Not giving kids their own account on the parents machine is the dumbest thing I ever heared.
ORLY?
Setting up an account for my little brothers (my father married again and I have two brothers 40 years younger than me) is less than a minute work.
Less than a minutes work. For you. After you thought about it.
Most people don't give a second thought to this shit. So the system needs to cope with how people actually use stuff. A solution that only/. user would think of is not a solution at all.
How many parents hand their kids their phones and ipads to play games on? Pretty much all of them. All the time. That's the world we live in. So manufacturers that want to make consumer friendly shit need to consider how consumers actually are going to use the stuff.
And: the kids can not destroy your computer with a single mouse click or download software/music/video that bancrupts you... sorry: you are an idiot!
This isn't about me specifically. And yeah, the average kitchen computer or living room laptop is a disaster area. That's reality. In my case, I maintain separate equipment for important work, but not everyone has 20+ computers in there house. My parents for example have an iphone, and ipad, and a mac mini. And when the kids come over they're allowed to play games on the ipad. (But no they don't create a separate apple id for when the grandkids come to visit; and they don't obsessively sign in and out of icloud.) That's just normal people using ipads the way normal people use ipads: couch toys.
Compared to the plasmas, rear projection screens, and even good old fasioned CRTs over the last dozen years the new LED units are positively energy sippers.
Even so, update the tests and fix the stickers; consumers should know what they are buying.
Although I do take exception to the idea that the auto dimming during the test is 'unrealistic' -- yeah its true there isn't a minute of blackness during the average superbowl. But I can't tell you how often a movie has ended, or someone walked away from the HTPC, or something and its gone to sleep. Some of the devices go idle/sleep/off the TV basically shuts the screen off. Others it goes to this blue no-signal screen which it doesn't seem to detect as idle, and will sit there glowing blue nothing for hours... so yeah... testing what the screen does when its not being used SHOULD be part of the testing.
Which is another way of saying "damn, I've received a response explaining the technology and it doesn't work at all like I thought
Pretty much yes.
but this is the internet and I refuse to be wrong about anything
I'm happy to wrong, and I was way off initially in how it worked. Its a lot less bad than I feared.
This isn't about a stubborn refusal to be 'wrong'. This is simply a remaining issue.
so I'll complain about imaginary edge cases that haven't happened and are so fringe
Because two different people living in the same house in different rooms using devices that are on the same wifi and icloud account is an imaginary edge case? Really? Everyone i know with apple devices does this all the time.
Even comp.risks hasn't bothered with it? Are you sure?
The clipboard is already the source of all kinds of leaks on a shared computer. Have you ever sat down at a public computer and hit "Ctrl-V" sometimes you get something the previous user didn't intend to leave behind for you to find. So, yeah, its not even a new problem, because almost nobody thinks about the clipboard; its invisible.
As for wider recognition of clipboard mobility issues; its already well recognized that there are security risks with the clipboard and remote desktop type solutions with clipboard sharing. (Where malware on the remote access client can both potentially scrape sensitive information from the server's clipboard, or harm the server by injecting malicious content into clipboard (e.g. you copy a bash script to the clipboard, the malware recognizes a bash script has been copied and add's script steps to do something else so that when you paste it on the server the malware's script gets run. This is all old hat. Plenty of ink has been spilled about clipboard sharing on remote desktop services / citrix; and desktop virtual machines (desktop hyperV, VirtualBox, etc) and using it to get out to the host machine.
Universal clipboard opens these same sorts of cans of worms between handoff units. An infected ipad your grandkids use could now potentially scrape all your passwords out of the clipboard as you copy and paste them on your main computer that you much more careful with.
Not to mention simply inadvertent unwanted disclosures between users. Whether its porn ending up handed off to the kids on the ipad; or some draft communication to your lawyer ending up getting dumped on the kitchen mac-mini. Or whatever.
So I still argue that you should have to take an affirmative action to activate handing off the clipboard.
And you've immediately chosen to selectively forget what you already replied to earlier, proving you're just a troll.
What are you on about? What did I "forget"?
In my initial example I said work/home; but later learned about the proximity requirement. So I revised it to different rooms in a house... which is still ripe for issues.
CLOSE PROXIMITY. As in, order of a metre.
Really? Because Apple themselves just say handoff has to be within bluetooth range to work, and according to Apple that's 10 meters, or 33 feet. So...
a) you are out by an order of magnitude. b) 10 meters is plenty for devices to interact between adjacent rooms, or rooms separated by a floor or 2.
