> We're not selling your personal info, we're selling ad space on your phone to marketers who have chosen to advertise to you based on your personal info which we gave them for free.
Actually it is. There's MILES of difference between saying :
"Hey, you want to sell to a particular group of people who we know of, give us some money and we'll give you a list of people to talk to"
and
"Hey, you want to sell to a particular group of people who we know of, give us some money and an ad you want them to see and we'll show them the ad"
When your accountant screws up your taxes, YOU are the one who is expected to pay up, why is this any different? I'm sure Apple can sue some bureau in the Irish government afterward to try and recoup losses. Whether that will work or not is beyond the scope of this discussion.
These are election databases that were breached, not voting machines. And nowhere is Clinton implicated in that article, in fact the DNC is mentioned as victims of Russian hacking.
But hey, feel free to fling unsubstantiated rumor around.
So how do you do offsite backups for your personal data? If you don't use one of these type of services I imagine it'll be prone to forgetfulness as it'll have to be a manual process like taking a drive to your safety deposit box, etc.
The point is these online backup services have a place and it's as a "the house is gone/on fire/burglarized" last resort, not as an end all be all.
> Couldn't you same the same thing about a cheap DVD player and used DVDs
Not really no. When you play a game you're going to spend dozens of hours playing it (if it's a good game you like), whereas once you watch a movie in a couple of hours you're done with it. Netflix's strength is that you're going to blast through a few movies a week and then go on to other things, whereas with a game system you'll play a game or two that month and then will play them again some other time. So there's more value with a game system to having permanent copies of the game.
I presume that's in USD as well, so paying $180 US ($240CDN) per year to *not* own any games vs me picking up a used PS3 on Craigslist for $100CDN and then buying used games at $5-$15 per game, I just don't see the value proposition here.
The robotic equipment? No. It'll work 24/7, OSHA doesn't apply to bots, pay doesn't apply to bots, quality of life doesn't apply to bots, and they never take vacation. That's why bots are so attractive to employers.
The other 997 people do something else entirely, or work at some new company at some *new* site as their operators/techs/engineers. That's just "economic growth".
But the new site will just hire 3 and have a bunch of robots instead. And 994 still need to eat. This is the problem a lot of people seem to have trouble grasping. In 20/30 years we're not going to have specialized robots that weld a steel car frame and every time you want to change what it welds you need to pay a CAD engineer and automation tech for a couple of days of work for the new car frame layout. Instead there are going to be general purpose AIs and robots that will be able to adapt to a number of tasks with minimal reprogramming. Companies won't be hiring new workers, they'll be buying new machines, paying to have them set up once and then that's it. Low skill jobs the world over are particularly vulnerable this time around. There are legions of people working nonstop to automate every aspect of the working world and things like a burger joint are the perfect starting point because there will be so many buyers for that equipment once it works sufficiently well.
Yes and they moved into other human skills jobs created by new industries. That new job market doesn't exist in this shift. Where's everyone supposed to go? Become software engineers? As part of that AI shift, a lot of software engineer jobs are going to be automated as well. It's already starting. Analysts? Same. The oft repeated chestnut of "hur hur, robot repair tech!!" ? Great. Automation just replaced 1000 people at a site, and needs 2 people to look after it, and a 3rd person part time to maintain/repair it. What about the other 997 people?
Unfortunately there's a difference coming this time around. There aren't going to be replacement jobs to take the displaced. Self driving cars are just the tip of the machine thinking revolution and many future "jobs" will just be filled with other general purpose thinking machines. There are going to be a LOT of unemployed people in the next 30 years.
I'm no fan of the movement to force people to give up passwords but there isn't a physical real world comparison that is valid. If someone forgets their safe combination and LE wants in, they can use a variety of tools to go at the safe in anything from a quick brutal manner all the way up to an expensive careful opening and they will get in if they want.
With a password and sufficiently capable encryption, LE will never get in, no matter how much time and money they throw at the problem. That's what outrages them, that there is a way to resist them 100%.
The events of this breach should become the new exhibit A for every time a backdoor for the US government is discussed in any software. After all if the NSA can't keep their special toys in house, how long do you think a valuable backdoor will remain under wraps?
Not only that, Reddit's system of limitless scoring leads to people frequently crafting replies or shaping the discussion merely to accumulate upvotes. Plus the idea that any account has unlimited voting on all comments instantly is a recipe for distortion.
/.ers tend to forget that they are generally far more comfortable doing things like that than the average person. Would your grandmother, or sister be comfortable doing that? Or your wants-nothing-to-do-with-wiring-stuff son?
But that sidesteps the bigger point in that this shouldn't even be a concern. It's a thermostat, this feature creep crap is getting out of hand and we'll be lucky to live through it.
For WAAAY less than 90K I can easily cause a human to not see something is there... because the $300 high powered laser would have blinded them....
