What? No new emojis? I thought that was an integral part of an operating system update nowadays
Posts by Luke Worm
80 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jan 2014
So what's in the new Windows Insider build? Bug fixes, an AR goof-around, and a font
Official: America auto-scanned visitors' social media profiles. Also: It didn't work properly
Don't worry about Privacy Shield, it's fine. Really. I promise, says US trade watchdog head
Comcast lied and now it must STFU: Its cable broadband is not 'the fastest' in the US
Super Cali: Be realistic, 'autopilot' is bogus – even though the sound of it is something quite precocious
We live in a world where a 'Hamdog' burger hybrid is patented
Making us pay tax will DESTROY EUROPE, roars Apple's Tim Cook
UK gov says new Home Sec will have powers to ban end-to-end encryption
How innocent people 'of no security interest' are mere keystrokes away in UK's spy databases
Dynamics
"The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what [government officials] do: that's why they are called public servants.
They are supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that's why we are called private individuals.
This dynamic - the hallmark of healthy and free society - has been radically reversed. Now, they know everything about what we do, and are constantly building systems to know more. Meanwhile, we know less and less about what they do, as they build walls of secrecy behind which they function. That's the imbalance that needs to come to an end. No democracy can be healthy and functional if the most consequential acts of those who wield political power are completely unknown to those to whom they are supposed to be accountable."
---- Glenn Greenwald
Nest bricks Revolv home automation hubs, because evolution
French parliament votes to jail tech execs who refuse to decrypt data
How many Surface power cords are a fire risk? 2.25 million in the US alone
Most of the world still dependent on cash
Yes, negative interest rates is one thing, transaction fees are the next. And then the government wants to tax every transaction. Without cash there is no escape, except: moving savings to another country, another currency, gold, silver. Of course, in such cases the government would impose an "exit tax".
Everything is recorded by VISA, your bank, Apple, Google, Facebook and others. All of course in the interest of a greater good (for others).
For fsck's SAKKE: GCHQ-built phone voice encryption has massive backdoor – researcher
Bigger than Safe Harbor: Microsoft prez vows to take down US gov in data protection lawsuit
TTIP
To further enforce this "everywhere in the world is the United States", Europe, as well as countries around the Pacific, will get dictated this TTIP agreement. Under the banners of "free trade" and "economic growth".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_Trade_and_Investment_Partnership
The puppets in Brussels are of course following uncle Joe without much questioning.