Ok... then how about notifying the user that the part cannot be trusted and offer them the choice to continue by entering the PIN and disable access to all items in the keychain until repaired by apple? Hell, even flush out all saved passwords and force the user to re-enter for email and other apps.
I'm really not seeing the justification for bricking the phone out-right.
Agreed -- it's an awesome security feature which helps secure your data.
However, I'm unsure how useful it is to brick the phone rather than disable the fingerprint reader in question and force the user to enter their passcode they created when configuring touch id? I don't see THAT as really adding security while refusing to use the fingerprint scanner and FORCE passcode entry would if it didn't trust the fingerprint hardware.
David Bowie and Bing Crosby. I don't think anybody will ever beat Crosby's records (though I think "we are the world" took the number one spot for a while -- and it took every pop artist of the time to knock Crosby down a notch) but that duet between Crosby and Bowie was awesome and demonstrates the longevity of his career.
I'm not a fan of all Bowie's work -- certainly not most of it. But there's enough of his catalog that I believe we'll see/hear his music long after the majority of "pop stars" today are gone (I'm looking at you Beyonce).
Let me stop you there as you are being moronic. You seem to understand the volume of guns but seem to think something can magically make them go away? Not going to happen. 3d printed guns? Zip guns? And the fact that there are, as you say, 250 million proper guns.
Think about this -- with reasonable care, guns last centuries. There are multitudes of 17th century guns that can still fire -- never mind the NEW stuff.
I thought it was about eCommerce. It might be subtle difference but perhaps not. Posting a "for sale" note on usenet or a BBS and then paying for/picking up the item in person doesn't necessary qualify as ecommerce. Commerce yes, but not ecommerce. I think the transaction needs to take place electronically -- not just the "promise" to buy/sell.
We also had services like compuserve which allowed placing at least airline reservations (can't remember if they allowed outright purchases). Even that may not really qualify as payment was fixed to your account. Please someone correct me if I'm wrong -- I'm pushing the limits of my memory of a service I had ~30 years ago.
I believe the article is spot on with the CD sale being the first (or at least the first verifiable) "on line" purchase and the start of e-commerce. The payment type was selected (random credit card) -- the transaction was secure -- it was transmitted electronically -- received and funds transferred -- and the purchased item was delivered to the purchaser.
To argue earlier instances of "commerce" taking place using usenet or BBSs as a means to arrange the deal as being the first "ecommerce" is akin to saying the fact that light bulbs existed before Edison so what he did wasn't that important (other than take a wire that would glow for a few mins to a few hours and extend that to months and build it cheaply enough to sell to everyone and are now ubiquitous).
"What benefit is there to de-anonymizing past postings? Will it really help if you know the names of the people who wrote those vile things?"
Maybe force people to think before they "speak"? Society is an imperfect machine at best and if you take away the only 'lubricant' it has (civility) things will break down.
Will it help me know who they are? I really don't care who they are. Maybe their spouse, parent or child knowing will effect their future behavior. Maybe their girl/boyfriend knowing will effect their future behavior. Shame can be an effective tool.
"most don't say that these changes will be retro-active." Actually, they do. Kind of. They use terms like
Such updates, revisions, supplements, modifications, and additional rules, policies, terms, and conditions (collectively referred to in this Agreement as "Additional Terms") will be effective immediately and incorporated into this Agreement.
"Imagine if contracts worked like this (hint, EULAs are generally treated like contracts). After years of paying, say, ten dollars a month the contract gets changed retro-actively to 100 dollars a month, and you're stuck owing thousands of dollars."
That part gets a lot more tricky and cant really work the way you suggest it might.
The paper's new policy has proven controversial among readers. "This is the end of open and honest comments on this site," wrote one user, who goes by the name BGF. "It is easy to put your name to your comments if you are retired. But it is another thing altogether if you have to worry about upsetting your peers and bosses at work."
My daughter was the victim of a horrific crime. One that was all over the news in a big market city (and surrounding cities). It's insane how nasty people can be when they don't think anybody will know it's them. Or how nasty they'll be if they don't think a victim or family member might see their post. I have no problem with news sites having policies like this. There are sites that allow anonymous posting elsewhere if someone has some political or "whistle blower" message they feel the need to post. This policy just cuts out trolls on a particular news site.
"They are breaking the terms under which posters made their previous posts."
Did you read the terms? I didn't -- never signed up for that site. I have ready many terms of sites I have signed up for and virtually all of those include some line where they can change the terms in the future. Not saying they had that -- but you are talking as if you read the terms and know exactly what it says and are full of righteous indignation.
