YOU know better than what I do what point I was making?
No, apparently I have no clue what point you were making, but I know what point you made. If the two differ, that's on you, not me.
Looking around my Apple-filled home, I don't think it's the people who don't own any Apple gear who (claim that it is more of a problem than it really is)
You might want to read my comment again, with an eye for context. Here, I'll even repeat it for you:
Apple has lost it's way since Steve Jobs died
Looking around my Apple-filled home, I don't think it's the people who don't own any Apple gear who say this.
In other words, your paraphrasing should have read "Looking around my Apple-filled home, I don't think it's the people who don't own any Apple gear who (claim Apple has lost its way since Steve Jobs died)." And no, I don't speak for Apple haters, I speak for myself, thus why I continued on to clarify:
I say it and, well, like I said -- Apple-filled home.
Keep calling my a troll for relaying my real life experiences, though, since that's the only argument you've got. The irony is that your apparent lack of reading comprehension causes you to reply in seemingly the most trolling manner and, in turn, you choose to call me a troll?
Like I said, you've seen the bright and shiny side of their support. I've seen the dark side, myself. Don't worry; I, too, thought it was a load of bullshit until I experienced it myself. Keep calling my a troll for relaying my real life experiences, though, since that's the only argument you've got.
So, then, how does the lock know the new card is valid? And how can the lock be opened by two or more cards if inserting a new one invalidates the old ones?
My point wasn't that the problem doesn't exist, it is that many Apple Haters who don't even own a Mac will claim that it is more of a problem than it really is.
Eh?
how "Horrible" the imagined "problem" is
Imaginary things do not exist, that's why they're imaginary. That's exactly what your point was. And also:
Apple has lost it's way since Steve Jobs died
Looking around my Apple-filled home, I don't think it's the people who don't own any Apple gear who say this. I say it and, well, like I said -- Apple-filled home.
Plus, they're already flat-packed, which means IKEA would find a way to make them thinner. Oh, and modular, customizable, and upgradable. And cheap. Plus, if it ever did break, at least I'd get a plate of swedish meatballs out of it, as I live close enough to an IKEA that I'd take it in for repair or replacement.
As Apple has excellent product support, if there's really a widespread problem, there'll be a program announcement like there was for my 2012 rMBP battery that was replaced gratis
You sure it won't be more like the GPU issues in 2008 and 2011, which require that the machine (with a dead GPU) be able to boot into diagnostic mode to confirm the dead GPU? Those programs weren't so great and don't really represent excellent product support, they were "hey look, we're offering an extended warranty on this issue" billboards leading to a null offer: a machine with a dead GPU could not boot into diagnostic mode and, thus, it could not be verified that the GPU was the cause and Apple replaced very few machines as a result.
I still have the 2011 machine around; I booted it from a USB stick to install Ubuntu, and "played along" with a VM booted from the same image so I could see what was going on during the install. That machine, which Apple refused to repair because they couldn't confirm the GPU to be the issue, still runs headless, as a server for automating a few things around the house.
Perhaps you've only ever seen the bright and shiny side of Apple support. When you've owned them long enough, you'll start to see the truth.
Yes. The screens that Apple contacted the FBI (who tipped off Customs) about were non-Apple parts with no Apple branding. Apple claimed they were counterfeit Apple parts.
You can spellcheck code? You see, I am a developer, and I happen to know that the dictionary doesn't contain even a small percentage off the identiffiers, ffunction names, and variables I use on a regular basis, so a spellchecker would be utterly ffucking useless. More to the point, I shouldn't have to rely on a spell checker to ffix hardware design fflaw in a $2000 computer.
It sickens me that people deffend this as though it's the user's ffault. I can't tell you how dust got under my ff key; I don't eat at this computer and I have a silicone membrane over the keyboard; iff anything, I'd expect dust to have worked its way under one of the outer keys, but not one in the middle row. And yes, I normally correct the double ff's myselff, but I'm not doing it here to make a point: when I can buy a $5 keyboard and not have to correct ffor its fflawed design, I sure as ffuck shouldn't have to correct ffor the design of the keyboard in my $2000 laptop. Period.
