While it is true that you can take someone's picture in a public place, USE of that picture is another matter. As soon as he publicly posts that picture associated with his name as photographer, then he opens himself to lawsuits regarding personal likeness. This is why the press has you sign wavers. They don't want something coming back at them later for any reason.
That's because they only have to pay for the hosting once (or once a month/year/whatever) and not by the hit. How many spammers would stay in business if they were charged $1 per email address they spammed?
Google is successful because it has managed to hold onto being the premiere search engine and then selling the keywords that it sees are the most popular. "Word of mouth" has literally almost *nothing* to do with it.
By "reading reviews" you mean in regard to ebooks, certainly, but SOMEONE is going to be first and is going to have to fork over the stupid $.99 to find out if what the author claims is super amazing awesome ZOMG!.. is really just crap. It gets more complicated because the author can log in with a different account and post 5 star reviews and praises to muddy the water. If a spammer only gets one or two sales before someone posts a negative review, then they still win because they are doing this on a massive scale. They've got like a thousand crap books out there, all getting 2-3 sales. And those books don't go away, they just sit there in the listings wasting people's time and bandwidth.
Interesting, because the spammers are making money by putting out 1000 useless "books" that may only get downloaded 3 times each before people catch on and post negative reviews. But that's still 3000 "sales" at $0.70 each (70% profit), or $2,100. But if Amazon absorbed the first $10 of *each book*, the spammers would get nothing and the industry would be a far better place. Of course, that will encourage comment whoring, but that's nothing new to the system.
Amazon does not simply "promote" and market goods and services. They get PAID to promote and market goods and services... and paid quite well. The fact that you don't understand this shows a complete ignorance of the industry. User reviews may push you up in a list of similar products, but you still have to be seen first. How many click through's do you think you would get on the 50th result page from Google?
Bullshit. There are people "publishing" 50-100 "books" a day that are utter garbage. And I don't mean that it's bad writing, I mean that it's rip off recycled crap. There's so much junk flooding the market that it makes actual works indistinguishable from everything else. The only way these works get found out is if someone actually pays for it and reads it, and then bothers to comment. Even a $1 entry fee would do wonders to limit this. The WHOLE POINT of Amazon is it's ability to find products and see reviews before you buy. If you can no longer do that, then why not take your legitimate work and use the rest of the free web for self advertizing, serve the file yourself, and keep 100% of the profits?
Content doesn't rise to the top because it's "worthy", it rises to the top because it has positive reviews. Whether those reviews came from adoring fans or solid marketing is almost irrelevant.
Sure, paper can be corrupted, but how many of your ebooks are going to still be readable in 100 years? 50 years? 10 years? I have paper books on my shelf that are 50+ years old and look nearly new. I also have thousands of ebooks stored on CD's that are now in a a format that is completely useless without hours and hours of conversion (if it can even be done any more). In another 50 years, my paper books will probably have yellowed a bit, but will still be going strong. My ebooks on the other hand will almost certainly be stored on a medium that I can no longer read, and in a format that is long dead. Unless I take great pains to backup and convert my digital collection every 5 years or so, it's almost a certainty that it will be useless plastic by the time I pass it on to my kids.
MMO's like WoW are constantly at odds with themselves. They want the world to be "dynamic" and changing based on the user's decisions, but they can't just make everything happen at random. There is always a *story* that must be followed. They want the game to be challenging, but ultimately the point is to sell subscriptions and make money, which means the game has to be 'simple' enough for the lowest common denominator. Players who constantly get their asses handed to them are likely to leave. Winning is fun. Losing sucks. My four year old daughter can walk through WoW and end up with a level 85 character. Where's the skill? Playing at level 5 is just as "hard" as playing at level 85, you just have more colorful gear.
Personally, I'd like to see more *consequence* in games like WoW. They're not going to be able to break with the "go out and kill X number of Y" type quests, but it would be cool if in doing so, you became more and more "known" to various intelligent groups of beings. If you picked on the ogres too much, they would start anticipating your arrival, or use group tactics to squash you. It would make you think twice about simply questing through the game in a predetermined manner. It's still "fair" because it's entirely based on your own decisions about things. They have "reputation", but other than making someone an enemy, there are no other consequences. Who cares if they hate you... you were going to kill them all anyway.