Apple accounts are per-person. If you're sharing them, all kinds of cross-linked badness will happen. Dad uses the main account & kids have family accounts (with limits & allowances set). All purchases are shared, but pasteboard & assorted iCloud storage is kept separate. There's no good reason to be sharing accounts.
Ok, here's another example. My parents (aka the kids grandparents. Dad has an iphone, and ipad, and mac. They all use one account because they're all his.
He and my mom use the ipad in the living room all the time. And the grandkids and guests use the ipad all the time as well when visiting.
There's all kinds of opportunity for unwanted clipboard sharing to result. The kids are over while he's working in the office downstairs for example.
Dad uses the main account & kids have family accounts (with limits & allowances set)
Most families simply don't set up their devices this way. Its more work and what does a 6 year old need with his own apple account just to play with his mom or dads or grandfathers ipad?
The shared pasteboard is useful, and I love it. Browsing slashdot on my phone, have to type a rant-y reply... Type on Mac, copy/pasta & paste into phone.
Because simply posting it from your mac was too hard? All they had to do to make this sensible was add a key... ctrl-cmd-c on the mac to copy to clipboard and sync it to icloud; cmd-c for a regular copy to local only. On ios same thing add a 2nd popup command next to copy for icloud copy.
Same functionality, but then it never happens unintentionally.
The idea that everything you copy and paste should try by default to find some other nearby authorized device to sync to is idiotic. For how often you need it (not much), it should be something you explicitly activate.
You seem to be giving this advice to me personally... why don't *I* disable handoff? why don't *I* setup family sharing?
This isn't going to affect me. I'm already pretty careful about what I have syncing to the cloud, and I jump trhough all the hoops so my pcs don't login with microsoft accounts, and OSX doesn't log in with an apple id etc. I sync my android phone to my own owncloud instance etc. I'm not personally at risk here.
This is going to affect people out there who aren't system admins, who don't read sites like this. This will affect people like my father. Because he'll have all this stuff on, and then when the grandkids are sleeping over playing with his ipad in the living room and he's doing something downstairs in his home office. He's not going to disable handoff because he's not going to even think about it. He's not going to setup his own ipad with a different icloud account just because sometimes his grandchildren or my mother uses it. etc.
You are approaching the problem like a sys-admin; identifying ways to mitigate it. But you have to assume that most people aren't going to do this.
Is that how you made your decision about windows 10 misfeatures too?
Sometime you don't need to try something to realize its just bound to lead to unintended disclosures. And there are so many actual ways of intentionally moving data between devices that this simply isn't necessary.
i believe contents of the clipboard are transferred using Handoff, point to point transfer locally.
so no internet is involved and it won't work if you're not physically present.
Still going to happen to families. Dad in the home office, kid in the living room immediately above. Mom in the living room, kids in the rec-room immediately below... etc etc.
This just seems dumb in much the same way windows 10 wifi password sharing was dumb.
I don't understand why you would like to log in onto work computer and home computer with same login? THAT is beginning of security disaster!
I wouldn't use the same login as the imac at home.
(Although you know a ton of people absolutely would.)
But even in MY case, my wifes macbook pro, my macbook pro, and my daughters iphone, and the kids ipad in the living room all use the same itunes/icloud account so that music, and app purchases, etc are shared. This is how a lot of families are setup in my experience; especially husband and wife; or families with young kids. Older teens start to want their own accounts but before that a lot of this stuff is simply shared for simplicity.
There's no way I'd let my kids use anything that I was logged into.
Yeah, my main laptop is protected by password etc and the kids aren't even allowed to use it; ditto my main desktop.
but my old laptop is now the living room laptop, and the kids can watch youtube and play games on it, and search the web etc. And I *prefer* it to just have one login that is shared by all users.
And I don't even think twice about the living room ipad... hell i never even use it. But all my OSX devices are on the same itunes account becuase that way purchases/apps are shared; the music is available to all users, etc, etc.
Most families setup devices this way, and kids don't get their "own" accounts until they are older.
So you'll only have a problem if Dad and Son are signed into the same iCloud account on their devices.
This is how most people run their family tablets/kitchen computers/etc. Kids don't usually start getting their own logins until *they* own the devices and/or reach teenage years etc. And even then computers and devices in shared spaces; most people just use a common login rather than multiple accounts because that's hassle.
universal clipboard sounds like a complete security disaster for any sort of family use. Dad hits copy to copy/paste something on his laptop at the office, and the kids upstairs doing their homework go to paste something into a document on the ipad upstairs have that content dumped into the document...
