Only if the "regular family" has more than $5 million in assets. Estate taxes only apply to assets over the exclusion amount (ie. beneficiaries are taxes on $1 million of a $6 million inheritance).
The whole point of this app is that it's location-based - it connects you to people in the immediate vicinity. So presumably yes, most of this is happening on school property during school hours. On the other hand, that should make it fairly simple for Yik Yak to use geofencing to disable it on school grounds if a school makes a complaint (from what I gather, this is what they're working on right now).
No, all of those things I listed are things that potentially require investigation (by the school admin or even by the police), not "hurt feelings." The fact that rumors of rapes and assaults (that you yourself acknowledge are often true) were ignored in your school is not something to be proud of. "Grow up."
Phones do have something to do with it - these systems allow for easier and stronger anonymity, and make it possible to spread such rumors faster and wider. They are powerful tools - and like any tool can be used for good or evil. But yes, it does tie into the larger issue of how to deal with rumors, threats, and bullying among children. As I stated earlier there is plenty of room for debate on how to deal with this stuff.
If only there was some way to prevent people from harassing me on this app. I could uninstall it, or just not use it - naw we'll just pressure the company to disable it in my whole area.
And when the whole school is abuzz about how you supposedly raped someone behind the gym last Friday, or fucked Mrs. Fingerwood, or like to use your phone to surreptitiously record other dudes in the locker room, or that someone is planning on stabbing you during the lunch period, or whatever... ignoring the app does what for you, exactly? There's plenty of room for debate about how to deal with the issue, but what happens in the app doesn't stay confined to the app so your specific argument is bogus, +5 insightful or not.
There can't possibly be this many people on Slashdot who are incapable of understanding a very clear and obvious joke. I hope there's some meta-joke here I'm not getting.
If the security is so good that they need Apple to unlock it then they can easily prove that it's their mom's device because the active account on the device is her mom.
I can't even parse this sentence. How did YOU get modded up? If you're trying to say "it should be obvious that the device belonged to the dead lady because it's the dead lady's account that is attached to the device," that doesn't follow at all because the family has yet to prove the account belongs to the dead lady either! That's the entire issue here - Apple just wants proof from the probate court that both the device and the account belonged to the lady.
No, locking someone's device without their consent is a bug. It shouldn't happen, and Apple is in the wrong for engineering a system which locks the device automatically without the owners's consent.
It's pretty simple. And yes, I know that it seemed like a good idea at the time to the idiot engineer who came up with this "solution". Lots of ideas seem good until the flaws are discovered.
What is all this garbage? It was locked with the owner's consent. The owner unfortunately did not think to leave the keys with her bequest.
It's not Apple's property that is being protected by this dead lady's password - it's the dead lady's device, data, and property. The whole issue wouldn't exist if she'd thought to pass along the keys with her property; unfortunately she didn't. The manufacturer can give the family a new set of keys, but requires evidence of ownership from a court of law before handing them over. Do you really want companies to hand over the keys to YOUR data and devices to someone else WITHOUT a court order?
Sure, legally. At some point such behavior by an actual human being would creep the shit out of you and fulfill the definition of stalking, which is definitely illegal in the US (specifics vary by state). If only such laws could be applied to automated cameras and databases...
That huge measles outbreak in Texas six months ago happened within the population of an antivax megachurch. IIRC many of the antivax populations in the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe are also conservative religious groups. Which is not to say it happens only in conservative populations - here in Southern California the only anti-vaxxers I meet are crazy hippies. Populations of extemist idiots exist everywhere.
Apple's site lists a number of third party apps with CarPlay functionality and promises more to come. And to the GP, mirroring is a terrible idea - not only because a car's built-in display will almost certainly have a different aspect ratio and resolution, but because an interface designed for use in a car is (should be) different in some ways to that of a phone (even more streamlined, simplified, and with larger fonts).
Not that much? $80k is two years of full-time work for the average American. Simply because more expensive mistakes exist doesn't mean there is any reasonable or sensible perspective from which 80 thousand dollars is "not that much."
The girl is 19, not 10. And the parents aren't responsible for her actions - they're responsible for their own. They agreed to a settlement that required they not tell anyone, then they told their daughter.
I get all my sketch electro from the guy down the alley at the end of 3rd. He knows his shit. Pure sine, no flucs, no freq mods. He pulls more bitcoinage than some others but it's so worth it.
I really hope the Big Mac comment was just a meaty bit of hyperbole and you don't actually enjoy shitty Big Macs! But regardless, I should point out that Whole Foods does sell meat - fucking delicious meat. Burgers made with their ground beef are spectacular.
I'm not seeing the word "all" anywhere except in your post. Reading comprehension problems?
For some concrete data: http://emailclientmarketshare....
44% of all email is read through one of Apple's mail clients - 36% on their mobile devices alone. I'd say Apple definitely made some contributions to the ubiquity of email connectivity in the past decade or so.
If you're not using the latter list while you're driving, how do you know the car is having a problem before it's too late? Do you drive until the engine seizes up and *then* look at your temperature gauge?
Physical buttons and knobs are controls you can use without looking at them. You only need to memorise their locations (should only take 5 or so minutes) and once you've done that you never need to look at them again.
I'm also a big proponent of physical buttons, but this guy's idea might actually be better - you don't even need to know where the buttons are. The specifics need a little refinement IMO, but this is the first car touchscreen interface idea I've seen that is acceptable to me.
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Only if the "regular family" has more than $5 million in assets. Estate taxes only apply to assets over the exclusion amount (ie. beneficiaries are taxes on $1 million of a $6 million inheritance).
