You still need to use a special app from the appmarket to "implant" your ringtone into the system, because you can't just say from the system menu: "Use this file"
I most definitely did _not_ use any iPhone application to do this. Just iTunes. Pick a song in your library, set start and end point until it loops nicely, make a copy to get rid of the unwanted megabytes of music, I don't know if I needed to change the file type, and move it to "Ring tones". See, you thought of a way how it could be done that didn't work. I instead used a way that worked.
Do a little fucking soul searching about not spending $xxxx on a phone?
He was saying that if you work in tech, and the reason not to buy a phone for $1,200 is because you cannot afford it, then yes, you should do a bit of soul searching how come that you haven't got a well paying job.
If you don't like the phone, or if you have other priorities, or if you think that it isn't worth it or not worth it for you, that's fine. But if you cannot afford it? In England, every chav living on benefits has an iPhone. If you work in tech and cannot afford it, you are doing something wrong.
Ever tried to make your own ringtone for an apple device?
I had to make a ringtone for my wife's phone. Can't remember the exact steps (googling may have been involved), but there wasn't anything difficult about it. Just the first 20 seconds of a song from a CD that I had ripped into iTunes. And I used AAC, not Apple Lossless, so there were no proprietary formats used.
The iPhone is not made to last, the battery cannot be replaced, it cannot be opened by a normal person and be repaired or upgraded.
The battery cannot be replaced? I don't know about the iPhone 8, because nobody has ever seen it, but battery replacement like screen replacement are on Apple's official price list. If they are on the price list, I'd assume the battery can be replaced.
And Apple has this thing called "out of warranty repair": If you have an older iPhone, let's say an iPhone 6 with broken screen and broken battery and whatever else is wrong, Apple will replace it with an equivalent refurbished phone for about half the cost of the base model. My wife's first iPhone was an iPhone 4s with a broken screen that she was given for free, and replaced with a new one at the Apple Store for £140.
Nobody has seen an iPhone 8. Nobody knows what it does. Therefore nobody knows what it would be worth.
Asking me if I would pay $1,200 for a phone, when I have never seen it, when I have never used it, when nobody can tell me what it does? That's a nonsense question.
According to the article, it costs 60 yuan to replace an umbrella, but the deposit is only 19 yuan. But no worries;-) , they plan to make up for their losses in volume:
Google tells me that 60 yuan is $8.82. $8.82 for an umbrella, in China, when you are buying 300,000 of them? That seems to be a bit high. I'm sure I can get 300,000 umbrellas from Alibaba delivered to my home (whole neighbourhood covered by umbrellas:-) for a lot less than that.
Just checked: Yes, I can get 1000 umbrellas to my home for less than 19 Yuan each.
You'd just need to connect the TV output directly to the device as well, so it can filter out everything coming from TV from its processing. Not just to avoid panic when you watch a cop show, but it would help with voice processing anyway. Like when the kids put up the TV much too loud and you say "turn the volume down", your voice assistant will actually recognise it through the noise.
This makes me wonder how many of hundreds of false calls to 911 there must be out there due to these things, if one of them actually happened at the right time.
The problem with false 911 calls is that the call centre is legally required to handle your call. They are not allowed to say "fuck off, you idiot" if they have an idiot on the phone who thinks an ingrown toe nail is a 911 emergency.
But they could create a "second-rate" number that these home devices could call, allowing them to listen in or even see what's happening, without legal obligation. So if they see it's the kids mucking about, ignore it. If they see someone holding a gun or knife, send the cops out.
Now what they could do with legal support: With permission of the home owner, the police might get permission to listen in on what is going on in the house, with an iron rule that this can only be used to aid the home owner, that no evidence can be used against the home owner, even if the police had a search warrant. So if your neighbours call because they suspect something bad is going on, the police could use this to either figure out nothing is going on, or to figure out you're in danger and come out.
What I hear: "wah, you should be spoonfeeding us this because it's over our heads. Fuck the good ideas and flaws that get fixed, submit pretty patches or fuck off."
