I bought in to a yearly subscription MoviePass in March for $8/month ($100 total). I figure I needed to see 9 movies to break even. So far I've seen 15 movies. A lot of them weren't stuff I would have seen otherwise, but still enjoyed (Equalizer 2 was good, for example).
I don't imagine they'll be around much longer. My wife wants to go see Mission Impossible this weekend, but as of now the app is reporting "a problem with our payment processing" and recommends e-tickets instead (no theaters I go to have that though).
Development of Chrome should be sent off to an independent organization (perhaps forced to by anti trust courts). Chrome now has more market share than internet explorer used to and also owns phones and schools with chromebooks. We also need to force Google to code to standards and work on all of the competition’s browsers under interoperability laws. this includes minority browers like waterfox and falkon.
So I'm not fan of Google, but this is 100% crap. Some actual facts:
Chromium is open source -- -- the only parts that aren't included are the the commercial codecs like H.264, and those will never be open-source because Google pays the licensing costs and gives away the results for free
Google does code to standards. Shadow DOM v0 API is a standard. It's just an old one (relatively speaking)
Google does a lot of things that I don't like, but Chrome on the whole is a net positive contribution to the web-going world. They push companies like Apple and Mozilla to move faster and do more. Suggesting that someone "take it away" is absurd. Fork the code, release your own browser, have a nice day.
There are several stories of Qualcomm and Samsung trying to produce anti-apple propaganda about this, because really they have nothing compelling to say against the iPhone X.
Turns out, none of these differences are even noticeable because the carriers are the limit, not the modem. Also, nobody downloads huge files on their phone because why would you?
If the cellular is fast enough to stream video and load web pages instantly, the rest is just academic.
So in other words if you have an iPhone in China, whether anyone can beat the unlock password out of you or not is a moot point because the State already has all your data in it's posession?
They have the data, but it's encrypted by the phone. Unless they somehow learned to crack modern encryption, then they cannot look at the data.
I guess it's possible that in China they've added another encryption key to the mix, but I doubt it.
Now. I really gotta wonder about this one though. They are actively trying to put a stop to law enforcement gaining access to devices they have confiscated? Who does this? Why would someone do this? It's one thing to make a product very secure and shrug when LE finds a way around it to get evidence, but it's an entirely another thing when one sees what LEO is doing to break into devices and FIXING IT!
The problem with this logic is assuming that US law enforcement are the only ones trying to break into locked phones. Apple sells more phones around the world than they do in the US. It could be oppressive nation-states looking to punish citizens who oppose them, or criminals looking to steal peoples' identity, money, etc.
There are lots of articles. The number varies between 50% and 90% of phones. Even if the manufacturer by some miracle decides to update the phone, the carrier probably won't. Only a few phones (mostly Google devices) get updates direct from Google, and carriers don't generally push those because they get incentives from HTC, Samsung etc to sell the other phones instead.
I say this as an ardent Apple product user and shareholder:
Apple, just stop with the maps. We have Google Maps. Thatâ(TM)s enough. You finally let us use it with CarPlay, for which we are very grateful. That is all you needed to do. Spend your Maps resources on something else. Thank you.
Apple Maps isn't very good. However, I trust Google less and less with each passing day, and I would just as soon have them out of my digital life entirely if it were possible. I switched from Google search to DuckDuckGo and haven't been any worse for wear. I've stopped using Google Drive for iCloud Drive + Dropbox, and I've largely abandoned Google Docs. Maps and Gmail though are really hard to get rid of today.
I hope that they and the HERE people persevere and make a viable alternative to Google Maps/Waze (one and the same company now really). Having only one viable choice in the market is bad for everyone. I wish Apple would offer mail as well with import from Gmail -- I'd get Google out of my life forever.
After writing an entire application stack in Obj-C / Cocoa (ExactScan, OCRKit,...) we will not continue using Apple only technology. To much vendor lock in, too much extra work porting and sharing code with other platforms. Yes, Swift may be partially vendor neutral, however all the Cocoa / AppKit / UIKit et al. APIs do not help, and Swift is otherwise not too native on Linux and Windows.</quote>  After writing an entire application stack in C#/.NET we will not continue using Microsoft-only technology. To much vendor lock in, too much extra work porting and sharing code with other platforms. Yes, C# may be partially vendor neutral, however all the.NET / Win32 et al. APIs do not help, and C# is otherwise not too native on Linux and macOS.
I was a huge fan of Objective-C. I still think it's an elegant language. I love the delegate patterns, I love the quirky stuff like method swizzling, I love the runtime message passing.
