By then they'll have gotten enough people to pay for the repair or buy new laptops to replace the broken ones. Then they'll acknowledge the flaw and offer a cheap repair for the other suckers they couldn't fleece.
You don't have to unlock the phone. Depending on the phone you probably have to enter your icloud or google account credentials in order to reset it, but that doesn't unlock the phone, just allows you to wipe it.
If I was ever in a situation like this where I was asked to decrypt my phone, I would let the police know that I no longer remember my password. Then when/if I ever receive my phone back, I'd do a complete factory reset on it without entering the password.
This was an internal employee town hall meeting. Someone saw the writing on the wall, recorded the meeting and provided it to the press to see if they can get enough momentum to turn the tide against this change.
They'll fail of course, but it's a noble effort nonetheless.
Except that when you flee from justice the clock doesn't run out on the statue of limitations. Otherwise Roman Polanski would be able to come back to the US.
Considering that most of them likely aren't under contract now that Verizon has done away with contracts, they certainly can dump Verizon without any early penalty.
They probably have to pay off the rest of their phone which is likely a few hundred dollars or turn it back in for no credit. But they wouldn't be penalized in any way.
Yes, that is exactly what is supposed to happen. At that point, if the information was gathered legally. It should be turned over to the proper investigative body. In the US that would be the FBI. From there the FBI would get a warrant and continue to investigate.
While you own the physical media, you don't own the data on the media. You only have a license to use that data and part of the license is not skipping ads, etc.
It'd be akin to requiring a login to use a free website, but the agreement for the login to say that you accept the ads in order to use the website.
IANAL, but I thought that as long as the police had no active hand in the illegal gathering of evidence, then it's still legal for them to use it. I'm sure it's considerably more complicated than that, and perhaps a real lawyer will chime in.
I work for one of the largest movie theatre chains in the U.S. so I'd say I have a slightly unique perspective on all this. As a manager at a theatre I get to see the numbers behind the scenes. How much money we pull in where. What our profitability is based on attendance, etc. The reason I see a sharp decline in movie going audiences is fairly simple. No it's not that Hollywood movies are boring and uninspired. It's not that people don't like that fact that rude teenagers interrupt their shows by talking on cell phones. It's just the complete loss of the movie theatre experience. Now, here me out on this. When was the last time you actually thought about going to the movies as an actual experience. Sitting in a room with the lights dimmed low so you can watch a huge picture on the screen.
There is just a big difference with the attitude people have going into the whole movie theatre idea as opposed to days gone by. I can remember when I used to get really psyched to see a movie on the screen. It's just something that can't be replicated in a home theatre. I don't care if you have a 5.1 channel surround sound system and a 42" plasma screen tv, it's just not that same. I think one of the main declines is the lack of showmanship in movie theatres(mine included). It's more of a get the people in, hope they enjoy the show, get them out, and get the next group in. There is nothing special about it anymore. I can't give specific examples of why it doesn't feel the same, it just doesn't. I'm sure the aforementioned people talking on cell phones, and the definitive lack of quality in movies contributes, but that isn't the entire thing. Movies just aren't special anymore.
I can relate one of my best movie going experiences, Kingdom of Heaven. Now most people will groan when I say that, because the movie itself wasn't particularly good. The reason the experience was so great for me, was a certain perk I have enjoyed as a manager. I got to watch the movie entirely by myself in the auditorium. Imagine 498 empty seats(this was a huge auditorium), the exact center of both the screen and the surround sound, the sound turned slightly up. Just you and the movie. It's an incredibly personal experience. It made the movie just that much better. That specialness is exactly what's missing from the movie experience nowadays. When I see a movie during normal business hours, I just feel like I'm just another person, not someone the theatre even remotely cares about.
I could go on to say that customer service has declined in general across the board and not just in the movie theatre industry, but that's another post for another story.
Maybe someone out there can come up with a solution to the problem. If so, let me know and I'll pass it along to my superiors.
This is something that has always bothered me. Working at a movie theatre, the subject of high popcorn prices has always been near and dear to my heart. I can tell you that movie theatres pretty much survive based on the profit they can extract from the concession stand. The reason prices are so high are so that the theatres can actually stay in business. If everyone stopped buying from the concession stand than movie theatres would go out of business. Oh, but you'll say what about the $10 ticket prices. Well, fine you want lower ticket prices, I'm sure you personally are willing to write a letter to Tom Cruise and ask him not to want so much money for the next movie he does. That's right, nearly all the money from ticket sales goes straight to Hollywood(or whoever happened to make the movie).
