Everyone knows the report will include a passenger in the back seat being pretty sure the friendly green light turned red and the computer voice said "Kill the humans!"
There is a certain karmic justice in Apple having to formally address an idiot who thinks a slab with rounded corners is worthy of intellectual property, given that apple has asserted the same.
While his application might have been abandoned, that doesn't negate it as prior art.
Depending on the ISP setup and/or the home network setup, that may not be as hard as you think. Add in an open (ish) WiFi and it becomes entirely likely the downloader was a neighbor or someone borrowing WiFi from the street corner or parking lot.
Actually, the key combinations depend on the phone not being totally locked up. If it is locked up, there is nothing detecting the key presses. The key combos are just for cases where the touchscreen loses it's mind. The one thing that cannot fail is removing power.
The truly paranoid will want to remove the battery and put the phone in a shielded bag. However, most will recognize that the manufacturer is unlikely to have spent extra money hiding a secondary battery inside, especially without bullet pointing it as a must have feature.
Given how hard it is to get things where the designer shows no sign of brain damage, perhaps. But in a world that puts function over form, it's always easier to have a solution on hand that requires no extra parts.
But the bag won't help you if your phone locks up (rare but not unknown).
Perhaps you don't know this, but at the time the 2nd Amendment was written, the militia was understood to be everyone who owned a gun and was capable of firing it at an enemy. Well regulated just meant practiced.
Your tone suggests that you long ago made up your mind and are not open to rational thought on the subject. It also suggests that you learned everything you know about guns from action movies. It seems unlikely that you have ever fired one.
If you REALLY want to stop mass killings, the answer is to de-stress society and make mental health services more available. The killer was a licensed security guard and was investigated by the FBI twice in the last 5 years. Nobody even considered that he needed help. BTW, he used a semi-automatic weapon, not a rapid fire hollywood gun.
Some hardware that is NOT compatible with Windoes 10 is getting "upgraded". Sometimes, rollback fails. It may not be bricked in the strictest sense, but for many, it's as good as bricked. Certainly, it will mean for some that they will have to pay someone to fix their broken system that was fine until MS stuck their fingers in the pie.
That's understood and can lead to a reconsideration. Shoving that into a computer doesn't improve it, but does tend to shut down any discussion of unfairness among lay people who don't understand that Garbage in == Garbage out.
It's the new version of the '70s corporate classic "Our *COMPUTER* says you still owe us $1.98!"
Again, you're the only person to mention a rocket as an option so I guess you're the idiot.
Are you claiming a car driven into a crowd by a nut case isn't capable of causing a great many deaths?
If your objective is to remove the possibility that a crazy person might be able to commit mass murder, you'll need to ban anything larger than a sub-compact at least.
A car could easily sustain the rate you suggest being too much, even by accident
How about marketing just butt out and Chrystler learns how to design a car?
And given the number of complaints compared to more conventional shifters or even the newer ones that don't use a joystick that looks like a shift lever, I would say that plenty of people are having problems with it.
I can imagine one (not saying it is at work here). If some residual activity reduced the chances of harmful (to the still living) bacteria taking hold, it might confer a slight advantage to the still living relatives of the deceased.
If they want to make it electrical, they should do it right. Have a multi-position switch, a stepper, a codewheel for feedback, and a bit of simple logic. Now the look, feel, and actual operation of the lever matches decades of driver expectation and they get the freedom of positioning.
Of course, they still leave the owner screwed if the battery goes dead and they need to move the car to fix it.
And 3 decades of driving tells me that you put it in park by pressing the little button on the side of the shifter and moving the lever forward until it stops. OOps, that doesn't work now. Gee, I hope it's not too bright out to read the little indicator lights.
Sorry, no. The new UI is an accident waiting to happen since it makes itself look and feel like a different interface that has been around for decades.
Everyone "knows" that if you press the button in and push the shifter forward until it stops you are in park. Everyone but Chrystler, that is.
Actually, making that motion will put the car in NEUTRAL. While the pushbutton won't turn the engine off that way, it is way to easy to push the button and not notice the nearly silent idling becoome completly silent.
The whole thing with push to start and the new electronic shifters sounds like the work of marketing weenies who gave zero thought to real world use cases.
Who the hell said anything about building a rocket? Certainly not me. Perhaps you read what you wanted to read so you could easily shoot it down?
The correct place to aim is typically the front door. In a crowd outside, aim for the people.
If you think I am anything like right wing, you *MUST* be crazy! I am not interested in self defeating feel good legislation from either side of the aisle.
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Everyone knows the report will include a passenger in the back seat being pretty sure the friendly green light turned red and the computer voice said "Kill the humans!"
Did you, by chance, confuse Steve Job's ashes with chocolate milk powder?
The prior art doesn't do anything for him, but it SHOULD kill Apple's ability to further abuse the patent that should never have been.
It doesn't say much for USPTO that they ignored prior art in their own files when they granted Apple one of the world's stupidest patents.
