You should probably blame that "free market" stock market thing. They're the ones demanding Apple keeps growing, despite having far more money than it could ever spend ($285.1 billion as of Q1 2018). There's a point where you have to shift your audience when investors keep demanding you do better this quarter than you did last quarter - it is impossible sustain that in the long term. Apple won't take multiple SKUs when it has traditionally been about doing a handful of products and doing them well.
All of this is very much open for debate. Multiple Republican states were found guilty in various lawsuits on gerrymandering. There was no shortage of reports of Red states pushing laws/practices which were targeting minority voters to make it very hard for them to get to a voting booth (either by limiting the hours to during work hours typically worked by low income voters or by setting up voting stations far from population centers). The "fantasy" as you call it has produced numerous indictments and some cases high profile persons have begun cooperating with the investigations in an attempt to minimize the penalties they now face. Russian media has actively chided Trump and said that he is Russia's puppet. Our allies are extremely alienated in what is, perhaps, the most egregious display of international diplomacy outside of major historical dictators like Hitler, Stalin, or Hussein. Our allies are working towards a future in which they no longer need to be our allies. People like you work actively to undermine the American system because you're stupid. There's no need for pretense. People like you have been working to block the investigation claiming it has taken too long - and ironically supported decades worth of investigations of the Clintons. The sheer amount of hypocrisy is either from malicious intent or vast stupidity. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt and casting people like you as a stupid instead of malicious.
The 2017 MBPs had some extra engineering done to try and help mitigate the problem. The statistics of the keyboard issues are hard to pin down to a specific model year for the vast majority of people. Could Apple's work have helped in some way? Not sure. That said I own a MBP 2017 and haven't had issues myself...hoping I won't get them either.
What capabilities do Androids/iPhones really not share? Yes we can get into the nitty gritty of specifications, but more or less anything a person can do with an Android can be done on an iPhone. I honestly very curious. I've owned Androids up until the S7 Edge. I quit rooting and shoving Cyanogenmod on them some time prior. My iPhone does everything I used my Android to do. I've found I enjoy the integrations of the Watch, the MBP, and the Apple TV in what seems to be the most seemless integration of hardware.
That's society in general. Societies rely on people subscribing to the ideals/rules of that society. Those of you ranting about "hurr dur gubermints dun kills peeple" fail to understand that whether it's governments, warlords, anarchial leaders, clubs, families, tribes, clans, or brotherhoods, the factors that allow their existence is that some people may be forced to act a certain way. There is no alternative. Anarchy has never and will never be a thing. People seek to be lead and others seek to lead and the few retards who refuse to conform are outcasted. The only difference is that in the past it was easier to just kill them off. Now they just suck at society's teats as "freemen" and "Sovereign Citizens".
Not if you're Wall Street. Chalk this up to investors who demand that you're ALWAYS more profitable and ALWAYS have more market share than the previous quarter. Hell if you were a 100% no competition monopoly I'd think they'd STILL demand growth. It's a fundamental problem with unchecked capitalism. Greed overtakes everything else to the point everything else breaks.
So what about things like Coke Zero or diet sodas which have no sugar in them? It's it's not like 99% of people are drinking their coffee black with no sugar or creamer.
You can't seem to understand the original nature of your own fucking post. You bitched about Linus not being viewed as important as Musk. I said it was because Musk builds solutions - not parts. It's the same reason why Ford/Chevy/InsertYourFavCarBrandHere is celebrated and not the part maker who made the steering wheel cover. I don't care what powers my phone/etc in the same way people don't care who makes the bolts that bolt the engine to the car. Is it important? Yeah sure, OSes do a lot and the bolts that hold my engine in place are sort of necessary. But it's just a part of a solution. Nothing you've said refutes anything I said. You also seem to not understand that you're essentially asking why Linus isn't more popular among the tech crowd. It's really sort of a dumb thing to get upset about, no?
No. I'm just not stupid enough to goad myself into thinking I'm some sort of 1337 haxx0r. You can't truly be safe unless everything in your solution stack has published source code. You also can't be 100% certain you're secure unless YOU review the code. You also have to have a 100% complete understanding of the code, its underpinnings, and the technical aspects of what that code is doing. Even then there's "always a chance". 99.9999% of people in the world will never do this. I choose to focus my technical efforts elsewhere. You've also seemed to have lost the point of my response. Few people care about Linus because his solution is just a piece of the puzzle.
Why would I care just about the OS when the entire solution may be proprietary and doing stuff behind my back? And no - I don't believe every piece of technology is going to be better/more secure by being open source. Security is only useful if *I* do the review, otherwise I'm still trusting other people. In which case I may as well trust people motivated by my wallet than those motivated by nothing more than their own ideology.
