Ok, my wife is an ex-prison guard, and, believe me, prisoners do conduct criminal activity from their cells with their phones. It's so bad in California that correctional officers have to drive "evasion" routes when going to or leaving the prison, are required to carry a gun for self-protection, and are not allowed to wear uniforms outside the prison. The reason is that inmates manage their "peeps" outside the prison to follow, harass, blackmail and extort prison employees.
As a placement counselor, she also dealt with lots of inbound cases of perps convicted of doing bad things for inmates. It's real, and, given conjugal visits where Mama brings in mini phones hidden in, shall we say "personal" locations, it's impossible to stop.
The government has also tried to implement cell phone blockers on prison grounds, but this was shot down for constitutional reasons.
This guy is the same as the anti-vaxers, the moon-landing-hoaxers, the homeopathic medicine users, the phones-cause-cancer believers, and the “911 was an inside job” crew. All the same.
No matter what you believe today, you’ll find a healthy group of people on the internet with the same beliefs, and lots of data to back them up.
At least, it was real to my Mom. She was about 10 at the time and lived a block from one of the AAA guns that shot at whatever it was. There is also plenty of documentation, and that one picture. There’s no doubt they were shooting at something. The “what” is the question.
“Fundies” don’t object to embryonic research. They object to taking new embryos for such research out of fear that such a practice would lead to a market for aborted embryos.
I’m a Christian and I’m looking forward to any and all technological advance that would extend life. Perhaps your overly broad generalizations need some work?
Reminds me of an episode of Cops I saw a few weeks ago. A person was arrested for suspected drug dealing, but they couldn’t find any drugs on him. So they take him into a closed room for a “closer” search. Drugs fall out of his anus during the search. He says “I don’t know where that came from.” And then “That’s not mine.”
You, sir, are completely uninformed. The reason iOS users update more frequently is precisely because the update does not come through the carriers. It comes directly from Apple. In all cases, no exceptions. And, of course, the update is completely free and always has been.
Even people with hand-me-downs and resales do updates.
I find that developers make UIs which are perfectly understandable and logical to *them*, but they already know how everything works. As a result, they make the worst possible of all UIs.
I’m sure this is true, and I’m sure it’s not an isolated case. However, that is a long way from “every corporation is actively working against the interests of society”.
I'm sorry, but you're just making this up based on your beliefs. You feel these statements must be true, so they are to you.
As for your "proof" being hazy skies, let me tell you, they're waay better than they were back in the 50's and 60's. I remember driving around L.A. as a kid with my eyes burning and tears running down my face because of the smog. Sure, there's still smog, but it's nothing like then - proving your "proof" to be wrong.
I’m sorry, this just isn’t true. Companies may work against society as a side effect of doing what is best for the company, but they do not “actively work against society”. They do not have the destruction of society as a business plan. They have making money as a business plan.
Did you ever notice that movies are actually fiction, that they don’t really reflect reality all that well?
Yeah. I'm talking about the people standing on street corners begging for a handout, or laying around in their Mom's basement because they "can't find a job", or live on welfare and food stamps. In Minnesota.
Aside from that, I have seen similar statements for other states - that there's a severe labor shortage. These usually show up in articles justifying unlimited immigration. I also imagine there are states where that's no so true, probably California.
Many seniors had their retirement plans entirely wrapped up in their homes. Many of them plan to sell their homes at retirement, cash in the equity, downsize to something they can pay cash for, and live on social security. When the housing market crashed, no only did this not work, but their 401(k)s crashed, too.
Sorry, but, at least in Minnesota, there is a severe labor shortage. At a recent conference of employers and employment agencies, it was stated that there 100,000 unfilled jobs every year. There are help wanted signs everywhere. Employment agencies are advertising they will put anyone to work tomorrow (even felons), no experience required, at $14/hour plus benefits. I know an agent that says her office has 200 unfilled jobs every day.
Anyone who wants to work can work. I can only assume they don't either because their current handouts/benefits are better than $14/hour, or they're just lazy.
Not the same thing. What happened was that several people "looked at" the phone as if they were trying to unlock it, the unlock failed, and the phone reverted to requiring the unlock code instead. It wasn't just randomly scanning faces as people passed by. That would make it totally unusable, wouldn't it?
