Since they have a lot more experience with domestic terror groups than Americans do, I understand why they're going that way.
Does it follow that Europe's nasty record of being the number one killer in the world was a result of free speech?
Right now, you're probably right. But when groups of malcontents are allowed to fester unchecked, they eventually cross the line from being bitter to being violent... and that's when the EU approach suddenly looks better.
To be blunt, I'm convinced the opposite is true. The minority needs it's say. A group might expend their anger, or they might simply get themselves in trouble when they advocate violence or perform that violence. Active suppression can feed the anger, and simply drive it underground.
So far as I know, nobody has figured out how to balance the two concerns in a way that makes everyone (or even most people) happy.
I'm usually reasonably happy with Canada's position, which is something like 'free speech until you're advocating harming people'. That tends to get Americans twisted up in knots, but it works for us, and we (as much as I can speak for all Canadians) don't feel like we're living under the constant surveillance of Big Brother's telescreens.
Calling for violence will get the authorities very interested in you here in old knot-twisted 'Murrica. Specific threats against specific people are not covered under free speech, and are covered under the heading of "terroristic threats". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The concept of crush the speech, crush the problem, is something some groups get wrong. In many cases, it makes the group being crushed stronger, as a validation to the disenfranchised that they are being actively suppressed.
In addition, there is no better way to keep track of people in the internet age than allowing them to vent, then swoop down upon them when they cross a line.
the next question is will it then go and bother all of your office 365 contacts with out linked in accounts attached? my guess is most probably.
I have a suspicion that would exactly happen. Lessee, a caught monopolist with a new operating system that sends a shitload of your information home to begin with, coupled with a bogus professional service that asks you to violate your TOS, or even your employment terms in order to get all of your contact information.
I'll bet there are people who are worried about three letter agencies that have no problem with this unholy marriage.
before "respect end-user privacy" and "honor your LinkedIn privacy and profile visibility settings" applies only to Office365 subscribers. I suspect Microsoft will make non-subscribers pay for their LinkedIn service with reduced control over their profiles.
Why not? After getting most of the way though the signup process, and then LinkedIn asking for my email password in order to invite people to join, the answer for anyone with at least one active brain cell should have been Fuck NO!
Anyone dumb enough to still join is pretty stupid, and half deserves what they get.
Who'd have thought adults believing in sky deities would be fruitful grounds for humour? It's amazing! Don't these people understand that believing in a god because someone told you they exist and because it makes you feel good is the exact same as said god being demonstrated to exist?
It is written that gawd made man in his own image, when it fact it is just the opposite. Some people who profess to be piously following their gawd's wishes are merely following the own hate in their minds.
Because if your gawd just so happens to hate everything that you do, it is a sure sign you have created gawd in your own image.
As I've noted before, people can have any superstition they want. I'll fight vigorously them trying to impose their faith on me, and any who profess that their gawd punishes people who don't follow his will, like visiting AIDS on the devotees of the bunghole, while allowing obvious grifters to reap huge benefits and health and wealth while fleecing people who thing they are following him, sorry, I shall ridicule that sort of asshattery until they kill me in the name of whoever the fuck they are claiming wants them to kill me.
God will now not only punish them there Qeeeayars, but the people who took away God's divine and loving punishment for them.
But seriously, this is pretty good news.
Haha cherrypicking the most extreme and retarded forms of religion and making fun of them is so easy.
Almost as easy as picking on those who defend them.
It's a guaranteed slam dunk! I mean, arguing with you would be like defending extreme religion, amirite??
Depends on the argument. If you argue if people have the right to believe anything they want to believe, nope, because that is a person's right. You on the other had, are making a weird defense of them, so I'm assuming you are defending their actions.
Oh how very clever and original you are!
Oh pshaw, you're making me blush! But thanks, I try to entertain people. But I couldn't do it without your help, so don't sell yourself short.
As for your spirit of condemnation and patting yourself on the back for being so much smarter, at least all of that is intact. Whew! That was a close one. You barely managed: now you're on equal footing with those extreme religious types!
I've always wondered when I get a post like this. Do you have these majickal conversations in your head where you have your enemy say outlandish things for you to skewer with your rapier wit and devastating riposts?
As for equal footing with the far -right religious fundamentalists, it is the difference between people who actually take pleasure in other's illnesses, and people who don't, and find such poor examples of humanity as ripe targets for ridicule.
