That's not what he said at all, even remotely. He said "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place" and that was largely in the context that no matter what Google does, the American government can come in and take any information they want that is stored on Google's servers with very little recourse.
You still are not understanding, the tx and rx are simply what speed they are connected at, not any different than your ethernet connection reporting 100 mbps or 1000 mbps, it does not mean it is actually transmitting that much data.
Is that a typo? While I don't doubt that Alexa sends some amount of data to the internet, I find it hard to believe that it uses 114 mbps per device, maybe you meant 14 mbps?
I agree, even if we assume what he did is illegal, its sort of like impounding someone's car and arresting them for dangerous driving because they went 1 mph over the speed limit. We don't do that even though it is technically illegal because that would not be a good use of the legal resources we have, which are finite. Same thing if we arrested and imprisoned everyone who fiddled with url parameter, it would be a waste of finite resources. Probably a phone call saying 'Hey can you please stop doing that would suffice in most cases.
That's not a correct counter argument, the information he got was understood to be public and there was no reason to expect or think there was any private information on there.
If the site had said "This site provides tax returns" then there would be reason to expect the files would contain private information.
The site in question gave no indication there would be private information in those files.
Also, technical nitpick, there are some countries where tax information is public so probably not the best thing to go with.
But its not a new technology, we have been using radio for over 100 years, just because its 5ghz doesn't completely change the physics involved.
Sure if this was a drastically new technology like lets say teleportation, it would be a bad idea to blindly use it everywhere without some study into the physical effects. Radio though is very well understood.
Radium wasn't used for over a century all over the entire planet and exposed to most of the entire population of the world their entire lives. It's literally the worst comparison to non-ionizing radiation possible.
I think if there were significant issues with non-ionizing radiation, we would have a large sample size by now since almost everyone is exposed to it their entire life.
Also, what is significant about your phone heating up your ear? I can my make ear red with heat by wearing a toque in a warm room, that does not have anything to do with if it causes cancer or not.
Maybe if you didn't already agree to the EULA. While it's true that some EULAs are of dubious legality, I doubt a court would say that the facebook EULA is totally invalid, but a random post on facebook is legally binding.
Ummm, most modern cards can go far above 5000 miles, and definitely longer than 2500 miles. If you have an old beater from the 90s, it might be a good idea to change it every 2500 miles but definitely not any car made in the past decade.
"One GM car Edmunds drove went 13,000 miles before the monitoring system indicated the need for an oil change. We sent a sample of that oil to a lab for analysis. The results showed that the oil could have safely delivered at least another 2,000 miles of service."
Well there definitely is no criminal law against starting a company with student loans. It would be up to the actual contract he signed which might not say anything about how you spend the money as long as you you aren't lying about anything in the application(ie. amount of income you make, actually being registered for classes etc).
CBP is Customs and Border Protection which is the American department for that. Canada has the CBSA - Canadian Border Services Agency. So you wouldn't get harassed by the CBP if you were entering Canada, it would be the CBSA.
The Coquihalla highway (BC-5) is notorious for it's steep hill and the speed limit is 120 km/h in ordinary conditions. I could probably find a lot of highways in BC that are similiar.
Google maps says that a typical commute arriving at 9 am would take between 40 minutes to an hour and 5 minutes from Langley to downtown Vancouver. Of course if there is a crazy accident or severe construction it could take way longer, but that is the same as a commute anywhere to anywhere.
2 hours is a pretty big exaggeration.
To put in perspective, ~2 hours drive from downtown Vancouver is Yale BC, or if you went northwest down the 99, that would put you in Pemberton, which both are really in the middle of nowhere. I don't know of any large city where you can buy a detached singe family house cheaply anywhere close to the downtown core.
Should the person taking out the loan have 0 responsibility as well? Surely either the janitor or the english lit major should have some personal responsibility when it comes to taking on debt that they could not possibly pay back. I think both parties in the transaction have some responsibility in making sure that the loan is beneficial.
FileZilla is a legacy win32 app? I understand what you mean but that's a poor example considering it runs on Linux and OSX as well and is still updated quite frequently.
I use the facebook app quite a bit, and its never used more than a few precent of my battery in the battery stats on Android, and usually significantly less than my mail client(K-9 Mail) so I never understood the meme that the facebook app uses a ton of battery. Just having the screen on is going to use more battery than the facebook app.
Really? I don't know many university students that don't have the latest smartphone(or at least a fairly recent one) which usually implies they have a data plan of some kind since most of them don't have $800+ to pay outright.
But to be fair at my university there are also a lot of students that drive brand new or fairly new cars too and I've parked beside too many Porsches the student parking lot.
Well there is definitely some BS to it, as there is with any customer facing job. I'm sure you know though, after dealing with people's BS all day long, someone saying they are recording their call isn't going to phase you much, and if it were me I would be even less helpful since you've already started the call on an aggressive note and put me on the defensive.
I live in Canada, and I don't know anyone who lives here that doesn't have a data plan of some kind, although I'm sure they definitely do exist and there are definitely people without a ton of data.
Why? its not like they have anything to lose by having a customer record their call as long as they are following company policy and not doing anything ridiculous like swearing at the customer. Most of the time unless you are talking to a higher level, the CSRs can't really do a whole lot besides listen to you anyways so what are they going to do differently?
I've worked as a CSR for a wireless company in Canada for a short period of time and as tech support for a large north american PC manufacturer for awhile and nothing I did ever changed just because a customer was recording the phone call. I still followed whatever the company policy was on the issue and spoke in a professional manner. Not saying you were wrong in anyway of course but if a CSR is doing their job properly they shouldn't be phased at all by a customer recording the phone call.
a constitutional republic is contained in the set of democratic governments. You could just as well say Canada is not a democracy, its a constitutional monarchy.
Uhh Fly-by-wire has nothing to do with autopilot. Fly-by-wire is just that the controls are dealt with in software rather than physical connections to the controls.
Well I'm in Canada so straight talk is unavailable. As far as I know there is no provider that offers unlimited plans for everything at a reasonable cost. I'm with Fido and my plan is $45/month with 200 mb data, 200 weekday minutes canada-wide, unlimited evenings and weekends, unlimited SMS and MMS. The cheapest plan they offer that includes data is $39/month. The cheapest plan period that isn't prepaid that I've seen from any canadian provider is $35/month. So if I spent $10 less a month which is $288 for 2 years, it would just barely cover the cost of the phone and I wouldn't have any data either. So in the best case I wouldn't save any money by buying my own phone.
I got my nexus 4 for 'free' on a contract and even if I bought it outright and got on the cheapest plan with roughly the same features, I would've only saved $5 a month. 5 * 24( 2 year contract) is only 120 so by going on a contract I saved at least $100 on the cost of my phone. If you are smart you can save money by going on a contract.
Well some introductory CS courses are taken by people in other majors. At my university, all science majors(as far as I know) have to take at least 1 introductory programming course. In that context, it makes sense to use python to introduce the concept of programming to people.
Then you could argue that any embedded device that runs the Linux kernel is not Linux because it doesn't use the GNU userland. I think its splitting hairs, anything that runs the Linux kernel is by definition, Linux. You can replace the GNU userland with anything you want, it doesn't suddenly make it a completely new operating system.