To be clear, I'm not defending Apple here; using this technology for authentication is a stupid gimmick and quite possibly criminally negligent, too.
However, for an important key to understanding how ambient lighting could confuse the everliving fuck out of sensors based on reading IR dots, I have one word for you: candles.
I've been completely blackballed throughout entire corporations just because of the brand of mouse I chose to buy, or the fact I refuse to use Facebook. If you can't imagine anything in your phone (or not in it, for that matter) that anyone would take offense to, I suggest you either must not use it or you're just really naive. Big companies generally devolve into popularity contests.
Neither you nor anyone you know has ever been bullied or harassed in your entire life? Nothing you own has ever been vandalized or stolen? Just for a few minutes, as a thought experiment, imagine if you weren't so lucky and/or oblivious to your surroundings.
If you're gonna start doing this you have to go back to the beginning of the slide downhill when Microsoft allowed every home computer nationwide get backdoored by every local and foreign intelligence service in the name of security, then lied to the public when criminals also found the same backdoors and Microsoft said that the complete lack of security was the best possible effort. That's where the public perception of the value of privacy got so horribly skewed in the first place as to allow companies like Facebook to even exist and do business in this fashion.
I applaud your cleverness, but you don't actually have to cite fiction to find a written record of the existence of a blood line of the type to which you allude. The word you're looking for is Nephilim.
Sure, while "being really careful" might be a key component to living over 110 years in modern society, I suspect the real selecting factor will be revealed, decades or centuries from now when/if our society becomes mentally healthy enough to be capable of admitting it, to be just happiness.
If they can get a JTAG connection to it directly, does this mean we could also just fry the thing to neutralize it without harming the rest of the computer then?
You must think these artists are monumentally stupid...
Well, not exactly the way I'd put it but... they act on principle a lot but aren't usually really detail oriented and tend not to want to spend a lot of time thinking about the numbers and logistics of it all so they prefer to leave that work up to others and therefore their agenda often gets railroaded by "smarter people." You don't have to dig hard to find numerous complaints from various performers that their fans can't afford their tickets because [the venue] has some exclusive deal with, say TicketMaster who is [doing evil] in their name.
I want a spare brain! That would be great, like having SMP in my head! I guess it wouldn't really fit in my head though. I'd have to put it somewhere else. Like maybe on top of my head, under a glass dome like Mojo Jojo.
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To be clear, I'm not defending Apple here; using this technology for authentication is a stupid gimmick and quite possibly criminally negligent, too.
However, for an important key to understanding how ambient lighting could confuse the everliving fuck out of sensors based on reading IR dots, I have one word for you: candles.
I've been completely blackballed throughout entire corporations just because of the brand of mouse I chose to buy, or the fact I refuse to use Facebook. If you can't imagine anything in your phone (or not in it, for that matter) that anyone would take offense to, I suggest you either must not use it or you're just really naive. Big companies generally devolve into popularity contests.
I mean, really, is any adult unclear on that?
You should meet my parents.
... he said confidently, while flipping the switch labeled "hand over control to robots."
Neither you nor anyone you know has ever been bullied or harassed in your entire life? Nothing you own has ever been vandalized or stolen? Just for a few minutes, as a thought experiment, imagine if you weren't so lucky and/or oblivious to your surroundings.
If you're gonna start doing this you have to go back to the beginning of the slide downhill when Microsoft allowed every home computer nationwide get backdoored by every local and foreign intelligence service in the name of security, then lied to the public when criminals also found the same backdoors and Microsoft said that the complete lack of security was the best possible effort. That's where the public perception of the value of privacy got so horribly skewed in the first place as to allow companies like Facebook to even exist and do business in this fashion.
What are you on about? They didn't give them longevity. They just took samples from people who were already old.
I applaud your cleverness, but you don't actually have to cite fiction to find a written record of the existence of a blood line of the type to which you allude. The word you're looking for is Nephilim.
Sure, while "being really careful" might be a key component to living over 110 years in modern society, I suspect the real selecting factor will be revealed, decades or centuries from now when/if our society becomes mentally healthy enough to be capable of admitting it, to be just happiness.
Stress kills.
... correlates with not playing it at all.
Did it occur to you that all casual thieves would need to collect this data is another iPhone?
You pretentious twats.
Regardless of your intelligence, you can greatly enhance your visual skills by playing video games. Some games are better for this than others.
Provably false. You're not very smart, are you?
When you post off topic drivel in an attempt to derail a conversation you're suppressing the free speech of others. Get fucked.
If they can get a JTAG connection to it directly, does this mean we could also just fry the thing to neutralize it without harming the rest of the computer then?
Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
You must think these artists are monumentally stupid...
Well, not exactly the way I'd put it but... they act on principle a lot but aren't usually really detail oriented and tend not to want to spend a lot of time thinking about the numbers and logistics of it all so they prefer to leave that work up to others and therefore their agenda often gets railroaded by "smarter people." You don't have to dig hard to find numerous complaints from various performers that their fans can't afford their tickets because [the venue] has some exclusive deal with, say TicketMaster who is [doing evil] in their name.
Why not just sell the tickets at the market clearing price?
I know you won't believe this, but artists aren't all rich assholes who only want other rich assholes to see their performances.
I want a spare brain! That would be great, like having SMP in my head! I guess it wouldn't really fit in my head though. I'd have to put it somewhere else. Like maybe on top of my head, under a glass dome like Mojo Jojo.
Never forget.
Yea, but if you were to find out the true number was about 80% wouldn't that change your opinion on this?
I'm pretty sure that's how he got the disease in the first place.
The days of cable/satellite TV are over.
Wishful thinking. Now re-evaluate your position based on that.
The good guys, at least for now.