... the smart, AI-driven robot also figures that it's "not a fun job -- it's hot, it's greasy, it's dirty.", too. Going to have a robotic Sponge-bob hash slinging slasher on your hands.
I've got kids in middle and high school and clearly this comp-sci-in-the-classroom and STEM are really big hot-button topics right now. I see what my kids bring home, and it's not anything great. So some handful of teachers with absolutely zero give-a-shit went to a workshop and hot-glued the proverbial H-bridge Whisker-sensor 'robot' together and put together groups of 3-4 kids for 20 minutes? Or paused the keyboard words-per-minute work in the computer class to let kids navigate to code.org/starwars to fuck around for the last 30 minutes of class dragging visual blocks that write insanely deep if-statements all over the place? Big deal. I never see one kid (including my own) yet come home and say, "Show me more" because it's back to Youtube or Netflix because the value, thinking and logic component was never there. Unfortunately, tear it a part if you want, but that's the day-to-day truth I'm seeing.
Are good are you at doing anything when you, at best, barely-and-occasionally do it? Not good at all and what is being done at that level is not engaging enough to anyone who wants to 'know more'. I've been doing tech, code slinging, SA/DBA/network, and engineering work for 15 years and I still feel like I have a lot to learn every day, and I feel like I can even remotely call myself well-rounded and somewhat polished. And I feel bad for teachers, because a lot of them are doing it solely because it's a requirement and, hey, teachers don't get paid shit for what they put up with, and it impacts their review to get whatever nominal performance or cost-of-living raise on their contract (if any) they were looking for.
Furthermore, ya 'Big Silicon' is donating to it, and millions of dollars is a big deal, but not impacting much. It looks good philanthropically speaking, but it's a way to hide money and be tax except, too, if it's non-profit. What was the biggest donation amount I saw, $10M? Amazon owner net work is almost $1 Trillion. Microsoft? $560 Billion. Facebook? $74 Billion. Google? $500 billion. Their fucking brand is SO BIG, these 'push-CS' movements are not a move to build new crops of 10+ year future talent to keep that sustaining, it just looks good and it's a tax break.
First and foremost, someone should have re-posted the Ars article about it that I read this morning --- that's got pictures.
So I guess because it comes in yellow that media is calling it a 'banana', but I'm pretty sure at person in the late 90's never called that a banana phone back then. Why that stupid ass name all the sudden to garner some reader attention? I'm ok with the the 're-issue Nokia Neo-from-the-Matrix spring slider phone' which already got my attention.
I was actually trying to dig up some super old e-mails or eBay history because I do remember having a Nokia phone where you could swap out the front bezel with different colored one, and after 'The Matrix' premiered, I remember the landslide of Nokia bezels that appeared on eBay had the spring slide-down on it. Truly cool. I wish I would have kept that phone and bezel around just to reminisce.
I'll be the first to day, I guess I'm not in these kinds of news cycles to know that bio-hacking was an actual thing taken seriously. This is just oozing epic levels glory-stunt bullshit. I honestly don't see this as any different than the Philadelphia Eagles fan eating horse shit other than this Josiah guy wearing a business casual suit, some shinny shoes he got polished in an airport, Skagen wrist watch and a $100 frat boi hair cut.
I think we have a new definition of silicon-valley-startup-investor-wrangling think tank triple-dog-dare you shit. What happened to all the simple attention getters in life wrapped in proven work, dedication and education? I guess I'm out of touch with what the new kids do these days.
I commend MIT, as an elite academic institution who gets a ton of top-talent world-wide, putting a buzzy ethics topic in the computer science world for AI. But isn't a bit contradictory to think, without really any facts in my end, but I guess a healthy crop of MIT grad's exist in Silicon Valley, and surely may not be the big names in the social startups we have today, but probably have a good engineering and intellectual hand in all of it.
I think Silicon Valley in it's entirety should now be the ones taking that alma mater course being offered. At scale, they are the very ones TO abuse it (and already are, by magnitudes that we don't even publicly know about). Sure, this is like teaching kids today that contact American football is dangerous and concussions cause CTE, but didn't we know all along without an acronym like CTE that getting your head knocked-the-fuck around, you're going to get messed up? I think this is just a I-told-you-so shit that Bezos has been preaching about the last few years.
I remember hearing the SCADA and industrial hacking news as far back as early 2000's from when I got into the tech world, and even then, always the same take-away: Why are these systems even accessible outside the intranet they exist on? I'd even take it a step further and wonder why there isn't much tamer form of a secured, air gap datacenter approach to this? Anyone who's done or worked with building automation systems or even went to a tech school for SCADA operation knows this shit doesn't have to exist and be set up that way.
I actually wondered what the hit-rate of SCADA attacks was, and I had no idea there was an online database of them that goes way back into the early 90's. And exposure to the internet is harder to hide from, shoot, most don't even have to try if they are using Shodan.
