That's an absolutely asinine statement. This app is targeted at marking "unsafe" gun owners, not illegal, and has nothing to do with "finding a gun in a hurry".
Which could be viewed as a form of libel. Which most definitely *is* illegal.
Trying to divine it from raw text is going to fail. Simply because such systems will be deprived of the necessary information to make such a call properly.
Sure, old chestnuts like "Nothing could POSSIBLY go wrong!" might trip it. But sarcasm extends beyond the basics and into some fairly obscure, arcane and downright subtle usage.
It's going to be like handing a blind person a ball and asking them to divine the color.
Personally, I think Apple should take their cash and make their own processors, allowing for their OS to have a firmware component and thereby boosting performance and security.
No. Even Apple isn't THAT stupid.
There are well established players in the fab market. Why the hell would Apple spend years and BILLIONS, breaking into, then playing "catch up", getting an "also ran" up and going?
The company's FAR more agile this way. One major issue on a prospective fab line (that they own themselves) could set them back years and uncountable quantities of money. If that happens with a fab partner, they just go and shop their business around to another fab.
Then there's the fact that Apple just flat out DOES NOT WANT that kind of low-level engineering business. They a boutique "gadget" supplier. And they really don't want to be anything else.
If they don't have the password, they have to spend a lot of time trying to crack the encrypted password. Giving the legitimate user plenty of time to change said password.
No. They just shouldn't do it while they're on call.
If they can't be incommunicado for a couple hours, they should stay home and watch Netflix, or take a jog in the local park.
Sneaking into a midnight showing with your phone turned on "just in case" is discourteous (in the extreme) to fellow theater patrons.
Yeah it's "only" a $10-20 ticket. So what?
If you buy a burger at McDonalds and someone comes by, grabs it, and smashes it into a pulp before dropping it back on your tray, is that okay? The burger is still edible.
Going to the theater, you're paying for atmosphere and presentation. Some jackass yakking on his phone or texting incessantly at full brightness ruins that.
Basically Apple doesn't get, can't support, and therefore doesn't want, back-office IT/infrastructure business. That's why their offerings in this area range between pathetic and nonexistent.
Is it me, or is something wrong with a statement "18 year old teenager". I kinda thought "teenagers" ended right about 16
You thought wrong.
In any case, "j/k" and "lol" does not excuse a sociopath, nor does it guarantee that a mentally ill person will not actually act upon the threat.
Sorry, but almost all teens are sociopaths. It's part of the shitty environment they're put through in school. Hell, I know a lot of adult sociopaths that are fully functioning members of society.
It behooves the authorities to search for CONTEXT as well.
As anybody with any semblance of consciousness understands that zero tolerance is bullshit, first to last. And that context makes all the difference. Yes, consciousness. As only someone asleep or brain dead could imagine zero tolerance was any sort of reasonable policy.
This content is ALREADY walled off from the net. The bricks of that wall are DRM!
They essentially set up a completely one-sided transaction here. We pay them so they can tell us when and where and how many times we can view content we paid for. And if we disagree? Fuck us! They have our money. We can just NOT have access to something we've paid for.
The whole piracy argument is maybe about 5% fact and 95% bullshit.
DRM is about increasing monetization of their content at the expense of open access. Piracy could drop to zero and they'd STILL claim losses to piracy.
Let these greedy money grubbers pull their content from the web!
All the smart content providers will stay, understanding that piracy and DRM is simply an expensive game of escalation where the only winners are the people selling their crappy DRM schemas. They'll continue to make money.
And all the rest of the jackasses who've pulled their content from the web can bitch about how their declining revenues are to be blamed on piracy, rather than their own stupid short-sightedness and greed.
In short, the old axiom proves true. If you don't want to lose control of something DON'T PUT IT ON THE WEB.
Sorry, but until I'm able to completely deactivate the context-destroying, time and scren real-estate wasting Start Screen altogether, Windows 8 (sans 3rd party Start Menu add-ons), is nothing more than a toy.
Yes, I understand that menus are an creeping problem when adding functionality. Yes, I understand that they're limited when implementing touch interfaces.
I DON'T GIVE A SHIT!
I don't use touch interfaces on anything larger than my phone, and even then, my current phone has a fallback to a physical keyboard. I have no use for them on a desktop or even a laptop. NONE. I'm concerned about productivity FULL STOP. A menu system enables me to do more, faster. Especially with keyboard shortcuts (many of which were completely annihilated when they removed menus altogether in 8). Managing systems remotely with the Win8/Server2012 interface is a complete pain in the balls, as the "hot corner" functionality for pulling up the various charms bars and other crap have a strong tendency to just not work, or work extremely sporadically in remote management situations. Yes yes. I could learn all the goofy new keyboard shortcuts. A menu system would still be more straightforward and functional.
