Perhaps he doesn't want to be the richest guy in the graveyard?
If he's got a nice comfortable pile, maybe he'd like to go live life. As a C-level exec, I'm sure he's got plenty of vested stock grants to rest on as well.
I think the idea is that you would put this on surfaces inside a home or office. The problem is that these radio waves are not "free energy" - there are potentially devices that want to receive those radio waves that will no longer be able to if this is deployed between them and the transmitter.
So now you are buying more access points and transmitters (and plugging them in, and powering them up) to cover the dead spots you just created in order to recharge your phone with "free" energy.
Or you could just plug in your $10 phone charger like all of us have been doing for 20 years and skip overhauling your (and other people's) wireless infrastructure.
Also, you'll deploy this and find that all of a sudden you have dark spots in your wifi coverage you didn't have before, because the radio waves are being absorbed by this material.
But hey, you can power up a phone or two at the cost of doubling or tripling your access point density!
Why would a Budweiser ad in New York be irrelevant to a viewer in Los Angeles? They have Budweiser in both markets, and it's the same product in both markets.
Same logic goes for any other advertising for a national brand; by and large most television advertising is purchased by these national brands.
Your point stands for any local businesses buying the advertisements, unless they also sell via a web site.
If they are lawyers that are in the business of recording depositions, and they're doing it using video conferencing, I would hope they are using a solution that has been around for longer than 3 months.
Like any of the video conferencing solutions that have existed for years longer than that, and get used by business people every day. Some of which are even free-as-in-beer.
This is a fishing expedition by this lawyer, looking to score a settlement to enrich himself.
More than that, if Apple just turned it off we'd be seeing nothing but articles about their ineptitude because they can't keep their group video chat thing running.
It's not like Apple is going to volunteer that they turned it off due to a potential privacy breach. That would earn them both the ineptitude screaming as well as the current bitch-fest they're getting.
They went with "work a solution, but let's keep the service running until the issue is publicly disclosed. And let's pray that we get the solution done and deployed before it becomes publicly disclosed" - it may not be the best way (it's very likely not to be), but it's the way they went.
Except for the fact that a judge would toss any zero-party consent recording that didn't also have a court order for electronic surveillance applied to it, previous to the recording being made as an illegal search.
This is no different than what would happen with the recording from an illegal wiretap, or illegal audio bug planted in the room. It would get tossed during evidence discovery, long before any jury would be able to see / hear the recording. And then there would be sanctions for any prosecutor trying to use such evidence.
IANAL, but unless there was an actual recording, he's going to have problems showing the damages he claims.
Moreover, in any legal proceeding any recording would not be allowed into evidence in anything without at least one-party consent, which clearly doesn't exist in an eavesdropping scenario where there is an expectation of privacy (such as anywhere you would be deposing a witness). In addition, the rules of client / attorney privilege would prevent any such eavesdropping recording from being heard to begin with, just the same as if the police left their recording equipment rolling in an interview room while a lawyer met with their client - no judge in the country would allow it to be heard by a jury, much less entered into evidence in a trial of any kind.
This is a scumbag lawyer who read a story, and is fishing for a payday from an uber-wealthy corporation. I hope Apple doesn't just get the suit dismissed outright, but squashes this asshat like the fucking worm he is. He is actually doing damage to the legal system with this bullshit and ruining it for legit cases where there is real injustice that needs remediation.
You can ship it. And we have. Thousands of times. There's casks that have been made specifically for doing it, and tested by ramming a diesel-electric train into it at 160 kph, having it strapped to the back of a truck that rams into a 600-ton block of concrete at full speed, as well as shooting a missile into the side of it at over 600 mph.
The damage was superficial, and in all certified flask designs there was no loss of containment in these far more extreme scenarios than the fucking fender bender you describe. These things are designed to be completely engulfed in flames, dropped in water over a hundred meters deep, and survive impacts that practically liquefy the vehicle carrying it.
Your "one truck accident will render an entire region radioactive and uninhabitable" is ignorant alarmist pap. There have been literally tens of thousands of shipments of nuclear waste with zero incidents of what you describe. It's not like they just throw the shit in the back of a Ford F-350 and pull it onto the Interstate - there's actual thought that goes into this, from engineers way smarter than you are.
Mostly because we haven't really cracked fusion with ideal laboratory circumstances, much less on an industrial scale using a radioactive sludge of chemical question marks as fuel.
Your comment seems predicated on the assumption that this shit at Hanford is cleanly separated and labeled materials. All the cesium over there, and all the polonium over here.
