First, this is why you should never buy "cloud" IoT things that have 0 reason to be cloud based. A rooted Wink controlled by OpenHub? Sure. Resolve, Honeywell, Nest, etc controlled by someone outside your own LAN?
NO.
As for a car, Tesla yes, Apple likely, Google? WTF?
it'd be fucking moronic to tax a business on income other than its profit.
Nope, it's called a sales (or consumption) tax and properly applied, it would even the tax burden on everyone by forcing all transactions to pay tax.
My problem isn't taxes, it's the way they're spent.
Everyone has those issues, for instance, a large group wouldn't want to support welfare, the war apparatus, unpopular wars, etc. At least that's what I get from the complaints about their taxes and government activity. That's why you don't get to earmark your tax money. However, you can effectively earmark a portion of it via donations, as you get to write it off.
As for Congress incumbents being re-elected, that's a problem the founding fathers could have addressed by not allowing anyone to serve 2 consecutive terms. Think how much that would have affected politics over the years. All for the better, IMNSHO.
No one asked Apple to make a free patch. It was to be paid for.
Many times the police will contract with safe manufacturers to break into a safe they need access to. Also, the banks will open a safety deposit box for the police with a warrant, so I am not sure why they would have someone drill it out. You could even have a locksmith pick the lock, it isn't like those locks are especially secure.
I don't recall seeing anything in the order about a contract being negotiated or a payment to be determined. It was just "you will assist".
The bank I use has to hire a contractor to drill out the safety deposit box if the keys are lost. There are no other options. I'm sure if picking the lock would be easily done, then that option would be used.
The solution to unemployment caused by raising the price of labor beyond what the market can bear is MORE government intervention to "fix" things?
How about simply not fucking it up in the first place by "solving problems"?
Sure, how are you going to get the average wage to match up to the average cost of living? Rather than stating you don't like an offered solution because it offends you in some way, provide an alternative. HOW are you going to fix the reason that the labor price needs to go up?
Sounds like a case for looking at taxing imports appropriately more than anything else. In fact, I'd say PR is a great example of what will happen to any country whose cost of living is higher than a neighbors - "free trade" as it is practiced today is not about raising all boats, but letting the water leak out of the pool until all boats are more or less equal.
It's called inflation, and makes things "cheaper" if your inflation rises faster than others. See Zimbabwe for an awesome example: I'd like a slice of bread. That will be $23 trillion.
It's one thing to open something that can be opened, it is another to build a completely new toolset (gratis) to open a locked box. Take a lock box at a bank. They cannot be opened by the manufacturer. Someone has to be paid to come out and drill it out properly, which is analogous to what happened with the San Bernardino phone.
The FBI and city of San Bernadino both have a legal right to access the data, so why is it Apple's choice about if they will help them? Also, why the big fight over this one, when they are more than happy to open up iPhones in other cases?... It is not Apples prerogative however to deny a city, state, fed, or even company's access to their data.
So I have a government bought business card and I write a note on it and then burn it. Is Hallmark obligated to help recover my note? That's analogous to what the government wanted from Apple.
The funniest part of the whole case was that it was a government owned phone. The FBI should have been able to gain access without any issue, but
Incorrect, Apple was still happy to have the government access the phone, as that's a simple factory reset. What the government wanted was the data, which was still possible until the FBI purposefully removed the only avenue by having the iCloud account password reset. All of a sudden, the only way in was through the locks. I'm pretty sure those locks will be even harder to circumvent come the iphone7. Android manufacturers will likely follow shortly thereafter, as they all seem to be taking a following role in this particular fight.
Simple side note here - if the government had been properly managing its devices and maintaining their own backups, none of this would have mattered.
Yes, but it's good to get that info out to the public as undeniable facts. History has shown that the public tends to prefer a state of denial to uncomfortable possibilities. Repeatedly ripping the bandaids off will change opinion. If the San Bernardino case had occurred in 2002, do you think the public would have even questioned whether forcing Apple to unlock an iphone was problematic? Just a little bit more and perhaps people will actually care about their privacy.
I own easily over 1000 optical media. Of those, about 5 have issues, 2 due to bitrot, and a couple that were used and came scratched but generally don't have huge issues. I have digital copies of a higher grade than anything you get streaming today for all those that have issues. Quality is what keeps me away from streaming. Maybe with 4K streaming we'll finally get on par with 1080P BD? We'll have to wait and see.
I had a capped (WTF???) 24mbps (maximum speed available in the middle of SF ???) / 2 mbps (that`s last millennium!!!) from AT&T (they had signed something to be the only one providing service through the building, with fiber to the premise), for a ridiculous price,
Yep, welcome to AT&T's U-verse service. Your upload speed can easily be exceeded by a turtle with a flashlight. It was "fast" when introduced, but has been going downhill ever since.
