It does not sound reasonable at all. Why would a user specifically shut off an app just prior to wanting to use it? If a user shuts down a program, then the program should not continue to operate just in case the user did not mean to shut it down.
I cannot think of any reason why a user should expect a program to operate while it is turned off. But I can think of many reasons why that user SHOULD complain when the app continues to operate after it was told to stop.
The book is designed to be given away by Apple as promotion and the inflated price is to encourage the recipients to believe that they have received something special.
This argument is nuts. If I write a chess app that allows illegal moves, is it really a game of chess just because I claim it was intended to be played that way?
A program is defined by what it does. If the designers did not want to have the game accept the outcomes of matches that did not occur, then they should have stated that in the "API rules"... if they exist. But if the designers had even considered this, then why didn't they write code to prevent it from occurring? It seems obvious that they never really considered this usage and therefore had no intent for it to be used one way or the other.
38 licenses... Then why did they buy more than one?
In large companies they may have hundreds of computers but only tens of licenses. The license server monitors and limits the number of running instances of the software to remain within the number of purchased licenses. The idea is to purchase enough licenses to cover the max total number of users at all times. I don't know if they did this, but the logic seems reasonable.
why don't we mandate that all pedestrians wear a noise emitting gizmo around their nec?
Cars could emit a silent short range signal and pedestrians could wear devices with speakers or headphones that provide engine noise or warnings based on your relative position and danger to contact the moving car.
In this way the pedestrian can take responsibility for determining if the irritation of car noise is worth the added awareness of potentially silent vehicles approaching on the roads nearby.
Car noise is one of the worst part about living in a city. I hear cars 24/7. There no need for me to constantly alert me to their presence and it provides absolutely no safety benefit to me 99.9% of the time. I for one would welcome the danger of silent cars if in return for hearing birds and wind and kids playing in the park a block away. The city would be far more beautiful without engine noise.
Adding car noise to electric vehicles is a stupid idea and removes one of the greatest benefits new electric motors have over old fashioned combustion tech.
We don't have to give up on privacy or security. In fact, that advanced device in our pocket could greatly improve our privacy and security, which could protect or replace the items we already carry in your wallet or purse.
The demand for smartphone features allows companies to design products which actively violate security and privacy because there is no alternative to obtain those features. Perhaps there is no perfectly secure device, but the smartphone is intentionally designed to NOT achieve it.
There are lots of people like me who would still see it as a lottery to die on Mars.
Maybe you would be happy to travel to the Arctic and left outside to freeze to death, as long as it was on camera and the world cheered you on. And then you can look into the camera and say: "one small step into depression, one giant leap to suicide".
Poor people are just as intelligent as rich people.
It costs less to put information online for free than it does to configure it behind a pay wall.
You sound like someone who went through an expensive education system and now you are provided with special benefits in life. And that you would contrive any reasoning to justify why it should continue to be this way.
...one doesn't need to make nearly as detailed a simulation of the inside of planets or of the centers of stars.
Stars and insides of planets don't need to be constructed, they just need space and time to develop. It seems that their composition is a natural consequence of the initial conditions and a consistent set of rules applied over time. I think that is how we would imagine that this simulation has been run so far.
I agree with you, that AC has it's use and I like that it is available here. Especially since we both know, without a doubt, that big brother (government) is recording you. And also, because, as you mentioned, business is often withholding privacy in order to make money from you without properly informing or compensating you.
But you must also agree that AC is the worst part of Slashdot. Several user consistently post some crap that is clearly designed to offend someone and elicit further responses. Responses like this one I am writing and the post you just made. What a waste of time and space. All of which makes reading Slashdot a pain.
As a minimum, there should be a way for readers to shut off AC posts entirely. So that only posts with names behind them are shown. If her knows that there is such a thing, please let me know.
how can they verify that Apple99 and Opera56 both have a "p" as the second character, unless they stored "Apple99" in plaintext somewhere?
The user is prompted for the new password and also the original password to verify against the stored hash that they are the owner of the original and consent to the new password change.
It's not my system. But this is how it can be done without storing old passwords.
In similar news, another company refuses to make less money on a dying company business model, so it raises prices to cover subscriber loss.
People who watch subscription TV should realize that they will pay for company losses due to a shrinking market. And they should also know, that their Internet rate is going up because we are all paying for those same people to stream their favourite TV shows online.
My advice is to cancel your TV subscription now and figure out how to get your entertainment over the Internet. That or switch to digital OTA if is available in your area.
Moderation is censorship. Censorship is groupthink.
