I don't fault anyone, corporation or person, for taking advantage of any legal way to avoid paying taxes, but Alphabet has never issued a dividend. I fault the politicians. I'm not sure why most stock has value other than people believing it has value.

It's an Education Technology app in the category of "Learning Management System'. Blackboard is probably the first popular one. Canvas is another that is really popular now. Google Classroom is another. Seesaw is targeted at lower grades. It's basically an app to organize assignments and resources and a place for students to turn in work. Seesaw also allows for parent communication.

Which makes the satellite being used to do this ridiculous as well. This is going to be for either imaging or military communication. The only way I can see this being used for Signal Intelligence is intercepting other ground to satellite communication.

Wink's biggest issue was they had nothing to sell to you other than the hub and the hub requires a cloud presence. Phillips sells a ton of bulbs and other lighting products that they make money off of.

Well, I got 3.5 years out of it and I only had one thing still connected to it. I have two big issues with how Wink is handling this: one-week notice and Wink service has never been great, but lately, it has gone down every week, it actually went down yesterday. So they are killing the service when I can't go to the store to replace it or Amazon may not ship a replacement within a week. The reason I only have one device connected is that the service isn't even reliable enough. I don't have the same issues with other hubs (Lutron and Hue).

Home Assistant isn't the easiest software to manage. It's a hobby platform, not a product. If someone actually asked those questions: 1) I'd be surprised if the were able to use Wink 2) Maybe they should pay the $5 protection fee to Wink or get SmartThings until they pull the same stunt.

He's a rapper, his actual name is William Adams. He started a tech company that I'm not sure what they actually do other than fail.

I'd like to hear the recording of that 911 call. I really want to know how the caller described the stormtrooper. My guess is that the call didn't happen but even if it did, the police should have recognized a stormtrooper costume on May 4 in front of a Star Wars themed restaurant.

Cineworld, Regal Theaters owner which is the second largest in the United States, backed AMC on this. I can't find the reference because of news sites copying and pasting the exact same quotes, but the ban is only for movies that do not respect the window. Also, Trolls wouldn't have made that much money if everyone wasn't stuck at home. If you are buying Trolls every 48 hours at $20 a pop to keep a child entertained, it will make a lot of money. If Universal really believed they can make money without the theaters, why would they push back the release of Fast & Furious? Universal has already walked back the initial statement some as well.

As far as I can tell, Zoom is FERPA compliant as well. Zoom even updated its privacy policy and added a special section for K12.

That doesn't mean that it isn't. FERPA is all about student records and privacy. The only thing that has to be shared with Zoom is an unverified student name and email address, neither of which are protected under FERPA.

I blame Facebook for the sharing of data with Facebook. Yes, Zoom did a poor job of validating what the SDK was doing but do you really think all of those other apps that are using Facebook to provide authentication services aren't accidentally sharing data to Facebook.

The article title is misleading. New York City is banning Zoom, so according to the author's bubble, all schools are banning Zoom. Zoom has actually made a lot of adjustments already changing the default to waiting rooms. As for your second point, under FERPA (US Federal law for student records and privacy), student names are considered directory information and can be shared. Only teachers actually need accounts to use Zoom. Unless you need to be worried about nation-states going after your info, this all seems silly. Most of the districts I've seen if they are not using Zoom, they are using Google Meet. This is mostly a cost thing. Google Meet was already free to education. Zoom stepped up and offered services to K12 for free as well and made it really easy to setup.

Yes, but this could use less energy, only have to heat the water to 70C instead of 100C to boil.