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No problem, just sell their user data for a premium so they can be advertised too in other ways. Its worth squeezing this one in many extra ways since, as you said, they've signaled they are valuable targets.
Plus Meta can also change it to limited ads later and sell those for bigger money.
There was a post on here where some one mentioned a lot of people just install bike racks to block the plate and said Amazon sells lots of plate hiding stuff. I'd definitely seen plastic covers that obviously made the plate very hard to read in the wild but I'd never really thought about using different kinds of luggage racks to obscure plates.
Of course, my state used a bunch of bad paint on license plates for a number of years so you could just peel off all the paint removing any contrast from a legit plate and you'd look no different than most people's unreadable plates anyway.
On slashdot's mobile website half the ads are pictures of infected toes or something. I don't even know what they're trying to sell.
Can these people in the US get a special dispensation on their new cars?
https://www.kbb.com/car-news/new-law-will-require-in-car-bre...
Microsoft actually used the disk encryption scheme by default in early versions of bitlocker. They had to backtrack because the disk encryption implementations were found to often not work at all!
I was sort of surprised to find that standard crypt-setup in linux actually supports opening true/veracrypt volumes. It doesn't support creating them as near as I can tell though.
I thought that was also the version that isn't available for retail sale to individuals.
Kind of unfortunate timing as I recently decided to make it a priority to upgrade a VM Windows 7 install this way. I actually started the process a week before the deadline but ran into a cryptic error I didn't have time to resolve.
- Doctors in training usually want to work as much as possible to finish their training as fast as possible, especially if they want to work in surgery. For instance, if you train for "general surgery", you need to do about 25 appendectomies, about 35 cholecystectomies, and so on. So in a perverse way, you need a bit of "luck" that you are working while these cases come in. More time in the hospital simply increases your luck.
Sounds like a great way to incentivize tons of unnecessary surgeries as well.
The actually had Russian in the beta add-on version. I wonder if there is still a way to add it back. It was the most useful language, but I agree about Chinese.
I've been using the browser add-on for this feature. Did they merge it into the main browser then?
My only complaint about it really is that it has no Asian languages.
Doesn't Amazon prevent you from selling on other stores for a lesser price? I always thought that was a galling scam and couldn't understand why it was even allowed at all.
Apparently product dumping isn't illegal if you do it on the internet. This wasn't even a fuzzy digital goods or services example either.
It could be used to hunt down reporters and whistleblowers if the cameras have to be purchased with an ID. So the very people who would benefit might be forced to strip this extra data to protect themselves.
I wonder if you could use the camera to record deepfaked video and in effect bless a lie. Even just filming a TV set might be enough for low grade blackmail and much more complicated methods are available.
One unexpected issue with digital media is changing manufacturing quality and an inability to identify it until it is to late. Early stage floppy disks and CDs actually were pretty reliable but by the tail end so much cost saving had happened in manufacturing they'd turned to crap.
The same thing has happened with flash drives already, how do you identify a good flash drive? If you aren't careful you'll end up with a counterfeit but even the genuine articles have shaky reputations and manufacturers change the internal parts all the time.
If some people attempting to use Bing to create erotica or gory images of a historical figure causes the figure to be erased from the data set this thing is doomed.
I wonder what will be left when they have removed anything potentially dangerous or offensive. Maybe just advertisements. But advertisements for competitors products are also offensive.
Bizarre they would make room in the specification for a DOA misfeature no one is going to use and everyone hates. Why not remove it from the spec and place the requirement of synchronization support into the spec instead?
I personally feel safer that passkeys aren't sync'd across multiple vendors' products.
Last time I checked into these hardware attestation was part of the specification but the ability export them from a vendors platforms is not. In practice that will mean unapproved platforms can be shut out and walled gardens strengthened. Which will happen sooner or later because it can. Apple supposedly zeroes their attestation but that is only a partial mitigation and relies upon the values of a giant corporation not changing its mind for any host of business reasons. And it does nothing to stop other platforms.
My understanding is that GPT can't actually be used to port a game to sell, ostensibly it is for proving out performance possibilities available from when you do port your game (to native metal). Has that changed?
To me it sounded like there was a group within Apple that wants to create an emulation layer (and did essentially) but that leadership hates the idea and in its current state it is a compromise that it even exists at all.
It bothers me a bit when I see the narrative on here that the introduction of the Steam Deck changed everything for linux gaming, but really it is a culmination of steady ongoing work that didn't even start with Valve. I've been primary linux gaming since probably about 2014. When Steam machines fizzled out Valve just quietly brushed it off and continued investing in the general concept.
And then manually applying them. If the game was old enough you might need to apply multiple patches, something you'd have to figure out. I definitely had mixed feelings about Steam at first, and my internet connection at the time was such I'd hoard some larger patches and didn't like the idea of re-downloading them on reinstall but there is no doubt now that where Valve was going with this was the future.
It does seem like Amazon has bought up rights to a lot of older content.
Just get some of the many RF controlled switches available on amazon. Many of them you don't even need to do any wiring to use them.
Seems like cheap auto off timers and simple motion detector lights would solve all those problems with 1970s technology and no network connections at all.
If telemetry is so valuable these companies should give you discounts or payments for enabling it instead of sneaking in like a thief in the night to take it.
A lot of modern software seems overloaded with dark patterns to trick users into unintended actions that make the company more money. I suspect for many companies telemetry's real value is for marketing research and A/B testing the effectiveness of the latest dark pattern implementations.
Doesn't track to me. There is no loss to Equifax really from losing all the data besides a fine. I doubt many of their customers are willing or able to purchase their data from dark markets at a discount, and the data would age unless the hack remained in place.
I found this worked on my newer PC but did not work on my older z77 chipset based one, even though it supports support UEFI.
Which, ironically, will make traffic worse by increasing the maximum amount of it a person can endure.
Ads suck but paying won't make them go away. They are now spreading like a cancer and being forced into products that people were already happily paying for before because the search for additional revenue is unstoppable from publicly traded companies. At best paying will reduce the number of ads you see while making your data more valuable for advertising and tracking purposes by proving you have money and verifying your identity, resulting in you being targeted as a valuable mark. Companies will still be able to pay to be verified and create astroturfing posts and outright ads on the platform and now they will know where to focus their efforts because you will have a target painted on your back and your location is for sale.