No thanks. I hate when companies have to maintain multiple product lines especially with minor differences between each one.
I don't care if it eats into profits, there is something to be said for maintaining one's company's dignity.
You know, profits isn't the only reason for a for-profit company to exist. In fact profit doesn't have to even be required.. even if it's not a non-profit.
Making a headphone and non headphone version of the iPhone would be extremely annoying and stressful.
You idiots, you can't talk 3rd party candidate today it's SEPTEMBER 2016!!
How can anybody even know which 3rd party candidate is not a crook? You should have started the campaign I don't know a few years ago. Maybe you should start the 2020 campaign today.. but guess what we have to select one of the two candidates in November. So yeah if you have zero analytical skills and thus think they are equally bad that's fine.. but if you have a I dunno half a brain or more.. then use your brain and sense of humanity to SELECT THE BETTER CANDIDATE.
It's too late for a third party candidate. If you can't even change my mind on that and you are able to reply this comment.. how are you supposed to change the minds of 30% of America in TWO MONTHS? You couldn't do it in years, now you expect it can be done in 2 months? WTF?
By sanitation did you mean intense use of insecticide fogging (that includes spraying indoors), introducing latvicidal fish species on a massive scale, and treating all suspected malaria cases with primaquine?
Brexit doesn't exist. So they voted to exit the EU. What does that even mean? They can still do all the things that being in the EU means. I mean they can still allow the same or even more immigrants, they can still have zero tariffs on EU goods. Brexit is meaningless.
I mean, here is an analogy..you can get married, move in with your spouse.. Get her to make you sandwiches or whatever. Then, a year later you can get divorced. But just because you are divorced doesn't mean you can't live with her and nothing forbids her making sandwiches for you. But hey if somebody asks you can say "we're divorced". Are you really? Yah Brexit is like getting divorced and getting into an FWB situation right after the divorce.
How they gonna get back 31 billion? Since 1 in 7 people will buy a smart phone or gadget every 2 years. That means they gotta get $30 from every smartphone owner just to cover their cost? That's F'd up to say the least. If they increase the cost of an ARM license even slightly it means the smartphone will cost dramatically higher because of the increase in risk capital needed. Basically this deal is terrible for the consumer and probably SoftBank too.
Having actually been to and lived in those high mosquito regions, I seriously doubt mosquitos are the reason we can't live in the Amazon. Yeah the bite rate is annoying. My guess is one pinprick per minute or even 30 seconds maybe at certain places/times.
I do recall holding my hand out once and within a minute a bunch of mosquitos landed. Interestingly none or few of them actually bit!
You can avoid mosquito bites by using a mosquito repellent in the home and also making sure it's sealed/meshed.. or sleeping under a mosquito net with is surprising effective.
Actually my biggest fear there was giant centipedes and snakes.. especially anacondas.. no thanks. The reason you can't live in the Amazon is because of centipedes and snakes.
Despite my venturing in South and Central America, my worst experience with mosquitos was camping in North Florida.
Anyway I don't like insects or reptiles, so when we leave Earth I hope we aren't taking them with us to Mars or wherever (Proxima B?).
How do you think Boeing, Lockheed, and others got their funding? Who do you think built the rockets and satellites that NASA uses? NASA never made anything, they've always had to buy it from somewhere. Nobody says Boeing was a subsidized company. But all the haters claim SpaceX is a subsidized company. That's just BS.. they are actually less subsidized than basically every other aerospace company. SpaceX gets money from government contracts. So does every company.. so whoopdee doo on that one.
It's amazing to watch the people with zero achievements or inventions saying that SpaceX should just give up. You have to keep improving and keep trying. The Wright brothers airplanes didn't work on the first attempt. You cant have discoveries and advances if you just keep giving up.
Security camera resolution is always horrible, so I LOL at who thinks this is even possible. Either it won't work or they will waste money and time tracking false positives. Hey at least the minister's proxy shares in the facial recognition software company will pay off. That oughta count for something.
For example sprint owns 2600:: - 2600:7:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff..which means they own billions of trillions of addresses.. to be clear.. sprint owns 633,825,300,114,114,700,748,351,602,688 ipv6 addresses. They don't have that many customers. Sprint is just one example. Similarly there will be a few hundred ISPs that will grab vast amounts of the address space an sub-allocate the addresses over-generously. It's not exactly easy to take it back especially if the numbers are address randomly. Sprint isn't going to want to give back chunks of the space since it would mean having to reconfigure servers that may have been in those chunks.
