One day a week, I work in a place that requires me to go through a very powerful magnetized door frame. I am told women can't even walk in with mascara on. If mascara doesn't get through, I very much doubt that an iPhone will.
...instead of his relatives putting a little effort into hand written letters and face time?
Handwritten letters don't do squat if the older person can't read them anymore, or can't use their right hand to write anymore because of nerve damage.
At least, computers can be upgraded and molded to some degree (even that too is not enough).
Everyone This thursday, no free bagels at all apple offices. We have to pay the fine.
Yes their thursday bagel expense is about the same as their fine.
US$ 450,000,000.00 divided by 80,000 employees = US$ 5,625.00 per employee. So let's be super generous here and assume that they spend $5 per bagel + Schmear.
Each Apple employee would have to consume 1,125 bagels each time. Assuming each bagel is 87.4 grams and that each employee eats 1,125 bagels, that would make 210 lbs (or 95 kgs) of bagels consumed per employee each Thursday (not including the Schmear).
Of course, I've made other assumptions. I've assumed that only the full time employees got free bagels, which is probably not the case. And I've assumed that all full time employees, even the ones at retail locations and warehouse locations, all got free bagels (which is probably not the case either).
You're hosting people, you should have all the required protection that lets you cover the cost if something bad happens.
You're not necessarily hosting people.
Just like putting a for sale sign on a car doesn't mean that you have sold your car.
Listing a property for a particular set of dates, or listing the same property multiple times, doesn't necessarily mean that any of your listings were accepted.
Actually, yes it is hard. 8.4 has never been jail broken. How would you do your detective stuff on my phone?
You forgot the sarcasm tag.
Not everyone knows that most of iOS users won't get iOS 8.4 until two or three days from now (June 29th or 30th).
Android users are having similar problems with the Android M Preview. You can install the Android M Preview on a rooted device, some manufacturers will even officially give you access to their official custom Android M ROM, but you can't unroot and then reroot an existing device with Android M Preview on it. If you try to do so, SuperSU will go into an infinite loop.
You mean don't use your own birthdate and don't answer security questions truthfully.
Because according to the link you provided, passwords weren't the weakest part of iCloud's negligent security.
Also, Apple’s “Forgot my password” system means that if you know the victim’s birthday and the answers to some security questions, you might gain access to their account.
"Generous" is not a word associated with Apple in my experience....
That's because you're not a celebrity.
If you're an obscenely rich and famous celebrity, and your agent agrees that you will show off your Apple products to your fans, or if you're a famous reporter and your newspaper didn't make the mistake of printing iPhone-related bad news, you'll get invited to Apple's parties and you'll receive receive many of Apple's gadgets for free.
Short answer? Yes. Selling "medicine" under false pretenses is 100% of the reason why the FDA exists.
I recall the FDA was created because some idiot used paint thinner to mix a batch of medicine which then killed a bunch of people.
If fighting against false advertising and placebo sugar pills are parts of its mandate now, it must be because of scope creep. Now I can understand the FDA regulating Chinese medicine for instance. After all, some herbs and some natural remedies can be as potent and as dangerous as real medicine, especially when people are self-prescribing, but in the case of homeopathic medicine, that really isn't the case, its real intent is to do no harm, and to make use of the placebo effect. Remove placebo sugar pills and people are going to die as a result. The placebo effect is not negligible.
...they've essentially guaranteed that it's unauditable by anyone not on a short list. +1 to you, Facebook.
There must be some confusion on your part.
This is not an open source project and this is not a web site. Any app they make that takes advantage of the native functionality of the camera is most likely going to be in a black box, whatever language they choose.
And one would think that Facebook hired enough developers that can program in C++ to have proper code reviews.
According to the Play Store, it allows me to install it on all my Lollipop devices:
My T-Mobile LG G2, my Sony Xperia Z Ultra, and my Nexus 9.