All this says is that 15% were one of the top 10 FOR HIS APP. This makes the very large assumption that people who were paranoid enough to buy his app are going to be fooled and use the same password that they do to lock the phone. They very well might, but his app doesn't prove that.
It seems that web interfaces are simply doing away with the "click". It's as if designers were told "fewer clicks is better", and so they naturally thought that NO clicks must be best. I freaking HATE rollover interfaces. If I want to see the details, then I can avail myself to lightly depress my mouse button a millimeter or two. Otherwise, keep it the hell out of my face.
Nursing is an interesting example of this problem. 5-6 years ago the industry was screaming for help, so tons of new nursing programs opened at universities and were quickly filled. Today, those nursing grads are having a horrible time getting work. It's not like you can just put your chosen career on hold for 2-3 years while the economy recovers.
Sooo... what you're saying is that these guys *bought* electronic copies of books at wholesale costs (70% retail), then wrote an app to sell these books on an iOS device (in direct competition with Apple on their own device) so that, we can assume, they could get in on a large closed market that Apple controls. And you are surprised that Apple had a problem with that? I think it stinks that Apple takes so much, but if other places are selling the product at Retail prices as distributors, and Apple is a distributor, then why should they just give away their market share for free?
Smart Meters don't know anything about when you leave for work or use your toaster, or when you shower, or anything else specific about your energy use beyond how many kW you are using at any given time. They record your energy usage at set intervals, which data can then be used to *guess* how you may be using it. If you happen to have fifty lights in your home that are all on until the moment you walk out the door to go to work in the morning, then yes, they could probably guess when you leave... or, it could just be that you were using your oven for an early morning batch of muffins. They don't have specifics on your appliances (yet), and they don't record anything about *you*.
Where I live, it's FAR more likely they would guess when I use my air conditioning, which can easily quadruple my hourly usage when on.
Wow, I'd mod this flamebait, but I really don't think you're that smart.
Did it even occur to you that if 90% of the media is contrary to your chosen political view, that it might actually be due to the fact that *you* are the "radical" and there might be a legitimate reason they disagree with you? Or even that your political view itself is too "exclusive" to allow unbiased reporting in *any* news organization?
... It's NOT the location of your PHONE, or "you", it's the location of the nearest TOWER or HOTSPOT. So yes, it's "OK" for them to determine the location of the nearest hotspot within 200m. Good grief! How hard is it to understand this??
No, it requires knowing where a cell tower or wi-fi hotspot is generally. You're fixated on the "location", but it's NOT the location of the phone that's being recorded. Let me just say it again for you... It's NOT the location of the PHONE that is being recorded. Stop making assumptions about the data. I HAVE an iPhone. I have gone through the process and looked at the actual data recorded. It's NOT where I have been. At best, it's a general map of the cell towers in my area, and in certain instances, points where I might have handed off between a few of them. Much of the data is composed of locations I HAVE NEVER BEEN NEAR. EVER. Are you starting to understand this yet?
The location of the nearest wi-fi hotspot or cell tower *is not* "your location", nor is it "tracking" you. If you look at the actual data in the file, you will find all sorts of entries for places you have never been, or areas you have been to, but at a completely different time. I agree that it was sloppy of Apple to leave the backed up data sitting unencrypted, but it is absolutely different than accurate GPS coordinates of your movements.
So our choices are, "It's those nasty, evil, hackers... taking advantage of Sony's (obviously) inadequate security"... or "It's Sony's (obviously) inadequate security... attracting those nasty, evil, hackers." Meh. Either way, Sony blew it, and doesn't deserve to be trusted anymore. We should have learned with the whole rootkit fiasco, but we do like our gaming... apparently more than our credit cards.
