Welcome to capitalism, companies make the products they think they can sell (i.e. expensive trailers) and price them at what they think they can get. The people that want something else are screwed. If enough people are not able to get what they want it creates a market opportunity to start a business to cater to them.
Why can so many people, even people "in the industry" not understand the difference between Identification and Authorization.
Biometrics is a good form of Identification, it's hard to lose your fingerprint or your retina (it can happen but it's not common in everyday life). You can't forget them at home, your spouse can't take yours with them by mistake, etc. A biometric ID/Authorization system can be excellent, near perfect if fact, at identifying you as you but it has no ability to handle the situation when it identifies someone who isn't you as you -- it has no system to handle the false positive.
Biometrics are a lousy form of Authorization. Once your biometrics have been used to identify you, you need a separate system to authenticate that it's actually you -- to defeat the false positive. As you travel around you leave your fingerprints and DNA all over the place, your image is recorded hundreds if not thousands of times a day. Your biometric ID is not private, gathering the information required to impersonate you is easy even if the techniques to impersonate you are not readily available at this time.
There is also the issue of what to do if your biometric identification has been compromised. If someone is accessing your bank accounts because they've been able to successfully fake your fingerprints, the bank can't issue you new fingerprints.
Biometrics are great for identification, but are terrible for authorization.
Rant #1 - Arg! Apple doesn't give users enough control over how their devices work!!! Rant #2 - Arg! Apple is giving users too much control over how their devices work!!!
What you want is to tax the crap out of any money held by corporations, which incentivises them to invest in growing their operations or paying out their money in dividends (you make dividends an expense), wages, etc.
Corporations are sitting on billions and billions of dollars, this is harming the economy. You want money to circulate, not sit.
So I have to come out to the car that's parked somewhere nearby to pick up my pizza? What's next? Do I have to come down to the shop where they make it and pick it up there?
There is something wrong with a society that is focused on ways to eliminate people from being part of it. I don't know how to solve that issue...
Much of Science Fiction takes one or a small number of technological advances and examines how it will impact society, humanity. In Blade Runner it's looking at how the addition of manufactured "humans" will impact people. We examine it through Deckard and how he comes to view them as fully human.
The payphone isn't important to the story and is simply part of the visual style of the film.
Blade Runner is a poor example to use for the topic of the article, we don't have replicants so we can't compare how they "got it wrong". If you want to look at how science fiction gets technology wrong, look at something from 50 years ago about how computers are going to change society, then compare it to how computers have actually changed society.
But even then you're wasting your time because science fiction is not about making accurate predictions, it's about examining current reality by contrasting it with a potential/imagined future.
Isn't what Amazon patenting here just another name for groceries? You go to the store, buy the ingredients for a meal, take them home, cook them, VoilÃ!
I'm sure there is a term in psychology for this, but people can see and understand the immediate consequences of being robbed. The thief takes your property, so it's something that sits at the front of their thoughts. It's harder the understand the potential loss that you can have if your bankcard is compromised, or lost, or stolen so it doesn't get the same mental concern.
We, as humans, are also quite poor at assessing risk of rare events. Is the risk of losing $200 cash from theft more or less than the risk of losing thousands by your bankcard being compromised? That's also why we'll worry about the flight but not the drive to and from the airport, even though statistically we are in more danger driving to and from the airport.
The hate because Apple is successful is palpable...
To make a ringtone for an iPhone, save a 30 second or shorter audio file as an AAC file (industry standard file format) with a.m4r extension and sync it to your phone.
I'm puzzled as to why they would use six USED 747 engines. Newer turbine engines are more efficient, why wouldn't you use six (or four) new 747 or A380 engines? It's not like he doesn't have the money...
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I'll just add this as yet another reason to use an ad blocker, a JavaScript blocker and not use a login manager.
Meanwhile, Apple is selling millions of iPhones and having issues supplying demand.
Welcome to capitalism, companies make the products they think they can sell (i.e. expensive trailers) and price them at what they think they can get. The people that want something else are screwed. If enough people are not able to get what they want it creates a market opportunity to start a business to cater to them.
Why can so many people, even people "in the industry" not understand the difference between Identification and Authorization.
Biometrics is a good form of Identification, it's hard to lose your fingerprint or your retina (it can happen but it's not common in everyday life). You can't forget them at home, your spouse can't take yours with them by mistake, etc. A biometric ID/Authorization system can be excellent, near perfect if fact, at identifying you as you but it has no ability to handle the situation when it identifies someone who isn't you as you -- it has no system to handle the false positive.
