Windows isn't the biggest threat. I know plenty of people who don't even have a computer any more. Besides, Windows can be locked down.
Phones, on the other hand, are always-on cameras and microphones that cannot be locked down in any way. Phones alsoallow for 100% harvesting of all email, text messages, and phone calls sent through them.
We'd be in good shape, as a country, if Windows really was the greatest "cyberthreat".
I'd like to point out that right-wingers generally run nothing. They're always getting their panties in bunches (ie: this thread), because they never run anything, and have to submit to other peoples' rules. Why do none of these brilliant, forever-offended right-wingers ever create things? They very rarely run companies, or software projects, or anything else. All they do is whine, threaten to break off and do their own right-wing version of things, but never do.
1. You're credit card doesn't matter. You have no liability when your CC gets stolen.
2. Amazon sells EVERYTHING ELSE about you. Where you surf, when you jerk off, what kind of toilet paper you buy, what you read, what you watch, when you sleep, what you eat, etc.
Amazon fucking OWNS you. You traded your dignity for a bit of convenience. You're a fucking moron.
As somebody in successful, growing retail, I'm shocked at how management at so many big retailers make such bad decisions. Almost universally, they react to increased competition by cutting costs. They make a short term gain at the expense of the company. Almost every major, national retailer has, or is in the process of doing this. We went the other way, and we're competing just fine.
Web based clients come with extra security problems, poor performance, and the problem of constantly changing browsers. We made a specific choice not to use web-based clients.
It doesn't matter about the science in the memo. He was a dick. Google fired him. End of story. There's no law that protects people from getting fired for being dicks.
Russia is doing this to plenty of countries, including the US. At least your country is led by people smart enough to say, "This isn't right." President Shithole actively invited them to mess with our elections.
What kind of idiot would give their phone number to Facebook? Seriously... who would do this? Facebook is a company that makes money from selling your personal information to anybody who'll pay them. What kind of person thinks that giving a company like this a phone number is a good idea?
What the kind of bullshit is that? You could, and still can, get all kinds of print publications. That's like saying, "I'd like cars, if there were still ones that weren't red." I read science magazines, art magazines, news magazines, and all kinds of stuff. If you can't find any that aren't opinionated, then you've got your head up your own ass.
Can any history nerds supply any information about a world power transforming itself into a 3rd world country as quickly as the US is? I know that other countries have fallen due to war, but have any other countries/societies/cultures fallen so far, so quickly, due to their own stupidity, as suddenly as the US?
It's not about "owing" anybody. It's about just being the best. This "somebody owes us something" is childish and pathetic and unbecoming of what used to be one of the best countries in the world.
Because the US is the wealthiest country on the planet, and used to lead in research of all kinds. We could support the ISS for decades more for the cost of one stupid fighter jet.
It's sad that a company keeping software roughly the same for 5 years is considered "news". Microsoft and other real software companies often support their products for a decade or more, believe it or not.
What they're *not* free to do however is to enforce policies, terms, and rules arbitrarily, unequally, and unfairly
"unfairly"? The protected classes in the United States are: Race, Color, Religion or creed, National origin or ancestry, Sex, Age, Physical or mental disability, Veteran status, Genetic information, Citizenship.
US Courts, judges, and juries generally don't tend to look favorably at a business's legal position when individuals are treated differently by that business because of their lawfully-held political/ideological/cultural/religious opinions or viewpoints
That's not true. A business can tell somebody wearing a "MAGA" hat to get the fuck out, and the moron would have no grounds for any kind of legal action.
Offensive to their advertisers, of course. Youtube is an advertising company. Of course it's going to be subjective. Why would you think they'd do otherwise?
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Apple phones are. Believe it or not, there are other makers of smartphones that don't treat their customers like milking cows.
Windows isn't the biggest threat. I know plenty of people who don't even have a computer any more. Besides, Windows can be locked down.
Phones, on the other hand, are always-on cameras and microphones that cannot be locked down in any way. Phones alsoallow for 100% harvesting of all email, text messages, and phone calls sent through them.