While, yes, there are definitely some problems with movie theatres on the whole. I don't think we're at a point where the movie experience can realistically be simulated in the home. Yes you can get a HD 42" plasma and a sweet 6.1 channel surround sound system, however it still doesn't compare to the awesomeness of seeing a movie at the theatre.
So, if you don't want to pay the ridiculously high price for popcorn than don't. That's entirely fine with me. Just don't cry if/when you're local cinema goes out of business. Also, don't bitch about it to other people.
Last time I was in Best Buy, granted it was like 6 months ago, they still had a copy of Win98 on the shelf. Still priced at $99 for an upgrade copy of it.
In the theatre I work at, you can say whatever you want about the movies. Then again, I could never understand why people ask the box office person for a review. How do they know I like the same types of movies they do?
"They sentence people for extremely long periods of time (life) for conspiracy to commit crimes. Conspiracy to sell drugs, for example, when the conspirators had no drugs and certainly didn't manage to sell any."
Yeah, IANAL, but I always thought conspiracy involved more than one person. So unless this guy had a bunch of other people with him, conspiracy wouldn't work.
Just so you know, not all insurance companies always post profits, at least not where it matters to me. My sister works for an insurance company(not going to say which one) and she has told me that they have paid $1.35 in claims to every $1.00 collected in premiums. Granted this is applicable for only our area(NY), but it is proof that insurance does not always pull a profit.
I'm sure it's been said before, but I've been playing for years, and I've never noticed as much of a difference as I have after playing this game. I was literally addicted to this game. At one point I was an hour late to see my girlfriend because I just couldn't stop playing. The most noticeable thing though, was with my driving. I would get pissed at people who didn't hold the line through a curve or similiar things. It was totally unreal when I first realized what I was doing.
Everyone here is all about spam filters, well why not turn them around. Instead of monitoring incoming mail, monitor outgoing mail. Of course this would have to be ISP side. So the ISP runs a spam filter on all their outgoing mail, if one of them trips the filter, then the users outgoing mail priviledges are revoked. When the user calls and asks why their priviledges are revoked, simply tell them that their account is suspected of sending spam(make sure you have the e mail handy so you can confront them with it). If it is a false trigger, simply give the user back their priviledges. Now I know that there are problems with doing this, but I think fundamentally, after some of the bigger problems are worked out, it could work.
All almost everyone here is doing is complaining about how the airwaves are public and that we should demand what is on them. What most of you don't realize is that the public does. Albeit, indirectly. A good example is with the type of shows that I know are prevelant on the radio stations where I live. It's a "most requested" show. They usually happen sometime in the late evening(8 or 9 p.m.). They are comprised entirely of what songs are the most requested of the day. Calling up and requesting a song you want to hear doesn't just tell the radio station, "Hey I want to hear this song!" It also let's them know that you like this song and would probably like to hear it on a more regular basis. It's called research. You give them your opinions and they respond. If you want large changes in what the radio plays, get a bunch of people together and keep flooding with the radio stations with requests for underplayed songs.
The majority of us hear are most likely in the minority. At least in some aspect. Everyone talks about certain songs being overplayed. Those songs aren't overplayed simply because the radio stations just say, "I think I'll play this song way too much." Okay, so maybe payola is involved to get the ball rolling, but people keep adding momentum to it to keep it going. They give the song positive feedback, which tells the radio station to play that song more because it's more likely to attract more listeners. On the other hand, if the song sucks, people won't request it, which tells the radio station to stop playing it.
So payola isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's just exposure. There is a balance between what people want to hear and what the record companies are trying to get us to hear.
I participated in the Nextech 2000 conference in Austin Texas. One part of the conference was taking a trip to AMD where we got to ask questions of the various interns there. One of the people there was working on getting the glitches out of the motherboards with multi-processors. If I remember correctly, he said that they were very close, but there were still a couple of issues that had to be resolved. Unfortunately, they weren't allowed to tell us much more than that. The trip was the end of July, just in case you wanted to know.
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By then they'll have gotten enough people to pay for the repair or buy new laptops to replace the broken ones. Then they'll acknowledge the flaw and offer a cheap repair for the other suckers they couldn't fleece.