What's clear is that huge swaths of the address space will be wasted by being bought up, monopolized, misallocated, and overused. I expect us to functionally exhaust the IPv6 space within a decade or two.
Unfortunately, and as far as I can tell, I am either a human or a holographic projection with limited storage capacity. I need IPv4 cause I can't memorize an IPv6 address. Seriously, who can remember an address like 2001:0db8:0a0b:12f0:0000:0000:0000:0001.. you have got to be kidding me
No. There may be a temporary "rate this call" pop up after you hang up when it's a number that doesn't normally call you.
I would certainly be more annoyed if things started popping up on my phone. It would be magic, since it has no display.
You also refer to "hanging up", and since I don't waste time answering in the first place, your solution is useless to me.
In fact, it's a godsend to telespammers since it requires people to answer the spam phone calls before they can "rate" it, thus providing confirmation of the validity of the number and making the spammer's number list more valuable when they sell it to the next spammer.
Uh, if people don't answer telespammers then the robocalling issue wouldn't exist in the first place. Fact is that most people need to answer their phone. How do I know it's not a legitimate call from my bank or somebody who needs my help calling me from a different number than usual? The thing is with my system most spammers will be shutdown quickly. And btw, a list of numbers without useful information about the person being called is useless. I mean, if you dial a random phone number 90% of the time it's valid number -- try it. It makes no sense to buy a list where all it says is that the phone number belongs to someone. For some area codes like 212 it's just about impossible to find a non-valid number. Who is going to pay for a list of phone numbers if the only information is that the phone number is real -- nothing about the caller etc. Such a list is useless to spammers.
No. There may be a temporary "rate this call" pop up after you hang up when it's a number that doesn't normally call you. This happens when you use other services like skype.. it isn't a problem. It can be ignored, you aren't forced to rate the call. They can make it even more subtle if that turns out to be annoying (users who want to rate a call can go into their history and rate it there -- statistics can account for the fact that only angry users will bother).
ALL of which is extra steps for users and extra time.
Uh, No. There are no extra steps for users. The pop up -- which can be ignored/disabled and only appears when a new phone number appears -- happens AFTER the phone call and you don't need to click ignore it will go away automatically. How many new phone numbers call you on a cell phone anyway? It rarely happens for me, if seeing a popup after a call like that makes you upset maybe you should get therapy? But like I said if seeing a pop up after a phone call is too stressful for you then don't enable that feature. Millions of people would enable it, I mean millions of people signed up for Do-not-call lists.. and that involved a number of steps.
No. Collection agencies, most of which are unscrupulous anyway, could apply for and get themselves a special exemption.
But the scammers can't get this same exception? The exception can't be overridden with enough complaints? The exception can't be technically implemented by companies that don't have a legitimate exception? And cars will run on fair farts in the future too, right?
Uh, the method to handle this should be obvious. The exemption will be pricey enough to handle the fact that approval and subsequent follow up investigation can be handled by the organization setup to maintain this. And yes you would have an external organization handling these approvals and database. You do realize that phone and technologies companies already have setup industry organizations to deal with things (lobbying, LTE, interoperability etc. come to mind) -- so being able to contribute and cooperate through an organization is not new or difficult.
How would you SWAT someone's phone line through this? You can't even block someone's number unless you and a bunch of phone numbers you received a call from it?
You really don't have any idea on the technical requirements of what you want, do you? Who holds the database? Does each company hold it's own? How do companies compare databases? How does someone with a LANDLINE report? How do you handle reporting for VoIP lines? You can't just assume everyone has a cell phone, or that they have a smartphone and data plan. You have to have someway to get reports from non-data enabled lines. How do you deal with foreign numbers, or numbers routed through call forwarding?
You don't have anything approaching a workable solution.
It should be obvious that the database is managed by an organization that each of the phone companies subscribe to. They ALREADY do it for tons of other things, why not this? Heck we can have npac.com (Number Portability Administration Center) take this on, I mean that organization is currently getting paid millions of dollars to host a database of phone numbers. Or the organization handling Do not call lists currently.
