Of course. Because some individuals are doing something that violates regulations, it's perfectly find to set up a corporation to do it on a global scale.
Hell, the moron who replaced the water pump in a truck just before I bought didn't bother to clip the radiator hoses down [just push them into their holders].
Two weeks later, fan rubs a hole in it, and all the water gets pumped out.
Fortunately, it was a cold day and I wasn't too far from a parts store...
There are a million things that a weekend mechanic can do to make a vehicle dangerous to drive.
And don't forget the manufacturer. They can't even get it right. Are there any vehicles that don't have one or more recalls issued for them, for all kinds of fun reasons like the ignition key turning to off [and locking the steering wheel in place] while the car is in motion, or the steering wheel coming off, engine revving or turning off spontaneously, transmission shifting incorrectly, brakes failing, air bags deploying [or not].
You are saying the SC is completely wrong on this and that all those statements are perfectly fine. That you have to actually do something besides talk to actually do something wrong.
Really? Yelling fire in a crowded theatre is fine? Going into a bank and saying "give me all your money or I'll kill you" is fine? I'll give you $50000 to kill my wife?
It's all good until you actually pull out the weapon, sign on the dotted line, hand over the cash?
Well, it takes a bunch of time and effort to implement and test it, and the primary middle man [the carriers] have a vested interest in not having it, for a feature that can only work for some users [people who use wired earphones].
And the carriers are working on get at least some emergency messages to get sent to cell phones via SMS's, which everyone with a cell phone can get [and you may even get them if you don't have a working cell phone account, same as making a 911 call], which works on the vast majority of phones, regardless of what happens to be connected to it or what mode it's in [except airplane mode, but FM would also be disabled in that mode]. And the phone normally is configured to alert the user they have received a text message.
And hours after the initial 'event' most people will have moved to where a radio and/or tv will be to learn more about it.
So, IMHO, this is really just a made-up issue [presenting it as a safety issue] by an industry that is losing listeners and ad-revenue.
I'm not exactly sure what he volunteered/was goaded into saying, but it could be a reasonable limitation of the 1st amendment that you can't help someone intentionally lie to the FBI...
So, for a bunch of people, the FM feature would never work, because they don't use wired headphones.
"Please plug in a wired headset to enabled this feature".
A non-trivial number of people: -just use it as a hand-held device, holding it up to their head when using it as a phone -have a wireless headset
And it can't be great for those that do, because you don't know how long the antennae is, or how it's terminated [or even more fun, splitters so the port drives two sets of headphones].
These problems aren't insurmountable, but it all takes a bunch of time and effort [so it would add to the cost of every phone], along with competing goals of two separate wireless industries [FM Radio vs cellular providers]. And given that the cellular providers are a much bigger industry than FM Radio in the US, it seems unlikely that FM Radio will be able to give a large enough 'contribution' to Congress and/or the FCC to make this happen [and there definitely doesn't seem to be enough actual end users clamoring for this to get them to do it].
Unless a natural disaster strikes. Now Uber drivers know to wait for surge pricing to hit, then take a few fares, then book off when Uber turns off surge pricing because it make them look bad.
Just to repeat my earlier post, my understanding is that he is on trial not for teaching people how to beat a polygraph test, but for claiming he would teach one or more people specifically how to beat a FBI polygraph test.
He's on trial for being stupid. If he had just stuck with "I can teach you how to beat a polygraph test", he would be still be fine.
But [allegedly], he claimed he could help one or more people specifically beat a FBI polygraph test, and presumably there is an antiterrorist law about how you can't help someone lie to the FBI when they are required to tell the truth.
Smartphones MAY have a chip in them that is capable of receiving FM transmissions [probably as part of the Qualcomm/whomever chip for processing cell phone signals].
But not a matter of 'just turn it on' and everything magically works.
You need an antennae/other external hardware that receives those signals properly. I'm not an antennae engineer, but you either need a separate antennae [which would totally be a non-starter] or you have to compromise the design of existing antennae, because now it has to work for more frequencies.
