Sentences with phrase «not nefarious»

Suggesting that a seller offer an incentive commission is a proper business strategy, not a nefarious scheme.

When making an online purchase users will be able to input their real address for shipping and a fake address that will appear on the package and verify that it is not a nefarious purchase.

Again, very possible this was not a nefarious scheme by Seagate to acquire users for its backup product and emails for sale; it might have just been badly formatted, and also that there was an error on my part.

«A port scan or portscan is a process that sends client requests to a range of server port addresses on a host, with the goal of finding an active port; this is not a nefarious process in and of itself.

He's stupid, not nefarious.

It is not a nefarious, obtuse, or complicated structure; it is, rather, a simplistic, yet effective way in which to organize all information, thought, and opinion for written works.

The initial order of the questions was a matter of chance, not a nefarious plot on the part of the Gallup Organization to understate support for vouchers.

First and foremost, the goal is to ensure the playing field is level and whomever won a given race did so based on performance and not nefarious means where their team something technical inspection to provide an unfair advantage.

The reasons for this history are not all nefarious.

That's not a nefarious conspiracy — it's basic, competent political organizing.

The movie's villains weren't nefarious foreign forces; they were cruel and bumbling bureaucrats, malevolent middle managers who react to any ambiguity by trying to kill something.

The movie's villains aren't nefarious masterminds or hardened thugs, but scared, emotionally damaged teenagers, while Talley himself is less unbreakable superhero than the kind of vulnerable everyman Willis (who also produced the film) played to such good effect in the original Die Hard.

Nice to see a hacker working on something that isn't nefarious!

Not exact matches

Now, I can't pretend to know whether they're using this data for nefarious reasons (I can almost bet they are), but we do know that they use this data to understand whether users are having a positive user experience on a website.

«What we do know is that the total number of Russian troops on Belarusian territory is not expected to exceed 3,000 personnel,» Gorenburg wrote, and «the likelihood of this exercise serving as cover for some larger nefarious aim, whether it is an attack on Ukraine or Lithuania or a stealth occupation of Belarus, is practically zero.»

Similar to recent research showing that fake news spreads faster than facts on Twitter, these findings about YouTube's algorithm can't be blamed on any nefarious plot to destabilize the world.

While Apple doesn't release malware figures, Sherry points to 2012 reports that a handful of products that had made it through the App Store approval process turned out to be carrying nefarious software.

The fact that the comments are identical isn't a sign of nefarious activity in and of itself, but the lack of a clear source for the message, the alphabetically - organized filings, the reported denials of those who are listed as commenters, and the sheer volume of comments listed in such a short time frame, raise questions about their legitimacy.

While AI may not necessarily be as nefarious as the intelligent computer system Skynet from the popular Terminator film franchise, the use and potential of AI has come a long way and opened a multitude of possibilities.

While I'm not sure your motives need to be that nefarious, the point stands: To really effect change, first gather your power base.

This kerfuffle shows that technology doesn't hold to any inherent moral or ethical value: The same algorithms used for legitimate purposes can be turned to more nefarious goals.

There is a twist here I find bothersome; the origination of the «America First» slogan came from a nefarious crowd of isolationists in the 1930s, including an awful lot of Nazi sympathizers (though I won't tar all of them with that brush).

Lenders take many steps to make sure you're not a high risk of potential default — or involved in nefarious activity.

shows that it was definitely a case of a device gone rogue and not something more nefarious, but it's still a good privacy reminder.

Still, Case defended Grindr's decision to share the data, arguing that Apptimize and Localytics are simply tools to help apps like Grindr function better, and that the information was not shared to make money or for other nefarious purposes.

... If anybody out there thinks we did something nefarious, we apologize for anything we did or didn't do.

Outright, there isn't anything particularly nefarious about what happened.

But with conservatives tilting hard against the FBI, it's not too far of a leap to suggest that Hogg is just a patsy for the FBI's nefarious agenda.

