For iPhones, Find My only works powered off by Bluetooth connections to other devices. Unless someone is scanning and tracking Bluetooth radios, they can’t track you.
The vulnerability in the article is about apps that send location data back to a third party who makes it available to law enforcement.
Mainly, this is a problem for people who give any random app access to location data.
You’re right, parody is a better description than mockery.
Has Star Trek jumped the shark?
ToS and TNG were always a bit cheesy but at heart they were morality plays and social commentary. I couldn’t get into much after TNG. I’ve been watching Strange New Worlds and it’s all right but the musical episode and some other bits were a bit too… campy?
But, a comedy? Is it becoming Galaxy Quest? The movie that mocked it?
HBO execs are letting out a sigh of relief.
“Let’s take the most recognizable software package name and make it something totally divorced from what the software is supposed to be for.”
There are probably people for whom Microsoft Office is the only desktop software that they use. There are probably many people in procurement that are going to scratch their heads and think twice about signing off on something that sounds like a flight simulator.
This is an opportunity for alternate office suites.
I would say, “never trust a CEO who wears a leather jacket.”
I’ve know plenty of bikers, punks, artists, etc that wear a leather jacket. But, a CEO in one stinks of, “hello there, fellow plebs.”
6.5 hours per day every weekend does not seem reasonable or healthy to me.
Hell, if someone was exercising that much or fishing or knitting or any hobby, it wouldn’t seem healthy. Once in a while, sure. But, not every weekend.
Trademark law would apply. Tolkien estate presumably never used or even registered them as trademarks.
Another comment mentions Droid phone. In that case, Lucasfilm had registered “Droid” as a trademark.
In other news:
Meet the Drug Dealers That Won’t Let Their Friends Do Their Drugs
Meet the Pimps That Won’t Let Their Kids Become Prostitutes
Meet the People Dismantling Public Education While Their Families All Attend Private Schools
Didn’t Daleks have little squishy aliens inside them?
Either they know it’s all bullshit and are trying to intimidate people.
Or, they are really bad at their jobs.
The FBI should know that there’s no organized, violent, shadowy antifa organization. They investigated that years ago.
Oh, are we doing thin clients, again?
I think once a generation thin clients come up as a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.