You can say "it won't happen", you can say "nobody would do that", you can say "you just need to pick people carefully", etc. but the fact is that at the end of the day some small group of Apple employees have some method of access to every Apple device on the planet. To suggest that this could never be misused would be false.
If the repairs to a car after an accident approach or exceed the value of the car, an insurance company considers the car totalled.
In this case, the average user will probably have to take his computer to a repair place to find out WHY it isn't starting up anymore, pay for diagnostics, then for reinstall of Windows, then have to start installing all his programs and games again, if he's lucky he has a backup of savegames...
He is essentially starting over. Might as well buy a new computer rather than go through all that, especially if the current one is a few years old. For all intends and purposes, from the point of view of the user, the update bricked the machine.
Pretty much this. Distraction will be a MAJOR issue.
If I'm stopped at a red light I do not need to be distracted by ads. I'm not allowed to whip out my cell phone and check Facebook in those precious seconds for that exact reason. I need to be aware of the street in front of me so that even when the light turns green I know in advance whether a nice old lady is slowly making her way across and just wasn't fast enough.
I've got enough of an issue with the lights here in Germany requiring me to take my eyes off the road and up to the side to see them rather than being set across the intersection so I constantly see the entire road - if I start getting blared with ads the moment I sit still that will NOT improve traffic safety in any way, shape or form.
I recall from the first Slashdot article about this that it actually IS a felony in some US states to file a bomb hoax etc. Pretty sure SWATting fell under that.
How large a percentage of the US population is black? According to a quick Google search, around 13%.
These are the kind of numbers we need for statistics to make sense. With 13% of the population making up 25% of a statistic, that percentage has a marked increase in chance/risk of whatever the statistic is made to show. In this case, risk of getting shot and killed.
Dude, seriously. Go read it again. It is a friggin' reminder that people use their internet connections PASSIVELY, and they should consider what they stand to lose if they lose their internet connection.
Because my children (not even grandkids) will not derive any income from my writing, I'll have to shelve my idea of this book and go do "real work". That's the line of thinking I was alluding to. The creator — or his wife — would certainly think/say such a thing.
And this right here is why no art, no music, no movies and no books were created before the 95 year copyright rule.
And you are in enough presence of mind to not turn your head to see what the hell is going on? Or maybe, you know, to visually confirm that the two police officers behind you AREN'T about to pull the trigger? You'll just be able to sit there, unmoving?
Wholesale deletion of Nazi websites, the guy somewhere in this thread saying it's fine to punch someone in the face as long as they're a Nazi etc. It's a dangerously thin line to allow things against that one group everyone agrees are the bad guys.
And how would you feel if within seconds of you posting anything (and I DO notice I'm replying to an AC, so I mean the collective 'you' here) a reply would appear essentially yelling, "THIS GUY IS A CONFIRMED NAZI! DON'T ASSOCIATE WITH HIM EVER!"?
Doesn't matter if it's true. There's no way of proving innocence or guilt. There's just this bot hounding you, following you through username and account changes. Isn't that the very DEFINITION of harassment and stalking?
Is it okay to do that because some of the targets, hell even if they have 100% accuracy, agree with Nazi ideology? Do we REALLY need to start saying "First they came for the Nazis, and I said nothing because I wasn't a Nazi..."?
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I believed that too until the "HE LOOKED AT ME WITH LUST IN HIS EYES!" stories started getting posted.
Assaulted, right.
They changed their mind about giving consent after the act, in at least one case also after cooking him breakfast.
in your moms basement while I am busy mailing her
So you run a spamming service?
You can say "it won't happen", you can say "nobody would do that", you can say "you just need to pick people carefully", etc. but the fact is that at the end of the day some small group of Apple employees have some method of access to every Apple device on the planet. To suggest that this could never be misused would be false.
https://xkcd.com/538/
Just replace 'user' with 'kidnapped Apple developer'.
Just how much more food do you reckon people will start eating due to an increase in efficiency at McDonald's?
If inflation is at an all-time low there's still inflation.