Ya might consider that at some point, because you are in the ripe target group there me hearty AC.
Are you drunk or just wilfully stupid? The fact that he said hot components and a **CRT** should clue you into the fact that he was talking about the older ones. You know, the ones with....CRT screens? So your snarky comment and link to a 2011 IMac has fuck all to do with what he was talking about.
His ancient iMac has "fuck all" to do with modern ones. And odd that you seem to question my reading abilities and comprehension when I referred specifically to the date he gave me of 1998. Which prompted my comment of wanting to discuss Windows 1 because I was surprised that an irrelevant ancient iMac - which is still pretty easy to get into BTW - has anything to do with the popular meme that you can't work on them.
They are having a hellava time meeting and sealing the deal with any male that they consider worthy.
They don't need a male that they consider worthy - they need sperm that they consider worthy.
Hence sperm banks that seek out handsome, virile M.D. sperm, and not/. reader sperm.
Somewhere in this thread I posted about how they are having trouble finding sperm donors today, especially in the UK. They passed a law that allows the offspring of a sperm donor to contact them when they turn 18. And with some case law making a sperm donor financially responsible for a child conceived this way, A person would have to be mental or completely uninformed to volunteer for that abuse. So that sperm bank ended up with nine donors.
It's worth noting that family court has only the interest of the mother, and more importantly the welfare of the child. So just like pre-nuptuals are now rendered worthless, if it is in the interests of the child, a man who is not even the father of the child via an affair on the part of his wife, is responsible for the offspring she had with her affair. Expect the pockets of sperm donors to be picked, especially since they are required to let the registry know their whereabouts.
There was no determinable hatred in the post by lucm.
"Or Apple could force customers to get sodomized by a pony when they buy a Mac."
As he wrote.
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't invite any Samsung users to be sodomized by a pony. That's not considered a friendly act in very many places, although I've heard about some strange and disturbing goings on in Tijuana, Mexico.
Just relax, muchacho, This is the weekend on Slashdot, and conversations go where they go. The easily offended are advised to read at +5
I don't hate them (or their customers), I'm just trying to offer a bit of counterbalance to the endless fanboyism on Slashdot. Apple stories haven't been "news for nerds" for a long time.
So you do the same for Windows users? Or do they speak only sooth, and the only "fanboys" are Apple users? Perhaps there is a role for you, as a beacon of shining light, truth, and the (enter your country here) way, skewering the fucked up Apple users, with a rapier wit, leaving them mentally devastated, and finally seeing ther error of their ways. They repent, but just like apostasy, there are some sins that gawd simply will not forgive, such as owning and likeing an Apple product.
That's why he gave Steve Jobs Pancreatic cancer you know.
But all black humor aside, I'm typing this on my Mac, while to my right is an HP Envy laptop, the Mac has Windows 7 and bootcamp as well, and to my left is a core2duo 27 inch iMac running Ubuntu Mate. It's too old for the latest updates, but was gentlely used by a friend, and she's moved to all laptop, so here it ispretty as you please. I use all of them every day. And yes, it's true that I prefer Unix and variants. But personal preferences should't classify one as a "fanboy"
Seems like "fanboys" aren't quite what they used to be. I never classified myself as one, inless debunking the bullshit that is spewed in here makes a person a "fanboy."
Pro tip: every single iMac model has inferior HDD cooling capacity, even with a system that has always been kept dust free. Hell, the last time I replaced the disk in my work iMac, I used one of the fan control apps to bump the idle speed up, and my disk died again within 2 years.
Macs have inferior cooling. Period.
Except the old G5 and Pro towers. Those were the bomb.
My two G5 Pro's in my office and the Xserver required a change in our handling system because the room turned into an oven, and it sounded like a jet engine when I was rendering, The heat sinks on the Pro's processors were nearly the size of a Mac Mini.
And yet, my i5 imac runs warm but continuously with no problem. And the new iMacs run ridiculously cool. I'd get one, but I'm waiting for the specs to get better to make it worth it.
I've visited a lot more Windows machines with temperature problems than Macs. Thanks for the Protip.
You are missing the point. Apple is specifically trying to stop people like you from repairing iPhones and macbooks. Apple do not want you to sell your skills to the public so that you can fix their iPhones.
In practice, it's difficult for them to stop you from replacing a blown polyfuse or damaged connector. But they're working hard to make sure that larger modules (like screens, switches, etc.) can't be replaced.
