Price. If your phone is also your primary (or worse, only) wallet, then it becomes more imperative than it would be if your phone was just your phone.
Basically, it's an issue of too many eggs in one basket... and in the case of smartphones, that particular basket is one that generally costs quite a bit more than an easily disposable amount of money.
One can easily live for a few days in our society, or even weeks without a phone.
Try living for any extended period of time without access to any of your own money. If your phone *IS* your wallet, then you need your phone for any financial transaction you undertake. It's not matter that having it on a phone makes it more likely you will lose it, it's simply a matter of the cost of replacing it if something *DOES* happen.
The cost to replace every piece of ID in my wallet, would amount to maybe $30 or $40, in total. Any
credit card that costs more than a phone call to replace should be cut up and replaced with one that doesn't have those fees.
Why would one spend thousands in legal fees? I mean, if somebody is willing to pay somebody to keep their mouth shut about something, then they are already clearly at a disadvantaged point anyways. I mean, if you don't have any proof of what you're supposed to keep quite about, then there's not any sense in them offering you a payout anyways, since it would be your word against theirs. And as long as you had such proof, you could trivially present it in court yourself... no legal fees involved whatsoever.
So the only valid point is that losing a phone is more expensive than losing a wallet
That *WAS* my entire point.
If you can drop $200+ on a replacement phone just as easily as replacing a $6 wallet, that's great for you... but not so great for people who would have to work for an entire week just to make that $200 back.
Spending a week proving you exist is often a whole lot easier than coming up with an additional two-hundred or more dollars that it will cost you to buy a new iPhone while you are still trying to accomplish said feat.
If you lose your CC, you call up the CC company and they cancel the card and mail you a new one. If your phone *IS* your CC, then this becomes something of a catch 22... not to mention it's unlikely that your CC company will send you a new iPhone at no cost, unlike how cheaply they will send you a replacement CC in the mail.
.. is the cost of replacing the physical apparatus that you need to access it if the device should somehow be stolen or rendered inoperable.
A physical wallet costs $6. While a nuisance to replace any of the identification lost, in practice, even this might run a person no more than about $40 or so.
After the relatively near pass in 2023, we should have a much better understanding of the asteroid's trajectory, so long before the actual possible event, we are going to have some pretty solid evidence to know what is going to happen.
Given the time scales involved, I hardly think that a bookie would be comfortable with doing payouts the day after you make a bet when the event hasn't happened yet, and the odds haven't even changed.
Let's consider that from a purely mathematical perspective, shall we?
Given that the odds of it missing are currently calculated at 624/625... the maximum payout on winning that bet would be less than 1/6th of one percent of the amount you bet. Although this could still be an appreciable sum you bet a large amount, you're simply far better off putting it in a bank, and getting a far greater return.
If the chances were more like 5 or 6 percent, then it might be worth investing in. Of course, if the chances were that high, it would be getting taken much more seriously.
Actually, I expect it's more that they are able, willing, and ready to hurt you if you don't cooperate with them more than it means that they might actually directly want to.
And if the answers are 1: yes, and 2: no, what do you propose, when simply asking what you're being arrsested for constitutes sufficient delay that you are resisting arrest?
... the person they are trying to quiet is also carrying one of these and points it at somebody pointing one at him? Would it not create an ever-escalating volume of noise, akin to microphone feedback?
Wasn't the big argument against going after hosts like these that when they brought one down, some 20 or so others would pop up all around the world to take its place (what happened right after napster at the turn of the century being a prominent example of this), and trying to stop them all would be like playing an eternal game of whack-a-mole, where the total number of moles keeps getting larger every time you hit one down.
Not that I've gone looking particularly hard - I never had any reason to use megaupload in the first place, but I'm sorta curious... where are all the replacements that would have been predicted to surface?
Typically, one is looking over their shoulder behind them while backing up, so they can't be looking at a screen anyways. I can see that for doing things like finely positioning your car during parallel parking or maybe hooking up a trailer to your vehicle it would be useful, but I really don't see how this will generally tend to improve public safety.
If they consider raising the figure by at least 2 orders of magnitude, and then they'll probably be getting close to what is necessary.
Seriously.... 700 million isn't a manned flight to mars, it's just an expensive coffin that will orbit earth for several decades at most before burning up on reentry into the atmosphere.
The Lorax would *NEVER* be a spokesperson for any fuel powered automobile, regardless of how much better than other cars its fuel efficiency might be. In fact, he might not even advocate pure electric cars, since so much electricity these days is generated by methods that adversely impact the environment. He would, however, almost certainly advocate cycling... good for one's health *AND* not harmful to the environment either.
I don't feel subconscious pressure to keep talking when I'm on the phone while driving.... most people know that if they are talking to me while I'm driving, and if I don't respond right away, then my concentration is sufficiently diverted that I can't respond (usually trying to negotiate with traffic). I'll often say something like "gimme a minute", and once I'm nicely in my target lane and everything's going smoothly again, it's easy enough to resume the conversation.
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Look at this way.
iPhone = Luxury item. Expensive.
Wallet = Necessary item. Cheap to replace.
If you combine them into one thing, you end up with a necessary item that costs a lot to replace. This is not a good thing.
Price. If your phone is also your primary (or worse, only) wallet, then it becomes more imperative than it would be if your phone was just your phone.
