Here's the problem Senator Feinstein: I am more concerned about the US government spying on me and my fellow citizens than I am about possible terrorist attacks on US soil.
OK, this school district must now provide all writing implements to all students so that only the approved ones get used. For whatever they get used for.
Google allows you to put in second factor authentication on accounts. The feds can have all the passwords they want, but they need the Google authenticator set up and approved. Too bad MS doesn't as well.
What this means is that the Congress and the PTO need to standardize the language that must be used in patent applications. No more "made up" terms to try to confuse or obfuscate.
As Jane Mayer at the New Yorker recently explained, the metadata issue is the one we should be most frightened about:
“The public doesn’t understand,” [mathematician and
former Sun Microsystems engineer Susan Landau] told me,
speaking about so-called metadata. “It’s much more
intrusive than content.” She explained that the
government can learn immense amounts of proprietary
information by studying “who you call, and who they
call. If you can track that, you know exactly what is
happening—you don’t need the content.”
I was giong to say that all I really get is junk mail any more. Only the water bill and my HOA bill come via the Post Office. Everything else is via email.
So I won't lose sleep over the USPS doing this. But it's not that I am free from observation since they have all my email.
"Pay no attention that [NSA] man behind the curtain!"
If I am not allowed to know of the existence of the program, and if I am not allowed to know that the government has its own secret interpretation of the laws, then how have my civil liberties been guaranteed?
The truth is, they have not. In fact, my civil liberties have been run over by a huge bulldozer known as the NSA.
What if you've done nothing wrong but your views are unpopular? Then you get nailed for something in that treasure trove? Did the air just get chilled in here?
A New Hope: How Going Free To Play Brought Redemption To Star Wars MMO
There's a big difference in F2P versus paid account. Many things available to the latter are not available to the former at all. And where they are available, they require the expenditure of real world money to acquire.
I wouldn't be surprised if the reason SWTOR is more profitable now is because most F2P players are speding some extra cash to have a little bit more than the bog standard, which is at best annoying.
Now, I'd pay real money if SWTOR, or any MMO for that matter, were to decide to do away with the "Can't get There From Here" syndrome. If you play MMOs, you'll get it.
Let's not get caught up in semantics. Turning off may be inaccurate, but you are altering the Security settings of your Android in order to allow side-loading, and that makes your device more vulnerable. Period.
And I don't subscribe to the view that Android users are more tech savvy than other mobile OS users. There may have been a point in time when that was true, but if there was, well, that ship has sailed.
In order to side-load an app, you have to go into Security settings to allow it. (Or have already done so.)
You have a reasonable expectation that the app is not malware when you install through Play. (Much better of late.) You have no such reassurances at other places. And if you don't reset the settings in Security, then malware has a much better chance of being installed, either through mistakenly going to the wrong place, or having done so, the app you installed itself installs other apps.
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As Jane Mayer at the New Yorker recently explained, the metadata issue is the one we should be most frightened about:
“The public doesn’t understand,” [mathematician and
former Sun Microsystems engineer Susan Landau] told me,
speaking about so-called metadata. “It’s much more
intrusive than content.” She explained that the
government can learn immense amounts of proprietary
information by studying “who you call, and who they
call. If you can track that, you know exactly what is
happening—you don’t need the content.”
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130609/23180323386/is-bigger-concern-nsa-getting-phone-recor ds-prism-just-everything.shtml
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So I won't lose sleep over the USPS doing this. But it's not that I am free from observation since they have all my email.
"Pay no attention that [NSA] man behind the curtain!"
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The truth is, they have not. In fact, my civil liberties have been run over by a huge bulldozer known as the NSA.
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If the government has nothing to hide, why was it hiding? What is it worried about?
I'd like to live in a country where the government isn't afraid of its people.
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A New Hope: How Going Free To Play Brought Redemption To Star Wars MMO
I wouldn't be surprised if the reason SWTOR is more profitable now is because most F2P players are speding some extra cash to have a little bit more than the bog standard, which is at best annoying.
Now, I'd pay real money if SWTOR, or any MMO for that matter, were to decide to do away with the "Can't get There From Here" syndrome. If you play MMOs, you'll get it.
~Woad
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Re: Re: Side-loading
And I don't subscribe to the view that Android users are more tech savvy than other mobile OS users. There may have been a point in time when that was true, but if there was, well, that ship has sailed.
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Re: Re: Side-loading
You have a reasonable expectation that the app is not malware when you install through Play. (Much better of late.) You have no such reassurances at other places. And if you don't reset the settings in Security, then malware has a much better chance of being installed, either through mistakenly going to the wrong place, or having done so, the app you installed itself installs other apps.
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