Yes it is unbelieve that standard input fields are currently not available. What I would like to see as standard input fields on the web.
1) Date field where you can specify how the date is displayed to the user and how the date field is actually sent to the server. 2) Time field with same option as the date field. 3) Timestamp field with date time. 4) Date range field. 5) Integer number field with max min values but not with incremental buttons, and that display only number input on mobile. 6) Currency field with specified currency and max min values. 7) Country selector field with flag display that submits country code. 8) Credit card number field, max min size and with optional LUHN check before submit. 9) Phone number field with country selector. 10) Email field with validation 11) Simple HTML editor field with simple formatting like bold, italics, numbered lists e.t.c 12) Image attachment field. Where you can select an image on your hard disk and it displays as an image in the browser before you submit. 13) Video attachment field. Where you can select a video on your hard disk and it displays as a video in the browser before you submit. 14) Audio attachment field. Where you can select an audio on your hard disk and it displays as audio in the browser before you submit. 15) Simple table editor field. Where you can specify the table data as input in CSV and the result as are sent as CSV.
All of these input fields are possible today but with a lot of kludges and hacking and very specific custom HTML. As it is now everybody in the world has to implement all of these types again and again.
All my lifetime there have been news every few years about how this company or that is just about to find a cure for cancer and then nothing ever happens. I can assure you that the cure for cancer will not be found in the next 100 years. Of course there will be advances in how cancer is treated but a full blown cure is not going to happen.
This is exactly what everyone was saying at the time. The FBI didn't really give a damn about what was on the phone. All they wanted was the legal precedent for forcing companies to give up their security.
Oh, cut the bleeding heart crap, will ya? We've all got our switches, lights, and knobs to deal with, Striker. I mean, down here there are literally hundreds and thousands of blinking, beeping, and flashing lights, blinking and beeping and flashing - they're *flashing* and they're *beeping*. I can't stand it anymore! They're *blinking* and *beeping* and *flashing*! Why doesn't somebody pull the plug!
It is always a good idea to log as much as you can. Because if something goes wrong later then you can go back and check the actual data. Having the log only for debug mode doesn't help you when something is wrong on a live system. But of course you always remove or starr out any critical information when logging.
Wow this must means I am the Einstein of our generation. I could probably write the greatest intellectual paper of all times, but I really can't be bothered.
Welcome to my life. As a software engineer I must document everything and make reports and tickets for every single change. Even if a single digit code change takes only 2 seconds to make, I spend up to maybe 2 hours documenting, making TPS reports, tickets and work reports for that single change. Most likely that work will never be read again ever.
In order to generate extra in between frames you need at least 2 frames. For TV this means that the output is delayed for a few milliseconds which isn't a problem because TV is not interactive but for a VR which is interactive you just added more delay into the controller response system.
It is impossible to program a car to make the best moral decision. If that was the case then the car would be a sentient being himself and even if the car was a sentinent being it would not be clear cut what decision would be the best in any case.
The only possible way for this to work at all is to have very simple rules for self driving cars: 1) The car must never drive of the road or into incoming traffic, even if there are obstacles/people in front. 2) If there is an obstacle in front apply breaks as needed.
I have never gotten the distinction christians take between the old and the new testament. I get what they are but not why there is a distinction. I mean ok the old testament was written before Jesus, but the old testament was still written by God right? And what is in the old testament is what God actually did. So what happened? Did God just change his mind? Did God make a mistake? Was he a mean old spirited jackass in the old testament but changed and became nicer guy as he got older? What happened?
If God is supposed to be almighty then nothing of this makes any sense at all.
No I don't want any new crap, I just want the previous crap to work now and work better. There should be more focus on fixing bugs and not removing features already there.
There is no difference between poker chips and "real" money. The real question here is that if he had offered poker chips instead, would it still be a crime?
This is a self induced problem. The way to tackle this problem is to write the system in the first place to be extremely specific about what is the core android system is and what is the oem system and also any changes to the the core are either handled by specfici config files or very specific Google approved modifications.
This way Google can update the core system and the OEM can update their system.
