Nice argument, but that's not what happened. Apple already made the contents of the iCloud account available to investigators, as they were ordered to. This is entirely different. They're being asked to build software that doesn't exist to subvert a security feature in iOS.
It's more like going to a safe company and asking them to build you a key that unlocks every safe. It's more complex than that, really, but it's less wrong than your analogy.
My thoughts exactly. Have we seriously no other health issues in the world that we need to worry about something that MIGHT happen someday, but for which there's nothing at all to suggest it's a real threat?
Maybe we could dismiss nonsense like this and pay attention to actual cancer which kills lots of actual people every year?
What skills? She's an English major. She's doing customer support and wants to "make memes and twitter jokes about food". Do you really think the Bay Area is the only place you can do customer support or write things?
This is covered in the numerous articles on the topic.
The FBI wants to brute force the PIN, not the encryption key. The phone is set to wipe if the PIN is incorrectly entered too many times. They want a custom firmware that will let them guess until they get the right PIN, at which point they will simply have an unlocked phone with no need to even try to brute force the encryption.
Laser pointers in general are mostly used for pointing at whiteboards and screens, so if you're going to "classify" them as anything, they should be classified as office supplies. Somewhat less often they're used as toys, so if you have to classify them as two things, they're office supplies and toys. Rarely, they're used to harass people. While those using them to harass pilots SHOULD be summarily thrown under the wheels of justice, that doesn't mean the pointers magically became something new.
I get HOAs (if you're a member), as well as schools you attend (want your transcript? pay your fine...). The ones I questioned were office parking lot/shopping area, etc. I guess I understand office parking lot if it's the office you work in, rather than one you're doing business with as a customer. There's zero chance I'd ever pay a parking fine at a shopping area. Then again, I do boring things like park in parking spaces at shopping areas, so it's never been an issue.
Anyway, AC answered my question. Somebody actually got it passed as law in the UK. If so, it's legit (if terrible).
Some have real cops, some don't. I got a ticket on a big college campus once. Never paid it. Nothing happened. Got one on another college campus where I happened to work. I absolutely had to pay that one, as I had a contractual relationship with them where I'd agreed to do so in advance in exchange for the right to park there (in writing). At least here, random companies can't just assess you fines absent some agreement where you allow them to.
I'm curious where you live that an office parking lot or shopping area can give you a ticket. Private property (here at least) doesn't grant you the authority to fine people. It just grants you the right to ask them to leave, have their car towed, etc.
My daughter's phone had a damaged screen and was out of warranty. Rather than pay $199 for apple to fix it, she had a mall kiosk do it for $100. When she had problems, we decided to maybe let Apple fix it after all and eat the $100. The Apple Store folks told us that once the screen had been replaced by someone else, they wouldn't touch it.
Understand, I'm not saying they wouldn't cover it under warranty, which is totally reasonable. They wouldn't repair it for full retail ($199). ObCarAnalogy: Go to Jiffy Lube for an oil change and the dealer won't work on your car ever again.
Just one more reason my next phone is probably not going to be an iPhone.
Disagree. Sometimes there are some very insightful and interesting AC comments. I'm willing to deal with the less valuable AC comments to keep those.
Anonymity has always been a useful tool to express an opinion that the masses don't agree with, especially if there's are people with an axe to grind over that opinion.
Wait, how do you know I haven't been "there" and where is there, anyway?
I never said the ER is the best option. I said they have better doctors. It's often a bad option because it's expensive and you might wait a long time. I base that on working in medical research in a hospital for over a decade, as well as being a veteran of at least 50 ER trips. I've had quite a lot of interaction with the medical field, and some exposure to the billing side. Not a lot, but some. Based on that I stand by my opinion that the average primary care doc is better than the nurse at the minute clinic (though I did have one knucklehead of a PCP once, but that's another story), and the ER docs are better than the average primary care doc. In my experience, neonatal intensive care is the best, but unless you're a baby, that's not available to you.
FWIW, I'm actually pretty relaxed about the issue. I think it'd help us ever actually get anything done if people would stop hyperventilating about getting someone else to pay for it and start asking if it's priced fairly.
I really don't think you do, but hey, it's your dollar. Do what you want with it.
Personally, I get most of my healthcare from a world-class medical institution, but sometimes I really don't want the best care possible. I had a paronychia (infection around the fingernail that was bugging me). I *could* have gone to my $300 doctor. I could have gone to the ER, which arguably has even better doctors, but with a wait and a $2,000 bill for walking in the door. I went to Minute Clinic. Retail cost: $89. I still just paid my copay, but it made me happy that I didn't overpay for no reason.
I think most people are full of it when they say they want the "best possible" anything without regard to cost. When you actually show people the cost, they change their tune.
