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Gawd no! PayPal is consumer hostile, avoids or ignores consumer protection laws, operates as a bank without following the banking regulations, and is, in my opinion, a near criminal organization. I will never ever ever ever deal with PayPal.
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Quote: Originally Posted by ItsTheInternet I seriously don't understand where this idea comes from. I'm no Google employee but even I can tell that taking data on your customers and then selling that directly to your other customers is a pret…
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I'm picturing Google collecting data from thousands of users with Nest thermostats and selling the info. Let's see.... You set it down a lot at night--sell the data to makers of down comforters... You keep the thermostat high..sell the data to compa…
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Not sure what use there would be for someone to learn that I keep the thermostat set at 65 degrees at night and 68 during the day if I'm home. Still I don't like the idea of the thermostat reporting to outside agencies.. Fortunately I had no plans …
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What will happen to the people who currently work for Nest? These types of takeovers often result in a lot of people either being laid off due to duplication of departments (they don't need 2 HR depts, 2 Payroll, etc) or the top techie people not w…
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In other words, charge the content providers twice; once to send the data and another to get it received. Greed at it's best.
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Noticed on TV tonight that Microsoft is offering $ 50 off on xBox 1...Could it be it's not selling as well as they would like?
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Quote: Originally Posted by lkrupp I certainly hope so. Nothing would make me laugh harder than to see jailbreakers get their data and credit card information stolen. Poetic justice. It would certainly be funny! Poetic justice for sure. And…
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From the news it sounds as if Turkey is well on the way to becoming another corrupt country that hates the West. Why would they be interested in Apple products then? Just wonder if the Muslims have managed to start enforcing Sharia law in Turkey y…
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So did the Evasi0n jailbreak also include a backdoor so Taig can compromise IOS systems so they can steal credit card info, logins, etc? For $ 1,000,000 and a percentage of the money from stealing from IOS users, they can make a nice profit. Tai…
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So does anyone know if the jailbreak includes a backdoor for hackers to exploit your phone?
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Cue mournful funeral music...
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Quote: Originally Posted by THT They didn't have access to the A7 architecture, and none of it will be copied. At least for 2014 where most of the 64-bit CPUs will be Cortex-A53 on 28 nm, or -A57 if they have a 20 nm node ready in 2H 14. Most…
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Hmm...So Samsung is building the A7....and how much of it will they copy since they will have have access to the chip? How much of Xynos will be copied from the A7? this will make a great patent war...
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Quote: Originally Posted by StruckPaper Fair question. But then, who can they hire that wouldn't have any conflict of interest? They do have to hire someone with patent experience, don't they? Right...attorneys with serious experience in pat…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tundraboy That just might be illegal. But I don't know, I'm no lawyer. Legality is always something lawyers are good at getting around.
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Quote: Originally Posted by tundraboy Having worked at Google though, how much GOOG does she own? That's a source of conflict of interest right there if she has significant holdings. She can hide the holdings by putting them under another n…
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Quote: Originally Posted by timgriff84 Not really. Unless the article is missing something it sounds like she no longer works at Google. Very few people stay loyal to their previous employer who is no longer paying them. In most cases the opp…
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Conflict of Interest is the norm in Washington these days. No one cares, even when it extends to the SCOTUS where they make decisions where they stand to gain financially from he results. We have supposedly ex-Google people running the patent off…
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They want subsidies to end, but they won't really cut their rates for people who bring their own equipment. Right now they make a huge amount of money by selling subsidized and then when the contract ends, they get to keep the amount that previously…