscentral.com/... ) - More Distant Future
Show me a backpack style electric leaf blower that puts out a constant 750+ CFM, can run for 3 hours straight, weighs less than 20 pounds, and costs less than $500.
Hell, show me an electric blower that meets my requirements at *any* price.
Yeah... crickets...
My neighbor picked up one of these )http://egopowerplus.com/products/480-cfm-blower#tab1) new this summer and it was basically a worthless piece of shit, and it's about as powerful as electric blowers get. He was outside for over an hour and had less than half of his lawn cleaned up. I tossed on my echo 770 and cleared my whole yard on 20ish minutes, we both had roughly the same amount of debris. Then I walked over and asked him if he wanted a hand, cleared out the remainder of his yard in short order too. He returned the electric piece of crap and a couple weeks later bought a good backpack blower (Stihl 600).
Let me know when you have a backpack leaf blower that puts out 750+ CFM, runs for 3 hours straight, and weighs 20 pounds or less - for $500. Until then, no thanks.
Linux developers don't die, they just become part of /dev/null
Billy Mays here for Glock. Act now and get your Glock 19 with a FREE carrying case! But wait there's more....
You can't paint personal automobiles as a time waste and squander of money with one brush. I live in a mid size American city with OK public transport, not terrible but not great either. I live ~15 miles from work and worked the night shift ending at midnight for many years. Buses stop boarding new passengers at 11:30 PM. What am I supposed to do - Walk home 15 miles every night? Bring a bicycle on a bus that forbids you from bringing bicycles on-board? Pay a taxi $35/day for a ride home from work ($700/month @20 days worked per month) which ends up costing more than a car? Get a new job and cut my income in half losing well over $2000/month in income?
I've got you covered.
1. Install and run your own privoxy and configure HTTP, install HTTPS filtering certificates
2. Install custom ad filters (it's easy to do - I know, I've done it)
3. Assuming you are on your own private network, which I usually am, use NAT to redirect all HTTP/HTTPS traffic blind to your privoxy.
4. Profit!
5. There is no ??? step, just profit.
Side note, I've had built in ad blocking on iOS and Android for years this way. No addon's required. If you use my network, you're automatically protected.
I'd use a Chinese encryption system with a back door before I'd use an American one with a back door. Simply put Chinese laws have no jurisdiction where I live and American laws do. That being said, I'd prefer that China read my email over America. I think that the govt. realizes this. Hypothetically speaking, if you were an American and you could pick that either the Chinese or American govt. could decrypt your email that shows tax cheating, which one would you prefer have access?