While the IMEI may help track down the theft of an iPhone, the serial number doesn't. Apple's policy is that they support the product not the user, and that theft of property is a police matter.
1) She's not on trial, and therefore it can't be self-incriminating.
This doesn't matter, you can incriminate yourself even if you are not being tried. Anytime you are under oath you are permitted to plead the 5th if you believe that it will incriminate you. Your testimony in one trail could be used as admission of guilt in another trial.
2) They didn't compel her to say anything, she posted it publicly.
This does matter, publicly stating things that incriminate you is just stupid.
Lets take this to another extreme, Jimmy doesn't want to go to school, so his girlfriend sally who was in all his classes takes his badge with her and places it at his desk and turns in the homework she did for him. When Jimmy's teacher says Jimmy wasn't there, Jimmy points to his RFID and the fact that he turned in his homework. Jimmy's presence is his RFID, and seeing as it isnt embedded in his arm, he can be wherever his girlfriend wants him to be.
Now say Jimmy is also in a gang and robs a liquor store while he is "in class", killing to clerk in the process. Jimmy now has an alibi because attendance is determined via RFID (and he turned in his homework).
The cost of waste disposal for an assembly line probably isn't that much.
It may be cheaper to pay China to eat our production waste than to make our product and dump their own waste. Either way China wont miss their 7 toed children bathing in toxic waste.
You and Steve took an idea and turned it into a huge business. Now how can I do that? I've had an idea for a while for a product that I am certain would sell, but the tech market seems plenty determined to prevent any new guys from cutting into their profits. In today's market how can I get a start without being trampled immediately? (Yes I am deliberately being vague, I don't want someone running with my idea to the patent office.)
...Kinda. The point is when we deny a normally rational person the means for rational thought. The threat of danger will insight panic, robbing someone of rational thought and thus creating danger where none may exist. A muslim is at no risk for danger and thus is not in a situation where panic is robbing them of rationality. They are being irrational by pure choice. That choice is really what makes the difference.
Does this help fight patents that are obvious? Does this help fight patents where prior art exists? Does this help fight things that are unable to be patented because they are to general? Can I at least through out the dozen or so trolls that are looking to patent the word "patent".
I'm afraid that as violence becomes the common answer for suck offenses, the UN will attempt to enact something like this to stem this violence. From there, how long until the words "I'm an atheist" see actually prosecution under this law and the "christian majority" in the US extradites you to a Muslim country to face charges, because obviously they don't care if an atheist dies, they were going to hell anyway. Do I think this will happen, I would hope not, but I also thought that there was no way the US would suspend Habeas Corpus (again). I would never have thought we would re-elect GW. I am no long deluded enough to think that any stupid law would be denied on the grounds of reason. We are just as likely to back Pakistan on this as a means to go after terrorists (because they believe differently than we do.) I'm not really going all conspiracy theory here, I'm just not going to be suprised if this supidity does become a law.
If it were simply a matter of tracking agent availability then why not ave a general unscheduled break button? By labeling the button "Bathroom" the company is creating an environment hostile towards this behavior. The employee has the knowledge that the employer is constantly watching even when they need to use the restroom.
No employer needs this kind of detailed info.
Take pictures every time you go, if you have to urinate, always use a stool instead of a urinal. This way if your "bathroom breaks" exceed the normal and they try to discipline you, you can show them a bunch of pictures of your shit to verified that every break is neccessary.
You could probably read 10x the content on the iPhone 5, so how is it not far ahead?
Probably not actually, as speeds increase so does the average page size (even on a mobile browser). Honestly what 4g has bought us is a marginal amount of more information and a dramatic increase in ad usage. We are paying more for the privilage to see what people have to sell.
I think the comparison is one of Battery life not keeping up with battery usage in newer devices. Technology is not increasing at the same rate, but the expectation is still there, especially for people who previously owned earlier versions of the iPhone. What most people see is not "my iPhone battery consumption is high because of increase demand from data networks", but rather "I never had to charge my old iPhone this much."
Its like comparing movies sales in 2012 dollars, its a perfectly valid statement to make, even though we all know what causes the reduced data usage.
As i said in another comment, an itunes file is labeled "apple aac" meaning that it is an aac file with DRM to prevent you from listening to it on more than 5 computers (even on the drm free versions).
