And why is it suddenly about Google? Apple is the one leaving years worth of tracking data on the phones
and transmitting it secretly to headquarters with no way for you to opt out.
because Apple has squads of shills and fanbois on standby to derail any anti-Apple news discussions with off topic posts to start up distraction threads... Corporations are now using personna management software so that small teams can appear to be hundreds of concerned citizens to drive discussions in the direction they want away from discussion of their failures.
The real reason this isn't surprising, is that we currently still accept that phones are intended to work for other parties even when their interests conflict with the users'. Our expectations for a cellphone just aren't the same as for a typical Linux PC. The very fact that you have to "jailbreak" most current smartphones to enjoy even a semblance of freedom and mastery (whereas you don't have to jailbreak your new x86 box) is pretty fucked up.
This is what I'm worried about... when they finally mandate TPM, you will have to jailbreak your PC to run what you want on it...
The better question is, why are you so comfortable that the huge troves of information collected about you over years and decades won't be used against you in the future? If the information's there, there is surely someone who would like to use it to their advantage. Just because those people (arguably) aren't in power now doesn't mean it's not one disaster, war, or election away from happening.
too right... who's to know if someday when you decide to run for office or become a nuisance to someone already in office, the powers that be in the future will perform a trawl of where you've been and link you to some embarrassing meeting you may have attended or just happenned to be a bystander at, but they've got you on record as having been there because your phone logged it...
it is true... they were in various stages of undress... we came upon a row of victims still strapped in to their seats but all minus their upper clothing...
I can vouch for this as I was there that night and several days after as one of the search parties tasked with finding and marking the positions of the occupants... not fun at all... very messy.
I can vouch for this... my old Xantia was good in corners while the suspension was woking... sadly, fixing the problems it was developing was more than the car was worth... I miss the ride, but I don't miss the repair bills...
I guess one way or the other, this is a big step in the fields of autonomous robotics and so on. Now if only we could work on the goddamned speech recognition software...
strangely enough, you can blame Microsoft for that!!! They got the technology from L&H in a technology swap, incorporated speech recognition into word etc. and then sat on it and never bothered to do anything with it... meanwhile L&H went belly up as there was no reason for those needing speech recognition software to buy it separately as it was already in MS Office...
Bitcoin is more like gold than traditional government issued currency. There is a fixed amount (there will never be more than 21 million bitcoins, though as that amount is divisible to eight decimal places, that's not a problem). It's value is not centrally decided.
the exchange rate is ridiculous... (ATMIT 0.85001 dollars gets you 1 bitcoin) bitcoins are practically useless for payments because of the poor exchange rate and the stupid low limit on the total number ever...
not only that, but bitcoins are not proof against a determined government buying up the entire supply to render them useless as a mode of exchange... (can do that by making very high offers via proxies in the exchanges and hoovering up every bitcoin that is up for conversion to money)
Maybe I should make a clone of that "Am I rich?" app that cost $1000-1, call it "diamond collector" and let the users collect 200 dollar images of colored stones, which are purchasable within a 2-week window only. Get it now to complete your collection, miss the window and forever have a gap in your collection!
(Or pay $500 to purchase missing items! 3-day offer only!)
too late... restaurant city already has this model... time limited recipes and items that require collecting ingredients which are artificially scarce... but you can buy from their shop for cash...
What is it with you Americans with your dropping of the word 'to' in sentences... "Write your congressman" should really be "write TO your congressman", "Recently new powers were handed spymasters", should be "Recently new powers were handed TO spymasters"
and when you lot say "you could care less"; it's completely wrong... just parse the sentence folks... it should really be "you couldn't care less" as in you already care very little about something and it isn't possible to care any less...
My point? Can we stop with the political issues and try to just produce the best, stable, reliable system we possibly can?
you've obviously never tried to get Gnome devs to change things back... they're absolutely obsessed with making things as unconfigurable as possible for the end user as they believe what they offer is right and the user is an idiot for wanting to changing some options... Just try configuring the screensaver to use images in a directory OTHER than the one they want you to use... it's impossible without doing some manual editing and diving deep... the options are just not there in the screensaver itself...
oh I've seen it alright... When taking photographs so I could write the removal and installation instructions for the fiber-optic databus on the Eurofighter, I got mad when I saw the assemblers were standing on the fiber-optic harnesses while fitting other items into the avionics bays...
Also, the coaxial cable used to transmit RF signals from the detector heads on the top of the fins on Tornado aircraft have to pass right down the spine tunnel and the slightest over tightening of the cable ties used to secure them or dent in the cable from impact with tools and other equipment during servicing damages the cable such that the signal is massivley attenuated... they all had to be replaced in prep for gulf war one... it was a nightmare...
Lawyers are just overhead costs: they don't produce anything, but you need a few around to keep everything running... But if you can safely reduce the costs of overhead, that's supposed to be a good thing.
