I totally agree, but perhaps in a less venomous way:
Why can't an industry say... "I see the writing on the wall... how's about we all pivot into a new and more useful industry instead of clinging to the wrecked sinking ship of an industry we've built."
Take the newspaper industry for example. They should have wrapped it up long ago. If they had started the digital pivot earlier, they could have forged a completely new model moving subscriptions to electronic distribution... but by waiting and milking it for as long as possible, they gave ground to bloggers and independents, and now everyone has the expectation that they should get their news for free. It's simply a matter of setting expectations.
I gotta call bullshit on that video... the trailer must have been empty to stop that fast. I'd like to see it with a truckload of volvos strapped into the back, and then see how well it stops.
I agree with the 'relocation' idea, but frankly, look at New Orleans... heck, look at Denmark! It's going to be levies all the way... nobody is leaving the coastal regions until they are absolutely forced to. When Manhattan looks like Venice, they'll just build boats instead of taxies.
I get the sentiment... but I gotta point out that most people REALLY suck at understanding probability. Take the probability that you need to defend yourself on a given day, say.1%, (one day in a thousand) and multiply that by the probability that during said encounter, your attacker would gain control of your weapon... 10% (say 9 times out of 10 you keep control)... then lets say that there is a 50/50 chance that the perp will harm you with that gun once they've taken control of it: that results in a.005% chance of being harmed by your own weapon in a confrontation... or 1:500,000. That's one chance in 1300 years! Nationally of course the reality is MUCH MUCH lower than my crazy high estimates. In essence, this is absolutely the wrong argument to make.
A better argument is to look at where guns really do hurt people... Criminal's in possession of their own gun, criminal with stolen gun, shooter taking control of a family member's gun, and suicide. In these scenarios, how many times is a "smart gun" going to change the outcome? in the first and last cases, virtually zero. The other two cases bear a little more examination. Should we assume that having long term access to a firearm will NEVER result in the baddie gaining access to the weapon? Are we ready to assert that there is NO POSSIBLE WAY to bypass the smart gun's features? This is capitalist America people... of course there will be a way to override the security measures. For biometric methods, some kind of keyfob or programming port will certainly be available. For any kind of RFID solution, do we assume that an RFID can't be cloned? Hacked? Or hell, most people who DO have locks for their guns store the keys in the same location as the locked gun... what the hell good is that?
It has NEVER been demonstrated that smart guns would outperform a good old fashioned gun lock in any probable circumstance... so now people have latched on to this idea that it will save you when you drop your gun in a fight... the least probable scenario that doesn't involve alien abduction.
So there you go... I'll pass on expensive tech and opt for a little better op-sec at home.
Man... how the hell did this get rated 5, insightful???? Let me see if I understand your definition of normal human being:
An astronomer realizes he has feelings about a student and it's OK to railroad the student out of the program? What does this instructor do the NEXT time he has feelings? And the time after that? The reality is that humans have feelings and the normal ones keep a lid on it when they know it's inappropriate. The abnormal ones act on it even though they know it's wrong. Does it not occur to anyone else that the right thing to do is to walk away from the situation because the problem is YOU rather than assume you are so fucking important that everyone else must get out of the way? I personally know a guy who used to teach high school, and admitted that his students kept looking more and more attractive to him every year. What did he do? He quit teaching and got a sales job. He's still happily married and not a felon because he realized HE was the one who needed to leave.
You are right about one thing though... Ignorant douchebag is the wrong name to call this guy.... Selfish douchebag is much more accurate.
I think you may have misunderstood my post... I was drawing a parallel between police assigning a threat score to suspects, and people assuming that certain breeds of dogs are inherently more dangerous... I'm not making a statement about dogs... I'm making a statement about profiling, and the fact that people won't accept it. You watch, the first guy to get a bum rap due to this "threat score" is going to take it to a judge and have the law euthanized. It just won't stand. That's all I'm sayin'.
Lol... I came here to say exactly this. Why any reporter would type anything these days without fact-checking it blows my.... wait... I retract my previous statement.
Don't reduce my comments to "can't do everything I used to do simultaneously" when I clearly stated that I was already doing the bare minimum of multitasking. Switching from a basic app, to the web browser and then switching back only to have that app forced to re-initialize is hardly an "apple user thing." Also, I didn't state I was ready to sue them for it... I said I ordered a new phone because of the issue.
