Are AMD CPUs clear of it?
Has someone got it onto RISC chips?
Has the NSA or other criminals got their hooks into it?
Can it be "zapped" with some xrays like cancer patients?
I wonder what % of/. readers sees sees these "new feature" announcements as something to add to their ToDo list for blocking.
Anywhere that security is more than a passing fancy is going to se this as 2 things. A new improved attack vector and an inte5resting way to leak information. Was this an NSA idea?
An open protocol could exist between PC and Android. Apple would never want to play ball as file transfer would be at odds with the Golden Cage concept.. or was it called Walled Garden? I do not recall.;)
I think of it as the Golden Shower Cubicle concept.
....but over the long term the money you get out is related to how well the business is doing.....
No. It is related to how well the stock is doing. This is very different. Let me list a few words and phrases
derivatives
hostile takeover
stock market crash
insider trading
overvalued
stock swap
and so on. If I know these phrases, someone who knows about stock trading will know of many other examples of the disconnect between stocks&shares and companies who actually do something. The fact that there are so many people here who think that cryptocurrencies are less "real" than the global stock scam is a sad reminder of ideas like gullibility, ignorance and cupidity.
....There are people in the world who don't have the patience to gain the "education" necessary to be a successful stock investor....
Fixed that for you. The information used by many to enabvle them to do business in this sort of activity is not education as most of us understand the word.It seems that, along with knowledge, many people have had to learn how to disable ethical sensetivities and enable the sociopathic tendencies that we see. That's mpore training than learning.
This could happen in Myanmar I suppose. Do they produce many steel bars? I'm sure that there is a third country that has not got rif of this hand-me-down from the dark ages. I bet they don't make many either.
The US population is perhaps under 4.5% of the planet. That means that 95.5% of us don't use that numerically illiterate system of measurement. If this offends you, this is not my intention but neither is it my problem. 1 mile, 1,760 yards, 5,280 feet, 63,360 inches. (You seem to avoid, fathoms, poles, rods, perches, chains, barleycorns and so on.)
I do not want a "trusted platform mobile" in anything that puports to be secure. It is widely known as a back door for US spooks. This immediately makes the whole system hyper insecure.
Very few people buy a new iThing based on thought and analtysis of information. (That can be said of Android devices to some extent too.)
Getting advice from other uninformed Apple enthusiasts has always accounted for a high proportiion of iPhone sales. The problem is that Apples market % is dropping. For years now, they have been protected by the fact that the market is growing so their sales numbers go up.
They know that this cannot continue for ever so they may be looking to reinvigorate the advertising channel that has served them so well in the past.
Nothing ever completely dissapears. There are still people making a living in ways we consider obsolete. You can still buy a new buggy whip, suit of chain mail, vinyl record or roll of35mm film.It doesn't matter. Those things have gone and are functionally irellevant to 21st century life in the developed world.
There are some groups of people who want a buggy whip for its actual purpose. Some of them are avoiding the 20th or 21st centuries for cultural or religious reasons. Others might drive horse powered buggies for fun.
I watch someone on Youtube who is getting a suit of armour. It's an expensive hobby but it is being made by a serious professional.
Similar things could be said of the other items I listed but they are all gone as far away as they ever will./p>
What things will go the same way over the next 10 years?
1. Paper books will take a lot longer but there are less in the rich developed world but that is only a drop in a small part of the world.
2. Landline telephones do not exist in much of the world. I haven't had one for years but I know plenty of people who do. Businesses will stick with them for use in offices. Maybe in 25 years, they will be less common.
3. Pagers/bleeps are still more widely used than people think. Those of us who are tied to them would probably not mind if they all went the way of the dodo. The technology has been around for a long time. We just need management to realise it and for old systems to be replaced as they fail. 10 years? No problem.
Early last year, I put a little into bitcoin to see what would happen and sat back and watched. Yesterday, I took back my initial payment plus interest. It now owes me nothing and is still worth $700. I wish I had put in more.
If it goes down the pan, I will have lost nothing. If it carries non at this rate or goes down, I will still only have a bit of a Bitcoin that cost me nothing.
If i have $100, I can't invest $10,000 in anything
Perhaps he is talking to banks? That is exactly what they do. For every $ they get, they invest many times. That is why, when banks fail, they do so big!
I don't think nearly as many people use Monopoly money for money laundering and ransomware, though.
Agreed. The vast majority of criminals use US dollars.
Perhaps someone should investigate the shady groups behind this hugely overvalued national currency? I suggest they start with the NSA, CIA, US Treasury and the US "Federal Reserve". They could then expand their enquiry to The US oil industry and the petrodollar.
...for running those few applications that are iOS-exclusive.
That is a vanishingly small use case.
For many of the cases where a particular app is only available on an iThing, there are other apps available for those unwilling to pay the Gullibility Tax.
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Are AMD CPUs clear of it?
Has someone got it onto RISC chips?
Has the NSA or other criminals got their hooks into it?
Can it be "zapped" with some xrays like cancer patients?
I wonder what % of /. readers sees sees these "new feature" announcements as something to add to their ToDo list for blocking.
Anywhere that security is more than a passing fancy is going to se this as 2 things. A new improved attack vector and an inte5resting way to leak information. Was this an NSA idea?
An open protocol could exist between PC and Android. Apple would never want to play ball as file transfer would be at odds with the Golden Cage concept.. or was it called Walled Garden? I do not recall. ;)
I think of it as the Golden Shower Cubicle concept.
....but over the long term the money you get out is related to how well the business is doing.....
No. It is related to how well the stock is doing. This is very different. Let me list a few words and phrases
derivatives
hostile takeover
stock market crash
insider trading
overvalued
stock swap
and so on. If I know these phrases, someone who knows about stock trading will know of many other examples of the disconnect between stocks&shares and companies who actually do something. The fact that there are so many people here who think that cryptocurrencies are less "real" than the global stock scam is a sad reminder of ideas like gullibility, ignorance and cupidity.
