A lot of people share their address books with google. That allows them to integrate everyone in those address books into the social graphs regardless of whether they have an account or not.
If I don't have an FB account, but two of my friends do, and I'm in their address books then they know who I am, and that I know these people. Since they also have my phone number they have a good idea where I live as well. FB now also knows that these two people are close, given the fact that they have a common friend.
Then keep in mind that FB has a lot of photos, and I wouldn't be surprised if they can use that information to associate a picture with people who don't have accounts. Does FB allow you to tag a photo with the name of a person who doesn't have an account?
It is well known that FB has "shadow" accounts in their system for people who are known but hasn't actually created an account yet. I certainly would like to see them stop that activity.
Then you must have read the last part of the article. I quote it here for people who didn't (and I can't blame them):
Williams, a self-proclaimed health-food evangelist, said she’d like to see the company sell packs by themselves to people who can’t afford the device. “It would be great if they offered people the opportunity to buy the packs and press them by hand,” she said. “I want juice for every man, woman and child.”
Now, seriously? Apparently the world this person inhabits does not contain fruits, the only way to get juice is to buy them pre-packaged at 8 dollar per serving, and the only thing that stops a poor person from enjoying this is not the ludicrous price but a separate machine.
I've heard about software updates being pushed by the carrier instead of the vendor, but my understanding is that this is something that is strictly limited to the US market. In the rest of the world things work the way they are supposed to.
I agree with this, abd I would also like to add that Using Qubes OS makes this a much less painful process. Not as simple as a point-and-click operation, but at least manageable.
We now have a situation where an ISP is ordered by law to block Pirate Bay, but the order (some time ago) to block certain child porn sites is just a recommendation. If that doesn't tell us which crime the authorities are more concerned about, I don't know what does.
You probably want to use Qubes OS which provides an environment where all of this is handled for you. I switched to it and I'm really happy with it.
You can create multiple templates and all you do in the templates is installing software and make generic configurations. The actual VM's where you run stuff is based on the templates and are reset whenever you restart them.
First, they talk about a user's identity. Later they merely talk about Twitter links and finding the user's Twitter ID.
So what is it? Can they identify users or Twitter accounts? If it's the former, that's concerning. But it seems to be more likely that they found a Twitter account user by comparing the browser history to a Twitter account that had been sharing those links.
The latter doesn't seem as impressive now does it?
I've had the same problem on my Nexus 6P since a few months. It doesn't happen often (at most once or twice per week) so it's not overly problematic, but when it does it completely freezes the device until some watchdog kicks in and it reboots itself.
Watches are generally jewellery with some secondary use case
Apple watches sell because it allows Apple fans to show that they are part of the group, without holding their phone all the time. It's similar to people wearing t-shirts with their favourite heavy metal band on it. When they pass someone, they know they are part of the same social circle. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with this. People do it all the time.
But this is where smart watches have a problem. They have to compete on their own merits, and frankly, it's very hard for a watch of any kind to do that. I use one for biking, but that's pretty much it.
I'll buy one of the new Android Wear watches, but I doubt I'll be using it off the bike.
I have travelled extensively all over the world, and I haven't seen this degradation of quality of air travel that US people seem to complain about all the time.
Now, I haven't travelled on a US airline since 2000, and even then they were worse than any other I've travelled with. If they got even worse, I can certainly understand the complaints, but all I can say is perhaps people should try an airline outside the US. They might just regain some hope for air travel.
I recall seeing the list of best airlines, and if I remember correctly the highest rated US airline was in the 40'th position or something like that. If I wasn't on mobile right now I'd find the link.
It seems strange to me that the carrier has the capability to control this. The update would be pushed from the manufacturer, not by the carrier.
Unless they installed a special firmware that uses different update servers, which seems to be the case here. My question is if all the US carriers do this, since most commenters seems to think this is perfectly normal.
I left it out for a reason. If you want to hype up a customer base and your product is really doing what you claim it does, then there is no reason not to show it.
Another way to think about this is that if their product actually did everything that was claimed in this article and they were indeed close to having an actual product in people's hands, they wouldn't be secretive. They'll be showing it off everywhere to drum up excitement about it.
There are only two reasons to keep a product secret while still talking about it:
You are genuinely worried that competitors will steal your idea
You don't have a working product but you need more investment
1 can't be true since they explained what to expect from the product in this very article. Thus, it must be 2.
This is the fundamental misunderstanding of everyone that comments in Apple's defence. Their actions were never legal to begin with. No laws were changed.
A lot of people outside of Europe (and to be fair, even Europeans) doesn't understand how the EU works. Ireland can't simply decide to stop obeying EU treaties any more than a US state is allowed to all of a sudden decide that someone no longer have to pay federal tax. If that happened, you can be sure that the IRS would demand the taxes be paid in full after they found out about it.