Have you ever seen a patch that didn't say that, though?
If the repairs to a car after an accident approach or exceed the value of the car, an insurance company considers the car totalled.
In this case, the average user will probably have to take his computer to a repair place to find out WHY it isn't starting up anymore, pay for diagnostics, then for reinstall of Windows, then have to start installing all his programs and games again, if he's lucky he has a backup of savegames ...
He is essentially starting over. Might as well buy a new computer rather than go through all that, especially if the current one is a few years old. For all intends and purposes, from the point of view of the user, the update bricked the machine.
Pretty much this. Distraction will be a MAJOR issue.
If I'm stopped at a red light I do not need to be distracted by ads. I'm not allowed to whip out my cell phone and check Facebook in those precious seconds for that exact reason. I need to be aware of the street in front of me so that even when the light turns green I know in advance whether a nice old lady is slowly making her way across and just wasn't fast enough.
I've got enough of an issue with the lights here in Germany requiring me to take my eyes off the road and up to the side to see them rather than being set across the intersection so I constantly see the entire road - if I start getting blared with ads the moment I sit still that will NOT improve traffic safety in any way, shape or form.
I recall from the first Slashdot article about this that it actually IS a felony in some US states to file a bomb hoax etc. Pretty sure SWATting fell under that.
How large a percentage of the US population is black? According to a quick Google search, around 13%.
These are the kind of numbers we need for statistics to make sense. With 13% of the population making up 25% of a statistic, that percentage has a marked increase in chance/risk of whatever the statistic is made to show. In this case, risk of getting shot and killed.
Dude, seriously. Go read it again. It is a friggin' reminder that people use their internet connections PASSIVELY, and they should consider what they stand to lose if they lose their internet connection.
And what happens if the monthly data cap is set to 100 MB before you start paying through the nose?
Because my children (not even grandkids) will not derive any income from my writing, I'll have to shelve my idea of this book and go do "real work". That's the line of thinking I was alluding to. The creator — or his wife — would certainly think/say such a thing.
And this right here is why no art, no music, no movies and no books were created before the 95 year copyright rule.
Right?
And you are in enough presence of mind to not turn your head to see what the hell is going on? Or maybe, you know, to visually confirm that the two police officers behind you AREN'T about to pull the trigger? You'll just be able to sit there, unmoving?
So shoot the shoulder of the arm connected to the hand holding the gun instead of going for BOOM HEADSHOT!
Rule 2: if a swat team orders you to put your hands up, do it slowly and deliberately.
Do it slowly and you get shot for not following orders, do it quickly and you get shot for scaring the cops.
Really, if a SWAT team is unexpectedly yelling at you, barking orders, is your FIRST instinct going to be to raise your hands SLOWLY?
Best moment was after Columbine, with the article in which people discussed systematic bullying that would lead either to suicide or school shootings.
THIS is the launch I look forward to the most: That one guy who wants to prove the Earth is flat.
When's the last time you checked the actual weight of the patty in your US Quarter Pounder?
At first I read that as "Tell it to the boot", which was eerily appropriate.
Wholesale deletion of Nazi websites, the guy somewhere in this thread saying it's fine to punch someone in the face as long as they're a Nazi etc. It's a dangerously thin line to allow things against that one group everyone agrees are the bad guys.
If you punch a Nazi in the face for his opinions it is still assault.
Purity of sciences?
And how would you feel if within seconds of you posting anything (and I DO notice I'm replying to an AC, so I mean the collective 'you' here) a reply would appear essentially yelling, "THIS GUY IS A CONFIRMED NAZI! DON'T ASSOCIATE WITH HIM EVER!"?
Doesn't matter if it's true. There's no way of proving innocence or guilt. There's just this bot hounding you, following you through username and account changes. Isn't that the very DEFINITION of harassment and stalking?
Is it okay to do that because some of the targets, hell even if they have 100% accuracy, agree with Nazi ideology? Do we REALLY need to start saying "First they came for the Nazis, and I said nothing because I wasn't a Nazi ..."?