May be, they're doing a staged rollout thing. Staged rollouts are a good idea from a technical perspective. The marketing department hates them, but on a popular app they can avoid you thousands of negative ratings/reviews because there is always someone, whether it's an impatient higher up or an impatient developer, that tries to make one tiny little change to the final build that doesn't have the time to go through proper testing.
If you're on the site from Comcast San Francisco at 10:00, then an hour later someone claiming to be you tries to initiate a transaction while in Russia, that's suspicious.
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The system works pretty well.
The system works well enough for you guys.
First, the bank or processor checks only the location of the transaction
I doubt that. It's difficult to get gps readings indoors or underground where the transaction might take place.
From TFA: "[Pay Pal's] general counsel, Louise Pentland, wrote in a blog post last week that its customers can choose not to receive autodialed or prerecorded message calls by contacting customer support."
This is evil. The last time I tried contacting Pay Pal's customer support. I waited three hours on the line. And I wasn't even calling them as a consumer, I was calling them as a business that made them a lots of money. I can only imagine what's the actual wait time for an actual consumer of little value to them that wants to be taken off their robocall list.
What you're implying may have been true 10 to 15 years ago, but things have changed. The video game industry knows the female market for games is a growth market.
The only successful game developers and game designers I personally know are women. The one successful male game developer I know got out of the video gaming industry 10 years ago. I personally know many other male game developers as well, but those are just cogs in a machine and they're not successful by any definition of the term.
Well, this is one of those things where copyright law doesn't necessarily behave the way people think it should.
Why not? The blogger just needs to send github a DMCA counter-notice, and that's that. This is a very clear case of Fair Use. The company can try to sue in US court, but it would just lose and amplify the Streisand effect.
Also, I'm not sure why the name of the CEO of Flash networks is edited out of the DMCA notice, but his name is Liam Galin according to their web site. Here is his linkedin. This guy is obviously an idiot where it comes to the internet and public relations. If he becomes unemployed one day, it would be foolish to hire someone like that for anything internet-related or public relations related.
I have a G2. I love the way it feels in my hand (although it's super fragile and will chip easily). I love the button in the back (I never have to guess where it is, even when I'm setting the volume from my pocket). And I love the knock-knock feature (although, that only works about 70% of the time).
And I love the guest feature that's better than anything Samsung, Apple, or Google has. It basically logs you in as a guest depending on the unlock pattern you give it. And if you leave most of the apps available to the guest, the guest has actually no idea he/she is in guest mode.
That being said, I concur with the bugs of the lollipop update. I wish I hadn't updated it. The battery drains more quickly now. Sometimes the phone freezes (especially in areas where cell/wifi connectivity is intermittent). I know the phone is old, but it never used to do that before. The carriers are right to wait until these little things get worked out.
So for example, does news corp or the wallstreet journal ALWAYS lie? Obviously not.
No one said that they always lied.
No one even said that they lied, only that they were not credible.
For instance, if I said that the advice of financial advisers was not credible because it was no better than a bunch of monkeys randomly throwing darts at a list of mutual funds. It wouldn't necessarily mean that those financial advisers purposefully lied with their advice.
For instance, it could mean that they have a bias of some kind, known or unknown. It could mean that they prefer to choose funds that sound cool and trendy, so that themselves sound cool and trendy when speaking to clients. It could mean that the person who hired them or the person who owned their company had a bias of their own and selected financial advisers that followed the same financial schools of thoughts that he did. It could mean a number of other things too.
A swiping keyboard requires capacitive touch. Capacitive touch requires more energy than just a hardware keyboard. There are Android phones without touch capabilities and only hardware keyboards, especially in developing countries, but I do not think that's what you want. Also, those phones do get security updates, but they will never go above Android 2.3x because they only have a single core processor.
An FM radio requires a wired earbuds/headset to act as an FM antenna. Phones in developing countries have that functionality enabled as well, since data connections can be very expensive otherwise. Camera, don't aim higher than 2MP or 3MP, if you want something better, you'll need to carry an extra standalone camera with you (or actually buy a better phone). Podcast playback implies longer battery usage. You'll be able to do it, but you shouldn't do it if you really want to conserve battery power.