Given the fact that the "consolidated" file tracks information even when locations services are "turned off", you might want to consider that location services and the consolidated file may have completely different purposes. Location services are used by apps in real time and may be transmitted outside your phone if you have the service turned on. this is much the same as with Android. The consolidated file is something else entirely, and it's purpose is not known. Personally, I would be much more concerned that the file is accessible unencrypted to any application on the user's computer rather than the phone itself. If someone steals an iPhone, sure, they could have access to their rough whereabouts, but they also almost certainly have their address, SMS messages and personal contacts, which is much more dangerous.
Not to minimize what Apple has done, but parent has a point, and just because Warden and Alasdair Allan couldn't find it, doesn't mean it's not there, or that their words are any more gospel than Jobs' (read- true because they say it's so). Read it very slowly, and use some basic logic next time. More so, part of the point parent was making was regarding the cloud to store the tracking information. There are a number of reasons (mainly constant bandwidth drain) that I don't think this is the case, but it's still a valid point. The file may not *need* to be on the phone.
Just because Steve is being an ass, doesn't mean you have to follow suit.
from Wikipedia: "The United Nations University (UNU) is an academic arm of the United Nations"
You are either a terrible researcher or a liar.
Right, just like California State University is an academic arm of the California state government, which should be held accountable for everything they put out...
You are either an idiot, or... no, you're just an idiot.
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While it is true that you can take someone's picture in a public place, USE of that picture is another matter. As soon as he publicly posts that picture associated with his name as photographer, then he opens himself to lawsuits regarding personal likeness. This is why the press has you sign wavers. They don't want something coming back at them later for any reason.
And did he also get permission from every singe person the camera captured? If he didn't, he's screwed.
That's because they only have to pay for the hosting once (or once a month/year/whatever) and not by the hit. How many spammers would stay in business if they were charged $1 per email address they spammed?
Google is successful because it has managed to hold onto being the premiere search engine and then selling the keywords that it sees are the most popular. "Word of mouth" has literally almost *nothing* to do with it.
By "reading reviews" you mean in regard to ebooks, certainly, but SOMEONE is going to be first and is going to have to fork over the stupid $.99 to find out if what the author claims is super amazing awesome ZOMG!.. is really just crap. It gets more complicated because the author can log in with a different account and post 5 star reviews and praises to muddy the water. If a spammer only gets one or two sales before someone posts a negative review, then they still win because they are doing this on a massive scale. They've got like a thousand crap books out there, all getting 2-3 sales. And those books don't go away, they just sit there in the listings wasting people's time and bandwidth.
Interesting, because the spammers are making money by putting out 1000 useless "books" that may only get downloaded 3 times each before people catch on and post negative reviews. But that's still 3000 "sales" at $0.70 each (70% profit), or $2,100. But if Amazon absorbed the first $10 of *each book*, the spammers would get nothing and the industry would be a far better place. Of course, that will encourage comment whoring, but that's nothing new to the system.
Amazon does not simply "promote" and market goods and services. They get PAID to promote and market goods and services... and paid quite well. The fact that you don't understand this shows a complete ignorance of the industry. User reviews may push you up in a list of similar products, but you still have to be seen first. How many click through's do you think you would get on the 50th result page from Google?
Bullshit. There are people "publishing" 50-100 "books" a day that are utter garbage. And I don't mean that it's bad writing, I mean that it's rip off recycled crap. There's so much junk flooding the market that it makes actual works indistinguishable from everything else. The only way these works get found out is if someone actually pays for it and reads it, and then bothers to comment. Even a $1 entry fee would do wonders to limit this. The WHOLE POINT of Amazon is it's ability to find products and see reviews before you buy. If you can no longer do that, then why not take your legitimate work and use the rest of the free web for self advertizing, serve the file yourself, and keep 100% of the profits?
Content doesn't rise to the top because it's "worthy", it rises to the top because it has positive reviews. Whether those reviews came from adoring fans or solid marketing is almost irrelevant.
Sure, paper can be corrupted, but how many of your ebooks are going to still be readable in 100 years? 50 years? 10 years? I have paper books on my shelf that are 50+ years old and look nearly new. I also have thousands of ebooks stored on CD's that are now in a a format that is completely useless without hours and hours of conversion (if it can even be done any more). In another 50 years, my paper books will probably have yellowed a bit, but will still be going strong. My ebooks on the other hand will almost certainly be stored on a medium that I can no longer read, and in a format that is long dead. Unless I take great pains to backup and convert my digital collection every 5 years or so, it's almost a certainty that it will be useless plastic by the time I pass it on to my kids.