If you haven't read the terms, then you are full of something other than righteous indignation. I leave exactly what that is up to the reader's imagination.
"The corporations that operate in this country have an obligation to the society that makes it possible for them to successfully conduct business."
I see this bogus argument a lot. It always ignores the benefits society has for the people.
The roads don't just exist so corporations can make money -- they bring food in so that people can eat. Laws and enforcement agencies don't just exist to protect corporations money -- they protect the people trying to work and live.
How long would society last if the food is cut off? Or water? Or random bands of raiders attacking and stealing resources? People in general and not corporations see far more of a benefit from these things.
A corporation has absolutely no obligation to any society other than to follow it's laws. And when those laws become harmful to corporations, what do they do? They move away or go out of business. And then where does that leave the (former) employees? Repeat that enough and you'll have ghost towns falling apart as people move to towns that aren't scary to businesses.
"The current corporate belief is that they have no duty or obligation to their employees."
Rightly so. And employees have no duty or obligation to their employer. There is an exchange of labor for money -- period.
No, why not make a good argument as to why it's a bad idea for HB1s to drive down the cost of labor and displace native workers? THAT is an easy and good argument to make. But suggesting an employer has any obligation other than to exchange money for labor to any employee willing to exchange labor for money is just a bogus argument.
"Except going to Mars is propaganda and not science. "
Actually it's both -- and more. Is the goal to JUST send robots to probe our solar system? Or to actually make a human presence? I believe the latter and I believe it's important for many reasons which should be obvious.
Yeah... I meant "attorney" -- not "client". I originally had "client" and "attorney" but decided to change it to "attorney" and "accused" but didn't change ALL of it.
And the act of recording it doesn't defacto make it "illegal". Both parties know it's being recorded. They also know it will not and cannot be used. If it is the trial is effectively over and the accused walks. Not to mention police can loose their jobs and prosecutors can be disbarred. Have you SEEN the chain of custody of those recording and transcripts? They are pretty detailed.
"If they are laboring under all those advantages and prosecutors get to listen to their calls to their attorney, apparently without bothering to disclose this fact, it's hard to even pretend that something remotely close to justice is being done."
I posted this earlier:
"My family was involved with a fairly complex trial recently (hah -- 'recently' took over 2.5 years from start to finish).
What I recall was that ALL calls were recorded and then screened (I honestly don't recall how) and the defense was notified of each recording between client and 'accused'. The post-screened calls were then filtered (removing privileged calls) to the police. All recordings (including privileged calls which were separate and sealed) were submitted to the defense as part of discovery."
"Particularly notable within the vast trove of phone records are what appear to be at least 14,000 recorded conversations between inmates and attorneys, a strong indication that at least some of the recordings are likely confidential and privileged legal communications calls that never should have been recorded in the first place. "
My family was involved with a fairly complex trial recently (hah -- 'recently' took over 2.5 years from start to finish).
What I recall was that ALL calls were recorded and then screened (I honestly don't recall how) and the defense was notified of each recording between client and 'accused'. The post-screened calls were then filtered (removing privileged calls) to the police. All recordings (including privileged calls which were separate and sealed) were submitted to the defense as part of discovery.
"The cable companies simply don't give a crap about consumers. They never have, and never will. And they sure as hell aren't going to make it easy to stop paying them."
You are correct. They don't care about consumers. They do, however, care about money. A lot.
We "cut the cord" almost 2 years ago. We only have internet through our provider. Over the last two years we've received some crazy decent offers from them to "add on" tv service ($10/mo for basic cable) + a cable box (at no charge). At first, for a year, then 2 years, then indefinitely at no charge for the box.
They are bleeding money because they are bleeding customers. They'll change or they will die.
I'd counter that you are overly easy to please. I never said Bicentennial Man was a terrible movie -- it wasn't. I enjoyed it. It just was a horrible adaptation of the story. I also didn't say that I Robot was horrible. I GUESS it was an OK action movie, but it was so far away from Asimov's source material that it was frustrating to watch for most anyone who had a passing familiarity of the source material.
Totally disagree with you on Starship Troopers movie -- as you say, it was farce -- which is completely counter to the source material. That's like saying Space Balls was a good "Star Wars" adaptation, man! They are not the same thing! And the reason I think "'Predestionation' was [the] only a respectable attempt" is because it's the only one that even attempted to stay close to the original story and tone!
"If you want to make an action movie or TV series - look at Keith Laumer." Or Harry Harrison... Deathworld would make a decent "action movie". And it follow the current "herd" mentality of Man=bad -- Animals/Plants=Good.
