Yeah minor things like magic quotes and MySQL libraries. All mysql calls from PHP5 have to be changed to at least mysqli if not PDO which is a big difference if you have deep entanglements with your database.
Pretty much. That's what this guy was claiming at least - to have access to brand new Apple parts, he's selling these batteries for $150-300 claiming to be genuine Apple replacement parts.
As long as you don't sell me your 8y iPod as "new" simply because you put different cells in it. That's the difference, you can't buy "new" vintage Apple hardware which is what this guy is claiming he's doing.
That is second hand and it's clear that it is second hand. You're buying from the first owner. In this case, this guy is selling "Brand New" batteries and claiming they are Apple manufactured and he somehow has a connection to the Apple factory and they make custom runs of vintage hardware for him.
The customer would still walk into the Apple store demanding repair and the media would likewise have their heads.
It's not just about legal liability, a lot goes into manufacturing a quality product. The worst thing is that this low-life didn't even NEED to manufacture Apple parts. You can buy battery cells and solder them into place OR you can buy a third party battery that's not labeled as being Apple products.
The problem with batteries is that you can't "keep" batteries warehoused and then claim they're "new". They discharge themselves and once empty, they could even short themselves out.
The other problem is that if they were manufactured but never sold, they likely never went through QC. There is a lot that goes into producing quality products, if my manufacturer started selling my stuff, not only would that be trademark infringement, the customers would get a much inferior product.
So they're not "new" batteries like the guy's repair website is claiming then. Batteries degrade if they sit in a warehouse, depending on the type, the chemistry actually destroys unused or empty batteries.
He is either selling old batteries as new and ripping off his customers or selling knock off batteries as branded batteries and ripping off his customers.
How can they be official Apple batteries if Apple isn't selling them? If you go to China and buy "Apple" batteries that Apple Inc. doesn't sell, then they're by definition knockoffs.
They ARE counterfeit; "when I import batteries that are original" - you can't buy vintage Apple hardware anywhere. It's a nice sob story but he needs to import non-Apple batteries that conform to the original safety standards.
Many places will badge their stuff as being "Apple" or make it look very close to Apple but the stuff is actually dangerous to use due to lead content and poor manufacturing.
If he wants to sell vintage Apple batteries, he needs to do is buy the parts of the battery (the cells can be purchased from various places) and refurbish Apple batteries in the US, not sell "Apple batteries" from China.
This is more about owning a fleet of thousands of cars across states and continents and then someone says "Dude, your car's gas tank had a hole punched in it by a police officer before it shipped to you from China". Then you do indeed go through the financial records and say "dude, we never purchased a car directly from China, moreover, nobody ever noticed a leak and nobody even reported a puddle of gas in any of our parking lots"
Why would you bother injecting hardware in a supply chain (which would be very expensive, on the order of millions of dollars per machine) when you can just hack their machines from the Internet?
The SuperMicro BMC story is just as ludicrous - if you can reach the device, nobody updates the firmware and even if you do, there are still various Dropbear SSH and embedded HTTP server bugs. Why even bother installing a chip when you can just reprogram the firmware to dial home.
I've had times in my life several times where I had no income, no money, no credit and no place to live. I know what being poor and homeless means, both in the US and the EU.
I also know that in many cases, those people living in those places are there for a reason, giving them more handouts doesn't help them. I came from a family like that, my abusive stepfather never wanted to work, always on some scheme to rip off the government whether it was disability or unemployment and running scams on everyone, including family members and neighbors.
Yeah, we were dirt poor and long before the time I left home (which was before I was 18) neither the government nor anyone else wanted to help us anymore. I know there are people that are being taken advantage off, people that have such low IQ or mental illness that they don't know how to help themselves, but by no means is that the majority of poor people and if we stopped taking care of the latter, we would have enough aid for the former.
Which of the poor have to die at 20 in a coal mine? That's what poor used to mean. Now poor just means you may have to skimp on your cell phone or cable plan or drive an old Toyota vs a new BMW.
Concentration of great power and resources has never been so fluent either. It's not the same aristocrat family anymore holding all the power and wealth, people traverse up and down that spectrum from poor to ultra rich.
Yes, your children and their children may be better off but beyond even your own generation it's not guaranteed anymore that all of them will stay rich.
The uncanny valley comes to mind. In some scenes the face droops a bit too much for it to be unrealistic. He's done similar ones on his channel in which the problems are more clear, fitting one face on another is possible but not invisible.
You can't fix the deficit by fiat. You do it by making trade and production within your borders efficient so that it trends in the better direction.
China did a great job at that, they kept all the production to themselves, with low or non-existent export taxes they made themselves more competitive than any other country, attracting industry and lifting their own people out of poverty. Saudi-Arabia is currently trying to do the same thing for high-tech business because they know oil is inherently unstable, even if there is another 100 years worth of it under their feet.
