The odds of them actually fining a reporter doing anything like reporting are nil. That is clearly not the intent of it, as it has an exception for reporting news. I guess the problem is writing the law in a way that disallows shooting commercials or movies, without creating some objectionable corner cases.
Unless there has actually been any issue with this, it's just another trumped up nonstory that will be inflated to cartoonish proportions in the comments to follow.
To be fair, the wording written in the Forest Service Handbook is incredibly vague, and encompasses all photography, not just commercial or news photography. http://www.fs.fed.us/specialus...
it's all up to you. if you're in the room the next some some retard with too much power makes a suggestion like this, just stab him in the throat with your pen. if we just put down all these fucks before they got too high up in society we'd have a fuckin' utopia by now.
The problem with tripods is not the weight, it's that they might be set up in a place where they block a trail or interfere with access to a display. It's not ordinarily a problem in some places, but they can be in more crowded areas. But placing them in non-disruptive locations is already required in the rules.
Machining titanium is substantially more difficult and expensive than machining cast aluminum, so it's not quite as simple as comparing prices of raw materials. I'm also assuming the current chassis is machined cast aluminum, and could be strengthened by being replaced by Ti, but I've not taken an iPhone 6 apart to know.
You missed my point: I claimed only that their capabilities were proven - I didn't feel the need to say that it was evidenced by crappy phones that bend, and have a battery life of about half a day.
One of the many advantages of jailbreaking is that I have no temptation to upgrade until someone releases a jailbreak for the new version. I probably won't be updating to iOS 8 for months, at which time it will be only to a reasonably stable version.
Of course the buggier they are, the easier it is for the guys to find an exploitable vulnerability. Maybe I should install 8.0.1.
one iFan responded by saying that ultrathin is proof of competence in engineering from Apple.
I think ultrathin has indeed proven the engineering capabilities of Apple.
If nothing else, it's proof that if you let marketing drive engineering, you'll produce everything with the quality you would expect from such an effort.
I want a phone that doesn't require me to carry a rechargeable battery in my backpack so I will be sure to have enough juice for the train ride home. And I don't want a walrus-sized case with integrated battery, because that stupidly adds four extra layers of thickness I wouldn't need if a thicker battery was simply built into the original device.
Alternately, I wouldn't mind a replaceable battery. I used to swap batteries in my RAZR, and had spare batteries and chargers at both work and home. Never had a power problem they couldn't solve. And way, way long ago, Nokia and Motorola phone batteries served as the back of the phone, allowing us to buy a battery as thick or thin as we chose. Had Apple gone that route with the iPhones and had a problem like this, they could simply swap battery-backs for ones that had more stiffness.
Maybe they'll provide a free 'reinforcement' case? Like the antenna-gate bumper?
That may be their only option. "Here's our sleek iPhone 6 with our trademark shitty battery life, and a three-ounce steel cradle to carry it in. Enjoy, but be sure to hold it the right way."
Ordinary cotton denim is plenty strong enough to do this. Testing a much smaller sample than a pants leg (two 1" square gripping pads separated by 3" of fabric) showed that ordinary denim can withstand over 800 Newtons (176 pounds) before breaking. http://www.itc.polyu.edu.hk/Us... A piece of fabric the size of a phone, being pulled on by the force of the leg, is going to be able to easily transfer the weight of a human into a force that can pull the phone around their leg. Given the video showed a guy bending a phone by pressing with his thumbs, a pants leg could easily apply as much force.
Not sure what the solution is but I'm sure Apple will have a fix out in no time.
I doubt that very much. I doubt they'll even acknowledge it.
If they say "oh, yeah, sorry, our phones bend", what can they do about it? They don't have a solution coming out of the factories. Since the problem is mechanical with the case and chassis being too thin to ever be reliably durable, that could mean a complete redesign of just about every component, including the circuit boards, glass, buttons, everything. (Although they might be able to replace the current aluminum chassis with titanium. That could make the phones strong enough, but way more expensive.) Next, they'll have to ramp up production of the new model and get a few million into the pipeline. That could take a year. Meanwhile, do you think they are going to pull the current phones off the shelves, so they have less to replace?