As for how do they report, that too should be obvious too. Any problem you are pointing out has an easy solution. People on a landline can dial a * code to report the number. This is something they ALREADY CAN DO. Except currently that causes basically no action other than getting compiled in some FTC database or the number to be temporarily blocked from calling you. VOIP can do a similar thing or go to the website of the organization designated to handle this issue (for example, the do-not-call website).
"Requires users to spend extra time after making a call, and could be confusing."
No. There may be a temporary "rate this call" pop up after you hang up when it's a number that doesn't normally call you. This happens when you use other services like skype.. it isn't a problem. It can be ignored, you aren't forced to rate the call. They can make it even more subtle if that turns out to be annoying (users who want to rate a call can go into their history and rate it there -- statistics can account for the fact that only angry users will bother).
"It could also get legitimate numbers (collection agencies following the law) blacklisted wrongly because people don't like them"
No. Collection agencies, most of which are unscrupulous anyway, could apply for and get themselves a special exemption.
"or allow people to now SWAT phone numbers of people which could be a serious safety concern given how many households rely on only a single cellular line."
How would you SWAT someone's phone line through this? You can't even block someone's number unless you and a bunch of phone numbers you received a call from it?
Seriously, they will only prevent spoofing from "important" numbers? That's open to all kinds of abuse. How many people know their bank's number? This plan will make the problem even worse and eventually they will ask for federal funds to "manage" the problem.
Is it difficult to come up with a better plan? Actually yes. Yes when you don't care about helping people. This can be ended quite easily, blacklist numbers that receive a large ratio of complaints to calls. Make it possible to rate received calls. Also, prevent spoofing from all numbers, not just specific ones. Wow this plan didn't take me 30 days to come up with, it took me 30 seconds.
Dude, how long have VR and flying cars been promised for? 100 years at most? People sat around waiting for airplanes to be invented for 600 years. Stop trying to slow things down with your negativity. You guys block funding for science and then complain you aren't getting anything out of it. That's what happened to nuclear fusion research, budgets were cut by 90% in the 70s.. and then we are told fusion energy is impossible. wtf.
Actually, the third world has been improving economically at a real fast rate. Take 3 minutes to watch the video River of Myths on youtube for a summary and then explore it further.
First they made America's finest news source. Then they invented the Gillete Fusion 5 blade razor. After that, they made a routing protocol. Now they are make a computer?
Interesting, but quite frankly I liked them better when they made news for nerds and stuff that matters.
Punishing the police doesn't work. Think about it, if a police officer illegally searches a house and finds evidence against a serial killer.. wouldn't he be a hero in the public's eyes? Which jury will convict him? Knowing that, whenever a police officer illegally searches.. they have incentive to plant evidence or tamper with stuff such as to make the suspect look guilty. If a few serial killers are convicted through illegal searches.. the public will eventually say stop punishing the police for illegal searches. Then the 4th amendment will be weakened and destroyed, and we'll all be worse off.
The ONLY way to deal with illegally obtained evidence is to throw it out, no matter the short term consequence. If illegally obtained evidence is allowed, it won't be long before authorities start tampering with it to frame the innocent.
Punishing the police doesn't work. Think about it, if a police officer illegally searches a house and finds evidence against a serial killer.. wouldn't he be a hero in the public's eyes? Which jury will convict him? Knowing that, whenever a police officer illegally searches.. they have incentive to plant evidence or tamper with stuff such as to make the suspect look guilty. If a few serial killers are convicted through illegal searches.. the public will eventually say stop punishing the police for illegal searches. Then the 4th amendment will be weakened and destroyed, and we'll all be worse off.
The ONLY way to deal with illegally obtained evidence is to throw it out, no matter the short term consequence. If illegally obtained evidence is allowed, it won't be long before authorities start tampering with it to frame the innocent.
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No thanks. I hate when companies have to maintain multiple product lines especially with minor differences between each one.
I don't care if it eats into profits, there is something to be said for maintaining one's company's dignity.
You know, profits isn't the only reason for a for-profit company to exist. In fact profit doesn't have to even be required .. even if it's not a non-profit.
Making a headphone and non headphone version of the iPhone would be extremely annoying and stressful.
