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There are some interesting court cases going on though, with the analogs of your scenario but with student data.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/02/0...
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/03/13/26google.h33.ht...
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/google-deceptively-tracks...
>When Olmos, who says he has spent thousands of pounds on Apple products over the years, took it to an Apple store in London, staff told him there was nothing they could do, and that his phone was now junk. He had to pay £270 for a replacement and is furious.
We are all smart people here and there are several ways to have security without bricking expensive hardware.
First, the update can wipe the device instead of bricking it.
Second, Apple can provide an option to replace the fingerprint chip and charge, $150-$200 or whatever it costs for it.
There would be several better solutions that the most profitable company in the world could figure out if they wanted to. It's funny how their particular solution happens to make them even more money through shutting down third party repairs and making people buy new phones.
This is like your home alarm software(made by the home builder) remotely burning down your house and telling you to build a new one because someone may have tampered with home access and could possibly enter your home.
This is more like your Tesla car's keyfob misfunctioning and you get it repaired by a non-Tesla dealer. The dealer could've put in a backdoor to get into the vehicle.
Tesla releases a big new update for their car software and now your Tesla is completely bricked and Tesla refuses to repair it, saying you have to buy a new car.
Is that acceptable?
Also, typed Ctrl-F "linux" on that page and didn't find a single mention, which is interesting from a branding perspective.
Edit: Can this run, say LibreOffice or Gimp or any other Linux program?
That couldn't be further from the truth.
How many people know Google using location data from Android phones to track which physical stores users visit?
They were even mining paid Google Apps for Business accounts for tracking data.
From http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/03/13/26google.h33.ht...
Highlights:
"As part of a potentially explosive lawsuit making its way through federal court, the giant online-services provider Google has acknowledged scanning the contents of millions of email messages sent and received by student users of the company’s Apps for Education tool suite for schools. In the suit, the Mountain View, Calif.-based company also faces accusations from plaintiffs that it went further, crossing a “creepy line” by using information gleaned from the scans to build “surreptitious” profiles of Apps for Education users that could be used for such purposes as targeted advertising."
"A Google spokeswoman confirmed to Education Week that the company “scans and indexes” the emails of all Apps for Education users for a variety of purposes, including potential advertising, via automated processes that cannot be turned off—even for Apps for Education customers who elect not to receive ads. The company would not say whether those email scans are used to help build profiles of students or other Apps for Education users, but said the results of its data mining are not used to actually target ads to Apps for Education users unless they choose to receive them."
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"Student-data-privacy experts contend that the latter claim is contradicted by Google’s own court filings in the California suit. They describe the case as highly troubling and likely to further inflame rising national concern that protection of children’s private educational information is too lax."
"Mr. Thiele said his district has used Google Apps for Education since 2008. Officials there have always been aware that the company does “back-end processing” of students’ email messages, he said, but the district’s agreement with Google precludes such data from being used to serve ads to students or staff members. As long as the company abides by those terms, Mr. Thiele said, “I don’t have any problem with it.” In an emailed statement provided to Education Week, Bram Bout, the director of Google Apps for Education, said that “ads in Gmail are turned off by default for Google Apps for Education and we have no plans to change that in the future.”" ... "Those plaintiffs in the California lawsuit allege that Google treats Google Apps for Education email users virtually the same as it treats consumer Gmail users. That means not only mining students’ email messages for key words and other information, but also using resulting data—including newly created derivative information, or “metadata”—for “secret user profiling” that could serve as the basis for such activities as delivering targeted ads in Google products other than Apps for Education, such as Google Search, Google+, and YouTube."
"The plaintiffs allege that Google has employed such practices since around 2010, when it began using a new technology, known as Content Onebox, that allows the company to intercept and scan emails before they reach their intended recipients, rather than after messages are delivered to users’ inboxes, regardless of whether ads are turned off."
