In their defense, one issue you might run into would be a one-time-use thing.
For example, iTunes wants to use your camera so that it can read your iTunes card and update your balance. Which is a good thing. And when it asks if it can use your camera, it says that it only wants to do it so that it can read your iTunes card.
But what's to say it isn't doing it for other purposes? It certainly can because I said, "Yeah, okay, iTunes can use the camera."
Now, I don't remember if there's a "Ask Each Time" option or not. But perhaps there should be...
As an aside, Apple aficionados, I'm not implying that Apple is doing this. It's merely an example.
A PIN is a nuisance. 99 times out of 100, I'm opening my phone to look at something like Facebook or check movie times or take a picture or place a call or whatever. 1 time in 100, I'm using my phone to pay for something, transferring money between bank accounts, or some other system where I really want to make sure that there's a way for the phone to verify that it's me.
What I want is some way for my phone to know it's me without me having to memorize some number. Fingerprints, retina scans, face scans, voice-print, whatever.
Now, yeah, grampa, you can yell about the kids today and how when you were their age you memorized 57 different unique passwords and you were happy! They have no business being anywhere near your lawn.
True. But if I'm trying to sell you something? I sure as hell care about your feelings--at least until the check clears.
Remember, Google is in it for the marketshare. They don't make money off of Maps, they make money keeping track of to where you ask directions and using that information for marketing purposes. "Oh, look, you go to this grocery store? Maybe you'd be interested in some coupons..."
Back in my youth, I used to drink and drive all the time. But this was a pretty rural area and the roads were pretty empty and as long as nothing unexpected happened, I had no problem.
Ah, there's the rub.
Everything is fine as long as you don't encounter, say, an unexpected pedestrian or a bicyclist or another car. When you do, that's when reaction time and the like is important.
Agreed. I go back once a year for a week at Christmas and get my dose of snow and cold. It allows me to appreciate it out here.
It's funny because I'll start muttering in December about how cold it is. I'll start wearing long pants and long sleeved shirts. Then I'll go back to the Northeast at Christmas, come back, and go, "My God! It's so warm!" And start wearing shorts when it's 60 degrees out.
I'll admit I can't be bothered to RTFA. But, from what I'm seeing, they're banning gasoline & diesel engines.
It doesn't sounds to me like they're picking "winners." Electric, hydrogen fuel cell, hydrogen IC, and CNG should all pass, as well as cars that run on smugness, self-satisfaction, or pixie dust. What fails is gasoline and diesel.
In what world does NASA have less access to money than SpaceX?
Possibly this one.
NASA has access to more money than SpaceX. NASA--the National Aeronautical and Space Administration--spends some of it's money on aeronautical research. They also spend money sending robot probes to various places. They also spend money on the International Space Station.
Yes, I'm pretty sure if you gave NASA the money they have now and told them to can all that other stuff and just worry about putting a man on Mars, things could get done much faster. Is that a good idea? Nope.
Forget astronauts. How about we experiment on mice or something? Maybe if the ISS had something like, oh, I don't know, maybe a Centrifuge Accommodations Module we could start answering questions like that.
Good idea, now how many plants have you successfully grown in space? How many will you need for a contained biosphere?
Good questions. Here's some more, vis à vis gravity:
How much gravity does a person need? Can we get away with 1/2 G? 1/4 G? 1/8 G? Do they have to live in it or can they visit it? Could they sleep for 8 hours in 1 G and be able to work/live for 16 hours in 0 G with no ill effects? How about the opposite?
These are all great questions. And what I wonder is why don't we have any answers to these questions?
According to Wikipedia, 536 people have been "in space" and we "have spent over 29,000 person-days (or a cumulative total of over 77 years) in space."
There may very well be AGW, but hurricanes aren't proof of it.
Well, there is, but you're correct.
The other day I was reading an article [WARNING: Annoying advertisementt] on National Geographic's website which was talking about the storm. I found this phrase somewhat annoying:
And while scientists maintain that no single weather event can be attributed to climate change, two centuries of human fossil-fuel burning has altered temperatures just enough to almost certainly make this season's storms more powerful.
So, it wasn't enough last year. The tipping point was this year?
Even though scientists--y'know, smart people that we should consider listening to--say that a single event cannot be attributed to climate change, we're going to say it anyway. Because, hey, what do scientists know? Amirite?
