They aren't there to serve the people. They are there to serve shareholders.
If they don't serve the people, why would you allow such a company?
You aren't forced to buy Apple.
Have you heard of monopolies? The point is that some people (like app makers) are forced to pay Apple. This may or may not be legal.
Does the fine fit the crime? Was there a crime performed by Apple at all?
What fine? There is no fine, and ACM is a consumer protection organization, not the police. If they find that Apple does not comply with the law they will likely first try to motivate Apple to comply. If Apple does not then fines may follow.
Maybe governments should be spending 100% of their time and money on actual crime prevention via poverty reduction and education before they start screwing around with FB, Apple, Google, etc.
I think Netherlands is doing a fine job on poverty reduction and education. Why would a government allow monopolistic behaviour from companies? No government in the world wants that. Companies are there to serve the people, not the other way around.
This is not anti-USA, companies in the EU are in some ways more tightly regulated than in the US, this applies to EU companies and US companies equally. You just don't read it on Slashdot when a Dutch company gets hit with a fine. When Samsung gets another fine in the US, do you consider it racist behaviour of your country (and by extension yourself) against Koreans? Of course not. Yet merely investigating a US company in the EU for anti-competitive behaviour triggers your victim mentality. And keep in mind Apple has faced anti-trust lawsuits in the US too.
Apple apps use the same system frameworks to operate as consumer apps, and are limited by the same access controls to things like photos or location that any other app is
That's only true where Apple likes it. Try writing an app that uses NFC, somehow Apple can but you can't. There is a long list of things Apple can do, but you aren't allowed. Think using your own browser engine, taking creditcard payments for digital products, or even making a link to a place where people can do that.
The consumer authority doesn't specify what they are looking for, but as an example gives that third apps have to pay a certain percentage of income to Apple and that it's not clear whether Apple apps have to.
I think Microsoft learned this lesson ages ago, it's not a bad idea by itself but people abuse the hell out of email. Hopefully times have changed a bit.
So are all conversations they have person to person also part of the public record? There should be some kind of difference between internal conversations of members of the same team (where hey, at some point, you will have a beer together) and official business between organizations or even countries where decisions are being made.
This is why a lot of nice-to-have-features, like SD card slots, have to fall way down the hierarchy of needs. Any feature that can be rectified with an add-on adapter falls immediately to the bottom of the list. You're stuck with a laptop keyboard forever
If only there was a way to connect a keyboard to your laptop using a cable or even using fancy wireless technology.
Looks like the military has found a new partner after Google dropping out. Not really the 'blowing away' you were looking for, but certainly nice for the shareholders.
Well, it's space by some definitions. It's certainly not that far fetched to call it suborbital space flight, with minutes of weightlessness, a view from vastly higher than with any regular airplane, and much less atmosphere. Space is a fairly big place, so with any kind of 'space mission' you need more information to figure out how impressive it is and what it entails.
If you suspect the CIA/NSA is really after you I wouldn't recommend you to use Lastpass, or Windows. In fact your options are pretty limited and I would highly recommend to not get into that situation in the first place.
So security researchers are scraping the bottom of the barrel to such an extent that having access to program data when you have total control over a computers memory is a severe vulnerability now?
You kid, but realistically, if they were right, they would still show up as wrong in a research like this as they don't match popular opinion among scientists. Obviously a lot of the time people that disagree with 'scientific consensus' are just flat out wrong, but not necessarily always.
Yes, if you disagree with the scientific consensus, then you will get a lot of facts wrong (which are based on scientific consensus - or at least science). It's like saying flat earthers get the question about the earth being round wrong. This may be true, but you could have deducted this without doing any research as it's a tautology.
The goal post has always been to replace human intelligence
The goalpost in AI research has always been chess. After that was solved some made random other goals, but there is certainly no concensus there.
Not sure what you mean by replacing human intelligence, it sounds like you are not happy until all humans are dead. Hopefully you are not an AI saying that. In the context of starcraft 2, this system has replaced human AI. If you want an AI system that can do everything in all fields that humans can do, well, it's not going to happen in our lifetimes, possibly never, and it's certainly not the definition of AI that AI researchers use.
You prefer your science headlines with wild speculation, simply because it's more alarmist? You understand that this will just erode trust in climate science right?
Here's the question: Why do many scientists, having knowledge of the fact that surprises in science happen all the time, continually express "surprise" when they find something unusual?
Who do so many people, having knowledge of the fact that suprises happen in health all the time, continually express "surprise" when they find that they have cancer?
Why do so many people, having knowledge of the fact that robberies happen all the time, continually express "surpise" when they get robbed.
When something happens to someone, something or some topic you care about, this makes a lot more impact than when it happens to the population in general. The universe won't care if an asteroid wipes out humanity, but for the humans it would be pretty surprising if it happened tomorrow.
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If they don't serve the people, why would you allow such a company?
