Dude, you're getting your old TV shows mixed up. That wasn't I Love Lucy.
Mr. Mooney was a character on The Lucy Show - you know, where Lucy was a single woman working at a TV station in Minneapolis with Edward Asner and Betty White.
I live in a semi-rural area in the Puget Sound region. There are convenience stores here which are individually owned and managed. The closest one to my house is run by Vietnamese immigrants, actually.
Some of the larger local farms also have their own seasonal stores - this area produces a lot of berries, something like 50% of the US' total rhubarb production, and the vast majority of its daffodil bulbs. These local farms are family owned.
There are, of course, also some chains like 7/11 - but those tend to be in more semi-urban areas.
Bodega's CEO sees it as a way to beat Amazon by offering immediate access to popular products
We've had that for centuries - it's called a store. These guys' model just potentially moves the pickup point slightly closer to us.
And, given the inherently higher maintenance costs of their business model (repeatedly stopping and restocking these small "every 100 feet" locations with tiny deliveries), even without on-site staff it's hard to see how this could be competitive with either a traditional store or with Amazon.
TechCrunch reports the company has already raised $2.5 million
Given the type of business they're trying to create, that's not actually very much at all.
It's extremely useful. If you see this file with contact details, you know that you have a legal defense if they try to sue you for pointing out their crap security.
That's an argument for why you want them to do it, not why they should want to do it.
That doesn't change the fact that no complex system is secure.
Fundamentally there are levels of security, and our job is to make the systems we manage as secure as possible. SSH is likely not 100% secure (thanks, NSA!), but that doesn't mean we should just go ahead and allow Telnet access.
It's also why people who manage multiple servers generally rely on linux distributions and their support frameworks rather than trying to keep track of everything themselves. Sure, Red Hat and Ubuntu have occasionally dropped the ball... but that's gonna happen a lot less often than Joe Admins going to miss patching an exploit on his built-from-scratch, compiled by hand Linux box.
No complex system is 100% secure, I agree - but still, we should do our damned best to follow best practices and make systems as secure as we practically can.
Clearly, the root cause here is cat parasites that impaired judgement of the board and execs to ignore basic security practices in a trust and consumer data line of business. It is like mice getting attracted to cat urine smell, only with your financial information.
Then clearly companies should only hire heterosexual males. Otherwise, with women and gay men, you're looking at a lot of cat owners.
But, you may ask - how can we accomplish this without running afoul of anti-discrimination laws? Simple - in the "getting to know you" phase of the interview process, ask about their pets!
- Are they a dog owner? Congratulations, son, you got the job! - Cat owner? Send them packing!
The issue is that, in this moment in time, people who strongly identify with either right-wing or left-wing ideology tend to prefer shouting down those who hold opposing views instead of engaging them in actual discussion. Additionally, there appears to be extreme reluctance - on both sides - to even acknowledge that perhaps some part of what "the other side" believes is a legitimate concern.
Could be just me, but I never had requirement for the phone to be police-proof. Family-proof - yes, but never had bad experience with police, neither did I consider it as a serious factor when comparing devices.
I used to think this way, but there have simply been too many cases I've seen where police went far outside their legal authority when dealing with individuals who I know were not doing anything wrong - applying fear and intimidation against law-abiding citizens. Then, on top of that, I've seen police do bad (and possibly dangerous) things when dealing with people who actually were doing something wrong - like walking up from behind a stopped motorcyclist with a drawn gun, carefully held in a way so other people couldn't readily see it, when the reason for approaching said motorcyclist was to lecture him about weaving in and out of traffic - in this case, the interaction got recorded by the motorcyclist's helmet cam.
Cops are like other people - there are good ones and bad ones. The problem is, cops have a lot of power. The good ones see that as "with great power comes great responsibility", while the bad ones see it as something to be abused to their own advantage.
I will not open my phone for a police officer if asked, even though I know there's nothing untoward on my phone. If they want me to open my phone for them, they'll need to follow proper procedures and obtain a warrant - that's the way the legal system is supposed to work.
Apple has also had "private browsing" available for-just-about-ever - possibly longer than Firefox.
But that's not quite what we're talking about here - this is basically about getting much of the value from private browsing by blocking ad tracking, but still having your history, cookies, etc. saved from sites you want to use. Basically what some of us already accomplish with plug-ins.
