higherpurpose (u/higherpurpose)

higherpurpose commented on Microsoft’s new small print – how your personal data is abused edri.org/microsofts-new-s... · Posted by u/rvern

urwth6u · 10 years ago

So let's drop all pretense here. As a citizen of an European country, using Microsoft Account™, NSA can look at anything I do?

higherpurpose · 10 years ago

Despite all the "new security features" in Windows 10, or perhaps in spite of them as a work-around, Windows 10 seems to be the most "law enforcement friendly" OS yet (not just out of Windows all versions, but out of all operating systems).

higherpurpose commented on MPEG LA Seeks More Rent, Announces Call for Patents Essential to DASH streamingmedia.com/Articl... · Posted by u/clouddrover

higherpurpose · 10 years ago

Can we please stop using MPEG-LA technologies on the web?! This nonsense will never end otherwise. At best you buy a few years with some new technology while they pretend to not charge you so everyone adopts the technology. And then they come knocking.

The only way to end this cycle is to stop using their technologies. Full stop.

higherpurpose commented on Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today blogs.windows.com/bloggin... · Posted by u/Garbage

k-mcgrady · 10 years ago

Have they ever synchronised the OEM release with hardware releases? I always thought they released the boxed version and then a few months later it started appearing on PC's.

higherpurpose · 10 years ago

Either way, Windows 10 seems rushed. They're pushing patches as we speak to the "RTM" version.

higherpurpose commented on Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today blogs.windows.com/bloggin... · Posted by u/Garbage

higherpurpose · 10 years ago

Reasons for why you might not want the upgrade:

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/3f060k/anonymou...

higherpurpose commented on 3D Xpoint memory: Faster-than-flash storage unveiled bbc.com/news/technology-3... · Posted by u/Sami_Lehtinen

higherpurpose · 10 years ago

I assume there are some other disadvantages besides just a high price compared to either DRAM or SSD storage. What are they?

higherpurpose commented on “We are considering adding an extension to restrict the use of WebRTC” bugzilla.mozilla.org/show... · Posted by u/eloycoto

jnbiche · 10 years ago

I don't understand why a peer-to-peer network connection is different from Ajax. Browsers don't require user approval for 3rd-party XMLHttpRequest connections. WebSockets are even more permissive. Why is WebRTC being singled out here?

If I were a conspiracy-minded person (I'm not), I'd have to wonder if this was some kind of corporate-driven attempt to suppress peer-to-peer networks. In fact, I do think this is being done in good faith (even though I strongly disagree), but other users will not be so understanding.

Edit: s/advertiser-driven/corporate-driven I think there are a lot of big companies, particularly social media, that have a huge vested interest in suppressing web-based peer-to-peer networks. Not claiming that's what's happening here, but the threat posed by WebRTC to those companies is very real. At present, a peer-to-peer Twitter would not be impossible to pull off technically with WebRTC, a DHT, and a modest number of STUN servers. The hard part is convincing users it's in their best interest to switch, but if that could be accomplished...

higherpurpose · 10 years ago

Look at it this way - if Tor (which is based on Firefox) allowed WebRTC by default, it would be useless for its intended privacy purpose.

higherpurpose commented on “We are considering adding an extension to restrict the use of WebRTC” bugzilla.mozilla.org/show... · Posted by u/eloycoto

higherpurpose · 10 years ago

Why can't they just disable WebRTC by default and ask the user for permission like they do with location and so on, without revealing the IP before the user accepts the connection? Also, maybe the user could easily whitelist some connections/WebRTC IDs?

higherpurpose commented on N.S.A. Will Not Be Allowed to Keep Old Phone Records nytimes.com/2015/07/28/us... · Posted by u/jeo1234

higherpurpose · 10 years ago

Wink wink, nudge nudge?

higherpurpose commented on Using Google without a Google+ profile googleblog.blogspot.com/2... · Posted by u/davidcgl

legohead · 10 years ago

This is confusing to me. What IS a "Google Account"? Is it my gmail? That makes no sense to me, it's an email service. A "Google Account" sounds like I work at Google. If you were to tell me I had a "Google Account", I would assume it's Google+.

Google messed up when it tried to make some master account with Google+. Maybe everything could be incorporated into one account, but the way they've done it is one of the most complicated and confusing systems I've seen in computer engineering, and that's pretty sad considering it's Google.

Take YouTube. When I go there now, I have my Google+ account, but I have my old YouTube account that has been consumed by the Google+ account, but yet it's still separate on YouTube?? Now when I use YouTube, I have to make sure it's my old YouTube account being selected instead of my Google+ one. Why is this so hard? What's going to happen to my old YouTube account when it gets owned by this new "Google Account"?

If you can't do this right, which is obviously an issue, then just keep everything separate. Stop Google-fying services that are separate.

higherpurpose · 10 years ago

Honestly, the whole account "integration" just pisses me off. I want my Gmail account to be separated from my Youtube account and from the Maps account.

The main reason (by far) Google unified them is so they they can more easily track everyone across multiple properties.

higherpurpose commented on Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Just a Text npr.org/sections/alltechc... · Posted by u/dynofuz

guelo · 10 years ago

> Drake speculates that Stagefright has its excessive permissions and Internet access to satisfy some types of digital rights management processing or streaming playback.

Goddamn you Hollywood.

higherpurpose · 10 years ago

Let's not forget the companies that not just caved to Hollywood, but actively promoted their ideas at W3C and so on (see EME, etc).

They share the blame, too. They can't all just throw their hands up in the air and say "they made us do it".