What is the worst that could happen? Who wanted this? Who is so damned lazy that they couldn't paste whatever they wanted into a file that's synced the cloud, or a note that's synced with their device, or sent themselves an email or drafted an email... or any of a bunch of things you actually have to take an active step to sync.
I don't want crap automatically syncing between devices i own. There are a things like photos and documents that I want synced between certain folders on certain devices... but my clipboard? FFS -- my passwords are in the clipboard half the time when using apps like password safe etc... lets just squirt that into the web without thinking about it...
It's not that there isn't anything worth saying in 140 characters or less, it's that most people don't have anything worth saying in any amount of characters. Twitter prevents bloviated diatribes, keeping the inanity down to digestible bite-sized chunks.
Ahem... that was 254 characters, TLDR Mr. Bloviated Diatribe!
The chunks are bite-sized and digestible, but when the only thing the platform allows is inane sound bites, wisecracks, and talking points that's all the platform has on it.
(And that one sentence was 173 characters. Nevermind bloviated diatribes one can't even write a single half decent sentence.)
"Standard practice" does not negate your rights under consumer protection laws, assuming you live in a civilised jurisdiction which has them.
You are right of course that warranties etc still apply; but those generally only require an exchange. (And the returned unit is tossed in the trash.) And some places do have a satisfaction gauranteed where they'll give you store credit, or even money back if you aren't happy -- but even then the unwanted/returned stuff is never resold.
Assuming you live in a civilised jurisdiction with consomer protection laws.;)
Because I'm pretty sure those consumer protection laws are part of what forbid the resale of used sex toys in the first place; along with underwear; open medicine; open food etc...
You are full of rubbish. Uber's problems have nothing to do with "pissing off its customers"
No customer likes 'surge pricing'; customers like 'predictable pricing'. Uber's competitors would do well to make that differentiation part of their plan.
Uber's problems are the typical problems any new business especially one that comes with a new paradigm faces
What new paradigm? Hailing a cab with an app? My local taxi company has that, works great. I also did that while on a recent business trip to Melbourne... again the taxi company's app was great. Maybe not in your city. Uber copying what cab companies were already doing in other cities is not a paradigm shift. Uber pretending it isn't a boring cab company while doing exactly what cab companies do is about the only original thing they do.
These same whiners will be back on Uber in a few days, if not tomorrow.
Or maybe they'll switch to a competitive cab company a thing which exists in many cities. And in cities that think uber is special for some reason; they'll eventually discover it's really not. Although it might cause a rethink in some of the worst cities were medallion systems and regulatory capture went off the deep end... and that would be good. But again... not exactly a paradigm shift.
"I genuinely don't understand what the "problem" you're trying to solve is."
Really? I thought I was pretty clear:
"The problem is uber can't figure out how to run a profitable business without pissing off its customers"
You also seem convinced that someone other than the person who needs the ride at a chaotic time should pay more. Why?
Same reason I'm convinced that any business that has rushes and lulls benefits from predictable pricing: Customers like that. And a nickle a ride tossed in a bin to cover surging drivers compensation in a 'rush' is just good customer relations.
In the same way that customers would be really pissed off if the grocery store jacked the prices in the store by 20% whenever the lineup at the checkout got longer than X to re-balance "supply and demand".
Then to top it off, this is a crisis, when the ethical thing to do is pull together as human beings, not dive in with predatory pricing. If Uber gives a shit about its image then this is a problem it has to solve. If it doesn't care about its image, then its not a problem... but not caring may cost it customers and even political support in the long run.
Option 1 - do nothing. keep rates the same. people wait a long time.
and Option 2 - jack up rates, more drivers on raods, people wait less.
And yet, I see other options:
Option 3 - jack up driver compensation, keep rates the same. more drivers on roads, people wait less, uber doesn't profit as much for a few hours. Call it a PR move; write it off as a charitible donation.
Option 4 - raise overall prices a fraction of a nickle to build up a contingency reserve fund for events like this (bombs aren't exactly common), so that they can surge driver pay from the reserve fund, yet keep the customer rates the same. drivers get paid more during surge events. less waiting... customers are happy. Uber makes a profit.
The problem is people viewing their needs in isolation, instead of in the greater context.
No. The problem is uber can't figure out how to run a profitable business without pissing off its customers; despite extremely simple solutions to the problem.