You also need the software side to work. Since the signal is [most likely] coming from the cellular chip, it also affects the separate baseband software, as well as the main OS.
Then they need to see how it affects battery life with an additional radio turned on, as well as how it affects cellular, wifi and bluetooth reception/transmission.
And don't forget that NONE of the wireless carriers in the US would want the phone to have this feature, because it means the user can be listening to music that they are streaming to their phone FOR FREE, and the carrier would be making no money from it at all. They would rather the user just have the choice of 'do without or preload the music on the phone or pay for streaming music on the phone by paying the carrier extra money] (and they would really prefer to prevent that middle option, but that would have been a really tough sell earlier and impossible now].
Finally, these whiners wouldn't stop at just 'enable the FM reception' capability. It would be 'automatically detect an emergency broadcast and switch to FM automatically when one is broadcast'. Which means another radio always be on. And if that happened...how many days before an FM station sent a fake signal that would trigger this feature without really sounding like an emergency broadcast signal, so the phone would automatically switch to their station for a few minutes. And they could just say it was a bug in the cell phone, that they didn't broadcast a full, real emergency signal.
Anyway, Apple never did this, because they want people to get their music from the iTunes music store, and everyone else doesn't because the carriers won't let them [at least here in the US].
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Of course. Because some individuals are doing something that violates regulations, it's perfectly find to set up a corporation to do it on a global scale.
Other things Uber needs to start working on:
Prostitution
Drugs
Child Pornography
Good demand, and everybody wants better service.
You really should have a long discussion with your sibling about "inappropriate touching"
1/2 of them said "no" to the wrong guy.
...only until they start using a cattle prod...
Unless you are into that sort of thing...
And she's smart enough to not be a red-shirt.
Hell, the moron who replaced the water pump in a truck just before I bought didn't bother to clip the radiator hoses down [just push them into their holders].
Two weeks later, fan rubs a hole in it, and all the water gets pumped out.
Fortunately, it was a cold day and I wasn't too far from a parts store...
There are a million things that a weekend mechanic can do to make a vehicle dangerous to drive.
And don't forget the manufacturer. They can't even get it right. Are there any vehicles that don't have one or more recalls issued for them, for all kinds of fun reasons like the ignition key turning to off [and locking the steering wheel in place] while the car is in motion, or the steering wheel coming off, engine revving or turning off spontaneously, transmission shifting incorrectly, brakes failing, air bags deploying [or not].
no. that ship sailed a long time ago.
you're just a dupe.
Yes. They will only get to see the version of Star Wars where Hans shoot second.
Only because the gov't who is paying everyone welfare permitted them to use the money to see Star Wars!
more like the size of the round hole in wall...
You are saying the SC is completely wrong on this and that all those statements are perfectly fine. That you have to actually do something besides talk to actually do something wrong.
I'll help you lie.
I'll help you lie to the FBI.
sorry, I forgot the part about predatory pricing.
Really? Yelling fire in a crowded theatre is fine? Going into a bank and saying "give me all your money or I'll kill you" is fine? I'll give you $50000 to kill my wife?
It's all good until you actually pull out the weapon, sign on the dotted line, hand over the cash?
Yes, that is totally the same situation.
College guys: I am going to LA. For $50 I will take someone with me.
Uber guy: a taxi ride, arranged over the internet
Indistinguishable.
It's the difference between "I will train you to do X" and "I will train you to do X so you can do Y, which is illegal"
Well, it takes a bunch of time and effort to implement and test it, and the primary middle man [the carriers] have a vested interest in not having it, for a feature that can only work for some users [people who use wired earphones].
And the carriers are working on get at least some emergency messages to get sent to cell phones via SMS's, which everyone with a cell phone can get [and you may even get them if you don't have a working cell phone account, same as making a 911 call], which works on the vast majority of phones, regardless of what happens to be connected to it or what mode it's in [except airplane mode, but FM would also be disabled in that mode]. And the phone normally is configured to alert the user they have received a text message.
