Posts by anoco

"nearly all of which is the type widely available in marketing databases or directories."

"Your personal info is already out there, everywhere, anyway. Thanks to companies like T-Mobile US, of course."

And that's not only because of their lax security, but also because of their lax privacy ethics.

A little while ago while trying to cut my TV cable, the cable lady tried to peddle me their brand new phone service. I engaged her a little just to make sure that the connection stayed on until she finished her side of the deal, and I told her that I had tmobile and wasn't interested on the cable co cell service. That's when she slipped on an argument and mentioned the exact number of years I had been with tmobile. I stopped and asked her how she knew that, since I wasn't even sure how many years I had been with them, and for sure didn't inform her that. The selling push died right after that and I got my TV service disconnected.

Now, how did they know? So either the largest cable company in the us bought one of the previous tmobile exploits from some dark figure or... tmobile sold them my information! Probably before they realized that the tv cable company was coming after tmobile's customers.

So effu tmobile for all your shitty security. The last class action lawsuit is not even completely baked yet, and you're already mixing the ingredients for the next one. I think the punitive damages should go up exponentially this time, because clearly you didn't care enough the last time around.

Shot their own paws

Mozilla has a point that lack of choice is bad for everybody, but they're also guilty of that sin by removing all sorts of choices that users had and making a bland browser that acts like Chrome. So why would a new user switch to Firefox for no perceived gain?

Mozilla lost their identity many years ago when they decided that they knew better what was good for the users than the users themselves. Remember the "Take Back the Web" (https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2004/02/mozilla-foundation-rallies-supporters-to-take-back-the-web/) campaign? Well, Mozilla needs to start a "Give Back the Browser" campaign now, because the current one is an utter POS compared to what it used to be.

Part of the reason Firefox is now in the endangered list is because Mozilla has been systematically eroding their only strength, freedom. The other part is what the complaint is about. Monopolies.

You must have Java Script enabled to sign in.

Hmmm... maybe ebay is being fooled here. This marketing company is probably telling them one thing and doing another.

Like telling ebay that their Java back end needs scripts to run so their visitors need a Java Script as well.

We should be able to curtail our javascript capabilities at our own choice. Like yes for layout rendering, but no for a list of all installed fonts. Have a list of what you allow javascript to do and what not.

Why are we still talking about Mozilla?

This company lost its bearings long time ago. Used to be that the user was the master. Give them all the options so that each user can customize their browser whichever way they want. "Take back the internet" was their slogan, because MS was taking the control away from you.

Then, (in my paranoid opinion after a MS mole infiltrated the organization, just like in Nokia's case) they did a 180 and decided that they will go after the user that doesn't know better. Well that market already has a trillion-pound gorilla and a trillion-pound elephant catering to them.

Now what? After pissing their loyal base off, have they reversed their market share loss? Have they at least stopped sinking? Neither, and in my cynical mind they are just waiting for a Nokia style bailout...

don’t trust any company with more personal information than they need to have

Even that is too much!

Two hand hold

Either they picked a rather small girl or this phone is huge. She needs both hands to hold it most of the time.

Sin # 8 - The Nag

There are more ways to sell on the internet than through shopping carts, and because of that their bot missed this one. The Nag, when they keep asking you the same question a zillion times and the are no options to "never ask again". It requires eternal refusal and only one moment of weakness or distraction to erase all your efforts.

Google turns out to be the top offender with YouTube, Amazon with Prime probably comes a close second. But most companies out there figured out that males that have been married for more than 3 years are very susceptible to The Nag technique.

Proof that Huawei is spying on people!!

Why haven't the eagle eyes at the Reg picked up on this?

"Huawei Mediapad M5 found to be snooping on engineer in Taiwan from China"

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3697098

There you have it, they're all spying on you China, Huawei, Google, Amazon, Facebook, US. I wouldn't be surprised if the Reg isn't in on this too because they're just too quiet about all this spying...

You always made me think...

...once I finished the first paragraph, "Wait, is this another Orlowsky piece?"

Then I continued thinking, "What is wrong with this guy?", "Did the forceps pinch an important part of his brain?", "Is he a Russian troll?", "How can he be so smart and so dumb at the same time?", "Is the Reg keeping him here to say they're diverse?", "What is wrong with this guy?", "Doesn't he know that he acts like click bait in this site?", "He writes so well, why is he writing to the wrong audience?", "Does he enjoy pissing people off?", "Wow, I agreed with him once!!!", "What's wrong with this guy?".

