People already don't make voice calls anymore. How exactly is this supposed to "revolutionize" anything? I'm certainly not going to be more likely to interrupt someone's day with a voice cal (how rude!) simply because I can do it with my voice instead of pressing a few buttons on my phone.
Seriously, stop calling these people "geniuses." They're not. They're Apple users. About as far from a genius as one can get. They've been through some sort of Apple training programme, no doubt, but that doesn't make them any smarter than anyone else. They still can't handle a mouse with more than one button, an escape key, or any of Apple's other trademarks designed for it's dumbed-down user base.
Right, suggest an extension (not a plugin) that hasn't been updated in over 4 years and is going to stop working in a month when Firefox 57 is released. Good one. What you're looking for is uMatrix and/or NoScript.
That is ridiculous. The act of visiting a website with a modern browser is giving consent to run whatever javascript the sites sends you, unless, as you said, you have disabled it. To say otherwise seems ignorant to me. You're *requesting* the content, it's not like it just gets streamed to you automatically.
nice idea, but that was only in the EU. Something that consumer-focused would never fly in the United States, unfortunately. Perhaps in other parts of the world, though.
I really can't wait for companies to start implementing this right, as a way to remove advertisements from their sites. Particularly newspapers and other publications I wish to support financially. There's no way I'm ever disabling my ad blocker, but I would absolutely allow using a share of my CPU resources to send a few cents while I'm reading an article or something. As the OP points out, doing it without user consent is not cool, but when done right I think this could be a very powerful tool.
What is "a competitive advantage over Android smartphones" supposed to mean? Android was the first operating system to have a face unlock feature with Android 4, 6 YEARS ago, long before Apple blatantly copied it. Apple is as bad as Trump with the propaganda—they just change the narrative to be whatever they like and their idiot fans eat it all up without question. Absolutely shameful.
I don't get it. What can a VR headset do without a computer or phone to power it? It needs to get its input from *somewhere*, right? Or are they going to stream the data to the device over the internet like video? I think one would need a truly exceptional connection for that to be remotely usable. Or is this device going to have its own CPU and actually run software on the device itself?
WhatsApp is proprietary, privacy-invading Facebook garbage. No one should use it when the are two perfectly good, *interoperable* standards available (SMS and RCS).
Not only is Google Voice only available in the States, it also requires a real, physical phone line (land line or mobile) to activate. I really don't think that does anything for people whose lives might be changed by a $50 tablet.
Yeah, what does "latest version" even mean? I thought they had finally stopped development on that garbage fire. Is that not the case? Or did they introduce this bug in a security fix? (Sadly wouldn't surprise me!)
I would. See, beta testers are supposed to get the device for FREE, in exchange for testing a potentially unstable device and giving detailed bug reports. For some reason manufacturers seem to have forgotten this over the years.
Typical, idiotic comment. I'm surprised you're not an AC. You think these big companies don't do loads of user research to determine that these features are not necessary or useful to the vast majority of consumers? No one cares what some nerd on/. wants. That doesn't make it "unacceptable." These things are minor.
Just as soon as they also outlaw out-of-state contributions to local elections. National parties like the DNC and GOP shouldn't be allowed to contribute to local elections at all. Someone from a neighbouring city shouldn't be allowed to contribute to my local mayoral election. Where does it end?
So now the legal standard is, "as long as no one ever got hurt, it's fine?" What if I build a cheap, shoddy bridge using unsafe practises? So long as it doesn't fall apart before the lawsuit, I'm not at fault? What a shitty country this is. I hope this gets appealed and overruled.
I wish more people would pay attention to what a serious issue this is. Average people just don't get it. They would be just as happy with the old, proprietary AOL client if it gave them access to all the same content they currently consume. They neither know nor care that it is open. It's a dark age indeed.
Marco Arment is an idiot Apple fanboy. Great, thanks Slashdot!
"Most important, most successful, and most recognizable tech product that the world has ever seen" my ass. Fuck you, Marco. You don't seem to have a clue what your'e talking about. What a disgusting sellout to the king of proprietary software.
Last I heard, a fusion drive was a theoretical propulsion system for interplanetary spacecraft. I'm assuming this just means a hybrid SSD/mechanical drive? You know, the kind we've had for years and years? Fuck Apple and it's vile marketing department.
Browsers should have stopped supporting FTP at least 10 years ago. We're never going to force the dinosaurs to upgrade until we stop enabling them! FTP has a proud place in the history of the internet, but it's time has long since passed, and it is time to retire the protocol, forever.
So Foursquare doesn't even try to hide the fact that they record their users' every move? This is a really disturbing precedent. Why would anyone allow them to do that? Is Foursquare paying them for this valuable marketing data? This is just insanity to me.
The fact that box office returns don't correlate with the actual quality of films (assuming there is a correlation between that and critic reviews in the first place, which I believe there is), is a BAD thing. It just means that the army of marketing assholes from the motion picture industry is succeeding in their mission to trick us and push their shoddy products down our throat. Great news for the studios, of course. Bad news for the rest of us, indicating that we're just going to continue seeing mostly garbage coming out of Hollywood.
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I would have loved this feature. Oh well, guess the regressives win again.
