I'm in the San Francisco Bay area, and the speeds here are the worst and the prices the highest of anywhere I've ever lived.
Sometimes I say that in response to people claiming it's more expensive in rural areas because the cost of infrastructure is higher than in populated areas.
Other times people tell me it's high here because there's a huge population and so more people to serve.
Here in the epicenter of the internet, internet service sucks, and everyone uses contradictory excuses for it.
The REALITY is that prices are high in the US because we have virtual monopolies and no regulation to speak of, and so capitalists do what capitalists do in those conditions:
But you're assuming that everyone who had an older phone ran out and ditched it the moment the new ones came out and thus there are no older iPhones with older software in use.
Oh wait... we're talking about Apple. Ok, yeah, everyone DID immediately ditch their old phone the moment the new model came out. Nevermind.
compromised software - that is the key. If they decide they want to use your phone as a bug, I wouldn't be too surprised if they could root your phone or change the firmware so that when you push "off" it gives you all of the usual "off" sounds and screens and goes blank... except.
It has to still be active in some way for it to know when you press "on," after all.
It's not like any phones have an actual physical off switch that literally physically opens a circuit. A sliding switch that goes "click?" I haven't seen one of those.
And we go though the whole thing because some numbskulls in the UK were fantasizing about doing "something" and had some notes referring to the idea of making a bomb from liquids. We hyped these wannabees who had no real knowledge or expertise nor probably any actual intent as "terrorists" and hyped thier "plot" curing a politically convenient time to make it look like we were doing important things... when in fact the "underwear bomber" was a genius in comparison... and now we're stuck with these insane limits.
I was in line behind a guy thatn the TSA agent threatened to arrest because the ziplock he had his 3 oz bottles in wasn't the proper one-quart size, and he had a chapstick not in the bag. The TSA guy put the chapstick in the baggie so it would not be so dangerous.
money to a corporation to defend myself against allegations they make against me is the day I have the service removed, report my credit card lost, and tear up the last month's bill.
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I'm in the San Francisco Bay area, and the speeds here are the worst and the prices the highest of anywhere I've ever lived.
Sometimes I say that in response to people claiming it's more expensive in rural areas because the cost of infrastructure is higher than in populated areas.
Other times people tell me it's high here because there's a huge population and so more people to serve.
Here in the epicenter of the internet, internet service sucks, and everyone uses contradictory excuses for it.
The REALITY is that prices are high in the US because we have virtual monopolies and no regulation to speak of, and so capitalists do what capitalists do in those conditions:
They gouge.
The Supreme Court has ruled that copyright infringement is NOT THEFT.
So if you want to convince someone they are wrong in thinking that copyright infringement is not theft, you'd better start at the top.
Either that or stop blathering your ignorance all over the place.
I'll listen to the Supreme Court over some random internet jackass... and the Supreme Court has ruled that copyright infringement IS NOT STEALING.
If you don't like that FACT, take it up with SCOTUS.
How about lets just decide to not tell people what they can and can't print with their 3-d printers?
Apart from public hazard kind of items, at least.
It was an ikea joke.
Sorry if I offended one of your favorite massive multi-nationals.
One, it's fiberboard so it swells up and falls apart after a rain.
Two, it gives off formaldehyde fumes.
Old conservatives are stable in their worldview because it is based on their own unchanging biases and bigotries.
Other people grow, learn and respond to changing conditions.
There are plenty of old conservatives with the same attitude as him. Somehow they didn't get fixed.
I lived for two years in Clearwater, FL near the gulf.
Hotter than hell, but everyone used to say "but there's always a nice breeze!"
I'm not sure how you call what feels like an open blast furnace "a nice breeze."
The only problem with that scenario is that it was Yahoo that bought it.
Which means Tumblr will go the way of Flickr. It will be milked and ignored until it's about as dated as black and white TV.
From the article:
"Both Mr Torres and Mr Schmidt own copyrights and trademarks of the characters."
"They cannot reasonably justify preventing their customers from accessing content they paid for."
Corporations don't have to reasonably justify anything.
The fact that you use the word "dodgy" leads me to think you may not be American, since that is not commonly used here.
What the gvt. considers "dodgy" is a considerably broader category here in the land of the free.
"my battery doesn't hold as much charge as it used to..."
But you're assuming that everyone who had an older phone ran out and ditched it the moment the new ones came out and thus there are no older iPhones with older software in use.
Oh wait... we're talking about Apple. Ok, yeah, everyone DID immediately ditch their old phone the moment the new model came out. Nevermind.
compromised software - that is the key.
If they decide they want to use your phone as a bug, I wouldn't be too surprised if they could root your phone or change the firmware so that when you push "off" it gives you all of the usual "off" sounds and screens and goes blank... except.
It has to still be active in some way for it to know when you press "on," after all.
It's not like any phones have an actual physical off switch that literally physically opens a circuit. A sliding switch that goes "click?" I haven't seen one of those.
Steve Jobs would have made a lousy employee.
Even the experts say the liquid thing is BS.
And we go though the whole thing because some numbskulls in the UK were fantasizing about doing "something" and had some notes referring to the idea of making a bomb from liquids. We hyped these wannabees who had no real knowledge or expertise nor probably any actual intent as "terrorists" and hyped thier "plot" curing a politically convenient time to make it look like we were doing important things... when in fact the "underwear bomber" was a genius in comparison... and now we're stuck with these insane limits.
I was in line behind a guy thatn the TSA agent threatened to arrest because the ziplock he had his 3 oz bottles in wasn't the proper one-quart size, and he had a chapstick not in the bag. The TSA guy put the chapstick in the baggie so it would not be so dangerous.
"You ALWAYS need antialiasing when you discretize."
That's my motto!
The word is being used correctly.
Buy a dictionary.
"So what your saying is they only support freedom when it is profitable and convenient for them to do so?"
No, dipshit. The EFF is a non-profit, they do not sue when it is "profitable."
They have limited resources. Ever hear the phrase "pick your battles?"
If they try to fight every case, they go under within months and NOBODY wins, and no legal precedents are set.
Jesus fuck, are there really people this fucking clueless?
I'm a non-smoker with five different "most-often-purchased" brands of cigarette.
(freebies)
I haven't owned a TV in almost 20 years.
I have comcast for internet only.
may not ever use account termination as a way of enforcing this, but I certainly will use account termination as a way of dealing with it.
That thing where they tell you you have to call them?
That call will be to cancel my service.
(and no, I don't use torrents, (except steam) but that hardly matters)
money to a corporation to defend myself against allegations they make against me is the day I have the service removed, report my credit card lost, and tear up the last month's bill.