The EU and US created these laws after all to destabilize smaller countries and primarily the Soviet Bloc. They allowed these companies to funnel their money into the EU instead of their home country. And it's not like Apple is just stacking it up in a vault somewhere. The banks and governments use the money in term to make loans and make their economy stronger. It's a huge amount of "backing" that the EU wants to redistribute through Ireland to its less stable members.
If you break a poorly written law, you could get punished for it or the law may get repealed by the judiciary. Until it gets repealed, you do indeed "break the law".
Inversely, the government can't just say "well, that wasn't our intention" and mete out any punishment they want, that's tyranny. Who's interpretation should you follow if the interpreted intent and the letter of a law are opposed? Many in our government would say the second and subsequent amendments weren't intended for civilians to have weapons or form a militia to protect them from the US Army, except that was clearly the intent and any consequences (high powered rifles and RPG in the hands of civilians) are indeed both letter and unforeseen intent of the law.
I don't understand your reasoning in the second paragraph, you say a person shouldn't be held accountable for breaking a poorly written or "bad" law, except Apple should be held accountable. How do you reconciliate those two statements?
Yes, but an EU treaty or law isn't binding until the member has taken it up into their own legislation. Members of the EU were at least a few years ago sovereign states. We all know Germany wants to change that and become once again rulers of Europe (they are after all shoving these laws and a glut of Germany-friendly "immigrants" down other members' throat) but it's not how the EU is intended to work.
I use OpenWRT - you can reprogram any LED on your router for whatever purpose. Want them all on or off at a certain time of day or blink if it detected anomalous traffic.
The EU is ignoring a lot of what makes our justice systems different than 3rd world monarchies, dictatorships or theocracies. If what Apple did was legal in the past, they shouldn't just be able to levy a fine just because the law as written wasn't fair. Sure they can change the laws in place through proper channels but just levying taxes because it "feels right" is just tyranny.
So you're saying someone re-coded, by hand, the entire Android OS into various assembler versions of the various ARM and x86 flavors? You don't know the difference between 'native machine code' and 'compiling to native machine code'. Down under the heaping pile of Java interpreters it has always been compiled (in the past this was interpreted, later JIT) to native machine code, otherwise it would just be data. Sure you can skip a few steps by pre-compiling, that will make Java "faster" if you give up a number of 'features' that coding against a VM traditionally allows you to do but you're still using Java, and even though the OS might be 'better optimized Java', the apps are not.
Yes you could, but that adds complexity and any complexity costs testing, performance, die size and as a result heat. Especially at current sizes (pondering going into the single digit nanometer process) you want to put the least amount of anything in your chips these days.
It's funny because I remember not just 20 years ago programming to fit things into a minimal amount of memory; then we got a glut and as a result languages like Java and Python; now we're all trying to cram Python and Java back into C to reduce the cycles and memory footprint.
For a dinosaur like me it just seems "bad programming" when a single program thread *Cough*firefox*cough* goes over 500MB memory usage when it asks 2MB of resources from the rest of the systems.
Every GB you put into a phone needs to be refreshed every 10-100ns. Sure Androids need it because they're Java based but Raspberry Pi's do just fine with 256 or 512MB running full desktop Linux.
Really? He's pretty weak on net neutrality and wireless providers when push comes to shove. He's a politician, promises a lot but I have yet to see choice in providers, actual net neutrality enforced (TWC still throttles YouTube and Netflix), elimination of arbitrary data caps or overall costs go down.
Because the government (in recent times through the FCC but also a bunch of local, state and other federal offices) pays/paid for the deployment of cables. These cable companies are getting BILLIONS to deploy "high speed internet", regulations paid for a minimum of 10Mbps to be completed several years ago, then the FCC appointed yet another media executive (Wheeler used to be one too BTW) and rolled back their requirements.
Windows will actually happily and by default send the credentials in clear text over wireless if you're using 802.1x without a Windows approved RADIUS server. The article and the summary is dumb because no USB device gets credentials by plugging it in. This is probably a network attack and could be done anywhere on a network.