Microsoft is acting like a kid who's been told to clean his room. They've basically put it off as long as they can. Now they're just going to kick some stuff under the bed and other general half-assery and hope it's sufficient.
This is probably aimed at some of the issues Lenovo's been having with people inferring that, because Lenovo's a Chinese company, that the Think line of computers are now unsuitable for business and government purposes due to the possibility of back doors and spyware build directly into firmware/hardware.
What most of us wanted back was the Start menu, not just the Start button. Microsoft still doesn't get it: We don't want to see or interact with Metro, at all. Ever. It has no place on the desktop.
Agreed.
The Start menu is a compact, concise, orderly method of navigating apps. The Start screen is a nearly context-free mess of pointless blocks that still HIDES FUNCTIONALITY from the user.
Spoken from the self-entitled end-user's perspective!
Sorry, but it IS about control. Control of company data. Security of company data. Compliance with various laws such as HIPAA, SOX, etc.
No sane company WILLINGLY bends over and spreads by giving unfettered access to their dearly bought client and company data.
I've dealt with numerous clients over the years who've been suing former employees for data theft. And they TOOK precautions!
And you're telling me I should let someone walk around with uncontrolled access to a multi-million dollar client list, documents, etc, in their pocket?
Some say, his pants put themselves on. He was once clocked, doing eighty, in reverse, on the loo! Whatever, he's our guest witness today. And he's called, THE STIG!
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That's not a blob.
It's a bore hole of a giant gun!
That's an absolutely asinine statement. This app is targeted at marking "unsafe" gun owners, not illegal, and has nothing to do with "finding a gun in a hurry".
Which could be viewed as a form of libel. Which most definitely *is* illegal.
It's a function of intent and inflection.
Trying to divine it from raw text is going to fail. Simply because such systems will be deprived of the necessary information to make such a call properly.
Sure, old chestnuts like "Nothing could POSSIBLY go wrong!" might trip it. But sarcasm extends beyond the basics and into some fairly obscure, arcane and downright subtle usage.
It's going to be like handing a blind person a ball and asking them to divine the color.
This video explains it.
http://youtu.be/vING8M4dJDg
And, having never actually experience the problems in North Korea or having lived in Pharonic Egypt, you know this...how?
Personally, I think Apple should take their cash and make their own processors, allowing for their OS to have a firmware component and thereby boosting performance and security.
No. Even Apple isn't THAT stupid.
There are well established players in the fab market. Why the hell would Apple spend years and BILLIONS, breaking into, then playing "catch up", getting an "also ran" up and going?
The company's FAR more agile this way.
One major issue on a prospective fab line (that they own themselves) could set them back years and uncountable quantities of money.
If that happens with a fab partner, they just go and shop their business around to another fab.
Then there's the fact that Apple just flat out DOES NOT WANT that kind of low-level engineering business. They a boutique "gadget" supplier. And they really don't want to be anything else.
So they have a name and an e-mail.
If they don't have the password, they have to spend a lot of time trying to crack the encrypted password. Giving the legitimate user plenty of time to change said password.
Microsoft may have "reacted" to feedback. But they sure as hell didn't LISTEN to it.
BFD. I'm responding to the post parent of my reply.
And I did it under a real name, as I'm not afraid to express real convictions.
As opposed to some masked troll.
You will soon though.
Like you said, "maybe" not me.
DEFINITELY not me.
My computing requirements call for a fully functional desktop user interface. And a touch-centric interface simply doesn't cut it.
No. They just shouldn't do it while they're on call.
If they can't be incommunicado for a couple hours, they should stay home and watch Netflix, or take a jog in the local park.
Sneaking into a midnight showing with your phone turned on "just in case" is discourteous (in the extreme) to fellow theater patrons.
Yeah it's "only" a $10-20 ticket. So what?
If you buy a burger at McDonalds and someone comes by, grabs it, and smashes it into a pulp before dropping it back on your tray, is that okay? The burger is still edible.
Going to the theater, you're paying for atmosphere and presentation. Some jackass yakking on his phone or texting incessantly at full brightness ruins that.
Basically Apple doesn't get, can't support, and therefore doesn't want, back-office IT/infrastructure business. That's why their offerings in this area range between pathetic and nonexistent.
Yeah. Android's fine on a PHONE.
It's not like I'm going to swap out Windows 7 on a powerful workstation for a tablet running Android though...
Is it me, or is something wrong with a statement "18 year old teenager". I kinda thought "teenagers" ended right about 16
You thought wrong.
In any case, "j/k" and "lol" does not excuse a sociopath, nor does it guarantee that a mentally ill person will not actually act upon the threat.
