Jailbreaking, both for Android and iOS, came to be and became popular because it enable several things users were asking for and either the OSs couldn't do it, didn't want you to do, or just simply weren't high enough in the list of priorities for the companies.
Time passed and a whole ton of features, functionalities and customization options that came first from the jailbreak community were adopted and sometimes appropriated by the official OSs. So it's not only because security has hardened on iOS or Android, but more because these days there are not many people needing extra features that a jailbreak would enable.
How branding went through all these years also helped to estabilish proper markets I guess... Hardware is pretty much the same these days for Android phones and iPhones, and it's plenty estabilished that people who wants to be tinkering with their phones going beyond mainstream capabilities will flock towards Android anyways, so it just doesn't make that much sense for someone who intends to mess and customize their phones to the limits would get an iPhone for it anymore.
They should also tell him that allowing ISPs to sell user data is a blatant violation of privacy that no company should be allowed to do. But hey, small victories.
One thing is to force Google from taking webpages that deals on piracy in Canada. Another thing is to make the spurious presumption that the supreme court of any given country is able to enforce it's decisions for the rest of the world, which it so obviously cannot as it does not have the jurisdiction to do so. What kinda quack judges are those not to understand such a simple thing?
Yes, poor poor CEO... he was paid to do a job he couldn't because he was so naive. I'm so fucking blinded by living in a bubble filled with dollar bills. Gimme a fucking break Marissa. If that's the mindset you are going into to lead Uber, and apparently the justification you are giving to kill Yahoo, I hope Uber also dies if they decide to hire you. If Uber investors that are part of the board know any better, after this they should avoid hiring her at all costs. It's either a situation Kalanick created and has full responsibility for, or it's complete incompetence on the very specific job you are getting more than well paid for. Cry me a river.
Just leaving what I already wrote on Gizmodo's post here:
Yeeeaaahh.... unfortunately, and specially because of the comments on the matter, I don’t think Wagner has a chance here.
Well, not that I know a whole lot on law, but afaik, fair use only has a chance if she didn’t admit that she was turning a profit on it (directly or indirectly). And even so, photography can be pretty tricky on those matters.... fair use usually won’t stick in cases like this one.
Very rare exceptions for very famous artists with a huge legal team to defend that there was substantial difference in the usage versus the original work... see here: https://www.theverge.com/2015/...
It’s even more damning if MacMansion Hell was making predominant use of Zillow content. Say, if you had a humour website with occasional Zillow content that did not focus solely on satire of their content but more on overall criticism of general architecture found throughout the web, things could be a bit more in the grey... or more accurately, perhaps Zillow going after the blog wouldn’t translate to taking everything down.
But here’s a quote:
Somebody infringed my copyright. What can I do?
A party may seek to protect his or her copyrights against unauthorized use by filing a civil lawsuit in federal district court. If you believe that your copyright has been infringed, consult an attorney. In cases of willful infringement for profit, the U.S. Attorney may initiate a criminal investigation. https://www.copyright.gov/help...
The “willful” part is key, but not in the way most people think of. Claiming ignorance on the law, specifically about copyright, usually does not absolve you. It has more to do with getting bogus licenses, works with unclear status, and chain of command (as in I did this for my publication because they told me they had the rights).
And the thing is... for parodies and satire in fair use, the content infringed must be the direct target of it. Subtle difference, but Wagner wasn’t making satire or parody of the photographers’ work, Zillow’s service, or something in the effect of a criticism of cultural tendency. She was using the work done by others to make... architectural criticism, was it?
Nothing against the blog or Wagner, just my understanding of it. Sounds like it’s best for her to abandon the idea and go for something else, or negotiate with Zillow and/or photographers if they are even willing...
The same crap that UK and France (and several US senators times ago) have been pushing for. I'm getting so completely tired of this rhetoric that part of me wants for these moronic laws written by people who have no clue on what they are talking about to pass, only to see terrorists using cryptographic technology from other countries, with the only result of this being weakened security for everyone in the country, including politicians who will end up being targeted by hackers, criminals and terrorists for their own stupidity. It seems some people only learn by digging through their own shit.
