Sorry, let me make it clear. Can they now, legally, and without repercussions? No. Could they in the future? Of course, because it's the future and I'm not currently able to foretell it. Also, ETs might land and exterminate folks who's shopping habits indicate they've shown no interest in the movie "ET" nor the Atari video game "ET".
If we keep the sort of government we don't have to fear, then all is good. But if the government goes full totalitarian (and we're really not that far off), suddenly everything changes.
Nah, I'm good. Not being a narcissist, I understand that the fact that my shopping habits indicate I'm interest in teeth whitener and that I find Yoko Littner sexy aren't going to be enough to single me out for execution under the New Order.
Do you not take every deduction you can? Do you offer to pay more tax than you have to?
There's a difference between taking legal, well established deductions and using semi-legal loopholes. If what Apple was doing was 100% on the up and up, why would there be any discussion about it?
Google is reading and scanning all your email. Give me a break.
Obviously if the author is coming from Y! Mail, this isn't their concern. They are asking about security from 3rd parties. So yes, contrary to your snide remark, discussions about 2FA and security notifications are relevant here.
Google knows your age, race, religion, where you live, where you work, you're sexual preference, your income, your political views, and so on. All in databases the government can take control of at their whim (the government doesn't need their own Muslim database).
Has the govt taken control of their DBs? No. Would they like to take control of Google's DBs? Yes.
Ergo, they are not able to do so.
Could it happen? Sure. Could any data store be hacked and stolen? Yes Is Google less secure than any other of the thousands of data stores that contain your personal data? You decide (hint: no).
This marketplace of ideas is strange, but a good thing.
Sure, it's great for the founders that bilk millions of dollars out of backers.
Even if these guys and gals have good intentions, the "regular" non-crowd funded track for product development has a way of weeding out all non-hackers. Not perfect either of course, but better than crowdfunding.
It wouldn't be fraud if he does both X and Y. It wouldn't even be false advertising. Try flipping the roles around: you don't order a pizza and expect the pizza joint to only serve you and not make pizza for other people. You pay for a pizza, you get a pizza. What the pizza joint does the rest of the time is none of your business.
Businesses think they own someone just because they pay them.
Well first, he wasn't doing X and Y. He was just doing Y, by his words. Second, and you might want to sit down for this, but employers expect you to be 100% working for them during the hours they are paying you to work. How would you feel if you hired a housekeeper and paid them for 4 hours, only to find out they took a nap for 3 of them? Work 4 hours and get paid for 4. Or work 1 hour and get paid for 1. Either is fine.
You are abusing the word "stealing" much like the MPAA/RIA do. Was he being underproductive? Absolutely! Was he stealing? Not without stretching the definition into extra-dimensions, twisted loops
Yes, that's exactly the kind of rationalizing that most low-lifes employ to allow them to fall asleep at night content that, really, they are a good person.
You are right, it's probably not "stealing". But it's much more than being unproductive.
If you need to decide if any action is moral or not, you just need to think what the world would be like if everyone acted in the same way. If everyone sat around and didn't do their jobs whilst they day-dreamed about another job, the economy would fall apart. When this guy's startup takes off, remember that HIS employees will also be sitting around not doing the job he pays them to do either.
heh very nice. If they can run true AAA games then intel is done.
Of course they can't. First, it's well known that SD doesn't touch Intel when it comes to high-end performance... but anyway, you'll never run AAA games w/ integrated graphics (which is what you'll get with ARM SoCs).
But if your day job is coding, you can work on your startup code at your day job. Even if your boss walks by, he is just going to see a screen full of code, and assume you are working hard. I did this for six months, and then right before I quit I got a glowing performance review and a raise. They never realized what was actually going on.
So basically you were stealing from your employer for 6 months. Bravo!
Maybe your mommy never taught you this, but rule as to whether an action is moral is not whether you can get away with it.
1. You can pick your hours and change them on a moment's notice.
Ah, so you've never worked in a restaurant (or probably in the service industry at all).
