It'a not that it's not feasible. It's that there's not a big enough market/demand that any manufacturer has bothered to offer that bit of kit.
Exactly. In fact, it's bloody obvious. If a thing doesn't present significant technical hurdles to develop, but that thing isn't being sold - it's almost certainly because there's no significant market for the thing.
Now the submitter obviously disagrees. Of course, he could always launch a kickstarter and work on developing one himself. If he's discovered an untapped market, he could make a lot of money.
I've heard people complaining that it doesn't always work right after they've been asleep... so it's not surprising it might not work after the Big Sleep.
I really don’t like passive unlocking - and I can’t really see anyone who cares about security wanting it.
My MacBook Pro asked me if I wanted it to automatically unlock whenever my Apple Watch was in proximity, with the options being “turn it on” or “I’ll set it up later”. I looked, but there didn’t appear to be a “this stupid idea deserves to die in a fire” choice available.
There's the problem. Don't store your only copy of expensive data on Someone Else's Computer aka The Cloud(tm). At least have a local backup.
It’s irrelevant whether we’re talking about something controversial, or photos from your kid’s christening - it’s simply stupid to keep your only copy on a cloud drive. You’ve got to have at least one backup that’s under your own control. More than one is even better.
”They included Ray Ozzie, a former chief software architect at Microsoft; Stefan Savage, a computer science professor at the University of California, San Diego; and Ernie Brickell, a former chief security officer at Intel.”
I can’t speak to Professor Savage’s expertise; but just having these particular guys from Intel and Microsoft involved should scare the crap out of you.
Why compare them with China? Why not the UK? After all, UK courts have ruled that prisoners can be forced to hand over encryption keys, and can be held in custody indefinitely until they comply.
That is not the same thing at all.
Additionally, your scenario can already happen in the US, if there is enough evidence for the police to get a warrant.
It was really only funny to people of a particular mindset. A Reaganite would ask a more liberal person (like myself) to "show your internal passport, comrade" with the implication that being liberal would inevitably lead to a complete loss of freedom such as was exhibited in the "liberal" Soviet Union.
Of course, I wasn't above doing similar things. I remember one day (the presidential campaign was in full swing) we were in the college's dining hall, and there were a bunch of school kids visiting. I don't know if they were in uniforms or not, but many of them were dressed very similarly - so I started referring to them as "Reagan Youth" (a play on "Hitler Youth"). My conservative friends didn't think that was particularly funny.
Ah, things seemed so black-and-white back in those days... nowadays I see a lot more gray - and not just in my beard.
It might surprise you to know that "the government can track you everywhere you go" is something that your grandparents almost certainly considered "unAmerican"--if not outright "evil". That's what the Nazis and the Commies did, not America.
Yup. I was in college when Reagan was elected the first time. I remember one of the most popular memes* among my Reaganite friends was a joke about Soviet internal passports (which were really a thing).
Fast-forward to the past decade - we have on more than one occasion had American bureaucrats propose the same thing for us, for the same reason the Soviets had been doing it way back in the day.
The prototype, although abandoned, took many years to melt. In 1975, a large chunk of the remaining ice drifted into the shipping lanes of Lake Superior and was struck by the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald, which was being piloted by Jimmy Hoffa.
Unfortunately, after playing for a few hours a licensing glitch caused the AI to be misidentified as a game pirate. The system was blacklisted from all Battlefield 1 servers; and then, once EA's License Enforcement team discovered the IP address was from within the company, they forcibly powered-down the system - leading to the complete loss of the AI.
What slackers. In Seattle we work 110 hours a week.
Well, that’s because you only have a dialup Internet connection - it takes you much longer to do the same amount of work as a Silicon Valley employee earning $50,000 a year.
Amazon will purchase the buildings from Toys 'R' Us, but leave them empty. Then, whenever Bezos feels the need to have his power reaffirmed, he can just go to one of these locations and wander around the empty store telling himself "I DID THIS".
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Do people really spend that kind of money just to get their house cleaned once a week?
It'a not that it's not feasible. It's that there's not a big enough market/demand that any manufacturer has bothered to offer that bit of kit.
Exactly. In fact, it's bloody obvious. If a thing doesn't present significant technical hurdles to develop, but that thing isn't being sold - it's almost certainly because there's no significant market for the thing.
Now the submitter obviously disagrees. Of course, he could always launch a kickstarter and work on developing one himself. If he's discovered an untapped market, he could make a lot of money.