Sorry, but almost all teens are sociopaths. It's part of the shitty environment they're put through in school. Hell, I know a lot of adult sociopaths that are fully functioning members of society.
It behooves the authorities to search for CONTEXT as well.
As anybody with any semblance of consciousness understands that zero tolerance is bullshit, first to last. And that context makes all the difference.
Yes, consciousness. As only someone asleep or brain dead could imagine zero tolerance was any sort of reasonable policy.
Uh, yeah.
This content is ALREADY walled off from the net.
The bricks of that wall are DRM!
They essentially set up a completely one-sided transaction here.
We pay them so they can tell us when and where and how many times we can view content we paid for.
And if we disagree? Fuck us! They have our money. We can just NOT have access to something we've paid for.
The whole piracy argument is maybe about 5% fact and 95% bullshit.
DRM is about increasing monetization of their content at the expense of open access. Piracy could drop to zero and they'd STILL claim losses to piracy.
Let these greedy money grubbers pull their content from the web!
All the smart content providers will stay, understanding that piracy and DRM is simply an expensive game of escalation where the only winners are the people selling their crappy DRM schemas. They'll continue to make money.
And all the rest of the jackasses who've pulled their content from the web can bitch about how their declining revenues are to be blamed on piracy, rather than their own stupid short-sightedness and greed.
In short, the old axiom proves true. If you don't want to lose control of something DON'T PUT IT ON THE WEB.
Sorry, but until I'm able to completely deactivate the context-destroying, time and scren real-estate wasting Start Screen altogether, Windows 8 (sans 3rd party Start Menu add-ons), is nothing more than a toy.
Yes, I understand that menus are an creeping problem when adding functionality.
Yes, I understand that they're limited when implementing touch interfaces.
I DON'T GIVE A SHIT!
I don't use touch interfaces on anything larger than my phone, and even then, my current phone has a fallback to a physical keyboard. I have no use for them on a desktop or even a laptop. NONE.
I'm concerned about productivity FULL STOP. A menu system enables me to do more, faster. Especially with keyboard shortcuts (many of which were completely annihilated when they removed menus altogether in 8).
Managing systems remotely with the Win8/Server2012 interface is a complete pain in the balls, as the "hot corner" functionality for pulling up the various charms bars and other crap have a strong tendency to just not work, or work extremely sporadically in remote management situations. Yes yes. I could learn all the goofy new keyboard shortcuts. A menu system would still be more straightforward and functional.
Microsoft is acting like a kid who's been told to clean his room.
They've basically put it off as long as they can.
Now they're just going to kick some stuff under the bed and other general half-assery and hope it's sufficient.
It isn't. Period.
No punchcard readers? OMGWTFBBQ!!111eleventy
LAME!
Sorry, I'm more selective with my bed partners.
This is probably aimed at some of the issues Lenovo's been having with people inferring that, because Lenovo's a Chinese company, that the Think line of computers are now unsuitable for business and government purposes due to the possibility of back doors and spyware build directly into firmware/hardware.
Do you use those all at once or one at a time?
Don't you?
http://youtu.be/418Und1srFM
Actually, I find this sort of encouraging.
There's a whole raft of companies out there that simply can't let go of The Vision. And absolutely MUST ram The Vision down everyone's throats.
It's rather refreshing to see a company stop, mid-stride, and re-evaluate a product and actually be willing to make a change like this.
To actually, y'know, LISTEN to feedback. Instead of bulling ahead and damn the torpedoes.
Or worse, making some a pointless token gesture.
Honestly, I've seen about half a dozen.
All but one were actual properly implemented and the last one was basically set up by some dipshit who didn't know what he was doing.
What most of us wanted back was the Start menu, not just the Start button. Microsoft still doesn't get it: We don't want to see or interact with Metro, at all. Ever. It has no place on the desktop.
Agreed.
The Start menu is a compact, concise, orderly method of navigating apps.
The Start screen is a nearly context-free mess of pointless blocks that still HIDES FUNCTIONALITY from the user.
Yep. Microsoft, still clue-free.
"It should be about enablement"
Spoken from the self-entitled end-user's perspective!
Sorry, but it IS about control. Control of company data. Security of company data. Compliance with various laws such as HIPAA, SOX, etc.
No sane company WILLINGLY bends over and spreads by giving unfettered access to their dearly bought client and company data.
I've dealt with numerous clients over the years who've been suing former employees for data theft. And they TOOK precautions!
And you're telling me I should let someone walk around with uncontrolled access to a multi-million dollar client list, documents, etc, in their pocket?
FUCK YOU!
Some say, his pants put themselves on.
He was once clocked, doing eighty, in reverse, on the loo!
Whatever, he's our guest witness today.
And he's called, THE STIG!