I'm not at all for gutting our current medical system, and a capitalist to the core, I love financial incentives. Still, there are some abuses that need to be curbed and people need to stop asking "How can I get someone else to pay for this for me?" and start asking "Why is it so expensive to begin with?". I know for a fact there's a test my expensive provider bills $200 more than a retail provider, where it's something like $20. Exact same test, done the exact same way. The difference? My expensive provider is part of a big medical institute, and you're allowed to bill more for that test "in a hospital setting", even if the patient got the test at his regular, routine doctor's appointment a walk-in clinic.
Sometimes you're not paying for quality or incentivizing innovation. You're just paying more because there's a complicated, opaque system that lets them charge you more.
Has it? I must have misunderstood all those stories about rates going up so much this year.
The ACA got a lot of people health insurance that they didn't have to pay for. Net societal good? Sure. I'd like to see everybody covered. The ACA utterly failed to do anything about actual healthcare costs. What we very much don't need is a world where everybody's covered, and we can all go see our doctor (for $300 for a 10 minute visit), but we only pay a $20 copay, then freak out because our taxes are so high. All the ACA did is funnel more tax dollars into the pipe.
The question of paying for health insurance out of your pocket, your payroll, or your taxes is a shell game. The problem is not where it's being paid from, it's that we're paying too much for it.
No. Way. You want to hand over healthcare to the same brain trust whose last pass was essentially "We're going to make health care more affordable by making more people buy it." Anyone who ever took Econ 101 could tell you that wouldn't work, and it hasn't.
$DIETY, no. I hate to drive. I buy cars because they're the most time efficient way to get to the places I need to go, carrying the set of people and stuff I need to take with me.
While those posting that insurance companies aren't useful are COMPLETELY wrong, this is really just a case of sometimes an industry isn't needed anymore. If and when we no longer need drivers, we aren't going to need insurance for those drivers. Really not a problem for anyone who isn't an insurance company, and for those who are, it's natural that they'd try to find something else to do. If they can't find anything useful for us, the consumer, then they're welcome to follow the buggy whip manufacturers of old.
Okay... so which candidates aren't idiots? I'm genuinely curious.
Got me. I'm really disappointed in this crop. Kodos may well be your best option.
My point, though, is that this is a consequence of voting for idiots in the past, as well as supporting them, talking about them, giving them money, telling pollsters you'll vote for them, etc. We, the electorate, do that and what do we get? Idiots campaigning for the presidency on a platform that they wouldn't even have the legal power to act on if they won.
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Nice argument, but that's not what happened. Apple already made the contents of the iCloud account available to investigators, as they were ordered to. This is entirely different. They're being asked to build software that doesn't exist to subvert a security feature in iOS.
It's more like going to a safe company and asking them to build you a key that unlocks every safe. It's more complex than that, really, but it's less wrong than your analogy.
My thoughts exactly. Have we seriously no other health issues in the world that we need to worry about something that MIGHT happen someday, but for which there's nothing at all to suggest it's a real threat?
Maybe we could dismiss nonsense like this and pay attention to actual cancer which kills lots of actual people every year?
What skills? She's an English major. She's doing customer support and wants to "make memes and twitter jokes about food". Do you really think the Bay Area is the only place you can do customer support or write things?
Probably around the same time people accept that sometimes people do contribute to their own problems.
This is covered in the numerous articles on the topic.
The FBI wants to brute force the PIN, not the encryption key. The phone is set to wipe if the PIN is incorrectly entered too many times. They want a custom firmware that will let them guess until they get the right PIN, at which point they will simply have an unlocked phone with no need to even try to brute force the encryption.
I guess you missed the whole CALEA thing, then?
Laser pointers in general are mostly used for pointing at whiteboards and screens, so if you're going to "classify" them as anything, they should be classified as office supplies. Somewhat less often they're used as toys, so if you have to classify them as two things, they're office supplies and toys. Rarely, they're used to harass people. While those using them to harass pilots SHOULD be summarily thrown under the wheels of justice, that doesn't mean the pointers magically became something new.
Wish I had mod points. Exactly what I wanted to post. Well said.
I get HOAs (if you're a member), as well as schools you attend (want your transcript? pay your fine...). The ones I questioned were office parking lot/shopping area, etc. I guess I understand office parking lot if it's the office you work in, rather than one you're doing business with as a customer. There's zero chance I'd ever pay a parking fine at a shopping area. Then again, I do boring things like park in parking spaces at shopping areas, so it's never been an issue.
Anyway, AC answered my question. Somebody actually got it passed as law in the UK. If so, it's legit (if terrible).
Some have real cops, some don't. I got a ticket on a big college campus once. Never paid it. Nothing happened. Got one on another college campus where I happened to work. I absolutely had to pay that one, as I had a contractual relationship with them where I'd agreed to do so in advance in exchange for the right to park there (in writing). At least here, random companies can't just assess you fines absent some agreement where you allow them to.
Anybody can hand you a piece of paper. Having any authority at all to make you pay is the question.
I'm curious where you live that an office parking lot or shopping area can give you a ticket. Private property (here at least) doesn't grant you the authority to fine people. It just grants you the right to ask them to leave, have their car towed, etc.