Only works with 2 models of ipod (nano and classic, and maybe not even the 6th gen nano). iPod touch and iPhones cant be mounted as a hard drive to view files the way your describing. Also the files are hidden in an iPod so while thats a minor additional step its not as simple as drag and drop. Also the Metadata your refering to is not stored on the file on the ipod, its stored in the itunes library file on the ipod. When you reimport your files, gracenote pulls the song information that it has, thus restoring the data for a majority of files. No this is not impossible to do (never have claimed that it was) but it is not within the scope of a 7 year olds knowledge, nor is it something that is intended by apple. The only reason the classic can still do it is that apple hasn't updated its hardware (or substantually updated its firmware) in at least 4 years.
Oh, you mean the AAC format that was developed by AT&T Bell Labs, Dolby Labs, Fraunhofer IIS, Sony, and Nokia? Then standardized as part of MPEG-2? Five years before the first iPod shipped?
Yeah, that's "apple aac format" all right.
Moron.
Read your file info when you download from Itunes, its labeled as apple aac. Apple didn't invent aac format, and I was never implying that they did, But they do add drm (even on the "drm free" stuff) that prevents you from playing the song on a computer that is not authorized. Those are the files that you can sync back to your computer, and only on the computer where you synced your ipod/iphone last.
You're picking an argument on a piece of information that was largely irrelevant, and its a bit of a straw man to even imply that that was in any way my argument.
In order to transfer music back you need a 3rd party program and what you get is music files with not song info attached so you have to hope that gracenote can find what song it is or you're stuck manually entering all the data on it.
i believe you may have heard of such third party programs, but i'm not convinced you've ever used one. copypod renames all those 4-letter files to the track number-artist name-album name-song title, and that's just one program. and it's had that feature for years and years now.
I've used numerous programs, and usually they have to get the track info from gracenote or a similiar program. For the majority of music this works pretty easily, but occasionally (such as much of the music I have for local bands) gracenote doesn't pull the song info and your left entering it manually. Pretty sure I said that.
Umm no, maybe i didn't make that clear, iTunes only allows you to sync back music you have purchased from apple. If you have synced music to your iPod, but it is not in the tagged apple aac format (which is also what limits it to itunes librarys on 5 computers) then it will not sync back to your iTunes library.
Can I personally get my music off an iPod? Yes. Read what I said, the iPod is designed to prevent it. The songs are not stored simply on the ipod, you cant mount the ipod without a third party tool to even look at the file structure and itunes provides only a basic tool to get the songs that you have purchased from the ipod. People who frequent this site probably can get the music from their iPods, but they make up a small population of apples customer base. Now look at what you just typed. Go to grandma or even your mother and ask her if she knows what XML, or PLIST files are. Ask her how much she knows about unix and she will likely begin explaining about men with no balls.
How so? From a tech support perspective we didn't touch it. If you needed your files off your iPod it was because you lost the originals, or because you were loading them onto a computer to transfer your iTunes library (be that legally or otherwise). If you lost your library we were to advise you that iTunes terms of service states that File backups are your responsibility, and if you were transfering your library, We advised you to used CDs, DVD's, or an external hard drive.
not exactly, You can have 5 computers with your itunes library on them, you can sync those 5 computers to an unlimited number of devices. Dont get me wrong, its still DRM to limit the number of computer and if you have to reinstall your os without deauthing that computer you have one of your your computers eaten up by a os install that doesnt exist. If you own a mac (i dont recommend) and you dual boot to windows, that's an extra authorization there. Saddly there's no point to it, it doesnt limit your non itunes purchases, and if you create an mp3 cd/dvd backup and transfer the songs that way it strips the drm. so really its just about an illusion of control for people who dont know better. Want a song on two ipods and you and your husband/wife have different librarys? Guess you better purchase that song twice.
Well you're lying. Having worked tech support for Apple, specifically doing iPod/iPhone and iTunes support, I can assure you that an iPod is designed to not allow you to transfer music off of it. You can use itunes to transfer purchases back to your computer, but only things you have purchased from itunes and only to the computer your ipod/iphone is synced to.
In order to transfer music back you need a 3rd party program and what you get is music files with not song info attached so you have to hope that gracenote can find what song it is or you're stuck manually entering all the data on it. The songs file name isn't even correct.
I somehow doubt that your 7 year old is able to manage the neccessary steps to do more that the basic sync of purchased music, which is really not neccessary because of the iCloud implementation.
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While the IMEI may help track down the theft of an iPhone, the serial number doesn't. Apple's policy is that they support the product not the user, and that theft of property is a police matter.
1) She's not on trial, and therefore it can't be self-incriminating.