When Swift first came out, it was really rough. The Obj-C bridge APIs were all using forced-unwrapped optionals and the like, and Apple didn't do a great job explaining why all of that was in place. Only with Swift 2, 3, and 4 did it become clear that you should never force-unwrap unless using some crufty API that required it (which it turns out is almost never these days).
I do miss some things like nested message passing, but I also don't miss a lot of things. I love the map, reduce, and filter capabilities, I like the more nuanced closures vs completion blocks. There are still things that frustrate me, but they generally get better every year. Swift is one of my favorite languages to code in these days.
I don't personally do any significant JS development, but the suggestion that this is a JS-specific problem is silly. This could have just as well been in a Java or C++ framework. We all use third party libraries and frameworks all the time without doing a line-by-line code review.
The real story here isn't that someone tried to slip in a backdoor. The story should be about how the NPM team did their due diligence and protected all of their users by catching this. Good job to them.
Seriously some of my brain cells died a little reading this. It looks like something the author scribbled in his My Little Pony journal.
I don't work in Silicon Valley; I went there once. My parent company is there, and the people who work on the campus there are smart, insightful, and hard working. I have no idea what the "author" is talking about, and from the other comments, neither does anyone else.
Is he also going to stop using Google and Bing and any other search engine which isn't funded with a paid subscription?
Lots of us have moved on to Duck Duck Go and other privacy-oriented search engines that don't track people. If you aren't tired of being tracked, you aren't paying attention.
Apple provides developers with an ad impression interface on their dev console (there was a bug displaying another developer's ad info earlier this year).
Answer me this: What ads are being reporting on? How are these ads being targetted?
Do you actually want to know, because Apple is very forthcoming about it.
When you follow that link you will see that Apple has deprecated iAd, and news stories will tell you that Apple doesn't sell this anymore. Even when they did, the privacy policy was a lot better than Google's.
As a developer you could never get any user-identifiable information except an Ad identifier that was not unique to the device, only to the installation of that app on that device.
It's not clear, but "as the hosted OSes run natively on Intel" is almost certainly referring to the fact that your VMs must be x86(-64) and not some other architecture.
Sorry yes, I meant x86, as opposed to ARM, which would incur a performance penalty.
Virtualization is the obvious answer. Inside your VMs you can run Linux, or Windows, or whatever. It's quite safe. You should run your work-related stuff in one VM, and your personal stuff in another VM, and not use the native OS for anything except the virtualization software.
This is the most secure option you will find, and modern virtualization platforms (VMware, etc) will even let you set flashpoints where the VM is saved, and if there's an issue, you can rewind to the safe point and continue.
There's little to no performance penalty as long as the hosted OSes run natively on Intel.
They track where you go and what you do before and after the movie. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
To use this app, you basically give them more info about you than your doctor, therapist, and the IRS combined.
Turn off background refresh for their app, and they can't track anything when the app isn't running (on iOS at least). I did this 30s after I installed it.
I came to post this. I haven't done hardware design in 20+ years, but even back in the 90s FPGA was Field Programmable Gate Array. My understanding is that the technology has come a long way since doing VHDL synthesis on SunOS/Solaris machines like we did back at Ga Tech when I was in school.
Put your iPhone in airplane mode. Talk to Siri. Note that no matter what you ask it (even "what time is it") it will respond with "You'll need to connect to the internet first".
I don't think that it's doing much local interpretation.
Apple is very much in second place, if you look at the profits of the ENTIRE Android ecosystem. Everyone that makes Android devices.
And you need to do that, because we're discussing 'phone usage/purchase' numbers' not 'single company profits'.
It's the same reason that the PC market has far larger profits than Apple. Because it's so huge. Massive.
I drive an Audi. I could drive a Toyota -- they're #1 after all in units sold. But I prefer the Audi because it's better for me in every way, shape and form.
Android sells more units. That doesn't mean it's better, only that it's cheaper. Poor people aren't going to buy an $1100 phone no matter if it's awesome or not.
Nobody likes the notch itself, but the sensors that live inside it are pretty freaking cool.
We all know that Samsung is working hard to copy Apple right now, because they can't think of anything innovative on their own. In 9 months when you see a dot projector on a dozen Android phones, you'll know the copying is complete.
We need more checks and balances, not less. We have a president and a congress that makes no effort whatsoever to represent the people anymore. We need term limits for congress and removal of executive orders from the president.
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I don't imagine they'll be around much longer. My wife wants to go see Mission Impossible this weekend, but as of now the app is reporting "a problem with our payment processing" and recommends e-tickets instead (no theaters I go to have that though).
