Heh. Do you think for a second that a company of that scale operating in China doesn't have an ownership roster that reads like a who's who of the communist party in China (and close family relatives). Don't kid yourself.
I don't believe that denial for a millisecond. Coming from the government that was able to get a screen shot of what anyone in a public internet cafe was doing in real time 10 years ago....
If the extension is surreptitiously stealing your cpu cycles and electricity to perform an activity that the authors did not explicitly ask permission, I would say that meets the definition of theft. File a criminal complaint and let the authorities chase them around.
Not everyone uses it to watch pirated content. I use it as a "jukebox" to play my (legally purchased) collection of FLAC audio files from about 2500 CD's I purchased over the years and piped through my home theater audio system. Tucked all on a cheap Intel NUC with all the content stored on an internal M.2 SSD. It works great!
The whole premise was that hotels wanted help to move their excess inventory of rooms. Now that there's an ecosystem around collecting and marketing that inventory, the hotels have decided they want to claw back more control (and profit) from the process. I'm not sure I see the issue here. Why not just stop selling rooms at a discount to these 3rd parties and become better at selling the capacity themselves?
It will be interesting to see how the usual group of Musk trolls reconciles their desire to paint Tesla as a flop while grappling with data like this. They are selling product fast enough that they are causing battery supply disruptions.
I've seen various estimates showing that Japan could have nukes in short order if they desired. They have all of the relevant tech, the expertise, the money, and the raw materials. Certainly not advocated for them to build them, but it would likely be a relatively trivial exercise for them to develop nuclear arms.
So are you advocating a "wait and see" attitude? Maybe we should continue to hope China can be a "positive influence" on them? That didn't work out so well for Neville Chamberlain who hoped to use the Italians and the French to temper Hitler's ambitions.
It's only a matter of time before this blows up in the faces of the civilized world. Better to deal with it sooner than wait until NK is bristling with nuclear armed ballistic missiles. They have proven time and again to be untrustworthy.
1. get better (and ultimately total) visibility into private communications of its citizens AND 2. pave the way for a local competitor to take that market share and enable the flow of graft to government patrons
They're back with a vengeance until a Chinese government official (or group of them) invests in a competitor...at which point google will get run out of town again. Someone's gotta keep all that bitcoin flowing out of the country so it can get converted to proper currency and deposited in banks outside of China....
They pre-sold 325k Model 3's within a week of opening up the reservation system. The incumbents in the industry and the oil/gas industry WANT Tesla to fail.
The marketplace seems to WANT to buy their product. Let the market decide.
if a user asks for it. A usb-c to headphone dongle came with my Essential PH-1. It's been a month, and I still haven't used it (the dongle).
Perhaps they've done some market studies and determined that there are a lot more folks out there that don't care than who would switch brands/phones due to the slight inconvenience of having a dongle.
I haven't used wired headphones/pods with any of my phones in years.
I try not to get too political. However, I can't help but notice how it's now "your civic duty" to "resist" and generally disparage the government. Prior to January 20, 2017, that meant you were a racist deplorable scumbag. Journalists were being tossed in the pokey, phones were being tapped to find "leakers", etc. Apparently, now that's all just police state tactics.
Actually, it has a lot more to do with government officials being enriched by local companies who want to compete with whatsapp. Pay off enough cronies and their service gets blocked. They've had the tech to block it for a while. This has happened time and again to popular non-Chinese internet services and applications. Why ascribe to "luddite" behavior what can more easily explained by plain old greed and corruption.
Yet ANOTHER ham fisted reaction to what ought to be a pretty straight forward mea culpa, fix of issues, etc. Their leadership is simply not trustworthy and that's paramount in this particular business.
Agreed. If it can be proven that imports are subsidized or enjoy some sort of unfair advantage, great....impose a duty. If it's just a matter of local companies not being willing to compete and using government as a cudgel to pad profits...well....fuck 'em....compete or die.
It is breathtaking how the advertising cabal has literally taken control over the Internet. I think this is one of those creepy influences. I doubt the government would be any less creepy or any more transparent though.
I don't install ANY extensions other than an ad blocker. That probably still exposes me to potentially creepy Google behavior hidden inside chrome, but I don't see much of an alternative.
The "trick" was to feed the VZN sales critter an IMEI number from an already supported phone that had a nanoSIM in it. I've been using ATT and VZN interchangeably since I got it.
It will be interesting to see what measures are taken to limit risk of tampering with the devices to gain access to the platform and/or to simply peg cpu utilization for more heat output.
Actually, if you agree to their free credit monitoring, you get it for a year...and then you're on the hook to pay for it if you don't cancel. One would almost think this was engineered to boost subscriptions to their credit monitoring service....nah....
It would be interesting to see how Google would take HTC forward if this turns out to be true. The problem these days is that "journalists" do very little actual fact checking. A rumor winds up as a story on some sleepy site where it's then picked up by more mainstream media outlets who also don't bother fact checking it.
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Heh. Do you think for a second that a company of that scale operating in China doesn't have an ownership roster that reads like a who's who of the communist party in China (and close family relatives). Don't kid yourself.
I don't believe that denial for a millisecond. Coming from the government that was able to get a screen shot of what anyone in a public internet cafe was doing in real time 10 years ago....
