Prior to ubiquitous mobile phone cameras and fixed cameras, there was essentially some level of "privacy" even when in public, because of the impracticality of gathering such data and having the wide scope of data collection to be able to "connect the dots".
Always been legal to have a P.I. tail and photograph you in public.
Always been legal to sit on a bench every day for twenty years and make a note of who passed by.
There were many ways even before smartphones you COULD HAVE easily been tracked if someone cared. Just because there's a lot more data around now does not change the equation even slightly.
What would it even mean to have the right to "public privacy". You can arrest someone from taking a picture of a nice looking park because you happened to be laying the grass? If someone looks at you inadvertently they can be arrested, or later mind-wiped?
The reason why capturing images in public is legal is because anything else is the road to madness and collapse of society.
They most certainly can not. They use some proprietary Apple extension to Qi to charge and require special mats to charge on.
Fake news. Find on Amazon a SINGLE Qi charger that says it is not iPhone compatible. You cannot, because they are... the typical text reads:
The magic array wireless charger adapts to all Qi compatible devices, including iPhone 8/ iPhone 8 plus/ iPhone X/ XR/ Xs/ Xs
Now Apple DOES have some custom additions to support a faster charging rate, But even there iPhones can still use something like 7.5W of the total charging ability of devices that support greater charging ability, instead of the base 5W. I think Samsung can support up to 10W with it's own custom QI extension... or maybe it's just supporting a faster Qi standard, I am murky on that point since I consider "wireless" charging technology kind of useless overall since it all actually has wires..
The Apple charger I think would have been something like 10-15W so it would be faster. But again, its not like the other chargers do not work and ALL of them are somewhat slow compared to a wall charger, so they are about as useful.
Frankly even if Apple had shipped the charging mat I would not have even bought it as other wireless chargers have configurations I prefer.
Yup, people should really shut up about "choice" and do what their betters tell them to.
Choice is good but it can be limiting too. Look at any study of creativity and you find that too much choice is the mind-killer...
You ALWAYS have a choice to move to another platform. Just like I left the crufty ever decaying platform that was Windows to go to a platform not afraid of clean breaks when needed - and I as a developer have been greatly rewarded for that.
Glad to see you subscribe to the courageous attitude that brought us such triumphs as the Office ribbon, the notch, Windows 8, no headphone jacks and New Coke!
Honestly those were all good ideas. Some just had poor implementations. The notch for example is brilliant because of the function it offers - you get the security of FaceID but still some usable screen to either side to add status bar info so it doesn't take up the rest of the screen. It's always been funny to me that haters complain about the notch because of aesthetics, ignoring function - exactly what they claim Apple users are guilty of.
Microsoft has always had the problem of pushing people into change before they themselves had fully thought out the change, other than that what they were trying to do was a good idea.
Well, Ok, New Coke - you got me there, that was just plain stupid.
Have to admit, even though I moved to the Mac platform some time ago, I never really got what the truly long time Mac users saw in programs like BBEdit...
For me one draw of the Mac was how easy it was to run Emacs on it. Once you know Emacs well, it's pretty hard for any other editor to pull you away.
I'm perplexed that you appear to think this is an issue. On the contrary, I see the concern for consistency and the care about backward compatibility as huge advantages of the Win32 platform
Just like hoarders have a major advantage over normal people because they can bring out a ten year old bag of poop or every broken toaster they have ever owned on demand. Can most people say that? Hell no. Same with the Windows API's, if you need to call a bag of poop by good Windows has made sure that crappy old API is still there for you.
There is a need, from time to time, to start anew and bring forth new ideas without giving the luxury of people to cling to the old forever. Sometimes people will not move to something better until they have no other choice.
How much indie Windows software added ARM and Titanium support?
ALL Mac indie software has (by necessity) followed Apple through architecture and pretty dramatic OS changes, especially in terms of frameworks (Windows programming has evolved, but is Windows programming today really so different from older Win32 development)?
I think it's absurd to beat up Apple over the inability to ship a charging mat that they mentioned just once!! Come on, was it really a huge problem for Apple they could not ship something that you can buy a score of near equivalent products for?