Not necessarily, they have special equipment that allows them to handle things like that without grounding themselves. I used to know a guy that worked those lines, they'd have to climb the ladder and have lunch in the middle of a tower. Same goes for gas lines, they actually only work on pressurized lines because otherwise a gas/air mixture could explode whereas gas by itself doesn't.
The reason was because the car was engulfed in flames and the occupant was already dead. It's not like they didn't extinguish the fire or let the occupant die. You can use large amounts of water to extinguish Lithium battery fires (removing both heat and oxygen) and these batteries are dry, not pure liquid lithium. This would be similar for a gas powered car if the gas tank is engulfed, fire fighters won't risk recovering corpses or property if there is a substantial risk of an explosion.
Headphones suck for high-end audio. You don't buy a set of headphones to listen to a concert piece in your car or on the bus. You can't power high-end headphones on the go or with your phone. The point is moot, this is for low-end music on the go, gaming and phone conversations, Bluetooth does just fine for that.
It's a headphone on a mobile device, contrary to what you've been told, no headphones will get a 10-60k flat frequency range and neither will your phone produce that.
I work with 'high-end' headphones and quality equipment for medical research purposes (electrostatic). You can't afford a 'good' headphone nor power it on the go nor does the environment (cars, buses, offices, planes...) support the need for higher quality unless you walk around with a set of 3M earmuffs (and even those only attenuate up to 30dB). If one of your unpowered headphones/earbuds 'sounds' better than the other it's because they're distorting the low (and sometimes other) frequencies to a significant degree.
Sure you can get slightly better quality ones by spending $20 instead of $2 but anything that costs more than that is just wasting money. Bluetooth is fine for the purpose for most people and the protocol supports a decent quality sound (the older ones do sound like they've just gone through a telephone filter, the newer ones are just fine).
Bluetooth is an otherwise relatively available spec. My car speaks BT and I have cheap $2 (incl shipping) headphones that do so as well.
I'm not sure who actually uses wired headphones still, I have various sets of wired headphones still in their package from a range of devices I've owned over time.
Not sure if mining minerals that deep is in any way economic, China has way easier access to minerals with full disregard about the ecological consequences. Just like mining asteroids, the deep sea is too expensive to access for the foreseeable future.
Any form of government assistance is already UBI. UBI just creates yet another government office to handle yet another budget of debt. I'd be all for it if you got rid of ALL other assistance, because it would be cheaper for pretty much any government to get rid of the expensive programs (housing, food, work, unemployment and medical) and just give everyone that makes less than $100k/year an extra $1000/month. You could get rid of entire offices of expenditure, make government so much easier and allow people to migrate jobs much faster and force those that currently rely solely on assistance for decades to actually get off their asses.
Eventually those stores will go away. They're already centralizing and consolidating, as more and more people shop online there will be less stores necessary. The 'only' problem we haven't gotten over yet is "I need a pound of sugar to finish my cupcakes, run to the store" but between drones and instant delivery couriers, the cost of that will go down as well. There is HUGE overhead in grocery stores, between thefts, accidents and keeping a building not just running but safe for customers and space for us meatbags to walk around, you could easily condense any Walmart into 1/4 of it's size if we didn't have to walk around in them.
We just have to get deliveries down to both the time and transport "cost" of you yourself driving to the store (~5 miles and 30 minutes turnaround time or about $0.50-1 in gas with your average car). Electric and automated delivery vehicles would be perfect I think, like a vending machine/truck on wheels. You keep a set of 'hot items' stocked (eggs, milk, bread,...) and then once in a while you detour to the local stock to refill or for special orders or other deliveries. It could all be done automated, replace existing convenience stores and supermarkets with small and large depots.
You encourage people to still make larger grocery orders or you could even plan out meals fully automated, have them ordered and the next two or three days of groceries arrives at your convenience, if you still need something 'instant' give them a voucher for 1 "instant" trip per planned grocery order.
What software do you think their cloud is running? If anything this is an upsell to their own or partners' "security" solutions, Forefront or whatever it is called now.
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The EU and US created these laws after all to destabilize smaller countries and primarily the Soviet Bloc. They allowed these companies to funnel their money into the EU instead of their home country. And it's not like Apple is just stacking it up in a vault somewhere. The banks and governments use the money in term to make loans and make their economy stronger. It's a huge amount of "backing" that the EU wants to redistribute through Ireland to its less stable members.