And hours after the initial 'event' most people will have moved to where a radio and/or tv will be to learn more about it.
So, IMHO, this is really just a made-up issue [presenting it as a safety issue] by an industry that is losing listeners and ad-revenue.
I'm not exactly sure what he volunteered/was goaded into saying, but it could be a reasonable limitation of the 1st amendment that you can't help someone intentionally lie to the FBI...
I'm sure the FBI is aware of the limitations of the polygraph test.
But it was dumb of him to tell an FBI agent he would help the person lie to the FBI.
So, for a bunch of people, the FM feature would never work, because they don't use wired headphones.
"Please plug in a wired headset to enabled this feature".
A non-trivial number of people:
-just use it as a hand-held device, holding it up to their head when using it as a phone
-have a wireless headset
And it can't be great for those that do, because you don't know how long the antennae is, or how it's terminated [or even more fun, splitters so the port drives two sets of headphones].
These problems aren't insurmountable, but it all takes a bunch of time and effort [so it would add to the cost of every phone], along with competing goals of two separate wireless industries [FM Radio vs cellular providers]. And given that the cellular providers are a much bigger industry than FM Radio in the US, it seems unlikely that FM Radio will be able to give a large enough 'contribution' to Congress and/or the FCC to make this happen [and there definitely doesn't seem to be enough actual end users clamoring for this to get them to do it].
Uber is just using the phrase 'ride share' as part of their effort to ignore following regulations.
Unless a natural disaster strikes. Now Uber drivers know to wait for surge pricing to hit, then take a few fares, then book off when Uber turns off surge pricing because it make them look bad.
Just to repeat my earlier post, my understanding is that he is on trial not for teaching people how to beat a polygraph test, but for claiming he would teach one or more people specifically how to beat a FBI polygraph test.
He's on trial for being stupid. If he had just stuck with "I can teach you how to beat a polygraph test", he would be still be fine.
But [allegedly], he claimed he could help one or more people specifically beat a FBI polygraph test, and presumably there is an antiterrorist law about how you can't help someone lie to the FBI when they are required to tell the truth.
Because the article is very misleading.
Smartphones MAY have a chip in them that is capable of receiving FM transmissions [probably as part of the Qualcomm/whomever chip for processing cell phone signals].
But not a matter of 'just turn it on' and everything magically works.
You need an antennae/other external hardware that receives those signals properly. I'm not an antennae engineer, but you either need a separate antennae [which would totally be a non-starter] or you have to compromise the design of existing antennae, because now it has to work for more frequencies.
You also need the software side to work. Since the signal is [most likely] coming from the cellular chip, it also affects the separate baseband software, as well as the main OS.
Then they need to see how it affects battery life with an additional radio turned on, as well as how it affects cellular, wifi and bluetooth reception/transmission.
And don't forget that NONE of the wireless carriers in the US would want the phone to have this feature, because it means the user can be listening to music that they are streaming to their phone FOR FREE, and the carrier would be making no money from it at all. They would rather the user just have the choice of 'do without or preload the music on the phone or pay for streaming music on the phone by paying the carrier extra money] (and they would really prefer to prevent that middle option, but that would have been a really tough sell earlier and impossible now].
Finally, these whiners wouldn't stop at just 'enable the FM reception' capability. It would be 'automatically detect an emergency broadcast and switch to FM automatically when one is broadcast'. Which means another radio always be on. And if that happened...how many days before an FM station sent a fake signal that would trigger this feature without really sounding like an emergency broadcast signal, so the phone would automatically switch to their station for a few minutes. And they could just say it was a bug in the cell phone, that they didn't broadcast a full, real emergency signal.
Anyway, Apple never did this, because they want people to get their music from the iTunes music store, and everyone else doesn't because the carriers won't let them [at least here in the US].