jebblue
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Comment · 11 years ago
Trends are important to consumers and to hackers (I'm one of both), that's the purpose of the question and a huge one that matters.
Comment · 11 years ago
Considering the price of phones today, the prominance of mobile use and development, it seems like a very reasonable question. There are a lot of blog and production site articles on the topic as well. If you're not interested then why not just ignore.
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Comment · 11 years ago
This looks great! I'd really love to see Google and Microsoft stop people from registering a new account to send spam to my accounts. If my humble Postfix/Spamassassin configuration can correctly identify them as spam; I'd expect Google and Microsoft to be able to do the same and stop those messages before they are sent, particularly when they have virus document attachments. I just got another one yesterday.
Comment · 11 years ago
Why was this down voted?
Comment · 11 years ago
I wonder if any of this could be related to recent tensions in Korea?
Comment · 11 years ago
I'm not rich enough to be an investor but I agree, some kind of cool down system should be required.
Comment · 11 years ago
>> My coworkers are middle aged, suburban folks, while mostly nice it gets tiresome explaining what a selfie is or how Twitter works
Assuming you work in technology, you really know and work with middle aged people who are not aware of the terms selfie and Twitter?
Comment · 11 years ago
Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc. you call all start having my photos and blogs and other stuff if you agree to share some of the profits you make off of me. Until then, no dice.
Comment · 11 years ago
>> The thing that so many people fail to realize is that the data isn't valuable in and of itself.
It is valuable to the company you're giving it to since they get paid by the advertising. They also get money from their partners who we so graciously agree to allow them to "share" it with which happens to be for profit for them.
>> The data is a means to an end, which is showing you relevant ads. >> If everyone stopped using Facebook tomorrow, the value of all the information Facebook has gathered would be negligible.
They can still sell your information to whomever they want which means even in your scenario they would still be making tons of money, I'm guessing here, hundreds of millions IMHO. So your arguments are not correct.
Comment · 11 years ago
>> devices will frequently connect to the first, strongest signal they see
That is worrisome, someone could build a portable station to hijack people's phones, do some phishing then move on to another location.
Comment · 11 years ago
The blond haired kid with his face mushed against the window cracks me up every time. I wonder if some of these future developers will be using XAML and building Windows apps?