Not the GP, but personal experience. Smokers cost a lot. They have higher incidence of heart disease (bypasses and stents are not cheap), emphysema (home oxygen, doctors appointments, ER visits galore), cancer (don't even get me started on the cost of cancer treatment).
Fitness sensors and apps seem to be a common thing to put into phone/watch these days, but how useful are they actually? I do plenty of sport (jogging, cycling, playing hockey) and have done so over the last 20 years, but at no point in my life have I ever thought "Wow, I wish I knew what my pulse-rate was right-now!". It may be of use to professional athletes, but to the normal person who does exercise to keep fit or for fun, knowing your pulserate etc is pointless. To me, cramming these fitness sensors into phones and watches is a solution in search of a problem.
Having a portable device track your heart rhythm as well as your heart rate could be of great importance. My aunt suffered a massive right middle cerebral artery stroke, caused by a previously unrecognized atrial fibrillation. If she had some device that could have warned her that her heart rate was irregular, she could have avoided this crippling, life-altering event that has left her unable to walk normally or speak more than one or two words at a time.
the expert believes iPhones, iPads, OS X, other RADIUS servers besides freeradius, VoIP phones, printers, and various commercial managed wireless solutions could be affected
Nowhere on his page does the researcher say anything remotely like this. It's a really bad interpretation as he does not list any VoIP or printers or Apple products. Specifically to be vulnerable to this attack, the product must use a vulnerable version of OpenSSL. Certainly Apple does not use OpenSSL and there are other products that do not.
If you post about a vulnerability and forget to mention the word "Apple" (whether or not it's even relevant), you just gave up tens of thousands of clicks.
Unfortunately, non-profit hospitals are, in many cases, a sham. Yes, the "hospital" is losing money, while all the doctors working there are pulling in substantial incomes at the same time.
Are you suggesting that those doctors, nurses, technicians should all work for free?
Regardless, what the physicians make has little to do with how the hospital fares. In the US, hospitals rarely employ physicians. Hospitals are just one of the places where doctors go to take care of patients. There's usually little financial linkage between the two.
Actually, it's in direct contrast to other research that said most people with iPhones had a lower income than most people with Android phones: those who can afford it the least sometimes tend to buy the most expensive stuff based. But that was a few years ago - perhaps it has changed in the mean time.
Gonna have call BS on this one. I need to see a link for this assertion.
You can destroy two Dell laptops, buy a third and still spend less than a single Apple laptop.
Sure, if your data and time are worthless. My time and data are worth a lot of money. I pay more to make sure that I don't unnecessarily sacrifice either.
I do, I sometimes don't claim back charitable donations. I don't claim depreciation on my rental property I do not think it is valid expense. I claim deductions that I believe to be fair and for business purposes, I do not claim ones i don't, legal or not.
But the real reason is probably everybody could get away with paying less tax if they knew what they where doing. The reason normal people don't is it is not feasible for the average person to pay millions to an accountancy firm to set up tax shelters. Once a company starts making billions however those admin costs become insignificant.
Why couldn't you set up a company in Ireland and contract out of that instead of being directly employed by your company. (they would think you where dodgy but only because it isn't common practice). Your employer is paying you the same amount, what difference does it make to them. The hassle is just not worth it, at least for the common man.
The problem is that you don't have stockholders that will sue you PERSONALLY if you pay more taxes than you have to. Public corporation executives can be personally liable for intentionally harming the financial standing of the companies they run.
The fingerprint is saved locally and encrypted on the individual phone's A7 chip. Never goes to iCloud. Never touches Apple servers.
Do we know this for fact?
Do we really know anything for fact? If your tin foil hat is sufficiently snug, you would not believe anything at all about anything.
Apple has a history of exaggerating or selectively picking performance metrics, but not out and out lying about privacy and security features.
It may be that poor-quality third-party chargers could damage the device.
Generally they can't. But they can be badly grounded and damage you (which actually happened recently).
Quite true. The recently publicized case in China involved a third party charger that killed the user, but apparently left the iPhone still (somewhat) operational.
And Apple has refused to license those patents. They have refused to negotiate to license them. They have even stated that they will not accept a court-ordered license fee unless they happen to think it's low enough.
Tell me, oh wise one, what other recourse did Samsung have?
Unless you work for either company, you don't know what negotiations have or have not taken place. You only have what is printed in the media. You believe everything you read?
Rather, he emphasized that because the patent in question was now a widely held technology standard, banning the products in question would be too disruptive to consumers and the economy
That argument could be used to sooooo many other patent litigations, and somehow never is, except when the affected part is a big American company.