There is a certain karmic justice in Apple having to formally address an idiot who thinks a slab with rounded corners is worthy of intellectual property, given that apple has asserted the same.
While his application might have been abandoned, that doesn't negate it as prior art.
Depending on the ISP setup and/or the home network setup, that may not be as hard as you think. Add in an open (ish) WiFi and it becomes entirely likely the downloader was a neighbor or someone borrowing WiFi from the street corner or parking lot.
Actually, the key combinations depend on the phone not being totally locked up. If it is locked up, there is nothing detecting the key presses. The key combos are just for cases where the touchscreen loses it's mind. The one thing that cannot fail is removing power.
The truly paranoid will want to remove the battery and put the phone in a shielded bag. However, most will recognize that the manufacturer is unlikely to have spent extra money hiding a secondary battery inside, especially without bullet pointing it as a must have feature.
Given how hard it is to get things where the designer shows no sign of brain damage, perhaps. But in a world that puts function over form, it's always easier to have a solution on hand that requires no extra parts.
But the bag won't help you if your phone locks up (rare but not unknown).
Perhaps you don't know this, but at the time the 2nd Amendment was written, the militia was understood to be everyone who owned a gun and was capable of firing it at an enemy. Well regulated just meant practiced.
Your tone suggests that you long ago made up your mind and are not open to rational thought on the subject. It also suggests that you learned everything you know about guns from action movies. It seems unlikely that you have ever fired one.
If you REALLY want to stop mass killings, the answer is to de-stress society and make mental health services more available. The killer was a licensed security guard and was investigated by the FBI twice in the last 5 years. Nobody even considered that he needed help. BTW, he used a semi-automatic weapon, not a rapid fire hollywood gun.
Nixon didn't stand trial either, but he was pardoned.
Not necessarily. Pardons have been used in cases where the pardoner believed the person was falsely accused.
Someone needs to hack Hillary's email server and authorize a few drone strikes...
Remember, when you want to make sure you aren't tracked, you should remove the battery from your....OH!, Guess you're screwed.
Some hardware that is NOT compatible with Windoes 10 is getting "upgraded". Sometimes, rollback fails. It may not be bricked in the strictest sense, but for many, it's as good as bricked. Certainly, it will mean for some that they will have to pay someone to fix their broken system that was fine until MS stuck their fingers in the pie.
That's understood and can lead to a reconsideration. Shoving that into a computer doesn't improve it, but does tend to shut down any discussion of unfairness among lay people who don't understand that Garbage in == Garbage out.
It's the new version of the '70s corporate classic "Our *COMPUTER* says you still owe us $1.98!"
Again, you're the only person to mention a rocket as an option so I guess you're the idiot.
Are you claiming a car driven into a crowd by a nut case isn't capable of causing a great many deaths?
If your objective is to remove the possibility that a crazy person might be able to commit mass murder, you'll need to ban anything larger than a sub-compact at least.
A car could easily sustain the rate you suggest being too much, even by accident
I merely suggested a potential (though unlikely) advantage that could be at work. I also offered my doubts. More an exercise in imagination.
Sure, NOW they aren't.
What makes you think I have one?
How about marketing just butt out and Chrystler learns how to design a car?
And given the number of complaints compared to more conventional shifters or even the newer ones that don't use a joystick that looks like a shift lever, I would say that plenty of people are having problems with it.
I can imagine one (not saying it is at work here). If some residual activity reduced the chances of harmful (to the still living) bacteria taking hold, it might confer a slight advantage to the still living relatives of the deceased.
If they want to make it electrical, they should do it right. Have a multi-position switch, a stepper, a codewheel for feedback, and a bit of simple logic. Now the look, feel, and actual operation of the lever matches decades of driver expectation and they get the freedom of positioning.
Of course, they still leave the owner screwed if the battery goes dead and they need to move the car to fix it.
And 3 decades of driving tells me that you put it in park by pressing the little button on the side of the shifter and moving the lever forward until it stops. OOps, that doesn't work now. Gee, I hope it's not too bright out to read the little indicator lights.
Sorry, no. The new UI is an accident waiting to happen since it makes itself look and feel like a different interface that has been around for decades.
Everyone "knows" that if you press the button in and push the shifter forward until it stops you are in park. Everyone but Chrystler, that is.
Actually, making that motion will put the car in NEUTRAL. While the pushbutton won't turn the engine off that way, it is way to easy to push the button and not notice the nearly silent idling becoome completly silent.
The whole thing with push to start and the new electronic shifters sounds like the work of marketing weenies who gave zero thought to real world use cases.
Who the hell said anything about building a rocket? Certainly not me. Perhaps you read what you wanted to read so you could easily shoot it down?
The correct place to aim is typically the front door. In a crowd outside, aim for the people.
If you think I am anything like right wing, you *MUST* be crazy! I am not interested in self defeating feel good legislation from either side of the aisle.
Or 20 minutes. Bombs aren't rocket science.
Hitting a wall at 100 MPH certainly isn't hard to do.
They're working on it.