Posts by Dan 55 15423 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
A monthly fee of 5 to 8 quid would mean they could offer a better service and it would promote real competition.
As someone who lives in a country where monthly fees are the norm, let me tell you that is categorically not the case. Nearly all banks charge the same monthly fee and they are all equally crap.
1) Why on Earth would it suck up your battery life, your location is uploaded when only when Apple Maps is running and used to improve only Apple Maps?
Quote from your own link:
“We specifically don’t collect data, even from point A to point B,” notes Cue. “We collect data — when we do it — in an anonymous fashion, in subsections of the whole, so we couldn’t even say that there is a person that went from point A to point B. We’re collecting the segments of it. As you can imagine, that’s always been a key part of doing this. Honestly, we don’t think it buys us anything [to collect more]. We’re not losing any features or capabilities by doing this.”
The segments that he is referring to are sliced out of any given person’s navigation session. [i.e. only when Apple Maps is running] Neither the beginning or the end of any trip is ever transmitted to Apple. Rotating identifiers, not personal information, are assigned to any data or requests sent to Apple and it augments the “ground truth” data provided by its own mapping vehicles with this “probe data” sent back from iPhones.
Because only random segments of any person’s drive is ever sent and that data is completely anonymized, there is never a way to tell if any trip was ever a single individual. The local system signs the IDs and only it knows to whom that ID refers. Apple is working very hard here to not know anything about its users. This kind of privacy can’t be added on at the end, it has to be woven in at the ground level.
2) Of course you are also aware that Google slurp your location all the time, not even just when Google Maps is running. The best you can get is going to your Google Account settings and clearing location history and then flipping the switches to not update your location history. That means you can't see your location history on the dashboard, but Google still know what it is. And what do Google do with all collected data? Yes, they monetise it via their ad network.
The sad thing is, you actually believe that, despite very little of it being true...
May I suggest you disconnect from the internet, you clearly have trouble separating news from fake news..
Ah, malware in apps on Play Store is now fake news? I can see you've taken the time to rebut the points raised that article.
That is really bad advice. Ditching the goggle play store (which requires you to disable your phones security settings) is the easiest way to get malware.
Any site suggesting you do this really should not be writing technical "news", they are frankly dangerous. If you get caught with malware due to their advice, I would guess you would have a pretty good legal case against them, just like you would any other commercial entity that suggested you disable your antivirus
According to the reply arrow you are replying to the AC above who posted the link to Wired. Wired explained how to install F-Droid, which is considerably more trustworthy than the Play Store. They allow open source software only and have humans vetting each app, recompiling the source from scratch. F-Droid is my first install on any new Android phone.
Same as when you use Play Store:
Researchers have found a batch of over 60 malware-carrying apps in Google's Play Store designed to rob mobile users or show them pornography, all with a kid-friendly theme.
The malware, dubbed AdultSwine by security shop Check Point, was found in apps like "Drawing Lessons Lego Star Wars", "Fidget spinner for Minecraft" and "Spinner Toy for Slither", along with a large number of Android games. The apps were downloaded between three and seven million times before the infection was caught.
Unless things have radically turned around in the last four months, your shilling is bullshit, AC.
Here's a highlight:
El Reg can vouch for this first-hand. One of our offices has an Android 7 Samsung Galaxy S8 handset that, despite being "up to date," can't fetch any security patches since August last year.
An Android 7 Samsung Galaxy S8 obviously being "a 3 year old £50 Chinese phone" from a non-"major manufacturer".
Now please go and try it on with an audience which doesn't know what a shitshow Android updating is because you're wasting your time here.
Levy's lining up his next business opportunity, but at least this lot can't say they weren't warned.
But £92m seems like a hell of a lot of money to find out how a positioning system works when you can just look it up on Wikipedia (maybe I should bid for the contract). You need some clocks and some rockets. There. Done.
How much does it cost to copy and paste the Galileo documentation?
One of which is, and let us not forget this, is for May to write a short letter saying "The UK withdraws our earlier letter regarding our intention to leave the EU under Article 50 of TEU"
Oh the embarrassment. We can't do that. Let's carry on and shit ourselves on the world stage instead.
That usually happens when all housing are concentrated in one place, exacerbating the problem. If you want to help people up the ladder, you don't put them on the lowest rung all in one place and expect them to climb up by magic, you have to spread the housing around the city. You also can't leave the kids to their own devices, otherwise if there's nothing to do they will form gangs.
Homeless shelters, affordable housing, help with giving up drugs, help with applying for jobs, help getting back on an even keel. Yeah, I know, it's communism.
Instead we have the finest brains available to humanity believing that hosing down the streets and dropping them off outside of town fixes the problem.
They think having shit stacking up and washed away looks better than opening homeless shelters.
Seriously, are property/rent prices so high in SF that adding up all the millions they're spending on hosing down shit wouldn't get them enough shelters? And presumably as it's the city they should have some buildings somewhere they can turn into shelters anyway.
If private (incognito) mode meant all cookies were rejected, it would break too many sites.
Private mode means a new cookie jar is set up for the private window when it is opened and destroyed when it is closed. This is enough to maintain session info when browsing privately. If you log into any site, it tracks you normally and what you did is not forgotten by the site when you close the private window.
Couple that with Chrome's auto-login to your Google account on Android and what you do on YouTube will be linked to your Google account, private window or otherwise.
Happy to be proven wrong on this last point (don't have Chrome installed, not interested in installing it) but I believe that's the way it works.
Well it couldn't easily evolve to support things like GPUs and lots of RAM (happily Symbian is very memory efficient) because the new CEO was busy burning the platform. The fact that Belle got released at all under that regime is testament to the developers Nokia had.
And speaking of releases, Google still can't roll out a release like Nokia did for Belle. They even managed it for operators which refused to sign off the new firmware by that time because Nokia's operator relationships had been trashed by updating everything above the part of the stack which required operator approval.
Tell the TSA agent that the PIN is classified, which it then would be and if he or she insists, have them arrested for espionage.
No, what happens is you tell the TSA agent that the pin is classified and he or she gets out the rubber gloves and asks you to step this way please. They will make enquires as to whether or not you do work for the DoD afterwards.
Really there should be one National Rail app which manages purchases and the wallet containing railcards and train tickets. National Rail defines physical tickets after all.
Unfortunately if it's anything like the National Rail Enquiries app then it won't be that good an experience...
It depends on the train company. Some will let you show PDF tickets on your phone or store them in your Apple Wallet. Others want you to print out PDFs or collect them at the station.
Now what happens when you buy a ticket online from a company which offers all the bells and whistles and part of your trip requires changing to a train run by a company which only offers printouts or collected tickets is anyone's guess.
As for the web activity and apps thing; I have looked everywhere on my phone and can't find it (android 7). Google can be useful but it is not your friend.
Settings > Google > Google Account > Data & personalisation tab > Activity Controls box > Web & App Activity setting.
Although you should disable everything once you get to Google Account.
All it needs to do is catalogue apps and offer installer packages for download which is not that complicated, but Windows 8's app store uses separate infrastructure from Windows 10's app store.
Microsoft once again sticking a lick of paint on everything so you think it's unified but every once in a while something like this happens so you know it isn't.
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