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Ya know... some jokes at the expense of the deceased can "work" (see Graham Chapman).
Something like this is just bad taste...
Ok... then how about notifying the user that the part cannot be trusted and offer them the choice to continue by entering the PIN and disable access to all items in the keychain until repaired by apple? Hell, even flush out all saved passwords and force the user to re-enter for email and other apps.
I'm really not seeing the justification for bricking the phone out-right.
Agreed -- it's an awesome security feature which helps secure your data.
However, I'm unsure how useful it is to brick the phone rather than disable the fingerprint reader in question and force the user to enter their passcode they created when configuring touch id? I don't see THAT as really adding security while refusing to use the fingerprint scanner and FORCE passcode entry would if it didn't trust the fingerprint hardware.
Bah. Posting to undo an unintended down-mod. Someone give this an upmod. Two to make up for my stupidity.
David Bowie and Bing Crosby. I don't think anybody will ever beat Crosby's records (though I think "we are the world" took the number one spot for a while -- and it took every pop artist of the time to knock Crosby down a notch) but that duet between Crosby and Bowie was awesome and demonstrates the longevity of his career.
I'm not a fan of all Bowie's work -- certainly not most of it. But there's enough of his catalog that I believe we'll see/hear his music long after the majority of "pop stars" today are gone (I'm looking at you Beyonce).
Follow up the thread. You'll then understand why I deliberately used "less guns".
Less guns means you believe in magic.
"Actually, moron"
Let me stop you there as you are being moronic. You seem to understand the volume of guns but seem to think something can magically make them go away? Not going to happen. 3d printed guns? Zip guns? And the fact that there are, as you say, 250 million proper guns.
Think about this -- with reasonable care, guns last centuries. There are multitudes of 17th century guns that can still fire -- never mind the NEW stuff.
I think you need to find a different solution.
I thought it was about eCommerce. It might be subtle difference but perhaps not. Posting a "for sale" note on usenet or a BBS and then paying for/picking up the item in person doesn't necessary qualify as ecommerce. Commerce yes, but not ecommerce. I think the transaction needs to take place electronically -- not just the "promise" to buy/sell.
We also had services like compuserve which allowed placing at least airline reservations (can't remember if they allowed outright purchases). Even that may not really qualify as payment was fixed to your account. Please someone correct me if I'm wrong -- I'm pushing the limits of my memory of a service I had ~30 years ago.
I believe the article is spot on with the CD sale being the first (or at least the first verifiable) "on line" purchase and the start of e-commerce. The payment type was selected (random credit card) -- the transaction was secure -- it was transmitted electronically -- received and funds transferred -- and the purchased item was delivered to the purchaser.
To argue earlier instances of "commerce" taking place using usenet or BBSs as a means to arrange the deal as being the first "ecommerce" is akin to saying the fact that light bulbs existed before Edison so what he did wasn't that important (other than take a wire that would glow for a few mins to a few hours and extend that to months and build it cheaply enough to sell to everyone and are now ubiquitous).
"What benefit is there to de-anonymizing past postings? Will it really help if you know the names of the people who wrote those vile things?"
Maybe force people to think before they "speak"? Society is an imperfect machine at best and if you take away the only 'lubricant' it has (civility) things will break down.
Will it help me know who they are? I really don't care who they are. Maybe their spouse, parent or child knowing will effect their future behavior. Maybe their girl/boyfriend knowing will effect their future behavior. Shame can be an effective tool.
"most don't say that these changes will be retro-active." Actually, they do. Kind of. They use terms like
"Imagine if contracts worked like this (hint, EULAs are generally treated like contracts). After years of paying, say, ten dollars a month the contract gets changed retro-actively to 100 dollars a month, and you're stuck owing thousands of dollars."
That part gets a lot more tricky and cant really work the way you suggest it might.
My daughter was the victim of a horrific crime. One that was all over the news in a big market city (and surrounding cities). It's insane how nasty people can be when they don't think anybody will know it's them. Or how nasty they'll be if they don't think a victim or family member might see their post. I have no problem with news sites having policies like this. There are sites that allow anonymous posting elsewhere if someone has some political or "whistle blower" message they feel the need to post. This policy just cuts out trolls on a particular news site.
"They are breaking the terms under which posters made their previous posts."
Did you read the terms? I didn't -- never signed up for that site. I have ready many terms of sites I have signed up for and virtually all of those include some line where they can change the terms in the future. Not saying they had that -- but you are talking as if you read the terms and know exactly what it says and are full of righteous indignation.
If you haven't read the terms, then you are full of something other than righteous indignation. I leave exactly what that is up to the reader's imagination.