I think that's the real issue and always has been. That really-old-Windows-OS-and-the-word-crypto-buzzword phrasing is just a tech journalism shock-jock plug to lighten the heat from the real problem.
This is almost beyond comical and outright sad how there is this bred life-style of "Internetz thingie no workie" anymore, then go off the cliff in some tapping out of a pouting paragraph online like some entitled tyrant. I am almost a 7 year cord cutter, and guess what? I saw the same 30 second black-out, however, what I didn't experience is missing the last play. Why? Because the Super Bowl is an annual symbol social-and-sports cocktail of Americana, and it's going to be on everywhere, and where is it definitely being broadcast at always? Freely over-the-air on one of the Big 3 networks as long as you have an ATSC tuner or conversion into some television in your house with a $60 quality UHF/VHF antenna that's about 2 feet high.
I think that's just what-you-get when you cord cut and you're going to rely on highly scaled internet streaming services that are definitely going to see a absolutely F ridiculous RPS on the backend for something that popular. I had the same problem during NBA playoffs a few years ago using SlingTV during a very popular series; final few minutes cut out in the 4th quarter? Did my life end? No. This is to be expected with that much 'down stream' you can't control.
With great hesitation I say this, not because there's truth to it, but because of the amount of trolling anymore: it's become almost a legitimate excuse to lambaste and start some digital pitchfork rant on Twitter, Reddit or whatever-the-fuck social medium you want to use just to have something to complain about. I'm a devoted 16-week + playoffs NFL watcher for decades and I wasn't upset. The ones who were, used the Super Bowl as a social outlet and wanted some drama-talk to carry over at the water cooler in the AM.
...outside the typical no-so-much-a-conspiracy-theory-anymore side of things, it's quite possible Apple got a HUGE influx of bad batteries that went out into millions of their phone models. I do remember a small window last year about specific models of iPhone 6/6s having recalls for batteries, which caused hardware instability (e.g. unexpected shutdowns, phone reboots, etc.).
If there is anything honest and plausible I'll put my intuition on, it would be that those batteries were FAR reaching outside that. Apple tried a small recall to make it 'look good' but in essence, it was fucking everything on the mobile side. So they tried to cover it up with throttling hacks to preserve the batteries in future iOS releases and got caught by some tech savvy folk on reddit.
Seems like the perfect diagnosis to have when confronted by a crazy ex-partner of any kind in public where you know it's going to get awkward quick because they want to prove a point and have to get that one last comment in.
...I really wish I knew what marketing firm and/or team was trying to 'go for' on this commercial. It's super F annoying for sure.
I found the "What's a computer?" icing on the cake to watching that turd 'slap-collapse-close' the $500+ iPad on the counter of the taco shop like it was so much F effort to maybe have respect for what the new-kids call a device that has more compute power, CPU and GPU, that I had with any of the 10 computers I had growing up in the 80's and 90's prior to college. Nonsense.
I wish she would have fell out of the tree and had the broken arm vs. her friend and crushed that iPad.
It would, in effect, legalize a surveillance practice abandoned by the NSA in 2017...
AND hey, this is what we do in the United State of America: sling on agenda measures on to bills that are either completely 180 to what it's being appended to, ambiguous loopholes to get around the bill up for question or, in cases like this, just Texas Hold'em all-in.
Don't care if there is some piece of paper that 'says what they do', it's happening now, and hasn't ceased just because Snowdon.
The small, single screen theater I typically go to in a town just north of where I live specifically boycotted bringing in this latest Star Wars as the premier or any showing on the premise of 'Disney wants too much of a cut, and we aren't screwing our patrons over with our costs.' Now this is one of many 1 to 4 screen theaters owned by a local company in our state, so they clearly picked up 'Star Wars' in the bigger cities where they can offset the cut back to Disney with more foot traffic. However, this idea of 'Fuck Disney and their monopolization' is a small case worked.
Honestly, I am like most here, most movies anymore are complete shit and the 2+ hours I sit there hardly was worth the $8-10 or whatever a ticket is now. The small theater I go to, $5 for an adult, $3 for a child, and on certain bargain nights, it's $3 to get in for an adult. I want the 'theater experience' to stay in tact; our theater is a renovated 50's style decor --- it's fun to take the family out, get popcorn, get a soda and watch something on the 'big screen' even though we have ultimate consumer control to stream it in damn near the damn HD/UHD quality in a matter of weeks after it hits the theater in some cases.
In the era of 'having too many choices' now and I can consume most anything I want from a media perspective with a couple of screen taps and a credit card, guess what Disney? I'll just wait, because I value the theater experience more than you turning hand-over-fist profits.
Honestly, if 'my cut' of owning iPhone's in all of this doesn't cover the cost of replacing the family household of iPhone 5S and 6S's I have, then Apple and the lawyers can keep it.