Yes, I too long for the days of static HTML pages, 10dpi 320x320 gifs, and Geocities. Shun change! Yarr why do computers even have harddrives - we should be toggling binary switches for each program we want to run. Yarrrr change rabble rabble rabble.
Because oftentimes the OS is just one piece of a solution. Musk has created solutions. Put another way - I don't necessarily care what OS powers my phone, my car, my TV, my toaster, my dog, etc. I do care, however, that my Tesla can go 0 to 60 in like 2 seconds. I do care that my phone can link up with my watch and my airpods to make managing my music experience more pleasant. That's why Steve Jobs was big and it's why Musk is big. Linux for all of its benefits is simply one piece to a solution...and arguably it may not be the most important piece.
Power grids are stressed, ISPs aren't exactly stressing at capacity and where they are stressing at capacity it's because their capacity was setup back in the 90s or early 2000s and they've put zero funding into correcting that.
> Thank you for calling Bill's Hair Salon, this is Mike.
That's all that's needed in a lot of cases to identify people in a small business environment. Between that and the various other methods of data gathering and identification Google could potentially get the person, the employer, and their voice. And this person had no real choice in the matter. You've got a very narrow vision to not see this.
> It should not matter if the "voice" on the other end of the phone says "please speak or enter your credit card number now, ending with the pound key" in a robotic voice or "hey, I need to process your order, ok. What are your digits?" in a realistic human voice.
This has nothing to do with the type of voice - you missed the point entirely. It's that Google has gone one step further and is now contacting potentially non-Google users without their consent.
> The unspoken goal: Keep users asking questions and sharing information with the company -- which can use that to collect more data to improve its answers and services.
The unspoken goal: Keep users and those who don't know they're interacting with Google asking questions and sharing information with the company -- which can be complied and sold to governments, private companies, and other persons regardless of the desire to remain private.
Say what you want about Siri, but Apple doesn't sell that information. I'll take a dumbed down AI with more privacy any day. My personal life is none of anyone's business regardless of whatever the license agreement says.
California has an implied consent law which requires those arrested on suspicion of drunk driving to submit to chemical testing to establish BAC. Breathalyzers are generally used to establish cause for arrest. So while the test being inaccurate may throw out a lot of "potential reasoning" for arresting a person, there could be a multitude of other factors. Factors like smelling alcohol on the breath, improper driving, inability to pass a sobriety test, and certain medical indicators (non-responding eye dilation, etc) that might be used instead.
And they wouldn't be wrong. Look at what the EU is doing. Entire companies are having to halt operations in the EU, because they cannot meet or are unwilling to meet the new regulations the EU is putting in place. There's no reason the US couldn't do the exact same thing, except for HURR MUH MONEYYIIIEESS that some capitalist pig feels he's entitled to over my right to NOT be spammed by his shit brick company.
Wait wait wait. Why are we totally excusing private companies who employ that illegal labor? They're paying FAR below market wage and often illegally below the minimum wage line. Why is it, whenever illegal immigration is mentioned, that blame never seems to get assigned to companies by Free Market Capitalists? Perhaps the poor wages issue is entirely solvable by shuttering companies who use illegal labor, seizing all of their assets, the assets of all company executives, mandatory jail time for all mid-executive level managers, and fining shareholders? Make it so undesirable to higher illegal immigrants that it doesn't get done.
Anecdotal isn't a strong indicator of anything. What he said was "This isn't helped at the university level where lots of liberal teachers preach that blue collar workers are nothing but a bunch of dumb hicks that are not smart enough to find something better." Unless his personal experience is with 10s of thousands of teachers (there are something like 1.7 million post-secondary teachers) his "lots" could in fact be a very small, insignificant number and thus his entire point/anger is entirely disproportional to the level of impact.
My family (both blood and marriage) has multiple trades people. A good lot of them tend to get put on suspension and have to draw from unemployment for multiple months during the slow seasons. The ones that are gainfully employed year-round make about as much as I make, but when they're 50 or so they're seeing chiropractors, doctors, and are dealing with a variety of health issues.
College also has prepared me by exposing me to more general forms of knowledge. Philosophy, basic finance, mathematics, and how to do research and communicate and validate. It's been my own personal anecdotal experience that these tradesmen are often the easy targets of misinformation. They often believe in crap like Alex Jones, health supplements (delaying their medical care because of "big pharma" by using bullshit like rose hips or whatever), and live in this fear that "ALL gubbermint is bad" and blah blah blah.