I have worked creating complex software systems where we create the core system but the end user can fully customize business rules, user interface and custom additions without affecting the core system. The end user can the then upgrade the core without affecting the custom solution. So this is possible but of course you have to have very good documentation and practices to make this a reality.
"Yes sir, we accidently destroyed the disk. You see we where testing a flamethrower and accidently burned the disk, and then as it happens sometimes a steamroller came by and just happened to crush it, and finally we spilled some highly corrosive acid on the remains.It was just a freak accident."
I am a software developer and I can tell you the Apple developers are morons. You find out where the delete calls are and work your way up from there and map out all the possible scenarios involving delete calls. If they can't do that then obviously the software was written by amateurs and is just a total mess or the current developers are moron.
Now if this was a small software shop with little cash to go around then this would maybe be understandable but we are talking Apple here. They should be able to write their lines of code with NASA precisions and QA.
- would be Apple's to invent themselves, and keep it themselves. Not to give tool to gov agency- they only wanted the opened phone.
Where is that stated? Are you telling me that the FBI would have to give Apple the phone, which is part of evidence, and just let them handle it inhouse at their will at Apple with no government agent involved to supervise?
- that Apple themselves should be responsible for tool once it was created, again the agency felt it is Apple's business IP so not agency's to keep.
They don't need to own it, it is enough just have access to it to misuse it.
- Apple said that once a tool was invented (as you reference), it would leak into the wild. (See point above for Apple's own responsibilities and realize the insanity of their scolding other's for their own possible future leak).
Yes because at some point an agent has access to this tool and could duplicate it or take it with him and at that point it could be leaked into the wild. But even if it was only Apple employees, they are just humans and brittle as anyone. So by creating this tool in the first place there is always a change it will leak. It's like if a company that makes safes creates a bunch of master keys that open all safes. There is always a possibility that some former disgruntled employee will misuse that key. But if those master keys don't exists at all then there is no danger of them being misused.
When Cook CREATED controversy on his own, and started pointing fingers- the agency went elsewhere as you know. then guess what happened *are you ready for this? Commenters, public opinion, and/.'s own member base COMPLAINED that the gov announced the tool would remain secret & not be released. Read that sentence again. The tool was not going public & the gov was keeping it in-house lest it cause havoc all over the world.
I think people where just asking for responsible disclosure since it is obvious that this third party company found a serious security bug and a government agency now has access to information about this bug. This bug information should be released to Apple so that they can create a fix and then after some time the bug information should be disclosed to the general public.
This is exactly what Apple was saying would happen if they released the patch. This hack is now to be used for all other phones that have some information, which have no bearing to the original case. This is exactly the slippery slope we where warning about would happen.
Another problem with free will is that nobody can explain what that concept actually is. Let's take an example. Let's say you have two identical twin brothers and you know for a fact that one of the brothers has free will but the other one doesn't. You have access to all the tests, tools, medical equipment and science in the whole world at your fingertips and you can examine these brothers in smallest details at the molecular level. How could you find out which one is which? You can't because it is impossible. That is the problem.
Of course there is no free will. Your brain is made out of chemicals those chemicals follow specific laws. This means that it is would be possible to simulate your brain if you had a big enough computer. So if you can simulate your brain and can predict what your decision would be then you don't have any free will.
The funny thing is that they could have been making the same profits for the last 20 years if they had just stopped fighting the Internet and started streaming services and Internet downloads. Just shows how stupid these morons really are. Even I knew 20 years ago that trying to fight online music was totally futile and the only solution was to embrace it.
"there must be a line beyond which a practice is not 'religious' simply because a plaintiff labels it as such... A prisoner could just as easily read the bible and claim it as his holy book, and demand accommodation of Mormonisnm or the church of seventh day adventists. The Christian Gospel is plainly a work of satire, meant to entertain while making a pointed political statement," and thus not a "real" religion.
This is the same argument and it actually makes sense, how do we know that the Bible was not meant as a satire? How do we know the Bible is a holy book? Just because some people said so? You either have to allow everything to be a religion or none of it.
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Yes it is unbelieve that standard input fields are currently not available. What I would like to see as standard input fields on the web.