If you break a poorly written law, you could get punished for it or the law may get repealed by the judiciary. Until it gets repealed, you do indeed "break the law".
Inversely, the government can't just say "well, that wasn't our intention" and mete out any punishment they want, that's tyranny. Who's interpretation should you follow if the interpreted intent and the letter of a law are opposed? Many in our government would say the second and subsequent amendments weren't intended for civilians to have weapons or form a militia to protect them from the US Army, except that was clearly the intent and any consequences (high powered rifles and RPG in the hands of civilians) are indeed both letter and unforeseen intent of the law.
I don't understand your reasoning in the second paragraph, you say a person shouldn't be held accountable for breaking a poorly written or "bad" law, except Apple should be held accountable. How do you reconciliate those two statements?
Yes, but an EU treaty or law isn't binding until the member has taken it up into their own legislation. Members of the EU were at least a few years ago sovereign states. We all know Germany wants to change that and become once again rulers of Europe (they are after all shoving these laws and a glut of Germany-friendly "immigrants" down other members' throat) but it's not how the EU is intended to work.
I use OpenWRT - you can reprogram any LED on your router for whatever purpose. Want them all on or off at a certain time of day or blink if it detected anomalous traffic.
Cost of an LCD: 1 cent; cost of an LED: 1 cent/100
The EU is ignoring a lot of what makes our justice systems different than 3rd world monarchies, dictatorships or theocracies. If what Apple did was legal in the past, they shouldn't just be able to levy a fine just because the law as written wasn't fair. Sure they can change the laws in place through proper channels but just levying taxes because it "feels right" is just tyranny.
So you're saying someone re-coded, by hand, the entire Android OS into various assembler versions of the various ARM and x86 flavors? You don't know the difference between 'native machine code' and 'compiling to native machine code'. Down under the heaping pile of Java interpreters it has always been compiled (in the past this was interpreted, later JIT) to native machine code, otherwise it would just be data. Sure you can skip a few steps by pre-compiling, that will make Java "faster" if you give up a number of 'features' that coding against a VM traditionally allows you to do but you're still using Java, and even though the OS might be 'better optimized Java', the apps are not.
Yes you could, but that adds complexity and any complexity costs testing, performance, die size and as a result heat. Especially at current sizes (pondering going into the single digit nanometer process) you want to put the least amount of anything in your chips these days.
It's funny because I remember not just 20 years ago programming to fit things into a minimal amount of memory; then we got a glut and as a result languages like Java and Python; now we're all trying to cram Python and Java back into C to reduce the cycles and memory footprint.
For a dinosaur like me it just seems "bad programming" when a single program thread *Cough*firefox*cough* goes over 500MB memory usage when it asks 2MB of resources from the rest of the systems.
Every GB you put into a phone needs to be refreshed every 10-100ns. Sure Androids need it because they're Java based but Raspberry Pi's do just fine with 256 or 512MB running full desktop Linux.
Really? He's pretty weak on net neutrality and wireless providers when push comes to shove. He's a politician, promises a lot but I have yet to see choice in providers, actual net neutrality enforced (TWC still throttles YouTube and Netflix), elimination of arbitrary data caps or overall costs go down.
Because the government (in recent times through the FCC but also a bunch of local, state and other federal offices) pays/paid for the deployment of cables. These cable companies are getting BILLIONS to deploy "high speed internet", regulations paid for a minimum of 10Mbps to be completed several years ago, then the FCC appointed yet another media executive (Wheeler used to be one too BTW) and rolled back their requirements.
Windows will actually happily and by default send the credentials in clear text over wireless if you're using 802.1x without a Windows approved RADIUS server. The article and the summary is dumb because no USB device gets credentials by plugging it in. This is probably a network attack and could be done anywhere on a network.
First responder manual on EV. Large amounts meaning what comes out of a fire hose, not a bucket. You want to cool the device and dilute any chemicals.
Not necessarily, they have special equipment that allows them to handle things like that without grounding themselves. I used to know a guy that worked those lines, they'd have to climb the ladder and have lunch in the middle of a tower. Same goes for gas lines, they actually only work on pressurized lines because otherwise a gas/air mixture could explode whereas gas by itself doesn't.
