The apps are (supposedly) verified before being accepted.
No, no doubt Google scans for existing threats when developers upload their apps, but Google makes no such promise about having verified apps on their store. You must be confusing Google with Apple.
We can't keep pretending that Google isn't liable.
Liable for what? What damage has been done? Booting into recovery mode is just one google search away. Also, Google can remotely uninstall malicious apps.
Not only that, but users can flag and downrate such apps immediately. The system is such that apps with low ratings lose visibility in their search results. And no one in their right mind will download an app with one star ratings anyway (unless they're a journalist in search of a click-bait story).
Reality is that automatic and semi-automatic gun ownership just got another solid, not even a theoretical card, to use when defending the gun ownership from nutty gun fearing zealots.
Let's not get carried away. These were trained policemen shooting at the truck, not civilians.
And even counting the latest terrorist attacks, the per capita murder rate in France is still seven times less than in the United States. Not to mention, the muslim population in France is around 10% of the entire population, which is way more than in the US.
What are we supposed to believe? Guns and trucks don't kill people. Mostly American people kill people.
"OTHER THAN AS EXPRESSLY SET OUT IN THESE TERMS OR ADDITIONAL TERMS, NEITHER GOOGLE NOR ITS SUPPLIERS OR DISTRIBUTORS MAKE ANY SPECIFIC PROMISES ABOUT THE SERVICES. FOR EXAMPLE, WE DON’T MAKE ANY COMMITMENTS ABOUT THE CONTENT WITHIN THE SERVICES, THE SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS OF THE SERVICES, OR THEIR RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, OR ABILITY TO MEET YOUR NEEDS. WE PROVIDE THE SERVICES “AS IS”."
No I would quit, and than file suit against my former employer for asking me to do something illegal and forcing my resignation.
Hopefully, you would quit and go to the FBI right away.
After all, if you or many of your colleagues just quit without alerting the authorities immediately, there is nothing preventing the remaining clueless intern or janitor from allowing the foreign owner from coming onsite and making an offshore copy of the data.
Disagree. Microsoft is a US entity it should have to follow US rules wherever it goes as long as it remains a US entity.
Are you saying that if a Chinese company suddenly purchased your US-based employer tomorrow, that you would be willing to commit acts of espionage in the United States if your new Chinese employer required you to do so?
Disagree. Microsoft is a US entity it should have to follow US rules wherever it goes as long as it remains a US entity.
Yes, Microsoft is a US entity, but most likely Microsoft-Ireland is an Irish corporate entity for tax and liability reasons. Not to mention its employees, are going to be mostly Irish and/or Europeans.
And the nationality of the entity doesn't really matter here. If for instance, I was working in China, or in Saudi Arabia, for a US entity, I would still follow the local laws, before I would follow an illegal spying order from the United States.
My life and my genitals are just too precious to me.
Personally I actually disagree that this is good news. Here is a case where the rule of law was utilized, a warrant was issued by a court on the public record for data. Microsoft is a US entity and should have to follow lawful orders from a US court.
You're missing the point. Microsoft may be a US entity, but the Microsoft employees in Dublin are subject to Irish and European laws and they can be thrown in prison for violating the local data protection laws (or worse, they can be thrown in prison for the rest of their lives for doing espionnage for a foreign power).
This is not to say of all the business lost by Microsoft and other US companies outside of the US, because if such a warrant were to be implemented, no local government not already under the control of the US would allow its own citizens to use cloud services, email services, and a search engine under the ultimate control of the US government. When it comes down to it, if Europe really wanted to replace Microsoft and Google, it could.
And if the US really wanted that data, they should have asked the Irish government. That's what the actual rule of law dictates. There are treaties for such things. Trying to circumvent the sovereignty and the jurisdiction of a close ally and trade partner isn't cool. And unless the US is willing to backup Microsoft with US military troops on Irish soil, it was putting the local employees of Microsoft in a very precarious position.
No, it's more like a government won against another government. You can bet the Irish government and the EU weren't happy about this initial ruling. By complying with the initial ruling, Microsoft would have been forced to break the local data protection laws.