"The corporations that operate in this country have an obligation to the society that makes it possible for them to successfully conduct business."
I see this bogus argument a lot. It always ignores the benefits society has for the people.
The roads don't just exist so corporations can make money -- they bring food in so that people can eat.
Laws and enforcement agencies don't just exist to protect corporations money -- they protect the people trying to work and live.
How long would society last if the food is cut off? Or water? Or random bands of raiders attacking and stealing resources? People in general and not corporations see far more of a benefit from these things.
A corporation has absolutely no obligation to any society other than to follow it's laws. And when those laws become harmful to corporations, what do they do? They move away or go out of business. And then where does that leave the (former) employees? Repeat that enough and you'll have ghost towns falling apart as people move to towns that aren't scary to businesses.
"The current corporate belief is that they have no duty or obligation to their employees."
Rightly so. And employees have no duty or obligation to their employer. There is an exchange of labor for money -- period.
No, why not make a good argument as to why it's a bad idea for HB1s to drive down the cost of labor and displace native workers? THAT is an easy and good argument to make. But suggesting an employer has any obligation other than to exchange money for labor to any employee willing to exchange labor for money is just a bogus argument.
"Except going to Mars is propaganda and not science. "
Actually it's both -- and more. Is the goal to JUST send robots to probe our solar system? Or to actually make a human presence? I believe the latter and I believe it's important for many reasons which should be obvious.
"It's got electrolytes -- It's got what plants crave".
Yeah... I meant "attorney" -- not "client". I originally had "client" and "attorney" but decided to change it to "attorney" and "accused" but didn't change ALL of it.
And the act of recording it doesn't defacto make it "illegal". Both parties know it's being recorded. They also know it will not and cannot be used. If it is the trial is effectively over and the accused walks. Not to mention police can loose their jobs and prosecutors can be disbarred. Have you SEEN the chain of custody of those recording and transcripts? They are pretty detailed.
"If they are laboring under all those advantages and prosecutors get to listen to their calls to their attorney, apparently without bothering to disclose this fact, it's hard to even pretend that something remotely close to justice is being done."
I posted this earlier:
"Particularly notable within the vast trove of phone records are what appear to be at least 14,000 recorded conversations between inmates and attorneys, a strong indication that at least some of the recordings are likely confidential and privileged legal communications calls that never should have been recorded in the first place. "
My family was involved with a fairly complex trial recently (hah -- 'recently' took over 2.5 years from start to finish).
What I recall was that ALL calls were recorded and then screened (I honestly don't recall how) and the defense was notified of each recording between client and 'accused'. The post-screened calls were then filtered (removing privileged calls) to the police. All recordings (including privileged calls which were separate and sealed) were submitted to the defense as part of discovery.
"The cable companies simply don't give a crap about consumers. They never have, and never will. And they sure as hell aren't going to make it easy to stop paying them."
You are correct. They don't care about consumers. They do, however, care about money. A lot.
We "cut the cord" almost 2 years ago. We only have internet through our provider. Over the last two years we've received some crazy decent offers from them to "add on" tv service ($10/mo for basic cable) + a cable box (at no charge). At first, for a year, then 2 years, then indefinitely at no charge for the box.
They are bleeding money because they are bleeding customers. They'll change or they will die.
They couldn't show you the REAL images. You would have seen an entire abandoned Dwarven community. And that big red blob? Balrog city, of course.
The 1980 'event' was a fantastic battle that destroyed the Elves living in the forest on the mystic Mt. St. Helens.
The surviving Dwarves moved back to Italy to rebuild under Mt. Vesuvius.
Yeah -- I mistyped and submitted without proofing. An 'edit' would be nice...
"U guess you're just hard to please."
I'd counter that you are overly easy to please. I never said Bicentennial Man was a terrible movie -- it wasn't. I enjoyed it. It just was a horrible adaptation of the story. I also didn't say that I Robot was horrible. I GUESS it was an OK action movie, but it was so far away from Asimov's source material that it was frustrating to watch for most anyone who had a passing familiarity of the source material.
Totally disagree with you on Starship Troopers movie -- as you say, it was farce -- which is completely counter to the source material. That's like saying Space Balls was a good "Star Wars" adaptation, man! They are not the same thing! And the reason I think "'Predestionation' was [the] only a respectable attempt" is because it's the only one that even attempted to stay close to the original story and tone!
"If you want to make an action movie or TV series - look at Keith Laumer."
Or Harry Harrison... Deathworld would make a decent "action movie". And it follow the current "herd" mentality of Man=bad -- Animals/Plants=Good.
Or maybe a SS Rat series...