Chaebixi

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by Chaebixi 9y ago
That's retail and the pricing seems highly inflated. Does anyone actually buy these services at that price point? Credit real time monitoring should be an entitlement for those whose data is being collected.
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> From my reading of ToS it also apparently waives your right to be a part of a class action lawsuit against Equifax... IIRC, there wasn't even a clickthrough and they framed it as "find out if you're affected." How
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> I'm not excited about this class action; If they win, the individual payout will be almost nothing ($10?). The lawyers are the only ones who will really "make out" with 10's of millions in fees. Equifax needs to fee
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
I've heard that those credit monitoring plans are a joke, and provide very little value besides the simulation of "doing something."
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> I said it elsewhere, but I think the right response is to opt out of the class, and sue for $1000 in small claims court. If ~15% of the class does this, they are out of business, and lawyers don't get a dime of the $1000. IANAL, b
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
I've been wondering for awhile: what would it take to implement a revocable identifier to replace SSNs? I've given up hope that companies can secure their data, but people have no options to take back control when their data is i
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Or people rejoining elderly relatives or other dependents...
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If you have NoScript and Firefox, you have to enable JS on the domain for the stylesheet to render the documents.
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I don't think that's entirely accurate. It's not like the assets decayed due to lack of maintenance; they're more or less the same as they always were. It's just that they were never built to handle security requi
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Those things are not at all alike. Bartending means accidental social interaction; using an online dating site is deliberate. If you're in a relationship and using an online dating site, the relationship is probably already deeply on
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> What I find strange and what keeps getting repeated in this thread is that if you don't agree on certain points of currently popular liberal trends, you are automatically being called "conservative" or even worse (bigot,
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> but the politically active folks terrified me I hear this. It's frightening how some people can rationalize taking extremely punitive actions in response to encountering mere disagreement or differing identity. Everyone needs to
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How might one make sure their accounts get classified those that fall under the scope of the GDPR regulation? Would it be sufficient to set your location to an EU country?
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Yes. You still have to pay attention, but there's not as much pressure and fewer startling surprises.
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> Alphabet's is "Do the Right Thing" For the shareholders, of course. Does anyone else even matter?
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> What they don't do is take over steering. A last-second takeover of steering would make things worse some of the time. I have a Honda. While its lane-keeping system won't steer during a crash, it definitely does steer to kee
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>> even before US embargo'd Intel from china > You can see how well this embargo works in every electronics mall IIRC, the embargo was only against very specific processors used in a specific supercomputer design.
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I read it, and it seemed more about the concept and practice of the rule of law, but viewed through the lens of a current political proposal.
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> That being said, the constitution has established an independent judiciary which has little limit to what matters it can opine. I don't think that's actually true. IANAL, but IIRC the jurisdiction of the federal judiciary is
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I think the way they justify it is that the waiver is "voluntary," e.g. you have to agree to it in a contract. I personally wouldn't have a problem with that if the contract terms were negotiated by two sophisticated parties
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Wasn't Roberts one of the attorneys involved in formulating the current binding arbitration strategy that's being used to suppress consumer lawsuits? I think I read that in the giant investigative piece about arbitration in the NY
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So they created a giant side-channel by putting their entropy-source next to a public window?
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IIRC, Voyager's camera is on a movable arm. The probe itself has never "turned" and always has its antenna dish pointed at Earth. New Horizons had a different design and works more like you describe; where the whole probe ha
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> Google should be protected from government interference in their right to exercise free speech just like every other individual and company in the US. If Google wants those rights, it could surrender its monopoly (through a voluntary b
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Those are both fantastic! That's the exact kind of thing we need more of in response to this: love and kindness can literally extinguish the hate in people. Unfortunately, that takes way more courage and strength than it does to engag
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> they are just not allowed to use Google or Facebook to display their message. I think the concern is, what if Google and Facebook can be thought of as essentially being the internet. It's certainly true that the internet has go
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> and they exist as a class of people defined by biological markers No, that's totally wrong. Religion is a protected class in many cases. http://www.hr-guide.com/data/G714.htm
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> I didn't say anything about freedom of speech. > right to promote You just did. Promotion is speech.
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> California being one of the states which does not allow discrimination on...political affiliation. Cite please, I genuinely curious.
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> When they're old they might become the new racist uncle Honestly, that's what's got me concerned. Political mores are changing so fast and so constantly, and people are being so black-and-white about them, that it seems

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