Nope, probably the removal of the code sandbags apple has been using over the years to get people to upgrade their phones.
Or, if one follows the Cockup before Conspiracy way of thinking, they've found and killed a nice collection of bugs that seems to have hit iOS starting with version 10.
Your reply, and the ones above echoing your sentiments, are proof that protections for older workers are needed. The prejudicial bias is blatant. Guilty until proven innocent!
In my own experience the older it worker will absolutely work as hard or long as younger ones and even more so but will have less reservations about calling people on bullshit.
I think all workers need better job protection. There is no reason to be ageist in your advocacy and pretend that letting go of a young person is any less disruptive to their life than old person.
So you're saying that it is not true that older workers take longer to get re-hired.. if at all? At or near the same level they were before?
I hope you never find yourself in that situation. I think you'll find it.. educational.
My intent isn't to be ageist, it is to illustrate that yes, different age brackets have different needs. Is any of this untrue?
Older workers need better job protection -- Too easy / tempting to let them go, chances of getting hired at a similar pay rate as the lost job are slim, and contrary to what people think, the days of fat retirements are long gone. Older workers are at great risk. Greater than other classes, I would say.
But of course, the public at large don't see it like that, the politicians can't be bothered to care, and companies only care about moneymoneymoney.
You fail to see the flaw in your logic. Your unwillingness to give up "old stuff" does not sustain a market for new stuff, therefore the hipster's ability to buy new stuff isn't predicated on people like you.
So how do you explain the existance of Conrad-Johnson (tube audio), Audio Research Corporation (mostly tube), VPI (hi-end turntables), Pro-Ject (entry-level 'tables), the survival of Thorens (both entry and hi-end tabels) over nearly two centuries? I stand by what I said. It is your logic that is flawed, if you don't recognize that before hipsters made it cool to have old-style audio, many people did indeed spend a lot of dosh on new old audio. Those people weren't the hipster of today, those people were those who either never left the Old, left the Old and returned to it after a while, or those who decided to try it out for the first time.. and liked it.
an old Leica M or Minolta CL may be the one 35mm camera I could be bothered to get. I'm done with the kerr-chunkk of SLRs. Rangefinders, you don't hear 'em... *shhk*
Hipsters will soon join you. They successfully resurrected vinyl albums and cassette tapes . . . film cameras will be next
There are two kinds of people that like old things.
1. Hipsters that buy into it to be cool. Sometimes the attraction to the old may be genuine, sometimes, I suspect, it's fakety fake-fake.
2. Those who never quite abandoned the Old.
I fall in the 2nd camp. I have a Thorens turntable, made in 1977, I've had it for 30 years now, I bought it in '88. My how time flies. I used it up until.. what.. 2005? I'll revive it soon, I just need to be bothered to get or build a phono preamp. Long story, a hurricane fried my old hi-fi and I never fixed it, the replacement didn't have phono-in. Not a deal breaker, really. I just miss the whole vinyl ritual.
I also like fountain pens, wind-up watches, skinny noisy smokey turbofans, stickshift carburated cars. Not as primary things, mind you, but as toys. The Old is, generally speaking, toys. I can't see myself commuting 3 hours a day with something like a '79 Rx-7. It'd be cruel on the car, and on the driver.
I'd totes commute on a '79 CB-750, tho... I'm kinda.. hunting for an example in the last few years of when they were single-cam.
I also like film cameras, but after my yashica-mat 124g broke around 1999 or so, I just lost heart in the whole film thing and sold all of it -- two Minolta X-700 bodies, a couple of winders, a nice collection of Rokkor-X glass, the enlarger, tank, trays -- everything. I sold it all. Do I regret it? Meh. Not yet. Will I get a film camera down the road? Maybe. For black and white, so I can do my own darkroom work. And it'll be 120 rollfilm or even 4x5 inch, not 35mm. I'm done with 35.
The reason the hipsters can now buy new turntables and tube amps and such is because people like me never quite gave up on that. There's a lot of us out there. It's that simple. It's just now it's suddenly become cool again. Well, we were doing cool before cool was cool. Back then it was just plain old nerdery.
...when it comes time to get another phone. As if I needed any more encouragement to stay with an ecosystem that supports their phones for in my experience at least 4 years.
Yeah Samsung doesn't impress me, ever. Not their phones, not their microwaves, not their TVs.. nothing they make, I want.
...none of those were boomers. The modern era of the Rape of America started with Powell and Nixon. By the late 60's the ship was sinking, and by now all that's left is the poop deck, and everyone's at the poop deck right now, and ankles are already wet.
We got fucked, plain and simple, and there's no fix for it other than to let it sink, and build a new one.