It surprises me that it took this long. Not only about the huge market that will be there, with China now leading Paris Agreement, Tesla absolutely can't afford not being there for all it's other related or non-related projects. Battery technology, solar power stuff...
Allowed to practice? Dude, the first GOOP cult reunion just happened. Chiropractors will at least give you a rough spanking or massage, and try sell some snake oil or something. There are so many things worse regarding health and "alternative medicine" that I think it's pretty understandable why chiropractors are kinda overlooked.:P Not that I'd fall for shit like that, but you know.
This can only mean a few things: either judges or politicians are willing to bend the laws to keep texting and driving without any care for public safety. There are no other reasons to make ambiguous laws that goes against what studies have already proven.
Even if it was impossible to get ransomware in there, is there any value to it? You know, it's also impossible to run ransomware on my cheap calculator, and that one at least has a following.:P
Don't expect a Netflix-like move on this one guys (bluntly say they don't care, then do a full reversal when people get pissed about it). If anything, the only thing Verizon probably cares and expects right now from Tumblr is for them not to support net neutrality. At possible threat of shutting it down. Which is a good sample of what is happening if net neutrality ends, only on a larger scale.
Think you guys have it bad there in the US? Try postal service in Brazil. It's a state-owned monopoly that exploits people with extremely expensive pricing, and for products that are coming from outside the country (like chinese products bought on eBay and other sites), the review process to charge for importation taxes can take anywhere from a month to half an year - regularly. Yes, I'm not talking about extremes here, this is the average timeframe. You never know what you are going to get, there is no tracking system for that, there's no online communication system (like really, when there are taxes to be paid you get sent a notice via snail mail, there is no other option), you can end up getting charged over double the cost of the product plus shipping, you have to go get the product yourself from a designated post office that's oftenly not the closest to your home address, and taxes need to be paid in cash - no other forms of payment accepted.
It's pure unbridled exploitation from a monopoly.
Things like same day delivery or guaranteed next day delivery like what Amazon do is pretty much impossible given Brazil's infrastructure. And the taxation structure is probably the reason why Amazon in Brazil never went above selling eBooks, plus bureaucracy and other crap. And services like Blue Apron, Dollar Shave Club, among others are kinda impossible to work well here.
I've seen packages of mine getting sent to the other side of the country or even to other countries due to postal service error. But of course, there's absolutely zero pressure for the service to ever get better since it works that way.
When will people stop trying to pass laws to force their beliefs into others and stop trying to rely on the government to spread some sort of religious (based on belief) message?
I mean, really, how people can be this stupid? As far as I know, being a "board certified anesthesiologist" does not qualify you to pass laws based on whatever crap you believe without any proof. And even if he had any proof, trying to pass a law would not be the way to go - this is the competence of regulatory bodies. The fact that he's not going through proper procedures already shows how biased the whole thing is.
This is no different than the crap about violent games, TV, rock music, or that damn subversive literature that is destroying our kids. And in the end, it's just a fucking waste of time. Like any retailer would ever submit a report that automagically forces them to pay a $500 fine. Most kids will get their parents' old smartphones and tablets anyways, and if any parent wanted to buy a smartphone or tablet for their kids they'd just purchase one for themselves and then hand it over. Fucking waste of time and energy. This is literally the will someone please think of the children crap.
Sad to see this happening there, but it's not like japanese government don't have previous bills that are borderline thought police like. It's a country that I'd like to visit again and possibly even spend a longer time in the future, but this is pretty bad. I already discarded visiting the US in the near future, the last thing I want to see is even more countries using terrorism as an excuse for overbearing state surveillance.
Just another evidence pointing out we're right at the turning point for totalitarian regimes sprouting once again in response to a politics of fear and complacency from citizens. Time is a flat circle.
What robots are we taxing? Multipurpose vehicles with automation features? Automated soldering robot arms in vehicle factories? Software with neural networks for sorting large quantities of data? On demand 3D printers? An Excel spreadsheet? Weaving loom? An abbacus?
