Maybe the glasses were designed to sell at a loss or at a very low margin to build the brand of the Snapchat app/site and they couldn't afford for people to buy them for use by non-chat users.
Facebook rummaged through her contacts and found those people. Equally, those people probably had her phone-number in their contacts. Easy match for Facebook.
She should really not be using Facebook, as hard as that may be, as well as any other service that likes to make such "recommendations".
Even using two different phones and keeping all the "side-job-work" on a dumb phone with no internet access at all might not be enough, if she keeps both her normal phone and the dumb phone in her bag at the same time. Facebook will likely notice that her "true indentity"-phone and her clients' phones are at the same place at the same time semi-regularly and deduct that they may know each other (which is true, after all).
There's hardly a way to "manage" or "influence" how Facebook handles this, so, again, the only way to win this game is not to play it.
But they'll also make sure to take as many Yanks and South Koreans with them as possible. And iif you consider they had 70 years to dig themselves in, you'll realize that the prize will be very, very high.
They have 15k artillery canons within a couple of dozens of km from Seoul. And they're not sitting in an open field. They're sitting in armored tunnels drilled into a granite mountain.
The only way to take those down is to throw a couple of really big nukes. And then you also take out Seoul at the same time.
It usually only works for people who are not criminals in the first place.
Like when you know there is no speed-trap (because you drove there just a few minutes ago), but you still keep to the speed-limit because it's the right thing to do.
Similarly to people here that bring thousands (sometimes tens of thousands) worth of money or goods to the lost-and-found bureau, even though they could just take it home: bcause it's the right thing to do.
But ask any criminal sitting in a cell if the punishment wasn't deterring him from the deed. In most cases, these people don't even spend a minute thinking about that. They just assume they won't be caught.
I also go to certified doctors, not "traditional healers". And I'd call certified tradesmen to fix stuff (usually, my landlord will do that for me, though. I don't really have a say in who they call. But then, I usually don't pay for it either).
And I bring my car to "official" dealers, yes. Same for my bike.
Also, the days of backyard repair shops for cars (or just about anything) are coming to an end - fast.
It's sad, in a way (I remember when dad would take the TV set to a local TV repair shop and they guy there would actually replace parts). But this is the way things go. Same as lamenting the demise of eight and six-cylinder engine cars;-)
How long do other mobile phone manufacturers produce spares?
Can you get spares for a five year old... LG? From LG! Will LG repair it?
Car manufacturers don't release a new model every year. They release a facelift after three years, and then a relaunch after four years. That's why they have spares for so long. I don't think they'd hold on to spares if they released a completely new model every year (or every other year, like Apple). A co-worker bought a six year old Land Rover Defender a couple of years back for a tour and needed some spares. The local dealer told him they didn't have spares for it, nor could the order them, because it was "too old".
And Android users even complain when Apple's phones look the same two or three years in a row!
*** I just checked: my iPhone 4S (released in 2011) is still "supported" and thus Apple will repair it (for a price). The predecessor is "vintage", though and Apple won't repair it anymore. So, Apple seems to support their phones longer than Land Rover Jaguar seems to support their cars.
Just need to buy a lot of specific tools - that are most likely not sold outside authorized dealers.
If you think it's bad with iPhones now, just wait a couple of years when it's going to be even worse with cars.
The reason the manufacturer wants to prevent you from even trying is because inevitably people who have no business working on the innards of an iPhone are going to try anyway, fail spectacularly - and then deliver the parts in a box to Apple, demanding a repair. On warranty.
Take it to some backyard-workshop for repairs? Warranty is gone. That's why you take it to an authorized dealer/repair shop.
Why are people so hell-bent on saving every cent on repairs for a device that (now) can cost well above 1k USD?
That's like people buying a Ferrari or a Rolls Royce Wraith and then complaining about the cost of ownership because an oil-change or break-pad exchange or fixing a ding costs a fortune.
