One should never have all their eggs in one basket.
WTF does that mean? i should spread my personal information across a variety of website. yeah, good advice.
do i trust google more than whatever nefarious entity runs startpage.com? i sure do. i know google will do everything possible not to expose my persona info, because if they did, their business would go down the toilet. how many people would keep using gmail, search, etc if they knew google was leaking personal data to 3rd party companies? they have a financial interest in protecting my data. sure that doesn't mean they won't screw up, but if it comes to that, i think the odds are better at google than say startpage.com.
I considered using MSE, but the problem is that I still don't fully trust it
why? what exactly makes you trust it less than Avast!? your post is written like a (bad) sales pitch.
was happy to find that they also have a mobile Android version.
have you looked into what that android version actually does? the answer is: not much. it will alert you if you install a known malware application. that's it.
the android security model prevent prevents apps from reading the data of other apps, or from doing system level things like key logging or sniffing network packets. if you've rooted your device however then all bets are off (and your AV software isn't going to help).
you have a profound misunderstanding of how your device works. android does a decent job of acting like a desktop OS in that regard but the reality is quite different.
when you put an app in the "background" on android, it stops. it sticks around in memory, not running, so it can be loaded faster next time... but only until the OS needs the memory. the OS can destroy the process of any background app at any time if it needs the memory. as a side note, there's no swap on android.
even if the OS destroys the app's process, it gives it an opportunity to persist some state variables. when it's brought into the foreground next time, those state variables can be used to give the user the impression that the app was sitting in the background waiting for them. it of course was not.
Samsung hasn't reported phone *sales* since mid 2011. They report units shipped. The two are different.
and this is especially relevant since we all know that samsung is secretly burying all those extra shipped but not sold units in the desert somewhere. makes sense.
They can't easily introduce multitasking either, just a kind of bodge for a few select applications.
multitasking on android is not general purpose multitasking either. it's not like you can just press the "&" button and send any app to the background. a mobile OS can't really work like that either, unless you have a very large battery.
Actually, the FB users deserve a cut because they are the only reason FB is profitable.
your cut is using facebook free of charge.
i'm curious why you are drawing the line here. facebook has been reaping profits for quite some time now. how come you didn't start screaming sooner that they should pay you? do you yell at the newspaper when you read it, that they are not paying you? do you yell at the TV when you see a commercial? do you yell out the window of your car when you drive by a billboard?
This is a falsehood. What somebody is willing to do depends mainly on their situation. Sometimes the situation itself can and should be changed.
and those situations are almost always ones in which someone is being harmed physically or financially. but here, we have a free of charge online service that has become ever so slightly less convenient to use, because you may receive spam occasionally from those willing to pay $1.
If I were, then there would be an option where I could choose to opt-in or opt-out.
you opt-out by not using facebook.
that comment just strengthens the OPs statements. facebook isn't an entitlement. it's a commercial service that you can choose to use, or not. you don't need it to live or even need it to be comfortable in life.
They are providing users with a service in exchange for the users providing them with content they can monetize. That's not free by any definition.
well, it's free by the definition of free understood by almost everyone in the world. i always get a chuckle over the inevitable post like this.
everyone, EVERYONE understands how free of charge services and advertising work. you have not stumbled upon some great insight here. nobody thinks facebook magically pulls enough money out of its butt to run servers and software to support billions of users worldwide. WE GET IT. when we say "free", we mean "free of charge". just mentally make that translation whenever you read "free".
this money should go to a charity or something, right?
haha. you know what a corporation is right? it's only purpose is to make money for the share holders. nothing else. charity only happens when the board decides that the charity will indirectly increase profits.
How does Facebook deserve this money?
oh i don't know. maybe because they wrote the software, own the hardware, and otherwise own all resources used to run facebook? they definitely deserve money over anyone else. like any other product, you can decide to pay it or not.
i.e. When you use a good password policy schema and force people to use long passwords with X months of forced password changes people bitch that it is too cumbersome.
and you forgot to add, that sort of thing backfires because it results in people writing down their passwords physically or storing them in text files.