No, I would bet that the lawyers are advising them to silently let this go forever, hoping the bending problem doesn't catch on in the mainstream media, or picked up by the late night comedians. They'll wait for it to blow over like they did with the antenna problems on the iPhone 4, because ultimately that proved to be nothing to them.
Look to them to remain silent right up until some unlucky people bend them in the "wrong way" causing a short, burns, and or fires. That's when there will be a shitstorm of a recall.
Q: What's the difference between a computer salesman and a used car salesman? A: The used car salesman knows when he's lying.
So how does someone know who to believe is a genuine "Computer Professional"? I don't normally* wear a set of test leads around my neck like a stethoscope; I don't have a "Mr. GoodBytes" patch sewn to my work uniform; I don't wear a lab coat or even carry a clipboard. What cue would you recommend people trust? A pithy T-shirt? A club tie? An expensive car in the driveway? An imperial conditioning tattoo on my forehead? Trust is always the problem.
* Yes, I do occasionally drape test leads around my neck, but that's beside the point.
Because to some of us it is news. It's not that I need the warning, but it helps me to know that my sister-in-law might be exposed to this kind of rumor, because she's pretty gullible and falls for trolls like this. I would like to be able to tell her preemptively "Yeah, this new lie is going around, don't do that."
If I bring it up around the dinner table before she (or anyone) asks, it may also save her some embarrassment. Better, if the local TV news picks up on a story like this and broadcasts a hoax alert, it might save hundreds of people from this fate.
If they ran their test and discovered it didn't fire, what would they realistically be able to do? I mean either it fires on Wednesday and they insert it into their desired orbit, or it misfires and heads off into the Oort cloud. It's not like if it fails the test today they can send a repair crew up there to re-tighten the muffler bearings.
It's very employer dependent. Some employers will want to train you on vendor products, others will want to hire someone with experience as an already established expert and expect you to bring that knowledge with you.
The real question is: do you want to work for someone who would not pay to train you on the product they're expecting you to use? That's something you have to decide for yourself.
1. Will Smith starred in a recent movie adaptation of "I, Robot". [Minor spoiler alert] His character is tormented by the fact that a robot (applying the three laws) chose to save him over a young girl in a drowning accident because the math for survival worked in his favor, not hers. If the robot had attempted to save the little girl instead, Will Smith's character would have died in the accident and there would have been no story; hence, a boring movie.
2. [Spoiled child alert] Will Smith has a real life young son, Jaden Smith, who is widely renowned as an absolutely terrible actor. But, since his daddy is a genuine Hollywood A-list movie star, he gets to appear in any movie he wants. If Jaden was in a boring movie and a robot saved him so he could keep acting, the movie would be even worse.
I would grant that "fretting" was poetic license. Consider that the life-saving robot must continually evaluate all factors.
Let's say I was closer to a lava flow than you, but your path was on a slightly more direct course into it than mine, and the robot is located at the lava's edge midway between both of us. I will hit the lava in 30 seconds, but you will hit it in 20. The robot needs two seconds to have a high probability of saving someone, but one second is enough for a moderate chance. Factoring in the motion required, the chances of saving us both is high. As you are in more immediate peril than I, it should intercede on your behalf first, so the robot starts to move in your direction. Now, I change my course slightly so I will hit it in 15 seconds. The robot still has time to save us both, but the chances are slightly lower. It moves on a path to intercept me first. You then change your path so you will hit it in 10 seconds. The chances of saving us both is now only moderate, but still possible. So the robot alters its path again to save you first. Now, we both steer directly toward the lava, with only one second to intercept for either of us. The robot's continual path changing introduced so much delay it was no longer in a position to save either of us. We both die.
To the outside observer, it fretted, but the algorithm made continually logical decisions.