This one weird organ was discovered by a stay at home mom who now earns $3,453 per week working part-time!
”40 percent of Uber employees said they would delete Facebook.”
Although, in that particular case, the complaint was Facebook isn’t evil enough for their tastes.
We need more internet industry stories from Norway.
Your subject line leads me to believe you exist on a planet other than the one I live on.
I used to joke that all the good coders have left Apple... but maybe it's not a joke after all.
Why not?
I've heard people complaining that it doesn't always work right after they've been asleep... so it's not surprising it might not work after the Big Sleep.
His "rocket" only took him a bit more than 1800 feet in the air - he wasn't really interested in seeing the curvature of the earth.
He could also have just driven to the summit of Pike’s Peak.
I really don’t like passive unlocking - and I can’t really see anyone who cares about security wanting it.
My MacBook Pro asked me if I wanted it to automatically unlock whenever my Apple Watch was in proximity, with the options being “turn it on” or “I’ll set it up later”. I looked, but there didn’t appear to be a “this stupid idea deserves to die in a fire” choice available.
There's the problem. Don't store your only copy of expensive data on Someone Else's Computer aka The Cloud(tm). At least have a local backup.
It’s irrelevant whether we’re talking about something controversial, or photos from your kid’s christening - it’s simply stupid to keep your only copy on a cloud drive. You’ve got to have at least one backup that’s under your own control. More than one is even better.
”They included Ray Ozzie, a former chief software architect at Microsoft; Stefan Savage, a computer science professor at the University of California, San Diego; and Ernie Brickell, a former chief security officer at Intel.”
I can’t speak to Professor Savage’s expertise; but just having these particular guys from Intel and Microsoft involved should scare the crap out of you.
And those keys held in escrow will somehow magically be immune to loss by theft or coercion.
Why compare them with China? Why not the UK? After all, UK courts have ruled that prisoners can be forced to hand over encryption keys, and can be held in custody indefinitely until they comply.
That is not the same thing at all.
Additionally, your scenario can already happen in the US, if there is enough evidence for the police to get a warrant.
So what was the joke?!
It was really only funny to people of a particular mindset. A Reaganite would ask a more liberal person (like myself) to "show your internal passport, comrade" with the implication that being liberal would inevitably lead to a complete loss of freedom such as was exhibited in the
"liberal" Soviet Union.
Of course, I wasn't above doing similar things. I remember one day (the presidential campaign was in full swing) we were in the college's dining hall, and there were a bunch of school kids visiting. I don't know if they were in uniforms or not, but many of them were dressed very similarly - so I started referring to them as "Reagan Youth" (a play on "Hitler Youth"). My conservative friends didn't think that was particularly funny.
Ah, things seemed so black-and-white back in those days... nowadays I see a lot more gray - and not just in my beard.
It might surprise you to know that "the government can track you everywhere you go" is something that your grandparents almost certainly considered "unAmerican"--if not outright "evil". That's what the Nazis and the Commies did, not America.
Yup. I was in college when Reagan was elected the first time. I remember one of the most popular memes* among my Reaganite friends was a joke about Soviet internal passports (which were really a thing).
Fast-forward to the past decade - we have on more than one occasion had American bureaucrats propose the same thing for us, for the same reason the Soviets had been doing it way back in the day.
There's only one sane solution!
I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone ask for a faster release cycle for java.
I have, however, heard (many times) people requesting that java die in a fire.
I actually was worried that someone might think I was serious... so I decided to add the Jimmy Hoffa part.
The prototype, although abandoned, took many years to melt. In 1975, a large chunk of the remaining ice drifted into the shipping lanes of Lake Superior and was struck by the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald, which was being piloted by Jimmy Hoffa.
Unfortunately, after playing for a few hours a licensing glitch caused the AI to be misidentified as a game pirate. The system was blacklisted from all Battlefield 1 servers; and then, once EA's License Enforcement team discovered the IP address was from within the company, they forcibly powered-down the system - leading to the complete loss of the AI.
What slackers. In Seattle we work 110 hours a week.
Well, that’s because you only have a dialup Internet connection - it takes you much longer to do the same amount of work as a Silicon Valley employee earning $50,000 a year.
What age group is YouTube after here, exactly? Are they trying to get a slice of that lucrative Social Security market?
Amazon will purchase the buildings from Toys 'R' Us, but leave them empty. Then, whenever Bezos feels the need to have his power reaffirmed, he can just go to one of these locations and wander around the empty store telling himself "I DID THIS".