Microsoft had been placed in an untenable position. And you're right, the reversal is reasonable good news, but it's not great news. That initial ruling was totally insane to begin with. It should have been reversed within 24 hours, not within three years.
you don't need to protect a copyright, you're getting confused with trademark, which does need to be defended to some degree.
No, I think that's what he meant:
If you try to claim copyright over a city phone book you've compiled. Then your only protection is to keep that phone book a trade secret, not give out a copy to everyone you can find. I suppose you could argue that the phone book was photocopied and everything down to the font you used is identical, but of course, that argument becomes moot once the copier just hires a bunch of typists to retype all the phone numbers into his own slightly different phone book.
Good, because it didn't say "professional airline pilot", it actually said "aircraft pilot and flight engineers".
Which could possibly include the thousands of little planes in Alaska delivering supplies and passengers, search and rescue aircrafts in areas like the mountains/the sea/the forest, firefighting airplanes and helicopters, oil rig aircrafts, UPS/FedEx/cargo planes, new aircrafts currently being tested, tourist/safari/hunting helicopters, little planes used for advertising, crop spraying airplanes, surveying/meteorological aircrafts, news/traffic/police/ambulance helicopters, possibly military aircrafts, private jets/planes/helicopters which the owners themselves don't know how to fly (so they hire someone else to pilot for them), etc.
One example that springs to mind is the Tenerife disaster of 1977, in which two airliners collided on the ground as one of them was taking off.
That problem is solved by the pod system as well.
Your plane isn't lifting fast enough, eject the luggage pod. Still not fast enough, now eject the economy class pod. Now granted the luggage and economy class pods have smashed into the ground and hundreds of passengers have died, but at least the pod carrier airplane is still intact and the first class passengers are still safe in their own first class pod which is still attached to the plane.
How many years will it take for the automated car to be affordable for the common person?
With services like Uber, it's not going to take very long. In the case of the "average family", Uber is already cheaper for some trips than the bus.
And let's do the math, a full time Uber car typically does 180,000 miles every three years. But a fully automated Uber car could work around the clock and should do much more than that -- thereby requiring more frequent replacement of the car.
There are Android phones with physical keyboards just like the Blackberry. So the choice is not between having a physical keyboard and not having one. The choice is actually between having a phone with many apps on it and having a phone with very few.
Then apply your small claims court to the problem and notify the parent manufacturer. There are substantial liabilities for this foolishness.
That seems like a lot of trouble, especially if you know enough not to be scammed in the first place. Also, I didn't know Small Claims court could help if you didn't suffer any damage because you knew better.
One would think that in that case, complaining to the FTC, to the BBB, on Yelp, or to the Attorney General of your State, would be better.
This would be a great way to make friends with Putin, KGB (FSB) employees, or your favorite Gulag prison guards.
You wouldn't even need to be there, or have a phone, to do it. Just fire up a phone emulator (or many instances of phone emulators). Install Facebook on it.
Then use the Emulator's gps testing feature to input gps coordinates indicating the Kremlin, or the Gulag in question. Of course, you would need to create a new separate Facebook profile for each location so that the data you obtain does not get cross-contaminated.
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The apps are (supposedly) verified before being accepted.
No, no doubt Google scans for existing threats when developers upload their apps, but Google makes no such promise about having verified apps on their store. You must be confusing Google with Apple.
We can't keep pretending that Google isn't liable.
Liable for what? What damage has been done? Booting into recovery mode is just one google search away. Also, Google can remotely uninstall malicious apps.
Not only that, but users can flag and downrate such apps immediately. The system is such that apps with low ratings lose visibility in their search results. And no one in their right mind will download an app with one star ratings anyway (unless they're a journalist in search of a click-bait story).
Reality is that automatic and semi-automatic gun ownership just got another solid, not even a theoretical card, to use when defending the gun ownership from nutty gun fearing zealots.
Let's not get carried away. These were trained policemen shooting at the truck, not civilians.