You don't get to pick your hours. Restaurants need staffing at particular hours. If you decide not to work at your scheduled time, they are screwed and you won't be around for long. Clearly he didn't do that if we worked there for 5 years.
Is this even allowed with the current Android terms? Given they maintain an active fork of Android, I think they would be excluded from participating
Every manufacturer has a fork of Android. To be able to call it "Android", you just need to pass CTS, https://source.android.com/com...
Which isn't hard, proof being the vast number of Android devices out there.
Hopefully Amazon is getting smart. Their devices should be subsidized standard Android + Google devices that are cheap $-wise at the expense of having Amazon crap pushed in your face night and day. Not a trade off that's particularly attractive to me, but I think there's a market for it.
Are you talking about a protocol or an app? All of these "X Pay" apps do use a standard protocol to communicate to the payment terminal. It's the same used by your physical contactless-enabled chip card.
If you are talking about the app, the obvious answer is that LG wants to driver users to other LG-branded services, and mine user data around payments. Other than preference on the user interface, there's no reason to use LG Pay over Android Pay they are going to be functionally identical.
I've never even configured it as I don't think I've seen a single store that advertises accepting Samsung Pay
That's not how it works. Any terminal that supports EMV contactless payments will support Samsung Pay. The terminal actually has no idea it's not talking to a real card.
It's about them one-upping prime-now which has much more limited availability than w-mart would if they leverage this in most of their stores.
Have to remember that Amazon doesn't do delivery (for the most part), they do warehouses. They leave the delivery up to companies that know what they are doing like UPS, Fedex, OnTrac, etc.
Not sure why Walmart thinks they are going to compete with the likes of UPS with a bunch on inexperienced, low-paid, tired at the end of their shift drivers. Regardless, how is it going to work? Oh you want this package rush? Maybe, if you happen to live along the route of an employee and that employee happens to be getting off work when you need the package, and if that employee signs up to do the delivery. Package delivery can't be "best effort".
* yes I realize Amazon has these Prime vans around now but still the vast majority of their packages are delivered via big carriers.
Everyone who claims Linux isn't the alternative either:
Everyone who claims Linux is an alternative doesn't use their PC for gaming. Or, is part of the extremely tiny minority of gamers that is happy with the limited subset of games run on Linux.
And, just as an aside, if you don't have a daughter, the threat level your child faces is statistically much lower.
Well as long as you are talking about statistics, your child is much, much more likely to be molested by a teacher, friend or family or member than a stranger on the internet. So statistically, you are wasting your time. Spend your time and money on background checks for the people your daughter interacts with in her day to day life, not doing keyword searches in her chat logs.
It's much easier for parents to think about some pervert stranger with pimples luring your daughter into a dark alley. Unfortunately that's just not how it's going to happen. Much harder to think about it being her uncle, her favorite teacher, or a coach.
I have told her this.
Everyone that spies on their kids says this. To me it comes across as more like an "f-u" to her than anything else. At least if you did it clandestine, it's likely she'd never even know you were doing and not suffer the mental trauma for it.
Everything is replaceable. It's just software. Facebook is not being replaced in fact there are not even an contenders to speak of. OTOH, Facebook is actively gunning for Snap and has a history of copying and decimating other services.
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How big a haircut are you willing to personally so that Apple can do it's civic duty and pay all the taxes on that repatriated capital.
Sure, let's take that to the logical end. Why have any corporate tax law? Why have taxes? They just lower the stock price.
Could it happen? Sure.
Sorry, let me make it clear. Can they now, legally, and without repercussions? No. Could they in the future? Of course, because it's the future and I'm not currently able to foretell it. Also, ETs might land and exterminate folks who's shopping habits indicate they've shown no interest in the movie "ET" nor the Atari video game "ET".
If we keep the sort of government we don't have to fear, then all is good. But if the government goes full totalitarian (and we're really not that far off), suddenly everything changes.