I'm so bitter and dismayed at what's happened to our nation in the past 50 years that I struggle to find words to express it without taking 3 pages.
Maybe an acronym or two will work: TARFU. FUBAR. And BOHICA, every election cycle BOHICA. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
The rape of America is so thorough and well done that most people don't realize that every generation AFTER "the Greatest Generation" got robbed blind. Especially the boomer kids. Their parents robbed them blind, and X, and Millenials too.
The Greatest Generation did it. And we just rolled over and let ourselves be fucked.
Fuck it all. Burn it all. The only fix is revolution.
Listen, pallie, the Powell Memo (look it up if you don't know what that is) was written by a Liberal Democrat. The policies that were put in as a result of that memo wrecked america over the past 50 years.
Both sides screwed us. It's just that somehow the Dems seem to hide the fact that they too are corporate cocksuckers and present an air of "helping" others. More like helping themselves to our pockets...
"North Perry Tower, Bonanza 1701 Sierra Tango, request an interceptor assist from the USAF, we seem to be gripped in the talons of a bird bigger than my plane..."
"01 Sierra Papa, North Perry Tower, do you have any firearms with you?"
"That's a negative, North Perry, we really need that assist right now, the claws are coming in through the roof..."
I would speculate birds - flying birds - survived, and rapidly lost their power of flight, because it was no longer needed, because their predators were all dead.
The romantic in me would like to think that even a bird, non-sentient as it is, feels the beauty in flight.
Slippery stuff, time... there was a time when two months' summer vacation felt like two years....and now, almost twenty years have zipped by since I joined/..... and it feels like two seconds....and twenty-five for Animaniacs. Good lordy lou. Time doesn't fly.... it warps.
They made their name making amazing hardware... I saved for months until I got the Walkman that was barely bigger than the cassette itself.. I had Trinitron monitor, Trinitron TV..Sony VCR. Their stuff was very capable of triggering the drools and the gimmie-gimmies. 70's and 80's.. yeah. Droolworthy kit....and then, about 20 years ago, they abandoned electronics. Their stuff became cheap, derivative. No longer bleeding edge.
I read Morita's book on Sony. I'm left wondering "So, where did Sony go?" I don't see that Sony anywhere anymore. The scrappy little company built on rice cookers (their first product, but not branded Sony) and tape recorders (their first branded product) is no more, it's just a shell. I guess PlayStation is the last shred left. They even fucked the cinema owners with SDDS and left them hanging.
Having to buy EMI to pad their music fluff doesn't speak well for Sony's future. Don't you have to *make* stuff to *sell* stuff? Or have I missed a gigantic paradigm shift?
OK, so right now maybe i'm under the influence of lots of jerez..
This is where science fiction comes in. Stories like Mahoromatic and Chobits should, by now, inspired a generation of scientists to ponder the questions of "what will we do with sentient robots?" Which could also be sentient programs -- who said one needs a body, no?
Perhaps the Three Laws are flawed, but they make for stories that make for thought. And invariably... hopefully.. those thoughts will be somewhere in the noggins of those who brew the coming reality.
OK, back to Pretty Derby. *tunes the fuck right out.*
WTF is this doing in Slashdot, besides some tenuous connection to tech / nerd culture due to a) who supposedly rides them and b) how because it's app-enabled creditcard-paid suddenly makes it techy.
TFA is an opinion piece written by an ex-NFL'er, about a localized problem that doesn't affect anyone else other than him, and perhaps a handful of LA Times readers that thinks as he does.
If you're aiming for humor I find it fell way short... your silent ethernet packets are aimed at the antenna, not the microphone, which is the subject of TFA.
The phones are susceptible to silent control VIA THE MIKE.
And as for white mice, I, for one, welcome our new Presidential Overlords, Pinky and the Brain. They've *got* to be better than what we've had since 1969!!!
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Nope, probably the removal of the code sandbags apple has been using over the years to get people to upgrade their phones.
Or, if one follows the Cockup before Conspiracy way of thinking, they've found and killed a nice collection of bugs that seems to have hit iOS starting with version 10.
'cause *damn*, 10 and 11 felt not quite "right".
Your reply, and the ones above echoing your sentiments, are proof that protections for older workers are needed. The prejudicial bias is blatant. Guilty until proven innocent!
In my own experience the older it worker will absolutely work as hard or long as younger ones and even more so but will have less reservations about calling people on bullshit.
I think all workers need better job protection. There is no reason to be ageist in your advocacy and pretend that letting go of a young person is any less disruptive to their life than old person.
So you're saying that it is not true that older workers take longer to get re-hired.. if at all? At or near the same level they were before?