I also believe you should have some recourse if I break into your gmail account and read through your emails.
well then too bad, because you can be sure that the authorities aren't going to give a crap about you. now, if you can ensure that your criminal also breaks into the accounts of high-profile individuals, then you may be in business.
If you can break into my car and make exact copies of the stuff inside without depriving me of those things, and then put the window back exactly as you found it - have at it.
oh you mean like your credit card information, your medical records, your tax return, and that picture of you having sex with the night cleaning person on the desk of your high-paid job?
GOOGLE openly DOES search your stored mail (basically anything you've ever sent or recieved) unless you tell it NOT to. So at some point these pics would leak somewhere else anyway.
can you link to any instance where google has leaked personal photos stored on a google server?
this was time used to find someone who was breaking into other peoples account and services. So, money well spent.
time spent investigating this is time not spent investigating other things.
when's the last time you've had to interact with the police concerning a crime against you? for pretty much everything, they take your name and do nothing. there's no investigation at all. but they spend 11 month tracking down this guy? let christina aguilera hire a private investigator.
Samsung did not base anything it did from reading any of the patents that Ericsson has. It did not copy anything. It came up with some ideas and implemented them because those ideas fall within the scope of what Samsung does. Samsung never needed 'help' from Ericsson
that really doesn't matter when it comes to patents. it's whoever has the patent. otherwise, the whole system breaks down because you could never prove that someone had inspiration from another patent / prove they didn't just think of the idea on their own in the shower one morning.
maybe you want the system to break down, and that's a different point that i'm not commenting on here.
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Chrome and Firefox have both been 64 bit for years
chrome is only 64 bit on linux. mac and windows are 32 bit only.
One should never have all their eggs in one basket.
WTF does that mean? i should spread my personal information across a variety of website. yeah, good advice.
do i trust google more than whatever nefarious entity runs startpage.com? i sure do. i know google will do everything possible not to expose my persona info, because if they did, their business would go down the toilet. how many people would keep using gmail, search, etc if they knew google was leaking personal data to 3rd party companies? they have a financial interest in protecting my data. sure that doesn't mean they won't screw up, but if it comes to that, i think the odds are better at google than say startpage.com.
I considered using MSE, but the problem is that I still don't fully trust it
why? what exactly makes you trust it less than Avast!? your post is written like a (bad) sales pitch.
was happy to find that they also have a mobile Android version.
have you looked into what that android version actually does? the answer is: not much. it will alert you if you install a known malware application. that's it.
the android security model prevent prevents apps from reading the data of other apps, or from doing system level things like key logging or sniffing network packets. if you've rooted your device however then all bets are off (and your AV software isn't going to help).
linux doesn't have the masses of stupid users that windows does.
stupid is spending your weekends trying to compile and installing drivers to get your peripherals to be recognized.
you have a profound misunderstanding of how your device works. android does a decent job of acting like a desktop OS in that regard but the reality is quite different.
when you put an app in the "background" on android, it stops. it sticks around in memory, not running, so it can be loaded faster next time ... but only until the OS needs the memory. the OS can destroy the process of any background app at any time if it needs the memory. as a side note, there's no swap on android.
even if the OS destroys the app's process, it gives it an opportunity to persist some state variables. when it's brought into the foreground next time, those state variables can be used to give the user the impression that the app was sitting in the background waiting for them. it of course was not.
which is it? easterns are great for having companies run like a dictatorship, or westerners are stupid because they can't question their leaders?
Samsung hasn't reported phone *sales* since mid 2011. They report units shipped. The two are different.
and this is especially relevant since we all know that samsung is secretly burying all those extra shipped but not sold units in the desert somewhere. makes sense.
They can't easily introduce multitasking either, just a kind of bodge for a few select applications.
multitasking on android is not general purpose multitasking either. it's not like you can just press the "&" button and send any app to the background. a mobile OS can't really work like that either, unless you have a very large battery.
it is possible to have an RFID tag that is not externally powered and can only actively transmit with an internal power source?
if you accidently kill a 2 week pregnant woman you will charged with two murders
you don't get charged with murder for accidentally killing someone. that's called manslaughter.
