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No, they should've designed it correctly in the first place.
The sensors should store the information inside themselves and then sync with the mobile when I open the app. No need to have my mobile awake all the time for something like that.
>It's OK to make mistakes.

We should punish mistakes. Especially stupid mistakes.

>- Background tasks

That's bad

Then you call Apple. A guy comes and picks your mobile up, and then another guy comes and gives you a new mobile.
Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook on Monday April 30, 2018 @07:30PM (#16963430)
WhatsApp had 55 employees and I'd say it had no marketing to speak of.
Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook on Monday April 30, 2018 @07:08PM (#16963301)
Do you need more than $10M/year for 450M users? As I've said in another comment they barely stored anything server-side and it's known they have a very optimised stack
Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook on Monday April 30, 2018 @05:42PM (#16962696)
It does not take much money to run a messenger, especially one that does not store conversations or files server-side once they are delivered.
It's not an adversarial-y written EULA, it's something like this

https://img.ientry.com/webpronews/article_pics/facebook-perm...

If you can't read and understand that I'm sure you can collect disability checks from the government

>They didn’t realize quiz apps would harvest a huge amount of data about their profiles.

They would've known, had they read the dialog they had to accept to access their much desired quiz.

Re:Facebook Median Pay now $240k on Monday April 30, 2018 @09:43AM (#16958489)
Wow, racial slurs. I'm sure that can trigger some kind of trauma on them
I'm not saying this is a squatter.
Maybe I'm weird but I think France.com belonging to France is the just thing. The last thing we need is giving more rights to squatters.
Re:Tell HN: Sci-Hub's TLS certificate has started failing on Sunday April 29, 2018 @11:33AM (#16952426)
To disable HSTS permanently just do this: https://security.stackexchange.com/a/102315
Re:Kasparov versus the World on Saturday April 28, 2018 @05:18PM (#16949458)
Checkmate, democracy.
Re:Whatsapp user’s IP disclosure with Link Preview feature on Saturday April 28, 2018 @01:38PM (#16948685)
I'm shocked that something this obvious has not been worked around.
Re:Whatsapp user’s IP disclosure with Link Preview feature on Saturday April 28, 2018 @09:19AM (#16947509)
Maybe it's me, but this is really, really bad. Probably because I come from an IRC background.

I had assumed these request were proxified, but I didn't realise that would go against E2E. Now I'd like to see an option to disable these previews.

Obviously? You can't imagine what % of money you could lose when you launder using other methods. Also this one is totally safe... compared to some other ones ;)
Can't compare coffee capsules to food you cooked yourself.
Why is this a bad idea, supposing you are fat enough to do it?
Remove the end of the url "?w=500"

I use the Imagus addon which does this kind of stuff automatically

Don't forget about the sanctions.