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Re: Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was ‘sent in error’

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Post by radlad » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 10:01 PM UTC

Teknoman117 wrote: post #449

radlad wrote: post #430

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Android does this too. On neither platform does it work 100% of the time, especially in browsers. That's why almost all clipboard managers also have a "copy to clipboard" feature from the autofill view.

It rarely fails for me in the browser, but it fails on me regularly for apps. The ones that particularly annoy me are the ones that haven't updated to the new Android biometric API versus just supporting the old fingerprint API. I'm looking at you Chase mobile app.

Amazon consistently fails in the browser for me with 1Password + Android.

Re: Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was ‘sent in error’

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Post by sdoering » Sun, Jul 19, 2020, 12:41 PM UTC

GekkePrutser wrote: post #365

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Depends on the jurisdiction. In Germany they do. Labor rights explicitly says that your employer needs to provide the means for you to do your work. And that includes mobile phones if they want you to access your work email (or whatever) from a mobile device.

Yes they do... The problem is some users in Germany actually prefer to use their personal one so they don't have to carry two.. But due to this mindset they can't. I don't think the German approach is always the best.

Sorry for the late reply. I use only one. I have a dual SIM phone with a clear separation.

So I call private contacts from private SIM, business contacts from business SIM. I have Apps separated into business and private and the respective profiles are in place. Business partition (so to speak) is managed by employer. Private partition is MDMed by myself.

So I have both worlds - in one device. If my employer decides to delete the business partition. I have exactly no problem with that (we tested it and it worked like a charm - private data wasn't affected. We also tested access to private data being nil).

Re: Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was ‘sent in error’

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Post by jessaustin » Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 5:43 PM UTC

yyyk wrote: post #480

jessaustin wrote: post #479

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Haha we have sanctions on Cuba for Pete's sake. Sanctions don't imply anything. They do kill thousands of people a month in Venezuela alone [0], with corresponding numbers in a dozen other nations so good job I guess. There was no "gas attack". Some murderous slaving ISIS criminals took a sledgehammer up on the roof, knocked out some holes, and shoved some empty canisters into them. Then they mixed some bleach with s…

The US alone has sanctions on Cuba, nearly the entire world (except Putin and Iran and China) has sanctions on Assad. It's a bit different, you see? Nobody believes the lies regarding the WMD massacres, we know Assad did these (and so much more). It required rebels with no advanced weapons, much less chemical weapons, to attack themselves over and over, while never ever attacking Assad. The Douma massacre in particul…

Haha "bellingcat" that's rich. No one conscious pays attention to that spook show. Grayzone has had their number for a long time. [0] They do have good SEO; it's not surprising that a naive google on these topics pulls their emissions out of the bog. And Eliot Higgins is an inspiration! From unemployed college dropout to widely-cited international aviation and weapons expert, through a personally-developed, diligent regimen of playing video games. [1] The joke is certainly on Theodore Postol: he wasted a fifty-year career studying physics, nuclear technology, and weapons systems at Pentagon, Argonne National Labs, and Stanford, only to be overruled by this pasty neckbeard. It's almost as if the way to get quoted in the war media is to say just what the war pigs want said...

[0] https://thegrayzone.com/?s=bellingcat&orderby=relevance&orde...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/01/business/media/open-sourc...

Re: Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was ‘sent in error’

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Post by jessaustin » Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 6:54 PM UTC

stanfordkid wrote: post #481

yyyk wrote: post #480

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The US alone has sanctions on Cuba, nearly the entire world (except Putin and Iran and China) has sanctions on Assad. It's a bit different, you see? Nobody believes the lies regarding the WMD massacres, we know Assad did these (and so much more). It required rebels with no advanced weapons, much less chemical weapons, to attack themselves over and over, while never ever attacking Assad. The Douma massacre in particul…

This debate is stupid. No one understands what is going on in modern geopolitics of the middle east -- including policy czars, and especially your or I. Probably not even the US government. These are gigantic state sponsored operations with foreign governments (e.g Russia), militant organizations. As an example -- consider that ISIS was shipping ~$160 million in crude oil via smuggling routes to China. Even with all…

No one understands what is going on in modern geopolitics of the middle east...

We in USA don't actually have to understand conditions in other nations. We just have to pay attention to our government and media, and remember what they've done even after they've stopped talking about it. They lied us into war with Spain, which led to decades of murder and oppression of Puerto Ricans and (especially) Filipinos. They lied us into WWI, which led to the Nazis. They lied us into Vietnam, which caused millions of deaths in southeast Asia. They lied us into Kuwait, which caused 9/11. They lied us into Afghanistan, in which USA soldiers are now dying who weren't yet born when the lies were told. They lied us into Iraq, which has seen horrific loss of life oh and also the creation of ISIS. They lied us into Libya, which peaceful prosperous nation was replaced in six months by a smoldering hellscape, complete with slave markets. They lied us somewhat into Syria, where we and our ISIS allies were (thank God) defeated. They tried to lie us into Iran...

