Because Jobs is not a fucking idiot. He's got the consumer drones not only happy to be consumer drones, but paying a premium for the privilege of being consumer drones that get to laugh at other people and call them consumer drones because they aren't the right KIND of consumer drones and aren't in the special secret consumer drones club.
The problem is, we won't try hard enough to figure out fusion until the several centuries' worth of fuel is used up. We subsidize oil massively, and we're subsidizing nuclear massively... less than oil, but still massively compared to how we fund fusion research. If we put that much energy into figuring out fusion, we'd get it... but we aren't.
First of all, your analogy is piss-poor. Using a lawnmower as a hedgetrimmer would be aking, to... I dunno, using your iphone as... a hedgetrimmer.
People are trying to use their iPhone as a PHONE. A more apt analogy would be that people have bought an iMower, which is a standard mower in a cool design that has had an additional additional mechanism added to make it only mow one lawn... they're trying to mow other lawns with it. Not an unreasonable thing. In saying mower/hedgetrimmer, or iron/bed warmer, you are being deliberately obtuse.
That having been said, even if you DO consider that unreasonable, you miss the point entirely. Its not about responsibility, it's about seeing what could be a problem for your business, regardless of who is responsible, and designing to negate that problem. Its about efficiency. I worked for a major manufacturer and we tested for every reasonably conceivable misuse of the product, if at least to be able to answer calls about it or put warning stickers on.
"My feeling is why waste that time and moeny? THey will build a patch that will work with a non hacked iPhone 100%. They won't spend a single dime testing it on a hacked one (why should they the ROI on that is a negative)."
They may not have tested it, but they may well have, because if there are thousands of hacked phones out there that are going to self-destruct after the next update, then Apple will have to deal with support phone calls, people trying to return them to Apple stores, bad press, etc. All of which will cost money.
When you are designing and testing a product, you don't only test for how you WANT the product to be used, you test for how people are likely to use it in ways you DON'T want.
They say violent video games cause violent behavior. I'm skeptical, I played Manhunt to the end and I haven't killed any real people yet... But maybe the key difference is that I DID get nervous in certain tense scenes. Are we really sure we want to train people to be able to kill a bunch of people, decapitate enemies, stalk people etc. without getting an elevated heart rate? Myabe this would be a great serial killer training device.:D
Firstly, it was not a chest full of explosives, it was a small breadboard that any moron could tell was harmless. Secondly, I did not suggest that those in airport security should not have examined the item, they should have, and then unless being imbeciles they would quickly rule out any issue with it. That's fine, but you're saying that a person carrying a completely harmless item should not merely have it examined, but should be arrested. Thirdly, you said if you wore a shirt with blinking lights you would expect to be on the ground handcuffed at some point. You did NOT specify at an airport.
So that's the difference: My world, the sane world: Someone wearing an unfamiliar item to an airport should expect to have it examined and when its found to be harmless, they are left alone. Your world, the insane world: Someone wearing a harmless but unfamiliar item in an airport should, even after it has been examined and found to be harmless, be arrested and consider themselves lucky to not have been shot... and if they wear the item NOT in an airport but just around, they should fully expect to be on the ground handcuffed at some point.p.This is what you said, this is what you consider rational. It's not rational, it's emotional, it's the fear-based reflexes of a panicky individual. Grow a set.
"If you wear decidedly unusual clothes you need to consider how others will perceive it, and be prepared to deal with the consequences."
According to them, she was lucky she wasn't shot. She WAS arrested. So the consequences for wearing decidedly unusual clothing is that you have to accept being arrested as a lucky alternative to being killed?
"Dammit, if I start wearing a shirt with a big LED timer on it and a bunch of colourful wires I'd *totally* be expected to be handcuffed on the ground at some point."
Really? You EXPECT to be living in a fascist hellhole? And not just any fascist hellhole, but some bizarre alternate universe cartoon fascist hellhole where the fascists are morons who think terrorist devices are bright flashing obvious things that say "Acme Bomb Company" on them?
Essentially what you're saying is that we need to live in a society where insane fear of the unknown or mildly confusing (to those with low IQs) is encouraged. Where being slightly unusual is a crime.
Grow a fucking set of balls. People with attitudes like yours are ruining the country.
The problem with these things is they start out as a "less lethal" way of dealing with things... They'll say this is better than bombing the area or whatever... but then, they start to use them for other purposes. Like the taser - it was supposed to be used instead of a gun when cops felt threatened - thereby saving lives. Instead it's being used in circumstances when a gun would NEVER be used - like to shut up a mouthy unarmed student in a library.
Same with this... they'll say its a less lethal way of incapacitating enemy troops, or maybe quelling a riot. But eventually since its "safe," they'll start using it on peaceful protests that got out of the "free speech zone" and dangerously close to coming within cable news camera range.