Everybody is better off. Yes, the divide between the rich and poor is growing bigger, but all the US "poor" are pretty much nearing the middle class as far as the global economy is concerned. The poor are rich, they're just comparatively less rich than the very rich.
Pointing out the divide between rich and poor in the US is not about inequality or living in squalor conditions but about jealousy.
You're not forced to work on the project. You don't like the company, leave, if there are enough objectors, the company will do badly.
Yes, many people are killed domestically but does that mean we shouldn't protect against foreign actors? It's the same argumentation that people use for not going to space - too many problems on earth. If we always have to wait for something else to be fixed we won't ever make progress. If the US wasn't a benevolent super power, who would be in charge of the Middle East? How about Europe? The only reason the US has bases everywhere is so that it can control major shipping and fuel channels to the benefit of "the West". Sure ISIS, dictators, Communists and Nazis don't like it but pretty much all civilized groups are rather grateful.
WIC pays $2500/month to some families yet they still manage to go hungry. A local food bank went out to street corners every morning and every night to give out food and complained that they couldn't even get rid of their goods in the poorest neighborhoods.
Reagan didn't close mental health shops. JFK made it a federally funded program and as a result states en masse offloaded and defunded their state run programs which overloaded the federal funded ones while state funded hospitals closed. There was also a huge backlash on institutions due to several poorly managed state hospitals abusing kids and disabled people which became one of Scientologists drivers in the 70s.
So why aren't they? We already have a UBI with fixed minimum wages, negative taxes and housing and food assistance. In welfare states like NY and CA food assistance amounts to $2500 for a family with 2 kids, housing will pay $800/month or more, free cell phones, free public and taxi transportation yet they have some of the worst homeless and child hunger populations.
The problem is that free money enables bad behavior. About 20% of the population (IQ less than 80) is utterly incapable of managing their own lives and needs either government or community assistance to do pretty much anything.
You can run some cheap PoE routers in every location. I don't think that you'll have much of a problem in a barn with 1 or 2 APs, you probably have sufficient wide open gaps for signal to penetrate/propagate, it's unlikely you actually have multiple Faraday cages.
OpenMesh makes some decent quality low cost routers but there are others from all over China for even less that run OpenWRT on PoE
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Yeah minor things like magic quotes and MySQL libraries. All mysql calls from PHP5 have to be changed to at least mysqli if not PDO which is a big difference if you have deep entanglements with your database.
Look up the guys business. He has a website with pricing.
Pretty much. That's what this guy was claiming at least - to have access to brand new Apple parts, he's selling these batteries for $150-300 claiming to be genuine Apple replacement parts.
He gets a 50k fine, forfeits all 75k in profits and his boss still hasn't gotten punished.
As long as you don't sell me your 8y iPod as "new" simply because you put different cells in it. That's the difference, you can't buy "new" vintage Apple hardware which is what this guy is claiming he's doing.
That is second hand and it's clear that it is second hand. You're buying from the first owner. In this case, this guy is selling "Brand New" batteries and claiming they are Apple manufactured and he somehow has a connection to the Apple factory and they make custom runs of vintage hardware for him.
No but you can't go claiming you're a Ford dealership selling factory parts.
The customer would still walk into the Apple store demanding repair and the media would likewise have their heads.
It's not just about legal liability, a lot goes into manufacturing a quality product. The worst thing is that this low-life didn't even NEED to manufacture Apple parts. You can buy battery cells and solder them into place OR you can buy a third party battery that's not labeled as being Apple products.
The problem with batteries is that you can't "keep" batteries warehoused and then claim they're "new". They discharge themselves and once empty, they could even short themselves out.
The other problem is that if they were manufactured but never sold, they likely never went through QC. There is a lot that goes into producing quality products, if my manufacturer started selling my stuff, not only would that be trademark infringement, the customers would get a much inferior product.
So they're not "new" batteries like the guy's repair website is claiming then. Batteries degrade if they sit in a warehouse, depending on the type, the chemistry actually destroys unused or empty batteries.
He is either selling old batteries as new and ripping off his customers or selling knock off batteries as branded batteries and ripping off his customers.
How can they be official Apple batteries if Apple isn't selling them? If you go to China and buy "Apple" batteries that Apple Inc. doesn't sell, then they're by definition knockoffs.
They ARE counterfeit; "when I import batteries that are original" - you can't buy vintage Apple hardware anywhere. It's a nice sob story but he needs to import non-Apple batteries that conform to the original safety standards.
Many places will badge their stuff as being "Apple" or make it look very close to Apple but the stuff is actually dangerous to use due to lead content and poor manufacturing.
If he wants to sell vintage Apple batteries, he needs to do is buy the parts of the battery (the cells can be purchased from various places) and refurbish Apple batteries in the US, not sell "Apple batteries" from China.