If you really wanted a story about Apple missing deadlines, it seems like, oh, I don't know, maybe the Mac Pro would be a better target for that? Since there is no word about that yet and at one point we were all expecting it to arrive at the end of 2018. Mac users would really be chomping at the bit if they hadn't been placated to some degree by the iMac Pro and updated Mac mini, but there are indeed some users that really need a Mac Pro, it would be great to have word from Apple about that... now it seems like maybe we'll not hear about it until June.
So basically, you are against subsidies except if they result in price increases for you?
I don't live in the EU.
I am for getting rid of subsides ASAP. I don't care if that affects me, I care if removing them hurts people who have little to no means to care for themselves....
Shouldn't you be? I mean, what do you have against the poor anyway Scrooge?
However the real question is - will this have any impact or energy prices or availability in the EU, or in Spain?
If not, great. But if it does cause prices to rise, or it means electricity becomes more reliably... well then perhaps there was more to the subsidy than just supporting coal.
Ending the use of coal is a noble goal, if for no other reason than the reduction of real pollution. But we also have to be careful not to leave too many people out in the cold, to have alternatives.
Your loyalty is admirable, yet, you are clearly too intelligent to rally behind this Trump fellow
I am not rallying behind Trump. I have always been, and shall remain, a Libertarian...
What I am laying out is the raw honesty of the tactical situation. Just because Trump has behaved better tactically does not mean I am necessarily for him - I have always wanted both sides to do well, because I want balance.
But the Democrats seem to exhibit zero situational awareness of the optics of the actions they take, and I think all too often are pushed into a frenzy of madness and the wrong corner simply because it happens to be the opposite place Trump has chosen to be...
That is how we find ourselves in a place where many Democrats are proclaiming we should carry on endless war and stay in Syria and Afghanistan! How many would have said that a year ago?
Which is better, canceling your vacation while nothing's happening
Cancelling your vacation to make something happen, before everyone else in the whole federal government gets back from vacation...
That is what was so despicable about what Democrats did, they did not even TRY to resolve anything during this week, ensuring the shutdown would affect everyone in the weeks ahead instead of mostly not being an issue because of the holiday.
That is why it's the Democrats looking like a fat, angry toddlers here... imagine how low you have become when Trump looks like the adult in the room. That is what has happened here, and it was something the Democrats did to themselves.
Trump at work while the Democrats play...
Remember, these were the first government shutdowns every to happen while one party controlled both congress and the White House.
Here is where you fail to think strategically - the shutdowns happened after Democrats won a large election. That is what people mostly think, despite the fact the new house members don't start until the new year.
The Republicans also all voted for the spending bill; if just ten democrats had supported it would have passed. Not to mention we had the meeting with Trump and the Democrats leaders where the whole country saw plainly it was between Trump and the Democrats, the Republicans are out o the mental picture (control or no).
Social Security is shut down (if you're on it you keep getting checks, but you cannot get on it)
Fake news, that kind of bullshit only happens under Democrats who want you to think the government is more important than it is or in fact stoppable. Applications will be processed, just with some delay.
you can still update passports... At consulates, not everywhere.
For a guy whose handle claims they always RTFA that is a LOT of background reading you did not do before throwing out a lot of unfounded assertions!!!!
Most national parks have some pre-shutdown funding still available. They'll all be closed if this keeps going on
Takes money to shut down most parks. Why even close them? The stuff Obama did was just plain mean, like putting barricades around national monuments you could just walk up to. None of that happening this time.
But over time you can't expect federal workers in "essential" positions to continue working without pay.
All actually essential functions would receive emergency funding if truly needed, even if the workers did not take advantage of the many free loan options they have. Remember they are still going to receive all the pay they would have had they been working, so those loans are paid back as soon as the shutdown is over.
Do taxes stop being collected? No? Well then the government actually has money to pay whoever it likes, doesn't it?
Oh, traditional communism. How about that. But how long can we expect them to keep that up?