$1B backlog? There's nearly half a million reservations on a $35k-base vehicle (average expected sale value after options (luxury, performance, extended range, etc) = $43k). The Model S has a profit margin of about 25% per sale and they expect similar on the 3. You're looking at nearly $20B in sales and $5B in profit just from the already accumulated waiting list, which is increasing by about 1800 new reservations net every day.
If Tesla manages the "production hell" ramp-up without any serious glitches that cause excessive delay / QA problems / expense, they've got it made.
That's really a big "if".
It's a ramp-up like Apple does for the iPhone - but really Foxconn is doing it.
I doubt, though, that they can pull it off. They've got enough problems in their factories pushing out the current number of cars.
Still waiting for the Tesla-Minivan or Station-Wagon anyway;-) Though, they'll come last. SUV-buyers have more money...
Not using systemd would have made them irrelevant.
Not that this isn't going to happen anyway, as RedHat absorbs more and more of the Linux-world and it will be increasingly difficult to do anything on Linux "un-RedHat-edly" in the coming years.
As such it has to be seen how much of a differentiation-factor an installer and some default-settings are - together with the complete lack of any kind of enterprise-features that RedHat offers. Because that's what I think Debian et.al are going to end-up being. Because I believe they're even going to adopt the package-format (RPM) and the installer.
If I need something without systemd, I just use FreeBSD. It doesn't do some things, but what it does, it does it very, very well.
I'm not saying that systemd is the answer, but... the old init system worked great if all you ever needed was an init system. That is to say your machine got everything plugged in on boot, always on a wired network and always on AC. The only thing you need the init system for was to get you from cold hardware to a running state, then it could declare "my work here is done" and go into retirement until it was time for shutdown. For some people that's all they need, good for you. Anything dynamic has been a mess. Suspend/resume/hibernate, hot-plugging/unplugging, wired/wireless, connected/not connected to network, AC/battery, power management, docked/undocked, switchable graphics, the list goes on and on.
I don't need all of that.
When I want a working implementation of that, I just buy a MacBook and run macOS.
Or run Windows, which also exists.
I just need a server that doesn't shit itself between patch-runs, reboots and that doesn't f' up things that worked quite well for a decade (and continue to work quite well on OSs that didn't let an amateur design such a thing (which incidentally is also how Mac OS X got it right: they got people from NeXT and the guy who co-founded the FreeBSD project to head their Unix-y base for a decade)).
I always laugh when I see these YT-videos. It's so pointless.
At least, in Germany you can max out these cars on the road (not always, but there are still parts of the Autobahn that are unrestricted). And with an autonomous cruise control system, you can actually sustain 200 km/h for as long as traffic permits.
0-60 for an 800 HP car - that's just for drag-racing.
With a 60 mph speed-limit, the US might as well import Dacia Dusters en-masse.
Maybe the time has come to stop obsessing about whether our politicians are pure as the driven snow.
I've been thinking about this for a while, and while I don't like the idea of wantonly electing crooks, it strikes me that seeing as the general populace has no lack of shady people, I can't sort out why it is exactly we expect the political class to be paragons of virtue.
It's an interesting question, for sure.
But the thing is: people like idols, they like to idealize their politicians - and then relish the demolition of the very same idol. At least, here in Europe.
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Maybe the glasses were designed to sell at a loss or at a very low margin to build the brand of the Snapchat app/site and they couldn't afford for people to buy them for use by non-chat users.
LOL.
The 2000s called, they want their CueCats back.
I know. Well, I knew there was some sort of dispute - or why else the whole forking business?
https://hardenedbsd.org/conten...
AFAIK, this ALSR-thingy was the reason it was originally forked-off.
Facebook rummaged through her contacts and found those people. Equally, those people probably had her phone-number in their contacts.
Easy match for Facebook.
She should really not be using Facebook, as hard as that may be, as well as any other service that likes to make such "recommendations".
Even using two different phones and keeping all the "side-job-work" on a dumb phone with no internet access at all might not be enough, if she keeps both her normal phone and the dumb phone in her bag at the same time.
Facebook will likely notice that her "true indentity"-phone and her clients' phones are at the same place at the same time semi-regularly and deduct that they may know each other (which is true, after all).