....There are people in the world who don't have the patience to gain the "education" necessary to be a successful stock investor....
Fixed that for you. The information used by many to enabvle them to do business in this sort of activity is not education as most of us understand the word.It seems that, along with knowledge, many people have had to learn how to disable ethical sensetivities and enable the sociopathic tendencies that we see. That's mpore training than learning.
This could happen in Myanmar I suppose. Do they produce many steel bars? I'm sure that there is a third country that has not got rif of this hand-me-down from the dark ages. I bet they don't make many either.
The US population is perhaps under 4.5% of the planet. That means that 95.5% of us don't use that numerically illiterate system of measurement. If this offends you, this is not my intention but neither is it my problem. 1 mile, 1,760 yards, 5,280 feet, 63,360 inches. (You seem to avoid, fathoms, poles, rods, perches, chains, barleycorns and so on.)
I do not want a "trusted platform mobile" in anything that puports to be secure. It is widely known as a back door for US spooks. This immediately makes the whole system hyper insecure.
In most of the world, highly secure windows mean 1/2" to 3/4" steel bars...
In "most of the world", people wouldn't know or care about anything measured in inches or even fractions of them.
Why not use 0.00746269-0.1119403 Smoot bars? That is as equally logical and no less a user friendly unit.
Very few people buy a new iThing based on thought and analtysis of information. (That can be said of Android devices to some extent too.)
Getting advice from other uninformed Apple enthusiasts has always accounted for a high proportiion of iPhone sales. The problem is that Apples market % is dropping. For years now, they have been protected by the fact that the market is growing so their sales numbers go up.
They know that this cannot continue for ever so they may be looking to reinvigorate the advertising channel that has served them so well in the past.
Well those same IT people should have patched the servers! Oh wait, they probably knew sweet FA about Unix.
Two comments...
1. We do know Unix thanks
2. This knowledge is mostly irellevant as the vast majority of our servers use Windows.
Yeah, because only the far-right media groups would abuse this. No one else. Nope...
Pretty much. Yes, there will be exceptions, but it will mostly be good news for extremely bigoted, rich, science denying, sociopathic old white guys
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The word the author was trying to think of was rife.
The other thing to remember is, the internet is international.
And? If you post something online in a country that doesn't have free speech you will be punished for it. .
Wikileaks for example. If you were responsible for content on it and were within reach of supressors of free speech, your surname would be Manning...
your joking right?
...the reason why the Revolutionary War was fought.
That's not the most common reason that people think.
Try No taxation without representation. It was firstly about tax - tax on mercheants in fact.
what about tesla?
Electric chair.
No. it was "invented" by Thomas Edison as part of his efforts to stop the spread of AC.
Nothing ever completely dissapears. There are still people making a living in ways we consider obsolete. You can still buy a new buggy whip, suit of chain mail, vinyl record or roll of35mm film.It doesn't matter. Those things have gone and are functionally irellevant to 21st century life in the developed world.
There are some groups of people who want a buggy whip for its actual purpose. Some of them are avoiding the 20th or 21st centuries for cultural or religious reasons. Others might drive horse powered buggies for fun.
I watch someone on Youtube who is getting a suit of armour. It's an expensive hobby but it is being made by a serious professional.
Similar things could be said of the other items I listed but they are all gone as far away as they ever will./p>
What things will go the same way over the next 10 years?
1. Paper books will take a lot longer but there are less in the rich developed world but that is only a drop in a small part of the world.
2. Landline telephones do not exist in much of the world. I haven't had one for years but I know plenty of people who do. Businesses will stick with them for use in offices. Maybe in 25 years, they will be less common.
3. Pagers/bleeps are still more widely used than people think. Those of us who are tied to them would probably not mind if they all went the way of the dodo. The technology has been around for a long time. We just need management to realise it and for old systems to be replaced as they fail. 10 years? No problem.
Your name is Sid Dabster and I claim the $1,000 prize!
Early last year, I put a little into bitcoin to see what would happen and sat back and watched. Yesterday, I took back my initial payment plus interest. It now owes me nothing and is still worth $700. I wish I had put in more.
If it goes down the pan, I will have lost nothing. If it carries non at this rate or goes down, I will still only have a bit of a Bitcoin that cost me nothing.
It fluxates (sic) worse than Zimbabwean Dollar.
Not at all. The Zimbabwe dollar looses value every day. The Bitcoin gains value every day.
Hyper inflationary loss may be easier for some to understand but it is far worse than something that becomes more valuable every day.
The only concern is "Will it last? I expect not. Not forever anyway. I wonder how long it will continue going up and what it will do when it finishes.
If i have $100, I can't invest $10,000 in anything
Perhaps he is talking to banks? That is exactly what they do. For every $ they get, they invest many times. That is why, when banks fail, they do so big!
"we don't want to be perceived as wanting to disrupt economies".
He might not intend to do that but I am not wholly convinced that it would be a bad thing...
What gave this bunch the impression that they had the need or right to do this?
I don't think nearly as many people use Monopoly money for money laundering and ransomware, though.
Agreed. The vast majority of criminals use US dollars.
Perhaps someone should investigate the shady groups behind this hugely overvalued national currency? I suggest they start with the NSA, CIA, US Treasury and the US "Federal Reserve". They could then expand their enquiry to The US oil industry and the petrodollar.
a game
Google Maps
Pocket Casts
FitBit
...for running those few applications that are iOS-exclusive.
That is a vanishingly small use case.
For many of the cases where a particular app is only available on an iThing, there are other apps available for those unwilling to pay the Gullibility Tax.