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Quote: "The current state of terms and conditions for digital services is bordering on the absurd," said Finn Myrstad from the Norwegian Consumer Council.
"Their scope, length and complexity mean it is virtually impossible to make good and informed decisions."
As a suggestion, to be an informed consumer, I'd advise simply assuming they say to "bend over and grab your ankles" until an expose is published somewhere proving that - regardless of what is or isn't written in the T&C - by using the service you are doing so. 
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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That means they're smarter than me for reading those, or I'm smarter than them for not reading them. Who knows. 
Marc
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Just because millennials grew up with technology doesn’t mean they’re actually smarter about how they use it. If anything, they appear to be more careless when it comes to online security. Yea, but how many elderly people made a throwaway McDonald's account that one time just to get 5 cents off an apple pie?
modified 25-May-16 16:26pm.
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Microsoft is bowing out of building its own phones for consumers. After dramatically scaling back its Lumia devices last year, Microsoft hammered the final nail in the coffin today with an additional $950 million write off and 1,850 more job losses. And the sea will grant each man new hope, as sleep brings dreams of home.
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I wonder if they "won" it only because others saw the mobile opportunity way sooner than the Microserfs.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Google will begin testing an alternative to passwords next month, in a move that could do away with complicated logins for good. You may know my face and how I type and how I swipe, but you don't know my HEART, Google.
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So, if I'm understanding this correctly, if I were crazy enough to enable this, and then had my phone stolen:
Instead of being presented by a lock screen with an unknown password, a thief would be able to just swipe the lock screen away and start poking at the data in my apps until at some point the phone figured out it probably wasn't me?  
I've also always been somewhat skeptical about assertations about being able to ID me based on how I enter my password itself. In addition to the time based variations where I get steadily faster with practice at entering my work password after each mandatory insecurity change but will slow down slightly on try 2 and significantly on try 3 (to avoid getting locked), the cadence of my entering my PW varies significantly depending on if:
0) I'm using a real keyboard.
1) or I'm using my laptop keyboard.
2) If I'm sitting down.
3) or if I'm standing.
4) If I'm using both hands.
5) or if I've got one full and am typing with just my left.
That's a total of 24 (2^3 typing options and 3 relative entry speeds) baseline permutations on just my work PW. For my personal accounts, there're 2 or 3 more from large differences in how I enter it on a tablet or a phone and a smaller variation in how I enter it on a phone with a bigger screen and a full keyboard vs a small screened phone and the default Google one (and then have to pop the sub-keyboard for the non-alphanumeric characters).
Beyond that, the distribution of where the keys in my password are located means that I often end up stabilizing on different cadences depending on what my PW ends up looking like. Short of learning how I type dozens of passwords I'm not sure how it would be possible for a system to be able to learn in advance how this will affect my entering a new PW after I change it.
I don't know enough about how the systems are implemented to prove this would be a game breaker. But every article I've seen hyping them has been written on the premise that you have One Unique Way of entering a password that it can use as an identity point; when I'm fairly sure I've got a minimum of several dozen depending on circumstances.
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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Clicking the cross in the top-right hand corner of the pop-up box now agrees to a scheduled upgrade rather than rejecting it. This is just one cautionary tale after another.
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Dozens of French police raided Google's (GOOGL.O) Paris headquarters on Tuesday, escalating an investigation into the digital giant on suspicion of tax evasion. I'm sure tax evasion in French sounds much more florid and innocent.
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Google should shut-down all of its sites and services in the whole of Europe. I'm betting that 24 hours of living with the alternatives will bring the EU back to reality.
That's what I do. I drink, and I know things. ~ Tyrion Lannister
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Then I will let Pete take the bow as it goes out in the Daily tomorrow and I will shake my hands wildly to distract you away from this post.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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With all those eyes all over the globe dialed in and the purchasing power available, the online giant has tapped into a controversial delivery of data into its intelligence gathering. It all starts with something that you may not even realize is enabled on your phone. If they are the least they could do is remind me to pick up the milk on the way home. I tend to forget.
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hmmmm, so if I don't have a farsebook account, and have never launched the app itself, do I still need to root my phone to scrub it off?
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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In a bid to accelerate growth and reduce labor costs, Apple supplier Foxconn cut 60,000 jobs at a single factory, work that is now being completed by robots. Do any of these robots combine to make a mighty robot? Loved by good, feared by evil?
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"You don’t take people’s property without permission and use it for your own benefit," said Oracle lawyer Peter Bicks. "Google took a shortcut, and they took a shortcut at Oracle’s expense." Wow the whiteboards and puppets and condescending tone really are coming out.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is attempting to suppress information about a massive database which contains fingerprints, palm prints, iris, voice, and face scans, as well as other biometric data, of millions of Americans. FBI? Secretive? Nawww
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Chad Lung recently put together a tutorial about writing a Python microservice using AWS Lambda, reachable via HTTP. It’s well written, it’s cogent, and it does a great job of demonstrating how Lambda is cool. (with a focus on API Gateway)
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There is a big problem with a system (at the very base), where for setting up a web server you need two hours of guided sweating...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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The Windows 10 Anniversary Update includes new RAM requirements. How low did we think they were going to keep the floor?
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At first, I suspected that the data might be a television stream for the TVs, but the packet length seemed too small, even for a single video frame. How curiosity wasted the programmer's time.
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Well, it was music to his ears. 
/ravi
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Tools masquerading as languages, maddening syntax, dusty code that won’t die -- here's what has us shaking our fists Come visit your on-again off-again friends.
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