"The NOAA office simply can not issue a waiver to SpaceX as there is no provision in the relevant law that would permit them to do so."
I find it funny that we've got court cases that essentially nullify this as protected 1st Amendment speech and yet you go "No provision in relevant law" as if you only looked through the law and not the actual law-settling court cases.
"Is a stable android 5.2" system, with qi wireless charging, some basic gorilla glass, enough performance not to lag normal apps, a speaker that is loud enough, and the usual GPS."
Ah, but you also said $200. Was gonna say drop $350 on a Kyocera Duraforce Pro, keep waterproofing AND headphone and charging/USB jack, plus both wireless charging standards, get an SD card slot, has GPS, compass, etc. Toss a simple screen protector on it (though the Verizon version has sapphire glass) and this thing is unstoppable. It even tells you if moisture is present near/in any of the jacks so you can dry it out before plugging anything in. This thing is unkilable, at least as far as I'm concerned. I've broken almost every other phone I've had excepting the old Nokia brick and a Kyocera Phantom.
"it is however a pity that wireless usb seems to be dead"
Why would you need that when phones have USBOTG built in now days? You've got a higher-bandwidth connector that supports almost any device that follows the protocols, including possible eGPU/eASIC (for the fools that want to crypto on their phone.)
"Also, moto-z style modules... who wants a 1" thick phone again?"
As I hold my nearly-indestructible 3/4" thick DuraForce Pro, which withstands my mining excursions and underwater photography - I sure as fuck do, because my phone could be used to beat you to death, beat your phone to death, and then I could call funeral services for you and your phone on my nearly-unscathed phone. It's an unstoppable fucking tank. Make those modular connections tough enough, I'd love to toss out the never-used Bluetooth module and put in a tiny high-quality headphone amp with a small power-boosting battery unit and waterproof headphone connector inside. Upgrade camera? Maybe not, my camera's pretty dope as it is. This thing is meant for taking underwater photos.
"Batteries already take a lot of space in a phone. you don't get any significant improvement by adding a tiny battery module."
Battery tech has advanced a bit more than you think. 1" x.75" x.25" nets you almost 1.5Wh of power (3.7V@450mAh,) a good 10-15% compared to typical current smartphone capacities. Something that would replace the camera module in my phone would give me about 30% more battery life, and since this thing tends to sip power as I don't do billions of things on it, that's giving me about four days between charges instead of three.
Meanwhile your shit is tethered to the wall every 12 hours.
Not really, as that FOIA can just be refiled and forced as part of discovery in a civil case. Both sides are privileged to the information in such a manner, not just one.
"A mentally ill person with any weapon, other than a gun, can't go into a building and kill 20 people. A mentally ill person with any weapon, other that a gun, can't kill 50 people from 500 feet away."
I can guarantee you the thing still holds true, it is more expensive to do a swap out than repair, especially if repair can be done on-site by techs instead of needing to go to a repair depot.
Cuz guess what? I still do repairs to this day, on top of dozens of other things I do.
No matter what anyone says, when power goes out and communications infrastructure goes to shit or gets attacked, regular hard currency will still work until the human race forgets how to add and subtract.
"Cash transactions are also slower than just waving your phone, which raises costs."
Every place I go where they need me to use a fucking chipped card, it takes about 15 seconds for the transaction. As a former cashier, I could've done the entire transaction in my head and had the change in the customer's hands in less than ten seconds.
Might be slower for you now because of all the clueless millennials in retail positions.
"Iâ(TM)m so sick of hearing about repair. No school is going to repair $hit. Just like most average users. They will get a warranty program and Apple will exchange units in need of service."
found the lying Apple-using shill.
I worked in a repair depot. Specifically for supporting school districts using apple products (G3/G4 processor days.)
They don't exchange, they send it in for actual repairs if the on-site staff can't do it themselves. Exchanges do nothing but eat profit, repairs less so.
"Laptops for content creators and CAD designers have been stuck in 4-Core, 3.3 - 3.7 GHz land for many, many years."