I have yet to see any class actions actually benefit the Big Consumer in any way. It looks good from a legal piece of paper and PR perspective but by the time the shit-storm settles, what does Apple care if they have to pay even hundreds of millions of dollars out to even more hundreds of millions of consumers, multiplied by their investment in the devices that have degraded batteries? They sit on BILLIONS of CASH. It looks bad, but I can cite a metric ton of examples that looked bad like Netflix trying to split their streaming/DVD lines out, Microsoft with Windows Vista, Ticketmaster with ticket markups, hell, even Apple still getting flack for horrid labor for building iterations of this thing over and over.
The problem is when you're that big, you don't don't even stumble over shit like this.
Ah who am I kidding? I have a slight moral compass and quite lazy when it comes to making a quick tech buck in entrepreneurial buzzword gold still after all these years. Hope it works out for them.............
And in cases where there are two valid perspectives, like, for example, in response to the question, "Is cholesterol bad,"
And that is the AI search example they use to boast about their new search feature? As educated as (most) of society and populations in general are these days, we know a hell of a lot more concrete general knowledge that we can all just matter-of-factly say out of our flapping lips solely because it's proven and backed by substantial scientific and application proof, why the fuck are we wasting training it with Johnny Six-pack and Sally Manicure's questions?
Back off my going-overboard rant here, but I hope we don't train a massive neural AI network with fucking stupid ass questions and it deems human population 'annoying and unnecessary'. Put this to good use for pete's sake and I realize it will --- Microsoft will definitely have some eyes-only interfaces tied into their Azure platform for serious interest groups, but it's just debilitating to watch the absolute computing behemoths and triumphs humans have created in the last 10-15 years alone in AI, HPC on the scale it's been at, in large part, to the tech giants, being reduced to re-asking, "Is fire hot?" or "What color is blue?"
I'm all for quality movie reviews, but this shit is getting out of control anymore. Everyone is trying to beat everyone else to the punch on the hyped thing in the last 5 minutes in entertainment to put out some shock-talk binary movie commentary: absolutely mind-blowing or a turd dunk in the toilet. That's all part in due to social media head hunting where they will get torn apart for their review, but this is the real problem: There's ZERO quality reviewers, at all. I sincerely miss the days of Siskel and Ebert, at least I somewhat take stock in that. Those guys, much like anyone else, had their favorite genre, but for the sake of movies, reputation and quality input on a film, they were fucking professionals at it. Kind of why I bypass Rotten Tomatoes anymore for any of this, as well.
Any more, I think someone is trying to win the social-media-look-at-me Pulitzer prize for best catchy 160-character comment who's never probably watched a lick of any Star Wars movies and it's nauseating. Saying something like "Worst movie and disappointment in 10 years" isn't telling me how it stacks up to the last Star Wars in the overall timeline and storyboard of things? Be objective instead of posing super negative or overly surprised for the sake of some cheap fan fare.
AGREED, 100%. Wow. My definition of 'smart luggage' is a smart airline employee or 'the system' not 1) playing soccer with my bag, 2) forgetting to get it on the right end-route path and 3) getting it to the final destination in one piece. That's it. That's smart luggage to me.
There is a reason the NFL is an 11-figure overly saturated empire. Don't give me potential low ratings rant; that's just propaganda for the gazillion of networks you already partner with to fake-whine about how you aren't getting viewership. How the F do any of us know just how that is reallycalculated anyway? Not to mention, just like there is so much to 'feed our eyes' with lately, has the NFL not done that, as well? It's not just Sunday and Monday. It's Sunday, Monday, Thursday, Saturday, double-header here and there not-just-on-thanksgiving, NFL network 24x7. I like American football and NFL and it's so over saturated and there-every-second, anyone is going to get sick or go numb to it over time with brand pollution.
This falls in line with the same shit MPAA and RIAA do for the movie and music industry --- now we're to blame social media giants for all this revenue-we-never-had-but-could-have-had shit. That would be like all of us whining to our mom, dad or caretaker 40 years later in life about that lost revenue in sympathetic loose change for the one lemonade stand they wouldn't let you stand up on the street corner when you were younger --- just so you can have a reason to blame someone for the potentially lost earnings in your nothing saving account you have today, plus all the potential interest. Give me a break.
Funny how NBC entity sourced and authored the article, considering NBC exclusively broadcasts Sunday Night Football (and sometimes co-airs TNF) religiously.
All this tells me is the definition, act and collection is now 'more legal' on paper. Some bill with words on it isn't going to make me put blinders on --- there just there to make the general population feel good at the end of the day that it isn't going on at the magnitude or level it is; it's still always happening at a level beyond what Snowdon exposed and then some and, unfortunately, it will continue.
Can't really get all that upset, all of us that use any sort of free service online or any amount of social media anything have been 'the product' in every faction of our lives for years, and can't start raising your pitch forks and chucking your molotov cocktails at the White House fence, if you're not willing to do it in Mountain View, Cupertino and Melno Park as well.