They're highly trained and skilled at a very specific specialty. But generally have little to no capacity to learn outside of that specialty, because they generally weren't ever taught how to THINK like an academic.
Do you have examples? Specifics? I keep seeing this myth propagated and all I get back is "well dude this one professor TOTALLY said that in between his EEEBILL LIBERAL HIPPIE LECTURES".
> while apparently being supportive of the progressive agenda. It's almost like you're living in a bubble and are out-of-touch.
That was your first mistake. I just hate conservative ideology. I want to be left alone.
> progressives attempt to control a persons life
Like gay marraige, birth control, where mosques can be built, what's allowable on TV or movies, violence in video games, recreational use of drugs, various levels of "obscenity" censorship laws, anti-porn stances - yeah the conservative element is SO TOTALLY open and FREE. You're retarded. You're a retarded motherfucker. We're done here.
I enjoy how you politicize random issues and are modded up. The other day I saw some/. fuck telling everyone how/.ers are so much more mature than Reddit and the like and how this site doesn't act like an echo chamber. Clearly that's some bullshit which wraps up back to what you were rambling off like a man at a cheap Vegas buffet: just a stream of nonsensical diarrhea. I'd offer my gun for you so you could end your misery, but I'm sure that wouldn't be well liked around this "intelligent and grown up place" that just randomly spasms out random phrases at progressives. I suppose it's no small wonder this site is dying.
Why are those two portions not protected? Why is "VILE, UNCOMFORTABLE, and UNPOPULAR Speech" protected? Threats are simply vile and uncomfortable - they carry no weight until action carries them out. The action is the crime, no? And shouting "fire" in a crowded building doesn't mean "stampede" the person in front of you, does it? It requires the blind belief in what someone says for a panic to ensure. Indeed panics are, generally, without logic, forethought, and against the nature of an organized society. I dare ask - why can I call a room full of black people something racist word and that be acceptable, but I can't tell that same room "FIRE" when a fire doesn't exist?
Except for that whole Bill of Rights thing. Oh and the whole women and black people voting, slavery, etc. These "natural rights" weren't so natural until the government was forced into legislating the rights. But go on with your spewing of retardation.
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You should probably blame that "free market" stock market thing. They're the ones demanding Apple keeps growing, despite having far more money than it could ever spend ($285.1 billion as of Q1 2018). There's a point where you have to shift your audience when investors keep demanding you do better this quarter than you did last quarter - it is impossible sustain that in the long term. Apple won't take multiple SKUs when it has traditionally been about doing a handful of products and doing them well.
All of this is very much open for debate. Multiple Republican states were found guilty in various lawsuits on gerrymandering. There was no shortage of reports of Red states pushing laws/practices which were targeting minority voters to make it very hard for them to get to a voting booth (either by limiting the hours to during work hours typically worked by low income voters or by setting up voting stations far from population centers). The "fantasy" as you call it has produced numerous indictments and some cases high profile persons have begun cooperating with the investigations in an attempt to minimize the penalties they now face. Russian media has actively chided Trump and said that he is Russia's puppet. Our allies are extremely alienated in what is, perhaps, the most egregious display of international diplomacy outside of major historical dictators like Hitler, Stalin, or Hussein. Our allies are working towards a future in which they no longer need to be our allies. People like you work actively to undermine the American system because you're stupid. There's no need for pretense. People like you have been working to block the investigation claiming it has taken too long - and ironically supported decades worth of investigations of the Clintons. The sheer amount of hypocrisy is either from malicious intent or vast stupidity. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt and casting people like you as a stupid instead of malicious.
The 2017 MBPs had some extra engineering done to try and help mitigate the problem. The statistics of the keyboard issues are hard to pin down to a specific model year for the vast majority of people. Could Apple's work have helped in some way? Not sure. That said I own a MBP 2017 and haven't had issues myself...hoping I won't get them either.
What capabilities do Androids/iPhones really not share? Yes we can get into the nitty gritty of specifications, but more or less anything a person can do with an Android can be done on an iPhone. I honestly very curious. I've owned Androids up until the S7 Edge. I quit rooting and shoving Cyanogenmod on them some time prior. My iPhone does everything I used my Android to do. I've found I enjoy the integrations of the Watch, the MBP, and the Apple TV in what seems to be the most seemless integration of hardware.
