Re: Fraud or fraud and hypocrisy.
Yep. I think the investors will get first pick of the companies assets and anyone who bought VW will end up out of luck on recovering any costs in this.
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I assume it’s much cheaper per user for them on 5g than what ever it is now (is it 3G+ or proper 4G we have now?)
I would think too that they could raise the price to the consumer for "faster service". First step in anything corporate is the impact on the bottom line and how to make it bigger.
e) China is attempting to force U.S. businesses OUT of business so that it won't have any competition,
Many niche manufacturers are getting hurt and going out of business particularly in the hobby field. China looks the other way on piracy of products. The big guys shake it off, the little ones go under. Once the little ones go under, there's no competition or innovation level outside of China. Sadly, the US government won't pay attention until the big corporations get hurt and start collapsing or get sucked up by the Chinese and their campaign contributions start dropping (both parties BTW not just your target of choice). The rot and problem starts at the bottom, never at the top.
In theory, it's exactly what you want - sustainable businesses generating steady income.
True, but the stock market insists on rising share prices for a "return on their investment ". Look at the number of companies that have sucked up and destroyed by the vultures (Icahn for one) and many were just cruising along with steady income, minimal growth as the market was pretty saturated.
That's ok unless your battery goes flat or you have it disconnected to work on something and lose all of your data when you don't want to.
That would work for me as I wouldn't want, nor keep sensitive data on the car. Unless it's some important to the overall maintenance and drivability, I don't want it kept.
In other words, fault detection, mileage, EFI, data etc. should be kept. Everything else not so much.
We're starting to see the groundwork being laid for this. Some manufacturers are starting to build cars with "fly by wire" tech in them. The prediction is that as the market gets used to these and new enhancements are made in the near future, autonomous cars, electric powered, will be brought out.
How many times have we hear law enforcement AFTER THE FACT say things to the effect: "They were on our watch list but this got past us."? Quite often from reading the news. If they want more data than they need to be more vigilant. So far, I don't think we're seeing it.
I'm anonymous for this info, but I do post under my normal handle here as well.
You believe that you're really anonymous? Is there some document somewhere that explains how your post can't be tracked? I'm just curious as there's always ways to find "anonymous" in any system.
We should wonder or ask (not sure who to ask) is this also for government officials? In US, would Congress types have their messages/chats watched? Would this allow controlling how a CongressCritter votes come budget or "powers" time? Once the system is broken for the bad guys and the little people, can the government itself be far behind?
The corporates involved are obviously doing the "dog and pony show" bit before Congress. They know that if they drag their feet long enough, Congress will either find something else about that's "important" or the make up (political party numbers) will change and then the firms won't have to do a thing.
The next revision of the firmware makes it almost impossible to disable the thermal protection.
The catch is that this only helps if the firmware is upgraded by user. Most users haven't clue on how to update this stuff (or any hardware except for the Windows Updates that have been set to "auto").
So given all the uproar over Office (again), I guess I shouldn't upgrade from Office 2010? Not used much unless someone insists on getting a Word document.
Then again, I always preferred Word Perfect but that horse is pretty much dead and MS Works still handles a lot of my needs but not all. I'm sure that at some point, I'll get sucked into a massive upgrade to the latest and greatest (tongue in cheek) Office to be "compatible". The days of :buy it, own it, and it just works" are long over.
There's a mental lock-in with many consumers and most businesses. Same lock in that IBM had on a lot of people at one time. When stock price becomes more important the buyers and users, MS will be taking the same fall. There's such a thing as too much hubris and MS proved it with the Win10 update.
Looking at the amounts of money taken, this seems (on the surface) of some government sanctioned group and not a bunch of random crims. Logically, if I were to hit one of the targets they've hit for the amounts they've managed to take, I'd be retired in some no-extradition locale really fast. There's obviously more to this then we're being told. Maybe the guy they collared for this is just red herring?
However, it has to be said that at least some of the victims here are no stranger to publicly distributing photos and/or videos of themselves without their vest on.
I think the difference is that for the vids and photos distributed publically, they get paid. The others they didn't.
The reality is, they've gone too far down the rabbit hole to back out. Backing off now means they've lost. These agencies live and die by the "budget" and if they're collecting our data, you can be damn sure they're collecting all the data they can on those in power and using it to keep their budgets and powers.
Politics is a very dirty business and one should always wash one's hands afterwards.
Don't push for (and get) powers requiring ISPs to record my internet browsing behaviour, and *definitely* don't try and shrug it off with "it's just metadata, harmless, honest guv".
This point is moot as Google, FB, etc. do this already. Even the ISP's have logs on you.
the entities to have most benefit from strong encryption are organised crime, corrupt governments and money-launderers who can transfer assets untraceably.
There in is the problem. Those groups want the control and access to yours and everyone else's data. So do we protect the general population, or expose them to the groups you mentioned? This sword they want will cut both ways.