The only way this gets fixed is by nullifying EULAs and have the relationships be governed by norms and reasonable expectations of average users. Unfortunately mealy mouthed EULAs masking what companies are really collecting and doing from normal users. A perfect example is the sleazy Unroll Me which pitches to users that they'll unsubscribe users from mailing lists however its business model is selling the contents of your email which is entirely disconnected from the user's expectations of the service.
I believe the issue is more that packaging has intentionally been marked in very misleading manner by the plastics & packaging industry that suggests to the consumer that the item is recyclable when it frequently is not. This leads to people with good intentions adding a lot of contimation to recycling.
This issue can't be fixed by cities or consumers, the answer is to settle on a minimum set of plastics that we can easily recycle then make have large fines for companies packaging goods using other plastics or other non-recyclables.
Instagram has less than half the number of users as Facebook so in order to grow faster it only needs to gain slightly more than half as many users as Facebook did... Further as there are a finite number of people on the planet the more users either platform has the more difficult to add more it becomes.
When they say "supercomputer in your pocket" they are comparing a modern cell phone to a supercomputer from 20 years ago.
I'm well aware of that.
This chip doesn't need to keep up with the latest powerhouse desktop chips from Intel and AMD. If it runs a web browser as well as a 10 year old desktop chip, but with 12W TDP, it'll be fine for the target market.
The internet has changed an awful lot in the past 10-years, I think you'd be surprised how badly 10-year old CPUs perform.
Except this is pointless unless your intent is to require that all signers be pre-approved in the future. Otherwise it's just checking that the signature that's on the apk data, matches a key that was also in the same apk. See the part about the digests must match the signers in the apk here. [android.com]
If you read their blog post it seems clear that the signature will come from Google Play itself not some random signer.
Also, nice chopping up of the ZIP format again, that's not going to cause parsing bugs anywhere now is it?
How is that relevant exactly? If someone wants to crack open an APK they can make sure their parser works correctly with the format instead of relying it being similar to a zip.
Adding an origin signature simply helps prevent the spread of malware as a device can verify that it is a legitimate package instead of some compromised apk. This has been an issue for a long time even in the west where users have internet access (fortnite apk!1!) and has been much more problematic where people have limited and expensive internet.
Qualcomm and Microsoft were proclaiming they'd be competitive prior to the recent Windows on Arm which turned out to be a dumpster fire. Despite claims by the gadget press that you have a "super computer" in your pocket no one has yet to show they are remotely close to anything available today from Intel or AMD.
On the plus-side, the earlier children learn they live in a surveillance-society and not a free one, the better.
I feel like this is a reflex response, there is an issue with widely deploying facial recognition as it would allow authorities to widely track individuals. However, consider schools - students already have attendance taken and visitors are already required to report into the office. There doesn't appear to be any additional privacy problems here I can see.
I think you'd be surprised at the ruralness of some places in Europe, that said country population density isn't particularly relevant when we're talking about wiring a city.
There is an opportunity cost of delaying automated vehicles until they are close to perfect (a large one).
What exactly? Your short term stock options?
we'll set automated driving back a decade or two, costing countless lives in the process.
Ah, this specious argument again. Self-driving cars have yet to show this to be accurate, Waymo is apparently the best of the bunch yet requires human intervention on an average of 5000 miles - given that the average American drives 13k miles a year the best automation would crash a little under 3 times a year. While Tesla touts its autopilot notice how it never discloses how frequently it disengages, how often the driver must pro-actively prevent an accident, nor how often it does something dangerous without resulting in an accident.
You don't need to model the real world. You drive the car around with sensors on and record the input, then in simulation you feed the input from all the weird scenarios you recorded into your system.
The behaviour of Uber, Tesla and others is quite frankly reprehensible. The testing of these systems need should be at a higher bar than anything NASA or aeronautical firms given the widespread deployment, reduced control and much wider variety of possibility of harm.
Does the FBI / CIA need to wait for them to be deployed or can they issue NSL ahead of time. Wouldn't want to miss the opportunity to spy on foreign businesses and government officials.
We really need more jurisdictions to inflict a similar fine - Australia has 24 million people, to make numbers easy if we pretend 2.5-billion people are in countries where Apple operates then this is ~1% of the fine they should receive globally. Likely the potential market is larger so we could guess the fine might be approximately $1-billion globally.
Downloading the application it appears one still cannot subscribe to arbitrary URLs and since not all podcasts are submitted to Google its still not a viable solution. The application looks pretty but I can't see why one would use it over podcasts in Google Play Music which also works on the web - this feels more like internal political infighting spilling out again.
I recall a number of articles finding that there was cultural bias in IQ testing. If there is now greater diversity in their population it could be the cause. Then again, kids today are dumb amirite?
Maybe Netflix should put their money where their mouth apparently is - hire a very large codec development team and spend a couple decades going down these potential rabbit holes....
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Sounds like one could sell the camera and continue to monitor it with their setup ;)
The only way this gets fixed is by nullifying EULAs and have the relationships be governed by norms and reasonable expectations of average users. Unfortunately mealy mouthed EULAs masking what companies are really collecting and doing from normal users. A perfect example is the sleazy Unroll Me which pitches to users that they'll unsubscribe users from mailing lists however its business model is selling the contents of your email which is entirely disconnected from the user's expectations of the service.