Basically, it's an issue of too many eggs in one basket... and in the case of smartphones, that particular basket is one that generally costs quite a bit more than an easily disposable amount of money.
One can easily live for a few days in our society, or even weeks without a phone.
Try living for any extended period of time without access to any of your own money. If your phone *IS* your wallet, then you need your phone for any financial transaction you undertake. It's not matter that having it on a phone makes it more likely you will lose it, it's simply a matter of the cost of replacing it if something *DOES* happen.
The cost to replace every piece of ID in my wallet, would amount to maybe $30 or $40, in total. Any credit card that costs more than a phone call to replace should be cut up and replaced with one that doesn't have those fees.
Why would one spend thousands in legal fees? I mean, if somebody is willing to pay somebody to keep their mouth shut about something, then they are already clearly at a disadvantaged point anyways. I mean, if you don't have any proof of what you're supposed to keep quite about, then there's not any sense in them offering you a payout anyways, since it would be your word against theirs. And as long as you had such proof, you could trivially present it in court yourself... no legal fees involved whatsoever.
All the posts that I've seen from people who said that they simply ignored threats from the RIAA are stating that nothing ever came of the threats.
Are there any accounts of somebody who tried to ignore it, and found that they could not?
And what if you don't accept the payout?
I mean, other than to make a metacomment, such as this. At the time I'm posting this, the only posts that are admitting to this are AC.
That *WAS* my entire point.
If you can drop $200+ on a replacement phone just as easily as replacing a $6 wallet, that's great for you... but not so great for people who would have to work for an entire week just to make that $200 back.
Cost to replace a stolen iPhone - $200.
Cost to replace a stolen credit card: $0.
Spending a week proving you exist is often a whole lot easier than coming up with an additional two-hundred or more dollars that it will cost you to buy a new iPhone while you are still trying to accomplish said feat.
If you lose your CC, you call up the CC company and they cancel the card and mail you a new one. If your phone *IS* your CC, then this becomes something of a catch 22... not to mention it's unlikely that your CC company will send you a new iPhone at no cost, unlike how cheaply they will send you a replacement CC in the mail.
A physical wallet costs $6. While a nuisance to replace any of the identification lost, in practice, even this might run a person no more than about $40 or so.
An iphone 4s starts at about $200.
Guess which one I'm keeping my credit cards in?
This event isn't going to happen until 2040.
After the relatively near pass in 2023, we should have a much better understanding of the asteroid's trajectory, so long before the actual possible event, we are going to have some pretty solid evidence to know what is going to happen.
Given the time scales involved, I hardly think that a bookie would be comfortable with doing payouts the day after you make a bet when the event hasn't happened yet, and the odds haven't even changed.
Let's consider that from a purely mathematical perspective, shall we?
Given that the odds of it missing are currently calculated at 624/625... the maximum payout on winning that bet would be less than 1/6th of one percent of the amount you bet. Although this could still be an appreciable sum you bet a large amount, you're simply far better off putting it in a bank, and getting a far greater return.
If the chances were more like 5 or 6 percent, then it might be worth investing in. Of course, if the chances were that high, it would be getting taken much more seriously.
Actually, I expect it's more that they are able, willing, and ready to hurt you if you don't cooperate with them more than it means that they might actually directly want to.
And if the answers are 1: yes, and 2: no, what do you propose, when simply asking what you're being arrsested for constitutes sufficient delay that you are resisting arrest?
... the person they are trying to quiet is also carrying one of these and points it at somebody pointing one at him? Would it not create an ever-escalating volume of noise, akin to microphone feedback?
Wasn't the big argument against going after hosts like these that when they brought one down, some 20 or so others would pop up all around the world to take its place (what happened right after napster at the turn of the century being a prominent example of this), and trying to stop them all would be like playing an eternal game of whack-a-mole, where the total number of moles keeps getting larger every time you hit one down.
Not that I've gone looking particularly hard - I never had any reason to use megaupload in the first place, but I'm sorta curious... where are all the replacements that would have been predicted to surface?
Typically, one is looking over their shoulder behind them while backing up, so they can't be looking at a screen anyways. I can see that for doing things like finely positioning your car during parallel parking or maybe hooking up a trailer to your vehicle it would be useful, but I really don't see how this will generally tend to improve public safety.
Cite references for this claim, please.
Good point. He'd probably walk everywhere.
If they consider raising the figure by at least 2 orders of magnitude, and then they'll probably be getting close to what is necessary.
Seriously.... 700 million isn't a manned flight to mars, it's just an expensive coffin that will orbit earth for several decades at most before burning up on reentry into the atmosphere.
The Lorax would *NEVER* be a spokesperson for any fuel powered automobile, regardless of how much better than other cars its fuel efficiency might be. In fact, he might not even advocate pure electric cars, since so much electricity these days is generated by methods that adversely impact the environment. He would, however, almost certainly advocate cycling... good for one's health *AND* not harmful to the environment either.
I don't feel subconscious pressure to keep talking when I'm on the phone while driving.... most people know that if they are talking to me while I'm driving, and if I don't respond right away, then my concentration is sufficiently diverted that I can't respond (usually trying to negotiate with traffic). I'll often say something like "gimme a minute", and once I'm nicely in my target lane and everything's going smoothly again, it's easy enough to resume the conversation.
Generally only if they are paying enough attention, or like to otherwise back-seat or passenger-seat drive.