Or he could have been phished. (still a stolen password, but not via one of the various big leaks.)
It could also be a remote attack vs his desktop
(teamviewer/gotomypc/rdp/etc/etc...) If someone has gotten remote access to his desktop then it may be as simple as launching chrome from his PC at 3am...
or someone got their hands on a device like an ipad or something that he used that wasn't properly/sufficiently locked down.
or he foolishly checked his gmail from a computer someone else uses or belongs to, and didn't properly log out.
or someone guessed it (or someone guessed it from somewhere else (e.g. they saw his desktop password "hint") or some nonesense like that) and he re-used it on gmail.
or he used a not so clever algorithm from leaked data... and someone compromised his gmail by figuring out his pattern. (e.g. his leaked linkedin password was mysp1094!, and his leaked myspace password was mysp1094!... so some bright lad or lass tried gmai1094! and was in...
, one unintended result is that it will ignore reviews from people who purchase keys via Humble Bundle or other third-party stores.
This is not an unintended effect per se; because it should have NO effect.
Why, for example, would people who buy steam keys on greenmangaming or desura or whatever review games statistically differently from people who buy them on steam directly.
I can't really imagine any reason why people who bought a title on storeA would systematically rate a game higher or lower than if they bought it on storeB. It is exactly the same game, and they get it on steam either way so its even the same platform. So yes, even if a game sold 50% of its copies on storeA and 50% on steam you are not counting half the reviews when forming the rating... but the rating itself should be the same.
But at $10 for two games you want and three you've never heard of, you figure, why not? If you end up liking one of those games, your review won't matter... again making it difficult for hidden gems to get a foothold.
Right. But are you statistically likely to like the game more than the people who actually did buy it on steam? Assuming you are reviewing honestly, at best you will add to the number or reviews, but won't change the actual rating. Adding to the total number of reviews is 'good' -- i do generally think more of a game with 10,000 positive than 10 positives, but if the same mechanism that lets a few thousand humble bundle users leave a review is also abused to leave 10s of thousands of 'fake reviews' by developers than its not really a win to include the humble bundle users.
Plus as a potential buyer... on some level knowing that humblebundle users are filtered out is actually a good thing... because i know they tend to be a lot more charitable even to the duds...
I got this game for free in a bundle; tried it out, cool concept, it amused me for 10 minutes so was good value 10/10.
or even...
i got this game for free... it sucked total ass; [...] I'm enjoyed writing this scathing review of it quite a bit though. So enjoyment vs money spent... win! 10/10.
The signal to noise ratio from humble bundle keys is so high that filtering that crowd out is surely a big improvement.
As to the problem of getting hidden gems more exposure... that's a tough problem, but reducing the amount of turds floating to the top on the backs of developer fraud and humblebundle pranksters isn't going to hurt.
At the end of the day, the only difference between the two is sucrose has a molecular bond between the fructose and the glucose molecules, however your intestines have an enzyme that splits them apart before your body does anything at all with either, hence completely negating any difference.
"Fructose consumption does not cause an insulin response, as other types of sugars would. This may have a profound effect on appetite and may lead to overeating. Tests carried out by Princeton researchers on rodents showed a very significant difference between the addition of sugar or hfcs in the diet. The rats fed the hfcs seemed to develop an insatiable appetite and grew fat on their regular food. This did not happen with ordinary sugar." http://www.sugar-and-sweetener...
One possibility is that the ratio difference although slight is actually relevant and results in increased appetite, even if just 5-10% or so... added up over every pop you drink.
Another possibility is that the enzyme process in breaking sucrose into fructose + glucose is also an important part of the appetite suppression/satiation mechanism.
So it may be that HFCS isn't bad for you per se, but by defeating your bodies' normal satiatian response that it leads to over eating relative to other kinds of sugar.
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Not giving kids their own account on the parents machine is the dumbest thing I ever heared.
ORLY?
Setting up an account for my little brothers (my father married again and I have two brothers 40 years younger than me) is less than a minute work.
Less than a minutes work. For you. After you thought about it.
Most people don't give a second thought to this shit. So the system needs to cope with how people actually use stuff. A solution that only /. user would think of is not a solution at all.
How many parents hand their kids their phones and ipads to play games on? Pretty much all of them. All the time. That's the world we live in. So manufacturers that want to make consumer friendly shit need to consider how consumers actually are going to use the stuff.
And: the kids can not destroy your computer with a single mouse click or download software/music/video that bancrupts you ... sorry: you are an idiot!