I get the sentiment, but if I chased down and crucified every person or company who did something like this, I'd have no time to make a living or even enjoy my life... so I'm willing to let it go just to be a happier person.
Two other important points though: First, I disagree with your characterization that they *intentionally* did this. I work in software development, and it was more likely a combination of optimism and ignorance that led Apple to certify iOS9 on the 4S rather than malice. They've got to decide how much performance can be sacrificed for critical things like security updates. It's too expensive and complex to branch a security-only release on top of the general software release, so the only choices are to stop updating the device altogether, or update it at the cost of performance.
Second, My wife already has a buyer for her 4s for $90, and I haven't listed mine yet. Show me an Android or Windows phone that will hold 20% of it's value over a 4 year period. You suggest I'm getting fleeced by Apple, but they are the ones who are creating a solid secondary market by building quality and desirable products. I'm seriously doubtful that any class action is going to bring me that much value. I'll bet it's settled for like $5, with the lawyers really getting the pie. Furthermore, it's not like Apple does this a lot, and it's not like other manufacturers don't do this either. I bought the MyTouch 3G Fender Edition on release day, and only owned it for 6 months. The FIRST software update that T-Mobile pushed hampered the performance so badly that I considered it bricked. What Did T-Mobile do for me? Replaced it with a standard MyTouch. The didn't give a shit that it was a special edition, they didn't give a shit about how special they made the phone seem when they were marketing it, in the end, to them, the device had the replacement value of a run-of-the-mill middle tier phone.
Anyway, like I said, I get the sentiment, but you're really overstating what happened here.
My wife and I just ordered new iPhone 6s' yesterday because of this exact issue. The issue is about expectations, but not in the way you think it is... we have been able to run apps in the past, that after the update no longer perform well. I've had to remove all of my music and much of my pictures just to provide enough free memory to operate. Previously the phone could switch between web browsing and other apps without issue, even with multiple tabs (pages) loaded at one time. Now if I switch from words with friends to the browser with just a single page loaded, then back to words, I find the latter app has been shut down and needs to completely re-initialize before I can use it. My expectation was SET by the way the phone performed before the update, and now it performs terribly.
If you didn't experience this issue, perhaps it is because you were not using the phone to it's full potential.
You miss the point: giving partial access to a small group of uncontrolled and unaccountable users is WAY different than making it open source or keeping it closed source. Both of those would provide better security than what they are proposing.
The issue I see with this isn't actually the lease stuff, that seems pretty straightforward. The problem at hand is managing the rats-nest of code produced by doing several hundred projects. Who is going to have enough knowledge of each project to know where the assets are and what they can be used for... they're trying to gain efficiency through re-use, but there's no way you can maintain that control... you're going to give access to all of these apps and ideas to every developer in your network? They'll use that info to obtain zero day exploits to the apps that have been built, and attempt to inject their own backdoors into apps. No thank you!
I'm pretty conservative, and lean republican, but I've frequently voted against republicans who rubs me the wrong way... with Trump I don't know where to begin. He is an embarrassment to Republicans, to politicians, and even to human beings. Every time he speaks he offends me, and I will vote for ANYBODY who runs against him. A president needs to have strength, poise, and compassion. Trump only aspires to one of those things and he is failing miserably at it.
That's the principle that a knock sensor operates on... so I'd say in some regard it's definitely a technology in use. Don't know if that's what you were referring to but all cars have had knock sensors for the past 20 years or more.
Seems you put a lot of double speak into something that simply could have been stated as "I don't believe in God"... or did you mean to imply that you, not believing in God, would still prefer to whisper your secrets to your government rather than echo them to/dev/null/?
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I totally agree, but perhaps in a less venomous way:
Why can't an industry say... "I see the writing on the wall... how's about we all pivot into a new and more useful industry instead of clinging to the wrecked sinking ship of an industry we've built."
Take the newspaper industry for example. They should have wrapped it up long ago. If they had started the digital pivot earlier, they could have forged a completely new model moving subscriptions to electronic distribution... but by waiting and milking it for as long as possible, they gave ground to bloggers and independents, and now everyone has the expectation that they should get their news for free. It's simply a matter of setting expectations.