That's because CAD has historically been gimped by GPU performance, not CPU performance. Please try your pondering again when you have actually used CAD machines for over 20 years!
I consider part of my privacy as my freedom to go where I please without Apple going "Oh, look, we see you're trying to access an 18+ section of an app, you can't do that."
None of their business where I'm going or what I'm doing, especially when I have a paid contract with the third entity in question for such service to be provided.
Real World Performance - how quickly these processors can perform the worst time-consuming calculations, because that's what is happening with code now days, it is bloated inefficient garbage. That should make for a good metric.
"Apple (Tim Cook) has NOT been involved in the current scandal of violating customer privacy."
I'd quite say he is violating my privacy to some degree when Apple restricts me from accessing 18+ chat rooms on a program where I explicitly paid for such a feature. You don't get to tell me where to go or whom I may associate with, Cook.
Pretty sure they can't discern mere discussion of it versus sale of it unless they're violating your privacy and reading every single one, given machine learning with regards to context is highly lacking.
"but there still have not been and large scale massacres since, especially in schools. Please try again."
Utterly wrong! Manchester 2017. How about the July 2005 bombings in London? Are you fucking daft or just dense? You took away the guns so the criminals went right to blowing your asses up and stabbing you to a slow and painful death instead. What about Cumbria? All of these happened after your gun control laws.
You're fucking daft and dumb to not remember any of those incidents.
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"The NOAA office simply can not issue a waiver to SpaceX as there is no provision in the relevant law that would permit them to do so."
I find it funny that we've got court cases that essentially nullify this as protected 1st Amendment speech and yet you go "No provision in relevant law" as if you only looked through the law and not the actual law-settling court cases.
You certainly don't own any USBOTG devices. Cords aren't necessary. Just like a jump drive.
Ding! A few micro-BLEVEs and that bonfire is now covering everyone around it within 50 feet.
"Is a stable android 5.2" system, with qi wireless charging, some basic gorilla glass, enough performance not to lag normal apps, a speaker that is loud enough, and the usual GPS."
Ah, but you also said $200. Was gonna say drop $350 on a Kyocera Duraforce Pro, keep waterproofing AND headphone and charging/USB jack, plus both wireless charging standards, get an SD card slot, has GPS, compass, etc. Toss a simple screen protector on it (though the Verizon version has sapphire glass) and this thing is unstoppable. It even tells you if moisture is present near/in any of the jacks so you can dry it out before plugging anything in. This thing is unkilable, at least as far as I'm concerned. I've broken almost every other phone I've had excepting the old Nokia brick and a Kyocera Phantom.
"it is however a pity that wireless usb seems to be dead"
Why would you need that when phones have USBOTG built in now days? You've got a higher-bandwidth connector that supports almost any device that follows the protocols, including possible eGPU/eASIC (for the fools that want to crypto on their phone.)
"Also, moto-z style modules... who wants a 1" thick phone again?"
As I hold my nearly-indestructible 3/4" thick DuraForce Pro, which withstands my mining excursions and underwater photography - I sure as fuck do, because my phone could be used to beat you to death, beat your phone to death, and then I could call funeral services for you and your phone on my nearly-unscathed phone. It's an unstoppable fucking tank. Make those modular connections tough enough, I'd love to toss out the never-used Bluetooth module and put in a tiny high-quality headphone amp with a small power-boosting battery unit and waterproof headphone connector inside. Upgrade camera? Maybe not, my camera's pretty dope as it is. This thing is meant for taking underwater photos.
"Batteries already take a lot of space in a phone. you don't get any significant improvement by adding a tiny battery module."
Battery tech has advanced a bit more than you think. 1" x .75" x .25" nets you almost 1.5Wh of power (3.7V@450mAh,) a good 10-15% compared to typical current smartphone capacities. Something that would replace the camera module in my phone would give me about 30% more battery life, and since this thing tends to sip power as I don't do billions of things on it, that's giving me about four days between charges instead of three.