Biometrics are a lousy form of Authorization. Once your biometrics have been used to identify you, you need a separate system to authenticate that it's actually you -- to defeat the false positive. As you travel around you leave your fingerprints and DNA all over the place, your image is recorded hundreds if not thousands of times a day. Your biometric ID is not private, gathering the information required to impersonate you is easy even if the techniques to impersonate you are not readily available at this time.
There is also the issue of what to do if your biometric identification has been compromised. If someone is accessing your bank accounts because they've been able to successfully fake your fingerprints, the bank can't issue you new fingerprints.
Biometrics are great for identification, but are terrible for authorization.
Correlation does not equal causation.
On the upside, Walmart employees will now be able to make a substantial secondary income by ratting you out to the police.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
Rant #1 - Arg! Apple doesn't give users enough control over how their devices work!!!
Rant #2 - Arg! Apple is giving users too much control over how their devices work!!!
Pick one.
Your sentiment is a clear demonstration of the antagonistic attitude towards business in America.
It's always fun to see someone who is pro-business and free-enterprise bend themselves into pretzels trying to defend corporate welfare.
Given Jeff's "offices" are in Seattle and he just bought a home in DC -- I don't think he cares values living close to work.
What you want is to tax the crap out of any money held by corporations, which incentivises them to invest in growing their operations or paying out their money in dividends (you make dividends an expense), wages, etc.
Corporations are sitting on billions and billions of dollars, this is harming the economy. You want money to circulate, not sit.
White Supremacists and other right-wing snowflakes whine when google doesn't want to associate with them.
To the Interactive Advertising Bureau, American Advertising Federation, the Association of National Advertisers, the 4A's and two others:
Your ads hurt my user experience.
Your tracking hurts my privacy.
Your infected ads hurt my computer.
Basically, you hurt people. If you disappear that will be a good thing.
...gay people!
P.S. It's a joke!
You have a device that controls your home that responds to voice commands, and someone can "hack it" by giving it voice commands. How is this news?
BTW: This is why I don't have a voice activated system controlling my house / phone / computer / whatever.
So I have to come out to the car that's parked somewhere nearby to pick up my pizza? What's next? Do I have to come down to the shop where they make it and pick it up there?
There is something wrong with a society that is focused on ways to eliminate people from being part of it. I don't know how to solve that issue...
Much of Science Fiction takes one or a small number of technological advances and examines how it will impact society, humanity. In Blade Runner it's looking at how the addition of manufactured "humans" will impact people. We examine it through Deckard and how he comes to view them as fully human.
The payphone isn't important to the story and is simply part of the visual style of the film.
Blade Runner is a poor example to use for the topic of the article, we don't have replicants so we can't compare how they "got it wrong". If you want to look at how science fiction gets technology wrong, look at something from 50 years ago about how computers are going to change society, then compare it to how computers have actually changed society.
But even then you're wasting your time because science fiction is not about making accurate predictions, it's about examining current reality by contrasting it with a potential/imagined future.
HPD Ordered to Pay $31K over Censored Facebook Comments
http://www.hawaiifreepress.com...
Court Rules Against Politician Who Banned Access to Her Facebook Page
http://www.foxbusiness.com/fea...
I wonder if this will help improve their dismal security record.
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
Isn't what Amazon patenting here just another name for groceries? You go to the store, buy the ingredients for a meal, take them home, cook them, VoilÃ!
I'm sure there is a term in psychology for this, but people can see and understand the immediate consequences of being robbed. The thief takes your property, so it's something that sits at the front of their thoughts. It's harder the understand the potential loss that you can have if your bankcard is compromised, or lost, or stolen so it doesn't get the same mental concern.
We, as humans, are also quite poor at assessing risk of rare events. Is the risk of losing $200 cash from theft more or less than the risk of losing thousands by your bankcard being compromised? That's also why we'll worry about the flight but not the drive to and from the airport, even though statistically we are in more danger driving to and from the airport.
The hate because Apple is successful is palpable...
To make a ringtone for an iPhone, save a 30 second or shorter audio file as an AAC file (industry standard file format) with a .m4r extension and sync it to your phone.
I think what's happened is Drumpf watched Starship Troopers and got scared of space bugs...
Apple Mac computers?
What about the Apple non-Mac computers?
You mean like the iPhones and iPads?
I'm puzzled as to why they would use six USED 747 engines. Newer turbine engines are more efficient, why wouldn't you use six (or four) new 747 or A380 engines? It's not like he doesn't have the money...
Since user mistakes would be something like 98% of the mistakes and a parachute can deal with the 2% of cases left -- what was your problem again?