For the "driver" to be considered a minor, they'd have to be considered a person at all first. That's a massive stretch. I don't see it happening.
My daughter's phone had a damaged screen and was out of warranty. Rather than pay $199 for apple to fix it, she had a mall kiosk do it for $100. When she had problems, we decided to maybe let Apple fix it after all and eat the $100. The Apple Store folks told us that once the screen had been replaced by someone else, they wouldn't touch it.
Understand, I'm not saying they wouldn't cover it under warranty, which is totally reasonable. They wouldn't repair it for full retail ($199). ObCarAnalogy: Go to Jiffy Lube for an oil change and the dealer won't work on your car ever again.
Just one more reason my next phone is probably not going to be an iPhone.
That's not bricking. Bricking would be MS rendering components in the computer or the entire computer unusable.
Disagree. Sometimes there are some very insightful and interesting AC comments. I'm willing to deal with the less valuable AC comments to keep those.
Anonymity has always been a useful tool to express an opinion that the masses don't agree with, especially if there's are people with an axe to grind over that opinion.
Wait, how do you know I haven't been "there" and where is there, anyway?
I never said the ER is the best option. I said they have better doctors. It's often a bad option because it's expensive and you might wait a long time. I base that on working in medical research in a hospital for over a decade, as well as being a veteran of at least 50 ER trips. I've had quite a lot of interaction with the medical field, and some exposure to the billing side. Not a lot, but some. Based on that I stand by my opinion that the average primary care doc is better than the nurse at the minute clinic (though I did have one knucklehead of a PCP once, but that's another story), and the ER docs are better than the average primary care doc. In my experience, neonatal intensive care is the best, but unless you're a baby, that's not available to you.
FWIW, I'm actually pretty relaxed about the issue. I think it'd help us ever actually get anything done if people would stop hyperventilating about getting someone else to pay for it and start asking if it's priced fairly.
I really don't think you do, but hey, it's your dollar. Do what you want with it.
Personally, I get most of my healthcare from a world-class medical institution, but sometimes I really don't want the best care possible. I had a paronychia (infection around the fingernail that was bugging me). I *could* have gone to my $300 doctor. I could have gone to the ER, which arguably has even better doctors, but with a wait and a $2,000 bill for walking in the door. I went to Minute Clinic. Retail cost: $89. I still just paid my copay, but it made me happy that I didn't overpay for no reason.
I think most people are full of it when they say they want the "best possible" anything without regard to cost. When you actually show people the cost, they change their tune.
I'm not at all for gutting our current medical system, and a capitalist to the core, I love financial incentives. Still, there are some abuses that need to be curbed and people need to stop asking "How can I get someone else to pay for this for me?" and start asking "Why is it so expensive to begin with?". I know for a fact there's a test my expensive provider bills $200 more than a retail provider, where it's something like $20. Exact same test, done the exact same way. The difference? My expensive provider is part of a big medical institute, and you're allowed to bill more for that test "in a hospital setting", even if the patient got the test at his regular, routine doctor's appointment a walk-in clinic.
Sometimes you're not paying for quality or incentivizing innovation. You're just paying more because there's a complicated, opaque system that lets them charge you more.
Has it? I must have misunderstood all those stories about rates going up so much this year.
The ACA got a lot of people health insurance that they didn't have to pay for. Net societal good? Sure. I'd like to see everybody covered. The ACA utterly failed to do anything about actual healthcare costs. What we very much don't need is a world where everybody's covered, and we can all go see our doctor (for $300 for a 10 minute visit), but we only pay a $20 copay, then freak out because our taxes are so high. All the ACA did is funnel more tax dollars into the pipe.
The question of paying for health insurance out of your pocket, your payroll, or your taxes is a shell game. The problem is not where it's being paid from, it's that we're paying too much for it.
No. Way. You want to hand over healthcare to the same brain trust whose last pass was essentially "We're going to make health care more affordable by making more people buy it." Anyone who ever took Econ 101 could tell you that wouldn't work, and it hasn't.
$DIETY, no. I hate to drive. I buy cars because they're the most time efficient way to get to the places I need to go, carrying the set of people and stuff I need to take with me.
What a terrible thing to say. My family would never drink Bud Light.
While those posting that insurance companies aren't useful are COMPLETELY wrong, this is really just a case of sometimes an industry isn't needed anymore. If and when we no longer need drivers, we aren't going to need insurance for those drivers. Really not a problem for anyone who isn't an insurance company, and for those who are, it's natural that they'd try to find something else to do. If they can't find anything useful for us, the consumer, then they're welcome to follow the buggy whip manufacturers of old.
Got me. I'm really disappointed in this crop. Kodos may well be your best option.
My point, though, is that this is a consequence of voting for idiots in the past, as well as supporting them, talking about them, giving them money, telling pollsters you'll vote for them, etc. We, the electorate, do that and what do we get? Idiots campaigning for the presidency on a platform that they wouldn't even have the legal power to act on if they won.
And I absolutely include anybody in that category who promises, while running for president, to do something only Congress can do.