For one thing, it's in weak countries' interest to have as much strife as much as possible between superpowers (US, Russia, China) as possible. If the big thugs are arguing amongst each other directly, they're less concerned about proxy wars and imperialism in places like Latin America. Keep 'em occupied and worried.
Plus, it feels good to punch up as the little guy.
Terrible idea -- if it's public, anyone can archive it, bypassing data-protection regulations. Also, why should a husband be able to watch the street outside his wife's suspected lover's house 24/7? How about an employer watching the street outside your house to see if you were out partying late last night? People should have a safety valve -- the ability to do certain things and even tell lies without getting caught. We don't need a panopticon where our families, friends, employers, etc can keep us under a microscope all the time.
Public place or not, limits on retention in the absence of a violent crime in the area are in everyone's interest.
Translation: the world needs a good, hard recession to slow things down, maybe bankrupt a few governments. The only thing that made the US think about reducing prison sentences, drug legalization, etc, is that states could no longer afford it during the Great Recession.
Let's say there was a back door. Couldn't he still have smashed the thing with a hammer and thrown it in a lake before going full-on Jihad? What's next, mandate automatic cloud backup of all data, because someone might destroy a device before committing a crime?
No, I lost them because they were thin, my backpack often had holes, and they fell out. And they didn't make an audible "thump" when they fell out. Honestly, I wouldn't have been able to afford it, I'd have figured out how to "borrow" one from a rich/preppy student who bullied me:)
I lost pencils and pens all the time. Textbooks, not so much. Even if the book came back with a few more scratches, it was still usable by the next student.
Roooiiiight. Google has always been more evil than pre-Nadella M$. M$ just made mediocre software. Google has always aimed to know more about its products... I mean customers... than they know about themselves and sell this info to the highest bidders.
Or people to just get their.apks from somewhere else and run cloudfree. Cloudfree means you're not subject to heavy-handed censorship like the recent debacle with Google Drive files disappearing.
You can get.apks from 3rd party stores, and you're better off without Google's clown... I mean cloud... spyware. And you'll still be able to log into GMail using a real mail client (Outlook Mobile or K-9 mail) rather than Google's toylike GMail app.
Macbook is already simple and cr@ppy, just close to $1000. It doesn't have to be that way -- plenty of laptops under $1000, or even under $500 have more than one USB port!
The idea is that people shouldn't have to suffer in future. I hope Trump alienates the outside world to the point that they won't even extradite El Chapo if Ivanka begged on her knees for it. US justice is extremely biased and skewed towards the prosecution while maintaining a fiction of fairness.
US World Police: 0 Good Guys: 2 (kim.dotcom and Lauri Love won't be thrown into the dungeon of the US injustice system)
I don't condone many of the activities of either, but I don't wish the US "justice" system on anyone either nor condone judicial kidnapping by the US government.
No, I was talking about "losing" the cash card, then using whatever mechanism they have, so people who dropped their card on the train can still get out.
If anything, Europeans are MORE concerned about privacy than Americans.
The EU actually put data-privacy and retention limits in place. Germany is still largely a cash economy BECAUSE people value their privacy. (holdover from WW2?)
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For one thing, it's in weak countries' interest to have as much strife as much as possible between superpowers (US, Russia, China) as possible. If the big thugs are arguing amongst each other directly, they're less concerned about proxy wars and imperialism in places like Latin America. Keep 'em occupied and worried.
Plus, it feels good to punch up as the little guy.
Terrible idea -- if it's public, anyone can archive it, bypassing data-protection regulations. Also, why should a husband be able to watch the street outside his wife's suspected lover's house 24/7? How about an employer watching the street outside your house to see if you were out partying late last night? People should have a safety valve -- the ability to do certain things and even tell lies without getting caught. We don't need a panopticon where our families, friends, employers, etc can keep us under a microscope all the time.
Public place or not, limits on retention in the absence of a violent crime in the area are in everyone's interest.
That's a feature, not a bug.
How about ... "creep?"
As in a creeping stalker.
Translation: the world needs a good, hard recession to slow things down, maybe bankrupt a few governments. The only thing that made the US think about reducing prison sentences, drug legalization, etc, is that states could no longer afford it during the Great Recession.
Let's say there was a back door. Couldn't he still have smashed the thing with a hammer and thrown it in a lake before going full-on Jihad? What's next, mandate automatic cloud backup of all data, because someone might destroy a device before committing a crime?
No, I lost them because they were thin, my backpack often had holes, and they fell out. And they didn't make an audible "thump" when they fell out. Honestly, I wouldn't have been able to afford it, I'd have figured out how to "borrow" one from a rich/preppy student who bullied me :)
I lost pencils and pens all the time. Textbooks, not so much. Even if the book came back with a few more scratches, it was still usable by the next student.
No, how about a $500 Mac Mini? :)
Windows 95 was insecure enough as it was -- blurring the line between online and local files would have been a disaster.
apkmirror.com... who needs the Play Store? Not me.
F'book Messaging works fine in Opera for Android, or if you change your UserAgent string to pretend to be Opera.
Other than Maps, I can't remember the last time I used a Scroogle Crapp on my phone :)
All cloud or cloudish ecosystems, whether mobile or not, are padded cells. Chromebooks are just as bad or worse than Android or Apple devices.
Roooiiiight. Google has always been more evil than pre-Nadella M$. M$ just made mediocre software. Google has always aimed to know more about its products ... I mean customers ... than they know about themselves and sell this info to the highest bidders.
Or people to just get their .apks from somewhere else and run cloudfree. Cloudfree means you're not subject to heavy-handed censorship like the recent debacle with Google Drive files disappearing.
You can get .apks from 3rd party stores, and you're better off without Google's clown ... I mean cloud ... spyware. And you'll still be able to log into GMail using a real mail client (Outlook Mobile or K-9 mail) rather than Google's toylike GMail app.
"Some people" who have never typed a few pages on a touch screen or Smurface gummy keyboard.
Macbook is already simple and cr@ppy, just close to $1000. It doesn't have to be that way -- plenty of laptops under $1000, or even under $500 have more than one USB port!
You mean Ubuntu or Mint, so it's not tied to any of the Big Pigs of tech?
Yeah, the insider trading. Probably no worse than many Wall Street bros get away with every week, though.
The idea is that people shouldn't have to suffer in future. I hope Trump alienates the outside world to the point that they won't even extradite El Chapo if Ivanka begged on her knees for it. US justice is extremely biased and skewed towards the prosecution while maintaining a fiction of fairness.
US World Police: 0
Good Guys: 2
(kim.dotcom and Lauri Love won't be thrown into the dungeon of the US injustice system)
I don't condone many of the activities of either, but I don't wish the US "justice" system on anyone either nor condone judicial kidnapping by the US government.
No, I was talking about "losing" the cash card, then using whatever mechanism they have, so people who dropped their card on the train can still get out.
If anything, Europeans are MORE concerned about privacy than Americans.
The EU actually put data-privacy and retention limits in place. Germany is still largely a cash economy BECAUSE people value their privacy. (holdover from WW2?)