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Google may be the next big company to take on the internet of things, giving it an entry into the world of connected everyday objects. Isn't that kind of what Android is for?
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If google just stuck to providing a search engine I would have no trouble but having google spyware scripts on just about every page on the internet puts me off google but by the time you are running Android or any Google type of O/S then you may as well get chipped and pinned by google.
We have institions to stop players becoming a monoply but they are all blind to Google
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"Five Eyes" intelligence agencies built tools to spot Google, Samsung app protocols. That's it: I'm switching back to two cans and some string
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Samsung make some great hardware but the TV's they make are the worse in the world when it comes to spying.
The Samsung 12.2 Note Pro is a cool bit of kit but it's a remote terminal for samsung because you have to "Root" the device to install software to make sure it's not calling home and that voids the gurantee.
Block Samsung TV's from calling home in the routers firewall and the TV won't work with BBC Player or ITV-Player so they have you by the balls.
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'Suggested Tiles' to appear in beta next week; all users to see ads by default. And the once-proud beast continues its decline
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Just what the internet needs. More ways for companies to annoy their way onto my (eternal*) boycott list.
I don't know what could replace ads as an internet funding model; but the core concept, that shoving an distraction/interruption in my face will have a beneficial result is totally wrong. There's zero upside for a company trying to shove a banner/etc into my face. The four primary cases are:
0) The ad provider/hosting site have done something in the past to enrage me and resulted in one or more additional rules being added to my (entirely self written) set of content blocking (ABP is not just ads/etc) rules. In this case the advertiser's just wasting its money.
1) The ad is sufficiently non-intrusive I don't notice it.
2) The ad is sufficiently annoying that I update my content blocker to make it go away. Broadly speaking this means making noise or putting itself between me and what I was at the site to do.
3) 2, and it went above and beyond to the extent that the site being advertised has earned a spot on my permanent boycott list. Ads that make sound and either don't have an STEU button or that start making noise when not visible (either outside the part of the page currently visible, or in a background tab) and those that are stalking me end up in this group.
ProTips:
A) If I was looking at something with the intend to buy it, and you were the best offer I will remember that long enough to complete the transaction (stalker ads pushing a single purchase product from the site I bought it from are an extra level of fail beyond the normal). Stalking me mid-research is a good way to reduce the number of candidate products/vendors by one however.
B) If I didn't like what I saw the first time, no amount of harassment is going to change the fact.
C) If I was researching something for someone else, or just to see what was on the market; the stacker ad never had a chance of relevance to me, but will still likely earn a slot on my boycott list.
- theoretically a company could do something to convince me to remove them from it; it's never happened yet. Probably because once someone gets on the list I go out of my way to avoid any awareness of them in the future.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I always knew Firefox was in bed with Google because typing about:config into the URL bar and then searching for "Google" Pulled up about twenty links, it's not free, it cost Google about $50m a year that they pay to Firefox.
What i won't put up with is Firefox on android devices because Firefox sends out DLNA requests to TV's on your network and then gets to read the TV's serial number that is returned as XML.
BIG NO NO FIREFOX what do you think you are playing at?
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What is your favorite food? What was your first teacher’s name? What’s the name of your first pet? Do those questions sound familiar to you? If they do, it’s probably because you either have really boring and repetitive conversations or you’ve answered them as security questions when you signed up for a new account somewhere. They’re meant to provide an extra layer of security, but according to a new study by Google’s security team, they aren’t all that secure.
You mean you know what my dogs name is!? 
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They are not at all secure (already said) and at the same time they are not at all a good user-experience. They always annoy the heck out of me. For me Google has tried their best to create the worst user-experience. Facebook also has the same thing. Even the lion in the picture[^] collection is pissed off.
Yesterday I was using a website, where when I tried to post a comment... They had this recaptcha thing. Recaptcha asked me how many pictures are of "Sushi[^]". I mean... I don't know what a Sushi is (never ate it), so would that make me a robot also. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: They had this recaptcha thing. Recaptcha asked me how many pictures are of "Sushi[^]".
Must have been an older version of recaptcha. The most recent one doesn't really require any user interaction any longer, except for checking a checkbox:
https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html[^]
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Nope. It was this new (most) recent version of recaptcha with a square box to click, upon clicking it I was provided a pop up to select the favorite dish and then the tick mark showed up to state I am not a robot. Dumb Google!
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Hm. Hadn't experienced that yet. Maybe you failed clicking the box? 
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Maybe I didn't click it well. 
Maybe I had to first hover over, then put my finger over left button then... Uh, never mind.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I've read about that version a few times; but I'm still always getting the 'help googlemaps by transcribing house numbers for us' version.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Quote:
The URL http://s22.postimg.org/soimcdhzl/Screenshot_1874.png is categorized as Mixed Content/Potentially Adult.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Isn't it mixed stuff? 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I don't know, I can't see it. If it actually contains adult content, it needs voluntarily deleted or abuse flagged out of the insider forum.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The U.S. Commerce Department has proposed tighter export rules for computer security tools, a potentially controversial revision to an international agreement aimed at controlling weapons technology. Didn't they try that once?
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As Java turns 20, Oracle looks to what keeps the programming language so vital "You keep using that word..."
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The language is so simple they had to come up with all kinds of nebulous frameworks and design patterns to spice up their development experience...
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A false tweet from a hacked account owned by the Associated Press (AP) in 2013 sent financial markets into a tailspin. Twat tweets twaddle, manifests market mayhem
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According to Tim Rains the chief security advisor for Microsoft Worldwide Cybersecurity & Data Protection, the latest versions of Windows see lower malware infection rates. Maybe the hackers just can't afford the upgrades?
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Since there are also stats floating around about the biggest botnets/most common malware payloads using exploits that were patched a year or longer ago; has anyone prepared a report comparing fully patched installs of old OSes to fully patched installs of new ones?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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This is the first post in our new “Dev Tidbits” series, which looks at interesting, quirky and fun facts about developers in their professional and personal lives. "Coffee: the finest organic suspension ever devised."
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