Wow, ain't that slow to load. Seems IBM is going for the cool kids with tech from 70s...
Their blog probably runs on Websphere. Which is not only blazing fast, but also is always a delight to work with, given its exciting Jython api and impenetrable maze of modules and dependencies.
Here's the Websphere recipe: take tomcat and apache httpd, add a gallon of barf and 2GB of xml files, and make a drunk intern who majored in industrial masonry design the admin GUI. Then make this masterpiece mature in a dutch oven while evil entities from a parallel nightmarish universe fly around it, tainting it with pure malice and the immanent essence of grotesqueness. Of course I don't have evidence that this is the true recipe; the blood of unborn twins may or may not be required. But what I know from experience is that it is truly a piece of shit.
Bullshit. Capitalism is an economic system where the consumers are in control.
No. What you describe is consumerism. Capitalism means that people who put in the money needed for a business venture (the "capital") are the critical part of the system.
Bullshit indeed. Silicon Valley is all about "diversity" but they're basically just about having the same type of hipster/fanboi/antitrump young people in various shades of colors and genders. That's not diversity, that's variations on the same model.
I don't hate them (or their customers), I'm just trying to offer a bit of counterbalance to the endless fanboyism on Slashdot. Apple stories haven't been "news for nerds" for a long time.
I have no problem with them being forced to offer it to the public.
I think they shouldn't.
I completely agree. I don't like Apple but I think people deserve the companies they vote for with their dollars. If this means that iPhone users must pay a fortune to get their idiotic device repaired by a member of the Apple crime family, so be it. Unlike what surfaces on Slashdot because of the biased editors and handful of fanbois, Apple has no longer any influence in the industry. Whatever the fuck they do to their customers has no global impact.
In the free world (aka Android), there's obviously a top dog but even them cannot control the market, because the runner-ups could easily topple them if the customers were unhappy with the products or services.
The hordes of brain dead zombies that march to their siren song
Owning an iPhone used to be a fashion statement. Now it's just a demonstration of poor judgment and a willingness to bend over and take it up the ass in order to gain acceptance from the Starbucks crowd.
Thankfully those idiots are easy to spot, it makes it easier to utilize them properly (ex: put them on United Way duty and keep them away from important servers or files).
I guess capitalism today means "whatever benefits the corporations".
That's what capitalism has meant since day 1. This is the definition: "an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state."
It's Apple. They could hand out free blowjobs from Sophia Vergara with each Mac sold, and Slashdotters would bitch about it.
Or Apple could force customers to get sodomized by a pony when they buy a Mac, and fanbois would still wait in line at the Apple Store, and they would defend Apple on Slashdot, talking about how this is helping ponies
I personally approve of people who post without reading the title - they're doing the equivalent of going commando. I'm pretty sure that BeauHD himself doesn't read the clickbait titles that he copy-pastes from macrumors and Apple press releases, and as we can all witness that doesn't stop him from publishing interesting and awe-inspiring content.
It's a bit rich though when people who don't read the summary or article complain that "nothing in the summary or article suggest..." something. That's pushing the envelope a bit too far.
The usernames and passwords of the iCloud accounts affected by this "hack" were likely found through various site data breaches and have not been acquired through a breach of Apple's servers.
While asking for a ransom isn't a bad business model, there is nothing in the summary or article to suggest that is going on.
What about "Affected users who have had their iCloud accounts hacked are receiving messages demanding money for the passcode to unlock a locked Mac device."
"Women and children first" is actually a bit of a myth. It seems to have been popularized by reports of the second officer aboard the Titanic asking "Hadn't we better get the women and children into the boats, sir?" The captain responded somewhat vaguely, resulting in needless deaths.
Wrong. The second officer allegedly misunderstood that only women and children should board, while the captain meant that women and children should board first and men should board if there's room left. Which is pretty much the definition of "women and children first".
Here's the relevant bit in Wikipedia:
The First (Officer Murdoch) and Second (Officer Lightoller) officers interpreted the evacuation order differently; Murdoch took it to mean women and children first, while Lightoller took it to mean women and children only. Second Officer Lightoller lowered lifeboats with empty seats if there were no women and children waiting to board, while First Officer Murdoch allowed a limited number of men to board if all the nearby women and children had embarked.
People often don't know what they've been missing out on until you show it to them.
It's nothing new. For instance, face unlock was available on Alienware laptops 7+ years ago and has been common on Samsung devices for a while. The fact that Apple users "discover" that in September 2017 says a lot about this brand and their customer base.
The fact that you think Apple users are "discovering" this for the first time because Apple is using it says a lot about you, actually. There are significant differences in this technology than what Samsung uses, but I guess you ignore those details...which also says a lot about you and your lack of knowledge around the technology, while at the same time you're pointing fingers at others. That's some serious irony.
First, you clearly don't know what irony means. Second, you fail to mention actual details and opt for wild accusations instead, which is typical of people who don't have facts on their side. You're like my ex who used to say: "there's so many things wrong about you that I can't name one in particular". Very convincing.