See where I'm geting at? There is no clear and consistent definition of what a robot is. If it's about machines taking jobs that could be done by humans, it's every single tool since the dawn of times. If it's about specific sets of machinery that uses neural networks, AI-related stuff and whatnot, the industry will find ways of going around the definition just to avoid taxes. And most of industrial automation can work plenty well without onboard AI anyways. More importantly, if one country decides to tax robots, all it takes is another country that does not to send all production there. In a way, this has already happened with labor laws, welfare, copyright and whatnot going from the entire world to China.
Bill Gates seems to be well intended, but this isn't how we're gonna solve this problem, because it's too vague. How about a profit x employability tax? This is sure to piss off even more people, specially companies like Microsoft, Google and whatnot. But if it's about taxing companies that are making a lot of money and having tons of output without generating employment, even if this sounds like an extra burden or punishment for success, it should be going that way instead of vague strategies that every business will be expected to do everything they can to avoid.
Yes, it incur in similar problems of big businesses fleeing the country for others that don't work that way, but at least it's more general and spread throughout the entire economy.
And then everyone will take their flying cars back to their homes in the sky, and then they'll arrive via their vacuum tube elevators, and then their robotic maids will 3d print their food to their liking, and then they'll take their pets on a walk outside on top of a threadmill suspended 10000 feet in the air with no guardrails
Predictions predictions. I'm not sure why analysts and companies keep doing this, but seems it's either veiled interests or just pure ignorance on how culture grows with technology. Predictions should not be made by people who can't see past their own area of expertise.
You know the side effect of millions of people receiving the boot because their jobs have been replaced by automation? Record levels of unemployment followed by recession and then depression. You know the side effect of recession and depression? People not having money to pay for anything. You know the side effect of people not having money to pay for anything? Industries not having money to invest on automation. People being unable to sustain themselves. Major public revolt and dissent. Chaos.
We won't have a major uniform and complete shift in just 2 decades or so, because that would provoke an auto-collapse. Either we have gradual changes and implementation along changes in society and culture that enables accomodation of new tech, or we'll risk going back to medieval times. If these futurologists keeps thinking with only tech advances in mind, we are no better in predicting stuff than people in the 60s thinking about the year 2000.
Basically, they went to the other side. It was never really about small companies or costumers, it was just about themselves. Nowadays Netflix is big enough to impose their own demands and prices on ISPs and whatnot, and they in fact have all the interest on stopping new players in the market. It's f*cking shameless to come up and say something like that with all the defenses they made back in 2014, sure, but it's also partially true. But yeah, here, for those who don't remember: http://www.huffpostbrasil.com/... http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/2...
Consumers indeed deserve better, which is something Netflix apparently isn't willing to fight for anymore.
We were just talking about similar ideas few days ago...
But without a battery to power it and depending on a huge dock to have functional ports, I'm not sure about how useful something like that really is. Lots of people including me talked about Kangaroo PC, but the same brand already has a product like the one on the post - Kangaroo Notebook:
Wanna make an assistant AI private? Essencially *cough*, what is needed is for it to work offline, period. No buts and ifs. Core AI functionality could get updates overtime to make it more efficient, but no sending data through the Internet while it's in use. A concept that is very easy to understand.
Here's what they put on their page: "Privacy by design The home is your own space where you should be able to say what you want, without having to worry about your privacy. We’ve designed Essential Home to run most things on the device itself, so most data stays in your home where it belongs. Essential Home will directly talk to your devices over your in-home network whenever possible to limit sending data to the cloud".
Most most most. Whenever possible. Blah blah. Doesn't matter. If it's still connecting to servers you have zero control, it's essencially the same as Google Home or Amazon Echo. It's still our company word versus the other companies word. And for cases like that, it's easier to trust bigger companies that will be risking class action lawsuits over the anger of hundreds of thousands of costumers than an upstart that is just releasing their first products, even if the whole thing is lead by Andy Rubin.
Personally, I don't care for either. I'll be ok with the whole thing if and when AI assistants become fully local.
I somewhat feel that the term "enthusiast" is starting to encompass entirely different markets nowadays... I mean, dang, this is more like rich, crazy and/or with extremely specific needs.
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Jailbreaking, both for Android and iOS, came to be and became popular because it enable several things users were asking for and either the OSs couldn't do it, didn't want you to do, or just simply weren't high enough in the list of priorities for the companies.