This isn't about me specifically. And yeah, the average kitchen computer or living room laptop is a disaster area. That's reality. In my case, I maintain separate equipment for important work, but not everyone has 20+ computers in there house. My parents for example have an iphone, and ipad, and a mac mini. And when the kids come over they're allowed to play games on the ipad. (But no they don't create a separate apple id for when the grandkids come to visit; and they don't obsessively sign in and out of icloud.) That's just normal people using ipads the way normal people use ipads: couch toys.
Compared to the plasmas, rear projection screens, and even good old fasioned CRTs over the last dozen years the new LED units are positively energy sippers.
Even so, update the tests and fix the stickers; consumers should know what they are buying.
Although I do take exception to the idea that the auto dimming during the test is 'unrealistic' -- yeah its true there isn't a minute of blackness during the average superbowl. But I can't tell you how often a movie has ended, or someone walked away from the HTPC, or something and its gone to sleep. Some of the devices go idle/sleep/off the TV basically shuts the screen off. Others it goes to this blue no-signal screen which it doesn't seem to detect as idle, and will sit there glowing blue nothing for hours... so yeah... testing what the screen does when its not being used SHOULD be part of the testing.
Apple are idiots
Nah it just takes 'courage' to automatically sync your clipboard to your other devices that you may or may not be using.
Which is another way of saying "damn, I've received a response explaining the technology and it doesn't work at all like I thought
Pretty much yes.
but this is the internet and I refuse to be wrong about anything
I'm happy to wrong, and I was way off initially in how it worked. Its a lot less bad than I feared.
This isn't about a stubborn refusal to be 'wrong'. This is simply a remaining issue.
so I'll complain about imaginary edge cases that haven't happened and are so fringe
Because two different people living in the same house in different rooms using devices that are on the same wifi and icloud account is an imaginary edge case? Really? Everyone i know with apple devices does this all the time.
Even comp.risks hasn't bothered with it? Are you sure?
The clipboard is already the source of all kinds of leaks on a shared computer. Have you ever sat down at a public computer and hit "Ctrl-V" sometimes you get something the previous user didn't intend to leave behind for you to find. So, yeah, its not even a new problem, because almost nobody thinks about the clipboard; its invisible.
As for wider recognition of clipboard mobility issues; its already well recognized that there are security risks with the clipboard and remote desktop type solutions with clipboard sharing. (Where malware on the remote access client can both potentially scrape sensitive information from the server's clipboard, or harm the server by injecting malicious content into clipboard (e.g. you copy a bash script to the clipboard, the malware recognizes a bash script has been copied and add's script steps to do something else so that when you paste it on the server the malware's script gets run. This is all old hat. Plenty of ink has been spilled about clipboard sharing on remote desktop services / citrix; and desktop virtual machines (desktop hyperV, VirtualBox, etc) and using it to get out to the host machine.
Universal clipboard opens these same sorts of cans of worms between handoff units. An infected ipad your grandkids use could now potentially scrape all your passwords out of the clipboard as you copy and paste them on your main computer that you much more careful with.
Not to mention simply inadvertent unwanted disclosures between users. Whether its porn ending up handed off to the kids on the ipad; or some draft communication to your lawyer ending up getting dumped on the kitchen mac-mini. Or whatever.
So I still argue that you should have to take an affirmative action to activate handing off the clipboard.
And you've immediately chosen to selectively forget what you already replied to earlier, proving you're just a troll.
What are you on about? What did I "forget"?
In my initial example I said work/home; but later learned about the proximity requirement. So I revised it to different rooms in a house... which is still ripe for issues.
CLOSE PROXIMITY. As in, order of a metre.
Really? Because Apple themselves just say handoff has to be within bluetooth range to work, and according to Apple that's 10 meters, or 33 feet. So...
a) you are out by an order of magnitude.
b) 10 meters is plenty for devices to interact between adjacent rooms, or rooms separated by a floor or 2.
Apple accounts are per-person. If you're sharing them, all kinds of cross-linked badness will happen. Dad uses the main account & kids have family accounts (with limits & allowances set). All purchases are shared, but pasteboard & assorted iCloud storage is kept separate. There's no good reason to be sharing accounts.
Ok, here's another example. My parents (aka the kids grandparents. Dad has an iphone, and ipad, and mac. They all use one account because they're all his.
He and my mom use the ipad in the living room all the time. And the grandkids and guests use the ipad all the time as well when visiting.
