This is what we've come to, needing a law to force easy cancellation of a service. Sigh. It's disgraceful that companies have sunk so low in how they treat their customers.
These databases need to be deleted too. The privacy violates are incredible.
What do you do when an insurance company notices that someone in your family has a hereditary disease and decides to jack up your premiums? We need strong laws to protect DNA data and prevent that kind of abuse.
We already have a law, it's called Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008. The only catch, congress didnt put any protection for life insurance, disability insurance, and long-term care insurance.
That's actually an interesting idea to charge for carry on but not for checked luggage. I imagine the cost of checked luggage would be an issue in the long run.
Unfortunately people give permission to Facebook to "look for friends" by sharing their address book (Linked In does this as well). If you're in the address book, guess what? LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, etc now have a complete list of all your information thanks to your friends.
This is how you get the "magical" friend/contact suggestions in these services.
But honestly 10 megabits is perfectly fine. I live in rural Mississippi and have a 10 mbps cable connection that loads everything perfectly fine from emails and websites all the way up to 720p netflix steaming. The 25down/4up definition is only 2 years old, and going to 10down/1up as a modification will still be much better than the pre-2015 definition of only 4down/1up.
So much wrong and stupid with this statement I dont know where to begin..
1. Some of us might like 1080p or 4k video streams 2. Try streaming more than 1 video at a time, your 10 mbps will top out fast. And dont get me started on how horrible a slow upload of 1 mbps is to use. 3. So we should not try to excel, we should do the absolute bare minimum. Making america great again eh?
You think the fact that flying exposes people to more radiation than next to a nuclear reactor (or usually the comparison is chest x-ray) is actually news to nerds who populate this site?
These voice servants just have no real utility for me. Yes, it's exciting to use my voice to turn off my lights, but frankly my remote control I prefer. Guess I just don't understand the joy of asking them for the weather forecast, tell a joke, or read a recipe. I went through a list of top Alexa skills, not one was of any use that I could see...
But it's ANDY RUBIN he created Android! Sure, Android is a piece of shit with horrible security and the worst fragmentation of any operating system in history, but since Google somehow managed to force this unholy mishmash of Linux and Java down consumers throats he MUST know what he's doing!
You missed the big one, Retail. Retail is predicted to be the cause of the next recession when all their loans start coming due in 2018. Read this article from Bloomberg "America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning"
Slashdot Mirror
Does not seem legit.
Painfully obvious advertisement paid article/post. Come on Slashdot, at least TRY to make your ads less obvious.
I miss the good old days when Slashdot wasn't as obvious a sell out.
Weird, slashdot summary has no link to the actual Verge story....
https://www.theverge.com/circu...
How about the incredibly annoying "Friend suggestion" alert/notification that you can't turn off?
It's not a big deal, switch her Venmo transaction privacy setting to private and they wont display. Problem solved.
This is what we've come to, needing a law to force easy cancellation of a service. Sigh. It's disgraceful that companies have sunk so low in how they treat their customers.
Looking forward to the retraction in 2-5 years that shows it's not really true due to the usual cast of reasons in dietary studies.
These databases need to be deleted too. The privacy violates are incredible.
What do you do when an insurance company notices that someone in your family has a hereditary disease and decides to jack up your premiums? We need strong laws to protect DNA data and prevent that kind of abuse.
We already have a law, it's called Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008. The only catch, congress didnt put any protection for life insurance, disability insurance, and long-term care insurance.
https://www.genome.gov/1000232...
Strange the article doesn't mention about upgrade ability. I assume there is none like last time for WPA to WPA2.
Mozilla, please go back to creating software. Leave the privacy advocacy to the professionals.
Such a shame there are nefarious people who do these DDOS. What a huge waste of time and resources by their target entities to defeat the attacks.
You forgot to mention you want a 3.5mm headphone jack, which wont be a available by the time you upgrade.
How is telling you they're doing it and telling you how to turn it off 'silently enabling' it?
I got a clear message about this when I logged in
My message said i had to turn it on as it was off already...
That's actually an interesting idea to charge for carry on but not for checked luggage. I imagine the cost of checked luggage would be an issue in the long run.
Unfortunately people give permission to Facebook to "look for friends" by sharing their address book (Linked In does this as well). If you're in the address book, guess what? LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, etc now have a complete list of all your information thanks to your friends.
This is how you get the "magical" friend/contact suggestions in these services.
Can't wait! My trip back to beautiful Detroit with it's many tourist sites is back on!
Well there goes the big vacation I had planned for beautiful downtown Detroit..
If you use Amazon Smile (smile.amazon.com) EFF is one of the charities that can receive donations from your Amazon purchases.
the year of Chrome OS on the desktop is cumming in the near future.
Interesting typo... The word is "coming", "cumming" means something completely different.
Use iMessage or Google Hangouts for your discussion threads. Both work better than Facebook Messenger.
But honestly 10 megabits is perfectly fine. I live in rural Mississippi and have a 10 mbps cable connection that loads everything perfectly fine from emails and websites all the way up to 720p netflix steaming. The 25down/4up definition is only 2 years old, and going to 10down/1up as a modification will still be much better than the pre-2015 definition of only 4down/1up.
So much wrong and stupid with this statement I dont know where to begin..
1. Some of us might like 1080p or 4k video streams
2. Try streaming more than 1 video at a time, your 10 mbps will top out fast. And dont get me started on how horrible a slow upload of 1 mbps is to use.
3. So we should not try to excel, we should do the absolute bare minimum. Making america great again eh?
You think the fact that flying exposes people to more radiation than next to a nuclear reactor (or usually the comparison is chest x-ray) is actually news to nerds who populate this site?
Phew, talk about slow newsday or bored editors...
These voice servants just have no real utility for me. Yes, it's exciting to use my voice to turn off my lights, but frankly my remote control I prefer. Guess I just don't understand the joy of asking them for the weather forecast, tell a joke, or read a recipe. I went through a list of top Alexa skills, not one was of any use that I could see...
Yes, Google offers the exact same service.
But it's ANDY RUBIN he created Android! Sure, Android is a piece of shit with horrible security and the worst fragmentation of any operating system in history, but since Google somehow managed to force this unholy mishmash of Linux and Java down consumers throats he MUST know what he's doing!
lol, sad but basically true.
You missed the big one, Retail. Retail is predicted to be the cause of the next recession when all their loans start coming due in 2018. Read this article from Bloomberg "America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning"
https://www.bloomberg.com/grap...