Actually, only recently have big corporations started trying to use standards-essential patents as tools of corporate warfare. The EU is investigating Samsung for just this kind of behavior.
Because those patents were not submitted and accepted as FRAND. Samsung agreed to license these technologies in Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory terms. Anybody can use their patented technologies, and the only question is how much they get paid for them. When any infringement can be resolved with monetary payment, injunctive relief is not an appropriate tool. Samsung can always be made whole at any point in time with a monetary judgment.
Apple made no such promises to any industry group concerning the design patents in question. They did make such a promise over the mpeg4 container, which is just the.mov container that quicktime has used for ages, and they have never attempted to get an import injunction over that patent or any others that they submitted to standards bodies.
That by pure volume, there are WAY more Android devices out there than IOS devices. So the PBS arguments are bovine effluent. Look, YouTube works fine on my Android phone. Why not PBS?
Maybe because Youtube is owned by Google, who also makes Android, so they have a huge vested interest in making it work NO MATTER WHAT. Also, Google makes more in profit in a single quarter than PBS generates in revenue for several years. Google has essentially limitless resources to work with. PBS is always cash-strapped.
Either you're trolling or you have little experience with the real world to ask that kind of question.
Wait. So your Apple experiment is over because some third-party ecosystem wouldn't let Apple send the video stream to your TV? That makes perfect sense. That's like blaming Apple for the DRM in iTunes music that the record companies imposed on them, which a lot of people here did as well.
Look, I think it's clear from the context that Weinberg was not talking about all US laws about everything, but strictly in the context of the recent NSA brouhaha revealed by the Snowden leaks. In that context, it appears he was not lying at all as that relates onto the NSA's domestic spying activities, not all corporate laws.
Hmm. I thought Apple was against the whole concept of users being able to insert sd cards in their trendy white appliances. I guess Jobs really is dead.
Hmm... I must be imagining the SD card slot on my 4 year old MacBook Pro, then.
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Not the GP, but personal experience. Smokers cost a lot. They have higher incidence of heart disease (bypasses and stents are not cheap), emphysema (home oxygen, doctors appointments, ER visits galore), cancer (don't even get me started on the cost of cancer treatment).
Fitness sensors and apps seem to be a common thing to put into phone/watch these days, but how useful are they actually? I do plenty of sport (jogging, cycling, playing hockey) and have done so over the last 20 years, but at no point in my life have I ever thought "Wow, I wish I knew what my pulse-rate was right-now!". It may be of use to professional athletes, but to the normal person who does exercise to keep fit or for fun, knowing your pulserate etc is pointless. To me, cramming these fitness sensors into phones and watches is a solution in search of a problem.
Having a portable device track your heart rhythm as well as your heart rate could be of great importance. My aunt suffered a massive right middle cerebral artery stroke, caused by a previously unrecognized atrial fibrillation. If she had some device that could have warned her that her heart rate was irregular, she could have avoided this crippling, life-altering event that has left her unable to walk normally or speak more than one or two words at a time.
Holy hell, that was a great explanation. Somebody mod up parent post. I don't have any mod points today.
Kind of like a social network of satellites :)
It does. They should give it a name, "Skynet" or something like that.
the expert believes iPhones, iPads, OS X, other RADIUS servers besides freeradius, VoIP phones, printers, and various commercial managed wireless solutions could be affected
Nowhere on his page does the researcher say anything remotely like this. It's a really bad interpretation as he does not list any VoIP or printers or Apple products. Specifically to be vulnerable to this attack, the product must use a vulnerable version of OpenSSL. Certainly Apple does not use OpenSSL and there are other products that do not.
If you post about a vulnerability and forget to mention the word "Apple" (whether or not it's even relevant), you just gave up tens of thousands of clicks.
Unfortunately, non-profit hospitals are, in many cases, a sham. Yes, the "hospital" is losing money, while all the doctors working there are pulling in substantial incomes at the same time.
Are you suggesting that those doctors, nurses, technicians should all work for free?
Regardless, what the physicians make has little to do with how the hospital fares. In the US, hospitals rarely employ physicians. Hospitals are just one of the places where doctors go to take care of patients. There's usually little financial linkage between the two.
Actually, it's in direct contrast to other research that said most people with iPhones had a lower income than most people with Android phones: those who can afford it the least sometimes tend to buy the most expensive stuff based. But that was a few years ago - perhaps it has changed in the mean time.
Gonna have call BS on this one. I need to see a link for this assertion.
There should be a mod "+1 Actually read the f'ing patent". Thank you.
You can destroy two Dell laptops, buy a third and still spend less than a single Apple laptop.