My, thanks for the education. This is a lawsuit over people wh have come back from the future because they can't fix their iPhone 500S's. It really has nothing to do with present day (including iPhone 8 repairability)
I've gotten so many different answers why phone that I can repair if I want to, either can't be repaired, or won't be able to be repaired.
The strange thing is Apple no longer supports parts for earlier phones, but I can get an original iPhone fixed, the mind boggles.
A lithium battery has a finite lifespan. It's guaranteed to eventually need replacement, and unless Apple is literally molding the lithium gel around the circuit board in a way that makes its replacement physically impossible, they should be required to sell replacement batteries at a fair price (or if they don't want to, then they shouldn't be allowed to prevent anyone ELSE from making compatible replacements).
So if I get you straight, all of the iPhone repair facilities that are not owned by Apple INC are operating illegally?
Because there are a lot of them, which is why I call bullshit on this whole lawsuit business, it's almost like patent trolling.
Here is one place we'll look athttps://www.cellphonerepair.com/smartphone-repair/iphone/
Right off the bat, this is not Apple, so since it is at present impossible to have anyone repair an iPhone, this must be fake news, eh?
But let's delve into this fantasy nonexistent, and probably fake site. We'll see what they offer:
iphone 1st generation - check
iPhone 3 - check
4, 5 6,7,8. Check check check check check in all their iterations. But wait! Batteries, start buttons, home buttons. Apple doesn't allow anyone else to repair their phones, so they can't have that!
Screen-check, Power button-check, Water damage-check, Motherboard-check, camera-check-battery replacement-check.
Even back to the first generation, they have screen replacement, antenna, memory card reader, cracked glass, battery replacement, headphone jack, charging port, replacements.
So forgive me if I call bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. This is only a problem if you hate Apple, and want them to fuck off and die so much that the fact that non-Apple repair and replacement services that can repair the first iPhones made is fake news and a lie, and doesn't exist.
Because it does, and lieing for Samsung is sufficient if the Applehate makes lies the truth.
So do you still believe Apple is preventing repairs?
It is not that difficult. SMD soldering requires much steadier hands and yet people do it, even at home.
That's true. I have assembled many SMT devices. I do prefer the slightly larger chip caps and resistors. The smaller ones are just too easy to lose, even with solder paste. But I hear many Hams lament that it isn't possible to do homebrewing any more. And that is plain wrong.
The iMac I had had a small panel in the back for the end-user to perform upgrades. You could put exactly two things in it: a stick of RAM and an AirPort card (proprietary apple wireless network, for those too young to remember). I'm not sure if they went out of their way to lock you out of the rest of the hardware, like they do nowadays. But it was clear the end-user was never intended to mess with the hardware besides the slots in the expansion panel.
You do know that the access to the innards is accomplished by using suction cups to pull the screen cover, don't you? Seriously not difficult
As a side-note, the disk in that iMac ended up having a head crash due to totally inadequate cooling. They thought it was ok to cram a bunch of hot hardware and a CRT into a tiny bubble with no case fans. They have a long history of overheating computers for aesthetic reasons, starting with the Apple 3 and continuing through to a couple years ago with the MacBook Air. Their design philosophy hasn't changed, so I expect this issue to keep popping up in the Apple product line perpetually.
Not only do they not have case fans, the case fans that they don't have sometimes run at full speed, and need to have a memory reset to return the fans they don't hace to not return to normal not speed that the fans they don't have run right not right. Or something something.
Seriously, where did you get your Mac wisdom, because you're talking shit. My iMac's fan is sitting there idling right now. Or do you think maybe they put a speaker in it to make a sound like a fan. And if you are having temp issues, clean it once in a while.
Just as a reference, Here's a 2011 27 inch iMac all opened up: http://tr2.cbsistatic.com/hub/... Count the fans. By the way, you'll notice that after popping the screen off, you have access to some rather normal looking stuff, attached in a way most similar to the way that everyone else does.
And of course, no Windows machine has ever had a problem with heat anyhow, amirite?
They were doing the dongle thing back then as well. I had to buy a separate floppy drive, which in 1998 was essential. 2 years down the road it quit receiving OS updates... They called the omission of a removable media drive forward-thinking, yet the computer was planned into obsolescence before next-gen USB media were even a mature technology.
Oh my fscking gawd - 1998?
I'll bet you think that Apple still only has the one button mouse too.