There's hardly a way to "manage" or "influence" how Facebook handles this, so, again, the only way to win this game is not to play it.
Sure, they'll go down. They know this.
But they'll also make sure to take as many Yanks and South Koreans with them as possible. And iif you consider they had 70 years to dig themselves in, you'll realize that the prize will be very, very high.
They have 15k artillery canons within a couple of dozens of km from Seoul. And they're not sitting in an open field. They're sitting in armored tunnels drilled into a granite mountain.
The only way to take those down is to throw a couple of really big nukes. And then you also take out Seoul at the same time.
Text as hi-res images pasted into PPT files?
Punishment is rarely a deterrent to crime.
It usually only works for people who are not criminals in the first place.
Like when you know there is no speed-trap (because you drove there just a few minutes ago), but you still keep to the speed-limit because it's the right thing to do.
Similarly to people here that bring thousands (sometimes tens of thousands) worth of money or goods to the lost-and-found bureau, even though they could just take it home: bcause it's the right thing to do.
But ask any criminal sitting in a cell if the punishment wasn't deterring him from the deed. In most cases, these people don't even spend a minute thinking about that. They just assume they won't be caught.
in IOS 11:
https://www.macrumors.com/2017...
But hey, they're a walled garden and just after your money.
Renault's Zoe electric car usually comes with a leased battery.
If you are late on the payments, they'll just disable the car.
Welcome to the 21st century.
Yeah, I'm that sort of guy.
I also go to certified doctors, not "traditional healers". And I'd call certified tradesmen to fix stuff (usually, my landlord will do that for me, though. I don't really have a say in who they call. But then, I usually don't pay for it either).
And I bring my car to "official" dealers, yes. Same for my bike.
Also, the days of backyard repair shops for cars (or just about anything) are coming to an end - fast.
It's sad, in a way (I remember when dad would take the TV set to a local TV repair shop and they guy there would actually replace parts). But this is the way things go. Same as lamenting the demise of eight and six-cylinder engine cars ;-)
How long do other mobile phone manufacturers produce spares?
Can you get spares for a five year old... LG? From LG!
Will LG repair it?
Car manufacturers don't release a new model every year. They release a facelift after three years, and then a relaunch after four years.
That's why they have spares for so long.
I don't think they'd hold on to spares if they released a completely new model every year (or every other year, like Apple).
A co-worker bought a six year old Land Rover Defender a couple of years back for a tour and needed some spares.
The local dealer told him they didn't have spares for it, nor could the order them, because it was "too old".
And Android users even complain when Apple's phones look the same two or three years in a row!
***
I just checked: my iPhone 4S (released in 2011) is still "supported" and thus Apple will repair it (for a price). The predecessor is "vintage", though and Apple won't repair it anymore.
So, Apple seems to support their phones longer than Land Rover Jaguar seems to support their cars.
Just need to buy a lot of specific tools - that are most likely not sold outside authorized dealers.
If you think it's bad with iPhones now, just wait a couple of years when it's going to be even worse with cars.
The reason the manufacturer wants to prevent you from even trying is because inevitably people who have no business working on the innards of an iPhone are going to try anyway, fail spectacularly - and then deliver the parts in a box to Apple, demanding a repair. On warranty.
That's not the way Apple want's to do business.
Take it to some backyard-workshop for repairs? Warranty is gone.
That's why you take it to an authorized dealer/repair shop.
Why are people so hell-bent on saving every cent on repairs for a device that (now) can cost well above 1k USD?
That's like people buying a Ferrari or a Rolls Royce Wraith and then complaining about the cost of ownership because an oil-change or break-pad exchange or fixing a ding costs a fortune.
Weird.
Exactly.
Hopefully, somebody took out 30 credit cards on the chairman, his wife and his kids.
Still, most people don't know this. It still helps create a culture where pointing camera's at faces becomes more normal.
Dude, where have you been living?
Ever heard of selfies?
"It's only a coincidence, I swear".
LOL.
Is the guy really 21? Or rather 12?
Or minivans?
Yeah, it's a European thing.
But estates are far more practical than SUVs, IMO.