It's not. It's a soup of not-plutonium combined with caustic acids and chemicals used to extract the plutonium. It's a unique combination of massively radioactive, semi-liquid, corrosive, and chemically toxic. And after all these years, separating out anything useful is very likely impossible with our current levels of technology.
Better to make it as stable as you can (e.g. something that is not corrosive, and is a solid that isn't leaking out of 40+ year old single-walled tanks planted in the ground a couple hundred yards from a river that drains about 20% of North America, and runs through a top-25 US metro area) and inter it for long-term storage. Which is what they are doing.
Waiting around for "better" is doing nothing, which is what got Hanford to the sad state it's in today.
Here's a hint: most of what you call "waste" that has a half-life in the tens of thousands of years is what nuclear engineers call "fuel". Separate the truly nasty shit that only lasts a few decades from the useable fuel and the storage problem becomes one of far less volume, and far less time.
Remember that nuclear weapons production was primarily done via nuclear power production. You need reactors to make plutonium. Reactors generate heat. May as well use that heat to spin a turbine while you are at it.
Commercial reactor waste is not the whole problem at Hanford, but it's part of the problem. We still don't have a good solution for the commercial fuel bundles - right now the answer is "put them in a steel-lined concrete cask and let them sit on a concrete pad until we come up with something better." This is what is being done at nuclear power plants across the nation, and then we're pretending like it's a solution.
At Hanford, the real nasty shit there is the liquid crap left over from extracting the plutonium, and the horrific record keeping that was done - they have tanks there with caustic radioactive sludge that they don't really know the composition of - a toxic soup of solvents and transuranics in underground tanks that were meant to be emptied and disposed of decades ago. At least they're finally getting around to vitrifying it into something that can't seep into the Columbia River.
Yes, that's the big issue at Hanford now. But they are still going to have to deal with all the fuel bundles someday that are sitting all over the place because Yucca Mountain never opened.
I agree that blaming 'the other tribe' is a problem that is pervasive through all issues.
This specific example though, really does have political horse-trading to blame. Harry Reid, the senior senator from Nevada, was the Senate Majority Leader. There was no fucking way Yucca Mountain was ever going to open while that guy was in office. So instead of having the Democrat President butt heads with the Democrat Majority Leader, DoE just made the whole thing go away.
The same god damn thing would have happened if both seats had Republicans in them. Nevada wanted the construction contracts (which they got) but when it came time to open the place and start accepting waste? Not in our back yard!
He may have been going for "Oh, you can't upgrade to Windows 10. Intel did you a favor."
Meaning, if you are looking to "upgrade" you are coming from somewhere - Windows 7 or Windows 8.
If it's Windows 7, it's arguable that Intel really was doing you a favor. Windows 8 had a horrific interface but the OS underneath wasn't bad. ClassicShell fixed the UI problem.
Yeah, but when you adopt a no-compulsory-nonsense approach, how can you trumpet how many new users you have for $FEATURE when the users who get the upgrade jammed down their throat don't have $FEATURE turned on by default?
Next you'll be suggesting that software shouldn't nag you on every launch that there's a new version available, and that you really should upgrade because reasons!
Yeah, because there's absolutely no mobile device operating systems created in the US. Oh wait, both major platforms are.
The hardware isn't worth shit, without having software worth a damn to run on it. More than 35 years of PC computing should have at least taught that by now.
Tests alone will not cause a redesign of shitty software or hardware. Testing only proves that the shitty product is operating within the bounds of it's shitty specs.
It's true that US laws don't apply outside the US. However if you want to use the US banking system, it's a good idea to play by the rules that the Department of Commerce puts forth, because the US banking system does happen in the US, and those laws apply.
Is it "fair" ? Nope. Very little of what happens in global politics is "fair." That's how the world works. Feel free to build your own global banking network that has basically all central banks participating in it and show the US who's boss. Nothing stopping you except you.
Silver lining: we won't have to read bullshit like your post anymore once the Internet and most of civilization is gone. A price that might be worth paying.
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Perhaps he doesn't want to be the richest guy in the graveyard?
If he's got a nice comfortable pile, maybe he'd like to go live life. As a C-level exec, I'm sure he's got plenty of vested stock grants to rest on as well.
He's trolling. That's what he does.
Every once in a while he mistakenly posts something insightful while trolling. This is not one of those times.
Except for, you know, the reported GAAP profit.
Can't find any more FUD, so now you just go for denial and lies?