Okay, since you've set the playing field up, let's talk about what a damn piece of shit Windows 1 is, and how time is frozen. Seriously weak arguments there, muchacho. In the meantime Windows 3.1 is a great upgrade - I reccomend it wholeheartedly.
It's Apple. They could hand out free blowjobs from Sophia Vergara with each Mac sold, and Slashdotters would bitch about it.
Or Apple could force customers to get sodomized by a pony when they buy a Mac, and fanbois would still wait in line at the Apple Store, and they would defend Apple on Slashdot, talking about how this is helping ponies
Having Apple devices since there have been Apple devices, I'd be fine with Lady Sophia's services, but your rabid hatred of Apple and your odd example might be looked at by some as both hatred and projection, there Bronie
Just sayin'. I have Apple, Windows, Linux, iPhone and Android devices at present. Youre hatred is misplaced and has a strange basis, each is just another device.
This is 2017. How many years of support do you expect from Apple and what is this expectation based on when taking into account policies of all other hardware manufacturers?
It's Apple. They could hand out free blowjobs from Sophia Vergara with each Mac sold, and Slashdotters would bitch about it. What they don't understand is that this sort of thing will affect whatever they are using.
This is, of course, the history of the Macintosh. From the very start, Jobs didn't want anyone opening the case, and he didn't even want it to have any expansion beyond serial ports. He explicitly wanted the user to have to buy a new computer if they wanted to upgrade, producing revenue for Apple.
This is literally only business as usual for Apple, ever since the Mac.
For what it is worth, I've been opening and upgrading Macs since Toaster days. Even iMacs.
Particularly because the idea that no one but Apple's authorized money generators can repair an iPhone is patently absurd.
So you have the equipment to repair an iPhone? Or a Samsung for that matter? They are remarkably similar inside. I can repair them, and I am surprised at just how many Slashdotters have the skills, the steady hands and the equipment to repair these things.
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Since they have a lot more experience with domestic terror groups than Americans do, I understand why they're going that way.
Does it follow that Europe's nasty record of being the number one killer in the world was a result of free speech?
Right now, you're probably right. But when groups of malcontents are allowed to fester unchecked, they eventually cross the line from being bitter to being violent... and that's when the EU approach suddenly looks better.
To be blunt, I'm convinced the opposite is true. The minority needs it's say. A group might expend their anger, or they might simply get themselves in trouble when they advocate violence or perform that violence. Active suppression can feed the anger, and simply drive it underground.
So far as I know, nobody has figured out how to balance the two concerns in a way that makes everyone (or even most people) happy.
I'm usually reasonably happy with Canada's position, which is something like 'free speech until you're advocating harming people'. That tends to get Americans twisted up in knots, but it works for us, and we (as much as I can speak for all Canadians) don't feel like we're living under the constant surveillance of Big Brother's telescreens.
Calling for violence will get the authorities very interested in you here in old knot-twisted 'Murrica. Specific threats against specific people are not covered under free speech, and are covered under the heading of "terroristic threats". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The concept of crush the speech, crush the problem, is something some groups get wrong. In many cases, it makes the group being crushed stronger, as a validation to the disenfranchised that they are being actively suppressed.
In addition, there is no better way to keep track of people in the internet age than allowing them to vent, then swoop down upon them when they cross a line.
I heard she wrote them all while taking a knee, too.
I thought that was Monica?
You're kidding? They'll just charge more and offer protection/alerts as a premium add-on service.
I wouldn't be surprised if they come out of this ahead.
Corporate/crypto-capitalism demands that they profit from the breach. It's one of those economic ground truths we proles don't understand.
No anti-Mexican wall. No mention of biggest crowds. Sad.
Her emails tho'
the next question is will it then go and bother all of your office 365 contacts with out linked in accounts attached? my guess is most probably.
I have a suspicion that would exactly happen. Lessee, a caught monopolist with a new operating system that sends a shitload of your information home to begin with, coupled with a bogus professional service that asks you to violate your TOS, or even your employment terms in order to get all of your contact information.
I'll bet there are people who are worried about three letter agencies that have no problem with this unholy marriage.
before "respect end-user privacy" and "honor your LinkedIn privacy and profile visibility settings" applies only to Office365 subscribers. I suspect Microsoft will make non-subscribers pay for their LinkedIn service with reduced control over their profiles.
Why not? After getting most of the way though the signup process, and then LinkedIn asking for my email password in order to invite people to join, the answer for anyone with at least one active brain cell should have been Fuck NO!