The problem with lawyers, is that those rendered redundant by technology are still around and seek other lawyering fields to cause problems in for the rest of the world... to whit... the large number of patent lawyers and trolls currently infesting us... large numbers of ambulance chasers seeking no win no fee deals for people who've been stupid...
people who live in "glass houses" shouldn't throw stones... you may get what you wish for in your challenge to Apple's trademark, but lose the trademark for "Windows" when someone else challenges you using the exact same point of law... we all know you run to settle when losing, but how long can you keep settling?
the existence of personna management software makes you wonder about the useage of facebook and other social media in the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya doesn't it...
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All claiming Microsoft is perfectly justified in their behaviour...
once a convicted monopolist, always a convicted monopolist...
because Apple has squads of shills and fanbois on standby to derail any anti-Apple news discussions with off topic posts to start up distraction threads... Corporations are now using personna management software so that small teams can appear to be hundreds of concerned citizens to drive discussions in the direction they want away from discussion of their failures.
This is what I'm worried about... when they finally mandate TPM, you will have to jailbreak your PC to run what you want on it...
too right... who's to know if someday when you decide to run for office or become a nuisance to someone already in office, the powers that be in the future will perform a trawl of where you've been and link you to some embarrassing meeting you may have attended or just happenned to be a bystander at, but they've got you on record as having been there because your phone logged it...
very simple... they ask you for it, and if you refuse to hand it over, they then use that refusal as "probable cause" to effect a full search of you.
guess what the checksum will be... 666
it is true... they were in various stages of undress... we came upon a row of victims still strapped in to their seats but all minus their upper clothing...
I can vouch for this as I was there that night and several days after as one of the search parties tasked with finding and marking the positions of the occupants... not fun at all... very messy.
I can vouch for this... my old Xantia was good in corners while the suspension was woking... sadly, fixing the problems it was developing was more than the car was worth... I miss the ride, but I don't miss the repair bills...
strangely enough, you can blame Microsoft for that!!! They got the technology from L&H in a technology swap, incorporated speech recognition into word etc. and then sat on it and never bothered to do anything with it... meanwhile L&H went belly up as there was no reason for those needing speech recognition software to buy it separately as it was already in MS Office...
the exchange rate is ridiculous... (ATMIT 0.85001 dollars gets you 1 bitcoin) bitcoins are practically useless for payments because of the poor exchange rate and the stupid low limit on the total number ever...
not only that, but bitcoins are not proof against a determined government buying up the entire supply to render them useless as a mode of exchange... (can do that by making very high offers via proxies in the exchanges and hoovering up every bitcoin that is up for conversion to money)
too late... restaurant city already has this model... time limited recipes and items that require collecting ingredients which are artificially scarce... but you can buy from their shop for cash...
The gangsters in charge of Russia really do have no scruples when it comes to eliminating inconvenient people...
just wait until someone posts crap about you online that's patently ubtue then...
and when you lot say "you could care less"; it's completely wrong... just parse the sentence folks... it should really be "you couldn't care less" as in you already care very little about something and it isn't possible to care any less...
you've obviously never tried to get Gnome devs to change things back... they're absolutely obsessed with making things as unconfigurable as possible for the end user as they believe what they offer is right and the user is an idiot for wanting to changing some options... Just try configuring the screensaver to use images in a directory OTHER than the one they want you to use... it's impossible without doing some manual editing and diving deep... the options are just not there in the screensaver itself...
what is the cycle time of this thing... it's basically useless if it takes as long to recharge as the old muzzle loading pistols took to reload...
they found it out the hard way as some people had their eyesight damaged in the early days...
oh I've seen it alright... When taking photographs so I could write the removal and installation instructions for the fiber-optic databus on the Eurofighter, I got mad when I saw the assemblers were standing on the fiber-optic harnesses while fitting other items into the avionics bays...
Also, the coaxial cable used to transmit RF signals from the detector heads on the top of the fins on Tornado aircraft have to pass right down the spine tunnel and the slightest over tightening of the cable ties used to secure them or dent in the cable from impact with tools and other equipment during servicing damages the cable such that the signal is massivley attenuated... they all had to be replaced in prep for gulf war one... it was a nightmare...
IE9 will never run on ANY of my machines so there's no contest... it's completely irrelevant...
The problem with lawyers, is that those rendered redundant by technology are still around and seek other lawyering fields to cause problems in for the rest of the world... to whit... the large number of patent lawyers and trolls currently infesting us... large numbers of ambulance chasers seeking no win no fee deals for people who've been stupid...
They don't just go away... they stick around :(
I haven't seen a new PC in the shops with floppy dives on it for quite some time now...
people who live in "glass houses" shouldn't throw stones... you may get what you wish for in your challenge to Apple's trademark, but lose the trademark for "Windows" when someone else challenges you using the exact same point of law... we all know you run to settle when losing, but how long can you keep settling?
the existence of personna management software makes you wonder about the useage of facebook and other social media in the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya doesn't it...