Nope, under communism, no-one had the means or ability to clean up environmental disasters as they happened, because they could hardly take care of themselves.
Only under a system of capitalism to do see enough excess resources created to enable people to take care of the land, and each other,
This is why former communist nations were horrible environmental disaster areas.
This is why capitalists contribute far more to charity than others.
This is why park cleanup is being done as long as is needed by volunteers, because they are well enough enough themselves personally they can do so.
Thank you for providing me a reason to teach this important lesson to others.
The military is too is big by some accounts, I would note.
Not according to the many Democrats crying at our intent to leave Syria and draw down in Afghanistan...
Maybe go ask them why a huge military is so important, because MANY Trump supporters would in fact agree the military is too large. Or were you not paying attention to what Trump himself has said, vs. what others say about him...
Largely because they're using funds left over. The Smithsonian, for instance, will close on the 2nd or 3rd of Jan IIRC because of lack of funds. I imagine the national parks will close as well.
All the outdoor parks and memorials will remain open because there's no need to close them. Trees keep growing, rivers keep flowing...
Just wait. All those school trips to the Smithsonian will start kicking in sometime after the holiday break, and you'll see stories of disappointed kids in the news.
The best possible scenario here is for Trump to do zip, he gets massive bad press
And here is where you discover exactly why it's super bad to have journalists deliver massive bad press on a subject 24x7 - because when the subject does deserve it, absolutely no-one pays attention or cares.
both parties come together to over-ride his veto.
That is actually what Trump is hoping for and would assure him a 20/20 victory. Funny how many people that hate Trump so badly, seem to take steps to ensure him achieving whatever victory he desires...
If they had just quietly paid for the wall they could have plastered him with the failure of it in 2020. Here's a big 'ol tactical clue for Democrats: Half-assed wall is way better for the Democrats than zero wall. Trump has got more benefit out of a fictional wall than Pink Floyd!
Some people claim that True is playing eight-dimensional chess. I think he's just an average guy who managed to work his way into the kingdom of the sub-level morons.
It's stupid that our system allows this so easily. It should have a cruise control mode that funds at existing levels until budget agreements are made.
Stop throwing monkey wrenches into our civilization
Stop trying to drag down civilization with endless unbreakable chains. I LIKE civilization. It seems many don't, and desire even more chains... #MakeGovernmentSmallAgain
The funny thing is, I was also thinking about alternate headlines - but they aren't really that much less interesting!
I actually would read about a guy climbing to the top of some really well known bridge, the drone factor adds that extra twist for sure, but the basic story itself is still unusual enough I would be interested (as I've read before about people climbing to the top of the Golden Gate bridge for example)..
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Your other responses have some nice backtracking, but this is outright wrong still:
Got it, you don't think they should shut down the parks. I mean, they will, because they do every shutdown
If you were paying attention you'd know they haven't shut down most outdoor parks.
So not EVERY shutdown.
But this is just a "why". It's not happening yet cause there's still a little cash left in those accounts.
Wrong, if they still had money they'd be providing services but they are not. They just aren't manning the parks right now.
Prior to ubiquitous mobile phone cameras and fixed cameras, there was essentially some level of "privacy" even when in public, because of the impracticality of gathering such data and having the wide scope of data collection to be able to "connect the dots".
Always been legal to have a P.I. tail and photograph you in public.
Always been legal to sit on a bench every day for twenty years and make a note of who passed by.
There were many ways even before smartphones you COULD HAVE easily been tracked if someone cared. Just because there's a lot more data around now does not change the equation even slightly.
What would it even mean to have the right to "public privacy". You can arrest someone from taking a picture of a nice looking park because you happened to be laying the grass? If someone looks at you inadvertently they can be arrested, or later mind-wiped?
The reason why capturing images in public is legal is because anything else is the road to madness and collapse of society.
They most certainly can not. They use some proprietary Apple extension to Qi to charge and require special mats to charge on.