What I hear from you is that you have no idea how software development works. Yes, absolutely, if you supply something that cannot be integrated, then fuck off.
They might, but someone at Apple might also be thinking "no, they're actually full of shit and haven't found critical issues yet" until a zero day rears its ugly head. It's not like Apple could buy the stuff at an auction or something - or could they?
If there was an auction, the right thing to do would be to shoot all the other bidders.
I would offer a $250,000 reward for the identification of the people responsible. And then every country in the world can decide whether taking them out is helping their national security.
I just can't stop asking myself "How the hell does someone start with they should have used a smaller caliber?"... maybe a bigger book? maybe a bible and let the lord protect him? Maybe he should have held it scewed a bit? Nope... we went straight to... I think a smaller caliber would be a good idea:)
I always thought the rule is "never point a gun at someone unless you want to shoot them", with "shoot" meaning "inflict serious damage". Obviously most important for idiots who play around with guns and think they are fakes, not loaded, or loaded with blanks. Also important that when you point a gun at someone, even if you believe it is fake, not loaded, or loaded with blanks, and damage to yourself is the result of self defence and your own fault.
What, might you ask, is a fraud card? It's a special card that will stop a merchant account. Shut it down. Scammer calls a undercover LEO or their call is forwarded to them, LEO gives them the number, and as soon as it hits the card processor, it locks the merchant account and triggers a fraud investigation into that merchant account.
Doesn't even have to be an undercover police officer. They make so many fraudulent calls, they must be calling the homes of police officers once in a while. To encourage police offers to actually do this (they are at home, not on the job), reward them with paying 30 minutes overtime whenever their "Fraud card" is used.
You also "explained" that it wasn't clear that the Orlando attack was Islamic terrorism, even though the shooter called 911 to pledge allegiance to an ISIS leader and say his actions were because the US killed an ISIS member the week before.
What we know is that some in-the-closet gay man, who hated himself for being gay, started hating other gay men for being gay and murdered 50 of them. He was a muslim, which wasn't great for him to come to terms with being gay; being raised as a fundamental Christian would have the same effect.
Now after the deed is done, he was too ashamed to announce "I am gay and hate myself for it, and I hate all gay people, and that's what I shot them". So instead he gave a message of support for ISIS, intentionally to make himself even more hated.
Fact is if he had tried to join ISIS and they had found out he's gay they would have killed him on the spot.
What did Ohio ever do to anyone? I can understand Washington or New Jersey, but Ohio?
I suppose Ohio had hackable servers. That's the difference.
Nobody said "let's put stuff on Ohio's website". Someone said "let's look for vulnerable servers everywhere in the country and hack everything we find that is vulnerable".
Have you read it? English translations are good enough. It's one of the most spiteful, nasty, hate-filled books ever written. And it's chock full of stuff about either killing infidels or celebrating how much they will suffer in the afterlife.
I'll give you a tip: Not every translation that you find on the Internet is correct. And then of course the Old Testament has some rather nasty bits as well.
Turn on all the warning lights, and tell the driver that the police will be informed. Surely if I do anything that makes people say the car should pull over and stop, which it can't, the police should be called and the driver fined.
The fact that the EU even has a department looking at civil liberties, which is taken seriously and results in strong privacy and freedom protections, is quite remarkable these days.
However, in this particular case the NSA, with no interest in civil liberties whatsoever, agrees with them. According to the NSA, whose business is US national security (and not EU national security, or US civil liberties) strong encryption is overall beneficial to US national security. So if we believe them, then there isn't even a conflict between national security and civil liberty.
(Of course the NSA would like to be able to, and works hard to break your encryption. That's their job. But it seems they think they are better at it than the bad guys, and weak encryption would make it dangerously simple for the bad guys to break our encryption).
It also scores a 0 out of 10 for Technician repairability. That means you CANNOT repair it, only throw it away. If you live on Earth, that should matter to you.