1) Date field where you can specify how the date is displayed to the user and how the date field is actually sent to the server.
2) Time field with same option as the date field.
3) Timestamp field with date time.
4) Date range field.
5) Integer number field with max min values but not with incremental buttons, and that display only number input on mobile.
6) Currency field with specified currency and max min values.
7) Country selector field with flag display that submits country code.
8) Credit card number field, max min size and with optional LUHN check before submit.
9) Phone number field with country selector.
10) Email field with validation
11) Simple HTML editor field with simple formatting like bold, italics, numbered lists e.t.c
12) Image attachment field. Where you can select an image on your hard disk and it displays as an image in the browser before you submit.
13) Video attachment field. Where you can select a video on your hard disk and it displays as a video in the browser before you submit.
14) Audio attachment field. Where you can select an audio on your hard disk and it displays as audio in the browser before you submit.
15) Simple table editor field. Where you can specify the table data as input in CSV and the result as are sent as CSV.
All of these input fields are possible today but with a lot of kludges and hacking and very specific custom HTML. As it is now everybody in the world has to implement all of these types again and again.
All my lifetime there have been news every few years about how this company or that is just about to find a cure for cancer and then nothing ever happens. I can assure you that the cure for cancer will not be found in the next 100 years. Of course there will be advances in how cancer is treated but a full blown cure is not going to happen.
This is exactly what everyone was saying at the time. The FBI didn't really give a damn about what was on the phone. All they wanted was the legal precedent for forcing companies to give up their security.
I accidentally my Galaxy Note 7 what should I do...is this dangerous?
Oh, cut the bleeding heart crap, will ya? We've all got our switches, lights, and knobs to deal with, Striker. I mean, down here there are literally hundreds and thousands of blinking, beeping, and flashing lights, blinking and beeping and flashing - they're *flashing* and they're *beeping*. I can't stand it anymore! They're *blinking* and *beeping* and *flashing*! Why doesn't somebody pull the plug!
It is always a good idea to log as much as you can. Because if something goes wrong later then you can go back and check the actual data. Having the log only for debug mode doesn't help you when something is wrong on a live system. But of course you always remove or starr out any critical information when logging.
I suggest we call it "The Force"
Wow this must means I am the Einstein of our generation. I could probably write the greatest intellectual paper of all times, but I really can't be bothered.
Welcome to my life. As a software engineer I must document everything and make reports and tickets for every single change. Even if a single digit code change takes only 2 seconds to make, I spend up to maybe 2 hours documenting, making TPS reports, tickets and work reports for that single change. Most likely that work will never be read again ever.
Because you are an idiot?
In order to generate extra in between frames you need at least 2 frames. For TV this means that the output is delayed for a few milliseconds which isn't a problem because TV is not interactive but for a VR which is interactive you just added more delay into the controller response system.
It is impossible to program a car to make the best moral decision. If that was the case then the car would be a sentient being himself and even if the car was a sentinent being it would not be clear cut what decision would be the best in any case.
The only possible way for this to work at all is to have very simple rules for self driving cars:
1) The car must never drive of the road or into incoming traffic, even if there are obstacles/people in front.
2) If there is an obstacle in front apply breaks as needed.
I have never gotten the distinction christians take between the old and the new testament. I get what they are but not why there is a distinction. I mean ok the old testament was written before Jesus, but the old testament was still written by God right? And what is in the old testament is what God actually did. So what happened? Did God just change his mind? Did God make a mistake? Was he a mean old spirited jackass in the old testament but changed and became nicer guy as he got older? What happened?
If God is supposed to be almighty then nothing of this makes any sense at all.
No I don't want any new crap, I just want the previous crap to work now and work better. There should be more focus on fixing bugs and not removing features already there.
There is no difference between poker chips and "real" money. The real question here is that if he had offered poker chips instead, would it still be a crime?
This is a self induced problem. The way to tackle this problem is to write the system in the first place to be extremely specific about what is the core android system is and what is the oem system and also any changes to the the core are either handled by specfici config files or very specific Google approved modifications.
This way Google can update the core system and the OEM can update their system.