Fake news. Find on Amazon a SINGLE Qi charger that says it is not iPhone compatible. You cannot, because they are... the typical text reads:
The magic array wireless charger adapts to all Qi compatible devices, including iPhone 8/ iPhone 8 plus/ iPhone X/ XR/ Xs/ Xs
Now Apple DOES have some custom additions to support a faster charging rate, But even there iPhones can still use something like 7.5W of the total charging ability of devices that support greater charging ability, instead of the base 5W. I think Samsung can support up to 10W with it's own custom QI extension... or maybe it's just supporting a faster Qi standard, I am murky on that point since I consider "wireless" charging technology kind of useless overall since it all actually has wires..
The Apple charger I think would have been something like 10-15W so it would be faster. But again, its not like the other chargers do not work and ALL of them are somewhat slow compared to a wall charger, so they are about as useful.
Frankly even if Apple had shipped the charging mat I would not have even bought it as other wireless chargers have configurations I prefer.
Yup, people should really shut up about "choice" and do what their betters tell them to.
Choice is good but it can be limiting too. Look at any study of creativity and you find that too much choice is the mind-killer...
You ALWAYS have a choice to move to another platform. Just like I left the crufty ever decaying platform that was Windows to go to a platform not afraid of clean breaks when needed - and I as a developer have been greatly rewarded for that.
Glad to see you subscribe to the courageous attitude that brought us such triumphs as the Office ribbon, the notch, Windows 8, no headphone jacks and New Coke!
Honestly those were all good ideas. Some just had poor implementations. The notch for example is brilliant because of the function it offers - you get the security of FaceID but still some usable screen to either side to add status bar info so it doesn't take up the rest of the screen. It's always been funny to me that haters complain about the notch because of aesthetics, ignoring function - exactly what they claim Apple users are guilty of.
Microsoft has always had the problem of pushing people into change before they themselves had fully thought out the change, other than that what they were trying to do was a good idea.
Well, Ok, New Coke - you got me there, that was just plain stupid.
Have to admit, even though I moved to the Mac platform some time ago, I never really got what the truly long time Mac users saw in programs like BBEdit...
For me one draw of the Mac was how easy it was to run Emacs on it. Once you know Emacs well, it's pretty hard for any other editor to pull you away.
I'm perplexed that you appear to think this is an issue. On the contrary, I see the concern for consistency and the care about backward compatibility as huge advantages of the Win32 platform
Just like hoarders have a major advantage over normal people because they can bring out a ten year old bag of poop or every broken toaster they have ever owned on demand. Can most people say that? Hell no. Same with the Windows API's, if you need to call a bag of poop by good Windows has made sure that crappy old API is still there for you.
There is a need, from time to time, to start anew and bring forth new ideas without giving the luxury of people to cling to the old forever. Sometimes people will not move to something better until they have no other choice.
Sorry to steal your link man, at the time I posted you were at -1. Glad to see you getting the recognition you deserve...
Windows has long supported ARM and Itanium.
How much indie Windows software added ARM and Titanium support?
ALL Mac indie software has (by necessity) followed Apple through architecture and pretty dramatic OS changes, especially in terms of frameworks (Windows programming has evolved, but is Windows programming today really so different from older Win32 development)?
This link is stolen from an AC that responded to you, inexplicably down-modded despite having very useful information:
Ultima Thule pictures
I think it's absurd to beat up Apple over the inability to ship a charging mat that they mentioned just once!! Come on, was it really a huge problem for Apple they could not ship something that you can buy a score of near equivalent products for?
If you really wanted a story about Apple missing deadlines, it seems like, oh, I don't know, maybe the Mac Pro would be a better target for that? Since there is no word about that yet and at one point we were all expecting it to arrive at the end of 2018. Mac users would really be chomping at the bit if they hadn't been placated to some degree by the iMac Pro and updated Mac mini, but there are indeed some users that really need a Mac Pro, it would be great to have word from Apple about that... now it seems like maybe we'll not hear about it until June.
So basically, you are against subsidies except if they result in price increases for you?
I don't live in the EU.
I am for getting rid of subsides ASAP. I don't care if that affects me, I care if removing them hurts people who have little to no means to care for themselves....