Finally, GM's quick repayment of the loans has whetted the appetite of some commentators (including DeCloet) for the ultimate repayment of the full government contribution. That would occur through the issuance of public equity by GM and Chrysler, creating a market for those stocks into which the government would presumably sell its shares. There is even some nefarious language in the rescue packages requiring the government to sell off its shares within specified, relatively aggressive timelines. The more I think about it, the less this makes sense — neither for the auto industry, nor for taxpayers. Why not hang onto the equity stake? If the companies recover and the equity gains market value, then the government will be able to claim that on its balance sheet (hence officially recouping the cost of its written - off contributions and creating a budgetary gain).

There is no good reason why she lied: she wasn't saving him, or sparing him, or even truly hiding any nefarious behaviour.

They were accustomed, he discovered, to meet on a fixed day very early in the morning, to sing hymns responsively to Christ «as to a god,» and to bind themselves by a solemn oath, not (as he had apparently expected) to some nefarious crime, but to keep the moral law: not to rob or steal, not to commit adultery, not to defraud.

We're not sure what that means, but it could indicate that some key Avengers either show up, disappear, or something nefarious happens with Thanos, the villain of Infinity War.

It is important to stress that this situation is not the result of some nefarious scheme hatched by a handful of persons bent upon destroying the social fabric.

While there are certainly important hermeneutical and cultural issues at play, I can't help but wonder if something more nefarious is also at work.

«I ask the administration to enact and fulfill the promise President Trump made not to harm families and exclusively deport those involved in nefarious activities,» stated Samuel Rodriguez, one of Trump's evangelical advisers and president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC).

To state the church had some nefarious agenda for promoting Hitler is a stretch I do nt believe many would make.

ScottCA was here (page 26) and you did not say a word to him about these alleged nefarious activities of his...

Not surprisingly, Sol zhenitsyn is today an outspoken critic of Rus sian ultra «nationalists who «fulminate about the nefarious deeds of Masons and Jews [and] applaud aggressive chauvinism.»

Here is a list of ingredients appearing in some nefarious chilis (but not ours): Almonds, aquavit, avocados, barley, bitters, carrots, celery, Coca Cola, coffee grounds, corned beef, currant jelly, curry powder, goose grease, horseradish, molasses, mushrooms, olives, Parmesan cheese, peanuts, peanut butter, pea pods, raisins, sake, spinach, water chestnuts, vinegar, and Worcestershire sauce.

It's vacation time at the play group, which means the little boy, when not up to any nefarious activities, is hanging around the kitchen, making puppy eyes at me, saying «Mummy, I want something to eat», which is not entirely a bad thing.

Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «fake» news or to provide certain outlets with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions

It's unprofessional that Higa missed weight, of course, but it's more unfortunate, certainly not pointing towards any kind of nefarious intent.

In fact, his role was far more nefarious because unlike Gazidis & Kroenke, who may or may not know anything about the game itself, Wenger was the man who lured the customers to the seats knowing full well what was really going on behind the scenes.

Frankly though, you sweep aside Emerson injury and the fact he came in over the winter break, as well as Alonso being good, and just sort of conclude that there isn't a rational reason to hold off on playing him and that it must be a bias and something nefarious

Yes, we all hate the Chavs and their squad of nefarious hooligans, but it doesn't have the history yet.

But Rosenbaum not only uses this inaccurate and alarming lead sentence to grab readers» attention, he doubles down by stating that this alleged return to junk food in schools is a nefarious plot by Big Food.

Whatever you may think of the scientific validity of their positions, or the degree to which they have, or have not, been influenced by the nefarious dairy lobby (and I offer no opinion on either point), here are some leading organizations that currently support flavored milk in schools: the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Heart Association, the American Dietetic Association, the National Medical Association, the National Hispanic Medical Association and the School Nutrition Association.

While in Washington, clad in a suit and tie rather than his usual uniform of a t - shirt, Zuckerberg admitted he «didn't do enough» to prevent his company's technology from being used for nefarious purposes.

But that new information and communications technologies aren't all - powerful or irrelevant doesn't mean that they do not matter — or that their sometimes exaggerated positive sides actually distract us from recognizing their more nefarious aspects, as people like Morozov sometimes come close to arguing, as pointed out by Zeynep Tufekci in her thoughtful review of his book.

Again, frank disclosure might have raised some partisan stink, but possibly nothing that would lead to a full - fledged federal investigation, if the actual contacts were not of a nefarious nature.