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Theodoric Member Posts: 9140 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.3 |
Did anyone think the app wouldn't be a security risk? China is going to be accessing all the data they can from people that use the app. I think this in itself is reason to cancel or not attend the games.
By not responding the Chinese organizing committee pretty much admit they are aware of the issues already. It is incumbent that the US Olympic Committee and the US Government warn all athletes and attendees that ALL of their personal data is at risk and that they can expect that their phones and devices will be compromised. https://news.yahoo.com/...ics-app-devastating-163616497.html
quote: Edited by Theodoric, : Forgot urlWhat can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness. If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8527 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
An app all attendees of the upcoming Beijing Olympics must use ... Who agreed to this? I wasn't aware of this. USOC didn't say no? IOC didn't say no? What the fuck just happened? Are we so jaded about privacy in these times we don't care anymore? Big brother is not just watching and listening he's got us carrying his eyes and ears in our pockets. Thank you Winnie the Pooh. Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.
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nwr Member Posts: 6409 From: Geneva, Illinois Joined: Member Rating: 5.3 |
Are we so jaded about privacy in these times we don't care anymore?
Privacy? What privacy?Fundamentalism - the anti-American, anti-Christian branch of American Christianity
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8527 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
The privacy Justice Blackmun found in the constitution.
Though, yes, it does seem to have disappeared recently. Republicans.Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4409 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.4
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Hmmmm, I can't seem to stay away from this place.
A solution without too many moving parts would be for the U.S. Olympic committee to buy a phone for each person on the U.S. team traveling to China. Give every person an account hosted on a committee server. Let each person load the apps they cannot live without and caution them all to leave their personal phone at home. Just load their most important contacts on their Olympic phone. Anyone stupid enough to take a computing device bigger than a phone to China deserves what ever infects it. Traveling anywhere out of the country, especially in crowded conditions, for any reason, during the worst pandemic in a century, pegs my stupid meter.What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8527 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
Reality will be served.
I just wish there was enough objection for the world to say no. Move the games elsewhere if the chinese continue this. That means cancelling the games, again, and crushing a lot of athletes' careers as well as big $$ hits to all olympic committees the world over. At this point there is too much personal ego and monied self-interest by millions of people to fight it. The no should have come when the chinese first broached the requirement. When was this requirement known?Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4409 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.4
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I don't pay attention to the Olympics. I have always thought it was huge waste of money and that they should be held in the same place instead of moving them around. Historically the facilities built for the games are money pits and never pay for themselves. They are usually paid for by huge regional taxes. And they have not been amateur sports for a long time.
Luge and bobsled are the only real sports anyway!What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9140 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.3 |
Excuse me.
Curling!! What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness. If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4409 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.4 |
Oh yeah, curling gets the heart pounding!
What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8527 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 5.2
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9140 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.3 |
It got my heart pounding last night in leagues when I missed some easy shots. I tangentially know the Olympic curlers, I don't think they know me, but I have met John Shuster and the rest a couple of times.
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness. If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4409 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.4 |
I saw on the news this morning that mixed doubles curling has already started in the Olympics, although opening ceremonies will not be until tomorrow.
The Olympic supporters/boosters/whatever should build a permanent winter Olympics setup in Greenland and quit the crappy way they move them around to different really expensive setups every 4 years.What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9140 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.3
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I am casual acquaintances with some of the Olympic curlers I curl in Superior, WI. The skip of the Men's team, John Shuster, lives in Superior and curls out of the Duluth, MN club. We are hoping he will curl out of our club when he retires from the Olympics.
I agree that there should be a permanent Olympic venue. Not sure if Greenland is the right choice. It does not have and cannot sustain the infrastructure needed. I do not think it should be in any of the large countries. Maybe Iceland? New Zealand?What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness. If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8527 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 5.2
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ringo Member (Idle past 432 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined:
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Tanypteryx writes:
Don't forget skeleton - face first! Luge and bobsled are the only real sports anyway!"I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!" -- Lucky Ned Pepper
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