To be honest, this entire experience with Maven and Gradle I've had over the past 8 years and multiple projects has brought me full circle back to potentially using Ant with Ivy, as that cleanly separates dependency management and builds and doesn't require contortions to get simple multiple build targets executed. Multi-module multiple target builds are anything but trivial with either Maven or Gradle.
Unfortunately the majority of the script kiddies, sorry, "rockstar ninjas" coding javascript don't have a clue what anything other than "file" means in your statement. They are insane, by our standards. And yes, I know where of I speak, as I'm having "fun" bringing a modified JS library into our client side framework for a new web client. To call it a pain in the ass would make counting parens in LISP a joy by comparison. It's exactly the regurgitated half-digested vomit I'd expect to come out of a bunch of script kiddies. The final fixed version will probably wind up not having saved me any time over writing the entire component from scratch, although the promise was there until I actually exercised the functionality we needed. Yes, I offered the fixes back up the chain. Apparently JS people (including NodeJS) don't really care about correctly functioning code.
Maven has the same problem in the SNAPSHOT dependencies,...This makes maven just as susceptible with one major caveat. There are multiple federated repositories and publishing to one of those repositories requires reputation, and hosting your own repository (without reputation) is like downloading untrusted APKs on Android.
So, Maven suffers from the exact same problem? Great, glad we cleared that up, since "trust" for this type of crap just isn't good enough. It's why even when I have to use Maven as an ineffective build tool, the dependencies are all loaded onto a private repository that trusts no one and has no external connections. Why on earth would I trust my codebase to outside third parties?
Pixelmator is allright, but Aperture / Photos do something it doesn't (simple white balance anyone?) Between the two, you have 99% of anything most will do with PS. (Note, I'm not talking about pros using PS for things that us normal folks just won't ever be able to do:)
I still haven't decided what to use for my photos once Aperture ceases to be an option. I haven't warmed up to Photos yet primarily because I've not used it enough. It's another wait and see, hopefully it'll turn out like FCX.
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It won't last that long, I predict an epic battle approaching, on Sept 19.
First, this is why you should never buy "cloud" IoT things that have 0 reason to be cloud based. A rooted Wink controlled by OpenHub? Sure. Resolve, Honeywell, Nest, etc controlled by someone outside your own LAN?
NO.
As for a car, Tesla yes, Apple likely, Google? WTF?
it'd be fucking moronic to tax a business on income other than its profit.
Nope, it's called a sales (or consumption) tax and properly applied, it would even the tax burden on everyone by forcing all transactions to pay tax.
My problem isn't taxes, it's the way they're spent.
Everyone has those issues, for instance, a large group wouldn't want to support welfare, the war apparatus, unpopular wars, etc. At least that's what I get from the complaints about their taxes and government activity. That's why you don't get to earmark your tax money. However, you can effectively earmark a portion of it via donations, as you get to write it off.
As for Congress incumbents being re-elected, that's a problem the founding fathers could have addressed by not allowing anyone to serve 2 consecutive terms. Think how much that would have affected politics over the years. All for the better, IMNSHO.
It's just a cheap copy of the original:
Watching Grass Grow
which actually has some exciting interactions when the sheep come along
I'd like to get the unlimited internet minus the $30 TV service, thank you.
No one asked Apple to make a free patch. It was to be paid for.
Many times the police will contract with safe manufacturers to break into a safe they need access to. Also, the banks will open a safety deposit box for the police with a warrant, so I am not sure why they would have someone drill it out. You could even have a locksmith pick the lock, it isn't like those locks are especially secure.
I don't recall seeing anything in the order about a contract being negotiated or a payment to be determined. It was just "you will assist".
The bank I use has to hire a contractor to drill out the safety deposit box if the keys are lost. There are no other options. I'm sure if picking the lock would be easily done, then that option would be used.
The solution to unemployment caused by raising the price of labor beyond what the market can bear is MORE government intervention to "fix" things?
How about simply not fucking it up in the first place by "solving problems"?
Sure, how are you going to get the average wage to match up to the average cost of living? Rather than stating you don't like an offered solution because it offends you in some way, provide an alternative. HOW are you going to fix the reason that the labor price needs to go up?
Sounds like a case for looking at taxing imports appropriately more than anything else. In fact, I'd say PR is a great example of what will happen to any country whose cost of living is higher than a neighbors - "free trade" as it is practiced today is not about raising all boats, but letting the water leak out of the pool until all boats are more or less equal.
It's called inflation, and makes things "cheaper" if your inflation rises faster than others. See Zimbabwe for an awesome example: I'd like a slice of bread. That will be $23 trillion.
It's one thing to open something that can be opened, it is another to build a completely new toolset (gratis) to open a locked box. Take a lock box at a bank. They cannot be opened by the manufacturer. Someone has to be paid to come out and drill it out properly, which is analogous to what happened with the San Bernardino phone.