There's all kinds of opportunity for unwanted clipboard sharing to result. The kids are over while he's working in the office downstairs for example.
Dad uses the main account & kids have family accounts (with limits & allowances set)
Most families simply don't set up their devices this way. Its more work and what does a 6 year old need with his own apple account just to play with his mom or dads or grandfathers ipad?
The shared pasteboard is useful, and I love it. Browsing slashdot on my phone, have to type a rant-y reply... Type on Mac, copy/pasta & paste into phone.
Because simply posting it from your mac was too hard? All they had to do to make this sensible was add a key... ctrl-cmd-c on the mac to copy to clipboard and sync it to icloud; cmd-c for a regular copy to local only. On ios same thing add a 2nd popup command next to copy for icloud copy.
Same functionality, but then it never happens unintentionally.
The idea that everything you copy and paste should try by default to find some other nearby authorized device to sync to is idiotic. For how often you need it (not much), it should be something you explicitly activate.
You seem to be giving this advice to me personally... why don't *I* disable handoff? why don't *I* setup family sharing?
This isn't going to affect me. I'm already pretty careful about what I have syncing to the cloud, and I jump trhough all the hoops so my pcs don't login with microsoft accounts, and OSX doesn't log in with an apple id etc. I sync my android phone to my own owncloud instance etc. I'm not personally at risk here.
This is going to affect people out there who aren't system admins, who don't read sites like this. This will affect people like my father. Because he'll have all this stuff on, and then when the grandkids are sleeping over playing with his ipad in the living room and he's doing something downstairs in his home office. He's not going to disable handoff because he's not going to even think about it. He's not going to setup his own ipad with a different icloud account just because sometimes his grandchildren or my mother uses it. etc.
You are approaching the problem like a sys-admin; identifying ways to mitigate it. But you have to assume that most people aren't going to do this.
The TL;DR of this means that the devices must be on the same iCloud account
The default for most couples or family's with small kids.
be in close proximity geographically
Pretty much a given within a household. The home office, bedrooms, and living room all tend to be within a couple dozen feet.
cooperate with Handoff
Does that limit the potential for issues somehow?
and it'll only leave data available for a short period of time after being copied.
Oh, so its like those disappearing message apps! That'll be fine then. /sarcasm.
I'll grant its not as bad as I feared, but this is still a whole series of accidents waiting to happen.
"run their families". (Families are not a business. They aren't "run".)
the actual sentence clause was "run their family's computers/tablets/etc".
As in the 'running' (or setup and management if you prefer) of the computers and devices used by members of the family.
I don't think it's fair to those of us with a brain [...]
to have you pretending that you belong in the group? You're right. It's not fair.
Is that how you made your decision about windows 10 misfeatures too?
Sometime you don't need to try something to realize its just bound to lead to unintended disclosures. And there are so many actual ways of intentionally moving data between devices that this simply isn't necessary.
i believe contents of the clipboard are transferred using Handoff, point to point transfer locally.
so no internet is involved and it won't work if you're not physically present.
Still going to happen to families. Dad in the home office, kid in the living room immediately above. Mom in the living room, kids in the rec-room immediately below... etc etc.
This just seems dumb in much the same way windows 10 wifi password sharing was dumb.
I don't understand why you would like to log in onto work computer and home computer with same login? THAT is beginning of security disaster!
I wouldn't use the same login as the imac at home.
(Although you know a ton of people absolutely would.)
But even in MY case, my wifes macbook pro, my macbook pro, and my daughters iphone, and the kids ipad in the living room all use the same itunes/icloud account so that music, and app purchases, etc are shared. This is how a lot of families are setup in my experience; especially husband and wife; or families with young kids. Older teens start to want their own accounts but before that a lot of this stuff is simply shared for simplicity.
That's what having separate user accounts is for.
Seriously. Nobody wants that hassle.
There's no way I'd let my kids use anything that I was logged into.
Yeah, my main laptop is protected by password etc and the kids aren't even allowed to use it; ditto my main desktop.
but my old laptop is now the living room laptop, and the kids can watch youtube and play games on it, and search the web etc. And I *prefer* it to just have one login that is shared by all users.
And I don't even think twice about the living room ipad... hell i never even use it. But all my OSX devices are on the same itunes account becuase that way purchases/apps are shared; the music is available to all users, etc, etc.
Most families setup devices this way, and kids don't get their "own" accounts until they are older.
So you'll only have a problem if Dad and Son are signed into the same iCloud account on their devices.