Many things that "cannot be opened" can be opened when you have the right tools. For example, Apple offers an "out of warranty" repair for phones and tablets where you pay have the price of a new device, get your device exchanged, and your old device will go straight back to the manufacturer where it can be refurbished or recycled for parts.
So according to this article, Apple going to 64 bit is making this site fail. What a ridiculous nonsense.
1. Apple hasn't changed everything to 64 bit yet. iOS 11 will only run on 64 bit systems and won't run on any device that is 32 bit only, but this hasn't happened yet.
2. 64 bit applications work just fine. Apparently the application uses 32 bit in the 32 bit version and 64 bit in the 64 bit version, the 32 bit version overflows and the 64 bit version doesn't. So if Apple had killed off all 32 bit versions, which they didn't, everything would have actually been fine.
3. The problem is not 32 bit vs 64 bit application, it is using a 32 bit counter for a quantity that exceeds 32 bits. But 32 bit applications can easily use 64 bit counters. They are just a tiny tiny bit slower, but work just fine.
So the problem has nothing to do with Apple, it is using a 32 bit variable for a 64 bit quantity, in other words, an elementary programming error by the application developer.
Wouldn't banning encryption be to the detriment of the government as well as their own citizens' personal data that any terrorist would now be able to exploit to say, fake their ID or steal government clearance info and intel?
Well, the NSA believes that abolishing strong encryption is overall bad for the national security of the USA. That is without taking things like privacy into account, which the NSA doesn't care about (not saying it's a negative that they don't care about privacy, it's not their job).
I suppose the numbers went up when it stopped being considered criminal, and when it got less likely to get beaten up for being gay.
Answer me this: Could you become gay if it become really, really, fashionable? I couldn't. So the percentage of gay people who admit to it may be going up, but that is all.
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You still need to use a special app from the appmarket to "implant" your ringtone into the system, because you can't just say from the system menu: "Use this file"
I most definitely did _not_ use any iPhone application to do this. Just iTunes. Pick a song in your library, set start and end point until it loops nicely, make a copy to get rid of the unwanted megabytes of music, I don't know if I needed to change the file type, and move it to "Ring tones". See, you thought of a way how it could be done that didn't work. I instead used a way that worked.
Do a little fucking soul searching about not spending $xxxx on a phone?
He was saying that if you work in tech, and the reason not to buy a phone for $1,200 is because you cannot afford it, then yes, you should do a bit of soul searching how come that you haven't got a well paying job.
If you don't like the phone, or if you have other priorities, or if you think that it isn't worth it or not worth it for you, that's fine. But if you cannot afford it? In England, every chav living on benefits has an iPhone. If you work in tech and cannot afford it, you are doing something wrong.
Even if apple were to give me the next iPhone for free, or pay me $1,200 to take it, I wouldn't.
I would take ten thousand, start a business selling them for $800, and become a multi millionaire. You don't seem to be very smart.
Ever tried to make your own ringtone for an apple device?
I had to make a ringtone for my wife's phone. Can't remember the exact steps (googling may have been involved), but there wasn't anything difficult about it. Just the first 20 seconds of a song from a CD that I had ripped into iTunes. And I used AAC, not Apple Lossless, so there were no proprietary formats used.
The iPhone is not made to last, the battery cannot be replaced, it cannot be opened by a normal person and be repaired or upgraded.
The battery cannot be replaced? I don't know about the iPhone 8, because nobody has ever seen it, but battery replacement like screen replacement are on Apple's official price list. If they are on the price list, I'd assume the battery can be replaced.
And Apple has this thing called "out of warranty repair": If you have an older iPhone, let's say an iPhone 6 with broken screen and broken battery and whatever else is wrong, Apple will replace it with an equivalent refurbished phone for about half the cost of the base model. My wife's first iPhone was an iPhone 4s with a broken screen that she was given for free, and replaced with a new one at the Apple Store for £140.
Nobody has seen an iPhone 8. Nobody knows what it does. Therefore nobody knows what it would be worth.