AT&T used to have ads which claimed to cover 99% of all Americans. Not America--Americans. Sprint has some similar ads, stating that they're within 1% of all of Verizon's customers.
At one point, I was thinking of a Verizon ad which played on AT&T's old slogan, "We're everywhere you want to be" by saying that, "We're also everywhere you want to be--as well as a lot of places you don't want to be!" with a picture of a car broken down by the side of the road out in the middle of nowhere (say, some desert) and person using their cellphone to call for help.
You speak for yourself. And for me. But the GP makes an excellent point.
I have a laptop, an iPad mini, and an iPhone 5S (I'll probably replace it with an SE shortly). If I'm going on vacation, I'll usually take my iPad and my iPhone. If I'm going on a work-trip, I'll take my laptop and my iPhone.
Now, I use my laptop for work--both personal and professional--and I can't do that work on an iPhone. But there are plenty of people who could get by just fine with their phones (I call them "managers.")
If I can do everything that I would do on my laptop on a phone, why wouldn't I pay $1000 for a great one?
I'm old enough to remember when Apple announced plans to skip version 9 and go straight from Mac OS 8 to Mac OS X. Then they released a 9 anyway.
Then your memory is failing.
Apple announced Mac OS X and Mac OS 9 at the same time (I believe at WWDC '98). Mac OS 9 was available as stand-alone on Macs sold in that time frame as well as having code to handle running under Mac OS X.
Needless to say, Mac OS X got most of the press. But I don't believe there was ever not going to be a Mac OS 9.
1. Add the ability to recognize a specific voice that is authorized to issue commands. (No more South Park incidents. Period.)
I don't own one. So I don't know if this is just marketing...
But Amazon seems to have a new(?) series of TV Ads that I saw this morning that proclaims that Alexa can recognize different voices. So the idea is that if I say, "Alexa, call Mom" it will call my mother and not, say, my roommate's mother.
So I assume there's another check-box somewhere that says, "Only listen to known voices."
Of course, I'd also assume that such things are turned off by default.
[...] no way to DoS logging to a remote syslog server [...]
No, but you can DoS the printer merely by doing a lot of things that would get printed. Paper isn't infinite...
Fun example: Way back in the mainframe days, a place where my friend was working had a keycard-type lock for the machine room. Insert your card, door unlocks, remove card and enter the now unlocked door. It was a real nuisance for him and one Saturday, when he was working, he discovered that if he just left his card in the lock, the door would unlock, wait a few seconds, lock, reread the card, unlock, wait a few seconds, lock, reread the card, etc. This was quicker than pulling the card out of his wallet, etc., for each time he wanted to go in. And it was a Saturday, so it wasn't like there was anybody around.
Unfortunately, unbeknownst to him, there was a printer which printed a message whenever someone unlocked the door to the machine room.
Yup. Used a whole box of paper in a few hours (which was unceremoniously dumped on his desk Monday morning along with a memo that essentially said, "Never do this again!") and they had no idea if anybody had come in on Sunday.
I'd disagree with you regarding climate control...
Y'know, years ago they invented this thing called a "thermostat." They're pretty neat. You basically set it for the temperature you would like the area to be and it will run the air conditioner or the heat or the fans until it's that temperature.
So I find I don't really have to fiddle with the climate control while driving. I have it set to a comfortable temperature and the car seems to figure out for itself whether that means heating or cooling.
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How/Why is this different from the Open Data license?
Either that or Spain is going to need a few thousand extra prisons to keep up with the sedition charges.
Nah. Just build a wall around Catalonia and make it a prison.
In their defense, one issue you might run into would be a one-time-use thing.
For example, iTunes wants to use your camera so that it can read your iTunes card and update your balance. Which is a good thing. And when it asks if it can use your camera, it says that it only wants to do it so that it can read your iTunes card.
But what's to say it isn't doing it for other purposes? It certainly can because I said, "Yeah, okay, iTunes can use the camera."
Now, I don't remember if there's a "Ask Each Time" option or not. But perhaps there should be...
As an aside, Apple aficionados, I'm not implying that Apple is doing this. It's merely an example.
Is it not entirely software-based?
It requires sensors.