The reason was because the car was engulfed in flames and the occupant was already dead. It's not like they didn't extinguish the fire or let the occupant die. You can use large amounts of water to extinguish Lithium battery fires (removing both heat and oxygen) and these batteries are dry, not pure liquid lithium. This would be similar for a gas powered car if the gas tank is engulfed, fire fighters won't risk recovering corpses or property if there is a substantial risk of an explosion.
Headphones suck for high-end audio. You don't buy a set of headphones to listen to a concert piece in your car or on the bus. You can't power high-end headphones on the go or with your phone. The point is moot, this is for low-end music on the go, gaming and phone conversations, Bluetooth does just fine for that.
It's a headphone on a mobile device, contrary to what you've been told, no headphones will get a 10-60k flat frequency range and neither will your phone produce that.
I work with 'high-end' headphones and quality equipment for medical research purposes (electrostatic). You can't afford a 'good' headphone nor power it on the go nor does the environment (cars, buses, offices, planes...) support the need for higher quality unless you walk around with a set of 3M earmuffs (and even those only attenuate up to 30dB). If one of your unpowered headphones/earbuds 'sounds' better than the other it's because they're distorting the low (and sometimes other) frequencies to a significant degree.
Sure you can get slightly better quality ones by spending $20 instead of $2 but anything that costs more than that is just wasting money. Bluetooth is fine for the purpose for most people and the protocol supports a decent quality sound (the older ones do sound like they've just gone through a telephone filter, the newer ones are just fine).
Bluetooth is an otherwise relatively available spec. My car speaks BT and I have cheap $2 (incl shipping) headphones that do so as well.
I'm not sure who actually uses wired headphones still, I have various sets of wired headphones still in their package from a range of devices I've owned over time.
Not sure if mining minerals that deep is in any way economic, China has way easier access to minerals with full disregard about the ecological consequences. Just like mining asteroids, the deep sea is too expensive to access for the foreseeable future.
Any form of government assistance is already UBI. UBI just creates yet another government office to handle yet another budget of debt. I'd be all for it if you got rid of ALL other assistance, because it would be cheaper for pretty much any government to get rid of the expensive programs (housing, food, work, unemployment and medical) and just give everyone that makes less than $100k/year an extra $1000/month. You could get rid of entire offices of expenditure, make government so much easier and allow people to migrate jobs much faster and force those that currently rely solely on assistance for decades to actually get off their asses.
Eventually those stores will go away. They're already centralizing and consolidating, as more and more people shop online there will be less stores necessary. The 'only' problem we haven't gotten over yet is "I need a pound of sugar to finish my cupcakes, run to the store" but between drones and instant delivery couriers, the cost of that will go down as well. There is HUGE overhead in grocery stores, between thefts, accidents and keeping a building not just running but safe for customers and space for us meatbags to walk around, you could easily condense any Walmart into 1/4 of it's size if we didn't have to walk around in them.
We just have to get deliveries down to both the time and transport "cost" of you yourself driving to the store (~5 miles and 30 minutes turnaround time or about $0.50-1 in gas with your average car). Electric and automated delivery vehicles would be perfect I think, like a vending machine/truck on wheels. You keep a set of 'hot items' stocked (eggs, milk, bread, ...) and then once in a while you detour to the local stock to refill or for special orders or other deliveries. It could all be done automated, replace existing convenience stores and supermarkets with small and large depots.
You encourage people to still make larger grocery orders or you could even plan out meals fully automated, have them ordered and the next two or three days of groceries arrives at your convenience, if you still need something 'instant' give them a voucher for 1 "instant" trip per planned grocery order.
OS X has had a Server "version" since the era described (10.3 or 10.4). So most likely cyrus/postfix.
Perhaps she has Alzheimer's, that would be consistent with "I don't remember doing shit" and any judge would allow that as a valid defense.
That's more expensive than my old dial up, I had 10GB for $10/mo including a POP, mail, hosting etc.
What software do you think their cloud is running? If anything this is an upsell to their own or partners' "security" solutions, Forefront or whatever it is called now.