Google or Bing don't show you the information that is being bought and sold about you. It's not publicly available, hence companies *selling* your info.
Let's address the root of the issue: This is all 100% legal because the assclowns that most people vote for made it so. None of this should be legal. My ISP shouldn't be selling my info. My cell provider shouldn't be selling my info.
What about the Amazon shut-ins? I've read plenty of people on this very website, who state that they hate interacting with other people, and they only order from Amazon. What are those malcontents going to do without power? They're certainly not going to a store.
Those things are how merchants get ripped off. Use one of those for more than a few hours, and the thieves will be there with fake credit cards by the dozen.
I almost never use public parking. I get our weekly groceries delivered, and for the (very rare) times that I need to go into town for clothes/shoes/etc I will never use the car, as parking is hard to find and ridiculously expensive. And I hate shops, BTW, so I spend as little time there as I can.
Perhaps they could consider working on a good phone OS and ignoring the "apps"? For example: I'm a grown-up. I don't use "apps". I want the best phone in order to get work done (calls and e-mail). I couldn't give two shits about Twit-Face-Gram-Chat. I have to imagine there are enough people like me out there that generate enough demand to justify working on the OS.
They're concentrating in the Amazon warehouses in the first place because most people are unabashedly selfish, and simply don't give a shit where they spend their money.
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to people's complete hatred of Windows 10, to people abandoning Windows entirely for Mac and Chrome OS/Linux.
That isn't happening. The whole "hatred" thing is mostly in your head, too.
incompetent IT staff that continue to insist on using their software on thousands of PCs
Right. Everybody using Microsoft software is "incompetent".
Go ahead and short. I'll buy those shares!
Google or Bing don't show you the information that is being bought and sold about you. It's not publicly available, hence companies *selling* your info.
They tie together your IP address, MAC address, time and date, along with all of the info from Google and Apple and Amazon and Facebook.
Let's address the root of the issue: This is all 100% legal because the assclowns that most people vote for made it so. None of this should be legal. My ISP shouldn't be selling my info. My cell provider shouldn't be selling my info.
Your ISP still sells all of your identifying info, so the big companies know that all of those characters are the same person.
That is very true.
Dude, you're nuts. Go away.
If you're eating at Pizza Hut, you've got bigger problems in your life than getting your credit card number stolen again.
I'm looking at my merchant statements right now. You don't know what you're talking about.
Dude, that's just one debit fee. There are more fees on top of that one. Cards run as "credit" have an average 2.5% interchange base rate.
And those studies show that card usage is through the roof. I don't know what point you're trying to make here.
Visa/Mastercard get 2.5% of the ENTIRE ECONOMY in a cashless world. People who don't use cash don't think about this and apparently don't care.
What about the Amazon shut-ins? I've read plenty of people on this very website, who state that they hate interacting with other people, and they only order from Amazon. What are those malcontents going to do without power? They're certainly not going to a store.
Those things are how merchants get ripped off. Use one of those for more than a few hours, and the thieves will be there with fake credit cards by the dozen.
Just offer the same things as Amazon at the same price with 2 day shipping and not yearly Prime membership.
That's called "losing money". Not every company is so keen on losing money.
I don't wonder. I expect the same judge to do the same thing. I don't believe in conspiracy theories.
I almost never use public parking. I get our weekly groceries delivered, and for the (very rare) times that I need to go into town for clothes/shoes/etc I will never use the car, as parking is hard to find and ridiculously expensive. And I hate shops, BTW, so I spend as little time there as I can.
Why does an admitted shut-in need a car?
Most companies aren't moving to Macs or Linux over $70. That's nutty.
Yes $70. Get back to me when the (multi) thousand-dollar price gap is closed up a bit.
Phone and email and messaging are built into Windows Phone.
I doubt that. There have to be a decent percentage of people who just use a phone for work only.
Perhaps they could consider working on a good phone OS and ignoring the "apps"? For example: I'm a grown-up. I don't use "apps". I want the best phone in order to get work done (calls and e-mail). I couldn't give two shits about Twit-Face-Gram-Chat. I have to imagine there are enough people like me out there that generate enough demand to justify working on the OS.
You might want to try shopping at retail that isn't Best Buy. I don't know why you'd expect a Big Box store to be a good shopping experience.
They're concentrating in the Amazon warehouses in the first place because most people are unabashedly selfish, and simply don't give a shit where they spend their money.
There's a lot of loss across cables across long distances. Saudi Arabia isn't going to export power to modern Europe.