Okay, see, here's the thing:
A PIN is a nuisance. 99 times out of 100, I'm opening my phone to look at something like Facebook or check movie times or take a picture or place a call or whatever. 1 time in 100, I'm using my phone to pay for something, transferring money between bank accounts, or some other system where I really want to make sure that there's a way for the phone to verify that it's me.
What I want is some way for my phone to know it's me without me having to memorize some number. Fingerprints, retina scans, face scans, voice-print, whatever.
Now, yeah, grampa, you can yell about the kids today and how when you were their age you memorized 57 different unique passwords and you were happy! They have no business being anywhere near your lawn.
How do you ensure that the general public treats him as a normal citizen, do you forbid the press from reporting on any crime?
It is an interesting argument. Does the reporting of his crime in any way help the public?
Until we start digging into the sides of it to get at water/precious gems.
On the other hand, at 0.125G, if it does collapse, you'll have more time to get out of the way!
Self-Propelled Explorer for LUNar Kaves?
So close...
the universe doesn't care about your feelings
True. But if I'm trying to sell you something? I sure as hell care about your feelings--at least until the check clears.
Remember, Google is in it for the marketshare. They don't make money off of Maps, they make money keeping track of to where you ask directions and using that information for marketing purposes. "Oh, look, you go to this grocery store? Maybe you'd be interested in some coupons..."
It can also depend on where you're driving.
Back in my youth, I used to drink and drive all the time. But this was a pretty rural area and the roads were pretty empty and as long as nothing unexpected happened, I had no problem.
Ah, there's the rub.
Everything is fine as long as you don't encounter, say, an unexpected pedestrian or a bicyclist or another car. When you do, that's when reaction time and the like is important.
Agreed. I go back once a year for a week at Christmas and get my dose of snow and cold. It allows me to appreciate it out here.
It's funny because I'll start muttering in December about how cold it is. I'll start wearing long pants and long sleeved shirts. Then I'll go back to the Northeast at Christmas, come back, and go, "My God! It's so warm!" And start wearing shorts when it's 60 degrees out.
I'll admit I can't be bothered to RTFA. But, from what I'm seeing, they're banning gasoline & diesel engines.
It doesn't sounds to me like they're picking "winners." Electric, hydrogen fuel cell, hydrogen IC, and CNG should all pass, as well as cars that run on smugness, self-satisfaction, or pixie dust. What fails is gasoline and diesel.
So it sounds more like they picked the "losers."
This customer knows exactly what he wants, in detail, and you deliver it to him exactly as he asked for it, and they don't like it.
My new girlfriend is just like my mother--looks like her, dresses like her. So I took her home to meet my parents. My father hates her!
I'll be here all week. Try the veal!
In what world does NASA have less access to money than SpaceX?
Possibly this one.
NASA has access to more money than SpaceX. NASA--the National Aeronautical and Space Administration--spends some of it's money on aeronautical research. They also spend money sending robot probes to various places. They also spend money on the International Space Station.
Yes, I'm pretty sure if you gave NASA the money they have now and told them to can all that other stuff and just worry about putting a man on Mars, things could get done much faster. Is that a good idea? Nope.
Forget astronauts. How about we experiment on mice or something? Maybe if the ISS had something like, oh, I don't know, maybe a Centrifuge Accommodations Module we could start answering questions like that.
Good idea, now how many plants have you successfully grown in space? How many will you need for a contained biosphere?
Good questions. Here's some more, vis à vis gravity:
How much gravity does a person need? Can we get away with 1/2 G? 1/4 G? 1/8 G? Do they have to live in it or can they visit it? Could they sleep for 8 hours in 1 G and be able to work/live for 16 hours in 0 G with no ill effects? How about the opposite?
These are all great questions. And what I wonder is why don't we have any answers to these questions?
According to Wikipedia, 536 people have been "in space" and we "have spent over 29,000 person-days (or a cumulative total of over 77 years) in space."
But nobody has tried to answer these questions?
Maybe instead of trying to train ants to sort tiny screws in space, we could actually look into some of these questions?
There may very well be AGW, but hurricanes aren't proof of it.
Well, there is, but you're correct.
The other day I was reading an article [WARNING: Annoying advertisementt] on National Geographic's website which was talking about the storm. I found this phrase somewhat annoying:
So, it wasn't enough last year. The tipping point was this year?