And even counting the latest terrorist attacks, the per capita murder rate in France is still seven times less than in the United States. Not to mention, the muslim population in France is around 10% of the entire population, which is way more than in the US.
What are we supposed to believe? Guns and trucks don't kill people. Mostly American people kill people.
"OTHER THAN AS EXPRESSLY SET OUT IN THESE TERMS OR ADDITIONAL TERMS, NEITHER GOOGLE NOR ITS SUPPLIERS OR DISTRIBUTORS MAKE ANY SPECIFIC PROMISES ABOUT THE SERVICES. FOR EXAMPLE, WE DON’T MAKE ANY COMMITMENTS ABOUT THE CONTENT WITHIN THE SERVICES, THE SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS OF THE SERVICES, OR THEIR RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, OR ABILITY TO MEET YOUR NEEDS. WE PROVIDE THE SERVICES “AS IS”."
Oh would you look at that ...
Also, how much money did the guy lose? $5
Either that, or that the artistic work will disappear if it's not mixed in with a decent amount of porn.
No I would quit, and than file suit against my former employer for asking me to do something illegal and forcing my resignation.
Hopefully, you would quit and go to the FBI right away.
After all, if you or many of your colleagues just quit without alerting the authorities immediately, there is nothing preventing the remaining clueless intern or janitor from allowing the foreign owner from coming onsite and making an offshore copy of the data.
Disagree. Microsoft is a US entity it should have to follow US rules wherever it goes as long as it remains a US entity.
Are you saying that if a Chinese company suddenly purchased your US-based employer tomorrow, that you would be willing to commit acts of espionage in the United States if your new Chinese employer required you to do so?
Disagree. Microsoft is a US entity it should have to follow US rules wherever it goes as long as it remains a US entity.
Yes, Microsoft is a US entity, but most likely Microsoft-Ireland is an Irish corporate entity for tax and liability reasons. Not to mention its employees, are going to be mostly Irish and/or Europeans.
And the nationality of the entity doesn't really matter here. If for instance, I was working in China, or in Saudi Arabia, for a US entity, I would still follow the local laws, before I would follow an illegal spying order from the United States.
My life and my genitals are just too precious to me.
Personally I actually disagree that this is good news. Here is a case where the rule of law was utilized, a warrant was issued by a court on the public record for data. Microsoft is a US entity and should have to follow lawful orders from a US court.
You're missing the point. Microsoft may be a US entity, but the Microsoft employees in Dublin are subject to Irish and European laws and they can be thrown in prison for violating the local data protection laws (or worse, they can be thrown in prison for the rest of their lives for doing espionnage for a foreign power).
This is not to say of all the business lost by Microsoft and other US companies outside of the US, because if such a warrant were to be implemented, no local government not already under the control of the US would allow its own citizens to use cloud services, email services, and a search engine under the ultimate control of the US government. When it comes down to it, if Europe really wanted to replace Microsoft and Google, it could.
And if the US really wanted that data, they should have asked the Irish government. That's what the actual rule of law dictates. There are treaties for such things. Trying to circumvent the sovereignty and the jurisdiction of a close ally and trade partner isn't cool. And unless the US is willing to backup Microsoft with US military troops on Irish soil, it was putting the local employees of Microsoft in a very precarious position.
A company won over government.
No, it's more like a government won against another government. You can bet the Irish government and the EU weren't happy about this initial ruling. By complying with the initial ruling, Microsoft would have been forced to break the local data protection laws.
Microsoft had been placed in an untenable position. And you're right, the reversal is reasonable good news, but it's not great news. That initial ruling was totally insane to begin with. It should have been reversed within 24 hours, not within three years.
I know it's poor form to reply to myself, but I can see that, at least for Apple, Family Sharing was an opt-in:
http://www.macrumors.com/2014/06/04/apple-turns-on-family-sharing/
Any IOS developers care to comment on whether or not you opted in, and if it had a noticeable effect on sales?
That would depend on your business model I think.
The freemium model for instance should suffer no problem.