Anyone dumb enough to still join is pretty stupid, and half deserves what they get.
A most fitting partner for Microsoft.
Who'd have thought adults believing in sky deities would be fruitful grounds for humour? It's amazing! Don't these people understand that believing in a god because someone told you they exist and because it makes you feel good is the exact same as said god being demonstrated to exist?
It is written that gawd made man in his own image, when it fact it is just the opposite. Some people who profess to be piously following their gawd's wishes are merely following the own hate in their minds.
Because if your gawd just so happens to hate everything that you do, it is a sure sign you have created gawd in your own image.
As I've noted before, people can have any superstition they want. I'll fight vigorously them trying to impose their faith on me, and any who profess that their gawd punishes people who don't follow his will, like visiting AIDS on the devotees of the bunghole, while allowing obvious grifters to reap huge benefits and health and wealth while fleecing people who thing they are following him, sorry, I shall ridicule that sort of asshattery until they kill me in the name of whoever the fuck they are claiming wants them to kill me.
World without end, Amen.
Fundamentalist Christians are going to be pissed! http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...
God will now not only punish them there Qeeeayars, but the people who took away God's divine and loving punishment for them.
But seriously, this is pretty good news.
Haha cherrypicking the most extreme and retarded forms of religion and making fun of them is so easy.
Almost as easy as picking on those who defend them.
It's a guaranteed slam dunk! I mean, arguing with you would be like defending extreme religion, amirite??
Depends on the argument. If you argue if people have the right to believe anything they want to believe, nope, because that is a person's right. You on the other had, are making a weird defense of them, so I'm assuming you are defending their actions.
Oh how very clever and original you are!
Oh pshaw, you're making me blush! But thanks, I try to entertain people. But I couldn't do it without your help, so don't sell yourself short.
As for your spirit of condemnation and patting yourself on the back for being so much smarter, at least all of that is intact. Whew! That was a close one. You barely managed: now you're on equal footing with those extreme religious types!
I've always wondered when I get a post like this. Do you have these majickal conversations in your head where you have your enemy say outlandish things for you to skewer with your rapier wit and devastating riposts?
As for equal footing with the far -right religious fundamentalists, it is the difference between people who actually take pleasure in other's illnesses, and people who don't, and find such poor examples of humanity as ripe targets for ridicule.
Ya might consider that at some point, because you are in the ripe target group there me hearty AC.
Are you drunk or just wilfully stupid? The fact that he said hot components and a **CRT** should clue you into the fact that he was talking about the older ones. You know, the ones with....CRT screens? So your snarky comment and link to a 2011 IMac has fuck all to do with what he was talking about.
His ancient iMac has "fuck all" to do with modern ones. And odd that you seem to question my reading abilities and comprehension when I referred specifically to the date he gave me of 1998. Which prompted my comment of wanting to discuss Windows 1 because I was surprised that an irrelevant ancient iMac - which is still pretty easy to get into BTW - has anything to do with the popular meme that you can't work on them.
They are having a hellava time meeting and sealing the deal with any male that they consider worthy.
They don't need a male that they consider worthy - they need sperm that they consider worthy. Hence sperm banks that seek out handsome, virile M.D. sperm, and not /. reader sperm.
Somewhere in this thread I posted about how they are having trouble finding sperm donors today, especially in the UK. They passed a law that allows the offspring of a sperm donor to contact them when they turn 18. And with some case law making a sperm donor financially responsible for a child conceived this way, A person would have to be mental or completely uninformed to volunteer for that abuse. So that sperm bank ended up with nine donors.
It's worth noting that family court has only the interest of the mother, and more importantly the welfare of the child. So just like pre-nuptuals are now rendered worthless, if it is in the interests of the child, a man who is not even the father of the child via an affair on the part of his wife, is responsible for the offspring she had with her affair. Expect the pockets of sperm donors to be picked, especially since they are required to let the registry know their whereabouts.
That's because Slashdotters don't know what a blowjob is supposed to be.
Some dude above found the idea offensive!
There was no determinable hatred in the post by lucm.
"Or Apple could force customers to get sodomized by a pony when they buy a Mac."
As he wrote.
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't invite any Samsung users to be sodomized by a pony. That's not considered a friendly act in very many places, although I've heard about some strange and disturbing goings on in Tijuana, Mexico.
