That's my concern too. a false positive rate of even 0.0001% would still be unacceptably high for this particular application.
A much better strategy is simply higher fines and enforcement for prank calls. It won't eliminate them, but it's much lower risk.
When dealing with emergency services, you MUST treat ALL calls as valid until fully investigated. If proven false, enforcement action is warranted, but not investigating it is not.
Hence why I stated "in the civilized world". Chip readers are on 100% of terminals here. there are zero terminals still in use without them as they no longer meet standards. These terminals "usually" have NFC, but not 100%, so you can't just leave the card at home and use any app based system.
Gattaca was more about reading the genes and discriminating based on it. (there are plenty of other films that talk about what could go wrong by making edits that result in unforeseen complications) Refusing to hire someone because their genes say their life expectancy isn't long enough to be worth training them, or who is expected to have more sick days than you want, or who has a condition that will be expensive for the corporate health plan to treat.
Gattaca predicted that we'd be able to read more in to the results of a genetic test than we currently can, but it may still happen. It also predicted that genetic testing would be cheap and easy for corporations to do.
Interestingly enough, it also predicted that governments would outlaw the practice of doing so, but that corporations would ignore the law and do so anyway because it would be easy to do under the guise of drug testing, or any other excuse that gave up a few skin cells, a hair follicle, or any blood/urine/etc.
I used to work on an ISP help desk many, many years ago. If you asked to escalate to a manager or a higher level of support we would quite literally put you on hold, look around the room and ask our co-workers who felt like being a "manager" today, we'd then transfer the person to our co-worker who was at the same level as we were.
Of course this was back in a time when we didn't work off scripts, and were hired for our extensive knowledge of the systems and software we were supporting. If we couldn't figure it out, there simply wasn't anyone higher up to send you to.
Things are very different today, I don't think there are any call centres left where the first level people do anything other than follow a script, and it's highly unlikely any of them were hired for their in depth technical knowledge.
If current generation portable music players are no better than phones for capacity, then you've completely invalidated your own argument. Maybe none of them are good enough for you, but that doesn't mean that you can simply use the one vs the other to solve the problem.
Don't worry, their live human won't be able to help you either, as they're really just reading off a script at this point with no ability to deviate from it. If you're lucky, the 3rd or 4th tier above them will be able to actually deviate from the script and provide actual support. You know, the kind you used to get from the first person who answered the phone.
The only reason you shouldn't have to root your phone is because it should come that way from the factory. This whole idea that you shouldn't have any control of the device that you own is ridiculous, and never would have flown a few decades ago. Somehow now though it's considered normal.
Using Android Pay at the grocery store is incredibly convenient. As long as you aren't buying enough groceries to last more than a day or two. Unfortunately the artificial $100 transaction limit makes it useless for anything more than that.
In the civilized world, chip readers are already universal at 100% of locations that accept credit cards. NFC is somewhere around the 90%+ range and climbing.
Samsung pay works with NFC, but does not work with chip. Meaning that it only works in that 90%+ range, and not the other almost 10%. In other words, exactly the same places that Android Pay works. The MST technology doesn't help because nowhere allows you to do a mag stripe transaction with a chip enabled card (and all cards issued include a chip)
Of course for countries that haven't caught up to last decade's technology, there may still be some small advantage to this.
Apple is discontinuing the iPod Shuffle and iPod Nano. The highest capacity iPod nano or shuffle had 16GB of storage. My phone has more than that before I add an SD card. So please explain how my suggestion to use your phone instead of the iPod nano or iPod shuffle will negatively impact the amount of music you can carry around?
My phone has physical buttons too. volume up, volume down, power, and home. Those buttons control music as much as I need to. they adjust the volume, skip forward or backwards, and pause.
I'm not sure what the difference is between leaving your phone in the car/at home vs having it on you and not replying to messages. For that matter, most phones have a silent or do-not-disturb mode that works very well.
As for replacement cost. Maybe you need to be less hard on your things?
As for apple compatibility with other devices... why would they? and why would you care? it's a music player. put music on it and forget it. Unless it is INCREDIBLY poorly designed, there's nothing Apple needs to do to make it compatible with their computers. it should just be a storage device that you drag and drop music on to.
That's exactly the point, I last had an mp3 player a decade ago before I had a phone that could play music. Why carry a second device to do the same thing?
And you think that another auto maker would not have even more advantages than that?
They have plants already that they regularly re-jig for new models. They have tons and tons of past vehicles to take parts and experience from, including ones that are partially electrified (technologically related).
There's is ZERO reason that any of the large manufacturers couldn't have caught up by now, except the desire to do so.
And yet the rest of the companies only bothered to START development years after Tesla FINISHED development. This isn't because Tesla is in some magical place that makes it so that only they can do this. They actually had all sorts of disadvantages over the rest of the industry. This is because the industry doesn't WANT to compete.
Wikipedia indicates the Model S took 4 years to develop from scratch. And that the factory (not quite from scratch, but that would be consistent with what any other manufacturer would be doing too as they're more likely to re-tool than build a new factory) took less than 1 year.
So yes, they did do both create a new car from scratch, and build the factory, both in less than half a decade.
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That's my concern too. a false positive rate of even 0.0001% would still be unacceptably high for this particular application.
A much better strategy is simply higher fines and enforcement for prank calls. It won't eliminate them, but it's much lower risk.
When dealing with emergency services, you MUST treat ALL calls as valid until fully investigated. If proven false, enforcement action is warranted, but not investigating it is not.
Hence why I stated "in the civilized world". Chip readers are on 100% of terminals here. there are zero terminals still in use without them as they no longer meet standards.
