According to Ars (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/mississippi-ag-jim-hood-sues-google-again/) he seems to have conducted tests that suggested something was being collected even if ads were not shown in the app suite. Whether it holds in court or not is to be seen but as Mike said there was auditing before and the ones that made the pledge told Google was ok. Stay tuned!
And they complain when people give more attention to negative reviews. To me they are much more important than the positive ones because it's almost certain they are legitimate. They will often pinpoint which parts of the product are not so great and you can choose whether you will buy even knowing the negative side. This is collateral damage from companies meddling with the reviews. You know, heap what you sow.
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It's precisely the lack of the Government that brought the US into the tail of the broadband speeds in the 'developed' nations world. I use developed very loosely nowadays but still, you got my point.
"and all the rest CANNOT make you buy their service"
Oh they can't? What if the option is either NO internet connection or the other duopolist that do exactly the same? Go without? Heck yeah, Middle Ages to the US! Or not.
Wither you are naive or you are a good comedian. I assumed the latter and gave you a funny vote!
Oh but there are plenty of venues to try for both the PD and the FBI if they get involved. They can try to settle the case (though the plaintiff can refuse), they can try to keep any info from reaching the court by declaring the info confidential or something (which may or may not result in a loss but the info on stingrays will be protected and the money of a possible fine will come from your pockets anyway), they can try to harass the guy but ultimately they can simply ignore the court. They've done it before and there was no real consequence so why not do it again? Unless there's a very ballsy judge that actually make key law enforcement people related to the incident go to jail nothing will happen. And even then, who arrests the FBI if the court orders so? Who judges the judge? Who legislate the legislators?
And they keep wondering why people hate cops these days. We the citizens must pay our respects to the cops but the cops couldn't care less about we the citizens. Awesome.
If you live in denial and believe your almighty and benevolent country would never treat people inhumanly or torture then you could say such things. I'm sure there's plenty of Americans who think that way. In McCain's case I"d say it's a lot of intentional cognitive dissonance though.
I wonder about compatibility with apps in general. The main appeal of this are emulators for older systems. If this works with those then it's a sweet deal.
I should clarify that I'm not talking about total world money as in half of the GDP or something, if memory serves the figure excludes money not readily available. Still the concentration exists.
I wouldn't go as far as these theories. There will be jobs. Just not nearly as many as the world needs (we already don't have jobs for everybody though this could be reduced, not eliminated, by fixing some problems). I also don't think the private armies will be widespread among the rich but I do think there will be private armies for some. My friend worked in a hotel where the top head of Exxon Mobil stayed. He booked the whole floor and his private security strictly controlled access to that floor. So private armies already exist.
What can't be denied is that money is getting more and more concentrated in the hands of very few. A few years ago 288 people had half of the money circulating in the world. Today it's only 8. This isn't sustainable.
As the Finland minimum income experience has already resulted in such discussion, we are already contemplating the scenario where humans are not needed to do most jobs. The solution will be to actually tax the companies and the rich and introduce the Finnish experiment everywhere. Who pays? The ones profiting the most by eliminating humans from the productive chain. And if you disagree then tell me: who is going to buy the products when most of humanity is unemployed due to AI/Robots?
I don't deny there are benefits to (a good portion of) technological devices. But the tracking and the intrusion are annoying. Beware, make sure you guys aren't going to a place near some meth lab or something... Things may get ugly if your geo data is caught up by govt surveillance ;-)
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"and all the rest CANNOT make you buy their service"
Oh they can't? What if the option is either NO internet connection or the other duopolist that do exactly the same? Go without? Heck yeah, Middle Ages to the US! Or not.
Wither you are naive or you are a good comedian. I assumed the latter and gave you a funny vote!
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What can't be denied is that money is getting more and more concentrated in the hands of very few. A few years ago 288 people had half of the money circulating in the world. Today it's only 8. This isn't sustainable.
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Still negotiated in secret and not giving a damn about the citizens.
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Interesting times those will be.
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