The women, who have more body fat for insulation and buoyancy, better communications skills, and more endurance? Or the men, with stronger and faster bodies, better coordination, and better spacial skills?
I hope you don't work at google, because the last time someone said something like that he was publicly fired.
Apples implementation is the first widely available _GOOD_ implementation of them.
This is utter and complete bullshit, backed by absolutely no facts other than lame Apple marketing (and iVolunteers like you).
Just yesterday I handed my Samsung S8 to a friend (who uses the latest iProducts) so he could read an email I had received, and he instantly said: "oh wow this screen is amazing". Unfortunately for him he'll have to wait another year or two before Apple catches up with this kind of quality.
As for Apple having the "first good" implementation of anything: no. Fingerprint readers have worked flawlessly on countless devices for a long time before Apple got into it, same for face unlock.
You mean the late Steve Jobs already knew this feature can be built into iPhone
Steve Jobs didn't "know" what could be built into anything, he had tech people for that. At first it was Steve Wozniak, then a busload of young engineers who didn't know better and got chewed out on a regular basis.
Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, even the twitter guy (to a point) built things and have/had relevant technical opinions. Steve Jobs did not.
Face unlock is face unlock. Spin it any way you want, it's just face unlock and Apple is playing catch-up as usual. They don't even need to innovate anymore because there's people like you who cream their panties about any minuscule thing they see on their iPhone and go around babbling about it.
Apple make average phones that are 2-3 years behind the curve and carry an obscene price tag. If you want to give them money, have at it, but this here is not your grandma's bingo parlor, you can't just throw in lame tech keywords and expect people to faint.
Slashdot Mirror
Only approved traffic will be allowed on the new cable. Anyone critical of Microsoft or Facebook will be banned from using it.
Gotta protect the pipe. It will only allow for 71 millions hd streaming at the same time. Just the Facebook and MSN ads take more than that.
What about open sourcing AIX
Or what about killing it with fire instead?
Wow, ain't that slow to load. Seems IBM is going for the cool kids with tech from 70s...
Their blog probably runs on Websphere. Which is not only blazing fast, but also is always a delight to work with, given its exciting Jython api and impenetrable maze of modules and dependencies.
Here's the Websphere recipe: take tomcat and apache httpd, add a gallon of barf and 2GB of xml files, and make a drunk intern who majored in industrial masonry design the admin GUI. Then make this masterpiece mature in a dutch oven while evil entities from a parallel nightmarish universe fly around it, tainting it with pure malice and the immanent essence of grotesqueness. Of course I don't have evidence that this is the true recipe; the blood of unborn twins may or may not be required. But what I know from experience is that it is truly a piece of shit.
Bullshit. Capitalism is an economic system where the consumers are in control.
No. What you describe is consumerism. Capitalism means that people who put in the money needed for a business venture (the "capital") are the critical part of the system.
Absolute Bull Shit.
Bullshit indeed. Silicon Valley is all about "diversity" but they're basically just about having the same type of hipster/fanboi/antitrump young people in various shades of colors and genders. That's not diversity, that's variations on the same model.
your rabid hatred of Apple
I don't hate them (or their customers), I'm just trying to offer a bit of counterbalance to the endless fanboyism on Slashdot. Apple stories haven't been "news for nerds" for a long time.
I think they shouldn't.
I completely agree. I don't like Apple but I think people deserve the companies they vote for with their dollars. If this means that iPhone users must pay a fortune to get their idiotic device repaired by a member of the Apple crime family, so be it. Unlike what surfaces on Slashdot because of the biased editors and handful of fanbois, Apple has no longer any influence in the industry. Whatever the fuck they do to their customers has no global impact.
In the free world (aka Android), there's obviously a top dog but even them cannot control the market, because the runner-ups could easily topple them if the customers were unhappy with the products or services.
The hordes of brain dead zombies that march to their siren song
Owning an iPhone used to be a fashion statement. Now it's just a demonstration of poor judgment and a willingness to bend over and take it up the ass in order to gain acceptance from the Starbucks crowd.
Thankfully those idiots are easy to spot, it makes it easier to utilize them properly (ex: put them on United Way duty and keep them away from important servers or files).
Name one place in the world where anyone is forced to buy an iPhone and I'll eat my hat.
Silicon Valley
I guess capitalism today means "whatever benefits the corporations".
That's what capitalism has meant since day 1. This is the definition: "an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state."
It's Apple. They could hand out free blowjobs from Sophia Vergara with each Mac sold, and Slashdotters would bitch about it.
Or Apple could force customers to get sodomized by a pony when they buy a Mac, and fanbois would still wait in line at the Apple Store, and they would defend Apple on Slashdot, talking about how this is helping ponies
I personally approve of people who post without reading the title - they're doing the equivalent of going commando. I'm pretty sure that BeauHD himself doesn't read the clickbait titles that he copy-pastes from macrumors and Apple press releases, and as we can all witness that doesn't stop him from publishing interesting and awe-inspiring content.