Well, I enjoyed your articles as much as walking on a rocky road with no shoes. I can't say I'll miss your opinion, but I wish you good luck with your life transition. Maybe now is the time to take some Lysergics, and hope to re-wire that part damaged by the forceps. Or take the red pill and start writing for the good side.

"Discovered" Obsolence

It took a while but they finally figured out a way to force people to buy newer phones and tablets. This webview update,

(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.webview)

that the article should have named "Android System Webview" instead to stop people from installing someone else's webview app, is not really compatible with older Android versions. My 4.4 tablet for example, is not compatible. I still need to look at my other older devices, but I have this nagging feeling that the result will be the same.

Since the manufacturers will never update anything older than one year, and Google's updates are not compatible with older OSes, we're just sitting ducks ala W98 and W2k.

So if you're happy with your hardware, the only solution for this problem is to stop entering any passwords on your browsers. I'm sure there are other browsers using webview as well.

But how about other apps? Are non-browser apps be using webview as well?

Smoke and Mirrors

The security thing was the smoke, the Iran deal is the mirrors. The real story is behind Huwaei lead in CPU technology and 5G. The rest of the world is just trying to slow them down so they can catch up. It's always about money.

Another hurried up update

Got another update today. I wonder if some of the updates are fixing older updates. Because it's hard to believe that there's any line of code left to secure.

ADD world

I understand this design, everybody is doing it theses days. They're all going for something that even Trump can understand. But there's still too many wor...

AT&T Antares

How about a snooping attempt? All your new cell phones are belong to us?

If you still use FF, this won't stop you.

After all they have done to alienate their Original Base (OB ©), they know that if you haven't left by now, you'll never leave.

They have methodically transformed FF from being the king of customization to the 'my way or the highway' browser.

So if you're upset that they're going to be spamming you. Be upset with yourself for being too lazy to walk away when they were slowly shoving that furry tail plug up there. Now it's all the way in...

Now I get it why I keep seeing the location app turning itself on and back off every once in a while.

I think it's time to start marketing that tin foil phone case. So here it is my first draft;

"Keep your boss, your wife and Google at bay with the new Tin Phoil! No need to keep turning the phone off in order to have privacy. No more phone calls without an appointment. And no more worries about who is paying for the radiation studies. Tin Phoil will keep you safe and silent."

Off course Apple is going to sue me saying they had this idea before by just having their sheeple hold their phone wrong.

Catch?

"The Premium Plus Customer resides, during the six (6) month period following the awarding of the Path diploma by the jury (the "Job Seeking Period"), in their country of residence and undertakes to relocate to accept a Job located anywhere within their country of residence (including any states or regions where applicable)"

The US is quite a big and diverse country. I don't know if someone that lives in San Francisco, California would be willing to move to Montgomery, Alabama for an entry level position.

This may be good for small town folks ready to move out, but definitely not for everyone.

What if the bot was hacked

and the company is hiding it?

Too big to care

Microsoft along several other big corporations finally realized that there are enough sheep all over the world for them not to worry about making anyone happy.

Now that the tables have turned, it's up to the sheep to make Microsoft happy. I'm sure there's someone in Redmond thinking of charging the sheep a larger service fee if they don't use their windows 10 that much.

Some sort of reverse usage charge. The less they use, the more it costs. They will be forced to please the MS gods...

And it's all Steve Jobs fault!

In other news

Russia's own porn website Pornussia is now featuring a new category called Vlad's Porn. Where guys in white ribbed tank tops have sex with their unwilling wives. A leak revealed that this category was a special request form another country's dictator...

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Opportunity

Good time for some smart kid to write a FF extension that gives random info back to the servers.

All your thoughts are belong to us.

Love when I agree with Andrew. Very articulate and smart guy.

About this line "There are open source alternatives you can host for yourself, but setting this up is beyond the skillset of the average user."

How about giving us the names you had in mind?

Before Apple ruined the world...

... I had some nice and complicated Symbian phones and a single frustrating Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC.

As difficult as they were, they were used to help productivity however possible. Then came Apple dumbing the smart phone down for the masses which in turn fostered Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.

So thanks to Steve Jobs we now have "social media". That stigma is probably what killed him...

MAJAGA

Isn't Japan Great? Let's Make Japan Great Again!!

Nishiyama for Prime Minister!! Nishiyama 2018!!

Time to change the caption

The top photo caption should be updated to "100 per cent of the 650,000 messages not relevant".