This is the main reason why I did not give Facebook a 2FA phone number the dozens of times I was prompted to do so. If Facebook wanted it that badly, I suspected it was not for my own benefit (i.e., I was the product being sold) It just seemed to me that they would either spam me directly or sell the number to advertisers or both.
...They also charge obscene prices, so they should be able to get more of the "tripod" than any other company....
My opinion is that Apple optimizes the "tripod" with an eye towards high profit levels, not towards customers. Which is fine, it is absolutely their decision to make, whether they want to optimize high-profits or customers. Apple just needs to come forward and be honest with their decision, and stop apparently trying to cloud the waters with PR-speak.
...What is lost in all of this recent discussion is the nuance between features, schedule, and quality....
My impression is that those people who have been commenting on Apple's software problem know the golden triangle quite well. What they don't understand is why Apple cannot seem to (or does not want to) get the balance right from the customer's viewpoint. Apple is, after all, supposed to be an expert in this area.
Yes. A sandbox is a sandbox. You play inside your sandbox and are unable to affect or access things outside your sandbox that you should not access. It seems that, at some point, Apple forgot to restrict access to this API for sandboxed apps.
...And they also complain that they have a lack of in-house technical skill. The longer you work with your technology that has become old, the more skilled you will become at using it....
Unless those who have the technical skills start retiring. (think: COBOL)
And now they are complaining because their infrastructure has become "old" and difficult to maintain. Sounds to me as if they just want to blame something else for the bad business decisions they made.
Has the phone function of smartphones been relegated to a secondary tier of performance and quality? I mean, who releases a phone that doesn't do phone calls? Really.
"...Was it an incredibly complex product with an amazingly huge ecosystem..."
... the complexities of the market, then they should have left the market. Instead, it appears that they knowingly foisted a broken product upon one of the largest markets in the world.
...Since vinyl is in inferior format, it doesn't allow for this type of mastering...
The overcompression of which you speak puts less of a demand on vinyl than the very high dynamic range of non-compressed music. But reality doesn't seem to enter into your opinions.
I suspect in the longer term, physical media for CDs will be available only on demand for those who do not want the sound of lossy music. The main reason for the popularity of non-physical media is convenience. The question is: will those who like streamed music acquire a sense for higher-quality music sources, and will there be enough of those people to support distribution of that higher quality music source? There's a reason for the resurgence of vinyl records.
...This is not an 'excerpt' of the FISA application, btw. So it's pointless to say pages are missing...they aren't....
I did not say it was an excerpt, nor did I say pages are missing. I did say that 4 pages cannot hold all the information that 40 pages can hold. Obviously, some information was left out. Could there be cherry-picking of information to suit the purpose of the memo? Has the FBI confirmed parts of the Steele document at this point? (I've heard that they have.) Was the Steele document the item that triggered the investigation, as many people are incorrectly saying. Or was it, as the memo says in its last paragraph, the Papadopoulos information that triggered the investigation? See, I read the entire memo. Did you?
A FISA request is usually in the order of 40 pages or so. This memo was only four pages. I have to wonder what justifications for what was done were intentionally left out of the shot four page summary? Indeed, Rep Nunes has the reputation, even within his own party, of being a bumbling Inspector Clouseau type of investigator. So I also have to wonder just how good this memo really is. Then there is also the fact that Rep Nunes won't answer the question of whether or not the White House helped him create the memo.
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At this point, if there is any politicization to be talked about, it is with regard to the creation and release of the memo.
...You'll break sites that only show you the full content when coming from Google but throw up an interterrestrial when direct linking if you do that...
Which is why I use the Toggle-Proxy add-in (one of the extensions that stopped working in Firefox and one of the reasons why I moved to Waterfox). If I see the very infrequent site that offers the interstitial as you say, I just turn off the proxy and go direct. But it is my choice when I want to do that.
I use a privoxy http proxy for all the browsing on my home network. I have privoxy configured to block the referrer when it is cross-site. However, from one page to another within the same site, privoxy is configured to allow the referrer to pass unaltered, for the exact reason you say.
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And now wants money to turn off that "feature"?
This is the main reason why I did not give Facebook a 2FA phone number the dozens of times I was prompted to do so. If Facebook wanted it that badly, I suspected it was not for my own benefit (i.e., I was the product being sold) It just seemed to me that they would either spam me directly or sell the number to advertisers or both.
