Comment You know I'm no expert (Score 1) 5
Comment No poison pill clauses? Empty promise. (Score 1) 3
"We do not use user data," Kardwell stressed to us. "We never have, and we never will.
Did Vultr have poison pill clauses in the ToS, such as, Vultr losing all rights to user data if they were bought by another company, or management changes, or going bankrupt, etc? Otherwise, how could anyone keep such promise that a company would not do something in the future?
Comment Probably illegal in Europe (Score 1) 3
I would guess these ToS are immoral and hence invalid.
Comment Wow (Score 1) 3
Never heard of this service, but come on... You don't need a law degree to see that this is bullshit. What else could they have intended by such a clause? Glad someone noticed.
Comment Re:A solution to the housing problem. (Score 1) 29
Comment Re: C'mon man! (Score 1) 34
81st year sounds like a more plausible explanation.
Comment It's a gold rush... (Score 1) 26
...and Amazon finds itself in a perfect position to sell pickaxes and shovels. Can't blame them.
Comment Interesting marketing spin... (Score 1) 4
Isn't this more "adding a connection to the AI compute cluster" more accurate than "adding AI to the glasses"?
Comment Re:Does that matter? (Score 1) 133
The person linked to isn't a crackpot, though.
I'd say they just misheard.
Either way, the logic holds-
If the EU accounts for 7% of app store revenue, there's a good chance they account for ~7% of apple's total revenue as well, unless you have a reason to think that EU users utilize the app store at a lower proportion than anyone else.
It does drive the dollar amount that they'd have to be fined in order to no longer turn a profit upwards, but still indicates that that the EU is still not a large fraction of revenue. Well, at least compared to the 33% contained within "Europe", which really does contain the middle east and most of the Eastern Bloc, and of course the second-largest anglophone non-EU economy on the planet- UK.
Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 1) 50
Submission + - Canonical Now Doing Manual Reviews For New Packages Due To Scam Apps (gamingonlinux.com)
So to try and do something about it, Canonical's Holly Hall has posted on their Discourse forum about how "The Store team and other engineering teams within Canonical have been continuously monitoring new snaps that are being registered, to detect potentially malicious actors" and that they will now do manual reviews whenever people try to register "a new snap name." On top of that soon they will also be releasing a new policy regarding "crypto-wallet and other sensitive snaps" with "guidelines for how to publish such a snap." Currently all of this is not supposed to be long-term, as it's an evolving situation.
Comment Re:Of Course (Score 1) 34
Cloud Server Host Vultr Rips User Data Ownership Clause From ToS After Web Outage (theregister.com) 3
It turned out these demands have been in place since before the January update; customers have only just noticed them now. Given Vultr hosts servers and storage in the cloud for its subscribers, some feared the biz was giving itself way too much ownership over their stuff, all in this age of AI training data being put up for sale by platforms. In response to online outcry, largely stemming from Reddit, Vultr in the past few hours rewrote its ToS to delete those asserted content rights. CEO J.J. Kardwell told The Register earlier today it's a case of standard legal boilerplate being taken out of context. The clauses were supposed to apply to customer forum posts, rather than private server content, and while, yes, the terms make more sense with that in mind, one might argue the legalese was overly broad in any case.
"We do not use user data," Kardwell stressed to us. "We never have, and we never will. We take privacy and security very seriously. It's at the core of what we do globally." [...] According to Kardwell, the content clauses are entirely separate to user data deployed in its cloud, and are more aimed at one's use of the Vultr website, emphasizing the last line of the relevant fine print: "... for purposes of providing the services to you." He also pointed out that the wording has been that way for some time, and added the prompt asking users to agree to an updated ToS was actually spurred by unrelated Microsoft licensing changes. In light of the controversy, Vultr vowed to remove the above section to "simplify and further clarify" its ToS, and has indeed done so. In a separate statement, the biz told The Register the removal will be followed by a full review and update to its terms of service. "It's clearly causing confusion for some portion of users. We recognize that the average user doesn't have a law degree," Kardwell added. "We're very focused on being responsive to the community and the concerns people have and we believe the strongest thing we can do to demonstrate that there is no bad intent here is to remove it."
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