You'll also need to keep your data turned off, buy yourself an extended battery with good reviews, and live near a cell phone tower if you want to get yourself closer to your goal of multiple days without a single charge. By the way 5 days may be pushing it, if your battery is the size of a briefcase, like in the olden days of early cell phones, then may be you have a shot at lasting 5 days, but then you'll have to carry a very heavy briefcase everywhere you go. Also, I mentioned that you needed to be near a cell tower, because if you live near a cell tower, your phone doesn't keep retrying the connection every few seconds, your phone wastes less battery energy, and your phone actually irradiates you less.
Most don't survive the mind-numbing crunch times of working 80 hours a week for months.
Many game companies don't treat their workers very well, but your company sounds even worse than usual.
It sounds like the newcomers are the frogs that leapt out, however misguided and ignorant they were, and you're the frog that stayed in to slowly being cooked alive.
I would venture to guess that the new workers who left got other gaming testing jobs at other game companies, or got other software testings jobs, and are now healthier and happier for having left your company when they did.
Not to be a downer, but when I was a Teaching Assistant for a Computer Science class, the students that told me they wanted to do computer science because they loved computers games were usually the first ones to drop out.
Not that Computer Science equals programming. It certainly does not. Computer Science is generally more focused on the science part anyway, not on the programming itself. So I'm not saying that people who love computer games don't become great game programmers themselves. I'm just saying that based on my own biased and subjective experience, I've come to find that gamers didn't make great Computer Science students at all.
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Frankly drones should be regulated as RC aircraft.
The guy might be fined the equivalent of $48,000.
Unless the guy is a multi-millionaire, it sounds like they're being regulated just fine.
One day a week, I work in a place that requires me to go through a very powerful magnetized door frame. I am told women can't even walk in with mascara on. If mascara doesn't get through, I very much doubt that an iPhone will.
Because unlike Google, Apple has promised not to sell my info to advertisers.
Both Apple and Google don't sell eyeballs. They rent them out. That is far more lucrative that way.
...instead of his relatives putting a little effort into hand written letters and face time?
Handwritten letters don't do squat if the older person can't read them anymore, or can't use their right hand to write anymore because of nerve damage.
At least, computers can be upgraded and molded to some degree (even that too is not enough).
If only California could move its capital to a cheaper location like Sacramento, that would solve all its problems.
Everyone This thursday, no free bagels at all apple offices. We have to pay the fine.
Yes their thursday bagel expense is about the same as their fine.
US$ 450,000,000.00 divided by 80,000 employees = US$ 5,625.00 per employee. So let's be super generous here and assume that they spend $5 per bagel + Schmear.
Each Apple employee would have to consume 1,125 bagels each time. Assuming each bagel is 87.4 grams and that each employee eats 1,125 bagels, that would make 210 lbs (or 95 kgs) of bagels consumed per employee each Thursday (not including the Schmear).
Of course, I've made other assumptions. I've assumed that only the full time employees got free bagels, which is probably not the case. And I've assumed that all full time employees, even the ones at retail locations and warehouse locations, all got free bagels (which is probably not the case either).
You're hosting people, you should have all the required protection that lets you cover the cost if something bad happens.
You're not necessarily hosting people.
Just like putting a for sale sign on a car doesn't mean that you have sold your car.
Listing a property for a particular set of dates, or listing the same property multiple times, doesn't necessarily mean that any of your listings were accepted.
Actually, yes it is hard. 8.4 has never been jail broken. How would you do your detective stuff on my phone?
You forgot the sarcasm tag.
Not everyone knows that most of iOS users won't get iOS 8.4 until two or three days from now (June 29th or 30th).
Android users are having similar problems with the Android M Preview. You can install the Android M Preview on a rooted device, some manufacturers will even officially give you access to their official custom Android M ROM, but you can't unroot and then reroot an existing device with Android M Preview on it. If you try to do so, SuperSU will go into an infinite loop.
You mean don't use your own birthdate and don't answer security questions truthfully.
