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Comment Re: We need "HIPAA for location data" (Score 0) 31

You live in a fantasy if you think hipaa protects you from data sharing.

When you agreed to medical service and signed the hipaa notice, that you didnt read, it was you agreeing to allow them to share it for business purposes, you are not allowed to opt out and get service ... then it gets mixed in with other data and sold.

You have this false fantasy that anyone cares about hipaa beyond getting you to sign the contract.

Comment Re: Lets think about that (Score 1) 31

The town can simply ban that sort of surveillance. Contract can go fuck itself if the law supersedes it, yes retroactively.

This retarded idea that a company can do whatever it wants because of a weasely contract is false.

The residents control the town, not some secretly foreign run mass surveillance company these idiots keep getting bribed by.

Comment Re: Customer Rights (Score 5, Insightful) 148

Thats cute. Now put it in front of the public without the person on the other end following your demo script...

All of the sudden its shit.

My company has done this as well, and it works great for the guy who made it, who talks to it with knowledge of its capabilities and nuances... but then as soon as anyone with a slightly different choice of words comes along ... its fucked.

Comment Re: Biased news (Score 1) 118

>One could infer that the State of California thinks its citizens are dumber than the average American, and thus can't be allowed to see triangular arrows lest they draw the wrong conclusion

Or the plastics recycling was always an industry greenwashing campaign, and the vast majority of people actually do believe that sorting their plastics into a recycling bin leads to less plastic being manufactured, and this is just a move to educate the people that plastic recycling is actually a sham.

Comment Re: ELI5 (Score -1) 87

I dont use GPL if I can avoid it, even if it means I have to pay. My software is all OSS as in OPEN for anyone to use, via BSD or MIT licenses, and none of it will ever be GPL or any of the derivatives that are designed to intentionally make software have 0 monetary value.

I dont prevent GPL software from using my code, but GPL prevents me from using theirs.

GPL isnt about freedom, its about ensuring no one can make money

Comment Re: ELI5 (Score -1) 87

Thats not actually the point of OSS. And RMS is not god and does not define it

The point of OSS is to not get fucked by the vendor. The point is not getting locked out of your shit because the vendor was taken over by some shitbag company like Broadcom and completely changes the rules and then holds your existing use of it hostage because they can. Or refuses to spend their time dealing with your scenario for your business. Or a thousand other reasons that have 0 to do with paying for it.

GPL nutjobs have this silly fantasy about never paying for it, but they have corrupted the actual meaning for that purpose, not what was intended.

The GPL virus has always been problematic for business, which is why the smart ones use MIT/Apache/BSD software in their products and why ACTUAL OPEN SOURCE advocates dont use GPL for their stuff, its more restrictive than pretty much any source license Ive ever seen.

Open source means the source is available for you to use under clear guidelines that apply to EVERYONE equally ... transfer of money for it has exactly dick to do with it.

GPL is just a fetish for those who refuse to understand how the real world works. Which is why no one can name a successful company that ONLY uses GPL software. Every one you want to name sells proprietary software to make money while piggy backing on GPL software. I challenge you to name one that doesnt.

Yes, Linus and Linux are successful ... but you notice they didn't follow that nutjob shit in GPL 3?

If you want Open, GPL ain't it, its restrictive as shit. Microsoft has licenses that arent nearly as restrictive... for a fee. Microsoft will hand you the windows source code - for a fee, under terms that meet the OSS definition but not in a way that let's you sell/steal/copy theft it.

GPL itself isnt evil, its goals are honorable. But 99.9999% of GPL nutjobs only like it cause they can use it without compensation. For them it has nothing to do with 'open' and everything to do with being cheap assholes who dont think people should be compensated for their work. They cant use it themselves, someone else has to make the binaries they goon over, or build system for them.

GPL is almost always used as a weapon.

Comment Here's a novel idea ... (Score 0) 54

How about the phone companies stop allowing spoofing of numbers you dont own as already required by law?

Its not even a little bit hard, the infrastructure is in place, SOME phone companies block from numbers not registered to the caller already, but plenty claim exceptions because it'll interrupt legit traffic ...

GOOD.

If you bring your own number and cant prove ownership, fuck off. In the US we already have databases for this that every phone company uses for call routing and number portability between carriers. We KNOW where its anchored, if you arent calling from there, you need to register additionally and this should NOT be done by easy to use APIs that spammed can exploit.

If you legit need to spoof a from number from a different carrier (plenty of legit reasons), it needs to be registered with a 1 month waiting period before allowed and $10/number fee paid before use, monthly.

Watch how quick that shit ends. Call centers can still use different inbound and outbound carriers - but they gotta wait a month and pay for it. That would utterly destroy almost every illegitimate spoof and do basically nothing against legit ones.

And no call center needs large swaths of numbers to fake, so cost us minimal.

Comment Re:Dang They dont get it do they (Score -1) 116

DACs are a dime a dozen and you aren't able to tell the difference on between whatever silly expensive headphones you use and my $30 pair with a 3.5mm port and good drivers. DACs were a solved problem more than 20 years ago, support circuitry at this point is also a pretty well solved problem for the most part - you have to go out of your way to fuck up a reference design to make it bad enough for your claim to be true.

A mac neo is certainly producing a quality signal that I'd bet a paycheck on that you can not tell the difference with audio equipment to help you, certainly not with your ears. I'm fairly confident you couldn't tell the difference between your choice digital headphones and my $30 3.5mm set.

And my 3.5mm device works all the time, never goes dead - which is pretty much what is constantly the state of wireless devices. Its absolutely silly to think like we're in 1992 and you're arguing a gravis ultrasound vs sb16 DAC.

A 3.5mm port is cheaper and smaller than any other port your are going to use in its place, including USB-C. If your device is so short on real estate place that it can't afford the space for a 3.5mm port - it better be a foldable phone or something that fits in your pocket cause pretty much every laptop has room to spare something like a 3.5mm port

I can tell by your comment that you own lots of monster cables so you get that warm sound out of your digital signal.

Comment Does it run OS X? (Score 0) 116

Because if it doesn't, its not a rival, its just another PC clone knock off wannabe.

I don't want a neo for the hardware - I want one so my kid can have OSX and not have to deal with half assed operating systems.

Almost no one buys a macbook because of the hardware. Don't get me wrong, its quality stuff - but its not the most cost effective unless you buy immediately after a good hardware refresh, otherwise its over priced and not worth running any other OS on.

People by Macs for OS X.

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