Shouldn't you be? I mean, what do you have against the poor anyway Scrooge?
Freischutz
OHHHH German. I get it.
P.S. am half German myself.
Subsidies in general I'm against...
However the real question is - will this have any impact or energy prices or availability in the EU, or in Spain?
If not, great. But if it does cause prices to rise, or it means electricity becomes more reliably... well then perhaps there was more to the subsidy than just supporting coal.
Ending the use of coal is a noble goal, if for no other reason than the reduction of real pollution. But we also have to be careful not to leave too many people out in the cold, to have alternatives.
Your loyalty is admirable, yet, you are clearly too intelligent to rally behind this Trump fellow
I am not rallying behind Trump. I have always been, and shall remain, a Libertarian...
What I am laying out is the raw honesty of the tactical situation. Just because Trump has behaved better tactically does not mean I am necessarily for him - I have always wanted both sides to do well, because I want balance.
But the Democrats seem to exhibit zero situational awareness of the optics of the actions they take, and I think all too often are pushed into a frenzy of madness and the wrong corner simply because it happens to be the opposite place Trump has chosen to be...
That is how we find ourselves in a place where many Democrats are proclaiming we should carry on endless war and stay in Syria and Afghanistan! How many would have said that a year ago?
That's not how it works, it only takes one single bacterium from outside the lake
The water is sterilized. That is not the issue under discussion. What I responded to was:
the water down there had a different isotopic mix from current surface water.
The issue was potentially affecting THAT, which you can plainly see the lake has way too large a volume to be affected in any meaningful way.
Which is better, canceling your vacation while nothing's happening
Cancelling your vacation to make something happen, before everyone else in the whole federal government gets back from vacation...
That is what was so despicable about what Democrats did, they did not even TRY to resolve anything during this week, ensuring the shutdown would affect everyone in the weeks ahead instead of mostly not being an issue because of the holiday.
That is why it's the Democrats looking like a fat, angry toddlers here... imagine how low you have become when Trump looks like the adult in the room. That is what has happened here, and it was something the Democrats did to themselves.
Trump at work while the Democrats play...
Remember, these were the first government shutdowns every to happen while one party controlled both congress and the White House.
Here is where you fail to think strategically - the shutdowns happened after Democrats won a large election. That is what people mostly think, despite the fact the new house members don't start until the new year.
The Republicans also all voted for the spending bill; if just ten democrats had supported it would have passed. Not to mention we had the meeting with Trump and the Democrats leaders where the whole country saw plainly it was between Trump and the Democrats, the Republicans are out o the mental picture (control or no).
Now you may be able to pull some treasury sleight of hand to move approved spending to specific purposes,
Bingo.
Finally, there is no guarantee that furloughed federal workers will receive anything
Wrong. The fix is in.
It may be lack of democracy and free speech. Totalitarians treat citizens as expendable pawns
Yes, that's what I said, communists.
Besides, I said "traditional communism", not Soviet-style.
Oh no you don't.
Name ONE COMMUNIST COUNTRY, of any form, that has not brought about vast ecological disaster.
You are focusing on one narrow aspect of the military.
Whatever, warmonger. I was for getting out of Afghanistan (and Syria) before Trump was even a thing.
My guess is you never knew anything the FCC actually did, so you have no idea.
I do, but apparently you did not since your claim requires stating what is important they are not continuing operations on.
Except the EPA isn't monitoring pollution
Companies are still legally responsible for pollution so it's not like they are doing to start while monitoring is suspended.
the FDA isn't approving drugs
Fake News, applications still being processed.
Social Security is shut down (if you're on it you keep getting checks, but you cannot get on it)
Fake news, that kind of bullshit only happens under Democrats who want you to think the government is more important than it is or in fact stoppable. Applications will be processed, just with some delay.
you can still update passports...
At consulates, not everywhere.
More fake news, can mail a passport in from anywhere to get renewed or apply at any USPS office
For a guy whose handle claims they always RTFA that is a LOT of background reading you did not do before throwing out a lot of unfounded assertions!!!!