Because according to the link you provided, passwords weren't the weakest part of iCloud's negligent security.
Also, Apple’s “Forgot my password” system means that if you know the victim’s birthday and the answers to some security questions, you might gain access to their account.
"Generous" is not a word associated with Apple in my experience....
That's because you're not a celebrity.
If you're an obscenely rich and famous celebrity, and your agent agrees that you will show off your Apple products to your fans, or if you're a famous reporter and your newspaper didn't make the mistake of printing iPhone-related bad news, you'll get invited to Apple's parties and you'll receive receive many of Apple's gadgets for free.
Short answer? Yes. Selling "medicine" under false pretenses is 100% of the reason why the FDA exists.
I recall the FDA was created because some idiot used paint thinner to mix a batch of medicine which then killed a bunch of people.
If fighting against false advertising and placebo sugar pills are parts of its mandate now, it must be because of scope creep. Now I can understand the FDA regulating Chinese medicine for instance. After all, some herbs and some natural remedies can be as potent and as dangerous as real medicine, especially when people are self-prescribing, but in the case of homeopathic medicine, that really isn't the case, its real intent is to do no harm, and to make use of the placebo effect. Remove placebo sugar pills and people are going to die as a result. The placebo effect is not negligible.
That makes more sense.
If FedEx drivers can be independent contractors, so can Ubers.
...they've essentially guaranteed that it's unauditable by anyone not on a short list. +1 to you, Facebook.
There must be some confusion on your part.
This is not an open source project and this is not a web site. Any app they make that takes advantage of the native functionality of the camera is most likely going to be in a black box, whatever language they choose.
And one would think that Facebook hired enough developers that can program in C++ to have proper code reviews.
According to the Play Store, it allows me to install it on all my Lollipop devices:
My T-Mobile LG G2, my Sony Xperia Z Ultra, and my Nexus 9.
May be, they're doing a staged rollout thing. Staged rollouts are a good idea from a technical perspective. The marketing department hates them, but on a popular app they can avoid you thousands of negative ratings/reviews because there is always someone, whether it's an impatient higher up or an impatient developer, that tries to make one tiny little change to the final build that doesn't have the time to go through proper testing.
If you're on the site from Comcast San Francisco at 10:00, then an hour later someone claiming to be you tries to initiate a transaction while in Russia, that's suspicious.
[...]
The system works pretty well.
The system works well enough for you guys.
First, the bank or processor checks only the location of the transaction
I doubt that. It's difficult to get gps readings indoors or underground where the transaction might take place.
From TFA: "[Pay Pal's] general counsel, Louise Pentland, wrote in a blog post last week that its customers can choose not to receive autodialed or prerecorded message calls by contacting customer support."
This is evil. The last time I tried contacting Pay Pal's customer support. I waited three hours on the line. And I wasn't even calling them as a consumer, I was calling them as a business that made them a lots of money. I can only imagine what's the actual wait time for an actual consumer of little value to them that wants to be taken off their robocall list.
It's only what consumers have been asking for since the release of Android...
Blackberry-like keyboards on Android phones have been around for quite a while.
Motorola has a few. They're mostly geared toward business users, but a consumer can still find them if he looks for them.
Since this DOES happen, what's the fix?
We fire the guy for speaking his mind. We replace him with a female scientist.
And we pretend that this very kind of problem doesn't happen in any of the female-dominated professions.
What you're implying may have been true 10 to 15 years ago, but things have changed. The video game industry knows the female market for games is a growth market.
The only successful game developers and game designers I personally know are women. The one successful male game developer I know got out of the video gaming industry 10 years ago. I personally know many other male game developers as well, but those are just cogs in a machine and they're not successful by any definition of the term.
Well, this is one of those things where copyright law doesn't necessarily behave the way people think it should.
Why not? The blogger just needs to send github a DMCA counter-notice, and that's that. This is a very clear case of Fair Use. The company can try to sue in US court, but it would just lose and amplify the Streisand effect.