"Women and children first" seems the obvious choice.
No, it should be programmed to save Will Smith first, otherwise it's going to be a boring movie. Besides, what if it saved Jaden Smith first? The movie would go from "boring" to "terrible" in a big hurry.
They don't need a warrant if they're not trying to gather admissible evidence. See "parallel construction" for an example of what they do with this data.
Not at all useless. Simply decode all possible sequences and rank them, ranking the most self-consistent interpretation highest. You may also have other sources of data to help correlate the interpretation (there was an article earlier this year about measuring sound using the video footage of a mylar potato chip bag's vibrations.) Even if the room is crowded, it might be possible to identify a few isolated words from the audio recording of the conversation.
The next thing you do is throw away those conversations that you're not interested in. Regardless of whether the conversation resulted in "You punched a fish" or "You munched a dish", neither is going to have value when you're searching for criminal activity. But if your streams could be "I bought the ammo so we can rob the bank" or "I mopped the jam up sorry can you mop the tank?" one of those could be valuable.
99.999% of conversations are inane drivel. If this technology is applied, the number of false positives is going to rapidly overwhelm a system. More discrimination and correlation is going to be needed to actually produce intelligence from this data. But never think that data is worthless or unusable.
Don't forget we used several trillion dollars to prop up our banks and financial firms when, through their own incompetence, our financial system went into meltdown. These folks then used the taxpayer money to give themselves bonuses for the great job they did AND have told us taxpayers to go pound sand any time it is mentioned they should thank us for protecting them.
The only thing I would disagree with in this statement is the word "incompetence." It seems to me that any banker who could walk away with millions in bonuses after all that theft is an extremely competent criminal.
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It's very clearly either a 60 Hz or a 120Hz flicker, depending on the string. It's hideously painful.
The odds of them actually fining a reporter doing anything like reporting are nil. That is clearly not the intent of it, as it has an exception for reporting news. I guess the problem is writing the law in a way that disallows shooting commercials or movies, without creating some objectionable corner cases.
Unless there has actually been any issue with this, it's just another trumped up nonstory that will be inflated to cartoonish proportions in the comments to follow.
To be fair, the wording written in the Forest Service Handbook is incredibly vague, and encompasses all photography, not just commercial or news photography. http://www.fs.fed.us/specialus...
it's all up to you. if you're in the room the next some some retard with too much power makes a suggestion like this, just stab him in the throat with your pen. if we just put down all these fucks before they got too high up in society we'd have a fuckin' utopia by now.
Yeah, a utopia; or at least a caliphate.
The problem with tripods is not the weight, it's that they might be set up in a place where they block a trail or interfere with access to a display. It's not ordinarily a problem in some places, but they can be in more crowded areas. But placing them in non-disruptive locations is already required in the rules.
Machining titanium is substantially more difficult and expensive than machining cast aluminum, so it's not quite as simple as comparing prices of raw materials. I'm also assuming the current chassis is machined cast aluminum, and could be strengthened by being replaced by Ti, but I've not taken an iPhone 6 apart to know.
You missed my point: I claimed only that their capabilities were proven - I didn't feel the need to say that it was evidenced by crappy phones that bend, and have a battery life of about half a day.
One of the many advantages of jailbreaking is that I have no temptation to upgrade until someone releases a jailbreak for the new version. I probably won't be updating to iOS 8 for months, at which time it will be only to a reasonably stable version.
Of course the buggier they are, the easier it is for the guys to find an exploitable vulnerability. Maybe I should install 8.0.1.
"Cortana, can you fix my buggy iPhone update?"
"You bought an iPhone. Oh, dear. There is a Microsoft store ten miles south of you. Would you like directions?"
one iFan responded by saying that ultrathin is proof of competence in engineering from Apple.
I think ultrathin has indeed proven the engineering capabilities of Apple.
If nothing else, it's proof that if you let marketing drive engineering, you'll produce everything with the quality you would expect from such an effort.