I have worked creating complex software systems where we create the core system but the end user can fully customize business rules, user interface and custom additions without affecting the core system. The end user can the then upgrade the core without affecting the custom solution. So this is possible but of course you have to have very good documentation and practices to make this a reality.
"Yes sir, we accidently destroyed the disk. You see we where testing a flamethrower and accidently burned the disk, and then as it happens sometimes a steamroller came by and just happened to crush it, and finally we spilled some highly corrosive acid on the remains.It was just a freak accident."
You had zeros? We had to use the letter "O"
I am a software developer and I can tell you the Apple developers are morons. You find out where the delete calls are and work your way up from there and map out all the possible scenarios involving delete calls. If they can't do that then obviously the software was written by amateurs and is just a total mess or the current developers are moron.
Now if this was a small software shop with little cash to go around then this would maybe be understandable but we are talking Apple here. They should be able to write their lines of code with NASA precisions and QA.
- would be Apple's to invent themselves, and keep it themselves. Not to give tool to gov agency- they only wanted the opened phone.
Where is that stated? Are you telling me that the FBI would have to give Apple the phone, which is part of evidence, and just let them handle it inhouse at their will at Apple with no government agent involved to supervise?
- that Apple themselves should be responsible for tool once it was created, again the agency felt it is Apple's business IP so not agency's to keep.
They don't need to own it, it is enough just have access to it to misuse it.
- Apple said that once a tool was invented (as you reference), it would leak into the wild. (See point above for Apple's own responsibilities and realize the insanity of their scolding other's for their own possible future leak).
Yes because at some point an agent has access to this tool and could duplicate it or take it with him and at that point it could be leaked into the wild. But even if it was only Apple employees, they are just humans and brittle as anyone. So by creating this tool in the first place there is always a change it will leak. It's like if a company that makes safes creates a bunch of master keys that open all safes. There is always a possibility that some former disgruntled employee will misuse that key. But if those master keys don't exists at all then there is no danger of them being misused.
When Cook CREATED controversy on his own, and started pointing fingers- the agency went elsewhere as you know. then guess what happened *are you ready for this? Commenters, public opinion, and /.'s own member base COMPLAINED that the gov announced the tool would remain secret & not be released. Read that sentence again. The tool was not going public & the gov was keeping it in-house lest it cause havoc all over the world.
I think people where just asking for responsible disclosure since it is obvious that this third party company found a serious security bug and a government agency now has access to information about this bug. This bug information should be released to Apple so that they can create a fix and then after some time the bug information should be disclosed to the general public.
This is exactly what Apple was saying would happen if they released the patch. This hack is now to be used for all other phones that have some information, which have no bearing to the original case. This is exactly the slippery slope we where warning about would happen.
The first steps to a totalitarian dictatorship.
Another problem with free will is that nobody can explain what that concept actually is. Let's take an example. Let's say you have two identical twin brothers and you know for a fact that one of the brothers has free will but the other one doesn't. You have access to all the tests, tools, medical equipment and science in the whole world at your fingertips and you can examine these brothers in smallest details at the molecular level. How could you find out which one is which? You can't because it is impossible. That is the problem.
Of course there is no free will. Your brain is made out of chemicals those chemicals follow specific laws. This means that it is would be possible to simulate your brain if you had a big enough computer. So if you can simulate your brain and can predict what your decision would be then you don't have any free will.
The funny thing is that they could have been making the same profits for the last 20 years if they had just stopped fighting the Internet and started streaming services and Internet downloads. Just shows how stupid these morons really are. Even I knew 20 years ago that trying to fight online music was totally futile and the only solution was to embrace it.
"there must be a line beyond which a practice is not 'religious' simply because a plaintiff labels it as such... A prisoner could just as easily read the bible and claim it as his holy book, and demand accommodation of Mormonisnm or the church of seventh day adventists. The Christian Gospel is plainly a work of satire, meant to entertain while making a pointed political statement," and thus not a "real" religion.
This is the same argument and it actually makes sense, how do we know that the Bible was not meant as a satire? How do we know the Bible is a holy book? Just because some people said so? You either have to allow everything to be a religion or none of it.