This article is dumb. There are as many attacks against human drivers that are just as cheap or cheaper that would work better. Want to crash a car at highway speed? Get a slingshot and a piece of spark plug ceramic and take out the poor bastard's windshield on a tricky corner at night. Or shoot a tire out. Or hit them with a 20000 lumen spotlight.
I'd say that a Retina Display addition to existing hardware makes it prettier but also downgrades the performance and battery life. Adding Retina is asking the same hardware to work harder to push the extra pixels. Which is another reason TFA is right to call them out on using outdated processors and GPUs. They're negatively impacting the user experience to make things look shinier, all while upping the price tag. It's like buying a bigger truck with the same engine. Looks impressive until you need it to actually do hauling.
> There was a story not long ago about a computer flying a simulated fighter outperforming a top gun in a dogfight
That's not difficult to believe. For a while now with combat airframes the weakest link has been the meatbag that will stop working above 9Gs sustained. Eliminate the need for a pilot and all the associated safety systems and the airframe will perform even better with the weight reduction.
Why is heaven's name would anyone think that a cheap cloud backup company would be installing 8 TB SSDs in their massive storage arrays? Those things are thousands of dollars per drive!
They knew what the tax rate was in the country whose laws and protections they chose to work in. So now you're saying they should just be able to say "well that's not fair, I want to pay less"?
Apple hasn't moved head office to any of those other countries with less tax for many reasons, not a few of them are based on benefits derived from what that tax pays for. They can't have their cake and eat it too.
A lot of people who go to theaters are the types who have to see something when it first comes out. Many of them if there was an alternative for home viewing, like the Screening Room service discussed in the article, would use that instead.
It's not that people are antisocial, it's that we realize that in practically every respect, the home movie experience today is superior to what we get roped into at theaters. A 65" 4K TV with surround sound can compete pretty darn well with the visuals and audio of a theater, and a year's worth of weekend theater visits costs more than such a setup at home. Also at home you don't deal with sticky seats and floors, other people making noise, or having to start the show at a certain time. No $10 popcorn with a $7 drink either.
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> We're not selling your personal info, we're selling ad space on your phone to marketers who have chosen to advertise to you based on your personal info which we gave them for free.
Actually it is. There's MILES of difference between saying :
"Hey, you want to sell to a particular group of people who we know of, give us some money and we'll give you a list of people to talk to"
and
"Hey, you want to sell to a particular group of people who we know of, give us some money and an ad you want them to see and we'll show them the ad"
When your accountant screws up your taxes, YOU are the one who is expected to pay up, why is this any different? I'm sure Apple can sue some bureau in the Irish government afterward to try and recoup losses. Whether that will work or not is beyond the scope of this discussion.
These are election databases that were breached, not voting machines. And nowhere is Clinton implicated in that article, in fact the DNC is mentioned as victims of Russian hacking.
But hey, feel free to fling unsubstantiated rumor around.
So how do you do offsite backups for your personal data? If you don't use one of these type of services I imagine it'll be prone to forgetfulness as it'll have to be a manual process like taking a drive to your safety deposit box, etc.
The point is these online backup services have a place and it's as a "the house is gone/on fire/burglarized" last resort, not as an end all be all.
> Couldn't you same the same thing about a cheap DVD player and used DVDs
Not really no. When you play a game you're going to spend dozens of hours playing it (if it's a good game you like), whereas once you watch a movie in a couple of hours you're done with it. Netflix's strength is that you're going to blast through a few movies a week and then go on to other things, whereas with a game system you'll play a game or two that month and then will play them again some other time. So there's more value with a game system to having permanent copies of the game.
I presume that's in USD as well, so paying $180 US ($240CDN) per year to *not* own any games vs me picking up a used PS3 on Craigslist for $100CDN and then buying used games at $5-$15 per game, I just don't see the value proposition here.
The robotic equipment? No. It'll work 24/7, OSHA doesn't apply to bots, pay doesn't apply to bots, quality of life doesn't apply to bots, and they never take vacation. That's why bots are so attractive to employers.
The other 997 people do something else entirely, or work at some new company at some *new* site as their operators/techs/engineers. That's just "economic growth".
But the new site will just hire 3 and have a bunch of robots instead. And 994 still need to eat. This is the problem a lot of people seem to have trouble grasping. In 20/30 years we're not going to have specialized robots that weld a steel car frame and every time you want to change what it welds you need to pay a CAD engineer and automation tech for a couple of days of work for the new car frame layout. Instead there are going to be general purpose AIs and robots that will be able to adapt to a number of tasks with minimal reprogramming. Companies won't be hiring new workers, they'll be buying new machines, paying to have them set up once and then that's it. Low skill jobs the world over are particularly vulnerable this time around. There are legions of people working nonstop to automate every aspect of the working world and things like a burger joint are the perfect starting point because there will be so many buyers for that equipment once it works sufficiently well.
