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by balozi 5y ago
Offensive Leak Strategy: Leak something, leak often. After awhile few will care about what you are hiding.
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by balozi 5y ago
A very curious collection of plaintiffs. Is this another partisan issue? Does this abuse not harm Californians or New Yorkers? For that matter, why wouldn't the Federal gov not lead this?
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by balozi 5y ago
In practice, what is happening here is that people in certain governments are trying to corner the intelligence/surveillance market. To get the capabilities you'll have to go through them, or at least their anointed vendors. So, j
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by balozi 5y ago
This is bound to happen when you do away with UI controls labels.
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by balozi 5y ago
Why not just simply decline the EULA?
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by balozi 5y ago
The EULA is still an agreement. Potential end users have an opportunity to not accept the agreement and walk away. I think this ruling is populist pandering that ends with reduced incentive for commercial software. Undermining property rig
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by balozi 5y ago
The dig at capitalism is a bit puzzling since this may be the perfect setting to demonstrate the principles of capitalism. Let them deploy their capital and see how market responds. Their theory is that "sending an e-mail should cost s
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by balozi 5y ago
YouTube's business model is based on the free speech rights that have been secured by flesh-and-blood citizens for 245 years. The same benefits they don't see fit to extend to those citizens. They are like a beverage bottling comp
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by balozi 5y ago
Congratulations to Medialab for their newly-acquired gigantic pile of porno content. Sir, please invite us over when you get settled in. XOXO
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by balozi 5y ago
This is a serious issue but it still reminds me of Ricky Gervais' masterpiece of a joke about Apple's TV drama about the importance of dignity and doing the right thing.
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by balozi 5y ago
Taxing the rich and the rich paying taxes are two entirely separate concepts. It's easy for anyone to support taxes that they will not pay.
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by balozi 5y ago
Totally different. That slippery slop is just a fallacy.
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by balozi 5y ago
I bet none of Facebook's fans saw it coming; that one one day their social media posts would be part of an official "threat profile"
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by balozi 5y ago
During the height of Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 many grocery stores banned reusable bags from their stores. It was amusing to see how swiftly and silently they pivoted from "bring your sustainable reusable bags" to "get your f
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by balozi 5y ago
Technically, all these users are getting Facebook services for free. Is the complaint here that some people are receiving lesser free services than other people's free services? If that's the case then we need to look at the value
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by balozi 5y ago
To play the devils advocate for a moment, I will suggest that the opposite of wage theft, whereby employees steal time/resources from their employers, is in orders of magnitude far greater. Almost no employee devotes 100% of their effo
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by balozi 5y ago
What's the point of delaying anything, the damage is already done. I can only imaging all the yelling and recrimination happening in executive meetings at Apple Spaceship. Oooff!
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by balozi 5y ago
I guess you can look forward to a check for $2.12 in the mail. Feels like Apple's highfalutin way of mocking devs.
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by balozi 5y ago
The housing units are less about housing of employees and more about parking of endowment coin in real estate investments. All the cool colleges do it to some degree.
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by balozi 5y ago
I suspect the payment processing argument is a convenient red herring. Adult sites and their transaction service providers process payments all the time, some at incredible scale.
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by balozi 5y ago
Is this increase really caused by demand-side pressures or simply that property owners know they can charge more since tenants have more disposable coin in their pockets?
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by balozi 5y ago
Regardless of the merits of arguments before the court, or the soundness of the ruling, I fear that this development will only serve to undermine California voters' faith in the judiciary and/or the ballot initiative process.
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by balozi 5y ago
They are slowly turning what is a philosophical argument into a technical question. Next step is for them to conjure up a technical answer before claiming victory. Most people are already bored by all the technical talk. Neural hash this: I
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by balozi 5y ago
Apple software chief Craig Federighi's only regret appears to be that their users are too dumb to grasp how Apple is enhancing user privacy by exposing their data.
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by balozi 5y ago
Snopes will probably rate the Buzzfeed claims as "False but Factual"
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by balozi 5y ago
Dear tech users, Associating with some of you has become a liability. One may be smart enough to avoid iPhone and Alexa et al. but what to do when one is surrounded by people who willingly expose themselves to nefarious technology? In shor
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by balozi 5y ago
In the end American taxpayers will be shelling out $50/word for ineffective propaganda aimed mostly at home. Nothing can be done about it in this broken country. Maybe my response is "misinformation" too. Just grinning while
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by balozi 5y ago
A few day ago some kids told me that TikTok is for old people. Not sure what's hip anymore.
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by balozi 5y ago
Surely there are countless other cases of Facebook booting users for scraping data, and often for much less. The choice of cases the FTC honchos choose to weigh in on is very odd.
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by balozi 5y ago
Does it matter if the project goes live? Once the company's attitude towards user privacy and customer concerns has been revealed, what's there left to hang onto?

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