You seem to keep ignoring or not understanding that the data used for facial recognition can not be used to re-create the face (the same is true for the fingerprint data used with TouchID). So, even if some EVIL FUTURE GOVERNMENT forced an EVIL APPLE to hand over the data (which they don't even have, it's only on the phone), it wouldn't do said evil government any good.
This guy is just making stuff up. First off, he has no idea if people around the phone owner also get scanned. Secondly, Apple doesn't take a picture of anyone, only a hash of a mathematical representation of the 3D scan of the facial contours created from the 3D projector. And finally, it doesn't send that (irreversible) hash anywhere - it stores it internally in the Secure Enclave, so it wouldn't even matter if they *where* scanning other faces.
Get a grip, man, I'm sure you can find other things to hate them for, you don't have to make stuff up!
Why didn't anyone hate on Samsung for *actually* taking pictures?
Thanks for including me with the ranks of the rich! I wish I were, but I'm firmly in the middle class. Redistributing my money won't help much!
Surely you understand inflation? If you gave everyone $1billion in printed money, bread would probably cost $1million/loaf.
I happen to believe that society works better in the long run when everyone has something to strive for; when goals are set and reached, when one struggles and succeeds. I think redistributing wealth (of whatever kind) in a massive way would push us over a long, slippery slope to oblivion.
No one has a right to expect to be comfortable (particularly by being given the fruits of someone else's labors) unless they go out and make themselves comfortable through the dint of their own labor.
We are not at a point yet where there is no fruitful labor. Perhaps, in that distant future where all jobs are automated I would change my mind. But we're a long way from there.
Further, there are plenty of jobs out there today, at least in the U.S., and most of the people clamoring for redistribution aren't being replaced by robots. A conference of employers and placement agencies last year reported that there are 100,000 unfilled jobs in Minnesota every year. Minnesota alone. Starting at $14/hour with benefits. People today just aren't willing to work.
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Ok, my wife is an ex-prison guard, and, believe me, prisoners do conduct criminal activity from their cells with their phones. It's so bad in California that correctional officers have to drive "evasion" routes when going to or leaving the prison, are required to carry a gun for self-protection, and are not allowed to wear uniforms outside the prison. The reason is that inmates manage their "peeps" outside the prison to follow, harass, blackmail and extort prison employees.
As a placement counselor, she also dealt with lots of inbound cases of perps convicted of doing bad things for inmates. It's real, and, given conjugal visits where Mama brings in mini phones hidden in, shall we say "personal" locations, it's impossible to stop.
The government has also tried to implement cell phone blockers on prison grounds, but this was shot down for constitutional reasons.
This guy is the same as the anti-vaxers, the moon-landing-hoaxers, the homeopathic medicine users, the phones-cause-cancer believers, and the “911 was an inside job” crew. All the same.
No matter what you believe today, you’ll find a healthy group of people on the internet with the same beliefs, and lots of data to back them up.
And they vote.
At least, it was real to my Mom. She was about 10 at the time and lived a block from one of the AAA guns that shot at whatever it was. There is also plenty of documentation, and that one picture. There’s no doubt they were shooting at something. The “what” is the question.
“Fundies” don’t object to embryonic research. They object to taking new embryos for such research out of fear that such a practice would lead to a market for aborted embryos.
They encourage research on the existing lines.
I’m a Christian and I’m looking forward to any and all technological advance that would extend life. Perhaps your overly broad generalizations need some work?
Employees can be greedy, too.
Reminds me of an episode of Cops I saw a few weeks ago. A person was arrested for suspected drug dealing, but they couldn’t find any drugs on him. So they take him into a closed room for a “closer” search. Drugs fall out of his anus during the search. He says “I don’t know where that came from.” And then “That’s not mine.”
Would make Putin proud.
Oh, come on, really? We have to have “of death”? It’s just a thin line, jeez.
You, sir, are completely uninformed. The reason iOS users update more frequently is precisely because the update does not come through the carriers. It comes directly from Apple. In all cases, no exceptions. And, of course, the update is completely free and always has been.
Even people with hand-me-downs and resales do updates.
I find that developers make UIs which are perfectly understandable and logical to *them*, but they already know how everything works. As a result, they make the worst possible of all UIs.
And yet millions of people have neither of these problems. Doesn’t sound like an endemic design issue to me.