This doesn't matter, you can incriminate yourself even if you are not being tried. Anytime you are under oath you are permitted to plead the 5th if you believe that it will incriminate you. Your testimony in one trail could be used as admission of guilt in another trial.
2) They didn't compel her to say anything, she posted it publicly.
This does matter, publicly stating things that incriminate you is just stupid.
Lets take this to another extreme, Jimmy doesn't want to go to school, so his girlfriend sally who was in all his classes takes his badge with her and places it at his desk and turns in the homework she did for him. When Jimmy's teacher says Jimmy wasn't there, Jimmy points to his RFID and the fact that he turned in his homework. Jimmy's presence is his RFID, and seeing as it isnt embedded in his arm, he can be wherever his girlfriend wants him to be. Now say Jimmy is also in a gang and robs a liquor store while he is "in class", killing to clerk in the process. Jimmy now has an alibi because attendance is determined via RFID (and he turned in his homework).
If life exists elsewhere in the universe, they likewise don't need Apple products
Apple disagrees, everyone wants to purchase apple products, even if they don't know it.
By recently you mean 22 and 11 years ago respectively? Recent compared to dinosaurs? Yes. Recent compared to any of us slashdot readers? Not so much.
The cost of waste disposal for an assembly line probably isn't that much.
It may be cheaper to pay China to eat our production waste than to make our product and dump their own waste. Either way China wont miss their 7 toed children bathing in toxic waste.
You and Steve took an idea and turned it into a huge business. Now how can I do that? I've had an idea for a while for a product that I am certain would sell, but the tech market seems plenty determined to prevent any new guys from cutting into their profits. In today's market how can I get a start without being trampled immediately? (Yes I am deliberately being vague, I don't want someone running with my idea to the patent office.)
...Kinda. The point is when we deny a normally rational person the means for rational thought. The threat of danger will insight panic, robbing someone of rational thought and thus creating danger where none may exist. A muslim is at no risk for danger and thus is not in a situation where panic is robbing them of rationality. They are being irrational by pure choice. That choice is really what makes the difference.
Does this help fight patents that are obvious? Does this help fight patents where prior art exists? Does this help fight things that are unable to be patented because they are to general? Can I at least through out the dozen or so trolls that are looking to patent the word "patent".
I'm afraid that as violence becomes the common answer for suck offenses, the UN will attempt to enact something like this to stem this violence. From there, how long until the words "I'm an atheist" see actually prosecution under this law and the "christian majority" in the US extradites you to a Muslim country to face charges, because obviously they don't care if an atheist dies, they were going to hell anyway. Do I think this will happen, I would hope not, but I also thought that there was no way the US would suspend Habeas Corpus (again). I would never have thought we would re-elect GW. I am no long deluded enough to think that any stupid law would be denied on the grounds of reason. We are just as likely to back Pakistan on this as a means to go after terrorists (because they believe differently than we do.) I'm not really going all conspiracy theory here, I'm just not going to be suprised if this supidity does become a law.
If it were simply a matter of tracking agent availability then why not ave a general unscheduled break button? By labeling the button "Bathroom" the company is creating an environment hostile towards this behavior. The employee has the knowledge that the employer is constantly watching even when they need to use the restroom. No employer needs this kind of detailed info.
Take pictures every time you go, if you have to urinate, always use a stool instead of a urinal. This way if your "bathroom breaks" exceed the normal and they try to discipline you, you can show them a bunch of pictures of your shit to verified that every break is neccessary.
You could probably read 10x the content on the iPhone 5, so how is it not far ahead?
Probably not actually, as speeds increase so does the average page size (even on a mobile browser). Honestly what 4g has bought us is a marginal amount of more information and a dramatic increase in ad usage. We are paying more for the privilage to see what people have to sell.
I think the comparison is one of Battery life not keeping up with battery usage in newer devices. Technology is not increasing at the same rate, but the expectation is still there, especially for people who previously owned earlier versions of the iPhone. What most people see is not "my iPhone battery consumption is high because of increase demand from data networks", but rather "I never had to charge my old iPhone this much." Its like comparing movies sales in 2012 dollars, its a perfectly valid statement to make, even though we all know what causes the reduced data usage.
As i said in another comment, an itunes file is labeled "apple aac" meaning that it is an aac file with DRM to prevent you from listening to it on more than 5 computers (even on the drm free versions).