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You don't have to unlock the phone. Depending on the phone you probably have to enter your icloud or google account credentials in order to reset it, but that doesn't unlock the phone, just allows you to wipe it.
If I was ever in a situation like this where I was asked to decrypt my phone, I would let the police know that I no longer remember my password. Then when/if I ever receive my phone back, I'd do a complete factory reset on it without entering the password.
This was an internal employee town hall meeting. Someone saw the writing on the wall, recorded the meeting and provided it to the press to see if they can get enough momentum to turn the tide against this change.
They'll fail of course, but it's a noble effort nonetheless.
If you don't see an operating system listed, you can rest assured that it's windows.
Well if you'd read the article you would know that they actually market these phones for criminal uses.
It's not as simple as our phone is super secure, they went as far as outright telling people they designed it for illicit use.
Except that when you flee from justice the clock doesn't run out on the statue of limitations. Otherwise Roman Polanski would be able to come back to the US.
Considering that most of them likely aren't under contract now that Verizon has done away with contracts, they certainly can dump Verizon without any early penalty.
They probably have to pay off the rest of their phone which is likely a few hundred dollars or turn it back in for no credit. But they wouldn't be penalized in any way.
Yes, that is exactly what is supposed to happen. At that point, if the information was gathered legally. It should be turned over to the proper investigative body. In the US that would be the FBI. From there the FBI would get a warrant and continue to investigate.
While you own the physical media, you don't own the data on the media. You only have a license to use that data and part of the license is not skipping ads, etc.
It'd be akin to requiring a login to use a free website, but the agreement for the login to say that you accept the ads in order to use the website.
Unless I'm mistaken you can't get arrested for possession simply because a drug is in your bloodstream.
As long as those things you do are ADA compliant.
IANAL, but I thought that as long as the police had no active hand in the illegal gathering of evidence, then it's still legal for them to use it. I'm sure it's considerably more complicated than that, and perhaps a real lawyer will chime in.
I work for one of the largest movie theatre chains in the U.S. so I'd say I have a slightly unique perspective on all this. As a manager at a theatre I get to see the numbers behind the scenes. How much money we pull in where. What our profitability is based on attendance, etc. The reason I see a sharp decline in movie going audiences is fairly simple. No it's not that Hollywood movies are boring and uninspired. It's not that people don't like that fact that rude teenagers interrupt their shows by talking on cell phones. It's just the complete loss of the movie theatre experience. Now, here me out on this. When was the last time you actually thought about going to the movies as an actual experience. Sitting in a room with the lights dimmed low so you can watch a huge picture on the screen.
There is just a big difference with the attitude people have going into the whole movie theatre idea as opposed to days gone by. I can remember when I used to get really psyched to see a movie on the screen. It's just something that can't be replicated in a home theatre. I don't care if you have a 5.1 channel surround sound system and a 42" plasma screen tv, it's just not that same. I think one of the main declines is the lack of showmanship in movie theatres(mine included). It's more of a get the people in, hope they enjoy the show, get them out, and get the next group in. There is nothing special about it anymore. I can't give specific examples of why it doesn't feel the same, it just doesn't. I'm sure the aforementioned people talking on cell phones, and the definitive lack of quality in movies contributes, but that isn't the entire thing. Movies just aren't special anymore.
I can relate one of my best movie going experiences, Kingdom of Heaven. Now most people will groan when I say that, because the movie itself wasn't particularly good. The reason the experience was so great for me, was a certain perk I have enjoyed as a manager. I got to watch the movie entirely by myself in the auditorium. Imagine 498 empty seats(this was a huge auditorium), the exact center of both the screen and the surround sound, the sound turned slightly up. Just you and the movie. It's an incredibly personal experience. It made the movie just that much better. That specialness is exactly what's missing from the movie experience nowadays. When I see a movie during normal business hours, I just feel like I'm just another person, not someone the theatre even remotely cares about.
I could go on to say that customer service has declined in general across the board and not just in the movie theatre industry, but that's another post for another story.
Maybe someone out there can come up with a solution to the problem. If so, let me know and I'll pass it along to my superiors.