That's always been a problem IMHO with any vendor pre-installed bullshit of any kind. Most of this turn-key OEM-installed bullshit isn't for the most of the crowd here, it's for the people who want that computer to 'just work' out of the box, and pre-installed with not-even-free versions of software packages anymore. This is such a non-story to me personally because over the last 20 year I've been into the tech/IT/computing realm of things, there's just way too many instances of this to cite of this going on at the big player level. It's here, and here for the 30 seconds of googling it too to refresh my memory.
I saw a lot of banter about installing Linux on this or that or 'Linux solves this issue' --- no it doesn't. I've ran Linux + X-windows + gnome/evolution/xfce window manager mixes since late 1990's on all my laptops and desktops to now in 2017; that's a preference. And the way Linux installs have become super mega friendly, tell me if you're in any worse a boat knowing every waking package you got installed on there? A great example is goa-daemon in Gnome Window Manager builds the last two years on most distros --- fuck that package. May not be spyware, but with all it's seemingly conspiracy-driven build-deps around it, I mind as well be trying to remove spyware.
My long winded point is: Please have that nephew, niece or some half savvy ass person in your life just put in a fresh install of Windows on that pre-bundled piece of OEM shit HP/Dell/Lenovo and anyone else in that space calling an 'Windows OS deployment'. I don't trust that shit and no one else should.
I couldn't agree more with Linus. It's not like we know each other or have Thanksgiving together; he's right in his own non-PC way. As long as we're talking about a bug not being: 1) maliciously intended code or put there 'on purpose', 2) functionality or operability that falls into as not-as-advertised, or blatantly didn't follow an RFP or standard or 3) hell, stuff that was just overlooked, seemingly over/under-engineered or ego-over-good-code.
...I'm sure there's a few more mental dice-up catalogs to expand on, but at the end of the day, that's how I'm looking at it. Anyone who has written any sort of code with any language any any level has dealt with this. Unless, it's extremely intended, it's a bug to me (what do the new kids call it these days? A glitch?) --- then we can put all the metadata and sub-categories onto that logical gaff of a bug as we want at that point in terms of 'where' it falls so some Agile scrum party can have a scrum-stick-beating party to organize what is prioritized over what.
I've been an i adopter forever, and I'm not really sure why. I'd say buy and large, Apple gives you very little room and window of opportunity to have older iOS versions + apps stay in a security and maintenence only release. I guarantee that the over half of that '50%' adoption was because of the classically conditioned sub-novice-power-savvy Apple user just auto-forcing updates or accidentally clicking the 'do it next time I'm on wifi at 3am' shit, then being undeniably pissed because all the phony tech reviews about the 'next' iOS on their already old/EOL iPhone/iPad doesn't function that bad with the new OS but it, in fact, does and was never meant to.
Apple can boast this all they want, if it's indeed something to even brag about, but I'd love to see what device(s) we all still get the iOS 11 update push to that shouldn't ever have it installed on and have a successful runtime with it before you see that Apple ID re-activated with an iPhone 8 or X out of frustration.
I couldn't image this is far off, but attention spans are 'short' these days for entertainment. I'm not saying there's this epidemic downplay in science-fiction-fantasy literary for entertainment in this world, but if The Hobbit and LOTR don't stay relevent to today's generation and society, who the hell is going to seek it out anymore? And if it is sought out, if it's not even entertaining in the first 5 minutes, we have the ultimate ability to go binge-watch, read, skip or get something else to feed our eyes.
I see this as nothing more than Tolkein estate trying to re-re-re-re-re-re-brand something that really doesn't need re-branding, but for the sake of keeping the estate profitable and going, they have to "sell out" like this (that's a pretty strong term, but you get it). For all of us, we know these works front-and-back --- so without creating a complete shit-flop of a side story or doing fictitious day-in-the-life of a Hobbit, or spanning sub-plots between some of the duller stretches of the book(s), anything is 100% not of the original works and it's bullshit to any of us who hold foundational respect for J.R.R. Tolkein's work as the ultimate kick-starter for many of us still interested in science-fiction-fantasy.
I think if J.R.R. Tolkein were alive today, he'd certainly would have disowned the entire lineage of Tolkein estate managers and cut them loose.
Exactly. This is yet another way to get ever more biometric data --- Hello to anyone who's been using thumb-print sensors on their phone in the last 2-4 years.
However, we shouldn't shit on Apple too much; they took some good notes from Facebook and Snapchat. Facial recognition machine learning + image processing is F huge and super polished these days. The pile of selling-point data that another people, companies and businesses want is now instant human body language reaction to their product. Forever, we all think that, super generically, product interest is driven by being ad-bombed or we navigate or drive ourselves there. But just because you went to it, doesn't truly garner a real 'like' to anything --- what if you could 'see' if someone smiled, grinned, made googley-eyes at the millisecond the ad for that widget went by? That right there is what we're talking about and way more.
In all of this, we are the product, ladies and gentlemen. And as long as we all keep drooling over this shit with millennial reactions of everything being amazing or a game changer and gotta have it, we're fucked.