Most national parks have some pre-shutdown funding still available. They'll all be closed if this keeps going on
Takes money to shut down most parks. Why even close them? The stuff Obama did was just plain mean, like putting barricades around national monuments you could just walk up to. None of that happening this time.
But over time you can't expect federal workers in "essential" positions to continue working without pay.
All actually essential functions would receive emergency funding if truly needed, even if the workers did not take advantage of the many free loan options they have. Remember they are still going to receive all the pay they would have had they been working, so those loans are paid back as soon as the shutdown is over.
Do taxes stop being collected? No? Well then the government actually has money to pay whoever it likes, doesn't it?
Oh and it the reason the coast guard got money at all was Trump intervened to make that happen...
The Democrats all left DC to party during the shutdown, proving what I said was in fact true.
Oh, traditional communism. How about that. But how long can we expect them to keep that up?
Nope, under communism, no-one had the means or ability to clean up environmental disasters as they happened, because they could hardly take care of themselves.
Only under a system of capitalism to do see enough excess resources created to enable people to take care of the land, and each other,
This is why former communist nations were horrible environmental disaster areas.
This is why capitalists contribute far more to charity than others.
This is why park cleanup is being done as long as is needed by volunteers, because they are well enough enough themselves personally they can do so.
Thank you for providing me a reason to teach this important lesson to others.
The military is too is big by some accounts, I would note.
Not according to the many Democrats crying at our intent to leave Syria and draw down in Afghanistan...
Maybe go ask them why a huge military is so important, because MANY Trump supporters would in fact agree the military is too large. Or were you not paying attention to what Trump himself has said, vs. what others say about him...
Largely because they're using funds left over. The Smithsonian, for instance, will close on the 2nd or 3rd of Jan IIRC because of lack of funds. I imagine the national parks will close as well.
All the outdoor parks and memorials will remain open because there's no need to close them. Trees keep growing, rivers keep flowing...
Just wait. All those school trips to the Smithsonian will start kicking in sometime after the holiday break, and you'll see stories of disappointed kids in the news.
Disappointed children from the richest counties in the nation is press that helps Trump though, so it will quickly die off.
The best possible scenario here is for Trump to do zip, he gets massive bad press
And here is where you discover exactly why it's super bad to have journalists deliver massive bad press on a subject 24x7 - because when the subject does deserve it, absolutely no-one pays attention or cares.
both parties come together to over-ride his veto.
That is actually what Trump is hoping for and would assure him a 20/20 victory. Funny how many people that hate Trump so badly, seem to take steps to ensure him achieving whatever victory he desires...
If they had just quietly paid for the wall they could have plastered him with the failure of it in 2020. Here's a big 'ol tactical clue for Democrats: Half-assed wall is way better for the Democrats than zero wall. Trump has got more benefit out of a fictional wall than Pink Floyd!
Some people claim that True is playing eight-dimensional chess. I think he's just an average guy who managed to work his way into the kingdom of the sub-level morons.
But toiletry and garbage-related maintenance is on hold.
Which volunteers are taking up the slack on.
It's stupid that our system allows this so easily. It should have a cruise control mode that funds at existing levels until budget agreements are made.
That is exactly what it does have for anything of consequence.
Stop throwing monkey wrenches into our civilization
Stop trying to drag down civilization with endless unbreakable chains. I LIKE civilization. It seems many don't, and desire even more chains... #MakeGovernmentSmallAgain
Look at those list of qualifications for the things that are not really shut down.
Basically "anything that is really at all useful carries on".
That's just for the FCC but the general trend carries across the whole government.
For just one example - you can still update passports... and most national parks are still open.
I think this shutdown may last a while, because I 'm not sure there's much pain that most non-government people will see...
The funny thing is, I was also thinking about alternate headlines - but they aren't really that much less interesting!
I actually would read about a guy climbing to the top of some really well known bridge, the drone factor adds that extra twist for sure, but the basic story itself is still unusual enough I would be interested (as I've read before about people climbing to the top of the Golden Gate bridge for example)..