This is something that has always bothered me. Working at a movie theatre, the subject of high popcorn prices has always been near and dear to my heart. I can tell you that movie theatres pretty much survive based on the profit they can extract from the concession stand. The reason prices are so high are so that the theatres can actually stay in business. If everyone stopped buying from the concession stand than movie theatres would go out of business. Oh, but you'll say what about the $10 ticket prices. Well, fine you want lower ticket prices, I'm sure you personally are willing to write a letter to Tom Cruise and ask him not to want so much money for the next movie he does. That's right, nearly all the money from ticket sales goes straight to Hollywood(or whoever happened to make the movie).
While, yes, there are definitely some problems with movie theatres on the whole. I don't think we're at a point where the movie experience can realistically be simulated in the home. Yes you can get a HD 42" plasma and a sweet 6.1 channel surround sound system, however it still doesn't compare to the awesomeness of seeing a movie at the theatre.
So, if you don't want to pay the ridiculously high price for popcorn than don't. That's entirely fine with me. Just don't cry if/when you're local cinema goes out of business. Also, don't bitch about it to other people.
Last time I was in Best Buy, granted it was like 6 months ago, they still had a copy of Win98 on the shelf. Still priced at $99 for an upgrade copy of it.
In the theatre I work at, you can say whatever you want about the movies. Then again, I could never understand why people ask the box office person for a review. How do they know I like the same types of movies they do?
"They sentence people for extremely long periods of time (life) for conspiracy to commit crimes. Conspiracy to sell drugs, for example, when the conspirators had no drugs and certainly didn't manage to sell any."
Yeah, IANAL, but I always thought conspiracy involved more than one person. So unless this guy had a bunch of other people with him, conspiracy wouldn't work.
Just so you know, not all insurance companies always post profits, at least not where it matters to me. My sister works for an insurance company(not going to say which one) and she has told me that they have paid $1.35 in claims to every $1.00 collected in premiums. Granted this is applicable for only our area(NY), but it is proof that insurance does not always pull a profit.
I'm sure it's been said before, but I've been playing for years, and I've never noticed as much of a difference as I have after playing this game. I was literally addicted to this game. At one point I was an hour late to see my girlfriend because I just couldn't stop playing. The most noticeable thing though, was with my driving. I would get pissed at people who didn't hold the line through a curve or similiar things. It was totally unreal when I first realized what I was doing.
Everyone here is all about spam filters, well why not turn them around. Instead of monitoring incoming mail, monitor outgoing mail. Of course this would have to be ISP side. So the ISP runs a spam filter on all their outgoing mail, if one of them trips the filter, then the users outgoing mail priviledges are revoked. When the user calls and asks why their priviledges are revoked, simply tell them that their account is suspected of sending spam(make sure you have the e mail handy so you can confront them with it). If it is a false trigger, simply give the user back their priviledges.
Now I know that there are problems with doing this, but I think fundamentally, after some of the bigger problems are worked out, it could work.
All almost everyone here is doing is complaining about how the airwaves are public and that we should demand what is on them. What most of you don't realize is that the public does. Albeit, indirectly. A good example is with the type of shows that I know are prevelant on the radio stations where I live. It's a "most requested" show. They usually happen sometime in the late evening(8 or 9 p.m.). They are comprised entirely of what songs are the most requested of the day. Calling up and requesting a song you want to hear doesn't just tell the radio station, "Hey I want to hear this song!" It also let's them know that you like this song and would probably like to hear it on a more regular basis. It's called research. You give them your opinions and they respond. If you want large changes in what the radio plays, get a bunch of people together and keep flooding with the radio stations with requests for underplayed songs.
The majority of us hear are most likely in the minority. At least in some aspect. Everyone talks about certain songs being overplayed. Those songs aren't overplayed simply because the radio stations just say, "I think I'll play this song way too much." Okay, so maybe payola is involved to get the ball rolling, but people keep adding momentum to it to keep it going. They give the song positive feedback, which tells the radio station to play that song more because it's more likely to attract more listeners. On the other hand, if the song sucks, people won't request it, which tells the radio station to stop playing it.
So payola isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's just exposure. There is a balance between what people want to hear and what the record companies are trying to get us to hear.
I participated in the Nextech 2000 conference in Austin Texas. One part of the conference was taking a trip to AMD where we got to ask questions of the various interns there. One of the people there was working on getting the glitches out of the motherboards with multi-processors. If I remember correctly, he said that they were very close, but there were still a couple of issues that had to be resolved. Unfortunately, they weren't allowed to tell us much more than that. The trip was the end of July, just in case you wanted to know.