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... the smart, AI-driven robot also figures that it's "not a fun job -- it's hot, it's greasy, it's dirty.", too. Going to have a robotic Sponge-bob hash slinging slasher on your hands.
I've got kids in middle and high school and clearly this comp-sci-in-the-classroom and STEM are really big hot-button topics right now. I see what my kids bring home, and it's not anything great. So some handful of teachers with absolutely zero give-a-shit went to a workshop and hot-glued the proverbial H-bridge Whisker-sensor 'robot' together and put together groups of 3-4 kids for 20 minutes? Or paused the keyboard words-per-minute work in the computer class to let kids navigate to code.org/starwars to fuck around for the last 30 minutes of class dragging visual blocks that write insanely deep if-statements all over the place? Big deal. I never see one kid (including my own) yet come home and say, "Show me more" because it's back to Youtube or Netflix because the value, thinking and logic component was never there. Unfortunately, tear it a part if you want, but that's the day-to-day truth I'm seeing.
Are good are you at doing anything when you, at best, barely-and-occasionally do it? Not good at all and what is being done at that level is not engaging enough to anyone who wants to 'know more'. I've been doing tech, code slinging, SA/DBA/network, and engineering work for 15 years and I still feel like I have a lot to learn every day, and I feel like I can even remotely call myself well-rounded and somewhat polished. And I feel bad for teachers, because a lot of them are doing it solely because it's a requirement and, hey, teachers don't get paid shit for what they put up with, and it impacts their review to get whatever nominal performance or cost-of-living raise on their contract (if any) they were looking for.
Furthermore, ya 'Big Silicon' is donating to it, and millions of dollars is a big deal, but not impacting much. It looks good philanthropically speaking, but it's a way to hide money and be tax except, too, if it's non-profit. What was the biggest donation amount I saw, $10M? Amazon owner net work is almost $1 Trillion. Microsoft? $560 Billion. Facebook? $74 Billion. Google? $500 billion. Their fucking brand is SO BIG, these 'push-CS' movements are not a move to build new crops of 10+ year future talent to keep that sustaining, it just looks good and it's a tax break.
First and foremost, someone should have re-posted the Ars article about it that I read this morning --- that's got pictures.
So I guess because it comes in yellow that media is calling it a 'banana', but I'm pretty sure at person in the late 90's never called that a banana phone back then. Why that stupid ass name all the sudden to garner some reader attention? I'm ok with the the 're-issue Nokia Neo-from-the-Matrix spring slider phone' which already got my attention.
I was actually trying to dig up some super old e-mails or eBay history because I do remember having a Nokia phone where you could swap out the front bezel with different colored one, and after 'The Matrix' premiered, I remember the landslide of Nokia bezels that appeared on eBay had the spring slide-down on it. Truly cool. I wish I would have kept that phone and bezel around just to reminisce.
I'll be the first to day, I guess I'm not in these kinds of news cycles to know that bio-hacking was an actual thing taken seriously. This is just oozing epic levels glory-stunt bullshit. I honestly don't see this as any different than the Philadelphia Eagles fan eating horse shit other than this Josiah guy wearing a business casual suit, some shinny shoes he got polished in an airport, Skagen wrist watch and a $100 frat boi hair cut.
I think we have a new definition of silicon-valley-startup-investor-wrangling think tank triple-dog-dare you shit. What happened to all the simple attention getters in life wrapped in proven work, dedication and education? I guess I'm out of touch with what the new kids do these days.
Let me know how it goes, everyone! I'll see you all in therapy...
I commend MIT, as an elite academic institution who gets a ton of top-talent world-wide, putting a buzzy ethics topic in the computer science world for AI. But isn't a bit contradictory to think, without really any facts in my end, but I guess a healthy crop of MIT grad's exist in Silicon Valley, and surely may not be the big names in the social startups we have today, but probably have a good engineering and intellectual hand in all of it.
I think Silicon Valley in it's entirety should now be the ones taking that alma mater course being offered. At scale, they are the very ones TO abuse it (and already are, by magnitudes that we don't even publicly know about). Sure, this is like teaching kids today that contact American football is dangerous and concussions cause CTE, but didn't we know all along without an acronym like CTE that getting your head knocked-the-fuck around, you're going to get messed up? I think this is just a I-told-you-so shit that Bezos has been preaching about the last few years.
I remember hearing the SCADA and industrial hacking news as far back as early 2000's from when I got into the tech world, and even then, always the same take-away: Why are these systems even accessible outside the intranet they exist on? I'd even take it a step further and wonder why there isn't much tamer form of a secured, air gap datacenter approach to this? Anyone who's done or worked with building automation systems or even went to a tech school for SCADA operation knows this shit doesn't have to exist and be set up that way.
I actually wondered what the hit-rate of SCADA attacks was, and I had no idea there was an online database of them that goes way back into the early 90's. And exposure to the internet is harder to hide from, shoot, most don't even have to try if they are using Shodan.
I think that's the real issue and always has been. That really-old-Windows-OS-and-the-word-crypto-buzzword phrasing is just a tech journalism shock-jock plug to lighten the heat from the real problem.