That said, going back through my posting history, I'm noticing a pattern. Most of my posts with typos were typed on Apple keyboards; I can easily pick out posts made ffrom one off my PCs, or using a non-Apple external keyboard on one off my Macs, because those posts will have no typos. Now I'm wondering how long Apple's keyboards have actually been the problem.
You can spellcheck code? Huh, I didn't know the dictionary already contained all the identiffiers, ffunction names, and variables I might use.
More to the point, I'm not correcting the key-doubling here to demonstrate the issue, which is that I shouldn't have to rely on a spell checker to ffix a hardware design fflaw in a $2000 computer.
There's literally nothing wrong with a keyboard that starts doubling keypresses due to a single ffucking piece off dust? You know, I agreed with you until two days ago...
And when you have a history of antisocial behavior, as is your right, and suddenly want or need something back from society, that's precisely what you can expect the lot of us to respond with, as well.
The the shipments of 3rd-party (not Apple branded) parts they keep having Customs seize as "counterfeit" (which would require that the parts carry Apple branding, which they do not) and the 3rd-party repair shops they keep suing aren't part of a crackdown? They're Apple's way of saying they approve?
Sure they do, but who's to say I'm paying her to do anything more than talk, until I ask how much a handy j costs? And paying a girl to talk to you is perfectly legal, despite other services she may or may not be offering; some call it therapy.
Any legitimate web-stressing service should require that you prove ownership of the domain to be stressed by adding specific markers to root-access resources.
Well, since the site is offline now, we can't very well see for ourselves whether or not they did so. More to the point, that's a weak check anyway since, for many sites, it is trivial to host your domain with the same provider the target site uses and send enough traffic that way to take down not only your own domain, but also any domains hosted on the same server, the same subnet or, if you send enough of the right traffic, the entire provider. The only difference is, then, the target site won't have information in their logs detailing what happened, because you directed the attack at your own domain.
Personally, if someone's gonna come at me, I'd rather they did it directly.
There is that, as well, but I was trying not to be too argumentative; you see, the person I was replying to has a history of getting a bit, shall we say, aggressive when his arguments are destroyed too effectively.
Do you honestly think they DO? You have an overactive imagination as to how much hotels care about room security.
No, I know hotels DGAF about room security. They do, however, care a lot about getting paid for their rooms.
And even if they did, what are the one or two guys at the front going to do about that anyway? Leave the front desk unmanned so they can get physically assaulted?
A $150+/night hotel is going to have security on site, who will accompany police to the room in question once they arrive on scene.
No imagination needed when you know people who work at a higher level in the industry.
Or his brother load-tested his own websites, or those of his clients, with permission. I know that's what I use similar services for, legitimately and legally, on a semi-regular basis.
Do you really think these systems don't alert the front desk when an unoccupied room is unlocked? They don't have to check, it alerts the front desk immediately. Housekeeping keycards are tagged with unique IDs (to identify the employee the card was assigned to), so they don't trigger the alerts, but you'd have to know one of those valid IDs in advance; simply setting the access token to whatever is used by housekeeping isn't enough.
Of course, these systems can be configured not to alert when an empty room is unlocked, and I'm sure $40/night shitholes go that route because it's not worth it to deal with a squatter over $40 anyway, but you can be sure the alerts are enabled at any of the places your typical egocentric hacker would target.
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YOU know better than what I do what point I was making?
No, apparently I have no clue what point you were making, but I know what point you made. If the two differ, that's on you, not me.
Looking around my Apple-filled home, I don't think it's the people who don't own any Apple gear who (claim that it is more of a problem than it really is)
You might want to read my comment again, with an eye for context. Here, I'll even repeat it for you:
Apple has lost it's way since Steve Jobs died
Looking around my Apple-filled home, I don't think it's the people who don't own any Apple gear who say this.