Development of Chrome should be sent off to an independent organization (perhaps forced to by anti trust courts). Chrome now has more market share than internet explorer used to and also owns phones and schools with chromebooks. We also need to force Google to code to standards and work on all of the competition’s browsers under interoperability laws. this includes minority browers like waterfox and falkon.
So I'm not fan of Google, but this is 100% crap. Some actual facts:
Google does a lot of things that I don't like, but Chrome on the whole is a net positive contribution to the web-going world. They push companies like Apple and Mozilla to move faster and do more. Suggesting that someone "take it away" is absurd. Fork the code, release your own browser, have a nice day.
There are several stories of Qualcomm and Samsung trying to produce anti-apple propaganda about this, because really they have nothing compelling to say against the iPhone X.
Turns out, none of these differences are even noticeable because the carriers are the limit, not the modem. Also, nobody downloads huge files on their phone because why would you?
If the cellular is fast enough to stream video and load web pages instantly, the rest is just academic.
So in other words if you have an iPhone in China, whether anyone can beat the unlock password out of you or not is a moot point because the State already has all your data in it's posession?
They have the data, but it's encrypted by the phone. Unless they somehow learned to crack modern encryption, then they cannot look at the data.
I guess it's possible that in China they've added another encryption key to the mix, but I doubt it.
Based on my own experience, iPhones are not born equal. Anyway I'd check the "background app refresh" settings and unset most of them...
I started doing this years ago, and have never had any battery issues. 95% of the apps on my phone should be doing nothing if I am not using them.
Now. I really gotta wonder about this one though. They are actively trying to put a stop to law enforcement gaining access to devices they have confiscated? Who does this? Why would someone do this? It's one thing to make a product very secure and shrug when LE finds a way around it to get evidence, but it's an entirely another thing when one sees what LEO is doing to break into devices and FIXING IT!
The problem with this logic is assuming that US law enforcement are the only ones trying to break into locked phones. Apple sells more phones around the world than they do in the US. It could be oppressive nation-states looking to punish citizens who oppose them, or criminals looking to steal peoples' identity, money, etc.
Why in simple hell is a question modded down?
I don't have an agenda. I just want to know why iPhones are the story and no other phones are, apparently, a concern.
And I ended it politely.
Because many, many Android phones have unpatched vulnerabilities.
https://www.cnet.com/news/repo...
https://techtoday.io/71-of-and...
There are lots of articles. The number varies between 50% and 90% of phones. Even if the manufacturer by some miracle decides to update the phone, the carrier probably won't. Only a few phones (mostly Google devices) get updates direct from Google, and carriers don't generally push those because they get incentives from HTC, Samsung etc to sell the other phones instead.
Hopefully it will drop down to zero where its actual value is.
I say this as an ardent Apple product user and shareholder:
Apple, just stop with the maps. We have Google Maps. Thatâ(TM)s enough. You finally let us use it with CarPlay, for which we are very grateful. That is all you needed to do. Spend your Maps resources on something else. Thank you.
Apple Maps isn't very good. However, I trust Google less and less with each passing day, and I would just as soon have them out of my digital life entirely if it were possible. I switched from Google search to DuckDuckGo and haven't been any worse for wear. I've stopped using Google Drive for iCloud Drive + Dropbox, and I've largely abandoned Google Docs. Maps and Gmail though are really hard to get rid of today.
I hope that they and the HERE people persevere and make a viable alternative to Google Maps/Waze (one and the same company now really). Having only one viable choice in the market is bad for everyone. I wish Apple would offer mail as well with import from Gmail -- I'd get Google out of my life forever.
After writing an entire application stack in Obj-C / Cocoa (ExactScan, OCRKit, ...) we will not continue using Apple only technology. To much vendor lock in, too much extra work porting and sharing code with other platforms. Yes, Swift may be partially vendor neutral, however all the Cocoa / AppKit / UIKit et al. APIs do not help, and Swift is otherwise not too native on Linux and Windows.</quote> .NET / Win32 et al. APIs do not help, and C# is otherwise not too native on Linux and macOS.

After writing an entire application stack in C#/.NET we will not continue using Microsoft-only technology. To much vendor lock in, too much extra work porting and sharing code with other platforms. Yes, C# may be partially vendor neutral, however all the
I was a huge fan of Objective-C. I still think it's an elegant language. I love the delegate patterns, I love the quirky stuff like method swizzling, I love the runtime message passing.
When Swift first came out, it was really rough. The Obj-C bridge APIs were all using forced-unwrapped optionals and the like, and Apple didn't do a great job explaining why all of that was in place. Only with Swift 2, 3, and 4 did it become clear that you should never force-unwrap unless using some crufty API that required it (which it turns out is almost never these days).
