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by donarb 8y ago
Also file complaints with your city. Comcast relies on licenses from the city to use the poles for their cables. Complaints about bad service tend to get fixed quickly when their franchise agreements are in peril.
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No laws are written in a vacuum. Century Link most likely even participated in having this law drafted. No doubt they have lawyers in every state capital watching for laws that affect their business.
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Photos also prevent customers taking advantage of companies who are ready to refund or replace “stolen” packages.
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DabbleDB, this YouTube video gives a great introduction to this online spreadsheet-like database. Sadly they were bought out by Twitter, never to be seen again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCVj5RZOqwY
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How long before they get sued for their stylized 'e' which is a ripoff of Google's logo? Essentially it's an upside down 'G'.
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With a billion iOS devices out there, if Apple was truly collecting information about you and selling it to third parties, there would have to be some evidence that compromised data is out in the wild. To date, no one has found any. So it&#
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In Seattle there are lots of buildings going up that are residential with commercial space on the ground floor. Residential is so profitable that the commercial space can sit empty for quite awhile and still make a profit. They then cover t
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There are already companies that offer short term business loans where you borrow against your receivables. This helps companies make regular payments for mortgages and payroll when their receivables are unpredictable. Without these sorts o
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Unfortunately, this happens all the time, but not for the public good. Research universities use patent portfolios to increase their revenue by licensing inventions to companies that can manufacture the product. For example in 2014 NYU earn
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If you need a password to log in to your system and decrypt your storage, a password manager is useless.
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I am still using my Mini from 2012, and it runs the latest OS, Mojave.
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Three Gorges Dam in China uprooted 1.3 million people from their homes.
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Two years ago Apple released information on its website about "differential privacy", which is a branch of data analysis that deals with collecting information for analysis that cannot be tied directly back to an individual person
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In Washington State, every county processes mailed in ballots. These offices are required to allow observers to watch the entire counting process. You can even go to the website and watch live video from any number of cameras.
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Why would you type just part of the quote from Apple? "Our best guess is that they are confusing their story with a previously-reported 2016 incident in which we discovered an infected driver on a single Super Micro server in one of ou
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Then the headline is wrong, they’re not voting machines, but tabulating machines.
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by donarb 8y ago
I should actually say: "Because Bloomberg articles are for <some company's> investors, not <some company's> customers"
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The other thing to remember is that collecting all of that data costs time/money, not only for storing it, but for protecting it. Apple, by virtue of not having that data, doesn't have to waste resources trying to protect it.
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Because Bloomberg articles are for Apple investors, not Apple customers. TechCrunch, for example, not only has links to the privacy pages, but has a screen shot of what the page looks like. That page also links to another separate page that
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A lot of these fake news sites don’t care about the truth. They’re all about generating clicks to their sites which produce revenue.
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Or maybe they can just place their thumb over the sensor.
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Just as dumb as the anarchist breaking windows at Niketown in Seattle while wearing Nike shoes. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2139271/Anarchist-a...
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Windscreen refers to that of an airplane, not a car. The clue is the reference to 80 knots, which is never used to measure vehicle speed.
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Not just ad-free, but free now as well. Shazam had a free tier and you could pay to get rid of ads.
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Remember microservices?
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BART was completed in 1972 and survived a few earthquakes over the past few years just fine.
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Yea, when I hear people complain about traffic in Seattle and that we need more freeways, my first question to them is, will you offer your house up for the right-of-way?
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It's not necessarily security through obscurity. It's more of a privacy thing and prevents companies from mining bug reports for information about what types of software competitors are working on. Bug reports also contain code an
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by donarb 8y ago
Yep, Apple takes privacy seriously. Bug reports sometimes also contain proprietary code that help Apple pinpoint the bug. If you worked for a company and were working on a brand new software product, would you want your competitors to have
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The App Store uses a form of one-click for buying apps, that has helped Apple immensely.

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