Break into a home in my State and if the homeowner doesn't shoot you, the neighbors probably will.
Don't want to get shot ?
Don't terrorize people by breaking into their homes. Not about to live the rest of my life wondering if you'll come back better prepared because I was nice enough to let you live. ( Tip: Dead burglers are not a future concern )
Act like a thug, will get treated like one. Simple as that.
But it would go a long way in calling bullshit on an employer who tells you no on a payraise because " budgets are tight " all the while paying each of their execs a yearly bonus that exceeds your lifetime income.
This sort of transparency would cause a great deal of discomfort for those companies who regularly lie to their employees.
In fact, those companies would find it difficult to keep any employees and, in the end, might have difficulty being a company at all when all of their talent leaves because of it.
The Income Inequality gap in the US is so wide now, this level of transparency would likely cause a great deal of anger at best.
"If you think the tax laws are unfair, then I suggest you lobby to get the unfairness removed..."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Like the average citizens tiny pile of cash and a lawyer or two are any match for the Mt. Everest sized pile and entire army of lawyers Big Corp can wield against you.
In the sport of lobbying, were not even even playing in the same league. The same game, or even on the same fucking planet.
So your suggestion of " go lobby to get it fixed " is amusing as hell.
I think that since my personal, Federal tax rate is ~25%, then I have no sympathy for the corporations who whine and cry about how high their taxes are. Especially when they're allowed to hide much of their income from the Tax Man.
They should use the whole " Corporations are People " ( see Citizens United ) argument in this case and treat them as such.
If you want to reap the benefits, you have to accept the downsides of it as well.
I'm pretty sure the designers of this thing thought of this and have a dynamic focusing system depending on distance to target.
But we still don't know is the maximum effective range and it's likely classified anyway.
A hypersonic cruise missile covers an awful lot of ground in two seconds, not to mention they're pretty good at managing structural heat* problems already.
*Air friction temps are pretty high at those speeds.
So this thing needs to acquire, track and fire before its target reaches its destination. Tough to do with a hypersonic target.
VERY tough to do when you have multiple incoming from all directions which is pretty much standard protocol when you're serious about sinking a ship.
Regulation is another feel-good measure along the lines of our current security theater.
Even IF we outright banned it, do you think other countries will adhere to the will of the US in such matters ?
Unlikely.
So the question becomes this:
Do you allow your adversaries to develop the tech that will be used against you, ( in war, economy, or any application ) or do you try to keep pace to keep the playing field even ?
Imagine if we had banned Science and Math outright early on in our history because of the potential for what it could be used for.
We would still be living in caves and hunting with spears.
Think of them as one of Nature's many forms of population control. Without such systems in place, the population would quickly exceed the planets available resources and we would all pretty much be dead by now.
( Bonus: Some species of mosquito are plant pollinators. )
Not a popular viewpoint I'm sure, but a necessary one for the long term survival of the species.
Everything has a purpose, much of which we will likely never know what it is.
They keep pushing the costs just to see what they can get away with. Watch the faces of the consumers when the first tear down discloses how much the thing costs to build and enjoy the schadenfreude.
It would bring a tear to P.T. Barnum's eye I'm sure.
Apple should jump in the wayback machine and go ask Silicon Graphics how well their elitist pricing worked out for them.
You can get away with it for a while as long as you're the only game in town. Once you have competition, however, the game changes and you either adapt or cease to be.
To answer the original question of if I would buy one ? I'll borrow a far more colorful answer:
This is just Apple being cheap and shortsighted. It also underscores the fact they don't take security as seriously as they claim to because, apparently, there is a point where they consider cost > security.
Bump the reward to exceed black market prices and watch those bugs vanish quickly. Might consider hiring these very talented folks who are effectively doing the job your security minded types are supposed to be doing.
Might even act to motivate your in house folks a bit more if they know their ass is on the line for every bug found.
Long term longivity of a product like a smartphone is quickly undermined by a lack of trust in said device. Do it right the first time and you'll be that much better off in the long run.
The best future plans they could make would be: " I'm leaving asap so I don't get gunned down by gang violence in a city that has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation. "
or
" I'm leaving for Germany where I can get a full education without being a debt slave for the rest of my life. Is why I took German as my secondary language requirement. "
If you get your work done in half the time Bob needs to get the same work done, you'll simply be given twice as much work for your efforts because we certainly can't have you just sitting there now can we ?
Bob will then be reprimanded and ultimately fired for failing to keep up so you'll be doing his work too.
All because you thought you could " get ahead ". . . .
MY weekends are at least partially spent doing all the household / homeowner chores and tasks I don't have time to do during the week after I get home from work.
Clean house. Aquarium maintenance, other pet maintenance. Yard related stuff. Grocery store run. Laundry. Any and all errands I need to do during the hours when I'm off and the business I need to interact with is open.
Sometimes I dread Saturday almost as much as Monday.
"I do find it amusing how riled up Americans get whenever someone considers a similar system in the US - I just don't get what it is about punishing illegal drivers that pisses people off!"
Because we know the excuse they're using is just bullshit. Once in place, the sky's the limit on what they'll really be used for.
