... instead of the shitty ad-filled blog

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It doesn't have to be this way and it has little to do with standards. Netflix streaming today still works fine on devices that are first generation from many years ago. This is despite all of the new functions and features they have come out with since then - heck they even changed their whole DRM scheme for many players.

The main difference is YouTube has little incentive to keep supporting these old devices since they don't generate much, of any, ad revenue (heck they might not even support ads), whereas Netflix needs to support their subscribers as long as possible.

Standards don't do anything to help with this problem it has more to do with an advertising driven business model.

This whole article is dumbn. At 21K a job, the program is doing SPECTACULAR seeing how threse jobs likely pay at least 75K, they will pay more in taxes than the damn job costs IN THE FIRST YEAR ALONE.

This is true. What is needed is more investment in solar capacity in the south, and investment in the power grid in the north (and nationally). There is no reason the North should not be buying a majority of it's power cheaper from the south, where it is plentiful.

WAC are actually not required anymore, although it is still avalable.

CRA My Account is accessible now via a system called "Secure Key Concierge", where the CRA redirects your login to your bank. As long as you have an account with one of the "Big 6", you can log into your online banking, after which the CRA federates with the bank and checks that your SIN and DOB at the bank is the same as the SIN and DOB you entered at the site, and if so they let you in.

IMO it is a much more convenient way to authenticate in a way that covers likely 90%+ of the Canadian population.

Forget the auto-complete nonsense. The question that should be being asked is why an un-encrypted email containing " Passport numbers, dates of birth, and other personal information of the heads of state attending a G-20 summit in Brisbane, Australia" would be being sent to ANYONE. I can't even send an unencrypted email at work containing MY OWN social security number.

In an era where I can purchase trans-atlantic wifi for $15, it seems archaic to me that we still rely on hardened "black boxes" for data retrieval. Why is audio from the flight deck not REQUIRED to be streamed real-time to satellites in orbit for commercial airliners? Yes yes, it won't be 100% reliable blah blah. So what? No one is advocating REMOVING the black box.. there is no reason you can't have both.

Then roll your own OpenID provider. This is what standards are for.

Don't bash federated login just because you don't trust Google.. you don't HAVE to trust them, that is the whole point.

The problem is not Google/Facebook/Yahoo/Twitter, the problem is The Guardian/Techcrunch/JoeBLow.com and every other website out there that forces you to make YET ANOTHER account with YET ANOTHER password because they do not support any federated login standards at all.

If more sites allowed federated login instead of rolling their own half-assed authentication regiemes then this wouldn't be a problem in the first place.

The idea that I am more secure cooking up a "safe password" for JoeBlowsRandomWordpressInstance.com instead of logging in securely using Google or Facebook is farcical.

As someone who is an SPG member and generally keeps tabs on what new promotions Starwood runs, this is anything but news. Starwood has over the past year or two, as a general strategy, struck up this kind of relationsip with a ton of companies.

- Starwood partners with Caesars Entertainment, where your SPG profile and your Total Rewards profiles can be linked. This means that loyalty shown at Caesars casinos can help you at Starwood hotels, and vice-versa

- Starwood also partners with Delta, where your SPG profile and your Skymiles profile can be linked, in a simmilar capacity - you can earn both skymiles and SPG points for Detla flights and for hotel stays.

- Now, they are doing the same with Uber... same story as above.

Obviously these companies are going to share customer data. However, if you think Starwood has the infrastructure built, capacity or talent to data mine Uber for what restaurants you go to and target hotel promotions, I think you have a bit higher expectations of them than I do. The much more immediate use of these types of partnerships is to encourage cross-brand loyalty for both companies.

If you think yours is not, you are living in a reality distortion bubble.

Do you have any links to how to do #1? I have never heard of this before.

Couple of mitigations

- You can disable this feature if you want

- You can also enable SmartLock which will lock the phone as soon as it gets out of range of another bluetooth device (smart watch or key fob)

- Use android device manager to lock and/or remote wipe the phone as soon as possible after the theft. My wife has the ability to lock and remote wipe my phone from her phone using Android Device Manager, and I can do the same to hers.. you should set this up.

- You could simply hold the power button in while handing over the phone, forcing a reboot and lock

- You could get a dimple.io NFC button that lets you password lock your phone with a keypress

When my kid reaches secondary school (aka High School), she will no longer be a "child", she will be a young adult. The idea that a 15+ year old can not be trusted with a smartphone, when they drinking, having sex, and in all likelihood doing drugs from time to time, is ridiculous.

People need to stop coddling their kids so much. Maybe that is the indirect cause of some of these issues, kids now unable to deal with the realities of the world as they get older because their helicopter parents never exposed them to it.

... Except in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria, France, and Switzerland, where tickets are about a deterrent.

Because you know, they collect enough taxes to properly fund their civil services like police, so that, you know, they can do the jobs they are supposed to do and not focus on being tax collectors.