Just relax, muchacho, This is the weekend on Slashdot, and conversations go where they go. The easily offended are advised to read at +5
your rabid hatred of Apple
I don't hate them (or their customers), I'm just trying to offer a bit of counterbalance to the endless fanboyism on Slashdot. Apple stories haven't been "news for nerds" for a long time.
So you do the same for Windows users? Or do they speak only sooth, and the only "fanboys" are Apple users? Perhaps there is a role for you, as a beacon of shining light, truth, and the (enter your country here) way, skewering the fucked up Apple users, with a rapier wit, leaving them mentally devastated, and finally seeing ther error of their ways. They repent, but just like apostasy, there are some sins that gawd simply will not forgive, such as owning and likeing an Apple product.
That's why he gave Steve Jobs Pancreatic cancer you know.
But all black humor aside, I'm typing this on my Mac, while to my right is an HP Envy laptop, the Mac has Windows 7 and bootcamp as well, and to my left is a core2duo 27 inch iMac running Ubuntu Mate. It's too old for the latest updates, but was gentlely used by a friend, and she's moved to all laptop, so here it ispretty as you please. I use all of them every day. And yes, it's true that I prefer Unix and variants. But personal preferences should't classify one as a "fanboy"
Seems like "fanboys" aren't quite what they used to be. I never classified myself as one, inless debunking the bullshit that is spewed in here makes a person a "fanboy."
Pro tip: every single iMac model has inferior HDD cooling capacity, even with a system that has always been kept dust free. Hell, the last time I replaced the disk in my work iMac, I used one of the fan control apps to bump the idle speed up, and my disk died again within 2 years.
Macs have inferior cooling. Period.
Except the old G5 and Pro towers. Those were the bomb.
My two G5 Pro's in my office and the Xserver required a change in our handling system because the room turned into an oven, and it sounded like a jet engine when I was rendering, The heat sinks on the Pro's processors were nearly the size of a Mac Mini.
And yet, my i5 imac runs warm but continuously with no problem. And the new iMacs run ridiculously cool. I'd get one, but I'm waiting for the specs to get better to make it worth it.
I've visited a lot more Windows machines with temperature problems than Macs. Thanks for the Protip.
You are missing the point. Apple is specifically trying to stop people like you from repairing iPhones and macbooks. Apple do not want you to sell your skills to the public so that you can fix their iPhones. In practice, it's difficult for them to stop you from replacing a blown polyfuse or damaged connector. But they're working hard to make sure that larger modules (like screens, switches, etc.) can't be replaced.
My, thanks for the education. This is a lawsuit over people wh have come back from the future because they can't fix their iPhone 500S's. It really has nothing to do with present day (including iPhone 8 repairability)
I've gotten so many different answers why phone that I can repair if I want to, either can't be repaired, or won't be able to be repaired.
The strange thing is Apple no longer supports parts for earlier phones, but I can get an original iPhone fixed, the mind boggles.
A lithium battery has a finite lifespan. It's guaranteed to eventually need replacement, and unless Apple is literally molding the lithium gel around the circuit board in a way that makes its replacement physically impossible, they should be required to sell replacement batteries at a fair price (or if they don't want to, then they shouldn't be allowed to prevent anyone ELSE from making compatible replacements).
So if I get you straight, all of the iPhone repair facilities that are not owned by Apple INC are operating illegally?
Because there are a lot of them, which is why I call bullshit on this whole lawsuit business, it's almost like patent trolling.
Here is one place we'll look athttps://www.cellphonerepair.com/smartphone-repair/iphone/
Right off the bat, this is not Apple, so since it is at present impossible to have anyone repair an iPhone, this must be fake news, eh?
But let's delve into this fantasy nonexistent, and probably fake site. We'll see what they offer: iphone 1st generation - check iPhone 3 - check 4, 5 6,7,8. Check check check check check in all their iterations. But wait! Batteries, start buttons, home buttons. Apple doesn't allow anyone else to repair their phones, so they can't have that!
Screen-check, Power button-check, Water damage-check, Motherboard-check, camera-check-battery replacement-check.
Even back to the first generation, they have screen replacement, antenna, memory card reader, cracked glass, battery replacement, headphone jack, charging port, replacements.
So forgive me if I call bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. This is only a problem if you hate Apple, and want them to fuck off and die so much that the fact that non-Apple repair and replacement services that can repair the first iPhones made is fake news and a lie, and doesn't exist.
Because it does, and lieing for Samsung is sufficient if the Applehate makes lies the truth.