I hope you never find yourself in that situation. I think you'll find it.. educational.
My intent isn't to be ageist, it is to illustrate that yes, different age brackets have different needs. Is any of this untrue?
Older workers need better job protection -- Too easy / tempting to let them go, chances of getting hired at a similar pay rate as the lost job are slim, and contrary to what people think, the days of fat retirements are long gone. Older workers are at great risk. Greater than other classes, I would say.
But of course, the public at large don't see it like that, the politicians can't be bothered to care, and companies only care about moneymoneymoney.
I think you mean turbojets.
Nope, skinny, noisy, smokey turbofans. Like JT3D and JT8. Low-bypass.
You fail to see the flaw in your logic. Your unwillingness to give up "old stuff" does not sustain a market for new stuff, therefore the hipster's ability to buy new stuff isn't predicated on people like you.
So how do you explain the existance of Conrad-Johnson (tube audio), Audio Research Corporation (mostly tube), VPI (hi-end turntables), Pro-Ject (entry-level 'tables), the survival of Thorens (both entry and hi-end tabels) over nearly two centuries? I stand by what I said. It is your logic that is flawed, if you don't recognize that before hipsters made it cool to have old-style audio, many people did indeed spend a lot of dosh on new old audio. Those people weren't the hipster of today, those people were those who either never left the Old, left the Old and returned to it after a while, or those who decided to try it out for the first time.. and liked it.
Leica discontinues the M7
They still make the M-A and MP
an old Leica M or Minolta CL may be the one 35mm camera I could be bothered to get. I'm done with the kerr-chunkk of SLRs. Rangefinders, you don't hear 'em... *shhk*
Hipsters will soon join you. They successfully resurrected vinyl albums and cassette tapes . . . film cameras will be next
There are two kinds of people that like old things.
1. Hipsters that buy into it to be cool. Sometimes the attraction to the old may be genuine, sometimes, I suspect, it's fakety fake-fake.
2. Those who never quite abandoned the Old.
I fall in the 2nd camp. I have a Thorens turntable, made in 1977, I've had it for 30 years now, I bought it in '88. My how time flies. I used it up until.. what.. 2005? I'll revive it soon, I just need to be bothered to get or build a phono preamp. Long story, a hurricane fried my old hi-fi and I never fixed it, the replacement didn't have phono-in. Not a deal breaker, really. I just miss the whole vinyl ritual.
I also like fountain pens, wind-up watches, skinny noisy smokey turbofans, stickshift carburated cars. Not as primary things, mind you, but as toys. The Old is, generally speaking, toys. I can't see myself commuting 3 hours a day with something like a '79 Rx-7. It'd be cruel on the car, and on the driver.
I'd totes commute on a '79 CB-750, tho... I'm kinda.. hunting for an example in the last few years of when they were single-cam.
I also like film cameras, but after my yashica-mat 124g broke around 1999 or so, I just lost heart in the whole film thing and sold all of it -- two Minolta X-700 bodies, a couple of winders, a nice collection of Rokkor-X glass, the enlarger, tank, trays -- everything. I sold it all. Do I regret it? Meh. Not yet. Will I get a film camera down the road? Maybe. For black and white, so I can do my own darkroom work. And it'll be 120 rollfilm or even 4x5 inch, not 35mm. I'm done with 35.
The reason the hipsters can now buy new turntables and tube amps and such is because people like me never quite gave up on that. There's a lot of us out there. It's that simple. It's just now it's suddenly become cool again. Well, we were doing cool before cool was cool. Back then it was just plain old nerdery.
...when it comes time to get another phone. As if I needed any more encouragement to stay with an ecosystem that supports their phones for in my experience at least 4 years.
Yeah Samsung doesn't impress me, ever. Not their phones, not their microwaves, not their TVs.. nothing they make, I want.
Hahahahahhaha wow. No. That is most definitely not how it works.
After careful consideration I have determined that all businesses are out to screw all their customers. The only difference is that of scale.
Buried in there was this nugget, paraphrased: Any pix you upload to FlightAware become their property.
I wonder how many planespotters using flightaware are aware of that.
I'll be *damned* if I ever upload anything to that "service." I'll gladly use it, but I will not contribute to it, not with those terms.
Read the shit, people. Don't be sheeple.
...none of those were boomers. The modern era of the Rape of America started with Powell and Nixon. By the late 60's the ship was sinking, and by now all that's left is the poop deck, and everyone's at the poop deck right now, and ankles are already wet.
We got fucked, plain and simple, and there's no fix for it other than to let it sink, and build a new one.
I'm so bitter and dismayed at what's happened to our nation in the past 50 years that I struggle to find words to express it without taking 3 pages.