I’m sure this is true, and I’m sure it’s not an isolated case. However, that is a long way from “every corporation is actively working against the interests of society”.
I'm sorry, but you're just making this up based on your beliefs. You feel these statements must be true, so they are to you.
As for your "proof" being hazy skies, let me tell you, they're waay better than they were back in the 50's and 60's. I remember driving around L.A. as a kid with my eyes burning and tears running down my face because of the smog. Sure, there's still smog, but it's nothing like then - proving your "proof" to be wrong.
Here’s one for ya: is deliberately misleading people on national news free speech?
I’m sorry, this just isn’t true. Companies may work against society as a side effect of doing what is best for the company, but they do not “actively work against society”. They do not have the destruction of society as a business plan. They have making money as a business plan.
Did you ever notice that movies are actually fiction, that they don’t really reflect reality all that well?
Yeah. I'm talking about the people standing on street corners begging for a handout, or laying around in their Mom's basement because they "can't find a job", or live on welfare and food stamps. In Minnesota.
Aside from that, I have seen similar statements for other states - that there's a severe labor shortage. These usually show up in articles justifying unlimited immigration. I also imagine there are states where that's no so true, probably California.
Except that they do. There is still a 4%-ish unemployment rate, and that only counts folks who are actually looking.
Many seniors had their retirement plans entirely wrapped up in their homes. Many of them plan to sell their homes at retirement, cash in the equity, downsize to something they can pay cash for, and live on social security. When the housing market crashed, no only did this not work, but their 401(k)s crashed, too.
Sorry, but, at least in Minnesota, there is a severe labor shortage. At a recent conference of employers and employment agencies, it was stated that there 100,000 unfilled jobs every year. There are help wanted signs everywhere. Employment agencies are advertising they will put anyone to work tomorrow (even felons), no experience required, at $14/hour plus benefits. I know an agent that says her office has 200 unfilled jobs every day.
Anyone who wants to work can work. I can only assume they don't either because their current handouts/benefits are better than $14/hour, or they're just lazy.
Not the same thing. What happened was that several people "looked at" the phone as if they were trying to unlock it, the unlock failed, and the phone reverted to requiring the unlock code instead. It wasn't just randomly scanning faces as people passed by. That would make it totally unusable, wouldn't it?
You seem to keep ignoring or not understanding that the data used for facial recognition can not be used to re-create the face (the same is true for the fingerprint data used with TouchID). So, even if some EVIL FUTURE GOVERNMENT forced an EVIL APPLE to hand over the data (which they don't even have, it's only on the phone), it wouldn't do said evil government any good.
This guy is just making stuff up. First off, he has no idea if people around the phone owner also get scanned. Secondly, Apple doesn't take a picture of anyone, only a hash of a mathematical representation of the 3D scan of the facial contours created from the 3D projector. And finally, it doesn't send that (irreversible) hash anywhere - it stores it internally in the Secure Enclave, so it wouldn't even matter if they *where* scanning other faces.
Get a grip, man, I'm sure you can find other things to hate them for, you don't have to make stuff up!
Why didn't anyone hate on Samsung for *actually* taking pictures?
What does this mean for Google's future?
Thanks for including me with the ranks of the rich! I wish I were, but I'm firmly in the middle class. Redistributing my money won't help much!
Surely you understand inflation? If you gave everyone $1billion in printed money, bread would probably cost $1million/loaf.
I happen to believe that society works better in the long run when everyone has something to strive for; when goals are set and reached, when one struggles and succeeds. I think redistributing wealth (of whatever kind) in a massive way would push us over a long, slippery slope to oblivion.
No one has a right to expect to be comfortable (particularly by being given the fruits of someone else's labors) unless they go out and make themselves comfortable through the dint of their own labor.
We are not at a point yet where there is no fruitful labor. Perhaps, in that distant future where all jobs are automated I would change my mind. But we're a long way from there.
Further, there are plenty of jobs out there today, at least in the U.S., and most of the people clamoring for redistribution aren't being replaced by robots. A conference of employers and placement agencies last year reported that there are 100,000 unfilled jobs in Minnesota every year. Minnesota alone. Starting at $14/hour with benefits. People today just aren't willing to work.
Why do people who don't have money think they have a right to someone else's? Which of the two is the most selfish?