- Stop heating our homes with anything other than wood (other avenue of pollution)
Build them with adequate insulation and they don't need heating at all.
Stop generating electricity with anything other than wind and solar (inadequate with current technology)
And hydro, wave, and tide. etc. No one is suggesting switching from fossil fuels to renewables overnight. Just that it can happen a lot faster than it is doing.
Stop commuting to our places of work. (Of course, as a software engineer, I wouldn't have a place of work without adequate electricity)
No one but you said there wouldn't be adequate electricity. And there is no reason why people can't live closer to their work than they do now.
Stop producing plastics (stop recycling them too)
There are lots of non-fossil fuel and biodegradable alternatives for lots of uses of plastic. And lots of plastic that just isn't required. for example: The fact that so much waste is plastic water bottles, when every home and office has tap water is a scandal.
Stop mining or refining metals (stop recycling them too)
Says who?
Stop large-scale farming (or, at least mechanical planting/harvesting)
Average temperatures have fallen marginally in the last decade, so you're misinformed there (see the actual satellite data at Cryosphere Today, not CNN).Average temperatures were quite a bit warmer and changed more dramatically in the middle ages. Greenland was not named sarcastically. Britain once produced wine.
I'll rephrase: "Why do you need to spoof anything to make morons do what you need?"
And whilst you have the arrogance to call people who's specialism isn't IT "morons", you're never going to be able to see that the problem is your own inability to see past current solutions.
What difference do headers make, when a) sender uses throw-away account on legitimate mail service (or worm uses victim's mailbox and address book), b) user doesn't understand "Don't tell your password to anyone", c) user wants his motherfucking dancing bunnies and doesn't even look at sender's name?
What I proposed doesn't have throw-away accounts. And because abusers can't spoof, their account is quickly blocked from his early abuses, and few people ever get the password troll or dancing bunnies offer.
> as long as registration is open and doesn't require a proof of identity. You basically propose yet another variation on the Internet passport theme.
You're the one that put the arbitrary requirement of open registration and lack of proof of identity in there. Whilst there is a need for anonymous services for whistleblowers and so forth, it doesn't have to be the same system the rest of us use for day to day messaging,
Lets try to be a little more accurate shall we. Of the 4,073 people surveyed between December 6th and December 23rd, 87% of whom were from the US (with no other details on how respondents were obtained), perhaps voluntary on a website which Apple was notified about and there is not truth to the rumour that way more that half of the respondents came from the same IP address range.
Ah, it's not the result you would like, therefore it must have been manipulated.
However it's not just this one. Apple invariably comes at the top of consumer satisfaction surveys.
Wouldn't it be fucking nice if it only could have unchecked internet access to an explicit list of URLs and "full internet access" meant "initiated by user action"?
Can your mom differentiate between a good URL and a bad URL? If not then it's a pointless idea as a security feature for a phone.
Delegating vetting of apps behaviour to end users is a fundamentally bad idea. It's a task that requires skills and experience, and you can't assume them in a consumer product. This is stuff that should be done by professionals in the supply chain.
I'm not sure how, but you've hit the crux of it. With Windows, we expect this "blame the user" scenario because we've been trained to expect it.
That's how. I'm a Mac developer. In that community, if users are doing things wrong, then the instinct isn't to blame the users, but to ask how the software can be better.
One could write a book on it. Spammers and worms spoof all sorts of headers in email. So ask yourself what they know that you don't.
There's no way to stop this with any messaging system as long as registration is open and doesn't require a proof of identity.
You're lacking in imagination. For example: You want access to the internet, you go to an ISP and you subscribe and get an account. Suppose the messaging system was tied to that account, with no spoofing possible. When you get discovered as a spammer or sending malware, that account is frozen. That would stop spammers in their tracks, as they'd have to sign up and pay for another ISP account. And users with worm infections would need to get their computers cleaned up before they get their account unfrozen.
And that's just one of the many possibilities of a vastly more secure messaging system than email.
"Ah right. It's the user's fault. The classic excuse for bad IT systems." No matter how secure a system you create, users will find a way to fuck it all up. This is not a new concept.
Of course it's not a new concept. You're just restating the CLASSIC excuse for bad IT systems I just mentioned.
However you decide is your decision, but in my years of providing tech support, I've discovered that yeah, most people should probably be on the walled garden, but convincing them of that fact is akin to telling any full grown adult they need to be supervised like children.
Apple are having no difficulty selling the idea to people. Not just on iOS, but on the Mac, where the option to download from where ever is still there, people are loving the Mac App Store. People like the reassurance that apps have been vetted, and they like the idea of a one stop shop.
And no it's not just for those who don't know much about technology. I've been computing since 1977, and I spent a decade in mobile development. And I far prefer the single vetted store concept of iOS.
I wouldn't give a kid who just got his learner's permit the keys to a Bugatti Veyron.
OK, car analogies. An automatic isn't just for those who don't know how to use a stick shift. A seat belt isn't just for those who can't recognise hazards.