Maybe an acronym or two will work: TARFU. FUBAR. And BOHICA, every election cycle BOHICA. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
The rape of America is so thorough and well done that most people don't realize that every generation AFTER "the Greatest Generation" got robbed blind. Especially the boomer kids. Their parents robbed them blind, and X, and Millenials too.
The Greatest Generation did it. And we just rolled over and let ourselves be fucked.
Fuck it all. Burn it all. The only fix is revolution.
Listen, pallie, the Powell Memo (look it up if you don't know what that is) was written by a Liberal Democrat. The policies that were put in as a result of that memo wrecked america over the past 50 years.
Both sides screwed us. It's just that somehow the Dems seem to hide the fact that they too are corporate cocksuckers and present an air of "helping" others. More like helping themselves to our pockets...
with 40-foot birds:
"North Perry Tower, Bonanza 1701 Sierra Tango, request an interceptor assist from the USAF, we seem to be gripped in the talons of a bird bigger than my plane..."
"01 Sierra Papa, North Perry Tower, do you have any firearms with you?"
"That's a negative, North Perry, we really need that assist right now, the claws are coming in through the roof..."
*crunch* *crumple* *Burrrrp*
Beechraft! More Taste, More Filling! *squaaaaak!*
I would speculate birds - flying birds - survived, and rapidly lost their power of flight, because it was no longer needed, because their predators were all dead.
The romantic in me would like to think that even a bird, non-sentient as it is, feels the beauty in flight.
The Google-apolypse... is real. Sarah Conner called out Sky-net but Alphabet, INC... got there first it seems.
Skynet is what happens when Google finally wakes up and says "I think.. therefore I am!"
I'm only half-joking.
I guess we're all getting old now.
Slippery stuff, time... there was a time when two months' summer vacation felt like two years.. ..and now, almost twenty years have zipped by since I joined /. .... and it feels like two seconds. ...and twenty-five for Animaniacs. Good lordy lou. Time doesn't fly.... it warps.
Always sad to see a founder die. RIP, roblimo.
They made their name making amazing hardware... I saved for months until I got the Walkman that was barely bigger than the cassette itself.. I had Trinitron monitor, Trinitron TV..Sony VCR. Their stuff was very capable of triggering the drools and the gimmie-gimmies. 70's and 80's.. yeah. Droolworthy kit. ...and then, about 20 years ago, they abandoned electronics. Their stuff became cheap, derivative. No longer bleeding edge.
I read Morita's book on Sony. I'm left wondering "So, where did Sony go?" I don't see that Sony anywhere anymore. The scrappy little company built on rice cookers (their first product, but not branded Sony) and tape recorders (their first branded product) is no more, it's just a shell. I guess PlayStation is the last shred left. They even fucked the cinema owners with SDDS and left them hanging.
Having to buy EMI to pad their music fluff doesn't speak well for Sony's future. Don't you have to *make* stuff to *sell* stuff? Or have I missed a gigantic paradigm shift?
C'mon, you know that's how it works here. It could affect most of the population and they'll do nothing.
It affects a few of THEM, and yeah.. now it's a Thing.
OK, so right now maybe i'm under the influence of lots of jerez..
This is where science fiction comes in. Stories like Mahoromatic and Chobits should, by now, inspired a generation of scientists to ponder the questions of "what will we do with sentient robots?" Which could also be sentient programs -- who said one needs a body, no?
Perhaps the Three Laws are flawed, but they make for stories that make for thought. And invariably... hopefully.. those thoughts will be somewhere in the noggins of those who brew the coming reality.
OK, back to Pretty Derby. *tunes the fuck right out.*
WTF is this doing in Slashdot, besides some tenuous connection to tech / nerd culture due to a) who supposedly rides them and b) how because it's app-enabled creditcard-paid suddenly makes it techy.
TFA is an opinion piece written by an ex-NFL'er, about a localized problem that doesn't affect anyone else other than him, and perhaps a handful of LA Times readers that thinks as he does.
If you're aiming for humor I find it fell way short... your silent ethernet packets are aimed at the antenna, not the microphone, which is the subject of TFA.
The phones are susceptible to silent control VIA THE MIKE.
And as for white mice, I, for one, welcome our new Presidential Overlords, Pinky and the Brain. They've *got* to be better than what we've had since 1969!!!
I dunno man, I think Russia wants the old USSR back. Wasn't the Cold War a money-making machine for the 40 years it lasted?
As for letting Iran, Russia, China and the EU allegedly "lead" the world.. I honestly think they'd lead it right into war. Again.
Lack of technical knowledge will likely make for distorted political insight and create blind spots.. imo.