Face recognition in train stations has been in evaluation ~10 years ago.
And even if we assume that 10 years later they may even be able to find terror suspects in a crowd there, there is still the elephant in the room that they need to be KNOWN terror suspects to begin with!
And whoever touts this as an effective measure against "terrorist attacks" as the ones we had lately, has to completly and willingly ignore that these haven't been carried out by any known "suspects" but some random gullible teenagers have been talked into bringing a knive and stab a few random people. None of these attackers have been connected to islamist/terrorist organisations before their attack, so even working face recognition systems would be useless here.
But might match a stunt my roommate did: poured alcohol in his hand and set that on fire.
His explanation was that it was the vapors burning and that evaporating the liquid alcohol used up enough of the heat energy set free by the combustion to not burn his hand.....if he remembered to blow out the flame while there was liquid alcohol left in his hand:-)
People don't even let FACTS change their political opinion. Why should random rants they call "friends" only cause facebook doesn't offer "moron" as a status work?
You can get even better beer in the US nowadays. It's not that German beer is miraculously awesome, but there is hardly any bad beer. Especially compared to average US beer.
But you could construct a case where e.g. a radio device is subject to operate in different frequencies based on the country it is used in. (Like ANY wifi adapter.)
While the operating frequencies might be configurable (SDR), a DRMed Firmware may limit your access to this setting and thus prevent you from setting it to use a channel where it can be operated legally. Or less academically worded: Thanks to DRM you need to buy a new device when moving abroad. The ability to select different channel ranges based on a country selection may be allowed in some devices, but can be removed by a mandatory firmware update at will.
Or - in movie plot style - secret agency tracks down enemy number one in remote country. have manufacturer of his cellphone send a firmware update to switch baseband chip to frequency used by local military and have him arrested by local junta for espionage instead of getting your own hands dirty. (please comment on feasibility and not probability. I know it's a movie-plot style example)
Oh yes... as if some Apple fanboys never praised the much better iPhone security that protects it's users far better from malware than that lousy Android security....
Of course they're not complaining about a positive feature (sideloading) verbatim. But they complain about Android security in general when people catch some malware by sideloading apks from 3rd party sources.
I'll just take your post as another data point that people will complain about something anyway.
What I said was that if Microsoft wouldn't do that, you just had some other mob complaining that MS makes it too easy for malware to circumvent installation restrictions by including "install instructions" telling the user to disable them so that the malware can be installed....
Agreed, users who fall for THAT probably deserve to have the machines pwned, but nonetheless, some people would require MS to include some foolproof installation restrictions that the users can't duped into removing. Which would exactly look like what they're doing now.
I'm not saying they're doing it for that reason, but if they did otherwise, people would still complain.
While the posters here are correct (at large) please don't forget that at the same time, MS has always been urged to close malware attack vectors. So, as Master Yoda would put it: Do or do not. There is no "/. won't complain".
I'm not sure about that. They are holding personal data that the owner may request to have deleted. They would have every regulator on their back if deleted information would be recoverable against the users directly expressed order.
I guess they have something more like extreme redundance that protect from hardware failure and probably one and a half continents erased from the map by a meteor strike, but not a classical backup that would allow restoring data as it was x days past.
Making you pay to be able to run the app in the background without you realizing that's what you're doing.
Otherwise you need to walk with the phone unlocked, and the app active ( unless a mod exists to keep apps in the background believing they're in the foreground).
It's similar to Nintendo's pay for this toy to unlock a game character.
"Your device still needs to be running Pokémon Go in the foreground, so you're not saving much battery life, and you'll get those vibrations from your iPhone or Android device, anyway."
I can imagine some connections between a location based game and your contacts's addresses being incorporated into the game somehow, but does someone has any idea what might be the reason behind those two?
Location, camera and phone status are more or less obvious.
I guess that back at his own KGB/FSB days, that poor Bortnikov guy tried to hit on Putin's girlfriend or something like that... In twio weeks he will see what that got him....
So instead of allow authors and alike to treat their job as "normal" as any regular job, they should throw themselves at the mercy of a handful of Gates and Bezos and pray their work isn't insulting or too critical for their royal highness.
Well, yes, it worked for a while and got us the Sixtine Chapel and similar, but that's not really the independence any artist should be looking for.
So the basic idea of making "art" a tradeable good so that a composer or author can live from selling his products like any potato farmer can is not a bad one at all. Well, until you add things like 70 years after death amd such stuff.
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Can you give some examples of searches that go awry?
Just do a search using a few keywords.
Wow... I have never seen someone admitting that openly that they CAN'T provide any examples
Face recognition in train stations has been in evaluation ~10 years ago.
And even if we assume that 10 years later they may even be able to find terror suspects in a crowd there, there is still the elephant in the room that they need to be KNOWN terror suspects to begin with!
And whoever touts this as an effective measure against "terrorist attacks" as the ones we had lately, has to completly and willingly ignore that these haven't been carried out by any known "suspects" but some random gullible teenagers have been talked into bringing a knive and stab a few random people. None of these attackers have been connected to islamist/terrorist organisations before their attack, so even working face recognition systems would be useless here.
Wow.. what drinks did you have in your band?
But might match a stunt my roommate did: poured alcohol in his hand and set that on fire.