I gotta call bullshit on that video... the trailer must have been empty to stop that fast. I'd like to see it with a truckload of volvos strapped into the back, and then see how well it stops.
I agree with the 'relocation' idea, but frankly, look at New Orleans... heck, look at Denmark! It's going to be levies all the way... nobody is leaving the coastal regions until they are absolutely forced to. When Manhattan looks like Venice, they'll just build boats instead of taxies.
About RFID and GPS: Do you think a criminal would hesitate for even a second to carry a jamming device if he knew the homeowner/cop had this tech?
I can't mod this up because I already commented in this thread... so I'll just say excellent point, and well said.
I get the sentiment... but I gotta point out that most people REALLY suck at understanding probability. Take the probability that you need to defend yourself on a given day, say .1%, (one day in a thousand) and multiply that by the probability that during said encounter, your attacker would gain control of your weapon... 10% (say 9 times out of 10 you keep control)... then lets say that there is a 50/50 chance that the perp will harm you with that gun once they've taken control of it: that results in a .005% chance of being harmed by your own weapon in a confrontation... or 1:500,000. That's one chance in 1300 years! Nationally of course the reality is MUCH MUCH lower than my crazy high estimates. In essence, this is absolutely the wrong argument to make.
A better argument is to look at where guns really do hurt people... Criminal's in possession of their own gun, criminal with stolen gun, shooter taking control of a family member's gun, and suicide. In these scenarios, how many times is a "smart gun" going to change the outcome? in the first and last cases, virtually zero. The other two cases bear a little more examination. Should we assume that having long term access to a firearm will NEVER result in the baddie gaining access to the weapon? Are we ready to assert that there is NO POSSIBLE WAY to bypass the smart gun's features? This is capitalist America people... of course there will be a way to override the security measures. For biometric methods, some kind of keyfob or programming port will certainly be available. For any kind of RFID solution, do we assume that an RFID can't be cloned? Hacked? Or hell, most people who DO have locks for their guns store the keys in the same location as the locked gun... what the hell good is that?
It has NEVER been demonstrated that smart guns would outperform a good old fashioned gun lock in any probable circumstance... so now people have latched on to this idea that it will save you when you drop your gun in a fight... the least probable scenario that doesn't involve alien abduction.
So there you go... I'll pass on expensive tech and opt for a little better op-sec at home.
Man... how the hell did this get rated 5, insightful???? Let me see if I understand your definition of normal human being:
An astronomer realizes he has feelings about a student and it's OK to railroad the student out of the program? What does this instructor do the NEXT time he has feelings? And the time after that? The reality is that humans have feelings and the normal ones keep a lid on it when they know it's inappropriate. The abnormal ones act on it even though they know it's wrong. Does it not occur to anyone else that the right thing to do is to walk away from the situation because the problem is YOU rather than assume you are so fucking important that everyone else must get out of the way? I personally know a guy who used to teach high school, and admitted that his students kept looking more and more attractive to him every year. What did he do? He quit teaching and got a sales job. He's still happily married and not a felon because he realized HE was the one who needed to leave.
You are right about one thing though... Ignorant douchebag is the wrong name to call this guy.... Selfish douchebag is much more accurate.
Have you ever considered that they did all of these things in the same release because they WANTED to tell the world but couldn't? Think about it.
I think you may have misunderstood my post... I was drawing a parallel between police assigning a threat score to suspects, and people assuming that certain breeds of dogs are inherently more dangerous... I'm not making a statement about dogs... I'm making a statement about profiling, and the fact that people won't accept it. You watch, the first guy to get a bum rap due to this "threat score" is going to take it to a judge and have the law euthanized. It just won't stand. That's all I'm sayin'.
If cities can't even ban Pit Bulls due to their known risk, I'm pretty sure this thing doesn't have legs either.
Don't you mean Supreme Chancellor Trump?
Lol... I came here to say exactly this. Why any reporter would type anything these days without fact-checking it blows my.... wait... I retract my previous statement.