When profit + punishment work together, things rarely work out well.
Is why they were tweaking yellow to red light transitions to cycle faster. It caught more folks and brought in more money. Illegal as hell, but only if they get caught.
Thus we tend to look upon such things with a jaded eye.
Either open source the E-voting systems so exploits and generally bad things can be found, fixed and secured . . .
or
Go with the Russia* solution and revert back to old school methods by dropping E-Voting completely.
*Recall the story where they quit utilizing computers and switched back to typewriters for sensitive documents when spying revelations became apparent.
Paper methods are a PITA for sure, but also impossible to manipulate with a simple keystroke.
Folks who don't watch TV much cannot tell you what network originally* hosted a particular series either because, to be honest, no one cares. ( nor does it matter to the consumer )
*Important distinction as some series will be bought and replayed on different networks over time.
As much as they try to burn the network logo into your brain by keeping it visible in the corner during any given show, most folks ignore it. ( Or try to. When it becomes too obnoxious, or the commercials too frequent, I just turn the show off. )
Pro tip for the networks: While I don't keep track of what shows you host, I DO remember which networks I blacklist due to the number and frequency of commercials played. Doesn't matter if a search shows my favorite show of all time is on, if it's on one of the known networks who go full stupid for commercials ever five minutes, I won't even bother.
Thesse days, I can neither tell you nor care what network is responsible for any given series I've watched over the years as most of them now fall into the blacklist categories.
It's just not important to me as I watch less and less the older I get. I might watch an hour or two per week anymore.
There is just little on I'm interested in watching when it is constantly interrupted with commercials.
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Depends on the State.
Break into a home in my State and if the homeowner doesn't shoot you, the neighbors probably will.
Don't want to get shot ?
Don't terrorize people by breaking into their homes. Not about to live the rest of my life wondering if you'll come back better prepared because I was nice enough to let you live. ( Tip: Dead burglers are not a future concern )
Act like a thug, will get treated like one. Simple as that.
will never rely on one that has a battery in it.
Period.
Be a parent and keep your guns out of reach of said toddlers and you won't need to rely on laws to do your parenting for you. . . .
I really don't see the difference between the " model soldier " who follows orders without question and a killer robot.
In fact, I would expect our military leaders to be salivating at the prospect of such a thing.
Top US General concerned about future job security. Worries the human element will soon not be a requirement when it comes to warfare.
This is a big deal in a country where War and Combat are glorified and have seeped into the facets of everyday life.
Superbowl commercials are going to be a lot cheaper if you're only doing 5-6 second time slots.
Assuming anyone will continue watching it that is.
But it would go a long way in calling bullshit on an employer who tells you no on a payraise because " budgets are tight " all the while paying each of their execs a yearly bonus that exceeds your lifetime income.
This sort of transparency would cause a great deal of discomfort for those companies who regularly lie to their employees.
In fact, those companies would find it difficult to keep any employees and, in the end, might have difficulty being a company at all when all of their talent leaves because of it.
The Income Inequality gap in the US is so wide now, this level of transparency would likely cause a great deal of anger at best.
An insane amount of violence at worst.
"If you think the tax laws are unfair, then I suggest you lobby to get the unfairness removed..."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Like the average citizens tiny pile of cash and a lawyer or two are any match for the Mt. Everest sized pile and entire army of lawyers Big Corp can wield against you.
In the sport of lobbying, were not even even playing in the same league. The same game, or even on the same fucking planet.
So your suggestion of " go lobby to get it fixed " is amusing as hell.
I think that since my personal, Federal tax rate is ~25%, then I have no sympathy for the corporations who whine and cry about how high their taxes are. Especially when they're allowed to hide much of their income from the Tax Man.
They should use the whole " Corporations are People " ( see Citizens United ) argument in this case and treat them as such.
If you want to reap the benefits, you have to accept the downsides of it as well.
I'm pretty sure the designers of this thing thought of this and have a dynamic focusing system depending on distance to target.
But we still don't know is the maximum effective range and it's likely classified anyway.
A hypersonic cruise missile covers an awful lot of ground in two seconds, not to mention they're pretty good at managing structural heat* problems already.
*Air friction temps are pretty high at those speeds.
So this thing needs to acquire, track and fire before its target reaches its destination. Tough to do with a hypersonic target.
VERY tough to do when you have multiple incoming from all directions which is pretty much standard protocol when you're serious about sinking a ship.
You're in a public place. You, just like the police, can be filmed and / or watched at any time.
You can't bitch about one and demand the other.
Regulation is another feel-good measure along the lines of our current security theater.
Even IF we outright banned it, do you think other countries will adhere to the will of the US in such matters ?
Unlikely.
So the question becomes this:
Do you allow your adversaries to develop the tech that will be used against you, ( in war, economy, or any application ) or do you try to keep pace to keep the playing field even ?
Imagine if we had banned Science and Math outright early on in our history because of the potential for what it could be used for.
We would still be living in caves and hunting with spears.
Actually, they serve quite an important purpose.
Think of them as one of Nature's many forms of population control. Without such systems in place, the population would quickly exceed the planets available resources and we would all pretty much be dead by now.