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The Xbox hasn't really delivered in this area either.
If I don't have an FB account, but two of my friends do, and I'm in their address books then they know who I am, and that I know these people. Since they also have my phone number they have a good idea where I live as well. FB now also knows that these two people are close, given the fact that they have a common friend.
Then keep in mind that FB has a lot of photos, and I wouldn't be surprised if they can use that information to associate a picture with people who don't have accounts. Does FB allow you to tag a photo with the name of a person who doesn't have an account?
It is well known that FB has "shadow" accounts in their system for people who are known but hasn't actually created an account yet. I certainly would like to see them stop that activity.
Pre-digested? Don't we have that already? Isn't that what Soylent is all about?
Now, seriously? Apparently the world this person inhabits does not contain fruits, the only way to get juice is to buy them pre-packaged at 8 dollar per serving, and the only thing that stops a poor person from enjoying this is not the ludicrous price but a separate machine.
Wow. This really exists.
Actually, I think most planets exists in a vacuum.
I've heard about software updates being pushed by the carrier instead of the vendor, but my understanding is that this is something that is strictly limited to the US market. In the rest of the world things work the way they are supposed to.
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/a...
Microsoft has wanted a share of those game sales for a long time.
Games are the only reason Windows even exists in my household.
We now have a situation where an ISP is ordered by law to block Pirate Bay, but the order (some time ago) to block certain child porn sites is just a recommendation. If that doesn't tell us which crime the authorities are more concerned about, I don't know what does.
You can create multiple templates and all you do in the templates is installing software and make generic configurations. The actual VM's where you run stuff is based on the templates and are reset whenever you restart them.
First, they talk about a user's identity. Later they merely talk about Twitter links and finding the user's Twitter ID. So what is it? Can they identify users or Twitter accounts? If it's the former, that's concerning. But it seems to be more likely that they found a Twitter account user by comparing the browser history to a Twitter account that had been sharing those links. The latter doesn't seem as impressive now does it?
Yes, they do. Have you seen the market for expensive handbags lately? Or cars? Or makeup?
I've had the same problem on my Nexus 6P since a few months. It doesn't happen often (at most once or twice per week) so it's not overly problematic, but when it does it completely freezes the device until some watchdog kicks in and it reboots itself.
Watches are generally jewellery with some secondary use case
Apple watches sell because it allows Apple fans to show that they are part of the group, without holding their phone all the time. It's similar to people wearing t-shirts with their favourite heavy metal band on it. When they pass someone, they know they are part of the same social circle. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with this. People do it all the time.
But this is where smart watches have a problem. They have to compete on their own merits, and frankly, it's very hard for a watch of any kind to do that. I use one for biking, but that's pretty much it.
I'll buy one of the new Android Wear watches, but I doubt I'll be using it off the bike.
Yes the new mobile Mario game sold millions, and the Android version hasn't even been released yet.
You probably meant to say "Northern Ireland". Ireland is already an independent country which is a member of the EU and is not impacted by brexit.
Of course we know. Didn't T.M. make is absolutely clear what brexit means? It means "brexit".
Now, I haven't travelled on a US airline since 2000, and even then they were worse than any other I've travelled with. If they got even worse, I can certainly understand the complaints, but all I can say is perhaps people should try an airline outside the US. They might just regain some hope for air travel.
I recall seeing the list of best airlines, and if I remember correctly the highest rated US airline was in the 40'th position or something like that. If I wasn't on mobile right now I'd find the link.
It seems strange to me that the carrier has the capability to control this. The update would be pushed from the manufacturer, not by the carrier. Unless they installed a special firmware that uses different update servers, which seems to be the case here. My question is if all the US carriers do this, since most commenters seems to think this is perfectly normal.
Oh wait, it was
I left it out for a reason. If you want to hype up a customer base and your product is really doing what you claim it does, then there is no reason not to show it.
There are only two reasons to keep a product secret while still talking about it:
1 can't be true since they explained what to expect from the product in this very article. Thus, it must be 2.
Actually, yes. Systemd integration was merged a few months ago. Sadly, I'm not even joking.
A lot of people outside of Europe (and to be fair, even Europeans) doesn't understand how the EU works. Ireland can't simply decide to stop obeying EU treaties any more than a US state is allowed to all of a sudden decide that someone no longer have to pay federal tax. If that happened, you can be sure that the IRS would demand the taxes be paid in full after they found out about it.
No need to do that. They could look at literally the rest of the world, most of which do not engage in the same security shenanigans as the US is.