Time passed and a whole ton of features, functionalities and customization options that came first from the jailbreak community were adopted and sometimes appropriated by the official OSs. So it's not only because security has hardened on iOS or Android, but more because these days there are not many people needing extra features that a jailbreak would enable.
How branding went through all these years also helped to estabilish proper markets I guess... Hardware is pretty much the same these days for Android phones and iPhones, and it's plenty estabilished that people who wants to be tinkering with their phones going beyond mainstream capabilities will flock towards Android anyways, so it just doesn't make that much sense for someone who intends to mess and customize their phones to the limits would get an iPhone for it anymore.
They should also tell him that allowing ISPs to sell user data is a blatant violation of privacy that no company should be allowed to do.
But hey, small victories.
One thing is to force Google from taking webpages that deals on piracy in Canada.
Another thing is to make the spurious presumption that the supreme court of any given country is able to enforce it's decisions for the rest of the world, which it so obviously cannot as it does not have the jurisdiction to do so.
What kinda quack judges are those not to understand such a simple thing?
Yes, poor poor CEO... he was paid to do a job he couldn't because he was so naive. I'm so fucking blinded by living in a bubble filled with dollar bills.
Gimme a fucking break Marissa. If that's the mindset you are going into to lead Uber, and apparently the justification you are giving to kill Yahoo, I hope Uber also dies if they decide to hire you. If Uber investors that are part of the board know any better, after this they should avoid hiring her at all costs.
It's either a situation Kalanick created and has full responsibility for, or it's complete incompetence on the very specific job you are getting more than well paid for.
Cry me a river.
FE? They couldn't go with anything else? Like Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Fire Edition?
Just leaving what I already wrote on Gizmodo's post here:
Yeeeaaahh.... unfortunately, and specially because of the comments on the matter, I don’t think Wagner has a chance here.
Well, not that I know a whole lot on law, but afaik, fair use only has a chance if she didn’t admit that she was turning a profit on it (directly or indirectly). And even so, photography can be pretty tricky on those matters.... fair use usually won’t stick in cases like this one.
Very rare exceptions for very famous artists with a huge legal team to defend that there was substantial difference in the usage versus the original work... see here: https://www.theverge.com/2015/...
It’s even more damning if MacMansion Hell was making predominant use of Zillow content. Say, if you had a humour website with occasional Zillow content that did not focus solely on satire of their content but more on overall criticism of general architecture found throughout the web, things could be a bit more in the grey... or more accurately, perhaps Zillow going after the blog wouldn’t translate to taking everything down.
But here’s a quote:
Somebody infringed my copyright. What can I do?
A party may seek to protect his or her copyrights against unauthorized use by filing a civil lawsuit in federal district court. If you believe that your copyright has been infringed, consult an attorney. In cases of willful infringement for profit, the U.S. Attorney may initiate a criminal investigation.
https://www.copyright.gov/help...
The “willful” part is key, but not in the way most people think of. Claiming ignorance on the law, specifically about copyright, usually does not absolve you. It has more to do with getting bogus licenses, works with unclear status, and chain of command (as in I did this for my publication because they told me they had the rights).
And the thing is... for parodies and satire in fair use, the content infringed must be the direct target of it. Subtle difference, but Wagner wasn’t making satire or parody of the photographers’ work, Zillow’s service, or something in the effect of a criticism of cultural tendency. She was using the work done by others to make... architectural criticism, was it?
Nothing against the blog or Wagner, just my understanding of it. Sounds like it’s best for her to abandon the idea and go for something else, or negotiate with Zillow and/or photographers if they are even willing...
The same crap that UK and France (and several US senators times ago) have been pushing for.
I'm getting so completely tired of this rhetoric that part of me wants for these moronic laws written by people who have no clue on what they are talking about to pass, only to see terrorists using cryptographic technology from other countries, with the only result of this being weakened security for everyone in the country, including politicians who will end up being targeted by hackers, criminals and terrorists for their own stupidity.
It seems some people only learn by digging through their own shit.
It surprises me that it took this long.