$1B backlog? There's nearly half a million reservations on a $35k-base vehicle (average expected sale value after options (luxury, performance, extended range, etc) = $43k). The Model S has a profit margin of about 25% per sale and they expect similar on the 3. You're looking at nearly $20B in sales and $5B in profit just from the already accumulated waiting list, which is increasing by about 1800 new reservations net every day.
If Tesla manages the "production hell" ramp-up without any serious glitches that cause excessive delay / QA problems / expense, they've got it made.
That's really a big "if".
It's a ramp-up like Apple does for the iPhone - but really Foxconn is doing it.
I doubt, though, that they can pull it off. They've got enough problems in their factories pushing out the current number of cars.
Still waiting for the Tesla-Minivan or Station-Wagon anyway ;-)
Though, they'll come last. SUV-buyers have more money...
Not using systemd would have made them irrelevant.
Not that this isn't going to happen anyway, as RedHat absorbs more and more of the Linux-world and it will be increasingly difficult to do anything on Linux "un-RedHat-edly" in the coming years.
As such it has to be seen how much of a differentiation-factor an installer and some default-settings are - together with the complete lack of any kind of enterprise-features that RedHat offers. Because that's what I think Debian et.al are going to end-up being. Because I believe they're even going to adopt the package-format (RPM) and the installer.
If I need something without systemd, I just use FreeBSD. It doesn't do some things, but what it does, it does it very, very well.
I'm not saying that systemd is the answer, but... the old init system worked great if all you ever needed was an init system. That is to say your machine got everything plugged in on boot, always on a wired network and always on AC. The only thing you need the init system for was to get you from cold hardware to a running state, then it could declare "my work here is done" and go into retirement until it was time for shutdown. For some people that's all they need, good for you. Anything dynamic has been a mess. Suspend/resume/hibernate, hot-plugging/unplugging, wired/wireless, connected/not connected to network, AC/battery, power management, docked/undocked, switchable graphics, the list goes on and on.
I don't need all of that.
When I want a working implementation of that, I just buy a MacBook and run macOS.
Or run Windows, which also exists.
I just need a server that doesn't shit itself between patch-runs, reboots and that doesn't f' up things that worked quite well for a decade (and continue to work quite well on OSs that didn't let an amateur design such a thing (which incidentally is also how Mac OS X got it right: they got people from NeXT and the guy who co-founded the FreeBSD project to head their Unix-y base for a decade)).
Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" comes to mind.
It's interesting, how close we've come.
I always laugh when I see these YT-videos.
It's so pointless.
At least, in Germany you can max out these cars on the road (not always, but there are still parts of the Autobahn that are unrestricted).
And with an autonomous cruise control system, you can actually sustain 200 km/h for as long as traffic permits.
0-60 for an 800 HP car - that's just for drag-racing.
With a 60 mph speed-limit, the US might as well import Dacia Dusters en-masse.
Maybe the time has come to stop obsessing about whether our politicians are pure as the driven snow.
I've been thinking about this for a while, and while I don't like the idea of wantonly electing crooks, it strikes me that seeing as the general populace has no lack of shady people, I can't sort out why it is exactly we expect the political class to be paragons of virtue.
It's an interesting question, for sure.
But the thing is: people like idols, they like to idealize their politicians - and then relish the demolition of the very same idol.
At least, here in Europe.
Thank god I'm not French or I'd have to dig through all that and decide if it's actually all legit.
While it could all be cooked up by Putin's finest, it could also be a CIA operation to de-stabilize Europe (which would be sort-of good for the US).
It could also be a Chinese thing. They smile all day and do as if they can't do wrong but I don't trust 'em. ;-)
Or it could be S.P.E.C.T.R.E. is trying to create turmoil so they can run their heist-of-the-century.
The fact is we don't really know who is behind this. We think we know - but it could all be completely different.
Quite likely, some parts of the US government have in the past and probably wish to in the future used these bots themselves.
The only thing worse than Twitter not shutting them down this time would be them being found partisan.
Also, Trump uses Twitter, so the US government will probably bail them out.