I answered. Don't get mad if your attempt at being smarmy backfired. Not everything is made in China.
It didn't backfire in the slightest, I wasn't looking for the answer "made in China". As my link to the HTC article shows these problems are far more widespread than just China. It's everywhere that can afford to compete for consumer electronic manufacture.
Also there's the fact that Taiwan has a much higher standard of living and pays much greater wages.
Taiwan jumped on exactly the same capitalist consumer electronics manufacturing track that China is on. But the did it earlier. They are just a few years father on down the track of development.
Foxconn is a Taiwanese company. What they are doing now in China the started doing in Taiwan.
People have had it drummed into them for the last 10 years not to trust unsolicited emails, attachments, to run av software and to take other simple precautions to protect their computer and their personal data.
And they've had to do it because email is a bad IT system. It's trivial to spoof, which means it's hard to systematically block those with bad intentions.
You've just echoed the point of users being blamed for bad IT systems.
The bandwidth of a 3 second audio clip for Siri is trivial. Phones are sending constant streams of audio when you make an ordinary phone call or a skype call and have to send streams of video too when you do a video call.
Apple do it at the server because they can do better quality speech recognition that way. And because it's trivial bandwidth there's no need not to.
A nut allergy is a personal requirement. The rejection of malware is a universal requirement. It's like expecting Tesco or Walmart to not sell food with toxins in.
It's more than announcing early. ICS was sold on an Android phone in October. Yet still most Android phones are sold on an older version. That shit doesn't happen on iPhone.
Your link - 51degrees.mobi - uses analytics build into a web app framework to count clients. Generally speaking iPhone users don't use web apps because they have such a wide variety of quality native apps. That will be why the results don't tally with market share figures or those studies counting generic web usage.
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Get yourself back to Fox News. Maybe they've brought Glenn Beck back.
Jane Q Public, you get your statistics from Fox News.
Trading liberty for security, yada, yada, yada.
Ah, you're a libertarian. You'll probably grow out of it.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/climate-change-little-ice-age-medieval-warm-period.htm
Where is this 'talking about' you talk about. Did you look a the data?
I looked at the data on the page I linked to. Reduced sea ice. No sign of any data of lack of warming.
If you have some particular data you want to discuss, link to it, and say what in particular you are referring to in the data.
- Stop heating our homes with anything other than wood (other avenue of pollution)
Build them with adequate insulation and they don't need heating at all.
Stop generating electricity with anything other than wind and solar (inadequate with current technology)
And hydro, wave, and tide. etc. No one is suggesting switching from fossil fuels to renewables overnight. Just that it can happen a lot faster than it is doing.
Stop commuting to our places of work. (Of course, as a software engineer, I wouldn't have a place of work without adequate electricity)
No one but you said there wouldn't be adequate electricity. And there is no reason why people can't live closer to their work than they do now.
Stop producing plastics (stop recycling them too)
There are lots of non-fossil fuel and biodegradable alternatives for lots of uses of plastic. And lots of plastic that just isn't required. for example: The fact that so much waste is plastic water bottles, when every home and office has tap water is a scandal.
Stop mining or refining metals (stop recycling them too)
Says who?
Stop large-scale farming (or, at least mechanical planting/harvesting)
You're an idiot troll.
Average temperatures have fallen marginally in the last decade, so you're misinformed there (see the actual satellite data at Cryosphere Today, not CNN) .Average temperatures were quite a bit warmer and changed more dramatically in the middle ages. Greenland was not named sarcastically. Britain once produced wine.
I searched for Cryosphere Today, and what came up was a page talking about the ever decreasing amount of sea ice. http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/
No one knows why Greenland was so named.
Britain used to produce wine, and still does produce wine.
WTF are you talking about?
I'll rephrase: "Why do you need to spoof anything to make morons do what you need?"
And whilst you have the arrogance to call people who's specialism isn't IT "morons", you're never going to be able to see that the problem is your own inability to see past current solutions.
What difference do headers make, when a) sender uses throw-away account on legitimate mail service (or worm uses victim's mailbox and address book), b) user doesn't understand "Don't tell your password to anyone", c) user wants his motherfucking dancing bunnies and doesn't even look at sender's name?
What I proposed doesn't have throw-away accounts. And because abusers can't spoof, their account is quickly blocked from his early abuses, and few people ever get the password troll or dancing bunnies offer.
> as long as registration is open and doesn't require a proof of identity.
You basically propose yet another variation on the Internet passport theme.
You're the one that put the arbitrary requirement of open registration and lack of proof of identity in there. Whilst there is a need for anonymous services for whistleblowers and so forth, it doesn't have to be the same system the rest of us use for day to day messaging,
Lets try to be a little more accurate shall we. Of the 4,073 people surveyed between December 6th and December 23rd, 87% of whom were from the US (with no other details on how respondents were obtained), perhaps voluntary on a website which Apple was notified about and there is not truth to the rumour that way more that half of the respondents came from the same IP address range.
Ah, it's not the result you would like, therefore it must have been manipulated.