That's right. And what can you put on to youtube that offends no one? And if you are offended, it is easier to find people to give you support than if you are not offended.
I think Youtube is too tame as it is. The nature of Internet is that it is always my own choice to click and view content, I don't want other people with more moderate ideas to limit my experience.
... centralized control has been in place since the DNS system was put in.
A Tor Hidden service bypasses DNS. Set up a service and then tell your Tor service to provide it as a hidden service. You will get back an onion address. Give the onion address to anyone and the request will get through to your server box without DNS ever being contacted.
I think that the Tor network maintains a list of some sort to make sure onion requests get directed back to your server. But they do not have a mechanism for determining the difference between one onion server and another. So there is no way to reject some onion server and allow others.
Tor hidden services do not require permission from the ISP. They do not even require permission from your own router. It looks like and acts like regular traffic which will not be blocked. Which means that if the users embraced tor, we could all run our own email and chat servers. Plus it would have the added side effect of an additional level of privacy.
Most computer support the Tor Browser and most phones support Orbot. It could be widely deployed and would be accessible by most client hardware today.
The reason everyone moved away from decentralized things... was spam everywhere, giant mesh networks will probably have the same problem.
If people really had their own servers/services hosted at home and they could easily white list the people they wanted to allow communication with, then there would be zero spam.
Maybe the idea that strangers should be able to contact you from a single common and global email address should disappear... and then the spam problem just solves itself.
Don't worry. Apple iPhone isn't 'cool' any more. I don't know any younger kids who have them, that don't also want to upgrade to Android. The only people I see buying Apple these days is the old and the ignorant.
In the article, the "expert" is seeing out of warranty products coming in with broken touch screens. Seems like Apple is responding to customers under warranty. I guess Apple customers should look closely at their warranty before buying a new phone and not buy their products if they expect the lifetime of their product to last much longer than that.
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It does not sound reasonable at all. Why would a user specifically shut off an app just prior to wanting to use it? If a user shuts down a program, then the program should not continue to operate just in case the user did not mean to shut it down.
I cannot think of any reason why a user should expect a program to operate while it is turned off. But I can think of many reasons why that user SHOULD complain when the app continues to operate after it was told to stop.
The book is designed to be given away by Apple as promotion and the inflated price is to encourage the recipients to believe that they have received something special.
This argument is nuts. If I write a chess app that allows illegal moves, is it really a game of chess just because I claim it was intended to be played that way?
A program is defined by what it does. If the designers did not want to have the game accept the outcomes of matches that did not occur, then they should have stated that in the "API rules"... if they exist. But if the designers had even considered this, then why didn't they write code to prevent it from occurring? It seems obvious that they never really considered this usage and therefore had no intent for it to be used one way or the other.
Hate the game not the player.
38 licenses ... Then why did they buy more than one?
In large companies they may have hundreds of computers but only tens of licenses. The license server monitors and limits the number of running instances of the software to remain within the number of purchased licenses. The idea is to purchase enough licenses to cover the max total number of users at all times. I don't know if they did this, but the logic seems reasonable.
so many .. people dismissed him as a joke
Don't pretend an election can stop me from laughing at him. He is still a joke whether you get it or not.
why don't we mandate that all pedestrians wear a noise emitting gizmo around their nec?
Cars could emit a silent short range signal and pedestrians could wear devices with speakers or headphones that provide engine noise or warnings based on your relative position and danger to contact the moving car.
In this way the pedestrian can take responsibility for determining if the irritation of car noise is worth the added awareness of potentially silent vehicles approaching on the roads nearby.
Car noise is one of the worst part about living in a city. I hear cars 24/7. There no need for me to constantly alert me to their presence and it provides absolutely no safety benefit to me 99.9% of the time. I for one would welcome the danger of silent cars if in return for hearing birds and wind and kids playing in the park a block away. The city would be far more beautiful without engine noise.
Adding car noise to electric vehicles is a stupid idea and removes one of the greatest benefits new electric motors have over old fashioned combustion tech.
We don't have to give up on privacy or security. In fact, that advanced device in our pocket could greatly improve our privacy and security, which could protect or replace the items we already carry in your wallet or purse.
The demand for smartphone features allows companies to design products which actively violate security and privacy because there is no alternative to obtain those features. Perhaps there is no perfectly secure device, but the smartphone is intentionally designed to NOT achieve it.
If you are going to tell me that one is worth twice as much as the other because it was made by a God, then I will have Fred's.
There are lots of people like me who would still see it as a lottery to die on Mars.
