Exactly this. It's one thing that consumers should expect falls and the usual assortment of bruises and such that come with it, but they have a right to expect it not to burst into flames.
The sad thing is that as far as I can tell from videos and pictures, the problem is simply really shoddy construction leading to battery wires shorting, at least in the videos I've seen. It's possible that the ones blowing up on the charger are because the charger isn't tapering off properly, also inexcusable.
Yes, they have much better tech for it now than KGB and Stasi did. Worse, they are developing a taste for using it en masse now. The NSA and FBI are doing their best to turn us into the once hated commies.
Because the FBI is trying to play on emotion and sympathy for the victims and their families to get what it wants. They made her opinion relevant by trying to use her in that sympathy ploy.
A simple count of nameless people isn't much of an intrusion on privacy. Conscription is a complex and somewhat controversial case but privacy isn't really the problem with it.
In the sense of "Russia" (meaning the USSR) and East Germany and their extensive spying on their own citizens, then yes.
She grew up in an era where it was common to conflate communism (the economic system) with poverty and an Orwellian government such as the USSR. She likely learned it that way in school.
They're not legally obligated to let complainants use the automated fast track system. As long as they respond to an actual on-paper notice within a reasonable time of receiving it by mail, they're within the law.
There's also no reason they can't allow the uploader to counter the claim instantly and put the video back up.
In general, solenoids are either on or off, but that is not intrinsic to their design. Opening and closing times can be altered either electrically or physically (for example, using soft iron to slow the magnetic field's change).
On some large diesel engines, the valves are driven hydraulically or pneumatically with solenoids just activating small control valves. On those, it's fairly easy to shape and position cylinder outlets to give it a (relatively) soft close.
The rest, as you pointed out is a cost/benefit analysis.
I can see some potential in the technology, but you won't see me buying a production car with it for the first few years after introduction.
Sorry, no. If you remove the battery or run it completely flat, the fuel pump won't run, injectors and the spark plugs won't fire.
You're thinking of the far more common case where the battery is present but too weak to turn the starter. In that case it still has enough for the plugs, injectors, and fuel pump so a pop start (push start) can work.
Most motorcycle engines actually don't need a battery since they use a magneto connected to the crank shaft to fire the plugs.
Sure we do, it's just not as strict. A great many places have some sort of indecent exposure law. There are even people on a lifetime offender's registry for peeing on a dumpster.
If there is an obvious and harmless solution and a less obvious and very harmful solution, and they choose the harmful one, it's either malice or stupidity. Which better describes Apple?
If it's not actual malice then it is a level of incompetence sufficient to be indistinguishable from malice.
Of course, if that was the case, then the malice comes in when Apple is unwilling to compensate it';s customers for that incompetence, so there's the malice again.
If Apple pay would have accepted anything other than the fingerprint in the first place, then there is no back door added by simply refusing to acknowledge the un-paired sensor.
If not, then disable Apple Pay on those phones but don't brick them.
OTOH, instead of locking up the whole phone, they could just have it refuse to accept the fingerprint ID and let you continue to use other authentication methods.
It gets stored unprocessed for a time in any scenario in order to let the really hot short lived radioisotopes decay. It is currently being stored longer than that above ground due to cheaping out and politics blocking the proper reprocessing and final disposal.
Take away the stupid politics and the processing would happen. And the actinides are all valuable. If nothing else, they are fuel for a CANDU reactor or similar. The big expenses happen when you insist on processing into MOX suitable for a larger range of reactors.
With appropriate policies, we could stop mining uranium and run off of the accumulated unprocessed waste for a few decades even while expanding power production.
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Exactly this. It's one thing that consumers should expect falls and the usual assortment of bruises and such that come with it, but they have a right to expect it not to burst into flames.
The sad thing is that as far as I can tell from videos and pictures, the problem is simply really shoddy construction leading to battery wires shorting, at least in the videos I've seen. It's possible that the ones blowing up on the charger are because the charger isn't tapering off properly, also inexcusable.
Yes, they have much better tech for it now than KGB and Stasi did. Worse, they are developing a taste for using it en masse now. The NSA and FBI are doing their best to turn us into the once hated commies.