It's a bit rich though when people who don't read the summary or article complain that "nothing in the summary or article suggest..." something. That's pushing the envelope a bit too far.
The usernames and passwords of the iCloud accounts affected by this "hack" were likely found through various site data breaches and have not been acquired through a breach of Apple's servers.
Citation needed (excluding Apple marketing)
While asking for a ransom isn't a bad business model, there is nothing in the summary or article to suggest that is going on.
What about "Affected users who have had their iCloud accounts hacked are receiving messages demanding money for the passcode to unlock a locked Mac device."
So that's how my email and bank account was drained at the same time as my luggage was broken into.
TSA; stealing your iPods since 2001.
"Women and children first" is actually a bit of a myth. It seems to have been popularized by reports of the second officer aboard the Titanic asking "Hadn't we better get the women and children into the boats, sir?" The captain responded somewhat vaguely, resulting in needless deaths.
Wrong. The second officer allegedly misunderstood that only women and children should board, while the captain meant that women and children should board first and men should board if there's room left. Which is pretty much the definition of "women and children first".
Here's the relevant bit in Wikipedia:
The First (Officer Murdoch) and Second (Officer Lightoller) officers interpreted the evacuation order differently; Murdoch took it to mean women and children first, while Lightoller took it to mean women and children only. Second Officer Lightoller lowered lifeboats with empty seats if there were no women and children waiting to board, while First Officer Murdoch allowed a limited number of men to board if all the nearby women and children had embarked.
As you can see, men were fucked either way.
People often don't know what they've been missing out on until you show it to them.
It's nothing new. For instance, face unlock was available on Alienware laptops 7+ years ago and has been common on Samsung devices for a while. The fact that Apple users "discover" that in September 2017 says a lot about this brand and their customer base.
The fact that you think Apple users are "discovering" this for the first time because Apple is using it says a lot about you, actually. There are significant differences in this technology than what Samsung uses, but I guess you ignore those details...which also says a lot about you and your lack of knowledge around the technology, while at the same time you're pointing fingers at others. That's some serious irony.
First, you clearly don't know what irony means. Second, you fail to mention actual details and opt for wild accusations instead, which is typical of people who don't have facts on their side. You're like my ex who used to say: "there's so many things wrong about you that I can't name one in particular". Very convincing.
Never mind the detail that the iPhone X facial recognition is a LOT more complex than to my knowledge any other customer level gadget out there
prove it by providing technical facts, not iPropaganda.
Since you are a "sceptic", you wouldn't accept it, because it came from Apple.
so you basically have no technical facts, as usual, you just deny the possibility of a discussion
The women, who have more body fat for insulation and buoyancy, better communications skills, and more endurance? Or the men, with stronger and faster bodies, better coordination, and better spacial skills?
I hope you don't work at google, because the last time someone said something like that he was publicly fired.
Apples implementation is the first widely available _GOOD_ implementation of them.
This is utter and complete bullshit, backed by absolutely no facts other than lame Apple marketing (and iVolunteers like you).
Just yesterday I handed my Samsung S8 to a friend (who uses the latest iProducts) so he could read an email I had received, and he instantly said: "oh wow this screen is amazing". Unfortunately for him he'll have to wait another year or two before Apple catches up with this kind of quality.
As for Apple having the "first good" implementation of anything: no. Fingerprint readers have worked flawlessly on countless devices for a long time before Apple got into it, same for face unlock.
Get real.
we have to invent imaginary emergencies
Did you look at the Titanic casualties?
Women who survived: 75% (324 / 434) /1660)
Men who survived: 19% (323
Overall it's 32% of passengers who survived. As you can see, it was better to be a woman on the Titanic. 1300 men died, 100 women died.
You can call that imaginary if you want. I call that systemic sexism.
You mean the late Steve Jobs already knew this feature can be built into iPhone
Steve Jobs didn't "know" what could be built into anything, he had tech people for that. At first it was Steve Wozniak, then a busload of young engineers who didn't know better and got chewed out on a regular basis.
Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, even the twitter guy (to a point) built things and have/had relevant technical opinions. Steve Jobs did not.
Everybody knows that men and women are exactly the same at everything.
... except when the boat is sinking, then suddenly equality vanishes.
Face unlock is face unlock. Spin it any way you want, it's just face unlock and Apple is playing catch-up as usual. They don't even need to innovate anymore because there's people like you who cream their panties about any minuscule thing they see on their iPhone and go around babbling about it.
Apple make average phones that are 2-3 years behind the curve and carry an obscene price tag. If you want to give them money, have at it, but this here is not your grandma's bingo parlor, you can't just throw in lame tech keywords and expect people to faint.
Never mind the detail that the iPhone X facial recognition is a LOT more complex than to my knowledge any other customer level gadget out there
prove it by providing technical facts, not iPropaganda.