I don’t think this belongs on the music suggestion thread.
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Here are baby raccoons. So cute. Sadly, their mother didn’t come back, but some people built them a shelter.
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has anyone seen the youtube video about the escaping baby panda.
Negative. I didn’t see that video. You can share it if you want.
P.S.: Hey, @hhyyrylainen. You’re kinda an expert in computer science, so I wanted to ask you :
“Is it safe to use biometrics system on a cellphone? Can cellphone companies sell my biometrics data of my phone to authorities (legally and illegally) like genealogy companies selling dna data to authorities? Can hackers steal my biometrics data as well?”
EDIT : Illegally meaning how can they realistically sell the data without taking account of the law.
i don’t know how to share videos but if you go i on youtube and type in escaping baby panda then you should get the video.
you just copy-paste the link of the video into your post and it should show it in-post.
This is more of a legal question than technical question. Technically it would be really easy to include biometrics data into backups or other data that regularly leaves a cell phone. Though, I’ve heard that in order to secure things many of the biometrics sensors like fingerprint sensors may have an internal storage that disallows the phone from reading it. So it is possible that companies have on a hardware level protected that data so that even they cannot read it.
I would guess that companies must disclose the data they collect in their license agreement, which people don’t read, and then act surprised that their data was sold according to the contract they accepted when registering. It is also possible here that some things are flat out illegal (in some places) and even if it reads in a contract that part of the contract is automatically invalid. I would also guess that biometrics data would count as personal information under GDPR, requiring companies to have a legal reason or an explicit consent check box to handle the data.
If the company can access the biometrics data, it is also possible that there is a vulnerability that lets hackers access the same data. I would imagine that that would cause a huge belgiumstorm and “everyone” would hear of it pretty quickly.
As to your last question: there are buyers for even stolen credit card numbers, thus it is not difficult to imagine that there is a market for illegally collected user data as well.
So the only protection is that there are security researchers actively looking at stuff like this going on and uncovering it (of course it is also possible that there exists an ethical company whose staff would resign before they implemented such data collection). And if a company is found out doing this I’d imagine they would lose consumer trust very quickly and be hit with huge fines.
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heavy breathing
Yes yes yeS.
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Hey, guys! I’m cleaning my computer, and tomorrow is a great day. Tomorrow, I’ll install Windows 10 on my big old PC! (It would have been legendary for me to wait until January 14th, 2020 to upgrade Windows 7 to 10, but I didn’t want to wait)
Anyone has any advice I should be aware of about Windows 10 (not the upgrade process, just the Windows 10 OS itself)? I’m asking because I’ve heard it’s heavily different from other Windows OS, which wouldn’t make it intuitive for me.
All I can really say is it’ll feel really shitty and disorganised at first, but you’ll learn to live with the shittiness and forget about it. I don’t really know about the more technical stuff like file saves and whatnot, so I can’t answer your question if that’s what you were going for.
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What do you think about this very meme gentlemen?
Credits : https://www.boredpanda.com/dancing-pennywise-memes-twitter/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/dancing-pennywise-memes-twitter-fb__700-png.jpg
Here is another one (hopefully the last one).
Credits : https://tenor.com/view/it-penny-wise-dance-gif-12909923
https://media1.tenor.com/images/ca7bb2e7c3939518ee573ec241c4ec33/tenor.gif?itemid=12909923
EDIT : Hey, I’ve seen that some users haven’t heard about Thrive Steam group. Just out of curiosity…
Did you hear about it ever before?
- Yes
- No
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If you ever heard about it, have you joined it?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have a Steam account?
- Yes
- No
- I don’t know what is Steam
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As Sir Biologicah once said, “Good poll.”
Here is the Steam group of Thrive : https://steamcommunity.com/groups/ThriveGame
today is sptember 20th, do you know what that means?
the AREA 51 RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAID!!!
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Been checking the live coverage of Area 51 raid on the independent, I can’t watch live stream because of school.
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Wait did people actually go?!
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i don’t know, but i think people did actualy go.
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Something bad will happen…
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It seems I am the only one to have joined the Steam group, according to my poll. Good poll. But there are hundreds of steam users in that group. How is that?
EDIT : Damn, I double posted sorry. But I have just installed Windows 10! Yeah! But I still need to finish my setup (steam, software, etc.).
EDIT 2 : Hey, my phone is a Huawei P30, would it be recommended to use both biometrics (fingerprint and face) and code locking system?
- Yes
- No
- Undecided
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As Sir Biologicah The Great once said, “Good poll.”
it was friday the 13th a few days ago.
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