His explanation was that it was the vapors burning and that evaporating the liquid alcohol used up enough of the heat energy set free by the combustion to not burn his hand. ....if he remembered to blow out the flame while there was liquid alcohol left in his hand :-)
Isn't burning alcohol always soot-free without any other tech-gadget?
I#m impressed when they do it with Diesel. Or crude oil, which was involved in most spilling accidents.
People don't even let FACTS change their political opinion. Why should random rants they call "friends" only cause facebook doesn't offer "moron" as a status work?
Wouldn't an address be a really bad choice for an identifier?
...as if they wouldn't be screwed with the other option, too....
You can get even better beer in the US nowadays. It's not that German beer is miraculously awesome, but there is hardly any bad beer. Especially compared to average US beer.
Obviously you never tried US food and saw US clothing...
Absolutely.
But you could construct a case where e.g. a radio device is subject to operate in different frequencies based on the country it is used in. (Like ANY wifi adapter.)
While the operating frequencies might be configurable (SDR), a DRMed Firmware may limit your access to this setting and thus prevent you from setting it to use a channel where it can be operated legally. Or less academically worded: Thanks to DRM you need to buy a new device when moving abroad. The ability to select different channel ranges based on a country selection may be allowed in some devices, but can be removed by a mandatory firmware update at will.
Or - in movie plot style - secret agency tracks down enemy number one in remote country. have manufacturer of his cellphone send a firmware update to switch baseband chip to frequency used by local military and have him arrested by local junta for espionage instead of getting your own hands dirty. (please comment on feasibility and not probability. I know it's a movie-plot style example)
Oh yes... as if some Apple fanboys never praised the much better iPhone security that protects it's users far better from malware than that lousy Android security....
Of course they're not complaining about a positive feature (sideloading) verbatim. But they complain about Android security in general when people catch some malware by sideloading apks from 3rd party sources.
I'll just take your post as another data point that people will complain about something anyway.
Never said something else.
What I said was that if Microsoft wouldn't do that, you just had some other mob complaining that MS makes it too easy for malware to circumvent installation restrictions by including "install instructions" telling the user to disable them so that the malware can be installed....
Agreed, users who fall for THAT probably deserve to have the machines pwned, but nonetheless, some people would require MS to include some foolproof installation restrictions that the users can't duped into removing. Which would exactly look like what they're doing now.
I'm not saying they're doing it for that reason, but if they did otherwise, people would still complain.
While the posters here are correct (at large) please don't forget that at the same time, MS has always been urged to close malware attack vectors. So, as Master Yoda would put it: Do or do not. There is no "/. won't complain".
...and he never thought of applying for more than one university?
Google Takeout. That's where the tools to im- and export data to and from Google services can be found.
I'm not sure about that. They are holding personal data that the owner may request to have deleted. They would have every regulator on their back if deleted information would be recoverable against the users directly expressed order.
I guess they have something more like extreme redundance that protect from hardware failure and probably one and a half continents erased from the map by a meteor strike, but not a classical backup that would allow restoring data as it was x days past.
Making you pay to be able to run the app in the background without you realizing that's what you're doing.
Otherwise you need to walk with the phone unlocked, and the app active ( unless a mod exists to keep apps in the background believing they're in the foreground).
It's similar to Nintendo's pay for this toy to unlock a game character.
Seems like you need to do that anyway:
http://www.imore.com/pokemon-g...
"Your device still needs to be running Pokémon Go in the foreground, so you're not saving much battery life, and you'll get those vibrations from your iPhone or Android device, anyway."
It does matter cause I was hoping that bluetooth would support Android Wear and prevent accidents.
Well, nice... but..... What was again the purpose of those smartwatch thingies when apps require special wristbands?
And bluetooth connections.
I can imagine some connections between a location based game and your contacts's addresses being incorporated into the game somehow, but does someone has any idea what might be the reason behind those two?
Location, camera and phone status are more or less obvious.
"Did not do" is *NOT* the same as "Could not do".
Accusation was they had access.
They did indeed have access.
Proofed wrong by even the summary:
"full account access" does not mean a third party can read or send or send email, access your files or anything else
Yes, slightly confusing,. They had "full access" but "full access" does NOT grant you access to Email, Files or any other data.
The say they didn't use that access, good on them. They say they are going to reduce the access requested, great.
The fact remains they had access whether they used it or not.
They had access to account data, but not access to data in any service connected to that account (like email) At least that's how I read this.
That's the southern part of the UK. Do you know why Scotsmen wear Kilts? So the sheep can't hear a zipper....
Especially not THAT stupid.
I guess that back at his own KGB/FSB days, that poor Bortnikov guy tried to hit on Putin's girlfriend or something like that... In twio weeks he will see what that got him....
So instead of allow authors and alike to treat their job as "normal" as any regular job, they should throw themselves at the mercy of a handful of Gates and Bezos and pray their work isn't insulting or too critical for their royal highness.
Well, yes, it worked for a while and got us the Sixtine Chapel and similar, but that's not really the independence any artist should be looking for.
So the basic idea of making "art" a tradeable good so that a composer or author can live from selling his products like any potato farmer can is not a bad one at all. Well, until you add things like 70 years after death amd such stuff.
And what if he isn't a playwright?