This is more about owning a fleet of thousands of cars across states and continents and then someone says "Dude, your car's gas tank had a hole punched in it by a police officer before it shipped to you from China". Then you do indeed go through the financial records and say "dude, we never purchased a car directly from China, moreover, nobody ever noticed a leak and nobody even reported a puddle of gas in any of our parking lots"
Why would you bother injecting hardware in a supply chain (which would be very expensive, on the order of millions of dollars per machine) when you can just hack their machines from the Internet?
The SuperMicro BMC story is just as ludicrous - if you can reach the device, nobody updates the firmware and even if you do, there are still various Dropbear SSH and embedded HTTP server bugs. Why even bother installing a chip when you can just reprogram the firmware to dial home.
I've had times in my life several times where I had no income, no money, no credit and no place to live. I know what being poor and homeless means, both in the US and the EU.
I also know that in many cases, those people living in those places are there for a reason, giving them more handouts doesn't help them. I came from a family like that, my abusive stepfather never wanted to work, always on some scheme to rip off the government whether it was disability or unemployment and running scams on everyone, including family members and neighbors.
Yeah, we were dirt poor and long before the time I left home (which was before I was 18) neither the government nor anyone else wanted to help us anymore. I know there are people that are being taken advantage off, people that have such low IQ or mental illness that they don't know how to help themselves, but by no means is that the majority of poor people and if we stopped taking care of the latter, we would have enough aid for the former.
Which of the poor have to die at 20 in a coal mine? That's what poor used to mean. Now poor just means you may have to skimp on your cell phone or cable plan or drive an old Toyota vs a new BMW.
Concentration of great power and resources has never been so fluent either. It's not the same aristocrat family anymore holding all the power and wealth, people traverse up and down that spectrum from poor to ultra rich.
Yes, your children and their children may be better off but beyond even your own generation it's not guaranteed anymore that all of them will stay rich.
The uncanny valley comes to mind. In some scenes the face droops a bit too much for it to be unrealistic. He's done similar ones on his channel in which the problems are more clear, fitting one face on another is possible but not invisible.
You can't fix the deficit by fiat. You do it by making trade and production within your borders efficient so that it trends in the better direction.
China did a great job at that, they kept all the production to themselves, with low or non-existent export taxes they made themselves more competitive than any other country, attracting industry and lifting their own people out of poverty. Saudi-Arabia is currently trying to do the same thing for high-tech business because they know oil is inherently unstable, even if there is another 100 years worth of it under their feet.
Everybody is better off. Yes, the divide between the rich and poor is growing bigger, but all the US "poor" are pretty much nearing the middle class as far as the global economy is concerned. The poor are rich, they're just comparatively less rich than the very rich.
Pointing out the divide between rich and poor in the US is not about inequality or living in squalor conditions but about jealousy.
Change we can believe in.
You're not forced to work on the project. You don't like the company, leave, if there are enough objectors, the company will do badly.
Yes, many people are killed domestically but does that mean we shouldn't protect against foreign actors? It's the same argumentation that people use for not going to space - too many problems on earth. If we always have to wait for something else to be fixed we won't ever make progress. If the US wasn't a benevolent super power, who would be in charge of the Middle East? How about Europe? The only reason the US has bases everywhere is so that it can control major shipping and fuel channels to the benefit of "the West". Sure ISIS, dictators, Communists and Nazis don't like it but pretty much all civilized groups are rather grateful.
WIC pays $2500/month to some families yet they still manage to go hungry. A local food bank went out to street corners every morning and every night to give out food and complained that they couldn't even get rid of their goods in the poorest neighborhoods.
Reagan didn't close mental health shops. JFK made it a federally funded program and as a result states en masse offloaded and defunded their state run programs which overloaded the federal funded ones while state funded hospitals closed. There was also a huge backlash on institutions due to several poorly managed state hospitals abusing kids and disabled people which became one of Scientologists drivers in the 70s.
So why aren't they? We already have a UBI with fixed minimum wages, negative taxes and housing and food assistance. In welfare states like NY and CA food assistance amounts to $2500 for a family with 2 kids, housing will pay $800/month or more, free cell phones, free public and taxi transportation yet they have some of the worst homeless and child hunger populations.
The problem is that free money enables bad behavior. About 20% of the population (IQ less than 80) is utterly incapable of managing their own lives and needs either government or community assistance to do pretty much anything.
You can run some cheap PoE routers in every location. I don't think that you'll have much of a problem in a barn with 1 or 2 APs, you probably have sufficient wide open gaps for signal to penetrate/propagate, it's unlikely you actually have multiple Faraday cages.
OpenMesh makes some decent quality low cost routers but there are others from all over China for even less that run OpenWRT on PoE