EFF, ACLU, etc isn't it time to start litigating to get the no warrantless GPS tracking ruling applied to these contraptions? Based on the history of the latter I assume it'll be necessary to spend years litigating through the lower courts before the Supreme Court delivers a smackdown, so the sooner someone starts the better.
8 years ago people attempting to defend ATT's attempt to acquire TMobile were making identical arguments. It was only after being told "NO!" in no uncertain terms that TMobile underwent the revival that has resulted in it surpassing Sprint by a large margin.
As a Pennsylvanian I can't say I'm surprised. While Democrats are competitive in state wide races the state legislature is close to being a fully owned subsidiary of the Republican party.
Gerrymandering definitely helps, but even assuming the court ruling that forced US Congressional districts to be redone more fairly for 2018 applies to statewide redistricting after the 2020 census I suspect the larger number of districts will mean that the R's winning the rural half of the state 2:1 while the D's win the big cities 10:1 will still give the former an advantage.
"There is no invasion of privacy at all, because there is no privacy," on Facebook or any other social media site, company attorney Orin Snyder told U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria.
That's right up with someone on trial for murdering his parents pleading with the court for mercy because he's an Orphan.
I wonder if Facebook can use logs to associate the people who created fake accounts back to those individuals real accounts. Suspending the accounts of all the ICE people involved in this for violating FB's TOS would be a really nice bit of turn about for this whole sordid saga.
It's definitely sloppy wording on someone's part. I'm assuming yearly cashflow because it's the only range that really makes sense; and would be a more natural fit with major annual reporting.
For accounting purposes customers are assets that generate $x/year(?) in revenue, and thus have a book value which is a factor of their current revenue generation.
The very low multiplier on TV customers in turn says that they're expecting a lot of them might go away fairly soon (either cancelling traditional pay-tv service entirely, or just switching to satellite for a cheaper new customer bundle) and thus aren't worth as much.
The higher multiplier on internet customers says that their accountants expect to make a lot more money long term from each internet customer because they're much less likely to cancel service.
it really wasn't that long ago that such information wasn't just widely available to the public, but every six months or so a giant yellow-covered book was thrown in front of our doors with listings of everyone's phone number and address in your geographic region. Remember that?
By "that long ago" do you mean last week? They've gotten steadily skinnier with tinier type over the last decade, but I still have 2 or 3 pushers of them dropping them off at my doorstop.
I think the last time i used one was pre-smartphone when I needed the number for a pizza delivery shop during a power outage.
From reading the article I was under the impression that Germany was saying GDPR mail providers wouldn't be able to send to a recipient whose server wasn't configured to properly support TLS. While big providers are mostly TLS now and can reasonably be expected to fix the issue if lacking it became a missing message problem, and the smallest level of private/vanity mail servers are mostly outsourced to hosting companies than can do automated mass updates if needed (like they did for HTTPS recently). But in between those poles is a major problem area. Although individually small there's a huge swath of generally smallish mail servers that are nominally self administered but effectively unmaintained unless something appears broken to the user. Lots of them would have fallen through a crack because their owners don't read the tech press, and they do business with Europe infrequently enough that it wouldn't be an obvious problem.
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EFF, ACLU, etc isn't it time to start litigating to get the no warrantless GPS tracking ruling applied to these contraptions? Based on the history of the latter I assume it'll be necessary to spend years litigating through the lower courts before the Supreme Court delivers a smackdown, so the sooner someone starts the better.
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your creepy neighbor who sits behind a window watching everything going on on your street will be buying these things.
UGH
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Re: It is likely a better outcome than not doing
8 years ago people attempting to defend ATT's attempt to acquire TMobile were making identical arguments. It was only after being told "NO!" in no uncertain terms that TMobile underwent the revival that has resulted in it surpassing Sprint by a large margin.
On the post: Pennsylvania Legislators Quickly And Quietly Passed A Law That Strips Power From Its Reform-Minded DA
As a Pennsylvanian I can't say I'm surprised. While Democrats are competitive in state wide races the state legislature is close to being a fully owned subsidiary of the Republican party.
Gerrymandering definitely helps, but even assuming the court ruling that forced US Congressional districts to be redone more fairly for 2018 applies to statewide redistricting after the 2020 census I suspect the larger number of districts will mean that the R's winning the rural half of the state 2:1 while the D's win the big cities 10:1 will still give the former an advantage.
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That's right up with someone on trial for murdering his parents pleading with the court for mercy because he's an Orphan.
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Everything old is new again
Erich Mielke would be proud of his successors actions.
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I assume Fortnite is just the first target of many
virtually every multiplayer game is full of dbags spewing vitriolic nonsense.
On the post: ICE's Fake University Sting Operation Also Used A Bunch Of Fake Facebook Profiles
I wonder if Facebook can use logs to associate the people who created fake accounts back to those individuals real accounts. Suspending the accounts of all the ICE people involved in this for violating FB's TOS would be a really nice bit of turn about for this whole sordid saga.
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Re: Re: Re: 2 times cash flow isn't enough?
It's definitely sloppy wording on someone's part. I'm assuming yearly cashflow because it's the only range that really makes sense; and would be a more natural fit with major annual reporting.
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Re: 2 times cash flow isn't enough?
For accounting purposes customers are assets that generate $x/year(?) in revenue, and thus have a book value which is a factor of their current revenue generation.
The very low multiplier on TV customers in turn says that they're expecting a lot of them might go away fairly soon (either cancelling traditional pay-tv service entirely, or just switching to satellite for a cheaper new customer bundle) and thus aren't worth as much.
The higher multiplier on internet customers says that their accountants expect to make a lot more money long term from each internet customer because they're much less likely to cancel service.
On the post: Be Careful What You Wish For: 'Privacy Protection' Now Used As An Excuse To Cut Off Investigative Journalists From Key Database
By "that long ago" do you mean last week? They've gotten steadily skinnier with tinier type over the last decade, but I still have 2 or 3 pushers of them dropping them off at my doorstop.
I think the last time i used one was pre-smartphone when I needed the number for a pizza delivery shop during a power outage.
On the post: German Data Protection Authority Says GDPR Requires Email To Use At Least Transport Layer Encryption
Re: Authentication
That's actually an important distinction.
From reading the article I was under the impression that Germany was saying GDPR mail providers wouldn't be able to send to a recipient whose server wasn't configured to properly support TLS. While big providers are mostly TLS now and can reasonably be expected to fix the issue if lacking it became a missing message problem, and the smallest level of private/vanity mail servers are mostly outsourced to hosting companies than can do automated mass updates if needed (like they did for HTTPS recently). But in between those poles is a major problem area. Although individually small there's a huge swath of generally smallish mail servers that are nominally self administered but effectively unmaintained unless something appears broken to the user. Lots of them would have fallen through a crack because their owners don't read the tech press, and they do business with Europe infrequently enough that it wouldn't be an obvious problem.
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