Apple gadgets don't throw off user data to Apple ecosystem beyond the meta, storefronts, and iCloud.
I wonder if the increase in NSL's going Apple's way is for iCloud stuff, and the increase reflects Apple's organically increasing cloud-user base instead of newfound zealotry on part of DoJ. Other companies - especially Google's - numbers on this front will be that much more interesting.
Namely, that whenever news comes out of Europe about anything tech-internet, it almost always is about court actions, fines, and the like. Hardly ever does something appear about a European startup, or how such-and-such out of Europe is transforming an industry, or how the Europeans are taking over something. I saw article this morning about a French company that was apparently pretty good at machine vision...and how Apple was buying them.
No matter one's net-neutral opinion (however one defines it), keep the government away from regulating the internet.
Look where the government regulates something extra-special because of how special said object of the regulating is. Look at drugs. Look at airlines. Look at copyright. Look at spectrum allocation and licensing.
Do we want an internet that polices copyright infringement at government level? Tries to shut down the dark-web? Throws peeps in jail because torrents?
All government regulation of an industry means is capture of the industry by the politically-connected special interests associated to the industry. For the internet that means the usual suspects - and I don't want a consortium of Facebook and Google and Disney's lobbyists figuring out whats legal for me to do on the internet - no matter the initial motivation to enable them to it.
I remember seeing those Snapchat face filters and being like "Here comes the Man."
But in this instance, I really don't see how the privacy thing enters into it. The Secure Enclave on iOS is the real deal down at the hardware level in these phones; I don't see anyone (well, I haven't looked to hard either) thinking the government(s?) are making a vast fingerprint DB with Touch ID profiles...and Face ID is same technology just with a different input.
...than Twitter's gone too. The Orange Emperor's tweets probably drive like high single-digits in both traffic and Q-scores for Twitter. Without him, they're more hosed than they already were.
Might've been some scenario involving security compromise incident with NFC Unlock that got Google in the tort docket, cleaned out of a few million off-the-record (undisclosed settlement), and the corporate-tool sharks looked at future liability and were like: 'Ax this. Ax this NOW.' The hush-hush of the feature going behind the barn like that makes me wonder.
Quantum entangled photons beamed towards M87 (or M-whatever). Super-encrypted, unmolested for millions of years if need be, you'll know if anyone else read it before you, and another good motivator to invent warp drive if you need to restore your array (gotta go catch your data).
"Suniva is now suggesting import duties of 40 cents a watt for solar cells, and a floor price of 78 cents a watt for panels. (Right now, the average floor price, worldwide, for panels is about 32 cents.)"
The market to purchase solar panels in the States is rigged already. Tax breaks, subsidies, grants, mandates for utilities to buy excess power at market rates, etc. All to promote solar and make it more "affordable."
I ask...what is more affordable than hordes of people making less than $2 an hour to stamp panels out...all under the roof of a coal powered factory?
...something like Costco.
I remember Amazon Fresh in LA and all their dry-ice totes and such. They can't compete with something like Costco doing that. They need a warehouse with freezers for perishables etc. just like Costco.
But unlike Costco, Amazon then pays to have delivery fleet take inventory from warehouse to customer.
Costco, on the other hand, has the customer PAYING A YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION to wander into the warehouse and do the delivery part for Costco on their own dime and time.
Going to take pretty fancy drone to beat Costco at that game.
Oh, I don't know about that. Math is hard, but not for everybody, and certainly not for females the likes of a Lisa Meitner or Emily Noether...those calls can math me up all day long any time they want.
I was buying a couple kilos of plutonium 239 on Amazon this weekend and Amazon helpfully suggested the right explosive lenses to go with my neutron initiator I got last month. Its like Amazon knows what I want before I want it. A real timesaver.
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Apple gadgets don't throw off user data to Apple ecosystem beyond the meta, storefronts, and iCloud. I wonder if the increase in NSL's going Apple's way is for iCloud stuff, and the increase reflects Apple's organically increasing cloud-user base instead of newfound zealotry on part of DoJ. Other companies - especially Google's - numbers on this front will be that much more interesting.
Namely, that whenever news comes out of Europe about anything tech-internet, it almost always is about court actions, fines, and the like. Hardly ever does something appear about a European startup, or how such-and-such out of Europe is transforming an industry, or how the Europeans are taking over something. I saw article this morning about a French company that was apparently pretty good at machine vision...and how Apple was buying them.
No matter one's net-neutral opinion (however one defines it), keep the government away from regulating the internet. Look where the government regulates something extra-special because of how special said object of the regulating is. Look at drugs. Look at airlines. Look at copyright. Look at spectrum allocation and licensing. Do we want an internet that polices copyright infringement at government level? Tries to shut down the dark-web? Throws peeps in jail because torrents? All government regulation of an industry means is capture of the industry by the politically-connected special interests associated to the industry. For the internet that means the usual suspects - and I don't want a consortium of Facebook and Google and Disney's lobbyists figuring out whats legal for me to do on the internet - no matter the initial motivation to enable them to it.
I remember seeing those Snapchat face filters and being like "Here comes the Man." But in this instance, I really don't see how the privacy thing enters into it. The Secure Enclave on iOS is the real deal down at the hardware level in these phones; I don't see anyone (well, I haven't looked to hard either) thinking the government(s?) are making a vast fingerprint DB with Touch ID profiles...and Face ID is same technology just with a different input.
...than Twitter's gone too. The Orange Emperor's tweets probably drive like high single-digits in both traffic and Q-scores for Twitter. Without him, they're more hosed than they already were.
Might've been some scenario involving security compromise incident with NFC Unlock that got Google in the tort docket, cleaned out of a few million off-the-record (undisclosed settlement), and the corporate-tool sharks looked at future liability and were like: 'Ax this. Ax this NOW.' The hush-hush of the feature going behind the barn like that makes me wonder.
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Quantum entangled photons beamed towards M87 (or M-whatever). Super-encrypted, unmolested for millions of years if need be, you'll know if anyone else read it before you, and another good motivator to invent warp drive if you need to restore your array (gotta go catch your data).
But can the herb cure pancreatic zika chlamydia? Um, asking for a friend.
"Suniva is now suggesting import duties of 40 cents a watt for solar cells, and a floor price of 78 cents a watt for panels. (Right now, the average floor price, worldwide, for panels is about 32 cents.)" The market to purchase solar panels in the States is rigged already. Tax breaks, subsidies, grants, mandates for utilities to buy excess power at market rates, etc. All to promote solar and make it more "affordable." I ask...what is more affordable than hordes of people making less than $2 an hour to stamp panels out...all under the roof of a coal powered factory?
...something like Costco. I remember Amazon Fresh in LA and all their dry-ice totes and such. They can't compete with something like Costco doing that. They need a warehouse with freezers for perishables etc. just like Costco. But unlike Costco, Amazon then pays to have delivery fleet take inventory from warehouse to customer. Costco, on the other hand, has the customer PAYING A YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION to wander into the warehouse and do the delivery part for Costco on their own dime and time. Going to take pretty fancy drone to beat Costco at that game.
Oh, I don't know about that. Math is hard, but not for everybody, and certainly not for females the likes of a Lisa Meitner or Emily Noether...those calls can math me up all day long any time they want.
...humanities majors keep getting IT security jobs. No such thing as foolproof if a fool does the proofing.
I was buying a couple kilos of plutonium 239 on Amazon this weekend and Amazon helpfully suggested the right explosive lenses to go with my neutron initiator I got last month. Its like Amazon knows what I want before I want it. A real timesaver.