Comment Re:Opera (Score 4, Informative) 99
There's even a "Let's rebuild Opera as it was" open-source effort
There's even a "Let's rebuild Opera as it was" open-source effort
oh right. I could just call them or email them directly.
There are honestly times when I wonder if the average teen even know that you can make calls with a smartphone. And email?! That's just soooo 2012!
it reported it has blocked some 45,000 ads since being installed.
From my last (horrifying) experience browsing without ad-block I guesstimate that you had it installed for 3 days when checking the report.
Yeah, yeah, so you pay the $5 annual subscription to remove ads.
Why would anyone do that? You would be left with no articles to read.
There probably need some witnesses. And thoses are at a great risk if their identity goes public... Some may be as good as dead !!!
You mean like in every major mob trial since the 1920's? Trials were witnesses as well as prosecutors and judges doubtlessly have risked their lives going up against extremely well funded criminal organizations that make Al-Qaeda seem a bunch of amateurs. Yet these trial have always been held in the public spotlight. This is especially true in Italy where they hold the mob trials in public even after the Maxi trials that triggered the murder of the residing Judge, his son and several terror attacks across the country with one single attack claiming 10 lives and injuring 93.
Not scared enough, you're posting from an account.
And you too are not scared enough, you are posting. Or do you still believe that posting as AC provide any real anonymity?
My thermostat is just a device on my wall which regulates my furnace - it has no business being internet-enabled.
What if that could save you money? (it can.) What if it adds convenience and security? (it can.) What if it informs you about your usage such that you can improve your comfort level? (it can.) What if it gives you remote information, such as "the heater has failed, the pipes will freeze, you need to come deal with this" (it can.) What then? Still no business being Internet enabled?
Does it really have to be internet connected to save you money? By sacrificing a little bit of convenience you could gain a lot of security on your device and at the same time avoid that some asshat script kiddie in another state or country cause your cost saving device actually make you spend more money just for the fun of it. Or worse, turns off your furnace and disable your warning system and make it generate "All is OK reports" while you are soaking away in the sun with an umbrella drink in hand blissfully unaware that your pipes just burst due to the freezing temperatures back home.
Why would it need an internet connection to provide me with usage statistics that can be used to save money? It really isn't that hard to run a cable from your device to your PC to download the data for analysis. Slightly less convenient yes, and most likely an inconvenience that will be a turn-off for many potential customers.
And an internet connection is most definitely not necessary for a system to give me remote information such as "the heater has failed, the pipes will freeze, you need to come deal with this". Home alarm systems have proved messages such as "The alarm have been triggered due to a potential home intrusion...." for at least 3 decades using regular phone lines and emergency numbers set by the owner, commonly to neighbors and family.
How on earth do you spend tens of millions on consulting groups?
Not that hard when as the MSN article states "Many of the consultants were being paid upwards of $1,000 a day.", nothing is being said about what the average consultant fee were but for the sake of argument let's say it is $500 that amount to just 4000 days of paid consultants with an average of 250 working days per year that comes down to 3.2 full time consultants per year that evidently have been grossly overpaid.
Very few careers beyond politics reward ability to talk and write BS combined with failure and/or incompetence to such an extent as that of consultancy.
but I find myself being even more annoyed, at this point, by people calling GNU/Linux Linux... Linux is a kernel. Why do people continue to call GNU/Linux (i.e. the whole system) by the name of the kernel it uses? Would seriously like a person or two to explain what exactly the reasoning behind this phenomenon is, if indeed there is any.
I have two theories.
1. It is convenient and only annoy a tiny minority.
2. It is a sinister conspiracy with you as the target of the clandestine organization THEY (affiliated with Illuminati, Scientology, Bert and Ernie) with the single purpose of annoying you on a every time you visit
iv. Other iCloud Content. PhotoStream, Docs, Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks, iOS Device Backups
iCloud only stores the content for these services that the customer has elected to maintain in the account while the customer’s account remains active. Apple does not retain deleted content once it is cleared from Apple’s servers. Apple will produce customer content in these categories only in response to a valid search warrant.
Likewise, if they were able to access your iCloud stuff, they'd have access to a whole lot more, such as calendar events, e-mails, and any third-party data you had backed up using iCloud Backup.
From the source you linked:
iii. Email Content
iCloud only stores the email a user has elected to maintain in the account while the customer’s account remains active. Apple is unable to produce deleted content. Apple will produce customer content, as it exists in the customer’s mailbox in response to a search warrant.
What is gained? Less criminality in society.
That's the whole fucking point.
It would be interesting to hear your view on this if you ever were to belong to the estimated 4% that are executed for crimes they did not commit. http://www.thedailyjournal.com...
Kleeneness is next to Godelness.