You idiots, you can't talk 3rd party candidate today it's SEPTEMBER 2016!!
How can anybody even know which 3rd party candidate is not a crook? You should have started the campaign I don't know a few years ago. Maybe you should start the 2020 campaign today .. but guess what we have to select one of the two candidates in November. So yeah if you have zero analytical skills and thus think they are equally bad that's fine .. but if you have a I dunno half a brain or more .. then use your brain and sense of humanity to SELECT THE BETTER CANDIDATE.
It's too late for a third party candidate. If you can't even change my mind on that and you are able to reply this comment .. how are you supposed to change the minds of 30% of America in TWO MONTHS? You couldn't do it in years, now you expect it can be done in 2 months? WTF?
By sanitation did you mean intense use of insecticide fogging (that includes spraying indoors), introducing latvicidal fish species on a massive scale, and treating all suspected malaria cases with primaquine?
If you meant that, yes.
Brexit doesn't exist. So they voted to exit the EU. What does that even mean? They can still do all the things that being in the EU means. I mean they can still allow the same or even more immigrants, they can still have zero tariffs on EU goods. Brexit is meaningless.
I mean, here is an analogy ..you can get married, move in with your spouse .. Get her to make you sandwiches or whatever. Then, a year later you can get divorced. But just because you are divorced doesn't mean you can't live with her and nothing forbids her making sandwiches for you. But hey if somebody asks you can say "we're divorced". Are you really? Yah Brexit is like getting divorced and getting into an FWB situation right after the divorce.
How they gonna get back 31 billion? Since 1 in 7 people will buy a smart phone or gadget every 2 years. That means they gotta get $30 from every smartphone owner just to cover their cost? That's F'd up to say the least. If they increase the cost of an ARM license even slightly it means the smartphone will cost dramatically higher because of the increase in risk capital needed. Basically this deal is terrible for the consumer and probably SoftBank too.
Having actually been to and lived in those high mosquito regions, I seriously doubt mosquitos are the reason we can't live in the Amazon. Yeah the bite rate is annoying. My guess is one pinprick per minute or even 30 seconds maybe at certain places/times.
I do recall holding my hand out once and within a minute a bunch of mosquitos landed. Interestingly none or few of them actually bit!
You can avoid mosquito bites by using a mosquito repellent in the home and also making sure it's sealed/meshed .. or sleeping under a mosquito net with is surprising effective.
Actually my biggest fear there was giant centipedes and snakes .. especially anacondas .. no thanks. The reason you can't live in the Amazon is because of centipedes and snakes.
Despite my venturing in South and Central America, my worst experience with mosquitos was camping in North Florida.
Anyway I don't like insects or reptiles, so when we leave Earth I hope we aren't taking them with us to Mars or wherever (Proxima B?).
How do you think Boeing, Lockheed, and others got their funding? Who do you think built the rockets and satellites that NASA uses? NASA never made anything, they've always had to buy it from somewhere. Nobody says Boeing was a subsidized company. But all the haters claim SpaceX is a subsidized company. That's just BS .. they are actually less subsidized than basically every other aerospace company. SpaceX gets money from government contracts. So does every company .. so whoopdee doo on that one.
Russia came in first but they hacked the scoreboard to appear second.
It's amazing to watch the people with zero achievements or inventions saying that SpaceX should just give up. You have to keep improving and keep trying. The Wright brothers airplanes didn't work on the first attempt. You cant have discoveries and advances if you just keep giving up.
It's because we want starships to go there. They don't measure the kessel run in light years do they? Why measure this?
Security camera resolution is always horrible, so I LOL at who thinks this is even possible. Either it won't work or they will waste money and time tracking false positives. Hey at least the minister's proxy shares in the facial recognition software company will pay off. That oughta count for something.
Really? it's _already_ happening.
For example sprint owns 2600:: - 2600:7:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff ..which means they own billions of trillions of addresses .. to be clear .. sprint owns 633,825,300,114,114,700,748,351,602,688 ipv6 addresses. They don't have that many customers. Sprint is just one example. Similarly there will be a few hundred ISPs that will grab vast amounts of the address space an sub-allocate the addresses over-generously. It's not exactly easy to take it back especially if the numbers are address randomly. Sprint isn't going to want to give back chunks of the space since it would mean having to reconfigure servers that may have been in those chunks.