Yes and they moved into other human skills jobs created by new industries. That new job market doesn't exist in this shift. Where's everyone supposed to go? Become software engineers? As part of that AI shift, a lot of software engineer jobs are going to be automated as well. It's already starting. Analysts? Same. The oft repeated chestnut of "hur hur, robot repair tech!!" ? Great. Automation just replaced 1000 people at a site, and needs 2 people to look after it, and a 3rd person part time to maintain/repair it. What about the other 997 people?
Unfortunately there's a difference coming this time around. There aren't going to be replacement jobs to take the displaced. Self driving cars are just the tip of the machine thinking revolution and many future "jobs" will just be filled with other general purpose thinking machines. There are going to be a LOT of unemployed people in the next 30 years.
I'm no fan of the movement to force people to give up passwords but there isn't a physical real world comparison that is valid. If someone forgets their safe combination and LE wants in, they can use a variety of tools to go at the safe in anything from a quick brutal manner all the way up to an expensive careful opening and they will get in if they want.
With a password and sufficiently capable encryption, LE will never get in, no matter how much time and money they throw at the problem. That's what outrages them, that there is a way to resist them 100%.
The events of this breach should become the new exhibit A for every time a backdoor for the US government is discussed in any software. After all if the NSA can't keep their special toys in house, how long do you think a valuable backdoor will remain under wraps?
Not only that, Reddit's system of limitless scoring leads to people frequently crafting replies or shaping the discussion merely to accumulate upvotes. Plus the idea that any account has unlimited voting on all comments instantly is a recipe for distortion.
/.ers tend to forget that they are generally far more comfortable doing things like that than the average person. Would your grandmother, or sister be comfortable doing that? Or your wants-nothing-to-do-with-wiring-stuff son?
But that sidesteps the bigger point in that this shouldn't even be a concern. It's a thermostat, this feature creep crap is getting out of hand and we'll be lucky to live through it.
For WAAAY less than 90K I can easily cause a human to not see something is there... because the $300 high powered laser would have blinded them....
This article is dumb. There are as many attacks against human drivers that are just as cheap or cheaper that would work better. Want to crash a car at highway speed? Get a slingshot and a piece of spark plug ceramic and take out the poor bastard's windshield on a tricky corner at night. Or shoot a tire out. Or hit them with a 20000 lumen spotlight.
I'd say that a Retina Display addition to existing hardware makes it prettier but also downgrades the performance and battery life. Adding Retina is asking the same hardware to work harder to push the extra pixels. Which is another reason TFA is right to call them out on using outdated processors and GPUs. They're negatively impacting the user experience to make things look shinier, all while upping the price tag. It's like buying a bigger truck with the same engine. Looks impressive until you need it to actually do hauling.
They're the same batteries that are used in the current Tesla, just less of them. How are the current cars doing in your opinion?
And when Tesla announces a model at a price people do want, they do 325,000 pre-orders in a week. At $1000 per, that is $325M in deposits in a week.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/7/11385146/tesla-model-3-preorders-375000-elon-musk
So the truth is there is a demand for a low cost Tesla, now we wait and see if Elon and Co can deliver.
> I thought groupthink was limited to /. and reddit but I see it is alive and well in new areas now:
You, uh, thought very wrong. Groupthink is everywhere. Look no further than politics to see it writ large.
> There was a story not long ago about a computer flying a simulated fighter outperforming a top gun in a dogfight
That's not difficult to believe. For a while now with combat airframes the weakest link has been the meatbag that will stop working above 9Gs sustained. Eliminate the need for a pilot and all the associated safety systems and the airframe will perform even better with the weight reduction.
Why is heaven's name would anyone think that a cheap cloud backup company would be installing 8 TB SSDs in their massive storage arrays? Those things are thousands of dollars per drive!
They knew what the tax rate was in the country whose laws and protections they chose to work in. So now you're saying they should just be able to say "well that's not fair, I want to pay less"?
Apple hasn't moved head office to any of those other countries with less tax for many reasons, not a few of them are based on benefits derived from what that tax pays for. They can't have their cake and eat it too.
People can play more than one type of game. And by the way, good luck playing SFII or Doom on a touchscreen. Hadouken? More like FRUSTRATION!
A lot of people who go to theaters are the types who have to see something when it first comes out. Many of them if there was an alternative for home viewing, like the Screening Room service discussed in the article, would use that instead.
It's not that people are antisocial, it's that we realize that in practically every respect, the home movie experience today is superior to what we get roped into at theaters. A 65" 4K TV with surround sound can compete pretty darn well with the visuals and audio of a theater, and a year's worth of weekend theater visits costs more than such a setup at home. Also at home you don't deal with sticky seats and floors, other people making noise, or having to start the show at a certain time. No $10 popcorn with a $7 drink either.
> No one over the age of 12 gives a damn about any of Nintendos game franchises
Explain the Pokemon go mobs roaming the cities currently, the majority of which are well over the age of 12, or 20 for that matter.