Have you heard of monopolies? The point is that some people (like app makers) are forced to pay Apple. This may or may not be legal.
What fine? There is no fine, and ACM is a consumer protection organization, not the police. If they find that Apple does not comply with the law they will likely first try to motivate Apple to comply. If Apple does not then fines may follow.
I think Netherlands is doing a fine job on poverty reduction and education. Why would a government allow monopolistic behaviour from companies? No government in the world wants that. Companies are there to serve the people, not the other way around.
This is not anti-USA, companies in the EU are in some ways more tightly regulated than in the US, this applies to EU companies and US companies equally. You just don't read it on Slashdot when a Dutch company gets hit with a fine. When Samsung gets another fine in the US, do you consider it racist behaviour of your country (and by extension yourself) against Koreans? Of course not. Yet merely investigating a US company in the EU for anti-competitive behaviour triggers your victim mentality. And keep in mind Apple has faced anti-trust lawsuits in the US too.
That's only true where Apple likes it. Try writing an app that uses NFC, somehow Apple can but you can't. There is a long list of things Apple can do, but you aren't allowed. Think using your own browser engine, taking creditcard payments for digital products, or even making a link to a place where people can do that.
The consumer authority doesn't specify what they are looking for, but as an example gives that third apps have to pay a certain percentage of income to Apple and that it's not clear whether Apple apps have to.
Why can't you? Uber only requires 1 drive a month and the driver app has 'destination mode' for you to reach a destination while taking rides.
I think Microsoft learned this lesson ages ago, it's not a bad idea by itself but people abuse the hell out of email. Hopefully times have changed a bit.
A competitor of Oracle, is that like the IRS? Mafia? Or do they compete in a different area than brutally forcing companies to transfer money?
So are all conversations they have person to person also part of the public record? There should be some kind of difference between internal conversations of members of the same team (where hey, at some point, you will have a beer together) and official business between organizations or even countries where decisions are being made.
If only there was a way to connect a keyboard to your laptop using a cable or even using fancy wireless technology.
Looks like the military has found a new partner after Google dropping out. Not really the 'blowing away' you were looking for, but certainly nice for the shareholders.
Just like with the ongoing barrage of S3 'leaks', this is only an issue because it's too easy to accidentally enable public file listings in servers.
Well, it's space by some definitions. It's certainly not that far fetched to call it suborbital space flight, with minutes of weightlessness, a view from vastly higher than with any regular airplane, and much less atmosphere. Space is a fairly big place, so with any kind of 'space mission' you need more information to figure out how impressive it is and what it entails.
If you suspect the CIA/NSA is really after you I wouldn't recommend you to use Lastpass, or Windows. In fact your options are pretty limited and I would highly recommend to not get into that situation in the first place.
So security researchers are scraping the bottom of the barrel to such an extent that having access to program data when you have total control over a computers memory is a severe vulnerability now?
Could have fed more if you didn't spend time posting this.
Imagine if you yourself focused your talent on something worthwhile instead of posting on Slashdot. Like feeding children in Africa.
That is total BS. You are confusing religion with science. Science is about competing believes, not about there being one fact to rule them all.
I guess that's different wording for that the group samples isn't representative for the population at large.
Here is a video of sleeping drivers shamed in their car without automatic braking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I think they want something that works now, not something that may some day work in the future.
You kid, but realistically, if they were right, they would still show up as wrong in a research like this as they don't match popular opinion among scientists. Obviously a lot of the time people that disagree with 'scientific consensus' are just flat out wrong, but not necessarily always.
Yes, if you disagree with the scientific consensus, then you will get a lot of facts wrong (which are based on scientific consensus - or at least science). It's like saying flat earthers get the question about the earth being round wrong. This may be true, but you could have deducted this without doing any research as it's a tautology.
The goalpost in AI research has always been chess. After that was solved some made random other goals, but there is certainly no concensus there.
Not sure what you mean by replacing human intelligence, it sounds like you are not happy until all humans are dead. Hopefully you are not an AI saying that. In the context of starcraft 2, this system has replaced human AI. If you want an AI system that can do everything in all fields that humans can do, well, it's not going to happen in our lifetimes, possibly never, and it's certainly not the definition of AI that AI researchers use.
Sounds to me they are just closing down an ATM where big corporations leech from the population.
You prefer your science headlines with wild speculation, simply because it's more alarmist? You understand that this will just erode trust in climate science right?
Who do so many people, having knowledge of the fact that suprises happen in health all the time, continually express "surprise" when they find that they have cancer?
Why do so many people, having knowledge of the fact that robberies happen all the time, continually express "surpise" when they get robbed.
When something happens to someone, something or some topic you care about, this makes a lot more impact than when it happens to the population in general. The universe won't care if an asteroid wipes out humanity, but for the humans it would be pretty surprising if it happened tomorrow.