Three times, actually. There was a profitable quarter before the run-up to Model 3.
But yeah, it's mostly a sea of red ink so far.
I think the idea is that you would put this on surfaces inside a home or office. The problem is that these radio waves are not "free energy" - there are potentially devices that want to receive those radio waves that will no longer be able to if this is deployed between them and the transmitter.
So now you are buying more access points and transmitters (and plugging them in, and powering them up) to cover the dead spots you just created in order to recharge your phone with "free" energy.
Or you could just plug in your $10 phone charger like all of us have been doing for 20 years and skip overhauling your (and other people's) wireless infrastructure.
Also, you'll deploy this and find that all of a sudden you have dark spots in your wifi coverage you didn't have before, because the radio waves are being absorbed by this material.
But hey, you can power up a phone or two at the cost of doubling or tripling your access point density!
Why would a Budweiser ad in New York be irrelevant to a viewer in Los Angeles? They have Budweiser in both markets, and it's the same product in both markets.
Same logic goes for any other advertising for a national brand; by and large most television advertising is purchased by these national brands.
Your point stands for any local businesses buying the advertisements, unless they also sell via a web site.
If they are lawyers that are in the business of recording depositions, and they're doing it using video conferencing, I would hope they are using a solution that has been around for longer than 3 months.
Like any of the video conferencing solutions that have existed for years longer than that, and get used by business people every day. Some of which are even free-as-in-beer.
This is a fishing expedition by this lawyer, looking to score a settlement to enrich himself.
More than that, if Apple just turned it off we'd be seeing nothing but articles about their ineptitude because they can't keep their group video chat thing running.
It's not like Apple is going to volunteer that they turned it off due to a potential privacy breach. That would earn them both the ineptitude screaming as well as the current bitch-fest they're getting.
They went with "work a solution, but let's keep the service running until the issue is publicly disclosed. And let's pray that we get the solution done and deployed before it becomes publicly disclosed" - it may not be the best way (it's very likely not to be), but it's the way they went.
More than that, why did he have any phones at all in the room while taking a secret deposition?
Not like it's news that phones can record audio and transmit it to other people - that's kind of the fucking point.
Except for the fact that a judge would toss any zero-party consent recording that didn't also have a court order for electronic surveillance applied to it, previous to the recording being made as an illegal search.
This is no different than what would happen with the recording from an illegal wiretap, or illegal audio bug planted in the room. It would get tossed during evidence discovery, long before any jury would be able to see / hear the recording. And then there would be sanctions for any prosecutor trying to use such evidence.
IANAL, but unless there was an actual recording, he's going to have problems showing the damages he claims.
Moreover, in any legal proceeding any recording would not be allowed into evidence in anything without at least one-party consent, which clearly doesn't exist in an eavesdropping scenario where there is an expectation of privacy (such as anywhere you would be deposing a witness). In addition, the rules of client / attorney privilege would prevent any such eavesdropping recording from being heard to begin with, just the same as if the police left their recording equipment rolling in an interview room while a lawyer met with their client - no judge in the country would allow it to be heard by a jury, much less entered into evidence in a trial of any kind.
This is a scumbag lawyer who read a story, and is fishing for a payday from an uber-wealthy corporation. I hope Apple doesn't just get the suit dismissed outright, but squashes this asshat like the fucking worm he is. He is actually doing damage to the legal system with this bullshit and ruining it for legit cases where there is real injustice that needs remediation.
You can ship it. And we have. Thousands of times. There's casks that have been made specifically for doing it, and tested by ramming a diesel-electric train into it at 160 kph, having it strapped to the back of a truck that rams into a 600-ton block of concrete at full speed, as well as shooting a missile into the side of it at over 600 mph.
The damage was superficial, and in all certified flask designs there was no loss of containment in these far more extreme scenarios than the fucking fender bender you describe. These things are designed to be completely engulfed in flames, dropped in water over a hundred meters deep, and survive impacts that practically liquefy the vehicle carrying it.
Your "one truck accident will render an entire region radioactive and uninhabitable" is ignorant alarmist pap. There have been literally tens of thousands of shipments of nuclear waste with zero incidents of what you describe. It's not like they just throw the shit in the back of a Ford F-350 and pull it onto the Interstate - there's actual thought that goes into this, from engineers way smarter than you are.
Please don't be an idiot.
Mostly because we haven't really cracked fusion with ideal laboratory circumstances, much less on an industrial scale using a radioactive sludge of chemical question marks as fuel.