This is almost beyond comical and outright sad how there is this bred life-style of "Internetz thingie no workie" anymore, then go off the cliff in some tapping out of a pouting paragraph online like some entitled tyrant. I am almost a 7 year cord cutter, and guess what? I saw the same 30 second black-out, however, what I didn't experience is missing the last play. Why? Because the Super Bowl is an annual symbol social-and-sports cocktail of Americana, and it's going to be on everywhere, and where is it definitely being broadcast at always? Freely over-the-air on one of the Big 3 networks as long as you have an ATSC tuner or conversion into some television in your house with a $60 quality UHF/VHF antenna that's about 2 feet high.
I think that's just what-you-get when you cord cut and you're going to rely on highly scaled internet streaming services that are definitely going to see a absolutely F ridiculous RPS on the backend for something that popular. I had the same problem during NBA playoffs a few years ago using SlingTV during a very popular series; final few minutes cut out in the 4th quarter? Did my life end? No. This is to be expected with that much 'down stream' you can't control.
With great hesitation I say this, not because there's truth to it, but because of the amount of trolling anymore: it's become almost a legitimate excuse to lambaste and start some digital pitchfork rant on Twitter, Reddit or whatever-the-fuck social medium you want to use just to have something to complain about. I'm a devoted 16-week + playoffs NFL watcher for decades and I wasn't upset. The ones who were, used the Super Bowl as a social outlet and wanted some drama-talk to carry over at the water cooler in the AM.
...outside the typical no-so-much-a-conspiracy-theory-anymore side of things, it's quite possible Apple got a HUGE influx of bad batteries that went out into millions of their phone models. I do remember a small window last year about specific models of iPhone 6/6s having recalls for batteries, which caused hardware instability (e.g. unexpected shutdowns, phone reboots, etc.).
If there is anything honest and plausible I'll put my intuition on, it would be that those batteries were FAR reaching outside that. Apple tried a small recall to make it 'look good' but in essence, it was fucking everything on the mobile side. So they tried to cover it up with throttling hacks to preserve the batteries in future iOS releases and got caught by some tech savvy folk on reddit.
Seems like the perfect diagnosis to have when confronted by a crazy ex-partner of any kind in public where you know it's going to get awkward quick because they want to prove a point and have to get that one last comment in.
...I really wish I knew what marketing firm and/or team was trying to 'go for' on this commercial. It's super F annoying for sure.
I found the "What's a computer?" icing on the cake to watching that turd 'slap-collapse-close' the $500+ iPad on the counter of the taco shop like it was so much F effort to maybe have respect for what the new-kids call a device that has more compute power, CPU and GPU, that I had with any of the 10 computers I had growing up in the 80's and 90's prior to college. Nonsense.
I wish she would have fell out of the tree and had the broken arm vs. her friend and crushed that iPad.
It would, in effect, legalize a surveillance practice abandoned by the NSA in 2017...
AND hey, this is what we do in the United State of America: sling on agenda measures on to bills that are either completely 180 to what it's being appended to, ambiguous loopholes to get around the bill up for question or, in cases like this, just Texas Hold'em all-in.
Don't care if there is some piece of paper that 'says what they do', it's happening now, and hasn't ceased just because Snowdon.
The small, single screen theater I typically go to in a town just north of where I live specifically boycotted bringing in this latest Star Wars as the premier or any showing on the premise of 'Disney wants too much of a cut, and we aren't screwing our patrons over with our costs.' Now this is one of many 1 to 4 screen theaters owned by a local company in our state, so they clearly picked up 'Star Wars' in the bigger cities where they can offset the cut back to Disney with more foot traffic. However, this idea of 'Fuck Disney and their monopolization' is a small case worked.
Honestly, I am like most here, most movies anymore are complete shit and the 2+ hours I sit there hardly was worth the $8-10 or whatever a ticket is now. The small theater I go to, $5 for an adult, $3 for a child, and on certain bargain nights, it's $3 to get in for an adult. I want the 'theater experience' to stay in tact; our theater is a renovated 50's style decor --- it's fun to take the family out, get popcorn, get a soda and watch something on the 'big screen' even though we have ultimate consumer control to stream it in damn near the damn HD/UHD quality in a matter of weeks after it hits the theater in some cases.
In the era of 'having too many choices' now and I can consume most anything I want from a media perspective with a couple of screen taps and a credit card, guess what Disney? I'll just wait, because I value the theater experience more than you turning hand-over-fist profits.
Honestly, if 'my cut' of owning iPhone's in all of this doesn't cover the cost of replacing the family household of iPhone 5S and 6S's I have, then Apple and the lawyers can keep it.