Don't reduce my comments to "can't do everything I used to do simultaneously" when I clearly stated that I was already doing the bare minimum of multitasking. Switching from a basic app, to the web browser and then switching back only to have that app forced to re-initialize is hardly an "apple user thing." Also, I didn't state I was ready to sue them for it... I said I ordered a new phone because of the issue.
You are assuming a lot if you think you know what I need.
I get the sentiment, but if I chased down and crucified every person or company who did something like this, I'd have no time to make a living or even enjoy my life... so I'm willing to let it go just to be a happier person.
Two other important points though: First, I disagree with your characterization that they *intentionally* did this. I work in software development, and it was more likely a combination of optimism and ignorance that led Apple to certify iOS9 on the 4S rather than malice. They've got to decide how much performance can be sacrificed for critical things like security updates. It's too expensive and complex to branch a security-only release on top of the general software release, so the only choices are to stop updating the device altogether, or update it at the cost of performance.
Second, My wife already has a buyer for her 4s for $90, and I haven't listed mine yet. Show me an Android or Windows phone that will hold 20% of it's value over a 4 year period. You suggest I'm getting fleeced by Apple, but they are the ones who are creating a solid secondary market by building quality and desirable products. I'm seriously doubtful that any class action is going to bring me that much value. I'll bet it's settled for like $5, with the lawyers really getting the pie. Furthermore, it's not like Apple does this a lot, and it's not like other manufacturers don't do this either. I bought the MyTouch 3G Fender Edition on release day, and only owned it for 6 months. The FIRST software update that T-Mobile pushed hampered the performance so badly that I considered it bricked. What Did T-Mobile do for me? Replaced it with a standard MyTouch. The didn't give a shit that it was a special edition, they didn't give a shit about how special they made the phone seem when they were marketing it, in the end, to them, the device had the replacement value of a run-of-the-mill middle tier phone.
Anyway, like I said, I get the sentiment, but you're really overstating what happened here.
My wife and I just ordered new iPhone 6s' yesterday because of this exact issue. The issue is about expectations, but not in the way you think it is... we have been able to run apps in the past, that after the update no longer perform well. I've had to remove all of my music and much of my pictures just to provide enough free memory to operate. Previously the phone could switch between web browsing and other apps without issue, even with multiple tabs (pages) loaded at one time. Now if I switch from words with friends to the browser with just a single page loaded, then back to words, I find the latter app has been shut down and needs to completely re-initialize before I can use it. My expectation was SET by the way the phone performed before the update, and now it performs terribly.
If you didn't experience this issue, perhaps it is because you were not using the phone to it's full potential.
This is why I steal most of my functional code from GitHub in the first place...
--OR--
Easy to avoid detection by simply NOT UPLOADING code to GitHub in the first place. The assumption that every dev does this is stupid.
I came here to say exactly this!
Actually, there is a Karma level higher than yours.... it's called Bennett Hasselton.
You miss the point: giving partial access to a small group of uncontrolled and unaccountable users is WAY different than making it open source or keeping it closed source. Both of those would provide better security than what they are proposing.
The issue I see with this isn't actually the lease stuff, that seems pretty straightforward. The problem at hand is managing the rats-nest of code produced by doing several hundred projects. Who is going to have enough knowledge of each project to know where the assets are and what they can be used for... they're trying to gain efficiency through re-use, but there's no way you can maintain that control... you're going to give access to all of these apps and ideas to every developer in your network? They'll use that info to obtain zero day exploits to the apps that have been built, and attempt to inject their own backdoors into apps. No thank you!
Hear Hear!!!
I'm pretty conservative, and lean republican, but I've frequently voted against republicans who rubs me the wrong way... with Trump I don't know where to begin. He is an embarrassment to Republicans, to politicians, and even to human beings. Every time he speaks he offends me, and I will vote for ANYBODY who runs against him. A president needs to have strength, poise, and compassion. Trump only aspires to one of those things and he is failing miserably at it.
That's the principle that a knock sensor operates on... so I'd say in some regard it's definitely a technology in use. Don't know if that's what you were referring to but all cars have had knock sensors for the past 20 years or more.
Seems you put a lot of double speak into something that simply could have been stated as "I don't believe in God"... or did you mean to imply that you, not believing in God, would still prefer to whisper your secrets to your government rather than echo them to /dev/null/?
You're forgetting the part where they're running a journal on the internet