In other words, your paraphrasing should have read "Looking around my Apple-filled home, I don't think it's the people who don't own any Apple gear who (claim Apple has lost its way since Steve Jobs died)." And no, I don't speak for Apple haters, I speak for myself, thus why I continued on to clarify:
I say it and, well, like I said -- Apple-filled home.
Keep calling my a troll for relaying my real life experiences, though, since that's the only argument you've got. The irony is that your apparent lack of reading comprehension causes you to reply in seemingly the most trolling manner and, in turn, you choose to call me a troll?
Like I said, you've seen the bright and shiny side of their support. I've seen the dark side, myself. Don't worry; I, too, thought it was a load of bullshit until I experienced it myself. Keep calling my a troll for relaying my real life experiences, though, since that's the only argument you've got.
So, then, how does the lock know the new card is valid? And how can the lock be opened by two or more cards if inserting a new one invalidates the old ones?
My point wasn't that the problem doesn't exist, it is that many Apple Haters who don't even own a Mac will claim that it is more of a problem than it really is.
Eh?
how "Horrible" the imagined "problem" is
Imaginary things do not exist, that's why they're imaginary. That's exactly what your point was. And also:
Apple has lost it's way since Steve Jobs died
Looking around my Apple-filled home, I don't think it's the people who don't own any Apple gear who say this. I say it and, well, like I said -- Apple-filled home.
If Ikea made laptops this wouldn't have happened.
Plus, they're already flat-packed, which means IKEA would find a way to make them thinner. Oh, and modular, customizable, and upgradable. And cheap. Plus, if it ever did break, at least I'd get a plate of swedish meatballs out of it, as I live close enough to an IKEA that I'd take it in for repair or replacement.
I think you're on to something here.
And I do; in fact, my IDE does so in realtime. 99% of what it catches shouldn't be a keyboard failure on a $2000 machine, though.
For the record, this was posted from a different machine.
As Apple has excellent product support, if there's really a widespread problem, there'll be a program announcement like there was for my 2012 rMBP battery that was replaced gratis
You sure it won't be more like the GPU issues in 2008 and 2011, which require that the machine (with a dead GPU) be able to boot into diagnostic mode to confirm the dead GPU? Those programs weren't so great and don't really represent excellent product support, they were "hey look, we're offering an extended warranty on this issue" billboards leading to a null offer: a machine with a dead GPU could not boot into diagnostic mode and, thus, it could not be verified that the GPU was the cause and Apple replaced very few machines as a result.
I still have the 2011 machine around; I booted it from a USB stick to install Ubuntu, and "played along" with a VM booted from the same image so I could see what was going on during the install. That machine, which Apple refused to repair because they couldn't confirm the GPU to be the issue, still runs headless, as a server for automating a few things around the house.
Perhaps you've only ever seen the bright and shiny side of Apple support. When you've owned them long enough, you'll start to see the truth.
So was I ;)
Hah. Wait... before I laugh too hard... you don't actually work for Apple, do you?
I dunno, they couldn't fix Linus' screen for any amount of money...
And I should have to do this... why?
Yes. The screens that Apple contacted the FBI (who tipped off Customs) about were non-Apple parts with no Apple branding. Apple claimed they were counterfeit Apple parts.
You can spellcheck code? You see, I am a developer, and I happen to know that the dictionary doesn't contain even a small percentage off the identiffiers, ffunction names, and variables I use on a regular basis, so a spellchecker would be utterly ffucking useless. More to the point, I shouldn't have to rely on a spell checker to ffix hardware design fflaw in a $2000 computer.
