And you can get updates from Google...for the apps that Google directly controls. You don't necessarily get driver updates for all your hardware from Microsoft. Your hardware OEMs may give drivers to Microsoft for convenience, but they still come form the OEM. Any 3rd party software or enhancements that the OEM and/or seller puts on your computer doesn't come from Microsoft, it comes from the OEM, seller, or 3rd party.
I understand what you're saying, and I think Google is moving more in that direction trying to modularize things so that they can provide updates for critical OS while still allowing individual manufacturers to customize the OS so that it's also unique to them.
There's advantages and disadvantages to how Android and iOS are set up. Android offers variety but at the expense of long term support across manufacturers, iOS offers consistency and long term support, but minimal variety.
Is it possible that your email account was previously used by someone else, or that someone else signed up under your account?
Also not all the data necessarily pertains to log in account data. Perhaps your email address was a backup contact address, a friend's contact, referral, etc. There's lots of ways some basic information about you could be "compromised" with an data breach even if you never had an actual account.
With the Nexus 5x and 6p Google seemingly lost the remainder of common sense by offering them at the prices comparable to first tier smartphones like Galaxy S6 or Note 5.
Earlier this year I bought my two 32GB Nexus 5X for $290 and $320 IIRC. Now they can be found for $240 new.
Where are you finding a Galaxy S6 at a comparable price? The S6 still doesn't retail for what the Nexus 5X retailed 8 months ago and is at least $100 more expensive than what you can find the 5X now.
No one especially a data carrier should have any right to inspect packets I PAY to transmit any more then they have the right to randomly search my car without legal cause and search warrant.
You're voluntarily entering into a agreement with a private company. YOU are giving them that right when you sign the agreement.
if they want to meter the amount of data fine, make it clear in the contract
They do.
they have no more business knowing what I send and receive
They don't necessarily know or care what you're sending and receiving either. For most of the streaming providers, the provider has an agreement with T-Mobile to provide a stream of a qualifying nature when served to the t-mobile network. T-mobile doesn't "inspect" the packet anymore than route it to the correct IP address, which gets excluded from your data counter.
but customers have a right to privacy that includes not having a corporate hack decide which data I'm worthy to receive and what rates, we agree, I pay, end of story.
In T-mobile's case, if you don't want to get the "SD" streaming feed from a Binge On enabled streaming provider, you just disable Binge On. You get to eat through your data at the rate that you have full control over and get to pay as such. And AFAIK no one is is claiming that they block any traffic.
All this traffic inspection is violation of basic privacy and as a society and as consumers we should vehemently oppose it.
Or it's a case of you not actually understanding how it works.
There are multiple ways that a provider can setup their stream to qualify for Binge On zero rating of data. Having your application request a video from a particular server/IP/net block may be sufficient if the provider and T-mobile have agreed to the setup.
Dec. 31, 1870 is only a couple of bits away from Jan 1, 1970.
Unless you know the format of how the date is stored/represented, no such statement can be made that one date is only a couple of bits away from another.
That's $70k to just a single congresscritter though. You have to grease multiple others on both sides of the aisles in both both houses. And then you probably should donate to the Presidential Victory Fund for incoming presidents, Presidential Reelection Victory Fund for incumbent president, or Presidential Library Victory Fund for 2nd term presidents.
Someone suggested yesterday about resurrecting the Usenet Death Penalty for Cloudflare
So how's that suppose to work again? It's not like Cloudflare is propagating it's posted websites to other servers that they can block. You might be able to cut them off from their upstream backbone provider(s), but I think that sets really dangerous precedent for those backbones. And if individual ISPs start blocking, you can already see the shit storm forming regarding net neutrality.
A satellite in an uncontrolled spin due to a bad inertial unit, without enough power in its batteries to transmit at full power, a network of deep space communications satellites colliding signals to create constructive interference to boost communications, a plan to point several radio telescopes towards it in the hope to hear something, sweeping the sky with different frequencies and if all else fails point the Hubble at it.
Still not as difficult of a process as preventing the Windows 10 upgrade from automatically happening.
It's not 2 years for Nexus devices. It's 2 years for major OS updates (going from Kit Kat to Lollipop to Marshmallow to Nougat...) It's 3 years for minor updates within a given OS version. After 3 years of updates, the base OS doesn't receive updates but it's already likely pretty stable with bugs worked out. Individual Google apps continue to receive updates beyond that.
It sounds like everyone is arguing about semantics. What is considered the actual "birth date"?
I'm a web developer. What is considered the birth date of a website? When the client comes to me with a proposal or I go to them with one? If I was Berners-Lee, it sounds like that is the birth date of the website. If the site is ready for internal testing, is that the birth date? That sounds like what CERN says it is when it was available internally but possibly not externally. Or is the site's birth date when it's publicly available, ready for the world to see and use, which is what I would call it.