"Yep, because when Nike doesn't go in somewhere to charge $.50 an hour to make shoes, alternative jobs will magically spring up that pay the people $7.25. What's more likely is the competition from Nike would have driven up the cost above what they could get without Nike."
21st-century-right-winger to 10th-century-plantation-owner translation: "Our darkies are happy, just look at them dancing! Anyway, if it weren't for me, they'd starve. They can't take care of themselves."
We did away with slavery, we did away with child labor, indentured servitude, unsafe workplaces, 80 hour work weeks, etc. All of these moves were infringements on the capitalists' freedom to exploit people to the fullest... so they found other places where they still could.
ebay DOES disallow any sales of some designer goods. There are certain designer who don't want their brand dminished by their merch appearing on ebay. You may not be able to determine this by reading the rules, but you can quickly determine it by trying to sell one of these items.
I know eBay sellers who deal in designer goods, GENUINE designer goods, and there are some names that simply can't be sold on ebay without getting cancelled.
eBay established what they call a VERO program. if you, as a manufacturer, don't want your items sold on eBay, then you register with their VERO program, and they will then take down any auction you demand taken down.
Ostensibly this is to prevent pirated goods (fashion items, Foakley sunglasses, etc.) from showing up, but you can buy a GENUINE designer handbag at Macy's, sell it on eBay, and the company will have your auction taken down despite your having every legal right to sell that GENUINE item.
This has nothing to do with law, and nothing to do with the DMCA... its simply eBay policy, part of their VERO program.
"Second is it reasonable for a company to specify in their warantee that the OS shall be the installed OS and no-other than what they designate? I think there is a reasonable case for the latter."
Computers are designed to run software. Software that the customer chooses, as long as that software is designed to run on that system. A company voiding your hardware warranty because you chose to run software they didn't install would be like a car company voiding your warranty because you chose to drive to Toledo.
...others. Anyway that's what I surmise after hearing an official state that searchers have found several other crash sites and she said that's good news of a sort, because it means that several other families will at least now have closure.
What it meant to ME is that some people apparently warrant searches that other people don't warrant. Government officials apparently chose to search for ONE jackass who didn't file a flight plan, but I guess the others weren't worth it. We don't know whether THEY filed flight plans or not.
Sorry for being pedantic, but he didn't parachute away during re-entry. If he had done that, he would have died, since re-entry is the phase of re-entering the earth's atmosphere. He would have burned up.
He parachuted AFTER re-entry when the capsule was well within the atmosphere, but before landing.
Because back then any kids who DID have attention problems were considered to be WITCHES and they were summarily killed. It's true, I saw something on TV about that.
Well, I kinda figured that the difference is that to be a Christian or Muslim or whatever, you might have just never critically examined the bullshit you were brought up with, and can be just saying you are that religion just because you haven't thought too far past the indoctrination... whereas, to become a Scientologist you have to have actively sought OUT stupid shit.
But then I found via Wikipedia (if it can be trusted) that Beck's dad has been a Scientologist for 35 years... so beck WAS brought up with loony shit... and he says about Scientology: "What it actually is is just sort of, uh, you know, I think it's about philosophy and sort of, uh, all these kinds of, you know, ideals that are common to a lot of religions."
Which sounds distinctly like he just HASNT thought much about the crap his parents fed him, and may be just like other people - giving lip service to religion for his parent's approval. Or whatever.
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Because Jobs is not a fucking idiot. He's got the consumer drones not only happy to be consumer drones, but paying a premium for the privilege of being consumer drones that get to laugh at other people and call them consumer drones because they aren't the right KIND of consumer drones and aren't in the special secret consumer drones club.
Devices for shooting oneself in the foot? "A Method for Removal of the Nose as an Expression of Disdain for the Face?"
The problem is, we won't try hard enough to figure out fusion until the several centuries' worth of fuel is used up. We subsidize oil massively, and we're subsidizing nuclear massively... less than oil, but still massively compared to how we fund fusion research. If we put that much energy into figuring out fusion, we'd get it... but we aren't.
People are trying to use their iPhone as a PHONE. A more apt analogy would be that people have bought an iMower, which is a standard mower in a cool design that has had an additional additional mechanism added to make it only mow one lawn... they're trying to mow other lawns with it. Not an unreasonable thing. In saying mower/hedgetrimmer, or iron/bed warmer, you are being deliberately obtuse.
That having been said, even if you DO consider that unreasonable, you miss the point entirely. Its not about responsibility, it's about seeing what could be a problem for your business, regardless of who is responsible, and designing to negate that problem. Its about efficiency. I worked for a major manufacturer and we tested for every reasonably conceivable misuse of the product, if at least to be able to answer calls about it or put warning stickers on.
When you are designing and testing a product, you don't only test for how you WANT the product to be used, you test for how people are likely to use it in ways you DON'T want.