Only works with 2 models of ipod (nano and classic, and maybe not even the 6th gen nano). iPod touch and iPhones cant be mounted as a hard drive to view files the way your describing. Also the files are hidden in an iPod so while thats a minor additional step its not as simple as drag and drop. Also the Metadata your refering to is not stored on the file on the ipod, its stored in the itunes library file on the ipod. When you reimport your files, gracenote pulls the song information that it has, thus restoring the data for a majority of files. No this is not impossible to do (never have claimed that it was) but it is not within the scope of a 7 year olds knowledge, nor is it something that is intended by apple. The only reason the classic can still do it is that apple hasn't updated its hardware (or substantually updated its firmware) in at least 4 years.
Oh, you mean the AAC format that was developed by AT&T Bell Labs, Dolby Labs, Fraunhofer IIS, Sony, and Nokia? Then standardized as part of MPEG-2? Five years before the first iPod shipped?
Yeah, that's "apple aac format" all right.
Moron.
Read your file info when you download from Itunes, its labeled as apple aac. Apple didn't invent aac format, and I was never implying that they did, But they do add drm (even on the "drm free" stuff) that prevents you from playing the song on a computer that is not authorized. Those are the files that you can sync back to your computer, and only on the computer where you synced your ipod/iphone last. You're picking an argument on a piece of information that was largely irrelevant, and its a bit of a straw man to even imply that that was in any way my argument.
In order to transfer music back you need a 3rd party program and what you get is music files with not song info attached so you have to hope that gracenote can find what song it is or you're stuck manually entering all the data on it.
i believe you may have heard of such third party programs, but i'm not convinced you've ever used one. copypod renames all those 4-letter files to the track number-artist name-album name-song title, and that's just one program. and it's had that feature for years and years now.
I've used numerous programs, and usually they have to get the track info from gracenote or a similiar program. For the majority of music this works pretty easily, but occasionally (such as much of the music I have for local bands) gracenote doesn't pull the song info and your left entering it manually. Pretty sure I said that.
Umm no, maybe i didn't make that clear, iTunes only allows you to sync back music you have purchased from apple. If you have synced music to your iPod, but it is not in the tagged apple aac format (which is also what limits it to itunes librarys on 5 computers) then it will not sync back to your iTunes library.
Can I personally get my music off an iPod? Yes. Read what I said, the iPod is designed to prevent it. The songs are not stored simply on the ipod, you cant mount the ipod without a third party tool to even look at the file structure and itunes provides only a basic tool to get the songs that you have purchased from the ipod. People who frequent this site probably can get the music from their iPods, but they make up a small population of apples customer base. Now look at what you just typed. Go to grandma or even your mother and ask her if she knows what XML, or PLIST files are. Ask her how much she knows about unix and she will likely begin explaining about men with no balls.
How so? From a tech support perspective we didn't touch it. If you needed your files off your iPod it was because you lost the originals, or because you were loading them onto a computer to transfer your iTunes library (be that legally or otherwise). If you lost your library we were to advise you that iTunes terms of service states that File backups are your responsibility, and if you were transfering your library, We advised you to used CDs, DVD's, or an external hard drive.
not exactly, You can have 5 computers with your itunes library on them, you can sync those 5 computers to an unlimited number of devices. Dont get me wrong, its still DRM to limit the number of computer and if you have to reinstall your os without deauthing that computer you have one of your your computers eaten up by a os install that doesnt exist. If you own a mac (i dont recommend) and you dual boot to windows, that's an extra authorization there. Saddly there's no point to it, it doesnt limit your non itunes purchases, and if you create an mp3 cd/dvd backup and transfer the songs that way it strips the drm. so really its just about an illusion of control for people who dont know better. Want a song on two ipods and you and your husband/wife have different librarys? Guess you better purchase that song twice.
Well you're lying. Having worked tech support for Apple, specifically doing iPod/iPhone and iTunes support, I can assure you that an iPod is designed to not allow you to transfer music off of it. You can use itunes to transfer purchases back to your computer, but only things you have purchased from itunes and only to the computer your ipod/iphone is synced to. In order to transfer music back you need a 3rd party program and what you get is music files with not song info attached so you have to hope that gracenote can find what song it is or you're stuck manually entering all the data on it. The songs file name isn't even correct. I somehow doubt that your 7 year old is able to manage the neccessary steps to do more that the basic sync of purchased music, which is really not neccessary because of the iCloud implementation.
...And make sure it wasn't April 1st.
Warming has happened in the past? Cool. This does not rule out the fact that we are causing the warming to happen this time.