These terminals "usually" have NFC, but not 100%, so you can't just leave the card at home and use any app based system.
Thing is. This wasn't "high enough level" this was the front line. We were the first, last, and only level of support.
Gattaca was more about reading the genes and discriminating based on it. (there are plenty of other films that talk about what could go wrong by making edits that result in unforeseen complications) Refusing to hire someone because their genes say their life expectancy isn't long enough to be worth training them, or who is expected to have more sick days than you want, or who has a condition that will be expensive for the corporate health plan to treat.
Gattaca predicted that we'd be able to read more in to the results of a genetic test than we currently can, but it may still happen. It also predicted that genetic testing would be cheap and easy for corporations to do.
Interestingly enough, it also predicted that governments would outlaw the practice of doing so, but that corporations would ignore the law and do so anyway because it would be easy to do under the guise of drug testing, or any other excuse that gave up a few skin cells, a hair follicle, or any blood/urine/etc.
I used to work on an ISP help desk many, many years ago. If you asked to escalate to a manager or a higher level of support we would quite literally put you on hold, look around the room and ask our co-workers who felt like being a "manager" today, we'd then transfer the person to our co-worker who was at the same level as we were.
Of course this was back in a time when we didn't work off scripts, and were hired for our extensive knowledge of the systems and software we were supporting. If we couldn't figure it out, there simply wasn't anyone higher up to send you to.
Things are very different today, I don't think there are any call centres left where the first level people do anything other than follow a script, and it's highly unlikely any of them were hired for their in depth technical knowledge.
If current generation portable music players are no better than phones for capacity, then you've completely invalidated your own argument.
Maybe none of them are good enough for you, but that doesn't mean that you can simply use the one vs the other to solve the problem.
And yet reviews are full of "didn't work as the terminal prompted me to insert the chip card to continue"
So apparently you're a unique case, or live somewhere where chip cards aren't mandated to make up 100% of all cards.
Don't worry, their live human won't be able to help you either, as they're really just reading off a script at this point with no ability to deviate from it.
If you're lucky, the 3rd or 4th tier above them will be able to actually deviate from the script and provide actual support. You know, the kind you used to get from the first person who answered the phone.
The best customers are the ones who never call.
Why bother keeping your worst customers?
The only reason you shouldn't have to root your phone is because it should come that way from the factory. This whole idea that you shouldn't have any control of the device that you own is ridiculous, and never would have flown a few decades ago. Somehow now though it's considered normal.
Using Android Pay at the grocery store is incredibly convenient. As long as you aren't buying enough groceries to last more than a day or two. Unfortunately the artificial $100 transaction limit makes it useless for anything more than that.
In the civilized world, chip readers are already universal at 100% of locations that accept credit cards. NFC is somewhere around the 90%+ range and climbing.
Samsung pay works with NFC, but does not work with chip. Meaning that it only works in that 90%+ range, and not the other almost 10%. In other words, exactly the same places that Android Pay works. The MST technology doesn't help because nowhere allows you to do a mag stripe transaction with a chip enabled card (and all cards issued include a chip)
Of course for countries that haven't caught up to last decade's technology, there may still be some small advantage to this.
Apple is discontinuing the iPod Shuffle and iPod Nano. The highest capacity iPod nano or shuffle had 16GB of storage. My phone has more than that before I add an SD card.
So please explain how my suggestion to use your phone instead of the iPod nano or iPod shuffle will negatively impact the amount of music you can carry around?
My phone has physical buttons too. volume up, volume down, power, and home. Those buttons control music as much as I need to. they adjust the volume, skip forward or backwards, and pause.
Then maybe you shouldn't buy apple phones?
If the device you're buying doesn't suit your needs. Consider buying a version that does.
I'm not sure what the difference is between leaving your phone in the car/at home vs having it on you and not replying to messages. For that matter, most phones have a silent or do-not-disturb mode that works very well.
As for replacement cost. Maybe you need to be less hard on your things?
As for apple compatibility with other devices... why would they? and why would you care? it's a music player. put music on it and forget it. Unless it is INCREDIBLY poorly designed, there's nothing Apple needs to do to make it compatible with their computers. it should just be a storage device that you drag and drop music on to.
Maybe you should have chosen a phone that suited your needs? it would probably have been cheaper than a separate device.
My wife jogs every day with her Samsung S5 Neo, her iPod hasn't been plugged in in years.
Personally the only time I run is if something is chasing me...
That's exactly the point, I last had an mp3 player a decade ago before I had a phone that could play music. Why carry a second device to do the same thing?
And you think that another auto maker would not have even more advantages than that?
They have plants already that they regularly re-jig for new models. They have tons and tons of past vehicles to take parts and experience from, including ones that are partially electrified (technologically related).
There's is ZERO reason that any of the large manufacturers couldn't have caught up by now, except the desire to do so.
There is actually tons of grants and funding that is designated exclusively for women, there is none that is designated exclusively for men.
And yet the rest of the companies only bothered to START development years after Tesla FINISHED development. This isn't because Tesla is in some magical place that makes it so that only they can do this. They actually had all sorts of disadvantages over the rest of the industry.
This is because the industry doesn't WANT to compete.
If you don't want an ev, don't buy one. Just don't pretend that is based on rational reasons.
Wikipedia indicates the Model S took 4 years to develop from scratch. And that the factory (not quite from scratch, but that would be consistent with what any other manufacturer would be doing too as they're more likely to re-tool than build a new factory) took less than 1 year.
So yes, they did do both create a new car from scratch, and build the factory, both in less than half a decade.
It's ok if Apple does it because they're the good guys, but I don't know the other company so they must be evil!
ummmm... yeah... the mental gymnastics here are quite entertaining.