However it's not just this one. Apple invariably comes at the top of consumer satisfaction surveys.
Wouldn't it be fucking nice if it only could have unchecked internet access to an explicit list of URLs and "full internet access" meant "initiated by user action"?
Can your mom differentiate between a good URL and a bad URL? If not then it's a pointless idea as a security feature for a phone.
Delegating vetting of apps behaviour to end users is a fundamentally bad idea. It's a task that requires skills and experience, and you can't assume them in a consumer product. This is stuff that should be done by professionals in the supply chain.
I'm not sure how, but you've hit the crux of it. With Windows, we expect this "blame the user" scenario because we've been trained to expect it.
That's how. I'm a Mac developer. In that community, if users are doing things wrong, then the instinct isn't to blame the users, but to ask how the software can be better.
Why do you need to spoof anything?
One could write a book on it. Spammers and worms spoof all sorts of headers in email. So ask yourself what they know that you don't.
There's no way to stop this with any messaging system as long as registration is open and doesn't require a proof of identity.
You're lacking in imagination. For example: You want access to the internet, you go to an ISP and you subscribe and get an account. Suppose the messaging system was tied to that account, with no spoofing possible. When you get discovered as a spammer or sending malware, that account is frozen. That would stop spammers in their tracks, as they'd have to sign up and pay for another ISP account. And users with worm infections would need to get their computers cleaned up before they get their account unfrozen.
And that's just one of the many possibilities of a vastly more secure messaging system than email.
"Ah right. It's the user's fault. The classic excuse for bad IT systems."
No matter how secure a system you create, users will find a way to fuck it all up. This is not a new concept.
Of course it's not a new concept. You're just restating the CLASSIC excuse for bad IT systems I just mentioned.
However you decide is your decision, but in my years of providing tech support, I've discovered that yeah, most people should probably be on the walled garden, but convincing them of that fact is akin to telling any full grown adult they need to be supervised like children.
Apple are having no difficulty selling the idea to people. Not just on iOS, but on the Mac, where the option to download from where ever is still there, people are loving the Mac App Store. People like the reassurance that apps have been vetted, and they like the idea of a one stop shop.
And no it's not just for those who don't know much about technology. I've been computing since 1977, and I spent a decade in mobile development. And I far prefer the single vetted store concept of iOS.
I wouldn't give a kid who just got his learner's permit the keys to a Bugatti Veyron.
OK, car analogies. An automatic isn't just for those who don't know how to use a stick shift. A seat belt isn't just for those who can't recognise hazards.
I answered. Don't get mad if your attempt at being smarmy backfired. Not everything is made in China.
It didn't backfire in the slightest, I wasn't looking for the answer "made in China". As my link to the HTC article shows these problems are far more widespread than just China. It's everywhere that can afford to compete for consumer electronic manufacture.
Also there's the fact that Taiwan has a much higher standard of living and pays much greater wages.
Taiwan jumped on exactly the same capitalist consumer electronics manufacturing track that China is on. But the did it earlier. They are just a few years father on down the track of development.
Foxconn is a Taiwanese company. What they are doing now in China the started doing in Taiwan.
It's not just the information he sought out and possessed. There's also the intent he expressed in the letter.
People have had it drummed into them for the last 10 years not to trust unsolicited emails, attachments, to run av software and to take other simple precautions to protect their computer and their personal data.
And they've had to do it because email is a bad IT system. It's trivial to spoof, which means it's hard to systematically block those with bad intentions.
You've just echoed the point of users being blamed for bad IT systems.
The bandwidth of a 3 second audio clip for Siri is trivial. Phones are sending constant streams of audio when you make an ordinary phone call or a skype call and have to send streams of video too when you do a video call.
Apple do it at the server because they can do better quality speech recognition that way. And because it's trivial bandwidth there's no need not to.
And you think HTC in Taiwan is any different because?... http://htcpedia.com/news/activists-demand-htc-relieve-overworked-employees.html
Don't kid yourself. HTC is the same as the rest. http://htcpedia.com/news/activists-demand-htc-relieve-overworked-employees.html
Half a million apps is far from limited choice.
A nut allergy is a personal requirement. The rejection of malware is a universal requirement. It's like expecting Tesco or Walmart to not sell food with toxins in.
That's if you want to prioritize satisfaction over all else. Paradoxically reduced choice can lead to greater satisfaction
Absolutely.
even if it leads to lower productivity.
Who says it leads to lower productivity? That's certainly not part of the message of the Paradox of Choice.
While libertarians (both the right wing and left wing types) would choose to maximize choice.
That's because they are foolish.
It's more than announcing early. ICS was sold on an Android phone in October. Yet still most Android phones are sold on an older version. That shit doesn't happen on iPhone.
Your link - 51degrees.mobi - uses analytics build into a web app framework to count clients. Generally speaking iPhone users don't use web apps because they have such a wide variety of quality native apps. That will be why the results don't tally with market share figures or those studies counting generic web usage.
And your mobile phone was made where, hypocrite?