The whole point of this app is that it's location-based - it connects you to people in the immediate vicinity. So presumably yes, most of this is happening on school property during school hours. On the other hand, that should make it fairly simple for Yik Yak to use geofencing to disable it on school grounds if a school makes a complaint (from what I gather, this is what they're working on right now).
No, all of those things I listed are things that potentially require investigation (by the school admin or even by the police), not "hurt feelings." The fact that rumors of rapes and assaults (that you yourself acknowledge are often true) were ignored in your school is not something to be proud of. "Grow up."
Phones do have something to do with it - these systems allow for easier and stronger anonymity, and make it possible to spread such rumors faster and wider. They are powerful tools - and like any tool can be used for good or evil. But yes, it does tie into the larger issue of how to deal with rumors, threats, and bullying among children. As I stated earlier there is plenty of room for debate on how to deal with this stuff.
If only there was some way to prevent people from harassing me on this app. I could uninstall it, or just not use it - naw we'll just pressure the company to disable it in my whole area.
And when the whole school is abuzz about how you supposedly raped someone behind the gym last Friday, or fucked Mrs. Fingerwood, or like to use your phone to surreptitiously record other dudes in the locker room, or that someone is planning on stabbing you during the lunch period, or whatever... ignoring the app does what for you, exactly? There's plenty of room for debate about how to deal with the issue, but what happens in the app doesn't stay confined to the app so your specific argument is bogus, +5 insightful or not.
There can't possibly be this many people on Slashdot who are incapable of understanding a very clear and obvious joke. I hope there's some meta-joke here I'm not getting.
If the security is so good that they need Apple to unlock it then they can easily prove that it's their mom's device because the active account on the device is her mom.
I can't even parse this sentence. How did YOU get modded up? If you're trying to say "it should be obvious that the device belonged to the dead lady because it's the dead lady's account that is attached to the device," that doesn't follow at all because the family has yet to prove the account belongs to the dead lady either! That's the entire issue here - Apple just wants proof from the probate court that both the device and the account belonged to the lady.
No, locking someone's device without their consent is a bug. It shouldn't happen, and Apple is in the wrong for engineering a system which locks the device automatically without the owners's consent.
It's pretty simple. And yes, I know that it seemed like a good idea at the time to the idiot engineer who came up with this "solution". Lots of ideas seem good until the flaws are discovered.
What is all this garbage? It was locked with the owner's consent. The owner unfortunately did not think to leave the keys with her bequest.
It's not Apple's property that is being protected by this dead lady's password - it's the dead lady's device, data, and property. The whole issue wouldn't exist if she'd thought to pass along the keys with her property; unfortunately she didn't. The manufacturer can give the family a new set of keys, but requires evidence of ownership from a court of law before handing them over. Do you really want companies to hand over the keys to YOUR data and devices to someone else WITHOUT a court order?
I was the best mathematician in my university math classes. Who knew?
Sure, legally. At some point such behavior by an actual human being would creep the shit out of you and fulfill the definition of stalking, which is definitely illegal in the US (specifics vary by state). If only such laws could be applied to automated cameras and databases...
You missed some pretty blatant sarcasm there, buddy.
That huge measles outbreak in Texas six months ago happened within the population of an antivax megachurch. IIRC many of the antivax populations in the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe are also conservative religious groups. Which is not to say it happens only in conservative populations - here in Southern California the only anti-vaxxers I meet are crazy hippies. Populations of extemist idiots exist everywhere.
Apple's site lists a number of third party apps with CarPlay functionality and promises more to come. And to the GP, mirroring is a terrible idea - not only because a car's built-in display will almost certainly have a different aspect ratio and resolution, but because an interface designed for use in a car is (should be) different in some ways to that of a phone (even more streamlined, simplified, and with larger fonts).
Not that much? $80k is two years of full-time work for the average American. Simply because more expensive mistakes exist doesn't mean there is any reasonable or sensible perspective from which 80 thousand dollars is "not that much."
The girl is 19, not 10. And the parents aren't responsible for her actions - they're responsible for their own. They agreed to a settlement that required they not tell anyone, then they told their daughter.
I get all my sketch electro from the guy down the alley at the end of 3rd. He knows his shit. Pure sine, no flucs, no freq mods. He pulls more bitcoinage than some others but it's so worth it.
This is not true in California. "Driving" requires that they prove you had your car in motion while you were drunk and at the controls.
I really hope the Big Mac comment was just a meaty bit of hyperbole and you don't actually enjoy shitty Big Macs! But regardless, I should point out that Whole Foods does sell meat - fucking delicious meat. Burgers made with their ground beef are spectacular.
I'm not seeing the word "all" anywhere except in your post. Reading comprehension problems?
For some concrete data: http://emailclientmarketshare....
44% of all email is read through one of Apple's mail clients - 36% on their mobile devices alone. I'd say Apple definitely made some contributions to the ubiquity of email connectivity in the past decade or so.
Really... Five hours after the *first post* already shot down this claim?
Maybe I'm an idiot but I don't get why these options are obviously bad. I use 1Password on a regular basis.
iOS supports the AVRCP 1.4 bluetooth standard, which makes it possible to browse the music library over bluetooth.
Next time you toot, have the decency to leave the room first.
If you're not using the latter list while you're driving, how do you know the car is having a problem before it's too late? Do you drive until the engine seizes up and *then* look at your temperature gauge?
Physical buttons and knobs are controls you can use without looking at them. You only need to memorise their locations (should only take 5 or so minutes) and once you've done that you never need to look at them again.
I'm also a big proponent of physical buttons, but this guy's idea might actually be better - you don't even need to know where the buttons are. The specifics need a little refinement IMO, but this is the first car touchscreen interface idea I've seen that is acceptable to me.