Nah, I'm good. Not being a narcissist, I understand that the fact that my shopping habits indicate I'm interest in teeth whitener and that I find Yoko Littner sexy aren't going to be enough to single me out for execution under the New Order.
but like anyone else they don't want to be the sucker who pays way more than they have to
When you have 246B USD socked away my compassion goes out the window.
Do you not take every deduction you can? Do you offer to pay more tax than you have to?
There's a difference between taking legal, well established deductions and using semi-legal loopholes. If what Apple was doing was 100% on the up and up, why would there be any discussion about it?
I've pushed hard on immigration.
CEO of company that depends on hoards of skilled immigrants to keep it's stock price inflated fights for unencumbered immigration.
Shocking.
Google is reading and scanning all your email. Give me a break.
Obviously if the author is coming from Y! Mail, this isn't their concern. They are asking about security from 3rd parties. So yes, contrary to your snide remark, discussions about 2FA and security notifications are relevant here.
Google knows your age, race, religion, where you live, where you work, you're sexual preference, your income, your political views, and so on. All in databases the government can take control of at their whim (the government doesn't need their own Muslim database).
Has the govt taken control of their DBs? No.
Would they like to take control of Google's DBs? Yes.
Ergo, they are not able to do so.
Could it happen? Sure.
Could any data store be hacked and stolen? Yes
Is Google less secure than any other of the thousands of data stores that contain your personal data? You decide (hint: no).
This marketplace of ideas is strange, but a good thing.
Sure, it's great for the founders that bilk millions of dollars out of backers.
Even if these guys and gals have good intentions, the "regular" non-crowd funded track for product development has a way of weeding out all non-hackers. Not perfect either of course, but better than crowdfunding.
It wouldn't be fraud if he does both X and Y. It wouldn't even be false advertising. Try flipping the roles around: you don't order a pizza and expect the pizza joint to only serve you and not make pizza for other people. You pay for a pizza, you get a pizza. What the pizza joint does the rest of the time is none of your business.
Businesses think they own someone just because they pay them.
Well first, he wasn't doing X and Y. He was just doing Y, by his words. Second, and you might want to sit down for this, but employers expect you to be 100% working for them during the hours they are paying you to work. How would you feel if you hired a housekeeper and paid them for 4 hours, only to find out they took a nap for 3 of them? Work 4 hours and get paid for 4. Or work 1 hour and get paid for 1. Either is fine.
You are abusing the word "stealing" much like the MPAA/RIA do. Was he being underproductive? Absolutely! Was he stealing? Not without stretching the definition into extra-dimensions, twisted loops
Yes, that's exactly the kind of rationalizing that most low-lifes employ to allow them to fall asleep at night content that, really, they are a good person.
You are right, it's probably not "stealing". But it's much more than being unproductive.
If you need to decide if any action is moral or not, you just need to think what the world would be like if everyone acted in the same way. If everyone sat around and didn't do their jobs whilst they day-dreamed about another job, the economy would fall apart. When this guy's startup takes off, remember that HIS employees will also be sitting around not doing the job he pays them to do either.
heh very nice. If they can run true AAA games then intel is done.
Of course they can't. First, it's well known that SD doesn't touch Intel when it comes to high-end performance ... but anyway, you'll never run AAA games w/ integrated graphics (which is what you'll get with ARM SoCs).
That's an awesome achievement. You should link the book.
But if your day job is coding, you can work on your startup code at your day job. Even if your boss walks by, he is just going to see a screen full of code, and assume you are working hard. I did this for six months, and then right before I quit I got a glowing performance review and a raise. They never realized what was actually going on.
So basically you were stealing from your employer for 6 months. Bravo!
Maybe your mommy never taught you this, but rule as to whether an action is moral is not whether you can get away with it.
1. You can pick your hours and change them on a moment's notice.
Ah, so you've never worked in a restaurant (or probably in the service industry at all).
