Yes, it is MY location. Apple tries to claim that they are not collection my specific location, and yet is creating a database that requires my specific location to be created. Whether they are tracking it for long periods, or even care who I really am is irrelevant. They are tracking me, and they are doing it even when location services are turned off.
No. It wouldn't. For the tasks that Grandma and Grandpa are doing, most Linux distributions will be closer to what they are used to than Windows 7.
Beyond that, it is a poor excuse anyway. My son learned to use Ubuntu at the age of 1. A week after his second birthday I formatted his drive and he installed it on his own. No, he couldn't read yet. It was that easy. The myth of Linux being hard is just that. A myth.
They could put two black boxes that store both the data and the voice then. If you have a box that can store both, you might as well. If you already have two boxes that can store both, you might as well.
Of course, they could have the two black boxes, and then put 200 light waight memory device throughout the plane. The cost would be minimal, and then if you could find any significant part of the plane, you would have a high chance of finding an in tact memory module. I say keep the existing black boxes because if none of the cheap light weight memory modules survived, we would get "I told you so's."
8. What other location data is Apple collecting from the iPhone besides crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data?
Apple is now collecting anonymous traffic data to build a crowd-sourced traffic database with the goal of providing iPhone users an improved traffic service in the next couple of years.
8. What other location data is Apple collecting from the iPhone besides crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data?
Apple is now collecting anonymous traffic data to build a crowd-sourced traffic database with the goal of providing iPhone users an improved traffic service in the next couple of years.
8. What other location data is Apple collecting from the iPhone besides crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data?
Apple is now collecting anonymous traffic data to build a crowd-sourced traffic database with the goal of providing iPhone users an improved traffic service in the next couple of years.
So, there is no question that Apple is collecting location information from users. The question itself admits to collecting Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data, and further claims to be collection "anonymous" traffic data. So, the question isn't whether Apple is collecting data, or if the data is kept on the phone. Apple clearly admits to collecting the data.
The question is whether you believe that the data they collect truly is anonymous. I don't believe that creating a traffic database is compatible with truly anonymous data collection.
Apple says in their FAQ about tracking that they are collecting data for a traffic app. This pretty much requires the collection of enough data to track you.
Given that they are collecting the data for use in a traffic monitoring app, it seems unlikely to be "Impossible to track you with this". A traffic monitoring app needs to be pretty much real time, and needs to be accurate to within about a block. Preferably within a few yards. It also needs a way to identify if the data it is receiving is a single submission from 10 different phones, or 10 submissions from a single phone.
Apples statement that they are collecting data for the purposes of a traffic monitoring app seems to be in direct contradiction to the statement that it is "Impossible to track you".
You must have been to different ren-faires than I have. The ones I've been to have had the majority of people dressed as peasents. Perticularly the women who take particular pleasure in being dirty whorish peasants. It's fun for all.
Whether you agree that what Apple is doing is bad or not, trying to claim that there is no evidence, and being concerned about the privacy implications is paranoia is a stretch taht only a Mac fanboy could make, no matter how cheerfully he might say it.
Hover would be so easy to do. Just have a button or hotspot that when pressed says that your are hovering instead of tapping. Basically the opposite of a mouse that defaults to hover and clicks when the button is pressed.
I think adding the barometer and magnetometer are cool, and I think we will be surprised at the neat things people come up with using them. That being said, A thermometer IS a sensor that should be in there. You joke, but that it is crazy that all of the phones and tablets don't already have one. It is ultra cheap and has obvious immediate uses. Now that you bring it up, I am kind of annoyed it isn't there.
I have a Viewsonic gTablet, and the lack of a back facing camera is a feature that I have missed on many occasions. The reason is that I frequently load apps via the camera. Android lets you take a photo of a QR code, and it automatically finds the app in the market. You can also load contacts that way, and you can add text as well. It's a useful feature, but only having the front camera on the gTablet makes it cumbersome.
Even for regular photos, if I am sitting in a lawn chair watching my kid play and flipping around on my tablet, I want to be able to lift up the tablet and take a picture. I don't want to have to take out my phone as a separate device to take the picture. If I am using the tablet to send notes to someone about a device, or even a physical page of paper, I want to be able to take a picture and make notes on the picture, then send it to the other person. I don't want to take the picture on my phone, and then send it to the tablet, THEN annotate the page and send it. I could go all day giving examples of why you would want a rear facing camera on a tablet.
front facing cameras on tablets are a no brainier. Video conferencing. A tablet is really the perfect device for that, and a front facing camera is a must for video conferencing.
Saying that we are not tracking your location, we are just tracking the locations around you. (which can be triangulated) is being evasive and behaving badly. Saying that we are not tracking phones, but we are building a real time database of where the phones are is being evasive and behaving badly. Collection location data from a phone that has location services turned off is behaving badly.
