Re: $50 an hour??
Film out now "The Cleaners" profiles cleaners in MANILA, where wages are dirt-cheap and many speak English of a sort.
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GDPR USA? 'A year ago, hell no ... More people are open to it now' – House Rep says EU-like law may be mulled
Saturday 10th November 2018 00:06 GMT
Todd Rundgren to@Barrie Shepherd: Big Data scared of fines: ya think?
Todd- Big "companies really are scared of massive fines?" Hope so; but the record in the USA is NOT.
Since 2007-8 economic meltdown, U.S. DOJ & SEC have not got a criminal conviction against a single one of the big insurers, mortgage co.s, finance co.s, &other corp.s or their execs that helped make it happen & ruined hundreds of millions of people globally. In every case, they have "settled."In plainspeak that's a big fine, w/no criminal charge or record. This was never the case before -e.g. in the bubbles-&-busts of the S&Ls (80s), the M&As (90s), the tech bubble (00)s. All issued in prosecutions, criminal charges & jail for at least the most visible & egregious criminals. THAT scared them. The BO Admin was the 1st to score 0 criminal charges & convictions, , in this, the worst bust s ince the big one 1920s-30s - & one that is set to repeat, according to many uneasy investors. The Trump Admin seems to be following suit. These executive gangsters have set aside billions in invested funds as a "cost of doing business," to cover now-regular giant govt. fines. They continue to defraud customers & violate laws REGULARLY, in what financial papers are obliged to euphemize w/terms like "mismanagement." I expect big data firms to do the same going forward. Too plush to fail, these golden geese? -unlike the p opulations they've ravaged. // Eschew spyware media & INFOTAINMENT. Read the Financial Times, WSJ, biz sections of papers: follow the money- there's the genuine news.
Time to party like it's 2005! Palm is coming BAAAA-ACK
Sunday 12th August 2018 23:21 GMT
Re: The mistake of a non compatible OS....
Thank you. I still have the elegant collapsible keyboard that attached in a sec. I did word processing, spreadsheets, everything on it. All data synced w/my desktop beginning and end of day and, most important of all, w/no thought of a giant corp. and the NSA collecting any of it. Is there a device that provides even contacts/calendar/tasks/notes while guaranteeing that kind of privacy? Please advise if so, anybody. Just posting this question publicly nowadays probably makes me a suspicious character, but here goes.
Neil Young slams Google, after you log in to read his rant with Google or Facebook
Thursday 1st March 2018 08:47 GMT
Re: Blocking tracking
YES. This one data vampire alone has almost every site CAPTCHA'd. Behind Google are a flock of other ravening bloodsuckers. Tonight, I found that one of my (admittedly crappy) ISPNs allowed access w/out even a user name (-don't bother, I know what to check). To contact the vendor about the prob one has to use a CAPTCHA (Google), after providing particulars re the account on a site that has 38 TRACKERS. Christmas eve, I was in the central subway station in my city. Every pillar, every poster on every wall was covered w/a Google poster. "They have landed" was all I could think, in dull panic.
When are people going to snap out of it and start boycotting these monster lampreys? What "free" or cheap entertainment or convenience they throw us, it's only to vacuum up our most valuable assets - our PI- on the cheap. You guys should support NY & anyone else w/reach for standing up & saying anything against one of these ghouls. How many celebs, who could make an instant impact by speaking out, have said word one about any of this? Instead, you're picking the skin off him 'cos he's old, or he's not a tech expert, or he makes more money than you.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