You don't get to pick your hours. Restaurants need staffing at particular hours. If you decide not to work at your scheduled time, they are screwed and you won't be around for long. Clearly he didn't do that if we worked there for 5 years.
Is this even allowed with the current Android terms? Given they maintain an active fork of Android, I think they would be excluded from participating
Every manufacturer has a fork of Android. To be able to call it "Android", you just need to pass CTS,
https://source.android.com/com...
Which isn't hard, proof being the vast number of Android devices out there.
Hopefully Amazon is getting smart. Their devices should be subsidized standard Android + Google devices that are cheap $-wise at the expense of having Amazon crap pushed in your face night and day. Not a trade off that's particularly attractive to me, but I think there's a market for it.
let it be as basic a function as text messaging
Because taking a secure payment is a little more complicated than sending a text message?
Have one across the board that one can use regardless of their phone (it just needs be a smartphone)
For the same same reason you can't download Angry Birds for iOS and run it on your Android phone.
Why not just make a single standard NFC Pay
Are you talking about a protocol or an app? All of these "X Pay" apps do use a standard protocol to communicate to the payment terminal. It's the same used by your physical contactless-enabled chip card.
If you are talking about the app, the obvious answer is that LG wants to driver users to other LG-branded services, and mine user data around payments. Other than preference on the user interface, there's no reason to use LG Pay over Android Pay they are going to be functionally identical.
I've never even configured it as I don't think I've seen a single store that advertises accepting Samsung Pay
That's not how it works. Any terminal that supports EMV contactless payments will support Samsung Pay. The terminal actually has no idea it's not talking to a real card.
It's about them one-upping prime-now which has much more limited availability than w-mart would if they leverage this in most of their stores.
Have to remember that Amazon doesn't do delivery (for the most part), they do warehouses. They leave the delivery up to companies that know what they are doing like UPS, Fedex, OnTrac, etc.
Not sure why Walmart thinks they are going to compete with the likes of UPS with a bunch on inexperienced, low-paid, tired at the end of their shift drivers. Regardless, how is it going to work? Oh you want this package rush? Maybe, if you happen to live along the route of an employee and that employee happens to be getting off work when you need the package, and if that employee signs up to do the delivery. Package delivery can't be "best effort".
* yes I realize Amazon has these Prime vans around now but still the vast majority of their packages are delivered via big carriers.
One analogy for programming can be bringing down the entropy of the world.
And you can achieve that as long as you only refactor and delete old code and never write any new code.
A developer attempting to imagine a Greater Purpose for themselves beyond the mundane and generally unimportant details of their life.
Everyone who claims Linux isn't the alternative either:
Everyone who claims Linux is an alternative doesn't use their PC for gaming. Or, is part of the extremely tiny minority of gamers that is happy with the limited subset of games run on Linux.
See what I did there?
In windows you don't need to user to supply the admin password. Windows will do that for you.
That's not been true for quite some time. Time to upgrade. Or keep your posts relevant to 2001. Your choice.
Macs are susceptible to malware? My world view is shattered.
And, just as an aside, if you don't have a daughter, the threat level your child faces is statistically much lower.
Well as long as you are talking about statistics, your child is much, much more likely to be molested by a teacher, friend or family or member than a stranger on the internet. So statistically, you are wasting your time. Spend your time and money on background checks for the people your daughter interacts with in her day to day life, not doing keyword searches in her chat logs.
It's much easier for parents to think about some pervert stranger with pimples luring your daughter into a dark alley. Unfortunately that's just not how it's going to happen. Much harder to think about it being her uncle, her favorite teacher, or a coach.
I have told her this.
Everyone that spies on their kids says this. To me it comes across as more like an "f-u" to her than anything else. At least if you did it clandestine, it's likely she'd never even know you were doing and not suffer the mental trauma for it.
Everything is replaceable. It's just software. Facebook is not being replaced in fact there are not even an contenders to speak of. OTOH, Facebook is actively gunning for Snap and has a history of copying and decimating other services.