"While the allegations by the plaintiffs are explosive, it’s the sworn declarations of Google representatives in response to their claims that have truly raised the eyebrows of observers and privacy experts. Contrary to the company’s earlier public statements, Google representatives acknowledged in a September motion to dismiss the plaintiffs’ request for class certification that the company’s consumer-privacy policy applies to Apps for Education users. Thus, Google argues, it has students’ (and other Apps for Education users’) consent to scan and process their emails."
"In November, Kyle C. Wong, a lawyer representing Google, also argued in a formal declaration submitted to the court in opposition to the plaintiffs’ motion for class certification that the company’s data-mining practices are widely known, and that the plaintiffs’ complaints that the scanning and processing of their emails was done secretly are thus invalid. Mr. Wong cited extensive media coverage about Google’s data mining of Gmail consumer users’
>Mr. Wong’s inclusion of the following reference to the disclosure provided to students at the University of Alaska particularly caught the attention of privacy advocates: The University of Alaska (“UA”) has a “Google Mail FAQs,” which asks, “I hear that Google reads my email. Is this true?” The answer states, “They do not ‘read’ your email per se. For use in targeted advertising on their other sites, if your email is not encrypted, software (not a person) does scan your email and compile keywords for advertising. For example, if the software looks at 100 emails and identifies the word ‘Doritos’ or ‘camping’ 50 times, they will use that data for advertising on their other sites.” “The fact that Google put this in their declaration means we take it as true,” said Ms. Barnes of the privacy watchdog group EPIC. Google’s sworn court statements reveal that the company has violated student trust by using students’ education records for profit.”
From a Google filing in court about Gmail privacy:
>Indeed, “a person has no legitimate expectation of privacy in information he voluntarily turns over to third parties.” Smith v. Maryland, 442 U.S. 735, 743-44 (1979).
>it's "inconceivable" that someone using a Gmail account would not be aware that the information in their email would be known to Google.
Just MS alone? DirectX helps hundreds of millions of gamers, a whole bunch of game and application developers and companies.
That's like saying improvements to the Linux kernel help only the Linux kernel.
>Vulkan is done from scratch, and so far I see no signs of them making mistakes of OpenGL
Huh, how do you see that? The spec is developed behind closed doors by corporate folks each with their own interests. Even the W3C holds open discussions with specs.
A real alternative would be for the FOSS/Linux dev community to create and implement a standard properly.
Edit: The below blog redirects HN referrers to a funny image macro, copy paste the link instead.
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/06/i-have-ported-xscreensaver-...
The delayed spec hasn't even been released yet and Nvidia is already making Vulkan extensions on its own.
Nvidia is already beginning the lock in and fragmentation process by making Vulkan extensions.
https://developer.nvidia.com/engaging-voyage-vulkan
>NVIDIA will therefore provide a few Vulkan extensions from day zero, so that you as developer can enjoy less obstacles on your path to Vulkan. We will support consuming GLSL shader strings directly next to Vulkan's mandatory SPIR-V input
I am guess you're not a game developer and your post is yet another case of [1].
I am a game dev and here are some links that show to non game devs why DirectX is more popular:
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/60544/why-do-...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2711231
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/opengl-directx,2019.html
[1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/07/linus-...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2457760
"arguably more bad than good being done"
There is no such requirement.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/harold-meyerson-the-...
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-cor...
>EDIT: Sorry - misread your 404 question -- try these:
I read those and I don't find anything to justify OPs "$400m to fund ways to destroy GNU/Linux" or The Register's characterization of '$421m to fight Linux".
For example, they started funding OpenSSL and other core infrastructure[1] projects of the Linux foundation after the Heartbleed fiasco. But you don't find that kind of news on here.
By the way "$400m to fund ways to destroy GNU/Linux" seems to be quite hyperbolic, especially coming from 'The Register'. The link in the article goes to a 404 page, do you have any real details of the so called campaign?
[1] https://threatpost.com/group-backed-by-google-microsoft-to-h...
That's well put and explains the furor over Bill Gates' charity work while other immensely rich folks get zero heat for essentially hoarding their wealth like Scrooge McDuck instead.