Actually, the FB users deserve a cut because they are the only reason FB is profitable.
your cut is using facebook free of charge.
i'm curious why you are drawing the line here. facebook has been reaping profits for quite some time now. how come you didn't start screaming sooner that they should pay you? do you yell at the newspaper when you read it, that they are not paying you? do you yell at the TV when you see a commercial? do you yell out the window of your car when you drive by a billboard?
This is a falsehood. What somebody is willing to do depends mainly on their situation. Sometimes the situation itself can and should be changed.
and those situations are almost always ones in which someone is being harmed physically or financially. but here, we have a free of charge online service that has become ever so slightly less convenient to use, because you may receive spam occasionally from those willing to pay $1.
If I were, then there would be an option where I could choose to opt-in or opt-out.
you opt-out by not using facebook.
that comment just strengthens the OPs statements. facebook isn't an entitlement. it's a commercial service that you can choose to use, or not. you don't need it to live or even need it to be comfortable in life.
They are providing users with a service in exchange for the users providing them with content they can monetize. That's not free by any definition.
well, it's free by the definition of free understood by almost everyone in the world. i always get a chuckle over the inevitable post like this.
everyone, EVERYONE understands how free of charge services and advertising work. you have not stumbled upon some great insight here. nobody thinks facebook magically pulls enough money out of its butt to run servers and software to support billions of users worldwide. WE GET IT. when we say "free", we mean "free of charge". just mentally make that translation whenever you read "free".
this money should go to a charity or something, right?
haha. you know what a corporation is right? it's only purpose is to make money for the share holders. nothing else. charity only happens when the board decides that the charity will indirectly increase profits.
How does Facebook deserve this money?
oh i don't know. maybe because they wrote the software, own the hardware, and otherwise own all resources used to run facebook? they definitely deserve money over anyone else. like any other product, you can decide to pay it or not.
have you ever had to transport documents? have you ever forgot your wallet in your car? but you're right, things like that never happen.
i.e. When you use a good password policy schema and force people to use long passwords with X months of forced password changes people bitch that it is too cumbersome.
and you forgot to add, that sort of thing backfires because it results in people writing down their passwords physically or storing them in text files.
I also believe you should have some recourse if I break into your gmail account and read through your emails.
well then too bad, because you can be sure that the authorities aren't going to give a crap about you. now, if you can ensure that your criminal also breaks into the accounts of high-profile individuals, then you may be in business.
If you can break into my car and make exact copies of the stuff inside without depriving me of those things, and then put the window back exactly as you found it - have at it.
oh you mean like your credit card information, your medical records, your tax return, and that picture of you having sex with the night cleaning person on the desk of your high-paid job?
didn't think that one through to well did you?
Welcome to the privatization of prisons. where locking people up as long as possible for the thinnest of reason mean more profit.
and they love prisoners like this. non-violent, non-gang, he'll probably do his time quietly and without problems while they collect their payout.
GOOGLE openly DOES search your stored mail (basically anything you've ever sent or recieved) unless you tell it NOT to. So at some point these pics would leak somewhere else anyway.
can you link to any instance where google has leaked personal photos stored on a google server?
this was time used to find someone who was breaking into other peoples account and services. So, money well spent.
time spent investigating this is time not spent investigating other things.
when's the last time you've had to interact with the police concerning a crime against you? for pretty much everything, they take your name and do nothing. there's no investigation at all. but they spend 11 month tracking down this guy? let christina aguilera hire a private investigator.
you can hold a laptop computer in the palm of your hand, and read a book on your phone's 4" screen?
right, not a holy war, a thermonuclear war.
http://androidcommunity.com/steve-jobs-had-pledged-thermonuclear-war-on-android-20111021/
Samsung did not base anything it did from reading any of the patents that Ericsson has. It did not copy anything. It came up with some ideas and implemented them because those ideas fall within the scope of what Samsung does. Samsung never needed 'help' from Ericsson
that really doesn't matter when it comes to patents. it's whoever has the patent. otherwise, the whole system breaks down because you could never prove that someone had inspiration from another patent / prove they didn't just think of the idea on their own in the shower one morning.
maybe you want the system to break down, and that's a different point that i'm not commenting on here.