Re: How about a set of permissions that can allow for security?
Would that do any good for the average user? Or would they just click through the default "we're taking everything" prompts?
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“My phone has been ringing off the hook,” he says. “People are telling me they are strangely attracted to the job because other jobs don't sound real.”
I daresay that's the proof. It does sound more real than almost every job ad I've ever seen. No buzzwords like "fast-paced environment", "growth and goal oriented".. etc. No unicorns work there obviously.
If that's the case then he's miles ahead of the clueless yo-yo's in our (US government.
Icon.... may have a good one for at least having an interest in what he's governing. The clowns down here only have interest because of lobbyists or agencies tell them what to be interested in and what to say.
I find the links about funding, connections to companies and politicians and what the Digital Citizens Alliance has accomplished and is attempting to accomplish "interesting" to say the least. I'll leave it the reader to do some research on their own due to the nature of things legal. There seems to be a lot allegations so.. judge for yourself.
Then again, there is the Google/White House connection.
Having looked at that, I'm not surprised the cable companies are upset. They stand to lose a lot of money (profit) if consumers can buy their own cable box. In some ways, it would be like if a Telco couldn't sell you a phone and bill you plus interest over a couple of years. Locally, the different telcos sell the same phone at different prices. But you can bet your bottom dollar they don't lose any profit on the deal.
If this goes through, we, as consumers and buyers, are up the proverbial creek without the proverbial oar as any company that wants to bleed us dry for their profit will just go to the appropriate agency in government and get a "ruling"... in their favor.
It's the equivalent of assisting a user to move folders on a server or helping them clean out their desk. Don't look in the folders or the bottom drawer of the desk. Never.
Now if the legal department, security, HR, etc. produce a signed document telling you to look, that's a different story.
How they live their lives.... that's important I guess since obviously the parents never taught the youngsters common courtesy and respect for other's rights. I'm also believing that they're texting such important stuff as "Hey.. I'm here at the movies." or "the popcorn is stale".
It's been a long time since I've been to a movie theater because actually watching a movie in a building full of out of control kids was impossible. With this mentality on the part of the theater chains, it'll be an even longer time before I return. Now, Mr. Aron, get a clue on why your receipts are down.
Having seen how Congress works for all my life, I daresay that this will pass as is by a wide margin. No clues in Congress, drafted by two wonderful upstanding members.. and it'll feel good in an election year for the CongressCritters to say: "We're thinking of the children and protecting them from terrorists."
Nah... no sniping from here. I'm just curious what DARPA-like tech can FB be thinking about? Robots to come to your house and set up an account if you don't have one? A drone* flying overhead to ensure you get the best possible FB experience by maybe hijacking your Wifi and only allowing you to log into FB?
*I know they have a drone in the works...
The jihadis use whatever tools they can is the simple answer. There's no cell phones/smart phones made in any of the jihadi countries. Just like weapons... they have either buy, steal, or capture them. I've noticed the same thing you did but in the weapons and tech arena. They're against it, but they use it.
It does, however, put another question mark over how honest the FBI has been and continues to be in this case.
It does, however, put another question mark over how honest the FBI has been and continues to be in this case as well as any other case of this nature involving encryption.
FTFY
Indeed this needs to be done. Yet, I'm wondering at the motives. For company disparagingly called "Slurp" around here, what do they get out of it? Some customer goodwill? So mis-direction at anger towards government (not that government doesn't deserve it)? So why not Google or FB? They're known data slurpers also that are on the list for commenter's anger over slurpage.
I'm not a fanboi by any stretch, but the only company lately that I can think of that doesn't sell you out to advertisers or anyone else for money is Apple.
Downvote away, but companies are charities so what is MS gaining from this?
$2500 is peanuts to most corporates and even to most lawyers. Now a class action suit will be big money to a law firm and also to the sued corporate. But still peanuts to the aggrieved customers.
Where do governments come up with these low-ball fines and limits? Other than the lobbyists getting to them, of course?
You're missing the monetization that will be forthcoming either in fees or ads or both. Also all the tracking under the guise of telemetry. How about pushing a product out to every home user that unfinished? Driver fails, for example.
Disclaimer.. I've fiddled with it, and for what I use a computer for, it's unfit for purpose due to driver issues and program compatibility issues.
Well, after pushing the latest and greatest Office and now pushing Win10 on users, yeah.. there's a demand but it's a forced demand. Most users are clueless and follow the instructions to open an MS account and "activate cloud storage". I'm now getting bugged by some friend/relatives about how to get their stuff back on their computer instead of out there on that vague "cloud".
And then there's the pitch about the "cloud". Early on it was multiple locations across providers such that if one went down, you could access your data. Meh... we've all seen how that works out. The MS cloud breaks or the Google cloud breaks and you're up a creek until it's fixed. <$Deity> help you if one decides to close down that service and you have suddenly migrate all your data, etc. somewhere else.
The company I worked for when I retired did it right, IMO. They had 2 data centers that basically mirrored each other. If one went down, the other took up the load. And it was costing them less than MS, Google, or Amazon would have charged.
Ah.. the list of impossible things that some CongressCritters think can be done.... This is right up there at the top. What's next.. ordering an FTL drive? Ordering NASA to find "heaven"?
Good on Wyden and I hope enough in Congress listen to him as seems to be one of the few who have a grasp of the problem. As for the two bozos.... a pox on them. Better yet, may all their files and emails along with anyone who voted for them be exposed because... ya' know, weak encryption.
I swear it's a race to the bottom between the US and just about everyone else. I'm wondering if May will try to top this or maybe France?
That would have been a great idea except for that's not the way corporates work.
Back then it would have been a cost-center which means cutting manglement bonuses and not returning shareholder value. (I have no idea if BT is publically traded and I'm too arsed to find out but this is general corporate talk.)
Now that customers are screaming and willing to pay, it will be a profit-center so they go trolling for the lowest cost employees to fill that desk.
It's about revenue. Full Stop. One of Facebook's draws was games. Logic says, this isn't about "immersive messaging"(1) This is about maybe a 3D type of Candy Crush or Farmville..... or....???
(1) Now if the rodent site or Pornhub could buy into VR the market might... err... ahem.... explode. Except in North Carolina, of course.
They do checkpoints for alcohol usage. Will they do checkpoints for phone usage? How do you correlate that someone used a phone and didn't pull over to use it? If it's accident, then get the warrant, examine the phone, the car's black box, etc.
One is supposed to be presumed innocent UNTIL proven guilty in court of law, right? Well, unless the Constitution was amended in the last couple of weeks, this still applies.