For me, the blockers would be produce and meat. And bread. Well, most anything perishable, in all likelihood. I want to be picking that stuff out. The bottom line is, the person who's being paid by Amazon Fresh (or whatever corp we're talking about) is ultimately looking to keep them happy first, me second. I don't care if there's a hassle-free return policy, since having to return food EVER is inconvenient and annoying at best. If we're making a stir fry tonight and some unacceptable peppers are delivered this afternoon, one way or another we'll have to scramble to get dinner done.
And if I'm already going to the store to buy the perishable stuff, I might as well buy the packaged products as well. I can get them home much faster than Amazon Fresh is going to deliver them.
"Rather than disrespect to traditional corner stores -- or worse yet, a threat -- we intended only admiration."
No, you almost certainly intend to play off their name's familiarity and steal their business.
There's nothing inherently wrong with trying to steal another company's business; that's the American way. But don't be surprised at the blowback when you're yet another privileged tech "entrepreneur" looking to get filthy rich by putting local mom and pop shops out of business, wholesale.
I have to wonder if they're also worried about the iPod touches being EOLed in the near future, given the product hasn't been updated in over two years - and the rest of the iPod line was axed two months ago.
I noticed that, in all of the iPhone X demo shots where they talked about how it adapted to your look... there wasn't a single one where the person was wearing sunglasses or tinted lenses.
And given they said you needed to be "giving attention" to the phone - I'm guessing it won't work under those conditions, which is going to be annoying for some people.
(It was also funny how FaceID didn't actually work right at first for Federighi.)
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Or, you know - exactly 500 Euros?
Dude, you're getting your old TV shows mixed up. That wasn't I Love Lucy.
Mr. Mooney was a character on The Lucy Show - you know, where Lucy was a single woman working at a TV station in Minneapolis with Edward Asner and Betty White.
And daffodils are neither - that's why there are commas in that sentence.
It's 2.5 million, not billion.
I live in a semi-rural area in the Puget Sound region. There are convenience stores here which are individually owned and managed. The closest one to my house is run by Vietnamese immigrants, actually.
Some of the larger local farms also have their own seasonal stores - this area produces a lot of berries, something like 50% of the US' total rhubarb production, and the vast majority of its daffodil bulbs. These local farms are family owned.
There are, of course, also some chains like 7/11 - but those tend to be in more semi-urban areas.
Bodega's CEO sees it as a way to beat Amazon by offering immediate access to popular products
We've had that for centuries - it's called a store. These guys' model just potentially moves the pickup point slightly closer to us.
And, given the inherently higher maintenance costs of their business model (repeatedly stopping and restocking these small "every 100 feet" locations with tiny deliveries), even without on-site staff it's hard to see how this could be competitive with either a traditional store or with Amazon.
TechCrunch reports the company has already raised $2.5 million
Given the type of business they're trying to create, that's not actually very much at all.
But that would've required I get up off the couch - so I calmed myself down.
It's extremely useful. If you see this file with contact details, you know that you have a legal defense if they try to sue you for pointing out their crap security.
That's an argument for why you want them to do it, not why they should want to do it.
That doesn't change the fact that no complex system is secure.
Fundamentally there are levels of security, and our job is to make the systems we manage as secure as possible. SSH is likely not 100% secure (thanks, NSA!), but that doesn't mean we should just go ahead and allow Telnet access.
It's also why people who manage multiple servers generally rely on linux distributions and their support frameworks rather than trying to keep track of everything themselves. Sure, Red Hat and Ubuntu have occasionally dropped the ball... but that's gonna happen a lot less often than Joe Admins going to miss patching an exploit on his built-from-scratch, compiled by hand Linux box.
No complex system is 100% secure, I agree - but still, we should do our damned best to follow best practices and make systems as secure as we practically can.
Clearly, the root cause here is cat parasites that impaired judgement of the board and execs to ignore basic security practices in a trust and consumer data line of business. It is like mice getting attracted to cat urine smell, only with your financial information.
Then clearly companies should only hire heterosexual males. Otherwise, with women and gay men, you're looking at a lot of cat owners.
But, you may ask - how can we accomplish this without running afoul of anti-discrimination laws? Simple - in the "getting to know you" phase of the interview process, ask about their pets!
- Are they a dog owner? Congratulations, son, you got the job!