Imagine a television news network, with a one-line universal written directive, "Fair and balanced".
That would be so cool and that would go a long way to fixing television networks in America.
you don't need to protect a copyright, you're getting confused with trademark, which does need to be defended to some degree.
No, I think that's what he meant:
If you try to claim copyright over a city phone book you've compiled. Then your only protection is to keep that phone book a trade secret, not give out a copy to everyone you can find. I suppose you could argue that the phone book was photocopied and everything down to the font you used is identical, but of course, that argument becomes moot once the copier just hires a bunch of typists to retype all the phone numbers into his own slightly different phone book.
I call BS on professional airline pilot.
Good, because it didn't say "professional airline pilot", it actually said "aircraft pilot and flight engineers".
Which could possibly include the thousands of little planes in Alaska delivering supplies and passengers, search and rescue aircrafts in areas like the mountains/the sea/the forest, firefighting airplanes and helicopters, oil rig aircrafts, UPS/FedEx/cargo planes, new aircrafts currently being tested, tourist/safari/hunting helicopters, little planes used for advertising, crop spraying airplanes, surveying/meteorological aircrafts, news/traffic/police/ambulance helicopters, possibly military aircrafts, private jets/planes/helicopters which the owners themselves don't know how to fly (so they hire someone else to pilot for them), etc.
One problem was that people were dipping their phones into chlorinated swimming pools. That chemical made all the difference.
I haven't seen the spec's but did Samsung claim it can take a soak in 5' of water?
That's what the small text says at the beginning of the commercial. Must be true. Advertising does not lie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5aF23XpBwU
No, that's for the Samsung S7 Edge. That one passed that test according to consumer reports.
It's the supposedly more rugged one, the S7 Active, that didn't pass the test.
One example that springs to mind is the Tenerife disaster of 1977, in which two airliners collided on the ground as one of them was taking off.
That problem is solved by the pod system as well.
Your plane isn't lifting fast enough, eject the luggage pod. Still not fast enough, now eject the economy class pod. Now granted the luggage and economy class pods have smashed into the ground and hundreds of passengers have died, but at least the pod carrier airplane is still intact and the first class passengers are still safe in their own first class pod which is still attached to the plane.
How about a kidney.
Can we at least get some data on the number of people who drown in their cars vs. a floating Teslas.
How many years will it take for the automated car to be affordable for the common person?
With services like Uber, it's not going to take very long. In the case of the "average family", Uber is already cheaper for some trips than the bus.
And let's do the math, a full time Uber car typically does 180,000 miles every three years. But a fully automated Uber car could work around the clock and should do much more than that -- thereby requiring more frequent replacement of the car.
There are Android phones with physical keyboards just like the Blackberry. So the choice is not between having a physical keyboard and not having one. The choice is actually between having a phone with many apps on it and having a phone with very few.
Because last I checked, the iPhone camera since the iPhone 4 has an IR filter on it and can't see IR light.
The iPhone camera is not really good at taking pictures in low light conditions, so it may not be the device they're trying to block.
That's a really interesting idea from Apple.
And yet, they completely missed the opportunity to shut off the phone ringer while they were at it.
Then apply your small claims court to the problem and notify the parent manufacturer. There are substantial liabilities for this foolishness.
That seems like a lot of trouble, especially if you know enough not to be scammed in the first place. Also, I didn't know Small Claims court could help if you didn't suffer any damage because you knew better.
One would think that in that case, complaining to the FTC, to the BBB, on Yelp, or to the Attorney General of your State, would be better.
Do you have a Facebook phone, or is it a carrier thing?
This would be a great way to make friends with Putin, KGB (FSB) employees, or your favorite Gulag prison guards.
You wouldn't even need to be there, or have a phone, to do it. Just fire up a phone emulator (or many instances of phone emulators). Install Facebook on it.
Then use the Emulator's gps testing feature to input gps coordinates indicating the Kremlin, or the Gulag in question. Of course, you would need to create a new separate Facebook profile for each location so that the data you obtain does not get cross-contaminated.