...They also charge obscene prices, so they should be able to get more of the "tripod" than any other company....
My opinion is that Apple optimizes the "tripod" with an eye towards high profit levels, not towards customers. Which is fine, it is absolutely their decision to make, whether they want to optimize high-profits or customers. Apple just needs to come forward and be honest with their decision, and stop apparently trying to cloud the waters with PR-speak.
...What is lost in all of this recent discussion is the nuance between features, schedule, and quality....
My impression is that those people who have been commenting on Apple's software problem know the golden triangle quite well. What they don't understand is why Apple cannot seem to (or does not want to) get the balance right from the customer's viewpoint. Apple is, after all, supposed to be an expert in this area.
To me, that looks like the mother of all exploit vectors.
...Does the sandbox promise to change this?...
Yes. A sandbox is a sandbox. You play inside your sandbox and are unable to affect or access things outside your sandbox that you should not access. It seems that, at some point, Apple forgot to restrict access to this API for sandboxed apps.
No. No. No.
...And they also complain that they have a lack of in-house technical skill. The longer you work with your technology that has become old, the more skilled you will become at using it....
Unless those who have the technical skills start retiring. (think: COBOL)
And now they are complaining because their infrastructure has become "old" and difficult to maintain. Sounds to me as if they just want to blame something else for the bad business decisions they made.
..."Old source code from three years ago appears to have been leaked," Apple said in a statement...
This code screenshot has a copyright date of 2016. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
Has the phone function of smartphones been relegated to a secondary tier of performance and quality? I mean, who releases a phone that doesn't do phone calls? Really.
"...Was it an incredibly complex product with an amazingly huge ecosystem..."
... the complexities of the market, then they should have left the market. Instead, it appears that they knowingly foisted a broken product upon one of the largest markets in the world.
... you have to turn your smartphone over to the officer and let him take it back to his vehicle to "call it in"?
...Last time I went outside on a Saturday, I stepped in some bull shit....
Then, next time, look up from your phone and watch where you step. :)
...Since vinyl is in inferior format, it doesn't allow for this type of mastering...
The overcompression of which you speak puts less of a demand on vinyl than the very high dynamic range of non-compressed music. But reality doesn't seem to enter into your opinions.
I suspect in the longer term, physical media for CDs will be available only on demand for those who do not want the sound of lossy music. The main reason for the popularity of non-physical media is convenience. The question is: will those who like streamed music acquire a sense for higher-quality music sources, and will there be enough of those people to support distribution of that higher quality music source? There's a reason for the resurgence of vinyl records.
...You mean we have to go outside......
Try it, you may even like it. :)
... to let the courts, and not public opinion, sort this one out.
...but they peer reviewed this research internally....
So they asked themselves if their research was valid, and they told themselves that it was valid. Do they plan to take that comedy show on the road?
Give me a break.
...This is not an 'excerpt' of the FISA application, btw. So it's pointless to say pages are missing...they aren't....
I did not say it was an excerpt, nor did I say pages are missing. I did say that 4 pages cannot hold all the information that 40 pages can hold. Obviously, some information was left out. Could there be cherry-picking of information to suit the purpose of the memo? Has the FBI confirmed parts of the Steele document at this point? (I've heard that they have.) Was the Steele document the item that triggered the investigation, as many people are incorrectly saying. Or was it, as the memo says in its last paragraph, the Papadopoulos information that triggered the investigation? See, I read the entire memo. Did you?
More likely, for the first time.
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At this point, if there is any politicization to be talked about, it is with regard to the creation and release of the memo.
...You'll break sites that only show you the full content when coming from Google but throw up an interterrestrial when direct linking if you do that...
Which is why I use the Toggle-Proxy add-in (one of the extensions that stopped working in Firefox and one of the reasons why I moved to Waterfox). If I see the very infrequent site that offers the interstitial as you say, I just turn off the proxy and go direct. But it is my choice when I want to do that.
I use a privoxy http proxy for all the browsing on my home network. I have privoxy configured to block the referrer when it is cross-site. However, from one page to another within the same site, privoxy is configured to allow the referrer to pass unaltered, for the exact reason you say.