Not only about the huge market that will be there, with China now leading Paris Agreement, Tesla absolutely can't afford not being there for all it's other related or non-related projects. Battery technology, solar power stuff...
Allowed to practice? Dude, the first GOOP cult reunion just happened. Chiropractors will at least give you a rough spanking or massage, and try sell some snake oil or something. There are so many things worse regarding health and "alternative medicine" that I think it's pretty understandable why chiropractors are kinda overlooked. :P
Not that I'd fall for shit like that, but you know.
This can only mean a few things: either judges or politicians are willing to bend the laws to keep texting and driving without any care for public safety. There are no other reasons to make ambiguous laws that goes against what studies have already proven.
Even if it was impossible to get ransomware in there, is there any value to it? You know, it's also impossible to run ransomware on my cheap calculator, and that one at least has a following. :P
bait and switch
Don't expect a Netflix-like move on this one guys (bluntly say they don't care, then do a full reversal when people get pissed about it). If anything, the only thing Verizon probably cares and expects right now from Tumblr is for them not to support net neutrality. At possible threat of shutting it down. Which is a good sample of what is happening if net neutrality ends, only on a larger scale.
Think you guys have it bad there in the US? Try postal service in Brazil. It's a state-owned monopoly that exploits people with extremely expensive pricing, and for products that are coming from outside the country (like chinese products bought on eBay and other sites), the review process to charge for importation taxes can take anywhere from a month to half an year - regularly. Yes, I'm not talking about extremes here, this is the average timeframe.
You never know what you are going to get, there is no tracking system for that, there's no online communication system (like really, when there are taxes to be paid you get sent a notice via snail mail, there is no other option), you can end up getting charged over double the cost of the product plus shipping, you have to go get the product yourself from a designated post office that's oftenly not the closest to your home address, and taxes need to be paid in cash - no other forms of payment accepted.
It's pure unbridled exploitation from a monopoly.
Things like same day delivery or guaranteed next day delivery like what Amazon do is pretty much impossible given Brazil's infrastructure. And the taxation structure is probably the reason why Amazon in Brazil never went above selling eBooks, plus bureaucracy and other crap. And services like Blue Apron, Dollar Shave Club, among others are kinda impossible to work well here.
I've seen packages of mine getting sent to the other side of the country or even to other countries due to postal service error.
But of course, there's absolutely zero pressure for the service to ever get better since it works that way.
When will people stop trying to pass laws to force their beliefs into others and stop trying to rely on the government to spread some sort of religious (based on belief) message?
I mean, really, how people can be this stupid? As far as I know, being a "board certified anesthesiologist" does not qualify you to pass laws based on whatever crap you believe without any proof. And even if he had any proof, trying to pass a law would not be the way to go - this is the competence of regulatory bodies. The fact that he's not going through proper procedures already shows how biased the whole thing is.
This is no different than the crap about violent games, TV, rock music, or that damn subversive literature that is destroying our kids.
And in the end, it's just a fucking waste of time. Like any retailer would ever submit a report that automagically forces them to pay a $500 fine. Most kids will get their parents' old smartphones and tablets anyways, and if any parent wanted to buy a smartphone or tablet for their kids they'd just purchase one for themselves and then hand it over. Fucking waste of time and energy. This is literally the will someone please think of the children crap.
Sad to see this happening there, but it's not like japanese government don't have previous bills that are borderline thought police like.
It's a country that I'd like to visit again and possibly even spend a longer time in the future, but this is pretty bad. I already discarded visiting the US in the near future, the last thing I want to see is even more countries using terrorism as an excuse for overbearing state surveillance.
Just another evidence pointing out we're right at the turning point for totalitarian regimes sprouting once again in response to a politics of fear and complacency from citizens. Time is a flat circle.
Someone remind me how many times Hollywood has ended...
What robots are we taxing? Multipurpose vehicles with automation features? Automated soldering robot arms in vehicle factories? Software with neural networks for sorting large quantities of data? On demand 3D printers? An Excel spreadsheet? Weaving loom? An abbacus?