So do you still believe Apple is preventing repairs?
It is not that difficult. SMD soldering requires much steadier hands and yet people do it, even at home.
That's true. I have assembled many SMT devices. I do prefer the slightly larger chip caps and resistors. The smaller ones are just too easy to lose, even with solder paste. But I hear many Hams lament that it isn't possible to do homebrewing any more. And that is plain wrong.
The iMac I had had a small panel in the back for the end-user to perform upgrades. You could put exactly two things in it: a stick of RAM and an AirPort card (proprietary apple wireless network, for those too young to remember). I'm not sure if they went out of their way to lock you out of the rest of the hardware, like they do nowadays. But it was clear the end-user was never intended to mess with the hardware besides the slots in the expansion panel.
You do know that the access to the innards is accomplished by using suction cups to pull the screen cover, don't you? Seriously not difficult As a side-note, the disk in that iMac ended up having a head crash due to totally inadequate cooling. They thought it was ok to cram a bunch of hot hardware and a CRT into a tiny bubble with no case fans. They have a long history of overheating computers for aesthetic reasons, starting with the Apple 3 and continuing through to a couple years ago with the MacBook Air. Their design philosophy hasn't changed, so I expect this issue to keep popping up in the Apple product line perpetually. Not only do they not have case fans, the case fans that they don't have sometimes run at full speed, and need to have a memory reset to return the fans they don't hace to not return to normal not speed that the fans they don't have run right not right. Or something something.
Seriously, where did you get your Mac wisdom, because you're talking shit. My iMac's fan is sitting there idling right now. Or do you think maybe they put a speaker in it to make a sound like a fan. And if you are having temp issues, clean it once in a while.
Just as a reference, Here's a 2011 27 inch iMac all opened up: http://tr2.cbsistatic.com/hub/... Count the fans. By the way, you'll notice that after popping the screen off, you have access to some rather normal looking stuff, attached in a way most similar to the way that everyone else does.
And of course, no Windows machine has ever had a problem with heat anyhow, amirite?
They were doing the dongle thing back then as well. I had to buy a separate floppy drive, which in 1998 was essential. 2 years down the road it quit receiving OS updates... They called the omission of a removable media drive forward-thinking, yet the computer was planned into obsolescence before next-gen USB media were even a mature technology.
Oh my fscking gawd - 1998?
I'll bet you think that Apple still only has the one button mouse too.
Okay, since you've set the playing field up, let's talk about what a damn piece of shit Windows 1 is, and how time is frozen. Seriously weak arguments there, muchacho. In the meantime Windows 3.1 is a great upgrade - I reccomend it wholeheartedly.
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It's Apple. They could hand out free blowjobs from Sophia Vergara with each Mac sold, and Slashdotters would bitch about it.
Or Apple could force customers to get sodomized by a pony when they buy a Mac, and fanbois would still wait in line at the Apple Store, and they would defend Apple on Slashdot, talking about how this is helping ponies
Having Apple devices since there have been Apple devices, I'd be fine with Lady Sophia's services, but your rabid hatred of Apple and your odd example might be looked at by some as both hatred and projection, there Bronie
Just sayin'. I have Apple, Windows, Linux, iPhone and Android devices at present. Youre hatred is misplaced and has a strange basis, each is just another device.
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God will now not only punish them there Qeeeayars, but the people who took away God's divine and loving punishment for them.
But seriously, this is pretty good news.
This is 2017. How many years of support do you expect from Apple and what is this expectation based on when taking into account policies of all other hardware manufacturers?
It's Apple. They could hand out free blowjobs from Sophia Vergara with each Mac sold, and Slashdotters would bitch about it. What they don't understand is that this sort of thing will affect whatever they are using.
This is, of course, the history of the Macintosh. From the very start, Jobs didn't want anyone opening the case, and he didn't even want it to have any expansion beyond serial ports. He explicitly wanted the user to have to buy a new computer if they wanted to upgrade, producing revenue for Apple.
This is literally only business as usual for Apple, ever since the Mac.
For what it is worth, I've been opening and upgrading Macs since Toaster days. Even iMacs.
Particularly because the idea that no one but Apple's authorized money generators can repair an iPhone is patently absurd.
So you have the equipment to repair an iPhone? Or a Samsung for that matter? They are remarkably similar inside. I can repair them, and I am surprised at just how many Slashdotters have the skills, the steady hands and the equipment to repair these things.