I have yet to see any class actions actually benefit the Big Consumer in any way. It looks good from a legal piece of paper and PR perspective but by the time the shit-storm settles, what does Apple care if they have to pay even hundreds of millions of dollars out to even more hundreds of millions of consumers, multiplied by their investment in the devices that have degraded batteries? They sit on BILLIONS of CASH. It looks bad, but I can cite a metric ton of examples that looked bad like Netflix trying to split their streaming/DVD lines out, Microsoft with Windows Vista, Ticketmaster with ticket markups, hell, even Apple still getting flack for horrid labor for building iterations of this thing over and over.
The problem is when you're that big, you don't don't even stumble over shit like this.
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Ah who am I kidding? I have a slight moral compass and quite lazy when it comes to making a quick tech buck in entrepreneurial buzzword gold still after all these years. Hope it works out for them.............
Wonder if their ice tea is any good?
And in cases where there are two valid perspectives, like, for example, in response to the question, "Is cholesterol bad,"
And that is the AI search example they use to boast about their new search feature? As educated as (most) of society and populations in general are these days, we know a hell of a lot more concrete general knowledge that we can all just matter-of-factly say out of our flapping lips solely because it's proven and backed by substantial scientific and application proof, why the fuck are we wasting training it with Johnny Six-pack and Sally Manicure's questions?
Back off my going-overboard rant here, but I hope we don't train a massive neural AI network with fucking stupid ass questions and it deems human population 'annoying and unnecessary'. Put this to good use for pete's sake and I realize it will --- Microsoft will definitely have some eyes-only interfaces tied into their Azure platform for serious interest groups, but it's just debilitating to watch the absolute computing behemoths and triumphs humans have created in the last 10-15 years alone in AI, HPC on the scale it's been at, in large part, to the tech giants, being reduced to re-asking, "Is fire hot?" or "What color is blue?"
I'm all for quality movie reviews, but this shit is getting out of control anymore. Everyone is trying to beat everyone else to the punch on the hyped thing in the last 5 minutes in entertainment to put out some shock-talk binary movie commentary: absolutely mind-blowing or a turd dunk in the toilet. That's all part in due to social media head hunting where they will get torn apart for their review, but this is the real problem: There's ZERO quality reviewers, at all. I sincerely miss the days of Siskel and Ebert, at least I somewhat take stock in that. Those guys, much like anyone else, had their favorite genre, but for the sake of movies, reputation and quality input on a film, they were fucking professionals at it. Kind of why I bypass Rotten Tomatoes anymore for any of this, as well.
Any more, I think someone is trying to win the social-media-look-at-me Pulitzer prize for best catchy 160-character comment who's never probably watched a lick of any Star Wars movies and it's nauseating. Saying something like "Worst movie and disappointment in 10 years" isn't telling me how it stacks up to the last Star Wars in the overall timeline and storyboard of things? Be objective instead of posing super negative or overly surprised for the sake of some cheap fan fare.
AGREED, 100%. Wow. My definition of 'smart luggage' is a smart airline employee or 'the system' not 1) playing soccer with my bag, 2) forgetting to get it on the right end-route path and 3) getting it to the final destination in one piece. That's it. That's smart luggage to me.
H... O... O, NFL.
There is a reason the NFL is an 11-figure overly saturated empire. Don't give me potential low ratings rant; that's just propaganda for the gazillion of networks you already partner with to fake-whine about how you aren't getting viewership. How the F do any of us know just how that is reallycalculated anyway? Not to mention, just like there is so much to 'feed our eyes' with lately, has the NFL not done that, as well? It's not just Sunday and Monday. It's Sunday, Monday, Thursday, Saturday, double-header here and there not-just-on-thanksgiving, NFL network 24x7. I like American football and NFL and it's so over saturated and there-every-second, anyone is going to get sick or go numb to it over time with brand pollution.
This falls in line with the same shit MPAA and RIAA do for the movie and music industry --- now we're to blame social media giants for all this revenue-we-never-had-but-could-have-had shit. That would be like all of us whining to our mom, dad or caretaker 40 years later in life about that lost revenue in sympathetic loose change for the one lemonade stand they wouldn't let you stand up on the street corner when you were younger --- just so you can have a reason to blame someone for the potentially lost earnings in your nothing saving account you have today, plus all the potential interest. Give me a break.
Funny how NBC entity sourced and authored the article, considering NBC exclusively broadcasts Sunday Night Football (and sometimes co-airs TNF) religiously.
All this tells me is the definition, act and collection is now 'more legal' on paper. Some bill with words on it isn't going to make me put blinders on --- there just there to make the general population feel good at the end of the day that it isn't going on at the magnitude or level it is; it's still always happening at a level beyond what Snowdon exposed and then some and, unfortunately, it will continue.
Can't really get all that upset, all of us that use any sort of free service online or any amount of social media anything have been 'the product' in every faction of our lives for years, and can't start raising your pitch forks and chucking your molotov cocktails at the White House fence, if you're not willing to do it in Mountain View, Cupertino and Melno Park as well.
