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Comment Re:What about the bakers? (Score 1) 469

You understand then that the baker won his case, right? It wasn't even close - 7 to 2 at the Supreme Court, with half the liberals voting with the majority. The reasoning in Masterpiece Cakeshop was of course completely different than would be relevant to this law.

Comment Re:might be unintended effects (Score 3, Informative) 156

by fyzikapan (#60593348) Attached to: Should Colleges Do Admissions Without Standardized Tests?
This is 100% right. Someone from a poorer background or someone from a rural area can't get a tutor, can't get a fancy summer experience, can't get volunteer experience, and can't take a bunch of AP classes. But they at least have the chance to stand out by doing well on the standardized tests, and they can do so for free/cheap if they're willing to put in the effort. If you take away the standardized test, they have nothing to stand on except a high GPA from a school that only offered a limited set of classes.

Submission + - Quibi, JetBlue and Others Gave Away Email Addresses, Report Says (nytimes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Millions of people gave their email addresses to Quibi, JetBlue, Wish and other companies — and those email addresses got away. They ended up in the hands of advertising and analytics companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter, leaving the people with those email addresses more easily targeted by advertisers and able to be tracked by companies that study shopping behavior, according toa reportpublished on Wednesday. The customers unwittingly exposed their email addresses when signing up for apps or clicking on links in marketing emails, said the researcher Zach Edwards, who runs the digital strategy firm Victory Medium. In the report, he described the giveaway of personal data as part of a “sloppy and dangerous growth hack.”

Mr. Edwards, a contributorto a recent studythat examined potential privacy violations by dating serviceslike Grindr and OkCupid, wrote in the new report that one of the “most egregious” leaks involvedQuibi, a short-form video platform based in Los Angeles that is run by the veteran executives Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman. Quibi went live on April 6, long after new data privacy regulations went into effect inEuropeandCalifornia. People who downloaded the Quibi app were asked to submit their email addresses. Then they received a confirmation link. Clicking on the link made their email addresses available to Google, Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat, according to the report. Quibi said in a statement on Wednesday that data security “is of the highest priority” and that “the moment the issue on our webpage was revealed to our security and engineering team, we fixed it immediately.”

Comment Re:Masks do not protect you from getting sick! (Score 2) 65

It's bullshit worthy of r/iamverysmart/

People who haven't bothered to read and understand any of the papers on the topic get to feel smug and self-righteous by telling everyone else how ineffective various face coverings are, even though what they're actually spreading is dangerous misinformation.

Submission + - Toshiba published a ful list of all their drives using SMR (blocksandfiles.com)

Submitted by williamyf
williamyf writes: Toshiba has just published a full list of all the consumer HDDs in their lineup that use SMR ( https://blocksandfiles.com/202... ) From the article: "Toshiba uses SMR technology – previously undocumented – in several desktop drives and in some video surveillance HDDs : P300 6TB, P300 4TB, DT02 6TB, DT02 4TB, DT02-V 6TB and DT02-V 4TB. [...] The company does not use SMR in the N300, a NAS drive intended for the consumer market – unlike Western Digital which uses SMR in some low-end WD Red NAS devices." This comes after the whole submarine consumer SMR HDDs fiasco (reported on /. here: https://hardware.slashdot.org/... ), and fresh on Western Digital publishing a full list of all their consumer HDDs using SMR (reported on /. here: https://hardware.slashdot.org/... )... With this, Seagate is the only HDD vendor which has not yet published a full list of their consumer HDDs using SMR.

Submission + - Fairphone 3 now available with "deGoogled" Android /e/ OS (techcrunch.com)

Submitted by joestar
joestar writes: Fairphone, the European manufacturer of mobile phones with a reduced environmental impact, has announced a partnership to offer /e/ OS, the most deGoogled and pro-privacy Android OS, on their latest model Fairphone 3. An interesting move that reminds the recent introduction of the Google-free Huawei Mate 30.

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