We'd be in good shape, as a country, if Windows really was the greatest "cyberthreat".
Since when is supporting the government "baggage"?
Since that part of our government is a piece of shit, that's since when.
I'd like to point out that right-wingers generally run nothing. They're always getting their panties in bunches (ie: this thread), because they never run anything, and have to submit to other peoples' rules. Why do none of these brilliant, forever-offended right-wingers ever create things? They very rarely run companies, or software projects, or anything else. All they do is whine, threaten to break off and do their own right-wing version of things, but never do.
Personally, I would favor a code of conduct that just reads "Be excellent to each other, dude!"
You must be new to the Internet.
You are a moron if you trust Amazon.
1. You're credit card doesn't matter. You have no liability when your CC gets stolen.
2. Amazon sells EVERYTHING ELSE about you. Where you surf, when you jerk off, what kind of toilet paper you buy, what you read, what you watch, when you sleep, what you eat, etc.
Amazon fucking OWNS you. You traded your dignity for a bit of convenience. You're a fucking moron.
As somebody in successful, growing retail, I'm shocked at how management at so many big retailers make such bad decisions. Almost universally, they react to increased competition by cutting costs. They make a short term gain at the expense of the company. Almost every major, national retailer has, or is in the process of doing this. We went the other way, and we're competing just fine.
Web based clients come with extra security problems, poor performance, and the problem of constantly changing browsers. We made a specific choice not to use web-based clients.
It doesn't matter about the science in the memo. He was a dick. Google fired him. End of story. There's no law that protects people from getting fired for being dicks.
Our entire ERP system is Windows based. Literally all of the software that runs our entire company. It works well.
Russia is doing this to plenty of countries, including the US. At least your country is led by people smart enough to say, "This isn't right." President Shithole actively invited them to mess with our elections.
What kind of idiot would give their phone number to Facebook? Seriously... who would do this? Facebook is a company that makes money from selling your personal information to anybody who'll pay them. What kind of person thinks that giving a company like this a phone number is a good idea?
What the kind of bullshit is that? You could, and still can, get all kinds of print publications. That's like saying, "I'd like cars, if there were still ones that weren't red." I read science magazines, art magazines, news magazines, and all kinds of stuff. If you can't find any that aren't opinionated, then you've got your head up your own ass.
Can any history nerds supply any information about a world power transforming itself into a 3rd world country as quickly as the US is? I know that other countries have fallen due to war, but have any other countries/societies/cultures fallen so far, so quickly, due to their own stupidity, as suddenly as the US?
... then you obviously don't care about privacy or security of your personal information. Bring it on GMail!
Google saves, complies, and sells the contents of every email. I don't know how email could be *less* secure.
Using Gmail is "a big experiment with security" (or the lack thereof).
Yeah, go begging other countries for handouts. That's pretty cool. MAGA, huh?
It's not about "owing" anybody. It's about just being the best. This "somebody owes us something" is childish and pathetic and unbecoming of what used to be one of the best countries in the world.
Why should it always be the US?
Because the US is the wealthiest country on the planet, and used to lead in research of all kinds. We could support the ISS for decades more for the cost of one stupid fighter jet.
It's sad that a company keeping software roughly the same for 5 years is considered "news". Microsoft and other real software companies often support their products for a decade or more, believe it or not.
That's simply not true. There's no law that says anything like that.
What they're *not* free to do however is to enforce policies, terms, and rules arbitrarily, unequally, and unfairly
"unfairly"? The protected classes in the United States are: Race, Color, Religion or creed, National origin or ancestry, Sex, Age, Physical or mental disability, Veteran status, Genetic information, Citizenship.
US Courts, judges, and juries generally don't tend to look favorably at a business's legal position when individuals are treated differently by that business because of their lawfully-held political/ideological/cultural/religious opinions or viewpoints
That's not true. A business can tell somebody wearing a "MAGA" hat to get the fuck out, and the moron would have no grounds for any kind of legal action.
Oh, that makes sense.
Offensive to their advertisers, of course. Youtube is an advertising company. Of course it's going to be subjective. Why would you think they'd do otherwise?