The courts are correct. I know lots of people, and have in the past worked for companies that classify their workers as exempt salaried when it comes time to work overtime, but suddenly they become hourly if they need to take a half day off for a doctors appointment.
The reason that most of the replies seem angry is because there are a LOT of crappy jobs out there. There just are not enough good work environments for everyone to work in them. So, a lot of people end up working in jobs where the company treats them like crap, and then does some kind of 'team building' to try and make things right. This frequently becomes insult added to injury. If someone knows your house is in foreclosure, there are an ass if they buy you a new Welcome mat. If a person works in a crappy environment, people encouraging them to spend even more time in that environment come off as being an ass. That does make some people angry.
You then have to overly that with the introvert/extrovert issue which is shades of gray all on it's own.
That statement pretty goes farther for indicating that they DO track you more than not. They make the comment that they don't track "you personally", but leave it wide open that they may track your phone. That is like saying, "We don't track the guy that is banging your wife". Sure, that COULD be someone other than you, but more often than not, it isn't. Before, you go into your "You just hate Apple rant", consider that in the other thread you were trolling, you claimed that Apple doesn't collect data on your phones actual location, yet the link you just provided states that they do. It also states they won't collect the data if you turn off location services, which has already been determined to be a lie.
AIBO had one simple flaw that really hurt it. It didn't automatically go back to a pet bed with an induction charger when it's batteries got low. If they ever added that, I never heard about it. A robot catdog that has to be picked up and manually plugged in will always be a toy. A robot catdog that does it's thing, and when it gets 'tired', goes and lay's down to get its energy back up for more play, now, that can be a pet.
So they say. They are highly evasive in their answers, while leaving themselves enough room to later say "We told you we were doing this." Just look at how man people think that NO data is being sent back to Apple. Then look at how many people think that the location of the phone isn't being sent. They don't believe this because Apple was clear. They believe this because Apple was using Newspeak. I would be interested in seeing exactly what data Apple is collection. So far, they haven't produced that. They have just waved their hands and said that there is nothing to worry about. This doesn't fill me with a whole lot of confidence, as I know they behaved badly, and they are still not being completely honest.
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Yes, many people find any sign of intellectual capability to be creepy. That is why so many parents raise their kids to be stupid. I find that sad.
Yes, it is MY location. Apple tries to claim that they are not collection my specific location, and yet is creating a database that requires my specific location to be created. Whether they are tracking it for long periods, or even care who I really am is irrelevant. They are tracking me, and they are doing it even when location services are turned off.
Your crazy if you think I'm giving up my stash!!!!
No. It wouldn't. For the tasks that Grandma and Grandpa are doing, most Linux distributions will be closer to what they are used to than Windows 7.
Beyond that, it is a poor excuse anyway. My son learned to use Ubuntu at the age of 1. A week after his second birthday I formatted his drive and he installed it on his own. No, he couldn't read yet. It was that easy. The myth of Linux being hard is just that. A myth.
They could put two black boxes that store both the data and the voice then. If you have a box that can store both, you might as well. If you already have two boxes that can store both, you might as well.
Of course, they could have the two black boxes, and then put 200 light waight memory device throughout the plane. The cost would be minimal, and then if you could find any significant part of the plane, you would have a high chance of finding an in tact memory module. I say keep the existing black boxes because if none of the cheap light weight memory modules survived, we would get "I told you so's."
From the Apple FAQ http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/04/27location_qa.html:
8. What other location data is Apple collecting from the iPhone besides crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data?
Apple is now collecting anonymous traffic data to build a crowd-sourced traffic database with the goal of providing iPhone users an improved traffic service in the next couple of years.
From the Apple FAQ http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/04/27location_qa.html:
8. What other location data is Apple collecting from the iPhone besides crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data?
Apple is now collecting anonymous traffic data to build a crowd-sourced traffic database with the goal of providing iPhone users an improved traffic service in the next couple of years.
8. What other location data is Apple collecting from the iPhone besides crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data? Apple is now collecting anonymous traffic data to build a crowd-sourced traffic database with the goal of providing iPhone users an improved traffic service in the next couple of years.
So, there is no question that Apple is collecting location information from users. The question itself admits to collecting Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data, and further claims to be collection "anonymous" traffic data. So, the question isn't whether Apple is collecting data, or if the data is kept on the phone. Apple clearly admits to collecting the data.
The question is whether you believe that the data they collect truly is anonymous. I don't believe that creating a traffic database is compatible with truly anonymous data collection.
Android actually has a setting for "Allow mock locations" under Settings --> Application Settings --> Development.
Apple says in their FAQ about tracking that they are collecting data for a traffic app. This pretty much requires the collection of enough data to track you.
Given that they are collecting the data for use in a traffic monitoring app, it seems unlikely to be "Impossible to track you with this". A traffic monitoring app needs to be pretty much real time, and needs to be accurate to within about a block. Preferably within a few yards. It also needs a way to identify if the data it is receiving is a single submission from 10 different phones, or 10 submissions from a single phone.