Maybe you would be happy to travel to the Arctic and left outside to freeze to death, as long as it was on camera and the world cheered you on. And then you can look into the camera and say: "one small step into depression, one giant leap to suicide".
But so ugly.
What a load of junk.
Poor people are just as intelligent as rich people.
It costs less to put information online for free than it does to configure it behind a pay wall.
You sound like someone who went through an expensive education system and now you are provided with special benefits in life. And that you would contrive any reasoning to justify why it should continue to be this way.
"The football is in your story" is most accurate and true.
Within the limits of the story, there is no hand and there is no earth.
...one doesn't need to make nearly as detailed a simulation of the inside of planets or of the centers of stars.
Stars and insides of planets don't need to be constructed, they just need space and time to develop. It seems that their composition is a natural consequence of the initial conditions and a consistent set of rules applied over time. I think that is how we would imagine that this simulation has been run so far.
Perhaps the billionaires can make a simulate what is outside of the simulation we are in now. And then they can enter this simulation to get outside.
I agree with you, that AC has it's use and I like that it is available here. Especially since we both know, without a doubt, that big brother (government) is recording you. And also, because, as you mentioned, business is often withholding privacy in order to make money from you without properly informing or compensating you.
But you must also agree that AC is the worst part of Slashdot. Several user consistently post some crap that is clearly designed to offend someone and elicit further responses. Responses like this one I am writing and the post you just made. What a waste of time and space. All of which makes reading Slashdot a pain.
As a minimum, there should be a way for readers to shut off AC posts entirely. So that only posts with names behind them are shown. If her knows that there is such a thing, please let me know.
how can they verify that Apple99 and Opera56 both have a "p" as the second character, unless they stored "Apple99" in plaintext somewhere?
The user is prompted for the new password and also the original password to verify against the stored hash that they are the owner of the original and consent to the new password change.
It's not my system. But this is how it can be done without storing old passwords.
In similar news, another company refuses to make less money on a dying company business model, so it raises prices to cover subscriber loss.
People who watch subscription TV should realize that they will pay for company losses due to a shrinking market. And they should also know, that their Internet rate is going up because we are all paying for those same people to stream their favourite TV shows online.
My advice is to cancel your TV subscription now and figure out how to get your entertainment over the Internet. That or switch to digital OTA if is available in your area.
Moderation is censorship. Censorship is groupthink.
That's right. And what can you put on to youtube that offends no one? And if you are offended, it is easier to find people to give you support than if you are not offended.
I think Youtube is too tame as it is. The nature of Internet is that it is always my own choice to click and view content, I don't want other people with more moderate ideas to limit my experience.
... centralized control has been in place since the DNS system was put in.
A Tor Hidden service bypasses DNS. Set up a service and then tell your Tor service to provide it as a hidden service. You will get back an onion address. Give the onion address to anyone and the request will get through to your server box without DNS ever being contacted.
I think that the Tor network maintains a list of some sort to make sure onion requests get directed back to your server. But they do not have a mechanism for determining the difference between one onion server and another. So there is no way to reject some onion server and allow others.
I doubt what you say. I hear some talk about this, but I have yet to see any good explanation of how this can be widely deployed.
Tor hidden services do not require permission from the ISP. They do not even require permission from your own router. It looks like and acts like regular traffic which will not be blocked. Which means that if the users embraced tor, we could all run our own email and chat servers. Plus it would have the added side effect of an additional level of privacy.
Most computer support the Tor Browser and most phones support Orbot. It could be widely deployed and would be accessible by most client hardware today.
The reason everyone moved away from decentralized things ... was spam everywhere, giant mesh networks will probably have the same problem.
If people really had their own servers/services hosted at home and they could easily white list the people they wanted to allow communication with, then there would be zero spam.
Maybe the idea that strangers should be able to contact you from a single common and global email address should disappear... and then the spam problem just solves itself.
He used a throwaway yahoo account!
If he was smart he still could have avoided detection even through yahoo.
Tesla is seeking ... compensation for the cost of the investigation ...
How much does it cost to pay yahoo to cough up the IP number or other identifying information of one of their users?
Buy an android next time
Don't worry. Apple iPhone isn't 'cool' any more. I don't know any younger kids who have them, that don't also want to upgrade to Android. The only people I see buying Apple these days is the old and the ignorant.
In the article, the "expert" is seeing out of warranty products coming in with broken touch screens. Seems like Apple is responding to customers under warranty. I guess Apple customers should look closely at their warranty before buying a new phone and not buy their products if they expect the lifetime of their product to last much longer than that.