This.
I want a phone that doesn't require me to carry a rechargeable battery in my backpack so I will be sure to have enough juice for the train ride home. And I don't want a walrus-sized case with integrated battery, because that stupidly adds four extra layers of thickness I wouldn't need if a thicker battery was simply built into the original device.
Alternately, I wouldn't mind a replaceable battery. I used to swap batteries in my RAZR, and had spare batteries and chargers at both work and home. Never had a power problem they couldn't solve. And way, way long ago, Nokia and Motorola phone batteries served as the back of the phone, allowing us to buy a battery as thick or thin as we chose. Had Apple gone that route with the iPhones and had a problem like this, they could simply swap battery-backs for ones that had more stiffness.
Maybe they'll provide a free 'reinforcement' case? Like the antenna-gate bumper?
That may be their only option. "Here's our sleek iPhone 6 with our trademark shitty battery life, and a three-ounce steel cradle to carry it in. Enjoy, but be sure to hold it the right way."
Ordinary cotton denim is plenty strong enough to do this. Testing a much smaller sample than a pants leg (two 1" square gripping pads separated by 3" of fabric) showed that ordinary denim can withstand over 800 Newtons (176 pounds) before breaking. http://www.itc.polyu.edu.hk/Us... A piece of fabric the size of a phone, being pulled on by the force of the leg, is going to be able to easily transfer the weight of a human into a force that can pull the phone around their leg. Given the video showed a guy bending a phone by pressing with his thumbs, a pants leg could easily apply as much force.
Not sure what the solution is but I'm sure Apple will have a fix out in no time.
I doubt that very much. I doubt they'll even acknowledge it.
If they say "oh, yeah, sorry, our phones bend", what can they do about it? They don't have a solution coming out of the factories. Since the problem is mechanical with the case and chassis being too thin to ever be reliably durable, that could mean a complete redesign of just about every component, including the circuit boards, glass, buttons, everything. (Although they might be able to replace the current aluminum chassis with titanium. That could make the phones strong enough, but way more expensive.) Next, they'll have to ramp up production of the new model and get a few million into the pipeline. That could take a year. Meanwhile, do you think they are going to pull the current phones off the shelves, so they have less to replace?
No, I would bet that the lawyers are advising them to silently let this go forever, hoping the bending problem doesn't catch on in the mainstream media, or picked up by the late night comedians. They'll wait for it to blow over like they did with the antenna problems on the iPhone 4, because ultimately that proved to be nothing to them.
Look to them to remain silent right up until some unlucky people bend them in the "wrong way" causing a short, burns, and or fires. That's when there will be a shitstorm of a recall.
Your comment reminds me of an old joke.
Q: What's the difference between a computer salesman and a used car salesman?
A: The used car salesman knows when he's lying.
So how does someone know who to believe is a genuine "Computer Professional"? I don't normally* wear a set of test leads around my neck like a stethoscope; I don't have a "Mr. GoodBytes" patch sewn to my work uniform; I don't wear a lab coat or even carry a clipboard. What cue would you recommend people trust? A pithy T-shirt? A club tie? An expensive car in the driveway? An imperial conditioning tattoo on my forehead? Trust is always the problem.
* Yes, I do occasionally drape test leads around my neck, but that's beside the point.
Because to some of us it is news. It's not that I need the warning, but it helps me to know that my sister-in-law might be exposed to this kind of rumor, because she's pretty gullible and falls for trolls like this. I would like to be able to tell her preemptively "Yeah, this new lie is going around, don't do that."
If I bring it up around the dinner table before she (or anyone) asks, it may also save her some embarrassment. Better, if the local TV news picks up on a story like this and broadcasts a hoax alert, it might save hundreds of people from this fate.
If they ran their test and discovered it didn't fire, what would they realistically be able to do? I mean either it fires on Wednesday and they insert it into their desired orbit, or it misfires and heads off into the Oort cloud. It's not like if it fails the test today they can send a repair crew up there to re-tighten the muffler bearings.