It sickens me that people deffend this as though it's the user's ffault. I can't tell you how dust got under my ff key; I don't eat at this computer and I have a silicone membrane over the keyboard; iff anything, I'd expect dust to have worked its way under one of the outer keys, but not one in the middle row. And yes, I normally correct the double ff's myselff, but I'm not doing it here to make a point: when I can buy a $5 keyboard and not have to correct ffor its fflawed design, I sure as ffuck shouldn't have to correct ffor the design of the keyboard in my $2000 laptop. Period.
That said, going back through my posting history, I'm noticing a pattern. Most of my posts with typos were typed on Apple keyboards; I can easily pick out posts made ffrom one off my PCs, or using a non-Apple external keyboard on one off my Macs, because those posts will have no typos. Now I'm wondering how long Apple's keyboards have actually been the problem.
You can spellcheck code? Huh, I didn't know the dictionary already contained all the identiffiers, ffunction names, and variables I might use.
More to the point, I'm not correcting the key-doubling here to demonstrate the issue, which is that I shouldn't have to rely on a spell checker to ffix a hardware design fflaw in a $2000 computer.
It was on the front page last week.
There's literally nothing wrong with a keyboard that starts doubling keypresses due to a single ffucking piece off dust? You know, I agreed with you until two days ago...
I've ffound the problem to be quite real, my ffriend. Like you, however, I also ffigured it was just made up bullshit... until 2 days ago.
Sent ffrom my 2016 15 inch MacBook Pro.
Now stop being a little bitch.
And when you have a history of antisocial behavior, as is your right, and suddenly want or need something back from society, that's precisely what you can expect the lot of us to respond with, as well.
The the shipments of 3rd-party (not Apple branded) parts they keep having Customs seize as "counterfeit" (which would require that the parts carry Apple branding, which they do not) and the 3rd-party repair shops they keep suing aren't part of a crackdown? They're Apple's way of saying they approve?
Sure they do, but who's to say I'm paying her to do anything more than talk, until I ask how much a handy j costs? And paying a girl to talk to you is perfectly legal, despite other services she may or may not be offering; some call it therapy.
Any legitimate web-stressing service should require that you prove ownership of the domain to be stressed by adding specific markers to root-access resources.
Well, since the site is offline now, we can't very well see for ourselves whether or not they did so. More to the point, that's a weak check anyway since, for many sites, it is trivial to host your domain with the same provider the target site uses and send enough traffic that way to take down not only your own domain, but also any domains hosted on the same server, the same subnet or, if you send enough of the right traffic, the entire provider. The only difference is, then, the target site won't have information in their logs detailing what happened, because you directed the attack at your own domain.
Personally, if someone's gonna come at me, I'd rather they did it directly.
There is that, as well, but I was trying not to be too argumentative; you see, the person I was replying to has a history of getting a bit, shall we say, aggressive when his arguments are destroyed too effectively.
Do you honestly think they DO? You have an overactive imagination as to how much hotels care about room security.
No, I know hotels DGAF about room security. They do, however, care a lot about getting paid for their rooms.
And even if they did, what are the one or two guys at the front going to do about that anyway? Leave the front desk unmanned so they can get physically assaulted?
A $150+/night hotel is going to have security on site, who will accompany police to the room in question once they arrive on scene.
No imagination needed when you know people who work at a higher level in the industry.
Or his brother load-tested his own websites, or those of his clients, with permission. I know that's what I use similar services for, legitimately and legally, on a semi-regular basis.
Do you really think these systems don't alert the front desk when an unoccupied room is unlocked? They don't have to check, it alerts the front desk immediately. Housekeeping keycards are tagged with unique IDs (to identify the employee the card was assigned to), so they don't trigger the alerts, but you'd have to know one of those valid IDs in advance; simply setting the access token to whatever is used by housekeeping isn't enough.
Of course, these systems can be configured not to alert when an empty room is unlocked, and I'm sure $40/night shitholes go that route because it's not worth it to deal with a squatter over $40 anyway, but you can be sure the alerts are enabled at any of the places your typical egocentric hacker would target.