Doh! That was literally the direction I'd of gone as well. I guess there is no pleasing some people.

That literally sounds like California.

Ironically, I find both the rural areas of both states rather nice and peaceful. I've lived in both. I prefer the dry heat over the wet heat, so I stay in California. I really miss all the greenery in Florida and all the lakes and what not. We do have lots of cool mountains and deserts here in SoCal, but it's all pretty much a blend of brown colors that gets old after a while. Still, humidity is terrible.

We're talking about politicians here. Introspection has no part in what they are doing. I've never heard or read of one ever accepting they might of possibly, maybe, on the off chance, could have ever made any kind of mistake ever.

Hmm. Sorry. No. If I take a picture of you in public, I can post that anywhere I want and there is nothing you can do about it. Speaking strictly of adults in actual public locations.

With that said, I do feel children that come of age should be able to request this be taken offline. It's still out there as the Internet doesn't tend to forget, but it's a step in the right direction. Whether it was for money or not shouldn't matter.

So glad all my mom has are a couple old photo albums that never got digitalized. Definitely feel sorry for today's youth and their addicted tiktokker parents.

I agree with your stance. Now here is a great opportunity for you to make your own digital frame, put intentionally taken photos on the SD card the device runs on, and away you go. It would make a wonderful gift, require zero Internet connection and unless your mother really understands the tech AND has no respect for her granddaughters privacy, those pictures should stay quite safe on the digital photo frame. It's a win win all around.

As per the article, it would just ignore them whenever it was convenient.

Or much more likely, that the individual in question was reusing credentials across numerous sites. The email account was probably just fine but when your credentials get leaked elsewhere, this is what happens. Obviously no MFA setup either.

Or possibly, he used a weak password that wasn't that hard to brute force. I doubt this person is a computer security professional or even a hobbyist. The 99% just doesn't understand basic computer security.

You can't really expect much from someone that thinks Iran is some how morally above the USA. As bad as we are, when was the last time we murdered 1000s of protesters? We've murdered two, and even those two have grey areas to argue about whether it was even murder or justified homicide. We still suck, but 1000s vs 2. But hey, maybe all these Iranian apologist would feel more comfortable moving to Iran. They should go and find out, since they hate USA so much.

This seems like a great area for this technology. Isn't it the feminist and the evangelicals that both say porn is bad and that it prey's upon vulnerable women? With the use of this technology, no people need be harmed from working in the industry. This enables folks to still consume the content but without people having to do the performances.

I'm more a freedom type person. If people want to do sex work for a living, why not? So long as it's regulated like every other industry and the workers taxed on the income, what's the problem? I'm sure many folks would be quite frustrated at losing this job opportunity.

The extremist in the conversation would do away with all sexual material and work while the rest of us can see the grey area and at the end of the day, shouldn't adults be allowed to make their own choices for themselves?

They are there to protect you from criminals and possibly help with privacy. It is not there to protect you from the government. Of course Apple knows who their users are and their emails and the name provided to them for it. Being able to provide an alias email is nice to avoid giving your actual email out but don't think Apple doesn't know and won't turn this over to the authorities upon request. Especially if they had a warrant.

My Vizio is so old that I doubt the thing would even receive updates if I did connect it to the Internet. I just have a raspberry pi connected to it instead. Works great.

I haven't paid under $4 in YEARS!!!! so whatever. More importantly though, we still have the option to buy gas, even if it's expensive. Go read my link, they don't even have the option to buy at any price and there are many restrictions in place so the countries don't run out. That's not a good spot to be in.

I never said I bought it. It was freely given. Turns out, I hated cigarettes and had a healthy use of alcohol where it never ran my life or was required. When I turned 21, it was no big deal that I could drink because my family let me have a single drink whenever I wanted. Turns out, I didn't see the big deal at all and it never was.

Of course, I don't really have all that much of an addictive personality type and I made sure to stay away from hard drugs because duh, I bet they would of been fun and addicting. Given all the folks that I saw using hard drugs, I decided it wasn't for me.

But like I said, we likely grew up differently. I had a ton of freedom to do whatever I wanted and yet, never got into any trouble. Breed boring I suppose :)

Yeah, everyone said that about Star Wars episodes 1-3 also. They were still entertaining.

I do agree with you they were departures from the books though. Big time. The original LOTR were much closer and even they departed from the books as well.

I'm just not THAT big a fan of the books. Sure, I've read them all but that was twenty years ago. I do however completely understand your position and can also totally understand why you feel precisely the way you do.

It's how I felt when amazon did what they did with Wheel of Time.

You know 18 is teenage AND an adult that could sign up to e-harmony.