See where I'm geting at? There is no clear and consistent definition of what a robot is. If it's about machines taking jobs that could be done by humans, it's every single tool since the dawn of times. If it's about specific sets of machinery that uses neural networks, AI-related stuff and whatnot, the industry will find ways of going around the definition just to avoid taxes. And most of industrial automation can work plenty well without onboard AI anyways. More importantly, if one country decides to tax robots, all it takes is another country that does not to send all production there. In a way, this has already happened with labor laws, welfare, copyright and whatnot going from the entire world to China.
Bill Gates seems to be well intended, but this isn't how we're gonna solve this problem, because it's too vague.
How about a profit x employability tax? This is sure to piss off even more people, specially companies like Microsoft, Google and whatnot. But if it's about taxing companies that are making a lot of money and having tons of output without generating employment, even if this sounds like an extra burden or punishment for success, it should be going that way instead of vague strategies that every business will be expected to do everything they can to avoid.
Yes, it incur in similar problems of big businesses fleeing the country for others that don't work that way, but at least it's more general and spread throughout the entire economy.
And then everyone will take their flying cars back to their homes in the sky, and then they'll arrive via their vacuum tube elevators, and then their robotic maids will 3d print their food to their liking, and then they'll take their pets on a walk outside on top of a threadmill suspended 10000 feet in the air with no guardrails
Predictions predictions. I'm not sure why analysts and companies keep doing this, but seems it's either veiled interests or just pure ignorance on how culture grows with technology. Predictions should not be made by people who can't see past their own area of expertise.
You know the side effect of millions of people receiving the boot because their jobs have been replaced by automation? Record levels of unemployment followed by recession and then depression. You know the side effect of recession and depression? People not having money to pay for anything. You know the side effect of people not having money to pay for anything? Industries not having money to invest on automation. People being unable to sustain themselves. Major public revolt and dissent. Chaos.
We won't have a major uniform and complete shift in just 2 decades or so, because that would provoke an auto-collapse. Either we have gradual changes and implementation along changes in society and culture that enables accomodation of new tech, or we'll risk going back to medieval times. If these futurologists keeps thinking with only tech advances in mind, we are no better in predicting stuff than people in the 60s thinking about the year 2000.
Basically, they went to the other side.
It was never really about small companies or costumers, it was just about themselves.
Nowadays Netflix is big enough to impose their own demands and prices on ISPs and whatnot, and they in fact have all the interest on stopping new players in the market.
It's f*cking shameless to come up and say something like that with all the defenses they made back in 2014, sure, but it's also partially true.
But yeah, here, for those who don't remember:
http://www.huffpostbrasil.com/...
http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/2...
Consumers indeed deserve better, which is something Netflix apparently isn't willing to fight for anymore.
We were just talking about similar ideas few days ago...
But without a battery to power it and depending on a huge dock to have functional ports, I'm not sure about how useful something like that really is.
Lots of people including me talked about Kangaroo PC, but the same brand already has a product like the one on the post - Kangaroo Notebook:
http://www.kangaroo.cc/kangaro...
Oddly similar to Intel's version.
Wanna make an assistant AI private?
Essencially *cough*, what is needed is for it to work offline, period. No buts and ifs.
Core AI functionality could get updates overtime to make it more efficient, but no sending data through the Internet while it's in use. A concept that is very easy to understand.
Here's what they put on their page:
"Privacy by design
The home is your own space where you should be able to say what you want, without having to worry about your privacy.
We’ve designed Essential Home to run most things on the device itself, so most data stays in your home where it belongs. Essential Home will directly talk to your devices over your in-home network whenever possible to limit sending data to the cloud".
Most most most. Whenever possible. Blah blah. Doesn't matter. If it's still connecting to servers you have zero control, it's essencially the same as Google Home or Amazon Echo.
It's still our company word versus the other companies word. And for cases like that, it's easier to trust bigger companies that will be risking class action lawsuits over the anger of hundreds of thousands of costumers than an upstart that is just releasing their first products, even if the whole thing is lead by Andy Rubin.
Personally, I don't care for either. I'll be ok with the whole thing if and when AI assistants become fully local.
I dub it the Microsoft Surface Zune!
I somewhat feel that the term "enthusiast" is starting to encompass entirely different markets nowadays... I mean, dang, this is more like rich, crazy and/or with extremely specific needs.