(This is not even to mention the dozens of nations whose elected governments we've deposed in favor of authoritarians in spooky ways, at least as long ago as 1953 in Iran, as murderously as 1965-7 in Indonesia, and as recently as last year in Bolivia.)

Gosh, what can we conclude from this fairly consistent history? I submit that when we're fed some pretext for war, we should assume it's a lie and oppose the war for which it is told. If we're ever able to do so consistently (and perhaps the last two entries in the list above are cause for hope?), it will result in a greater global flowering of peace and prosperity than we've ever seen before.

Re: Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was ‘sent in error’

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Post by yyyk » Wed, Jul 22, 2020, 5:31 PM UTC

jessaustin wrote: post #493

yyyk wrote: post #480

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The US alone has sanctions on Cuba, nearly the entire world (except Putin and Iran and China) has sanctions on Assad. It's a bit different, you see? Nobody believes the lies regarding the WMD massacres, we know Assad did these (and so much more). It required rebels with no advanced weapons, much less chemical weapons, to attack themselves over and over, while never ever attacking Assad. The Douma massacre in particul…

Haha "bellingcat" that's rich. No one conscious pays attention to that spook show. Grayzone has had their number for a long time. [0] They do have good SEO; it's not surprising that a naive google on these topics pulls their emissions out of the bog. And Eliot Higgins is an inspiration! From unemployed college dropout to widely-cited international aviation and weapons expert, through a personally-developed, diligent…

Postol ended up a loon, denying obvious camera footage (when it comes to Iron dome), and ignoring basic chemistry (regarding the Assad massacres) in favour of conspiracy thoeries. So much of a loon he was resigned from his journal membership once peer review found no basis for his assertions[0]. Ultimately, there's no moral difference between the 'anti-imperialist' US far Left and the caricature they chase. Except this: Even when the US acts badly, it's done by people who were elected to do this, and have to maneuver in the world - the 'anti-imperialist' Left does the supporting genocide biz without being elected, without any consequences, without any scruples and with the approval of their conscience (inasmuch they have one). The C.S. Lewis quote about Robber Barons applies in full here.

[0] https://www.truthorfiction.com/theodore-postol-mit-paper-syr...

Re: Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was ‘sent in error’

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Post by jessaustin » Thu, Jul 23, 2020, 9:29 PM UTC

yyyk wrote: post #495

jessaustin wrote: post #493

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Haha "bellingcat" that's rich. No one conscious pays attention to that spook show. Grayzone has had their number for a long time. [0] They do have good SEO; it's not surprising that a naive google on these topics pulls their emissions out of the bog. And Eliot Higgins is an inspiration! From unemployed college dropout to widely-cited international aviation and weapons expert, through a personally-developed, diligent…

Postol ended up a loon, denying obvious camera footage (when it comes to Iron dome), and ignoring basic chemistry (regarding the Assad massacres) in favour of conspiracy thoeries. So much of a loon he was resigned from his journal membership once peer review found no basis for his assertions[0]. Ultimately, there's no moral difference between the 'anti-imperialist' US far Left and the caricature they chase. Except th…

Another no-name website quoting bellingcat does not convince anyone to believe bellingcat. It's easy to falsely malign an old man (who doesn't employ a PR firm) online (and especially in wikipedia). Postol's five decades of experience still stacks up pretty well against Higgins's several years playing video games on the basement couch. (British unemployment benefits might be more generous than ours?) It is interesting that he is the authority who will put his name to these zany conspiracy theories. OPCW have enough whistleblowers to form a band, as one can read at Grayzone linked above or from the original sources. [0]

One less charitable than I would wonder just why you're so committed to this exhaustive parroting of trivial military-industrial complex dogma, to the extent that you'd accuse a random pacifist (not "Leftist") of secretly (so secretly he doesn't himself know it!) supporting genocide. USA doesn't fight in wars in order to "stop genocides". (Again, we were ISIS allies in Syria and even sometimes in Iraq. That is not to mention the hell-world we created in Libya; a less powerful nation would certainly have been called before the Hague for that pile of atrocities.) We fight in wars in order to transfer public assets to armaments manufacturers and to their puppets in government and media, and those puppets will employ any pretext in pursuit of that goal. We gave the publicly-admitted portion of our military $750B this year. The citizens of USA (and everyone else) would be safer if we spent a third of that.

[0] https://wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/document/20190227-Engineeri...