It's very employer dependent. Some employers will want to train you on vendor products, others will want to hire someone with experience as an already established expert and expect you to bring that knowledge with you.
The real question is: do you want to work for someone who would not pay to train you on the product they're expecting you to use? That's something you have to decide for yourself.
It's still my device, remember?
If it was your device, you could install whatever you want on it. No, the device belongs to whoever holds root access to it.
tl;dr version: How do you make a million dollars in astronomy? Start with ten million dollars.
You missed the jokes:
1. Will Smith starred in a recent movie adaptation of "I, Robot". [Minor spoiler alert] His character is tormented by the fact that a robot (applying the three laws) chose to save him over a young girl in a drowning accident because the math for survival worked in his favor, not hers. If the robot had attempted to save the little girl instead, Will Smith's character would have died in the accident and there would have been no story; hence, a boring movie.
2. [Spoiled child alert] Will Smith has a real life young son, Jaden Smith, who is widely renowned as an absolutely terrible actor. But, since his daddy is a genuine Hollywood A-list movie star, he gets to appear in any movie he wants. If Jaden was in a boring movie and a robot saved him so he could keep acting, the movie would be even worse.
I would grant that "fretting" was poetic license. Consider that the life-saving robot must continually evaluate all factors.
Let's say I was closer to a lava flow than you, but your path was on a slightly more direct course into it than mine, and the robot is located at the lava's edge midway between both of us. I will hit the lava in 30 seconds, but you will hit it in 20. The robot needs two seconds to have a high probability of saving someone, but one second is enough for a moderate chance. Factoring in the motion required, the chances of saving us both is high. As you are in more immediate peril than I, it should intercede on your behalf first, so the robot starts to move in your direction. Now, I change my course slightly so I will hit it in 15 seconds. The robot still has time to save us both, but the chances are slightly lower. It moves on a path to intercept me first. You then change your path so you will hit it in 10 seconds. The chances of saving us both is now only moderate, but still possible. So the robot alters its path again to save you first. Now, we both steer directly toward the lava, with only one second to intercept for either of us. The robot's continual path changing introduced so much delay it was no longer in a position to save either of us. We both die.
To the outside observer, it fretted, but the algorithm made continually logical decisions.
"Women and children first" seems the obvious choice.
No, it should be programmed to save Will Smith first, otherwise it's going to be a boring movie. Besides, what if it saved Jaden Smith first? The movie would go from "boring" to "terrible" in a big hurry.
They don't need a warrant if they're not trying to gather admissible evidence. See "parallel construction" for an example of what they do with this data.
Not at all useless. Simply decode all possible sequences and rank them, ranking the most self-consistent interpretation highest. You may also have other sources of data to help correlate the interpretation (there was an article earlier this year about measuring sound using the video footage of a mylar potato chip bag's vibrations.) Even if the room is crowded, it might be possible to identify a few isolated words from the audio recording of the conversation.
The next thing you do is throw away those conversations that you're not interested in. Regardless of whether the conversation resulted in "You punched a fish" or "You munched a dish", neither is going to have value when you're searching for criminal activity. But if your streams could be "I bought the ammo so we can rob the bank" or "I mopped the jam up sorry can you mop the tank?" one of those could be valuable.
99.999% of conversations are inane drivel. If this technology is applied, the number of false positives is going to rapidly overwhelm a system. More discrimination and correlation is going to be needed to actually produce intelligence from this data. But never think that data is worthless or unusable.
Don't forget we used several trillion dollars to prop up our banks and financial firms when, through their own incompetence, our financial system went into meltdown. These folks then used the taxpayer money to give themselves bonuses for the great job they did AND have told us taxpayers to go pound sand any time it is mentioned they should thank us for protecting them.
The only thing I would disagree with in this statement is the word "incompetence." It seems to me that any banker who could walk away with millions in bonuses after all that theft is an extremely competent criminal.