- Cat owner? Send them packing!
Uh... how could this clown possibly have meant it in any way OTHER than a "bad way"?
I know its episode 1, but i asked my wife after, was any of that funny to you?
Are we still talking about South Park, or were the two of you doing something else?
The issue is that, in this moment in time, people who strongly identify with either right-wing or left-wing ideology tend to prefer shouting down those who hold opposing views instead of engaging them in actual discussion. Additionally, there appears to be extreme reluctance - on both sides - to even acknowledge that perhaps some part of what "the other side" believes is a legitimate concern.
Guy who left Canadian job thinks everyone is just like him - more at 11.
Could be just me, but I never had requirement for the phone to be police-proof. Family-proof - yes, but never had bad experience with police, neither did I consider it as a serious factor when comparing devices.
I used to think this way, but there have simply been too many cases I've seen where police went far outside their legal authority when dealing with individuals who I know were not doing anything wrong - applying fear and intimidation against law-abiding citizens. Then, on top of that, I've seen police do bad (and possibly dangerous) things when dealing with people who actually were doing something wrong - like walking up from behind a stopped motorcyclist with a drawn gun, carefully held in a way so other people couldn't readily see it, when the reason for approaching said motorcyclist was to lecture him about weaving in and out of traffic - in this case, the interaction got recorded by the motorcyclist's helmet cam.
Cops are like other people - there are good ones and bad ones. The problem is, cops have a lot of power. The good ones see that as "with great power comes great responsibility", while the bad ones see it as something to be abused to their own advantage.
I will not open my phone for a police officer if asked, even though I know there's nothing untoward on my phone. If they want me to open my phone for them, they'll need to follow proper procedures and obtain a warrant - that's the way the legal system is supposed to work.
Apple has also had "private browsing" available for-just-about-ever - possibly longer than Firefox.
But that's not quite what we're talking about here - this is basically about getting much of the value from private browsing by blocking ad tracking, but still having your history, cookies, etc. saved from sites you want to use. Basically what some of us already accomplish with plug-ins.
For me, the blockers would be produce and meat. And bread. Well, most anything perishable, in all likelihood. I want to be picking that stuff out. The bottom line is, the person who's being paid by Amazon Fresh (or whatever corp we're talking about) is ultimately looking to keep them happy first, me second. I don't care if there's a hassle-free return policy, since having to return food EVER is inconvenient and annoying at best. If we're making a stir fry tonight and some unacceptable peppers are delivered this afternoon, one way or another we'll have to scramble to get dinner done.
And if I'm already going to the store to buy the perishable stuff, I might as well buy the packaged products as well. I can get them home much faster than Amazon Fresh is going to deliver them.
"Rather than disrespect to traditional corner stores -- or worse yet, a threat -- we intended only admiration."
No, you almost certainly intend to play off their name's familiarity and steal their business.
There's nothing inherently wrong with trying to steal another company's business; that's the American way. But don't be surprised at the blowback when you're yet another privileged tech "entrepreneur" looking to get filthy rich by putting local mom and pop shops out of business, wholesale.
"In a world where we get our groceries delivered in just two hours through Instacart or Amazon Fresh, ..."
What world is he speaking about? It doesn't sound like this one...
I have to wonder if they're also worried about the iPod touches being EOLed in the near future, given the product hasn't been updated in over two years - and the rest of the iPod line was axed two months ago.
Whenever I see an American and a Canadian arguing about Canada versus America, I think of this:
http://www.harkavagrant.com/in...
Right now, I'm reading Slashdot.
I have an old, jailbroken iPad still sitting on iOS 8.4 - but it doesn't leave the house, so I'm not too worried.
There seems to be a bit of fear-mongering here with regards to iOS. As of July, 87% of iOS devices were running iOS 10.x... and so not vulnerable to this.
And as you mentioned - OS X / macOS devices are not vulnerable.
No, not the guy banging Madonna.
I think you're a few decades behind - she's married and divorced a couple guys since then.
I noticed that, in all of the iPhone X demo shots where they talked about how it adapted to your look... there wasn't a single one where the person was wearing sunglasses or tinted lenses.
And given they said you needed to be "giving attention" to the phone - I'm guessing it won't work under those conditions, which is going to be annoying for some people.
(It was also funny how FaceID didn't actually work right at first for Federighi.)