I do miss some things like nested message passing, but I also don't miss a lot of things. I love the map, reduce, and filter capabilities, I like the more nuanced closures vs completion blocks. There are still things that frustrate me, but they generally get better every year. Swift is one of my favorite languages to code in these days.
"The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough. And maybe, it's hardly doable."
I know I personally feel great entrusting the security of the American people to a bunch of geriatrics who worry about "the cyber".
They had a real shot in the 90s. Either you weren't there or you are kidding yourself.
Yep, and I bought $1000 of stock back then, which is now worth $120,000. I wish I weren't so poor back then, or I'd be retired.
I don't personally do any significant JS development, but the suggestion that this is a JS-specific problem is silly. This could have just as well been in a Java or C++ framework. We all use third party libraries and frameworks all the time without doing a line-by-line code review.
The real story here isn't that someone tried to slip in a backdoor. The story should be about how the NPM team did their due diligence and protected all of their users by catching this. Good job to them.
Seriously some of my brain cells died a little reading this. It looks like something the author scribbled in his My Little Pony journal.
I don't work in Silicon Valley; I went there once. My parent company is there, and the people who work on the campus there are smart, insightful, and hard working. I have no idea what the "author" is talking about, and from the other comments, neither does anyone else.
Is he also going to stop using Google and Bing and any other search engine which isn't funded with a paid subscription?
Lots of us have moved on to Duck Duck Go and other privacy-oriented search engines that don't track people. If you aren't tired of being tracked, you aren't paying attention.
https://start.duckduckgo.com/a...
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Apple provides developers with an ad impression interface on their dev console (there was a bug displaying another developer's ad info earlier this year).
Answer me this: What ads are being reporting on? How are these ads being targetted?
Do you actually want to know, because Apple is very forthcoming about it.
https://developer.apple.com/do...
When you follow that link you will see that Apple has deprecated iAd, and news stories will tell you that Apple doesn't sell this anymore. Even when they did, the privacy policy was a lot better than Google's.
As a developer you could never get any user-identifiable information except an Ad identifier that was not unique to the device, only to the installation of that app on that device.
It's not clear, but "as the hosted OSes run natively on Intel" is almost certainly referring to the fact that your VMs must be x86(-64) and not some other architecture.
Sorry yes, I meant x86, as opposed to ARM, which would incur a performance penalty.
Virtualization is the obvious answer. Inside your VMs you can run Linux, or Windows, or whatever. It's quite safe. You should run your work-related stuff in one VM, and your personal stuff in another VM, and not use the native OS for anything except the virtualization software.
This is the most secure option you will find, and modern virtualization platforms (VMware, etc) will even let you set flashpoints where the VM is saved, and if there's an issue, you can rewind to the safe point and continue.
There's little to no performance penalty as long as the hosted OSes run natively on Intel.
They track where you go and what you do before and after the movie. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
To use this app, you basically give them more info about you than your doctor, therapist, and the IRS combined.
Turn off background refresh for their app, and they can't track anything when the app isn't running (on iOS at least). I did this 30s after I installed it.
I came to post this. I haven't done hardware design in 20+ years, but even back in the 90s FPGA was Field Programmable Gate Array. My understanding is that the technology has come a long way since doing VHDL synthesis on SunOS/Solaris machines like we did back at Ga Tech when I was in school.
Who told you it was computed locally?
Put your iPhone in airplane mode. Talk to Siri. Note that no matter what you ask it (even "what time is it") it will respond with "You'll need to connect to the internet first".
I don't think that it's doing much local interpretation.
Apple is very much in second place, if you look at the profits of the ENTIRE Android ecosystem. Everyone that makes Android devices.
And you need to do that, because we're discussing 'phone usage/purchase' numbers' not 'single company profits'.
It's the same reason that the PC market has far larger profits than Apple. Because it's so huge. Massive.
I drive an Audi. I could drive a Toyota -- they're #1 after all in units sold. But I prefer the Audi because it's better for me in every way, shape and form.
Android sells more units. That doesn't mean it's better, only that it's cheaper. Poor people aren't going to buy an $1100 phone no matter if it's awesome or not.
FTFY. Who the hell likes the notch?
Nobody likes the notch itself, but the sensors that live inside it are pretty freaking cool.
We all know that Samsung is working hard to copy Apple right now, because they can't think of anything innovative on their own. In 9 months when you see a dot projector on a dozen Android phones, you'll know the copying is complete.
We need more checks and balances, not less. We have a president and a congress that makes no effort whatsoever to represent the people anymore. We need term limits for congress and removal of executive orders from the president.