If the extension is surreptitiously stealing your cpu cycles and electricity to perform an activity that the authors did not explicitly ask permission, I would say that meets the definition of theft. File a criminal complaint and let the authorities chase them around.
Not everyone uses it to watch pirated content. I use it as a "jukebox" to play my (legally purchased) collection of FLAC audio files from about 2500 CD's I purchased over the years and piped through my home theater audio system. Tucked all on a cheap Intel NUC with all the content stored on an internal M.2 SSD. It works great!
The whole premise was that hotels wanted help to move their excess inventory of rooms. Now that there's an ecosystem around collecting and marketing that inventory, the hotels have decided they want to claw back more control (and profit) from the process. I'm not sure I see the issue here. Why not just stop selling rooms at a discount to these 3rd parties and become better at selling the capacity themselves?
shrug
It will be interesting to see how the usual group of Musk trolls reconciles their desire to paint Tesla as a flop while grappling with data like this. They are selling product fast enough that they are causing battery supply disruptions.
I've seen various estimates showing that Japan could have nukes in short order if they desired. They have all of the relevant tech, the expertise, the money, and the raw materials. Certainly not advocated for them to build them, but it would likely be a relatively trivial exercise for them to develop nuclear arms.
So are you advocating a "wait and see" attitude? Maybe we should continue to hope China can be a "positive influence" on them? That didn't work out so well for Neville Chamberlain who hoped to use the Italians and the French to temper Hitler's ambitions.
It's only a matter of time before this blows up in the faces of the civilized world. Better to deal with it sooner than wait until NK is bristling with nuclear armed ballistic missiles. They have proven time and again to be untrustworthy.
...the more they stay the same.
Another knee-jerk PRC effort to both:
1. get better (and ultimately total) visibility into private communications of its citizens AND
2. pave the way for a local competitor to take that market share and enable the flow of graft to government patrons
Sad, but not surprising.
They're back with a vengeance until a Chinese government official (or group of them) invests in a competitor...at which point google will get run out of town again. Someone's gotta keep all that bitcoin flowing out of the country so it can get converted to proper currency and deposited in banks outside of China....
Indeed. I think this is going to turn out to be a merit-less lawsuit once all the facts are heard. We'll see.
They pre-sold 325k Model 3's within a week of opening up the reservation system. The incumbents in the industry and the oil/gas industry WANT Tesla to fail.
The marketplace seems to WANT to buy their product. Let the market decide.
Cardiologists are probably lining up on the dark web to get their hands on that future customer list....
if a user asks for it. A usb-c to headphone dongle came with my Essential PH-1. It's been a month, and I still haven't used it (the dongle).
Perhaps they've done some market studies and determined that there are a lot more folks out there that don't care than who would switch brands/phones due to the slight inconvenience of having a dongle.
I haven't used wired headphones/pods with any of my phones in years.
I try not to get too political. However, I can't help but notice how it's now "your civic duty" to "resist" and generally disparage the government. Prior to January 20, 2017, that meant you were a racist deplorable scumbag. Journalists were being tossed in the pokey, phones were being tapped to find "leakers", etc. Apparently, now that's all just police state tactics.
Actually, it has a lot more to do with government officials being enriched by local companies who want to compete with whatsapp. Pay off enough cronies and their service gets blocked. They've had the tech to block it for a while. This has happened time and again to popular non-Chinese internet services and applications. Why ascribe to "luddite" behavior what can more easily explained by plain old greed and corruption.
Yikes. You're right. My bad.
Yet ANOTHER ham fisted reaction to what ought to be a pretty straight forward mea culpa, fix of issues, etc. Their leadership is simply not trustworthy and that's paramount in this particular business.
Agreed. If it can be proven that imports are subsidized or enjoy some sort of unfair advantage, great....impose a duty. If it's just a matter of local companies not being willing to compete and using government as a cudgel to pad profits...well....fuck 'em....compete or die.
It is breathtaking how the advertising cabal has literally taken control over the Internet. I think this is one of those creepy influences. I doubt the government would be any less creepy or any more transparent though.
I don't install ANY extensions other than an ad blocker. That probably still exposes me to potentially creepy Google behavior hidden inside chrome, but I don't see much of an alternative.
The "trick" was to feed the VZN sales critter an IMEI number from an already supported phone that had a nanoSIM in it. I've been using ATT and VZN interchangeably since I got it.
It will be interesting to see what measures are taken to limit risk of tampering with the devices to gain access to the platform and/or to simply peg cpu utilization for more heat output.
Always blames his tools.
Actually, if you agree to their free credit monitoring, you get it for a year...and then you're on the hook to pay for it if you don't cancel. One would almost think this was engineered to boost subscriptions to their credit monitoring service....nah....
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/0...
And it's not like you have the option to tell creditors to NOT share your data with these asshats.
Pay cash for everything and leave these jackals twisting in the wind.
It would be interesting to see how Google would take HTC forward if this turns out to be true. The problem these days is that "journalists" do very little actual fact checking. A rumor winds up as a story on some sleepy site where it's then picked up by more mainstream media outlets who also don't bother fact checking it.