I believe the issue is more that packaging has intentionally been marked in very misleading manner by the plastics & packaging industry that suggests to the consumer that the item is recyclable when it frequently is not. This leads to people with good intentions adding a lot of contimation to recycling.
This issue can't be fixed by cities or consumers, the answer is to settle on a minimum set of plastics that we can easily recycle then make have large fines for companies packaging goods using other plastics or other non-recyclables.
Yea, I tried casting stuff to my TV this morning while eating breakfast but wasn't able to. So its been down now 4-5 hours minimum
Instagram has less than half the number of users as Facebook so in order to grow faster it only needs to gain slightly more than half as many users as Facebook did... Further as there are a finite number of people on the planet the more users either platform has the more difficult to add more it becomes.
When they say "supercomputer in your pocket" they are comparing a modern cell phone to a supercomputer from 20 years ago.
I'm well aware of that.
This chip doesn't need to keep up with the latest powerhouse desktop chips from Intel and AMD. If it runs a web browser as well as a 10 year old desktop chip, but with 12W TDP, it'll be fine for the target market.
The internet has changed an awful lot in the past 10-years, I think you'd be surprised how badly 10-year old CPUs perform.
Except this is pointless unless your intent is to require that all signers be pre-approved in the future. Otherwise it's just checking that the signature that's on the apk data, matches a key that was also in the same apk. See the part about the digests must match the signers in the apk here. [android.com]
If you read their blog post it seems clear that the signature will come from Google Play itself not some random signer.
Also, nice chopping up of the ZIP format again, that's not going to cause parsing bugs anywhere now is it?
How is that relevant exactly? If someone wants to crack open an APK they can make sure their parser works correctly with the format instead of relying it being similar to a zip.
Adding an origin signature simply helps prevent the spread of malware as a device can verify that it is a legitimate package instead of some compromised apk. This has been an issue for a long time even in the west where users have internet access (fortnite apk!1!) and has been much more problematic where people have limited and expensive internet.
Qualcomm and Microsoft were proclaiming they'd be competitive prior to the recent Windows on Arm which turned out to be a dumpster fire. Despite claims by the gadget press that you have a "super computer" in your pocket no one has yet to show they are remotely close to anything available today from Intel or AMD.
On the plus-side, the earlier children learn they live in a surveillance-society and not a free one, the better.
I feel like this is a reflex response, there is an issue with widely deploying facial recognition as it would allow authorities to widely track individuals. However, consider schools - students already have attendance taken and visitors are already required to report into the office. There doesn't appear to be any additional privacy problems here I can see.
Its not about covering up harassment, it allows them to fire people and circumvent the entire conversation.
Its more about protecting the company from harassment lawsuits.
I think you'd be surprised at the ruralness of some places in Europe, that said country population density isn't particularly relevant when we're talking about wiring a city.
Speaker?! We're worried about the microphone!
There is an opportunity cost of delaying automated vehicles until they are close to perfect (a large one).
What exactly? Your short term stock options?
we'll set automated driving back a decade or two, costing countless lives in the process.
Ah, this specious argument again. Self-driving cars have yet to show this to be accurate, Waymo is apparently the best of the bunch yet requires human intervention on an average of 5000 miles - given that the average American drives 13k miles a year the best automation would crash a little under 3 times a year. While Tesla touts its autopilot notice how it never discloses how frequently it disengages, how often the driver must pro-actively prevent an accident, nor how often it does something dangerous without resulting in an accident.
If you change your sensor arrangement you start from scratch.
You don't need to model the real world. You drive the car around with sensors on and record the input, then in simulation you feed the input from all the weird scenarios you recorded into your system.
The behaviour of Uber, Tesla and others is quite frankly reprehensible. The testing of these systems need should be at a higher bar than anything NASA or aeronautical firms given the widespread deployment, reduced control and much wider variety of possibility of harm.
Does the FBI / CIA need to wait for them to be deployed or can they issue NSL ahead of time. Wouldn't want to miss the opportunity to spy on foreign businesses and government officials.
We really need more jurisdictions to inflict a similar fine - Australia has 24 million people, to make numbers easy if we pretend 2.5-billion people are in countries where Apple operates then this is ~1% of the fine they should receive globally. Likely the potential market is larger so we could guess the fine might be approximately $1-billion globally.
Notice how the wikipedia page you linked specifically describes this case as "soft brick"
Downloading the application it appears one still cannot subscribe to arbitrary URLs and since not all podcasts are submitted to Google its still not a viable solution. The application looks pretty but I can't see why one would use it over podcasts in Google Play Music which also works on the web - this feels more like internal political infighting spilling out again.
I recall a number of articles finding that there was cultural bias in IQ testing. If there is now greater diversity in their population it could be the cause. Then again, kids today are dumb amirite?
Not someone with a PS4 or playing fortnite but my understanding is that Sony did not lockout the PC only other consoles.
Thats unpossible.
Maybe Netflix should put their money where their mouth apparently is - hire a very large codec development team and spend a couple decades going down these potential rabbit holes ....