Asking me if I would pay $1,200 for a phone, when I have never seen it, when I have never used it, when nobody can tell me what it does? That's a nonsense question.
According to the article, it costs 60 yuan to replace an umbrella, but the deposit is only 19 yuan. But no worries ;-) , they plan to make up for their losses in volume:
Google tells me that 60 yuan is $8.82. $8.82 for an umbrella, in China, when you are buying 300,000 of them? That seems to be a bit high. I'm sure I can get 300,000 umbrellas from Alibaba delivered to my home (whole neighbourhood covered by umbrellas :-) for a lot less than that.
Just checked: Yes, I can get 1000 umbrellas to my home for less than 19 Yuan each.
You'd just need to connect the TV output directly to the device as well, so it can filter out everything coming from TV from its processing. Not just to avoid panic when you watch a cop show, but it would help with voice processing anyway. Like when the kids put up the TV much too loud and you say "turn the volume down", your voice assistant will actually recognise it through the noise.
This makes me wonder how many of hundreds of false calls to 911 there must be out there due to these things, if one of them actually happened at the right time.
The problem with false 911 calls is that the call centre is legally required to handle your call. They are not allowed to say "fuck off, you idiot" if they have an idiot on the phone who thinks an ingrown toe nail is a 911 emergency.
But they could create a "second-rate" number that these home devices could call, allowing them to listen in or even see what's happening, without legal obligation. So if they see it's the kids mucking about, ignore it. If they see someone holding a gun or knife, send the cops out.
Now what they could do with legal support: With permission of the home owner, the police might get permission to listen in on what is going on in the house, with an iron rule that this can only be used to aid the home owner, that no evidence can be used against the home owner, even if the police had a search warrant. So if your neighbours call because they suspect something bad is going on, the police could use this to either figure out nothing is going on, or to figure out you're in danger and come out.
What I hear: "wah, you should be spoonfeeding us this because it's over our heads. Fuck the good ideas and flaws that get fixed, submit pretty patches or fuck off."
What I hear from you is that you have no idea how software development works. Yes, absolutely, if you supply something that cannot be integrated, then fuck off.
They might, but someone at Apple might also be thinking "no, they're actually full of shit and haven't found critical issues yet" until a zero day rears its ugly head. It's not like Apple could buy the stuff at an auction or something - or could they?
If there was an auction, the right thing to do would be to shoot all the other bidders.
I would offer a $250,000 reward for the identification of the people responsible. And then every country in the world can decide whether taking them out is helping their national security.
I just can't stop asking myself "How the hell does someone start with they should have used a smaller caliber?"... maybe a bigger book? maybe a bible and let the lord protect him? Maybe he should have held it scewed a bit? Nope... we went straight to... I think a smaller caliber would be a good idea :)
I always thought the rule is "never point a gun at someone unless you want to shoot them", with "shoot" meaning "inflict serious damage". Obviously most important for idiots who play around with guns and think they are fakes, not loaded, or loaded with blanks. Also important that when you point a gun at someone, even if you believe it is fake, not loaded, or loaded with blanks, and damage to yourself is the result of self defence and your own fault.
What, might you ask, is a fraud card? It's a special card that will stop a merchant account. Shut it down. Scammer calls a undercover LEO or their call is forwarded to them, LEO gives them the number, and as soon as it hits the card processor, it locks the merchant account and triggers a fraud investigation into that merchant account.
Doesn't even have to be an undercover police officer. They make so many fraudulent calls, they must be calling the homes of police officers once in a while. To encourage police offers to actually do this (they are at home, not on the job), reward them with paying 30 minutes overtime whenever their "Fraud card" is used.
Clearly the car wasn't used as a trojan horse, but as a mouse trap.
You also "explained" that it wasn't clear that the Orlando attack was Islamic terrorism, even though the shooter called 911 to pledge allegiance to an ISIS leader and say his actions were because the US killed an ISIS member the week before.