Sure, if your data and time are worthless. My time and data are worth a lot of money. I pay more to make sure that I don't unnecessarily sacrifice either.
Because he's a real cool cat. The only thing he needs is more cowbell!
I do, I sometimes don't claim back charitable donations. I don't claim depreciation on my rental property I do not think it is valid expense. I claim deductions that I believe to be fair and for business purposes, I do not claim ones i don't, legal or not.
But the real reason is probably everybody could get away with paying less tax if they knew what they where doing. The reason normal people don't is it is not feasible for the average person to pay millions to an accountancy firm to set up tax shelters. Once a company starts making billions however those admin costs become insignificant.
Why couldn't you set up a company in Ireland and contract out of that instead of being directly employed by your company. (they would think you where dodgy but only because it isn't common practice). Your employer is paying you the same amount, what difference does it make to them. The hassle is just not worth it, at least for the common man.
The problem is that you don't have stockholders that will sue you PERSONALLY if you pay more taxes than you have to. Public corporation executives can be personally liable for intentionally harming the financial standing of the companies they run.
Do we know this for fact?
Do we really know anything for fact? If your tin foil hat is sufficiently snug, you would not believe anything at all about anything. Apple has a history of exaggerating or selectively picking performance metrics, but not out and out lying about privacy and security features.
iOS6 has a setting to use the camera flash as a notification blinker.
The fingerprint is saved locally and encrypted on the individual phone's A7 chip. Never goes to iCloud. Never touches Apple servers.
Maybe, but so is the number of accidents caused by placemats.
And if the government were tossing placemats on the freeway, we'd complain similarly.
It may be that poor-quality third-party chargers could damage the device.
Generally they can't. But they can be badly grounded and damage you (which actually happened recently).
Quite true. The recently publicized case in China involved a third party charger that killed the user, but apparently left the iPhone still (somewhat) operational.
And Apple has refused to license those patents. They have refused to negotiate to license them. They have even stated that they will not accept a court-ordered license fee unless they happen to think it's low enough.
Tell me, oh wise one, what other recourse did Samsung have?
Unless you work for either company, you don't know what negotiations have or have not taken place. You only have what is printed in the media. You believe everything you read?
Rather, he emphasized that because the patent in question was now a widely held technology standard, banning the products in question would be too disruptive to consumers and the economy
That argument could be used to sooooo many other patent litigations, and somehow never is, except when the affected part is a big American company.
Actually, only recently have big corporations started trying to use standards-essential patents as tools of corporate warfare. The EU is investigating Samsung for just this kind of behavior.
Because those patents were not submitted and accepted as FRAND. Samsung agreed to license these technologies in Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory terms. Anybody can use their patented technologies, and the only question is how much they get paid for them. When any infringement can be resolved with monetary payment, injunctive relief is not an appropriate tool. Samsung can always be made whole at any point in time with a monetary judgment.
.mov container that quicktime has used for ages, and they have never attempted to get an import injunction over that patent or any others that they submitted to standards bodies.
Apple made no such promises to any industry group concerning the design patents in question. They did make such a promise over the mpeg4 container, which is just the
That by pure volume, there are WAY more Android devices out there than IOS devices. So the PBS arguments are bovine effluent. Look, YouTube works fine on my Android phone. Why not PBS?
Maybe because Youtube is owned by Google, who also makes Android, so they have a huge vested interest in making it work NO MATTER WHAT. Also, Google makes more in profit in a single quarter than PBS generates in revenue for several years. Google has essentially limitless resources to work with. PBS is always cash-strapped.
Either you're trolling or you have little experience with the real world to ask that kind of question.
Wait. So your Apple experiment is over because some third-party ecosystem wouldn't let Apple send the video stream to your TV? That makes perfect sense. That's like blaming Apple for the DRM in iTunes music that the record companies imposed on them, which a lot of people here did as well.
I've been using either a Samsung Stratosphere (S1) or a Samsung Stratosphere 2 (S2) from September 2012 to the present.
The v2 wasn't yet available in September 2012...
You fail Sentence Parsing 101.
You seem to suck at math. Perhaps you should become a "girlinbasicmathtraiing"?
Look, I think it's clear from the context that Weinberg was not talking about all US laws about everything, but strictly in the context of the recent NSA brouhaha revealed by the Snowden leaks. In that context, it appears he was not lying at all as that relates onto the NSA's domestic spying activities, not all corporate laws.
Perhaps you should try decaf?
Hmm. I thought Apple was against the whole concept of users being able to insert sd cards in their trendy white appliances. I guess Jobs really is dead.
Hmm... I must be imagining the SD card slot on my 4 year old MacBook Pro, then.