This is how most people run their family tablets/kitchen computers/etc. Kids don't usually start getting their own logins until *they* own the devices and/or reach teenage years etc. And even then computers and devices in shared spaces; most people just use a common login rather than multiple accounts because that's hassle.
universal clipboard sounds like a complete security disaster for any sort of family use. Dad hits copy to copy/paste something on his laptop at the office, and the kids upstairs doing their homework go to paste something into a document on the ipad upstairs have that content dumped into the document...
What is the worst that could happen? Who wanted this? Who is so damned lazy that they couldn't paste whatever they wanted into a file that's synced the cloud, or a note that's synced with their device, or sent themselves an email or drafted an email... or any of a bunch of things you actually have to take an active step to sync.
I don't want crap automatically syncing between devices i own. There are a things like photos and documents that I want synced between certain folders on certain devices... but my clipboard? FFS -- my passwords are in the clipboard half the time when using apps like password safe etc... lets just squirt that into the web without thinking about it...
It's not that there isn't anything worth saying in 140 characters or less, it's that most people don't have anything worth saying in any amount of characters. Twitter prevents bloviated diatribes, keeping the inanity down to digestible bite-sized chunks.
Ahem... that was 254 characters, TLDR Mr. Bloviated Diatribe!
The chunks are bite-sized and digestible, but when the only thing the platform allows is inane sound bites, wisecracks, and talking points that's all the platform has on it.
(And that one sentence was 173 characters. Nevermind bloviated diatribes one can't even write a single half decent sentence.)
"Standard practice" does not negate your rights under consumer protection laws, assuming you live in a civilised jurisdiction which has them.
You are right of course that warranties etc still apply; but those generally only require an exchange. (And the returned unit is tossed in the trash.) And some places do have a satisfaction gauranteed where they'll give you store credit, or even money back if you aren't happy -- but even then the unwanted/returned stuff is never resold.
Assuming you live in a civilised jurisdiction with consomer protection laws. ;)
Because I'm pretty sure those consumer protection laws are part of what forbid the resale of used sex toys in the first place; along with underwear; open medicine; open food etc...
You are full of rubbish. Uber's problems have nothing to do with "pissing off its customers"
No customer likes 'surge pricing'; customers like 'predictable pricing'. Uber's competitors would do well to make that differentiation part of their plan.
Uber's problems are the typical problems any new business especially one that comes with a new paradigm faces
What new paradigm? Hailing a cab with an app? My local taxi company has that, works great. I also did that while on a recent business trip to Melbourne... again the taxi company's app was great. Maybe not in your city. Uber copying what cab companies were already doing in other cities is not a paradigm shift. Uber pretending it isn't a boring cab company while doing exactly what cab companies do is about the only original thing they do.
These same whiners will be back on Uber in a few days, if not tomorrow.
Or maybe they'll switch to a competitive cab company a thing which exists in many cities. And in cities that think uber is special for some reason; they'll eventually discover it's really not. Although it might cause a rethink in some of the worst cities were medallion systems and regulatory capture went off the deep end... and that would be good. But again... not exactly a paradigm shift.
Question asked
"I genuinely don't understand what the "problem" you're trying to solve is."
Really? I thought I was pretty clear:
"The problem is uber can't figure out how to run a profitable business without pissing off its customers"
You also seem convinced that someone other than the person who needs the ride at a chaotic time should pay more. Why?
Same reason I'm convinced that any business that has rushes and lulls benefits from predictable pricing: Customers like that. And a nickle a ride tossed in a bin to cover surging drivers compensation in a 'rush' is just good customer relations.
In the same way that customers would be really pissed off if the grocery store jacked the prices in the store by 20% whenever the lineup at the checkout got longer than X to re-balance "supply and demand".
Then to top it off, this is a crisis, when the ethical thing to do is pull together as human beings, not dive in with predatory pricing. If Uber gives a shit about its image then this is a problem it has to solve. If it doesn't care about its image, then its not a problem... but not caring may cost it customers and even political support in the long run.
So you feel there is only:
Option 1 - do nothing. keep rates the same. people wait a long time.
and Option 2 - jack up rates, more drivers on raods, people wait less.
And yet, I see other options:
Option 3 - jack up driver compensation, keep rates the same. more drivers on roads, people wait less, uber doesn't profit as much for a few hours. Call it a PR move; write it off as a charitible donation.
