"Despite the encryption, federal investigators were able to obtain the data they sought"
No encrypted app in the world helps you when you are too stupid to delete the messages after reading them. If you keep your incriminating messages on your phone, you belong in jail just for the sheer stupidity. Can't have people like that running around.
" I worry that Americans are, slowly but surely, losing their connection to the idea of private ownership. The nation was based on the notion that property ownership gives individuals a stake in the system. "
Hardly. It made us into a bunch of hoarders.
I know I don't own my kindle books, I'm using Kindleunlimited for a couple of bucks a month and I read a book almost every day. (I'm retired) Much cheaper than buying them. After my first kindle (I'm on my 6th) I donated almost 5000 books to a local library and now I got a full new room I can use. I also got rid of my music tapes, my music cassettes, my music vinyl, my music CDs, my super8 films, my betamax, Video2000 and VHS tapes, my Laser-disks, DVDs and blurays,Ditto for my photo albums.
"They're not "walking, talking cyborgs". They are just chipped like cats and dogs."
Sure, but those cats and dogs can enter the house through the electronic flap and the automatic feeder gives them food and the vet knows their name, owner, their allergies and medications.
I just don't understand the reluctance, people have had radio-playing tooth fillings for decades.:-) If you don't want one, don't get one, use a card, a ring or your phone, but these can be lost and stolen.
Slashdot Mirror
Wake me when the title says:
delivers ...
...bring them to the skies, because if they bring them to the seas, they have to call them submarines.
Obviously the return flight would be an in-app purchase.
"Despite the encryption, federal investigators were able to obtain the data they sought"
No encrypted app in the world helps you when you are too stupid to delete the messages after reading them.
If you keep your incriminating messages on your phone, you belong in jail just for the sheer stupidity. Can't have people like that running around.
"start their journey by stepping through the NASA's Orion hatch."
The code for the keypad is 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42
""Random startup loses its CEO"... who cares?"
You missed the joke. Driverless company removes the driver from its board.
"Amazon just got yet another competitor in the ebook and audiobook space"
Got a good laugh, thanks.
Especially the 'yet' was funny.
"According to the report, email is most popular among people between the ages of 25 and 34 "
I guess the young Whippersnappers get their 399 Amazon notices via Whatsapp then.
Just sell only to Windows phone users.
Both of them.
and the abolition of roaming charges killed the voyage, because we don't need it anymore.
Cool!
Especially the orange ones.
"Most of what was in the Library of Alexandria was unique, there were no other copies. In our terms, it was more an archive than a library."
Even if there had been copies, we couldn't read them, it would look Greek to us.
"Are you backed up in duplicate on two, non co-located mirror servers or drives?"
5 actually.
"There you own the house, but you owe the bank money, not the house. "
Hundreds of thousands of people believed that as well.
Now they live in their parents' basement.
" I worry that Americans are, slowly but surely, losing their connection to the idea of private ownership. The nation was based on the notion that property ownership gives individuals a stake in the system. "
Hardly. It made us into a bunch of hoarders.
I know I don't own my kindle books, I'm using Kindleunlimited for a couple of bucks a month and I read a book almost every day. (I'm retired) Much cheaper than buying them.
After my first kindle (I'm on my 6th) I donated almost 5000 books to a local library and now I got a full new room I can use.
I also got rid of my music tapes, my music cassettes, my music vinyl, my music CDs, my super8 films, my betamax, Video2000 and VHS tapes, my Laser-disks, DVDs and blurays,Ditto for my photo albums.
A small server does all that now.
Good riddance.
I bet those are the Rolls Royce of batteries.
They hired me as is, from my written application, I worked there for 40 years and retired with 85% of my last paycheck at age 57.
Tempi passati.
I guess.
You told us already.
They hold them in their hands all day long anyway.
Those replacing carbs with steaks and cold cuts sure ruin the statistics.
Shame died in 2016. RIP.
"que calls to ban videogames..."
They already tried that after 9/11, those didn't study the landing phase as well.
"They're not "walking, talking cyborgs". They are just chipped like cats and dogs."
Sure, but those cats and dogs can enter the house through the electronic flap and the automatic feeder gives them food and the vet knows their name, owner, their allergies and medications.
I just don't understand the reluctance, people have had radio-playing tooth fillings for decades. :-)
If you don't want one, don't get one, use a card, a ring or your phone, but these can be lost and stolen.