What's clear is that huge swaths of the address space will be wasted by being bought up, monopolized, misallocated, and overused. I expect us to functionally exhaust the IPv6 space within a decade or two.
Unfortunately, and as far as I can tell, I am either a human or a holographic projection with limited storage capacity. I need IPv4 cause I can't memorize an IPv6 address. Seriously, who can remember an address like 2001:0db8:0a0b:12f0:0000:0000:0000:0001 .. you have got to be kidding me
No. There may be a temporary "rate this call" pop up after you hang up when it's a number that doesn't normally call you.
I would certainly be more annoyed if things started popping up on my phone. It would be magic, since it has no display.
You also refer to "hanging up", and since I don't waste time answering in the first place, your solution is useless to me.
In fact, it's a godsend to telespammers since it requires people to answer the spam phone calls before they can "rate" it, thus providing confirmation of the validity of the number and making the spammer's number list more valuable when they sell it to the next spammer.
Uh, if people don't answer telespammers then the robocalling issue wouldn't exist in the first place. Fact is that most people need to answer their phone. How do I know it's not a legitimate call from my bank or somebody who needs my help calling me from a different number than usual? The thing is with my system most spammers will be shutdown quickly. And btw, a list of numbers without useful information about the person being called is useless. I mean, if you dial a random phone number 90% of the time it's valid number -- try it. It makes no sense to buy a list where all it says is that the phone number belongs to someone. For some area codes like 212 it's just about impossible to find a non-valid number. Who is going to pay for a list of phone numbers if the only information is that the phone number is real -- nothing about the caller etc. Such a list is useless to spammers.
No. There may be a temporary "rate this call" pop up after you hang up when it's a number that doesn't normally call you. This happens when you use other services like skype .. it isn't a problem. It can be ignored, you aren't forced to rate the call. They can make it even more subtle if that turns out to be annoying (users who want to rate a call can go into their history and rate it there -- statistics can account for the fact that only angry users will bother).
ALL of which is extra steps for users and extra time.
Uh, No. There are no extra steps for users. The pop up -- which can be ignored/disabled and only appears when a new phone number appears -- happens AFTER the phone call and you don't need to click ignore it will go away automatically. How many new phone numbers call you on a cell phone anyway? It rarely happens for me, if seeing a popup after a call like that makes you upset maybe you should get therapy? But like I said if seeing a pop up after a phone call is too stressful for you then don't enable that feature. Millions of people would enable it, I mean millions of people signed up for Do-not-call lists .. and that involved a number of steps.
No. Collection agencies, most of which are unscrupulous anyway, could apply for and get themselves a special exemption.
But the scammers can't get this same exception? The exception can't be overridden with enough complaints? The exception can't be technically implemented by companies that don't have a legitimate exception? And cars will run on fair farts in the future too, right?
Uh, the method to handle this should be obvious. The exemption will be pricey enough to handle the fact that approval and subsequent follow up investigation can be handled by the organization setup to maintain this. And yes you would have an external organization handling these approvals and database. You do realize that phone and technologies companies already have setup industry organizations to deal with things (lobbying, LTE, interoperability etc. come to mind) -- so being able to contribute and cooperate through an organization is not new or difficult.
How would you SWAT someone's phone line through this? You can't even block someone's number unless you and a bunch of phone numbers you received a call from it?
You really don't have any idea on the technical requirements of what you want, do you? Who holds the database? Does each company hold it's own? How do companies compare databases? How does someone with a LANDLINE report? How do you handle reporting for VoIP lines? You can't just assume everyone has a cell phone, or that they have a smartphone and data plan. You have to have someway to get reports from non-data enabled lines. How do you deal with foreign numbers, or numbers routed through call forwarding?
You don't have anything approaching a workable solution.
It should be obvious that the database is managed by an organization that each of the phone companies subscribe to. They ALREADY do it for tons of other things, why not this? Heck we can have npac.com (Number Portability Administration Center) take this on, I mean that organization is currently getting paid millions of dollars to host a database of phone numbers. Or the organization handling Do not call lists currently.