That's society in general. Societies rely on people subscribing to the ideals/rules of that society. Those of you ranting about "hurr dur gubermints dun kills peeple" fail to understand that whether it's governments, warlords, anarchial leaders, clubs, families, tribes, clans, or brotherhoods, the factors that allow their existence is that some people may be forced to act a certain way. There is no alternative. Anarchy has never and will never be a thing. People seek to be lead and others seek to lead and the few retards who refuse to conform are outcasted. The only difference is that in the past it was easier to just kill them off. Now they just suck at society's teats as "freemen" and "Sovereign Citizens".
> Cheaper, Better, Faster. You can only pick two.
Not if you're Wall Street. Chalk this up to investors who demand that you're ALWAYS more profitable and ALWAYS have more market share than the previous quarter. Hell if you were a 100% no competition monopoly I'd think they'd STILL demand growth. It's a fundamental problem with unchecked capitalism. Greed overtakes everything else to the point everything else breaks.
So what about things like Coke Zero or diet sodas which have no sugar in them? It's it's not like 99% of people are drinking their coffee black with no sugar or creamer.
You can't seem to understand the original nature of your own fucking post. You bitched about Linus not being viewed as important as Musk. I said it was because Musk builds solutions - not parts. It's the same reason why Ford/Chevy/InsertYourFavCarBrandHere is celebrated and not the part maker who made the steering wheel cover. I don't care what powers my phone/etc in the same way people don't care who makes the bolts that bolt the engine to the car. Is it important? Yeah sure, OSes do a lot and the bolts that hold my engine in place are sort of necessary. But it's just a part of a solution. Nothing you've said refutes anything I said. You also seem to not understand that you're essentially asking why Linus isn't more popular among the tech crowd. It's really sort of a dumb thing to get upset about, no?
> But you are a consumer
No. I'm just not stupid enough to goad myself into thinking I'm some sort of 1337 haxx0r. You can't truly be safe unless everything in your solution stack has published source code. You also can't be 100% certain you're secure unless YOU review the code. You also have to have a 100% complete understanding of the code, its underpinnings, and the technical aspects of what that code is doing. Even then there's "always a chance". 99.9999% of people in the world will never do this. I choose to focus my technical efforts elsewhere. You've also seemed to have lost the point of my response. Few people care about Linus because his solution is just a piece of the puzzle.
Why would I care just about the OS when the entire solution may be proprietary and doing stuff behind my back? And no - I don't believe every piece of technology is going to be better/more secure by being open source. Security is only useful if *I* do the review, otherwise I'm still trusting other people. In which case I may as well trust people motivated by my wallet than those motivated by nothing more than their own ideology.
Yes, I too long for the days of static HTML pages, 10dpi 320x320 gifs, and Geocities. Shun change! Yarr why do computers even have harddrives - we should be toggling binary switches for each program we want to run. Yarrrr change rabble rabble rabble.
Because oftentimes the OS is just one piece of a solution. Musk has created solutions. Put another way - I don't necessarily care what OS powers my phone, my car, my TV, my toaster, my dog, etc. I do care, however, that my Tesla can go 0 to 60 in like 2 seconds. I do care that my phone can link up with my watch and my airpods to make managing my music experience more pleasant. That's why Steve Jobs was big and it's why Musk is big. Linux for all of its benefits is simply one piece to a solution...and arguably it may not be the most important piece.
Power grids are stressed, ISPs aren't exactly stressing at capacity and where they are stressing at capacity it's because their capacity was setup back in the 90s or early 2000s and they've put zero funding into correcting that.
> Thank you for calling Bill's Hair Salon, this is Mike.
That's all that's needed in a lot of cases to identify people in a small business environment. Between that and the various other methods of data gathering and identification Google could potentially get the person, the employer, and their voice. And this person had no real choice in the matter. You've got a very narrow vision to not see this.
> It should not matter if the "voice" on the other end of the phone says "please speak or enter your credit card number now, ending with the pound key" in a robotic voice or "hey, I need to process your order, ok. What are your digits?" in a realistic human voice.
This has nothing to do with the type of voice - you missed the point entirely. It's that Google has gone one step further and is now contacting potentially non-Google users without their consent.
> The unspoken goal: Keep users asking questions and sharing information with the company -- which can use that to collect more data to improve its answers and services.
The unspoken goal: Keep users and those who don't know they're interacting with Google asking questions and sharing information with the company -- which can be complied and sold to governments, private companies, and other persons regardless of the desire to remain private.
Say what you want about Siri, but Apple doesn't sell that information. I'll take a dumbed down AI with more privacy any day. My personal life is none of anyone's business regardless of whatever the license agreement says.