That's always been a problem IMHO with any vendor pre-installed bullshit of any kind. Most of this turn-key OEM-installed bullshit isn't for the most of the crowd here, it's for the people who want that computer to 'just work' out of the box, and pre-installed with not-even-free versions of software packages anymore. This is such a non-story to me personally because over the last 20 year I've been into the tech/IT/computing realm of things, there's just way too many instances of this to cite of this going on at the big player level. It's here, and here for the 30 seconds of googling it too to refresh my memory.
I saw a lot of banter about installing Linux on this or that or 'Linux solves this issue' --- no it doesn't. I've ran Linux + X-windows + gnome/evolution/xfce window manager mixes since late 1990's on all my laptops and desktops to now in 2017; that's a preference. And the way Linux installs have become super mega friendly, tell me if you're in any worse a boat knowing every waking package you got installed on there? A great example is goa-daemon in Gnome Window Manager builds the last two years on most distros --- fuck that package. May not be spyware, but with all it's seemingly conspiracy-driven build-deps around it, I mind as well be trying to remove spyware.
My long winded point is: Please have that nephew, niece or some half savvy ass person in your life just put in a fresh install of Windows on that pre-bundled piece of OEM shit HP/Dell/Lenovo and anyone else in that space calling an 'Windows OS deployment'. I don't trust that shit and no one else should.
I couldn't agree more with Linus. It's not like we know each other or have Thanksgiving together; he's right in his own non-PC way. As long as we're talking about a bug not being: 1) maliciously intended code or put there 'on purpose', 2) functionality or operability that falls into as not-as-advertised, or blatantly didn't follow an RFP or standard or 3) hell, stuff that was just overlooked, seemingly over/under-engineered or ego-over-good-code.
...I'm sure there's a few more mental dice-up catalogs to expand on, but at the end of the day, that's how I'm looking at it. Anyone who has written any sort of code with any language any any level has dealt with this. Unless, it's extremely intended, it's a bug to me (what do the new kids call it these days? A glitch?) --- then we can put all the metadata and sub-categories onto that logical gaff of a bug as we want at that point in terms of 'where' it falls so some Agile scrum party can have a scrum-stick-beating party to organize what is prioritized over what.
I've been an i adopter forever, and I'm not really sure why. I'd say buy and large, Apple gives you very little room and window of opportunity to have older iOS versions + apps stay in a security and maintenence only release. I guarantee that the over half of that '50%' adoption was because of the classically conditioned sub-novice-power-savvy Apple user just auto-forcing updates or accidentally clicking the 'do it next time I'm on wifi at 3am' shit, then being undeniably pissed because all the phony tech reviews about the 'next' iOS on their already old/EOL iPhone/iPad doesn't function that bad with the new OS but it, in fact, does and was never meant to.
Apple can boast this all they want, if it's indeed something to even brag about, but I'd love to see what device(s) we all still get the iOS 11 update push to that shouldn't ever have it installed on and have a successful runtime with it before you see that Apple ID re-activated with an iPhone 8 or X out of frustration.
I couldn't image this is far off, but attention spans are 'short' these days for entertainment. I'm not saying there's this epidemic downplay in science-fiction-fantasy literary for entertainment in this world, but if The Hobbit and LOTR don't stay relevent to today's generation and society, who the hell is going to seek it out anymore? And if it is sought out, if it's not even entertaining in the first 5 minutes, we have the ultimate ability to go binge-watch, read, skip or get something else to feed our eyes.
I see this as nothing more than Tolkein estate trying to re-re-re-re-re-re-brand something that really doesn't need re-branding, but for the sake of keeping the estate profitable and going, they have to "sell out" like this (that's a pretty strong term, but you get it). For all of us, we know these works front-and-back --- so without creating a complete shit-flop of a side story or doing fictitious day-in-the-life of a Hobbit, or spanning sub-plots between some of the duller stretches of the book(s), anything is 100% not of the original works and it's bullshit to any of us who hold foundational respect for J.R.R. Tolkein's work as the ultimate kick-starter for many of us still interested in science-fiction-fantasy.
I think if J.R.R. Tolkein were alive today, he'd certainly would have disowned the entire lineage of Tolkein estate managers and cut them loose.
Exactly. This is yet another way to get ever more biometric data --- Hello to anyone who's been using thumb-print sensors on their phone in the last 2-4 years.
However, we shouldn't shit on Apple too much; they took some good notes from Facebook and Snapchat. Facial recognition machine learning + image processing is F huge and super polished these days. The pile of selling-point data that another people, companies and businesses want is now instant human body language reaction to their product. Forever, we all think that, super generically, product interest is driven by being ad-bombed or we navigate or drive ourselves there. But just because you went to it, doesn't truly garner a real 'like' to anything --- what if you could 'see' if someone smiled, grinned, made googley-eyes at the millisecond the ad for that widget went by? That right there is what we're talking about and way more.
In all of this, we are the product, ladies and gentlemen. And as long as we all keep drooling over this shit with millennial reactions of everything being amazing or a game changer and gotta have it, we're fucked.
I wish my phone was just-a-phone again.