If this passes, I suspect that we'll see gray market proxy services pop up. In the end, the real difference will simply be that you won't get this privacy protection from your registrar, but you'll still be able to get it from someone else.
Re: Anyone who self-identifies as a "pirate" IS untrustworthy.
"Wonder why the minion even put that in?"
There's no mystery here. It's reclaiming the power of a bigoted slur, much like what the black community does with "nigger" and the gay community does with "queer".
"privacy people often fall into this mindset that no surveillance is ever useful or proper."
They do? I haven't seen that. What I have seen is that privacy advocates often fall into the mindset that surveillance is frequently misused and that ubiquitous surveillance isn't proper. Which is true.
It's more likely that restaurant is IDing customers based on the WiFi beacons from their phones than face recognition (I say based purely on the fact that this has been common practice with larger companies for years now).
"ersonalized service is likely to boost customer satisfaction and create more visits."
Maybe, but personally I can guarantee that if I notice that a place is doing this sort of thing, I would never set foot in that place again.
The "G" used also affects how plain old phone calls are handled, but this gets a bit complicated. Turning off wireless data does not necessarily mean that your phone calls aren't being handled with the 3/4G infrastructure. The important part of the "G" specs for this discussion is how how the security of call setup works. The security prior to 3G is broken, which is what allows stringray to work, and is why stringrays try to force everyone's phones to fall back.
There are plenty of caveats, though, so this is more like a rule-of-thumb thing than an ironclad rule.
4G, however, simplifies the entire deal. With 4G, voice calls are really VoIP that get sent over the data network. From a security point of view, the current ideal would be to lock your phone to the 4G protocols, period.
The tradeoff, of course, is that phones fall back to earlier technologies for a reason: the newer techs do not work everywhere under every circumstance, so your phone falls back to ensure that you can still use it when that happens. If you prevent fallback, then it increases chances that you can't make/receive phone calls.
"Didn't the copyright owner sell me a license to use that copy of software when i purchased it."
The contract is not completed until you accept the EULA. You accept the EULA, usually, by installing the software. The transaction is not complete until the EULA-accepting act is performed.
Up until that point, you can return the software for a full refund since the deal isn't done yet (technically -- but there are many ways companies make that a difficult process).
Re: I suspect facial accessories laced with superbright strobing LEDs...
"Hollywood's make-up teams are skilled enough to turn people into completely different people."
But remember what face recognition software is looking at is features that aren't easily obscured with makeup: the distance between eyes and proportions between prominent structural features.
You don't need a full-on Hollywood style makeup job. A few well-place prostheses would do the job.
It's an S5. They may very well have changed it with the S6. However, there are still several other makes and models with removable batteries.
Since having a removable battery doesn't increase the size or weight of a phone, and there is a demand for them, there will likely be models that support this for some time to come.
As a point of slight interest, the lack of a removable battery was the reason why, when I got my first smartphone, I didn't get an iPhone.
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Gray market business opportunity
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Color me skeptical
Given ICANN's history, I'd consider that something of a minor miracle. But yes, I share in the hope.
This is yet another step in the ongoing effort to turn the internet away from being a many-to-many medium to a one-to-many medium like cable TV.
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Re: Anyone who self-identifies as a "pirate" IS untrustworthy.
There's no mystery here. It's reclaiming the power of a bigoted slur, much like what the black community does with "nigger" and the gay community does with "queer".
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Religious counselling??
So they are now treating religion as mental illness. At least they're being upfront about it.
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I just realized
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Re: not supposed to have those
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Re: well...
They do? I haven't seen that. What I have seen is that privacy advocates often fall into the mindset that surveillance is frequently misused and that ubiquitous surveillance isn't proper. Which is true.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Sorry but no.
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Re: Free Range?
I don't know, but considering how the term "free range" is used for farm animals, it would be consistent if they were.
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Re: Biometrics
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"ersonalized service is likely to boost customer satisfaction and create more visits."
Maybe, but personally I can guarantee that if I notice that a place is doing this sort of thing, I would never set foot in that place again.
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Re: Re: Re: sensitive technological capabilities
There are plenty of caveats, though, so this is more like a rule-of-thumb thing than an ironclad rule.
4G, however, simplifies the entire deal. With 4G, voice calls are really VoIP that get sent over the data network. From a security point of view, the current ideal would be to lock your phone to the 4G protocols, period.
The tradeoff, of course, is that phones fall back to earlier technologies for a reason: the newer techs do not work everywhere under every circumstance, so your phone falls back to ensure that you can still use it when that happens. If you prevent fallback, then it increases chances that you can't make/receive phone calls.
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The contract is not completed until you accept the EULA. You accept the EULA, usually, by installing the software. The transaction is not complete until the EULA-accepting act is performed.
Up until that point, you can return the software for a full refund since the deal isn't done yet (technically -- but there are many ways companies make that a difficult process).
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Re: I suspect facial accessories laced with superbright strobing LEDs...
But remember what face recognition software is looking at is features that aren't easily obscured with makeup: the distance between eyes and proportions between prominent structural features.
You don't need a full-on Hollywood style makeup job. A few well-place prostheses would do the job.
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Re: Re: Re: Likely GPL violation
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Batteries
Since having a removable battery doesn't increase the size or weight of a phone, and there is a demand for them, there will likely be models that support this for some time to come.
As a point of slight interest, the lack of a removable battery was the reason why, when I got my first smartphone, I didn't get an iPhone.
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