The source is Breitbart, and both articles starting with "The Obama Administration...." should give you a clue that this is a hit piece and will not just bend facts, but outirght lie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breitbart_News_Network
Miano is just trying to sell his new book about this matter, co-authored with Michelle Malkin, a right wing Fox News contributor. So the more lies they can pile in, the better for them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin
Also, they don't like these new rules because big business can no longer stagnate wages for many immigrants stuck for decades in the immigration backlog.
I guess they don't also don't like this provision which makes it easier to report employer abuses:
>H-1B Whistleblowers: Establishing special eligibility for otherwise unavailable extensions and changes of status for H-1B “whistleblowers” who face retaliation for reporting an employer’s violation of an H-1B Labor Condition Application
>I find it hard to digest that someone who is paid to work on these mattters full time can get so many facts wrong.
Simple, think of them like you do used cars salesmen or lawyers, their job is to lie even if they know the truth, and their audience will know no better, so it works very well.
This person was the chairman of the board, read through his profile:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorma_Ollila
>Prior to joining Nokia in 1985, Ollila worked for eight years in corporate banking at Citibank's London and Helsinki offices, and when he joined Nokia his tasks involved international investment deals. A year later, in 1986, Ollila found himself as head of finance during Nokia's renewal under then CEO Kari Kairamo. He was appointed as chief of the mobile phones section in 1990, and CEO two years later in 1992. When Ollila first came to power, the company had suffered from internal disputes and had had a financial crisis for a number of years.
>As CEO of Nokia he has led the strategy that restructured the former industrial conglomerate into one of the major companies in the mobile phone and telecommunications infrastructure markets.
>In 1999, Ollila seriously considered taking part in the Finnish presidential election, following a request from a member of the National Coalition Party, Sauli Niinistö[citation needed] who was at that time Finnish finance minister and who later became Speaker of the Finnish Parliament. This was in spite the fact that Ollila belongs to a different party, the Finnish Centre party, which he has been involved with since his activities in student politics at the University of Helsinki[citation needed].
>He was CEO of Nokia from 1999 to 2006. He was succeeded as CEO by Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo. On 15 September 2010, he announced he intended to step down from the position of Chairman in 2012[2] and did so on 3 May 2012.[3]
>Ollila is the Chairman of the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA), the most reputed economic and social studies think tank in Finland. Since 2005, he is chairman of the European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT).
That doesn't look like someone who would trash a company they built for whatever conspiracy theories people cook up about how Elop got hired.
It's funny how Microsoft is ascribed the superpowers of a comic book super villian around these parts while they barely break 3% in the mobile market.
If you need to use a social media account name that says "company name cares" then its obvious that most customers think you don't care.
Have been using Linux off and on since 2000. Later my job required .NET, so got into the MS stack but still kept playing around with Linux for things like IRC bots etc.
Then at work there was a major open source push, and we did a big project using Drupal. Used Eclipse and Netbeans(mostly this), deployed to Ubuntu server for dev and RHEL/CentOS for prod. I can sling Vim but never like Emacs(you need a second nose to type some of the shortcuts!)
I was DevOps because only I in the team had Linux experience beforehand. There were some good things but C# vs. PHP was no contest as was VS vs. Netbeans/Eclipse.
Ubuntu vs. CentOS/RHEL was quite annoying because there were small meaningless fragmentation differences like Apache daemon as httpd in one and apache2 in the other. Really? Why? I found myself raging at them sometimes.
After doing that for a year, back to VS and .NET and it felt like a relief. I liked the power of nginx though which we used as a reverse proxy for the Drupal project.
YCombinator also invested in a company that did this.
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20130115/y-combinator-is-fu...
Here's pg's response:
>2. The apps that get installed are "crapware."
>This one seems a matter of opinion. A lot of the world's most popular apps and sites seem like junk to us. But the users are choosing to install these things.
[1] https://deals.slashdot.org/?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=n...
Would be interesting to see if Slashdot posts this story.