As for how do they report, that too should be obvious too. Any problem you are pointing out has an easy solution. People on a landline can dial a * code to report the number. This is something they ALREADY CAN DO. Except currently that causes basically no action other than getting compiled in some FTC database or the number to be temporarily blocked from calling you. VOIP can do a similar thing or go to the website of the organization designated to handle this issue (for example, the do-not-call website).
"Requires users to spend extra time after making a call, and could be confusing."
No. There may be a temporary "rate this call" pop up after you hang up when it's a number that doesn't normally call you. This happens when you use other services like skype .. it isn't a problem. It can be ignored, you aren't forced to rate the call. They can make it even more subtle if that turns out to be annoying (users who want to rate a call can go into their history and rate it there -- statistics can account for the fact that only angry users will bother).
"It could also get legitimate numbers (collection agencies following the law) blacklisted wrongly because people don't like them"
No. Collection agencies, most of which are unscrupulous anyway, could apply for and get themselves a special exemption.
"or allow people to now SWAT phone numbers of people which could be a serious safety concern given how many households rely on only a single cellular line."
How would you SWAT someone's phone line through this? You can't even block someone's number unless you and a bunch of phone numbers you received a call from it?
Seriously, they will only prevent spoofing from "important" numbers? That's open to all kinds of abuse. How many people know their bank's number? This plan will make the problem even worse and eventually they will ask for federal funds to "manage" the problem.
Is it difficult to come up with a better plan? Actually yes. Yes when you don't care about helping people. This can be ended quite easily, blacklist numbers that receive a large ratio of complaints to calls. Make it possible to rate received calls. Also, prevent spoofing from all numbers, not just specific ones. Wow this plan didn't take me 30 days to come up with, it took me 30 seconds.
Dude, how long have VR and flying cars been promised for? 100 years at most? People sat around waiting for airplanes to be invented for 600 years. Stop trying to slow things down with your negativity. You guys block funding for science and then complain you aren't getting anything out of it. That's what happened to nuclear fusion research, budgets were cut by 90% in the 70s.. and then we are told fusion energy is impossible. wtf.
Actually, the third world has been improving economically at a real fast rate. Take 3 minutes to watch the video River of Myths on youtube for a summary and then explore it further.
First they made America's finest news source. Then they invented the Gillete Fusion 5 blade razor. After that, they made a routing protocol. Now they are make a computer?
Interesting, but quite frankly I liked them better when they made news for nerds and stuff that matters.
Intel doesn't know how to design GPUs .. thats where they need to compete. I need 8K VR gaming at 120 fps.
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Punishing the police doesn't work. Think about it, if a police officer illegally searches a house and finds evidence against a serial killer .. wouldn't he be a hero in the public's eyes? Which jury will convict him? Knowing that, whenever a police officer illegally searches .. they have incentive to plant evidence or tamper with stuff such as to make the suspect look guilty. If a few serial killers are convicted through illegal searches .. the public will eventually say stop punishing the police for illegal searches. Then the 4th amendment will be weakened and destroyed, and we'll all be worse off.
The ONLY way to deal with illegally obtained evidence is to throw it out, no matter the short term consequence. If illegally obtained evidence is allowed, it won't be long before authorities start tampering with it to frame the innocent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Punishing the police doesn't work. Think about it, if a police officer illegally searches a house and finds evidence against a serial killer .. wouldn't he be a hero in the public's eyes? Which jury will convict him? Knowing that, whenever a police officer illegally searches .. they have incentive to plant evidence or tamper with stuff such as to make the suspect look guilty. If a few serial killers are convicted through illegal searches .. the public will eventually say stop punishing the police for illegal searches. Then the 4th amendment will be weakened and destroyed, and we'll all be worse off.
The ONLY way to deal with illegally obtained evidence is to throw it out, no matter the short term consequence. If illegally obtained evidence is allowed, it won't be long before authorities start tampering with it to frame the innocent.
Huh? Wrong. Are you blind or something?!?
LOOK AT THE RESULT OF THE CALCULATION CAREFULLY.
The power produced is 3.333×10^9 kW (kilowatts) .. THAT IS NOT 3.3 TWh .. that is 33,333 TWh. You pasted the unit conversion factor dummy!!
The first link states that is 1.4 × average global power consumption ( 2.3×10^12 W ).