Xenix, IIRC, was a reason Windows 3.0 succeeded. That thing just wouldn't run anything.
The FBI and city of San Bernadino both have a legal right to access the data, so why is it Apple's choice about if they will help them? Also, why the big fight over this one, when they are more than happy to open up iPhones in other cases?... It is not Apples prerogative however to deny a city, state, fed, or even company's access to their data.
So I have a government bought business card and I write a note on it and then burn it. Is Hallmark obligated to help recover my note? That's analogous to what the government wanted from Apple.
The funniest part of the whole case was that it was a government owned phone. The FBI should have been able to gain access without any issue, but
Incorrect, Apple was still happy to have the government access the phone, as that's a simple factory reset. What the government wanted was the data, which was still possible until the FBI purposefully removed the only avenue by having the iCloud account password reset. All of a sudden, the only way in was through the locks. I'm pretty sure those locks will be even harder to circumvent come the iphone7. Android manufacturers will likely follow shortly thereafter, as they all seem to be taking a following role in this particular fight.
Simple side note here - if the government had been properly managing its devices and maintaining their own backups, none of this would have mattered.
Yes, but it's good to get that info out to the public as undeniable facts. History has shown that the public tends to prefer a state of denial to uncomfortable possibilities. Repeatedly ripping the bandaids off will change opinion. If the San Bernardino case had occurred in 2002, do you think the public would have even questioned whether forcing Apple to unlock an iphone was problematic? Just a little bit more and perhaps people will actually care about their privacy.
I own easily over 1000 optical media. Of those, about 5 have issues, 2 due to bitrot, and a couple that were used and came scratched but generally don't have huge issues. I have digital copies of a higher grade than anything you get streaming today for all those that have issues. Quality is what keeps me away from streaming. Maybe with 4K streaming we'll finally get on par with 1080P BD? We'll have to wait and see.
I care about whether I can access the content
Then generally no streaming provider will suffice as you will never be guaranteed access to any specific content.
Personally I have very little interest in "owning" a movie.
Then this is the service for you - you don't really "own" the movie. Perfect!
Then again, running open wi-fi and Tor are your best friends
I had a capped (WTF???) 24mbps (maximum speed available in the middle of SF ???) / 2 mbps (that`s last millennium!!!) from AT&T (they had signed something to be the only one providing service through the building, with fiber to the premise), for a ridiculous price,
Yep, welcome to AT&T's U-verse service. Your upload speed can easily be exceeded by a turtle with a flashlight. It was "fast" when introduced, but has been going downhill ever since.
To be honest, this entire experience with Maven and Gradle I've had over the past 8 years and multiple projects has brought me full circle back to potentially using Ant with Ivy, as that cleanly separates dependency management and builds and doesn't require contortions to get simple multiple build targets executed. Multi-module multiple target builds are anything but trivial with either Maven or Gradle.
Unfortunately the majority of the script kiddies, sorry, "rockstar ninjas" coding javascript don't have a clue what anything other than "file" means in your statement. They are insane, by our standards. And yes, I know where of I speak, as I'm having "fun" bringing a modified JS library into our client side framework for a new web client. To call it a pain in the ass would make counting parens in LISP a joy by comparison. It's exactly the regurgitated half-digested vomit I'd expect to come out of a bunch of script kiddies. The final fixed version will probably wind up not having saved me any time over writing the entire component from scratch, although the promise was there until I actually exercised the functionality we needed. Yes, I offered the fixes back up the chain. Apparently JS people (including NodeJS) don't really care about correctly functioning code.
Maven has the same problem in the SNAPSHOT dependencies, ...This makes maven just as susceptible with one major caveat. There are multiple federated repositories and publishing to one of those repositories requires reputation, and hosting your own repository (without reputation) is like downloading untrusted APKs on Android.
So, Maven suffers from the exact same problem? Great, glad we cleared that up, since "trust" for this type of crap just isn't good enough. It's why even when I have to use Maven as an ineffective build tool, the dependencies are all loaded onto a private repository that trusts no one and has no external connections. Why on earth would I trust my codebase to outside third parties?
So it was impossible to dial 911 on the phone. Good to know that college's were stupid even back then.
911 didn't exist in the 70s.
Pixelmator is allright, but Aperture / Photos do something it doesn't (simple white balance anyone?) Between the two, you have 99% of anything most will do with PS. (Note, I'm not talking about pros using PS for things that us normal folks just won't ever be able to do:)
I still haven't decided what to use for my photos once Aperture ceases to be an option. I haven't warmed up to Photos yet primarily because I've not used it enough. It's another wait and see, hopefully it'll turn out like FCX.
Crazy is different from paranoid. You can't be considered paranoid about people watching you if people are actually watching you.