Or putting it in human terms, Berners-Lee's birth date sounds more like the date of conception, CERN's date more like when you have an ultrasound and you know it's there and can "see" it but it's not ready for the world yet, and publicly accessible when the little guy actually shoots out of mom.
Do you have any reading comprehension skills? How does anything I said indicate I'm an Apple fanboy? In reality, I'm much more an Android fanboy then Apple.
Yesterday someone taught me that there are evil bits. Now you're telling me that there are WHOLE BYTES that are evil?
Does every bit of the evil byte have to be an evil bit? Or just the majority of them? What happens if 4 of the 8 bits are evil? Does it fall back to a tie-breaking checksum bit to see if the checksum is evil or not?
Also, follow slashdotters... if there's a platform out there that accomplishes this that's not a proprietary NAS let me know. I've also investigated several microST motherboards but I don't want to have to deal with a "real" power supply, etc.
Not at a similar price point. A older mini-ITX system would have higher power draw, but would outperform a RPI3 easily. And there are multiple options that use a laptop power supply (E.g. Intel DH61AG). Embedded servers or something running a Bay Trail or Braswell CPU also would be in a similar category paired with a pico power supply if they don't take a laptop supply natively.
For most unsavvy people though, "no new major OS update" = "no updates at all".
"Your phone isn't running Android 7.0? Wow, what a turd!"
For most people (and the typical/. reader is not in that group), they couldn't tell you what OS version their phone (Apple or Android) was running. They're going to see that they periodically have an update and think their phone is more or less up to date software wise.
It's not shitting on you when it's their policy for 3 years of security updates and 2 years of major OTAs.
There's no Android OS which you can throw at a random ARM device and have it running with all the components functioning properly (camera, WiFi, 3G/4G, sensors, storage, etc.)
As oppose to iOS that you also can't throw at random ARM devices and have it running with all it's components functioning properly?
Both Android and iOS are compiled for specific hardware. Apple decided to lock down their OS for only their hardware, and Android decided to open it's OS to work with any hardware a manufacturer wants to support. One isn't better than the other, they are just two different philosophical approaches to the same issue of developing an ecosystem.
(b) Annually, not later than February 1, each transportation network company shall submit to the director of the division established in section 23 of chapter 25 the number of rides from the previous calendar year that originated within each city or town and a per-ride assessment of $0.20. A transportation network company shall not charge a transportation network rider or a transportation network driver, as defined in section 1 of chapter 159A½, for the cost of the per-ride assessment. Not later than June 30, the director shall post on the divisionâ(TM)s website the aggregate number of rides from the previous calendar year originating within each city or town.
The rider or the driver are not to be charged. So it has to come out of Uber's existing take of each ride. It makes it more expensive for Uber while it doesn't cost the rider any more and the driver still makes just as much.
But ultimately there is no way to prevent Uber from just raising their costs in other areas to offset their costs. It's no different than fining a company for some illegal act...the cost is always ultimately passed on to the customer. Or a police department settling a lawsuit...it's not the police that pay it, it's the tax payers. The one that actually pays money into the system is always the one that foots the increased costs.
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It also conveniently ignores (older) COBOL compilers that required spaces. You and your modern languages that get to use tabs...
You can insure anything. It just becomes impractical when the premium approaches or exceeds the replacement cost.
And you can get updates from Google...for the apps that Google directly controls. You don't necessarily get driver updates for all your hardware from Microsoft. Your hardware OEMs may give drivers to Microsoft for convenience, but they still come form the OEM. Any 3rd party software or enhancements that the OEM and/or seller puts on your computer doesn't come from Microsoft, it comes from the OEM, seller, or 3rd party.
I understand what you're saying, and I think Google is moving more in that direction trying to modularize things so that they can provide updates for critical OS while still allowing individual manufacturers to customize the OS so that it's also unique to them.
There's advantages and disadvantages to how Android and iOS are set up. Android offers variety but at the expense of long term support across manufacturers, iOS offers consistency and long term support, but minimal variety.
Is it possible that your email account was previously used by someone else, or that someone else signed up under your account?
Also not all the data necessarily pertains to log in account data. Perhaps your email address was a backup contact address, a friend's contact, referral, etc. There's lots of ways some basic information about you could be "compromised" with an data breach even if you never had an actual account.
It sounds like all your issues are with LG and/or your carrier, not Google/Android proper.
Earlier this year I bought my two 32GB Nexus 5X for $290 and $320 IIRC. Now they can be found for $240 new.
Where are you finding a Galaxy S6 at a comparable price? The S6 still doesn't retail for what the Nexus 5X retailed 8 months ago and is at least $100 more expensive than what you can find the 5X now.