Apples statement that they are collecting data for the purposes of a traffic monitoring app seems to be in direct contradiction to the statement that it is "Impossible to track you".
You really don't understand the difference between being told yes to a request, and just taking what you want?
You must have been to different ren-faires than I have. The ones I've been to have had the majority of people dressed as peasents. Perticularly the women who take particular pleasure in being dirty whorish peasants. It's fun for all.
Whether you agree that what Apple is doing is bad or not, trying to claim that there is no evidence, and being concerned about the privacy implications is paranoia is a stretch taht only a Mac fanboy could make, no matter how cheerfully he might say it.
Hover would be so easy to do. Just have a button or hotspot that when pressed says that your are hovering instead of tapping. Basically the opposite of a mouse that defaults to hover and clicks when the button is pressed.
I think adding the barometer and magnetometer are cool, and I think we will be surprised at the neat things people come up with using them. That being said, A thermometer IS a sensor that should be in there. You joke, but that it is crazy that all of the phones and tablets don't already have one. It is ultra cheap and has obvious immediate uses. Now that you bring it up, I am kind of annoyed it isn't there.
I have a Viewsonic gTablet, and the lack of a back facing camera is a feature that I have missed on many occasions. The reason is that I frequently load apps via the camera. Android lets you take a photo of a QR code, and it automatically finds the app in the market. You can also load contacts that way, and you can add text as well. It's a useful feature, but only having the front camera on the gTablet makes it cumbersome.
Even for regular photos, if I am sitting in a lawn chair watching my kid play and flipping around on my tablet, I want to be able to lift up the tablet and take a picture. I don't want to have to take out my phone as a separate device to take the picture. If I am using the tablet to send notes to someone about a device, or even a physical page of paper, I want to be able to take a picture and make notes on the picture, then send it to the other person. I don't want to take the picture on my phone, and then send it to the tablet, THEN annotate the page and send it. I could go all day giving examples of why you would want a rear facing camera on a tablet.
front facing cameras on tablets are a no brainier. Video conferencing. A tablet is really the perfect device for that, and a front facing camera is a must for video conferencing.
Saying that we are not tracking your location, we are just tracking the locations around you. (which can be triangulated) is being evasive and behaving badly. Saying that we are not tracking phones, but we are building a real time database of where the phones are is being evasive and behaving badly. Collection location data from a phone that has location services turned off is behaving badly.
The courts are correct. I know lots of people, and have in the past worked for companies that classify their workers as exempt salaried when it comes time to work overtime, but suddenly they become hourly if they need to take a half day off for a doctors appointment.
Besides, telecommuting isn't illegal yet. An hour of 'work' at home is perfectly valid.
The reason that most of the replies seem angry is because there are a LOT of crappy jobs out there. There just are not enough good work environments for everyone to work in them. So, a lot of people end up working in jobs where the company treats them like crap, and then does some kind of 'team building' to try and make things right. This frequently becomes insult added to injury. If someone knows your house is in foreclosure, there are an ass if they buy you a new Welcome mat. If a person works in a crappy environment, people encouraging them to spend even more time in that environment come off as being an ass. That does make some people angry.
You then have to overly that with the introvert/extrovert issue which is shades of gray all on it's own.
That statement pretty goes farther for indicating that they DO track you more than not. They make the comment that they don't track "you personally", but leave it wide open that they may track your phone. That is like saying, "We don't track the guy that is banging your wife". Sure, that COULD be someone other than you, but more often than not, it isn't. Before, you go into your "You just hate Apple rant", consider that in the other thread you were trolling, you claimed that Apple doesn't collect data on your phones actual location, yet the link you just provided states that they do. It also states they won't collect the data if you turn off location services, which has already been determined to be a lie.
AIBO had one simple flaw that really hurt it. It didn't automatically go back to a pet bed with an induction charger when it's batteries got low. If they ever added that, I never heard about it. A robot catdog that has to be picked up and manually plugged in will always be a toy. A robot catdog that does it's thing, and when it gets 'tired', goes and lay's down to get its energy back up for more play, now, that can be a pet.
So they say. They are highly evasive in their answers, while leaving themselves enough room to later say "We told you we were doing this." Just look at how man people think that NO data is being sent back to Apple. Then look at how many people think that the location of the phone isn't being sent. They don't believe this because Apple was clear. They believe this because Apple was using Newspeak. I would be interested in seeing exactly what data Apple is collection. So far, they haven't produced that. They have just waved their hands and said that there is nothing to worry about. This doesn't fill me with a whole lot of confidence, as I know they behaved badly, and they are still not being completely honest.
The funny thing is that the rain does cause the worms on your sidewalk. Just not in the way that you mock.