It sort of reminds me of the meme, "I'm not saying it's aliens...but it's aliens." "I'm not saying it's climate change, but it's climate change."
Even though scientists--y'know, smart people that we should consider listening to--say that a single event cannot be attributed to climate change, we're going to say it anyway. Because, hey, what do scientists know? Amirite?
Think that football is too big to fail? 80 years ago Boxing was the #1 sport in America. Look at the state of boxing today.
Yeah? And what'll replace it? Soccer? Please...
(I'm being facetious. Actually, soccer's popularity is up. On the other hand, I've been hearing it's been gaining popularity since the 1980s, so...)
I gotta admit, this made me chuckle.
AT&T used to have ads which claimed to cover 99% of all Americans. Not America--Americans. Sprint has some similar ads, stating that they're within 1% of all of Verizon's customers.
At one point, I was thinking of a Verizon ad which played on AT&T's old slogan, "We're everywhere you want to be" by saying that, "We're also everywhere you want to be--as well as a lot of places you don't want to be!" with a picture of a car broken down by the side of the road out in the middle of nowhere (say, some desert) and person using their cellphone to call for help.
You speak for yourself. And for me. But the GP makes an excellent point.
I have a laptop, an iPad mini, and an iPhone 5S (I'll probably replace it with an SE shortly). If I'm going on vacation, I'll usually take my iPad and my iPhone. If I'm going on a work-trip, I'll take my laptop and my iPhone.
Now, I use my laptop for work--both personal and professional--and I can't do that work on an iPhone. But there are plenty of people who could get by just fine with their phones (I call them "managers.")
If I can do everything that I would do on my laptop on a phone, why wouldn't I pay $1000 for a great one?
What I'm curious about is whether if I come visit you and I say, "Alexa, play some music", will Alexa just ignore me?
Or even scarier, it'll start playing some MCR because it knows it's me...and I don't even have an Alexa!
I'm old enough to remember when Apple announced plans to skip version 9 and go straight from Mac OS 8 to Mac OS X. Then they released a 9 anyway.
Then your memory is failing.
Apple announced Mac OS X and Mac OS 9 at the same time (I believe at WWDC '98). Mac OS 9 was available as stand-alone on Macs sold in that time frame as well as having code to handle running under Mac OS X.
Needless to say, Mac OS X got most of the press. But I don't believe there was ever not going to be a Mac OS 9.
1. Add the ability to recognize a specific voice that is authorized to issue commands. (No more South Park incidents. Period.)
I don't own one. So I don't know if this is just marketing...
But Amazon seems to have a new(?) series of TV Ads that I saw this morning that proclaims that Alexa can recognize different voices. So the idea is that if I say, "Alexa, call Mom" it will call my mother and not, say, my roommate's mother.
So I assume there's another check-box somewhere that says, "Only listen to known voices."
Of course, I'd also assume that such things are turned off by default.
[...] no way to DoS logging to a remote syslog server [...]
No, but you can DoS the printer merely by doing a lot of things that would get printed. Paper isn't infinite...
Fun example: Way back in the mainframe days, a place where my friend was working had a keycard-type lock for the machine room. Insert your card, door unlocks, remove card and enter the now unlocked door. It was a real nuisance for him and one Saturday, when he was working, he discovered that if he just left his card in the lock, the door would unlock, wait a few seconds, lock, reread the card, unlock, wait a few seconds, lock, reread the card, etc. This was quicker than pulling the card out of his wallet, etc., for each time he wanted to go in. And it was a Saturday, so it wasn't like there was anybody around.
Unfortunately, unbeknownst to him, there was a printer which printed a message whenever someone unlocked the door to the machine room.
Yup. Used a whole box of paper in a few hours (which was unceremoniously dumped on his desk Monday morning along with a memo that essentially said, "Never do this again!") and they had no idea if anybody had come in on Sunday.
I'd disagree with you regarding climate control...
Y'know, years ago they invented this thing called a "thermostat." They're pretty neat. You basically set it for the temperature you would like the area to be and it will run the air conditioner or the heat or the fans until it's that temperature.
So I find I don't really have to fiddle with the climate control while driving. I have it set to a comfortable temperature and the car seems to figure out for itself whether that means heating or cooling.