It's their name for a virtual server. They're a digital ocean. An ocean is made up of many droplets. Yeah, it's dumb.
You're voluntarily entering into a agreement with a private company. YOU are giving them that right when you sign the agreement.
They do.
They don't necessarily know or care what you're sending and receiving either. For most of the streaming providers, the provider has an agreement with T-Mobile to provide a stream of a qualifying nature when served to the t-mobile network. T-mobile doesn't "inspect" the packet anymore than route it to the correct IP address, which gets excluded from your data counter.
In T-mobile's case, if you don't want to get the "SD" streaming feed from a Binge On enabled streaming provider, you just disable Binge On. You get to eat through your data at the rate that you have full control over and get to pay as such. And AFAIK no one is is claiming that they block any traffic.
Or it's a case of you not actually understanding how it works.
There are multiple ways that a provider can setup their stream to qualify for Binge On zero rating of data. Having your application request a video from a particular server/IP/net block may be sufficient if the provider and T-mobile have agreed to the setup.
Unless you know the format of how the date is stored/represented, no such statement can be made that one date is only a couple of bits away from another.
That's $70k to just a single congresscritter though. You have to grease multiple others on both sides of the aisles in both both houses. And then you probably should donate to the Presidential Victory Fund for incoming presidents, Presidential Reelection Victory Fund for incumbent president, or Presidential Library Victory Fund for 2nd term presidents.
Save 10% on your next forced free* upgrade.
* - Free as in without additional cost as long as you don't value your time, privacy, freedom, stability, or ability to control your system
For some reason I find this one more impressive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Still not as difficult of a process as preventing the Windows 10 upgrade from automatically happening.
It's not 2 years for Nexus devices. It's 2 years for major OS updates (going from Kit Kat to Lollipop to Marshmallow to Nougat...) It's 3 years for minor updates within a given OS version. After 3 years of updates, the base OS doesn't receive updates but it's already likely pretty stable with bugs worked out. Individual Google apps continue to receive updates beyond that.
It sounds like everyone is arguing about semantics. What is considered the actual "birth date"?
I'm a web developer. What is considered the birth date of a website? When the client comes to me with a proposal or I go to them with one? If I was Berners-Lee, it sounds like that is the birth date of the website. If the site is ready for internal testing, is that the birth date? That sounds like what CERN says it is when it was available internally but possibly not externally. Or is the site's birth date when it's publicly available, ready for the world to see and use, which is what I would call it.
Or putting it in human terms, Berners-Lee's birth date sounds more like the date of conception, CERN's date more like when you have an ultrasound and you know it's there and can "see" it but it's not ready for the world yet, and publicly accessible when the little guy actually shoots out of mom.
Do you have any reading comprehension skills? How does anything I said indicate I'm an Apple fanboy? In reality, I'm much more an Android fanboy then Apple.
Does every bit of the evil byte have to be an evil bit? Or just the majority of them? What happens if 4 of the 8 bits are evil? Does it fall back to a tie-breaking checksum bit to see if the checksum is evil or not?
Not at a similar price point. A older mini-ITX system would have higher power draw, but would outperform a RPI3 easily. And there are multiple options that use a laptop power supply (E.g. Intel DH61AG). Embedded servers or something running a Bay Trail or Braswell CPU also would be in a similar category paired with a pico power supply if they don't take a laptop supply natively.
It's worth noting that at least some official Raspberry Pis are/were made in China.
For most people (and the typical /. reader is not in that group), they couldn't tell you what OS version their phone (Apple or Android) was running. They're going to see that they periodically have an update and think their phone is more or less up to date software wise.
It's not shitting on you when it's their policy for 3 years of security updates and 2 years of major OTAs.
As oppose to iOS that you also can't throw at random ARM devices and have it running with all it's components functioning properly?
Both Android and iOS are compiled for specific hardware. Apple decided to lock down their OS for only their hardware, and Android decided to open it's OS to work with any hardware a manufacturer wants to support. One isn't better than the other, they are just two different philosophical approaches to the same issue of developing an ecosystem.
Here's the relevant section of the law:
The rider or the driver are not to be charged. So it has to come out of Uber's existing take of each ride. It makes it more expensive for Uber while it doesn't cost the rider any more and the driver still makes just as much.
But ultimately there is no way to prevent Uber from just raising their costs in other areas to offset their costs. It's no different than fining a company for some illegal act...the cost is always ultimately passed on to the customer. Or a police department settling a lawsuit...it's not the police that pay it, it's the tax payers. The one that actually pays money into the system is always the one that foots the increased costs.
Because it's not a web browser's responsibility to monitor your caps lock key state?