California has an implied consent law which requires those arrested on suspicion of drunk driving to submit to chemical testing to establish BAC. Breathalyzers are generally used to establish cause for arrest. So while the test being inaccurate may throw out a lot of "potential reasoning" for arresting a person, there could be a multitude of other factors. Factors like smelling alcohol on the breath, improper driving, inability to pass a sobriety test, and certain medical indicators (non-responding eye dilation, etc) that might be used instead.
And they wouldn't be wrong. Look at what the EU is doing. Entire companies are having to halt operations in the EU, because they cannot meet or are unwilling to meet the new regulations the EU is putting in place. There's no reason the US couldn't do the exact same thing, except for HURR MUH MONEYYIIIEESS that some capitalist pig feels he's entitled to over my right to NOT be spammed by his shit brick company.
Wait wait wait. Why are we totally excusing private companies who employ that illegal labor? They're paying FAR below market wage and often illegally below the minimum wage line. Why is it, whenever illegal immigration is mentioned, that blame never seems to get assigned to companies by Free Market Capitalists? Perhaps the poor wages issue is entirely solvable by shuttering companies who use illegal labor, seizing all of their assets, the assets of all company executives, mandatory jail time for all mid-executive level managers, and fining shareholders? Make it so undesirable to higher illegal immigrants that it doesn't get done.
Anecdotal isn't a strong indicator of anything. What he said was "This isn't helped at the university level where lots of liberal teachers preach that blue collar workers are nothing but a bunch of dumb hicks that are not smart enough to find something better." Unless his personal experience is with 10s of thousands of teachers (there are something like 1.7 million post-secondary teachers) his "lots" could in fact be a very small, insignificant number and thus his entire point/anger is entirely disproportional to the level of impact.
My family (both blood and marriage) has multiple trades people. A good lot of them tend to get put on suspension and have to draw from unemployment for multiple months during the slow seasons. The ones that are gainfully employed year-round make about as much as I make, but when they're 50 or so they're seeing chiropractors, doctors, and are dealing with a variety of health issues.
College also has prepared me by exposing me to more general forms of knowledge. Philosophy, basic finance, mathematics, and how to do research and communicate and validate. It's been my own personal anecdotal experience that these tradesmen are often the easy targets of misinformation. They often believe in crap like Alex Jones, health supplements (delaying their medical care because of "big pharma" by using bullshit like rose hips or whatever), and live in this fear that "ALL gubbermint is bad" and blah blah blah.
They're highly trained and skilled at a very specific specialty. But generally have little to no capacity to learn outside of that specialty, because they generally weren't ever taught how to THINK like an academic.
Do you have examples? Specifics? I keep seeing this myth propagated and all I get back is "well dude this one professor TOTALLY said that in between his EEEBILL LIBERAL HIPPIE LECTURES".
> while apparently being supportive of the progressive agenda. It's almost like you're living in a bubble and are out-of-touch.
That was your first mistake. I just hate conservative ideology. I want to be left alone.
> progressives attempt to control a persons life
Like gay marraige, birth control, where mosques can be built, what's allowable on TV or movies, violence in video games, recreational use of drugs, various levels of "obscenity" censorship laws, anti-porn stances - yeah the conservative element is SO TOTALLY open and FREE. You're retarded. You're a retarded motherfucker. We're done here.
I enjoy how you politicize random issues and are modded up. The other day I saw some /. fuck telling everyone how /.ers are so much more mature than Reddit and the like and how this site doesn't act like an echo chamber. Clearly that's some bullshit which wraps up back to what you were rambling off like a man at a cheap Vegas buffet: just a stream of nonsensical diarrhea. I'd offer my gun for you so you could end your misery, but I'm sure that wouldn't be well liked around this "intelligent and grown up place" that just randomly spasms out random phrases at progressives. I suppose it's no small wonder this site is dying.
Why are those two portions not protected? Why is "VILE, UNCOMFORTABLE, and UNPOPULAR Speech" protected? Threats are simply vile and uncomfortable - they carry no weight until action carries them out. The action is the crime, no? And shouting "fire" in a crowded building doesn't mean "stampede" the person in front of you, does it? It requires the blind belief in what someone says for a panic to ensure. Indeed panics are, generally, without logic, forethought, and against the nature of an organized society. I dare ask - why can I call a room full of black people something racist word and that be acceptable, but I can't tell that same room "FIRE" when a fire doesn't exist?
> It does not enumerate your rights.
Except for that whole Bill of Rights thing. Oh and the whole women and black people voting, slavery, etc. These "natural rights" weren't so natural until the government was forced into legislating the rights. But go on with your spewing of retardation.