Your comment seems predicated on the assumption that this shit at Hanford is cleanly separated and labeled materials. All the cesium over there, and all the polonium over here.
It's not. It's a soup of not-plutonium combined with caustic acids and chemicals used to extract the plutonium. It's a unique combination of massively radioactive, semi-liquid, corrosive, and chemically toxic. And after all these years, separating out anything useful is very likely impossible with our current levels of technology.
Better to make it as stable as you can (e.g. something that is not corrosive, and is a solid that isn't leaking out of 40+ year old single-walled tanks planted in the ground a couple hundred yards from a river that drains about 20% of North America, and runs through a top-25 US metro area) and inter it for long-term storage. Which is what they are doing.
Waiting around for "better" is doing nothing, which is what got Hanford to the sad state it's in today.
Unfortunately the "other cases" are oil and coal, which do far more environmental damage as a condition of normal operation.
What's that going to cost?
Please show your math on that statement.
Here's a hint: most of what you call "waste" that has a half-life in the tens of thousands of years is what nuclear engineers call "fuel". Separate the truly nasty shit that only lasts a few decades from the useable fuel and the storage problem becomes one of far less volume, and far less time.
Remember that nuclear weapons production was primarily done via nuclear power production. You need reactors to make plutonium. Reactors generate heat. May as well use that heat to spin a turbine while you are at it.
Commercial reactor waste is not the whole problem at Hanford, but it's part of the problem. We still don't have a good solution for the commercial fuel bundles - right now the answer is "put them in a steel-lined concrete cask and let them sit on a concrete pad until we come up with something better." This is what is being done at nuclear power plants across the nation, and then we're pretending like it's a solution.
At Hanford, the real nasty shit there is the liquid crap left over from extracting the plutonium, and the horrific record keeping that was done - they have tanks there with caustic radioactive sludge that they don't really know the composition of - a toxic soup of solvents and transuranics in underground tanks that were meant to be emptied and disposed of decades ago. At least they're finally getting around to vitrifying it into something that can't seep into the Columbia River.
Yes, that's the big issue at Hanford now. But they are still going to have to deal with all the fuel bundles someday that are sitting all over the place because Yucca Mountain never opened.
I agree that blaming 'the other tribe' is a problem that is pervasive through all issues.
This specific example though, really does have political horse-trading to blame. Harry Reid, the senior senator from Nevada, was the Senate Majority Leader. There was no fucking way Yucca Mountain was ever going to open while that guy was in office. So instead of having the Democrat President butt heads with the Democrat Majority Leader, DoE just made the whole thing go away.
The same god damn thing would have happened if both seats had Republicans in them. Nevada wanted the construction contracts (which they got) but when it came time to open the place and start accepting waste? Not in our back yard!
He may have been going for "Oh, you can't upgrade to Windows 10. Intel did you a favor."
Meaning, if you are looking to "upgrade" you are coming from somewhere - Windows 7 or Windows 8.
If it's Windows 7, it's arguable that Intel really was doing you a favor. Windows 8 had a horrific interface but the OS underneath wasn't bad. ClassicShell fixed the UI problem.
So everybody gets a shiny quarter for having their account information ripped.
No wait, forgot about the lawyers and legal fees. Now everyone gets a dime and a law firm gets fkin rich.
That's definitely a fair settlement. I can't imagine why a judge would toss it out.
Yeah, but when you adopt a no-compulsory-nonsense approach, how can you trumpet how many new users you have for $FEATURE when the users who get the upgrade jammed down their throat don't have $FEATURE turned on by default?
Next you'll be suggesting that software shouldn't nag you on every launch that there's a new version available, and that you really should upgrade because reasons!
Yeah, because there's absolutely no mobile device operating systems created in the US. Oh wait, both major platforms are.
The hardware isn't worth shit, without having software worth a damn to run on it. More than 35 years of PC computing should have at least taught that by now.
Tests alone will not cause a redesign of shitty software or hardware. Testing only proves that the shitty product is operating within the bounds of it's shitty specs.
It's true that US laws don't apply outside the US. However if you want to use the US banking system, it's a good idea to play by the rules that the Department of Commerce puts forth, because the US banking system does happen in the US, and those laws apply.
Is it "fair" ? Nope. Very little of what happens in global politics is "fair." That's how the world works. Feel free to build your own global banking network that has basically all central banks participating in it and show the US who's boss. Nothing stopping you except you.
Silver lining: we won't have to read bullshit like your post anymore once the Internet and most of civilization is gone. A price that might be worth paying.