( Bonus: Some species of mosquito are plant pollinators. )
Not a popular viewpoint I'm sure, but a necessary one for the long term survival of the species.
Everything has a purpose, much of which we will likely never know what it is.
They keep pushing the costs just to see what they can get away with. Watch the faces of the consumers when the first tear down discloses how much the thing costs to build and enjoy the schadenfreude.
It would bring a tear to P.T. Barnum's eye I'm sure.
Apple should jump in the wayback machine and go ask Silicon Graphics how well their elitist pricing worked out for them.
You can get away with it for a while as long as you're the only game in town. Once you have competition, however, the game changes and you either adapt or cease to be.
To answer the original question of if I would buy one ? I'll borrow a far more colorful answer:
I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request.
Means "no".
Yup.
This is just Apple being cheap and shortsighted. It also underscores the fact they don't take security as seriously as they claim to because, apparently, there is a point where they consider cost > security.
Bump the reward to exceed black market prices and watch those bugs vanish quickly. Might consider hiring these very talented folks who are effectively doing the job your security minded types are supposed to be doing.
Might even act to motivate your in house folks a bit more if they know their ass is on the line for every bug found.
Long term longivity of a product like a smartphone is quickly undermined by a lack of trust in said device. Do it right the first time and you'll be that much better off in the long run.
The best future plans they could make would be: " I'm leaving asap so I don't get gunned down by gang violence in a city that has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation. "
or
" I'm leaving for Germany where I can get a full education without being a debt slave for the rest of my life. Is why I took German as my secondary language requirement. "
When you reward behavior like this, it will continue.
I would suspect CNN will use this tactic going forward to silence critics and other opinions CNN doesn't agree with.
Thus, f*ck CNN and their extorsionist ultimatum bullshit.
I don't do ultimatums. I would make another video just out of spite. Their threats be damned.
If you get your work done in half the time Bob needs to get the same work done, you'll simply be given twice as much work for your efforts because we certainly can't have you just sitting there now can we ?
Bob will then be reprimanded and ultimately fired for failing to keep up so you'll be doing his work too.
All because you thought you could " get ahead ". . . .
Not everything requires batteries, wifi, bluetooth and the like. Simple spinner would not suffer from such problems.
Just because you can, doesn't mean that you should.
Doing it wrong they say. How about this.
MY weekends are at least partially spent doing all the household / homeowner chores and tasks I don't have time to do during the week after I get home from work.
Clean house. Aquarium maintenance, other pet maintenance. Yard related stuff. Grocery store run. Laundry. Any and all errands I need to do during the hours when I'm off and the business I need to interact with is open.
Sometimes I dread Saturday almost as much as Monday.
Well let's see. . . .
To walk to work would be a 25 mile round trip. ( and that's a short walk. I used to drive 100 miles a day round trip )
Nearest grocery store is ~4 miles or so.
Temps here in the summer are easily 100f @ 65% humidity or better.
So not quite the lazy American as it is the uninformed foreigner who apparently thinks everyone lives within 1/2 mile of anything and everything.
"I do find it amusing how riled up Americans get whenever someone considers a similar system in the US - I just don't get what it is about punishing illegal drivers that pisses people off!"
Because we know the excuse they're using is just bullshit. Once in place, the sky's the limit on what they'll really be used for.
When profit + punishment work together, things rarely work out well.
Is why they were tweaking yellow to red light transitions to cycle faster. It caught more folks and brought in more money. Illegal as hell, but only if they get caught.
Thus we tend to look upon such things with a jaded eye.
eBay requires PayPal.
Thus, eBay can charge HALF of what Amazon does and I still would not use them.
When PayPal is regulated like any other financial institution vs being allowed to do whatever they want with no concequences, I may change my mind.
Maybe.
It's a simple choice really.
Either open source the E-voting systems so exploits and generally bad things can be found, fixed and secured . . .
or
Go with the Russia* solution and revert back to old school methods by dropping E-Voting completely.
*Recall the story where they quit utilizing computers and switched back to typewriters for sensitive documents when spying revelations became apparent.
Paper methods are a PITA for sure, but also impossible to manipulate with a simple keystroke.
Folks who don't watch TV much cannot tell you what network originally* hosted a particular series either because, to be honest, no one cares. ( nor does it matter to the consumer )
*Important distinction as some series will be bought and replayed on different networks over time.
As much as they try to burn the network logo into your brain by keeping it visible in the corner during any given show, most folks ignore it. ( Or try to. When it becomes too obnoxious, or the commercials too frequent, I just turn the show off. )
Pro tip for the networks: While I don't keep track of what shows you host, I DO remember which networks I blacklist due to the number and frequency of commercials played. Doesn't matter if a search shows my favorite show of all time is on, if it's on one of the known networks who go full stupid for commercials ever five minutes, I won't even bother.
Thesse days, I can neither tell you nor care what network is responsible for any given series I've watched over the years as most of them now fall into the blacklist categories.
It's just not important to me as I watch less and less the older I get. I might watch an hour or two per week anymore.
There is just little on I'm interested in watching when it is constantly interrupted with commercials.