Meanwhile your shit is tethered to the wall every 12 hours.
"he might have a leg to stand on here"
Not really, as that FOIA can just be refiled and forced as part of discovery in a civil case. Both sides are privileged to the information in such a manner, not just one.
"A mentally ill person with any weapon, other than a gun, can't go into a building and kill 20 people. A mentally ill person with any weapon, other that a gun, can't kill 50 people from 500 feet away."
Do you even high explosives, you fucking n00b?
"Without power the cash registry won't open."
Most registers still use a mechanical release for the drawer. Failing that, they have key unlocking mechanisms.
" less than 5s for a chip-and-pin transaction."
I'm guessing you've never run a register with elderly people in line.
"What happens in the real world is a person spends some 15 seconds fucking around with their wallet "
This applies in any case, as the idiot customer fumbles around for the card they should've had in their fucking hands while approaching the register.
I can guarantee you the thing still holds true, it is more expensive to do a swap out than repair, especially if repair can be done on-site by techs instead of needing to go to a repair depot.
Cuz guess what? I still do repairs to this day, on top of dozens of other things I do.
No matter what anyone says, when power goes out and communications infrastructure goes to shit or gets attacked, regular hard currency will still work until the human race forgets how to add and subtract.
"Cash transactions are also slower than just waving your phone, which raises costs."
Every place I go where they need me to use a fucking chipped card, it takes about 15 seconds for the transaction. As a former cashier, I could've done the entire transaction in my head and had the change in the customer's hands in less than ten seconds.
Might be slower for you now because of all the clueless millennials in retail positions.
"Iâ(TM)m so sick of hearing about repair. No school is going to repair $hit. Just like most average users. They will get a warranty program and Apple will exchange units in need of service."
found the lying Apple-using shill.
I worked in a repair depot. Specifically for supporting school districts using apple products (G3/G4 processor days.)
They don't exchange, they send it in for actual repairs if the on-site staff can't do it themselves. Exchanges do nothing but eat profit, repairs less so.
"Laptops for content creators and CAD designers have been stuck in 4-Core, 3.3 - 3.7 GHz land for many, many years."
That's because CAD has historically been gimped by GPU performance, not CPU performance. Please try your pondering again when you have actually used CAD machines for over 20 years!
"One of those unsubstantiated 'problems' with Apple products"
Uh, no, very fucking well documented for years directly in Apple's own App Store guidelines.
Meanwhile, the Android version? Straight to 18+ video chat rooms without fail, from the very first Droid version of the app.
I consider part of my privacy as my freedom to go where I please without Apple going "Oh, look, we see you're trying to access an 18+ section of an app, you can't do that."
None of their business where I'm going or what I'm doing, especially when I have a paid contract with the third entity in question for such service to be provided.
Real World Performance - how quickly these processors can perform the worst time-consuming calculations, because that's what is happening with code now days, it is bloated inefficient garbage. That should make for a good metric.
"Apple (Tim Cook) has NOT been involved in the current scandal of violating customer privacy."
I'd quite say he is violating my privacy to some degree when Apple restricts me from accessing 18+ chat rooms on a program where I explicitly paid for such a feature. You don't get to tell me where to go or whom I may associate with, Cook.
Pretty sure they can't discern mere discussion of it versus sale of it unless they're violating your privacy and reading every single one, given machine learning with regards to context is highly lacking.
"but there still have not been and large scale massacres since, especially in schools. Please try again."
Utterly wrong! Manchester 2017. How about the July 2005 bombings in London? Are you fucking daft or just dense? You took away the guns so the criminals went right to blowing your asses up and stabbing you to a slow and painful death instead. What about Cumbria? All of these happened after your gun control laws.
You're fucking daft and dumb to not remember any of those incidents.
Explain how skin is an organ.
Found the geology failure!
It's kinda hard to do any mining when it's pitch black out (unless you don't bother looking at the time/date of posts, which you probably don't.)