What we know is that some in-the-closet gay man, who hated himself for being gay, started hating other gay men for being gay and murdered 50 of them. He was a muslim, which wasn't great for him to come to terms with being gay; being raised as a fundamental Christian would have the same effect.
Now after the deed is done, he was too ashamed to announce "I am gay and hate myself for it, and I hate all gay people, and that's what I shot them". So instead he gave a message of support for ISIS, intentionally to make himself even more hated.
Fact is if he had tried to join ISIS and they had found out he's gay they would have killed him on the spot.
What did Ohio ever do to anyone? I can understand Washington or New Jersey, but Ohio?
I suppose Ohio had hackable servers. That's the difference.
Nobody said "let's put stuff on Ohio's website". Someone said "let's look for vulnerable servers everywhere in the country and hack everything we find that is vulnerable".
Have you read it? English translations are good enough. It's one of the most spiteful, nasty, hate-filled books ever written. And it's chock full of stuff about either killing infidels or celebrating how much they will suffer in the afterlife.
I'll give you a tip: Not every translation that you find on the Internet is correct. And then of course the Old Testament has some rather nasty bits as well.
Why doesnt the summary indicate in any way what was gained by the perpetrator in doing this?
I would think a warm cell and three meals a day?
Turn on all the warning lights, and tell the driver that the police will be informed. Surely if I do anything that makes people say the car should pull over and stop, which it can't, the police should be called and the driver fined.
The fact that the EU even has a department looking at civil liberties, which is taken seriously and results in strong privacy and freedom protections, is quite remarkable these days.
However, in this particular case the NSA, with no interest in civil liberties whatsoever, agrees with them. According to the NSA, whose business is US national security (and not EU national security, or US civil liberties) strong encryption is overall beneficial to US national security. So if we believe them, then there isn't even a conflict between national security and civil liberty.
(Of course the NSA would like to be able to, and works hard to break your encryption. That's their job. But it seems they think they are better at it than the bad guys, and weak encryption would make it dangerously simple for the bad guys to break our encryption).
It also scores a 0 out of 10 for Technician repairability. That means you CANNOT repair it, only throw it away. If you live on Earth, that should matter to you.
Many things that "cannot be opened" can be opened when you have the right tools. For example, Apple offers an "out of warranty" repair for phones and tablets where you pay have the price of a new device, get your device exchanged, and your old device will go straight back to the manufacturer where it can be refurbished or recycled for parts.
So according to this article, Apple going to 64 bit is making this site fail. What a ridiculous nonsense.
1. Apple hasn't changed everything to 64 bit yet. iOS 11 will only run on 64 bit systems and won't run on any device that is 32 bit only, but this hasn't happened yet.
2. 64 bit applications work just fine. Apparently the application uses 32 bit in the 32 bit version and 64 bit in the 64 bit version, the 32 bit version overflows and the 64 bit version doesn't. So if Apple had killed off all 32 bit versions, which they didn't, everything would have actually been fine.
3. The problem is not 32 bit vs 64 bit application, it is using a 32 bit counter for a quantity that exceeds 32 bits. But 32 bit applications can easily use 64 bit counters. They are just a tiny tiny bit slower, but work just fine.
So the problem has nothing to do with Apple, it is using a 32 bit variable for a 64 bit quantity, in other words, an elementary programming error by the application developer.
Wouldn't banning encryption be to the detriment of the government as well as their own citizens' personal data that any terrorist would now be able to exploit to say, fake their ID or steal government clearance info and intel?
Well, the NSA believes that abolishing strong encryption is overall bad for the national security of the USA. That is without taking things like privacy into account, which the NSA doesn't care about (not saying it's a negative that they don't care about privacy, it's not their job).
"since it became fashionable to be gay"
I suppose the numbers went up when it stopped being considered criminal, and when it got less likely to get beaten up for being gay.
Answer me this: Could you become gay if it become really, really, fashionable? I couldn't. So the percentage of gay people who admit to it may be going up, but that is all.