Option 4 - raise overall prices a fraction of a nickle to build up a contingency reserve fund for events like this (bombs aren't exactly common), so that they can surge driver pay from the reserve fund, yet keep the customer rates the same. drivers get paid more during surge events. less waiting... customers are happy. Uber makes a profit.
The problem is people viewing their needs in isolation, instead of in the greater context.
No. The problem is uber can't figure out how to run a profitable business without pissing off its customers; despite extremely simple solutions to the problem.
This is a good way to keep someone from using it and then trying to return it as "unused."
Huh? Standard practice forever on these is that once it leaves the store you aren't returning it. All sales final. Period.
Or he could have been phished. (still a stolen password, but not via one of the various big leaks.)
It could also be a remote attack vs his desktop
(teamviewer/gotomypc/rdp/etc/etc...) If someone has gotten remote access to his desktop then it may be as simple as launching chrome from his PC at 3am...
or someone got their hands on a device like an ipad or something that he used that wasn't properly/sufficiently locked down.
or he foolishly checked his gmail from a computer someone else uses or belongs to, and didn't properly log out.
or someone guessed it (or someone guessed it from somewhere else (e.g. they saw his desktop password "hint") or some nonesense like that) and he re-used it on gmail.
or he used a not so clever algorithm from leaked data ... and someone compromised his gmail by figuring out his pattern. (e.g. his leaked linkedin password was mysp1094!, and his leaked myspace password was mysp1094!... so some bright lad or lass tried gmai1094! and was in...
They actually just recently got out of the munitions business.
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Sample Samsung
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They also made fighter jets for a while.
, one unintended result is that it will ignore reviews from people who purchase keys via Humble Bundle or other third-party stores.
This is not an unintended effect per se; because it should have NO effect.
Why, for example, would people who buy steam keys on greenmangaming or desura or whatever review games statistically differently from people who buy them on steam directly.
I can't really imagine any reason why people who bought a title on storeA would systematically rate a game higher or lower than if they bought it on storeB. It is exactly the same game, and they get it on steam either way so its even the same platform. So yes, even if a game sold 50% of its copies on storeA and 50% on steam you are not counting half the reviews when forming the rating... but the rating itself should be the same.
But at $10 for two games you want and three you've never heard of, you figure, why not? If you end up liking one of those games, your review won't matter... again making it difficult for hidden gems to get a foothold.
Right. But are you statistically likely to like the game more than the people who actually did buy it on steam? Assuming you are reviewing honestly, at best you will add to the number or reviews, but won't change the actual rating. Adding to the total number of reviews is 'good' -- i do generally think more of a game with 10,000 positive than 10 positives, but if the same mechanism that lets a few thousand humble bundle users leave a review is also abused to leave 10s of thousands of 'fake reviews' by developers than its not really a win to include the humble bundle users.
Plus as a potential buyer... on some level knowing that humblebundle users are filtered out is actually a good thing... because i know they tend to be a lot more charitable even to the duds...
I got this game for free in a bundle; tried it out, cool concept, it amused me for 10 minutes so was good value 10/10.
or even...
i got this game for free... it sucked total ass; [...] I'm enjoyed writing this scathing review of it quite a bit though. So enjoyment vs money spent... win! 10/10.
The signal to noise ratio from humble bundle keys is so high that filtering that crowd out is surely a big improvement.
As to the problem of getting hidden gems more exposure... that's a tough problem, but reducing the amount of turds floating to the top on the backs of developer fraud and humblebundle pranksters isn't going to hurt.
At the end of the day, the only difference between the two is sucrose has a molecular bond between the fructose and the glucose molecules, however your intestines have an enzyme that splits them apart before your body does anything at all with either, hence completely negating any difference.
"Fructose consumption does not cause an insulin response, as other types of sugars would. This may have a profound effect on appetite and may lead to overeating. Tests carried out by Princeton researchers on rodents showed a very significant difference between the addition of sugar or hfcs in the diet. The rats fed the hfcs seemed to develop an insatiable appetite and grew fat on their regular food. This did not happen with ordinary sugar."
http://www.sugar-and-sweetener...
One possibility is that the ratio difference although slight is actually relevant and results in increased appetite, even if just 5-10% or so... added up over every pop you drink.
Another possibility is that the enzyme process in breaking sucrose into fructose + glucose is also an important part of the appetite suppression/satiation mechanism.
So it may be that HFCS isn't bad for you per se, but by defeating your bodies' normal satiatian response that it leads to over eating relative to other kinds of sugar.