Also, I'm not sure why the name of the CEO of Flash networks is edited out of the DMCA notice, but his name is Liam Galin according to their web site. Here is his linkedin. This guy is obviously an idiot where it comes to the internet and public relations. If he becomes unemployed one day, it would be foolish to hire someone like that for anything internet-related or public relations related.
If you'd like to complain to the company itself. Here are the company's physical addresses and contact information in the US, Israel, Europe, and Singapore.
I have a G2. I love the way it feels in my hand (although it's super fragile and will chip easily). I love the button in the back (I never have to guess where it is, even when I'm setting the volume from my pocket). And I love the knock-knock feature (although, that only works about 70% of the time).
And I love the guest feature that's better than anything Samsung, Apple, or Google has. It basically logs you in as a guest depending on the unlock pattern you give it. And if you leave most of the apps available to the guest, the guest has actually no idea he/she is in guest mode.
That being said, I concur with the bugs of the lollipop update. I wish I hadn't updated it. The battery drains more quickly now. Sometimes the phone freezes (especially in areas where cell/wifi connectivity is intermittent). I know the phone is old, but it never used to do that before. The carriers are right to wait until these little things get worked out.
So for example, does news corp or the wallstreet journal ALWAYS lie? Obviously not.
No one said that they always lied.
No one even said that they lied, only that they were not credible.
For instance, if I said that the advice of financial advisers was not credible because it was no better than a bunch of monkeys randomly throwing darts at a list of mutual funds. It wouldn't necessarily mean that those financial advisers purposefully lied with their advice.
For instance, it could mean that they have a bias of some kind, known or unknown. It could mean that they prefer to choose funds that sound cool and trendy, so that themselves sound cool and trendy when speaking to clients. It could mean that the person who hired them or the person who owned their company had a bias of their own and selected financial advisers that followed the same financial schools of thoughts that he did. It could mean a number of other things too.
A swiping keyboard requires capacitive touch. Capacitive touch requires more energy than just a hardware keyboard. There are Android phones without touch capabilities and only hardware keyboards, especially in developing countries, but I do not think that's what you want. Also, those phones do get security updates, but they will never go above Android 2.3x because they only have a single core processor.
An FM radio requires a wired earbuds/headset to act as an FM antenna. Phones in developing countries have that functionality enabled as well, since data connections can be very expensive otherwise. Camera, don't aim higher than 2MP or 3MP, if you want something better, you'll need to carry an extra standalone camera with you (or actually buy a better phone). Podcast playback implies longer battery usage. You'll be able to do it, but you shouldn't do it if you really want to conserve battery power.
You'll also need to keep your data turned off, buy yourself an extended battery with good reviews, and live near a cell phone tower if you want to get yourself closer to your goal of multiple days without a single charge. By the way 5 days may be pushing it, if your battery is the size of a briefcase, like in the olden days of early cell phones, then may be you have a shot at lasting 5 days, but then you'll have to carry a very heavy briefcase everywhere you go. Also, I mentioned that you needed to be near a cell tower, because if you live near a cell tower, your phone doesn't keep retrying the connection every few seconds, your phone wastes less battery energy, and your phone actually irradiates you less.
Most don't survive the mind-numbing crunch times of working 80 hours a week for months.
Many game companies don't treat their workers very well, but your company sounds even worse than usual.
It sounds like the newcomers are the frogs that leapt out, however misguided and ignorant they were, and you're the frog that stayed in to slowly being cooked alive.
I would venture to guess that the new workers who left got other gaming testing jobs at other game companies, or got other software testings jobs, and are now healthier and happier for having left your company when they did.
Not to be a downer, but when I was a Teaching Assistant for a Computer Science class, the students that told me they wanted to do computer science because they loved computers games were usually the first ones to drop out.
Not that Computer Science equals programming. It certainly does not. Computer Science is generally more focused on the science part anyway, not on the programming itself. So I'm not saying that people who love computer games don't become great game programmers themselves. I'm just saying that based on my own biased and subjective experience, I've come to find that gamers didn't make great Computer Science students at all.