People already don't make voice calls anymore. How exactly is this supposed to "revolutionize" anything? I'm certainly not going to be more likely to interrupt someone's day with a voice cal (how rude!) simply because I can do it with my voice instead of pressing a few buttons on my phone.
Seriously, stop calling these people "geniuses." They're not. They're Apple users. About as far from a genius as one can get. They've been through some sort of Apple training programme, no doubt, but that doesn't make them any smarter than anyone else. They still can't handle a mouse with more than one button, an escape key, or any of Apple's other trademarks designed for it's dumbed-down user base.
Either buy a decent machine or stop your whining.
Right, suggest an extension (not a plugin) that hasn't been updated in over 4 years and is going to stop working in a month when Firefox 57 is released. Good one. What you're looking for is uMatrix and/or NoScript.
That is ridiculous. The act of visiting a website with a modern browser is giving consent to run whatever javascript the sites sends you, unless, as you said, you have disabled it. To say otherwise seems ignorant to me. You're *requesting* the content, it's not like it just gets streamed to you automatically.
nice idea, but that was only in the EU. Something that consumer-focused would never fly in the United States, unfortunately. Perhaps in other parts of the world, though.
I really can't wait for companies to start implementing this right, as a way to remove advertisements from their sites. Particularly newspapers and other publications I wish to support financially. There's no way I'm ever disabling my ad blocker, but I would absolutely allow using a share of my CPU resources to send a few cents while I'm reading an article or something. As the OP points out, doing it without user consent is not cool, but when done right I think this could be a very powerful tool.
What is "a competitive advantage over Android smartphones" supposed to mean? Android was the first operating system to have a face unlock feature with Android 4, 6 YEARS ago, long before Apple blatantly copied it. Apple is as bad as Trump with the propaganda—they just change the narrative to be whatever they like and their idiot fans eat it all up without question. Absolutely shameful.
I don't get it. What can a VR headset do without a computer or phone to power it? It needs to get its input from *somewhere*, right? Or are they going to stream the data to the device over the internet like video? I think one would need a truly exceptional connection for that to be remotely usable. Or is this device going to have its own CPU and actually run software on the device itself?
WhatsApp is proprietary, privacy-invading Facebook garbage. No one should use it when the are two perfectly good, *interoperable* standards available (SMS and RCS).
Not only is Google Voice only available in the States, it also requires a real, physical phone line (land line or mobile) to activate. I really don't think that does anything for people whose lives might be changed by a $50 tablet.
Yeah, what does "latest version" even mean? I thought they had finally stopped development on that garbage fire. Is that not the case? Or did they introduce this bug in a security fix? (Sadly wouldn't surprise me!)
I would. See, beta testers are supposed to get the device for FREE, in exchange for testing a potentially unstable device and giving detailed bug reports. For some reason manufacturers seem to have forgotten this over the years.
Typical, idiotic comment. I'm surprised you're not an AC. You think these big companies don't do loads of user research to determine that these features are not necessary or useful to the vast majority of consumers? No one cares what some nerd on /. wants. That doesn't make it "unacceptable." These things are minor.
It's always Rhonda's fault.
Just as soon as they also outlaw out-of-state contributions to local elections. National parties like the DNC and GOP shouldn't be allowed to contribute to local elections at all. Someone from a neighbouring city shouldn't be allowed to contribute to my local mayoral election. Where does it end?
I suggest we require you to go fuck yourself.
So now the legal standard is, "as long as no one ever got hurt, it's fine?" What if I build a cheap, shoddy bridge using unsafe practises? So long as it doesn't fall apart before the lawsuit, I'm not at fault? What a shitty country this is. I hope this gets appealed and overruled.
I wish more people would pay attention to what a serious issue this is. Average people just don't get it. They would be just as happy with the old, proprietary AOL client if it gave them access to all the same content they currently consume. They neither know nor care that it is open. It's a dark age indeed.
How the heck are credit card networks and gaming servers related?
Marco Arment is an idiot Apple fanboy. Great, thanks Slashdot!
"Most important, most successful, and most recognizable tech product that the world has ever seen" my ass. Fuck you, Marco. You don't seem to have a clue what your'e talking about. What a disgusting sellout to the king of proprietary software.
Last I heard, a fusion drive was a theoretical propulsion system for interplanetary spacecraft. I'm assuming this just means a hybrid SSD/mechanical drive? You know, the kind we've had for years and years? Fuck Apple and it's vile marketing department.
Apple users continue to be fucking idiots.
Browsers should have stopped supporting FTP at least 10 years ago. We're never going to force the dinosaurs to upgrade until we stop enabling them! FTP has a proud place in the history of the internet, but it's time has long since passed, and it is time to retire the protocol, forever.
So Foursquare doesn't even try to hide the fact that they record their users' every move? This is a really disturbing precedent. Why would anyone allow them to do that? Is Foursquare paying them for this valuable marketing data? This is just insanity to me.
The fact that box office returns don't correlate with the actual quality of films (assuming there is a correlation between that and critic reviews in the first place, which I believe there is), is a BAD thing. It just means that the army of marketing assholes from the motion picture industry is succeeding in their mission to trick us and push their shoddy products down our throat. Great news for the studios, of course. Bad news for the rest of us, indicating that we're just going to continue seeing mostly garbage coming out of Hollywood.