Because the FBI is trying to play on emotion and sympathy for the victims and their families to get what it wants. They made her opinion relevant by trying to use her in that sympathy ploy.
A simple count of nameless people isn't much of an intrusion on privacy. Conscription is a complex and somewhat controversial case but privacy isn't really the problem with it.
In the sense of "Russia" (meaning the USSR) and East Germany and their extensive spying on their own citizens, then yes.
She grew up in an era where it was common to conflate communism (the economic system) with poverty and an Orwellian government such as the USSR. She likely learned it that way in school.
Complete nonsense. If there is reason to suspect the fingerprint scanner, it should be ignored, that is all.
They're not legally obligated to let complainants use the automated fast track system. As long as they respond to an actual on-paper notice within a reasonable time of receiving it by mail, they're within the law.
There's also no reason they can't allow the uploader to counter the claim instantly and put the video back up.
That's why unstable. The capacitance in the system may manage it. OTOH, I also had a car where it definitely wasn't enough to keep it going.
Or hidden behind a dumpster at 2 in the morning...
Run, yes since the alternator will be providing power (though it may be unstable). Start, not so much.
In general, solenoids are either on or off, but that is not intrinsic to their design. Opening and closing times can be altered either electrically or physically (for example, using soft iron to slow the magnetic field's change).
On some large diesel engines, the valves are driven hydraulically or pneumatically with solenoids just activating small control valves. On those, it's fairly easy to shape and position cylinder outlets to give it a (relatively) soft close.
The rest, as you pointed out is a cost/benefit analysis.
I can see some potential in the technology, but you won't see me buying a production car with it for the first few years after introduction.
Yes, there could still be failures of other parts that would cause a piston strike. But those exist with cam driven valves as well.
Sorry, no. If you remove the battery or run it completely flat, the fuel pump won't run, injectors and the spark plugs won't fire.
You're thinking of the far more common case where the battery is present but too weak to turn the starter. In that case it still has enough for the plugs, injectors, and fuel pump so a pop start (push start) can work.
Most motorcycle engines actually don't need a battery since they use a magneto connected to the crank shaft to fire the plugs.
But they won't start without one.
Not modern ones.
Probably we'll end up with valves that fail closed so they won't strike the piston.
We don't have "morality police" here in the US.
Sure we do, it's just not as strict. A great many places have some sort of indecent exposure law. There are even people on a lifetime offender's registry for peeing on a dumpster.
If there is an obvious and harmless solution and a less obvious and very harmful solution, and they choose the harmful one, it's either malice or stupidity. Which better describes Apple?
A gap like that where an un-paired fingerprint scanner is a problem and can't just be turned off *IS* incompetence.
So why not just disable the fingerprint scanner and leave the rest functional?
Or better yet, accept the various alternative authentication methods and then take the user through a re-pairing procedure?
If it's not actual malice then it is a level of incompetence sufficient to be indistinguishable from malice.
Of course, if that was the case, then the malice comes in when Apple is unwilling to compensate it';s customers for that incompetence, so there's the malice again.
If Apple pay would have accepted anything other than the fingerprint in the first place, then there is no back door added by simply refusing to acknowledge the un-paired sensor.
If not, then disable Apple Pay on those phones but don't brick them.
According to what I have read, the repairs worked fine and the phones so repaired worked flawlessly for months after, until they were updated.
Naturally it has nothing to do with actual security.
OTOH, instead of locking up the whole phone, they could just have it refuse to accept the fingerprint ID and let you continue to use other authentication methods.
It gets stored unprocessed for a time in any scenario in order to let the really hot short lived radioisotopes decay. It is currently being stored longer than that above ground due to cheaping out and politics blocking the proper reprocessing and final disposal.
Take away the stupid politics and the processing would happen. And the actinides are all valuable. If nothing else, they are fuel for a CANDU reactor or similar. The big expenses happen when you insist on processing into MOX suitable for a larger range of reactors.
With appropriate policies, we could stop mining uranium and run off of the accumulated unprocessed waste for a few decades even while expanding power production.