Just from an end user POV, would I be able to request from Stripe a logs for metadata about which type/how much of my personal data has been shared to the companies?
while i do love slack, it seems like ms teams was the iphone(smartphone) to blackberry.
... then again, not at all apples to apples, since ms was already mastering the corporate world.
"Regardless of account deletion attempts"? Seriously? First step of account deletion is, that Facebook deactivates the account, therefore, they should also know better to not send notifications. Why would they burden the user with notification settings, when the users wish/intent is clear enough? Spamming them with unwanted notifications is unethical behavior.
Yes, seriously. They made it pretty clear that _their account was still active_. That's why it's "regardless": it doesn't matter for the situation at hand.
> when the users wish/intent is clear
How is it clear? Their whole post is stating that all they did was not use the site for a bit.
Given that they have an active account and notification are set to notify, why would they ever assume you no longer want notifications? They could very well want all of those notifications (since they have them turned off), so not sending them would actually be the exact opposite of what it should do.
This would be like if my post office stopped delivering my mail because I didn't call them up and tell them to keep delivering my mail.
Because any of these law-abiding people owning a gun could snap some day and go rogue? I'd say that's a really good reason to reduce the guns availability.
Taking your garbage edit of the parent comment and setting it totally aside:
Legal firearms routinely become illegal, most often when they are stolen by people who are already criminals. Unlocked cars are a great source of 'legal' pistols as it turns out.
The problem of small arms proliferation is real and it is one of the reasons U.S. and other modern nations regulate them so much.
It comes down to the context: yes, when poor John loses his dog, we can all understand, what you meant. However, Stallman did not lose anything, furthermore, he is successful and happy with his choices, therefore your "poor Stallman" comment is by definition condescension.
Nothing but respect here for RMS. Successful: yes. Happy with his choices: debatable. His writing and his countenance don't really give off the "happy" vibe.
Perhaps the condescension in my writing (of which there was none) was not so much in the signal as it was in the receiver? Your reply is absolutely dripping with it, window-dressing a cry of "is not / is so" with: "however", "furthermore", "therefore", and "by definition."
The only thing that would have made it worse would be putting it into pseudocode!
These kind of cases make me wonder, what ever happened to the common sense.. The (classical) Roman law was probably the best system the 'makers of law' ever came up to. After that, it only went downhill.
embarrasing to admit, but I've always wanted to believe one could at least trust plugins like Adblock Plus or Ghostery to protect ones mind and privacy a little.. now, reading Hacker News almost every day, I'm getting paranoid. is it a vulnerability to even use them?
The more people you trust, the more susceptible you are to having that trust broken.
Let's say you trust Chrome, you can't trust AdBlock just because you trust Chrome. The install on the Chrome store could get compromised, somehow.
In this specific case though, you also have to weigh the risk of an attack being delivered from an ad. What's more likely? One of the thousands of ads you view a day launches an attack, or installing a Chrome extension does? Which would be more damaging?
Security is not an exact science. It's all about weighing options and making informed decisions.
First of all, in Firefox (and I believe in Chrome too) there is a distinction between "addons" (such as adblock plus) and "plugins" (such as flash). The main difference being that plugins are DLLs containing native code, and thus have all the privileges the browser has. In comparison, addons are mostly JavaScript, and run inside the browser with somewhat limited access to the rest of the system.
"If everyone took TorrentFreak's position on piracy, Game of Thrones would make no money no matter how popular it was."
Sure? I actually did buy the books and am going to buy the DVD-collections, just because I have seen it/read it, thanks to piracy. Somehow win-win situation.
Yes, sure. Because you wouldn't buy the books and DVDs from the rights holders, you'd buy them from some Chinese guy on eBay who was selling them for virtually the cost price of redistribution (and doing so perfectly legally, in the "information is free" world).
Guess I was the silly one then, going to the local bookstore and getting my eyes full with tears of happiness: "Oh hey, they have the original(?) US-versions here in Germany!" :-)
PS: sorry for the naive style, haven' t mastered the sharky way of saying things (yet)