They say violent video games cause violent behavior. I'm skeptical, I played Manhunt to the end and I haven't killed any real people yet... :D
But maybe the key difference is that I DID get nervous in certain tense scenes. Are we really sure we want to train people to be able to kill a bunch of people, decapitate enemies, stalk people etc. without getting an elevated heart rate? Myabe this would be a great serial killer training device.
Secondly, I did not suggest that those in airport security should not have examined the item, they should have, and then unless being imbeciles they would quickly rule out any issue with it. That's fine, but you're saying that a person carrying a completely harmless item should not merely have it examined, but should be arrested.
Thirdly, you said if you wore a shirt with blinking lights you would expect to be on the ground handcuffed at some point. You did NOT specify at an airport.
So that's the difference:
My world, the sane world: Someone wearing an unfamiliar item to an airport should expect to have it examined and when its found to be harmless, they are left alone.
Your world, the insane world: Someone wearing a harmless but unfamiliar item in an airport should, even after it has been examined and found to be harmless, be arrested and consider themselves lucky to not have been shot... and if they wear the item NOT in an airport but just around, they should fully expect to be on the ground handcuffed at some point.p.This is what you said, this is what you consider rational. It's not rational, it's emotional, it's the fear-based reflexes of a panicky individual. Grow a set.
According to them, she was lucky she wasn't shot. She WAS arrested. So the consequences for wearing decidedly unusual clothing is that you have to accept being arrested as a lucky alternative to being killed?
"Dammit, if I start wearing a shirt with a big LED timer on it and a bunch of colourful wires I'd *totally* be expected to be handcuffed on the ground at some point."
Really? You EXPECT to be living in a fascist hellhole? And not just any fascist hellhole, but some bizarre alternate universe cartoon fascist hellhole where the fascists are morons who think terrorist devices are bright flashing obvious things that say "Acme Bomb Company" on them?
Essentially what you're saying is that we need to live in a society where insane fear of the unknown or mildly confusing (to those with low IQs) is encouraged. Where being slightly unusual is a crime.
Grow a fucking set of balls. People with attitudes like yours are ruining the country.
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Same with this... they'll say its a less lethal way of incapacitating enemy troops, or maybe quelling a riot. But eventually since its "safe," they'll start using it on peaceful protests that got out of the "free speech zone" and dangerously close to coming within cable news camera range.
He's obviously just using the professional style of interviewing and question asking that he's seen on Hardball and The O'Reilly Factor.
...will saying someone wears a tin foil hat be an expression of how wise you think they are?
21st-century-right-winger to 10th-century-plantation-owner translation: "Our darkies are happy, just look at them dancing! Anyway, if it weren't for me, they'd starve. They can't take care of themselves." We did away with slavery, we did away with child labor, indentured servitude, unsafe workplaces, 80 hour work weeks, etc. All of these moves were infringements on the capitalists' freedom to exploit people to the fullest... so they found other places where they still could.
innocent. or something.
I hate it when its perfectly legal to do illegal things.
I know eBay sellers who deal in designer goods, GENUINE designer goods, and there are some names that simply can't be sold on ebay without getting cancelled.
Ostensibly this is to prevent pirated goods (fashion items, Foakley sunglasses, etc.) from showing up, but you can buy a GENUINE designer handbag at Macy's, sell it on eBay, and the company will have your auction taken down despite your having every legal right to sell that GENUINE item.
This has nothing to do with law, and nothing to do with the DMCA... its simply eBay policy, part of their VERO program.
You just got me thinking... maybe the antidote to all of those things is for all of us to just start saying "they bigoted me out of..." etc.
Computers are designed to run software. Software that the customer chooses, as long as that software is designed to run on that system.
A company voiding your hardware warranty because you chose to run software they didn't install would be like a car company voiding your warranty because you chose to drive to Toledo.
Terms of service? Fuck terms of service. Using a PVR at all is probably against someone's terms of service. The NFL for example.
Gosh, you have me pegged all right. Smart guy, you are.
What it meant to ME is that some people apparently warrant searches that other people don't warrant. Government officials apparently chose to search for ONE jackass who didn't file a flight plan, but I guess the others weren't worth it. We don't know whether THEY filed flight plans or not.
He parachuted AFTER re-entry when the capsule was well within the atmosphere, but before landing.
Because back then any kids who DID have attention problems were considered to be WITCHES and they were summarily killed. It's true, I saw something on TV about that.
But then I found via Wikipedia (if it can be trusted) that Beck's dad has been a Scientologist for 35 years... so beck WAS brought up with loony shit... and he says about Scientology: "What it actually is is just sort of, uh, you know, I think it's about philosophy and sort of, uh, all these kinds of, you know, ideals that are common to a lot of religions."
Which sounds distinctly like he just HASNT thought much about the crap his parents fed him, and may be just like other people - giving lip service to religion for his parent's approval. Or whatever.