MMO's like WoW are constantly at odds with themselves. They want the world to be "dynamic" and changing based on the user's decisions, but they can't just make everything happen at random. There is always a *story* that must be followed. They want the game to be challenging, but ultimately the point is to sell subscriptions and make money, which means the game has to be 'simple' enough for the lowest common denominator. Players who constantly get their asses handed to them are likely to leave. Winning is fun. Losing sucks. My four year old daughter can walk through WoW and end up with a level 85 character. Where's the skill? Playing at level 5 is just as "hard" as playing at level 85, you just have more colorful gear.
Personally, I'd like to see more *consequence* in games like WoW. They're not going to be able to break with the "go out and kill X number of Y" type quests, but it would be cool if in doing so, you became more and more "known" to various intelligent groups of beings. If you picked on the ogres too much, they would start anticipating your arrival, or use group tactics to squash you. It would make you think twice about simply questing through the game in a predetermined manner. It's still "fair" because it's entirely based on your own decisions about things. They have "reputation", but other than making someone an enemy, there are no other consequences. Who cares if they hate you... you were going to kill them all anyway.
All this says is that 15% were one of the top 10 FOR HIS APP. This makes the very large assumption that people who were paranoid enough to buy his app are going to be fooled and use the same password that they do to lock the phone. They very well might, but his app doesn't prove that.
A computer uses anywhere from 5W when "turned off". A few W more when STR, maybe 7W. It's from the standby power lead.
Maybe *your* computer uses 7W "off"... My Macbook Pro is using less than a W sleeping (non-hibernate).
It seems that web interfaces are simply doing away with the "click". It's as if designers were told "fewer clicks is better", and so they naturally thought that NO clicks must be best. I freaking HATE rollover interfaces. If I want to see the details, then I can avail myself to lightly depress my mouse button a millimeter or two. Otherwise, keep it the hell out of my face.
This new Netflix interface sucks.
Well, other Science Fiction series have actual plots and don't rely on special effects tricks to hold your attention.
Nursing is an interesting example of this problem. 5-6 years ago the industry was screaming for help, so tons of new nursing programs opened at universities and were quickly filled. Today, those nursing grads are having a horrible time getting work. It's not like you can just put your chosen career on hold for 2-3 years while the economy recovers.
Sooo... what you're saying is that these guys *bought* electronic copies of books at wholesale costs (70% retail), then wrote an app to sell these books on an iOS device (in direct competition with Apple on their own device) so that, we can assume, they could get in on a large closed market that Apple controls. And you are surprised that Apple had a problem with that? I think it stinks that Apple takes so much, but if other places are selling the product at Retail prices as distributors, and Apple is a distributor, then why should they just give away their market share for free?
Smart Meters don't know anything about when you leave for work or use your toaster, or when you shower, or anything else specific about your energy use beyond how many kW you are using at any given time. They record your energy usage at set intervals, which data can then be used to *guess* how you may be using it. If you happen to have fifty lights in your home that are all on until the moment you walk out the door to go to work in the morning, then yes, they could probably guess when you leave... or, it could just be that you were using your oven for an early morning batch of muffins. They don't have specifics on your appliances (yet), and they don't record anything about *you*.
Where I live, it's FAR more likely they would guess when I use my air conditioning, which can easily quadruple my hourly usage when on.
Wow, I'd mod this flamebait, but I really don't think you're that smart.
Did it even occur to you that if 90% of the media is contrary to your chosen political view, that it might actually be due to the fact that *you* are the "radical" and there might be a legitimate reason they disagree with you? Or even that your political view itself is too "exclusive" to allow unbiased reporting in *any* news organization?
Why not? "Infinitely good" *for who*? YOU? Or god? Just because suffering is a bummer for you, doesn't mean god isn't having a good time.
... It's NOT the location of your PHONE, or "you", it's the location of the nearest TOWER or HOTSPOT. So yes, it's "OK" for them to determine the location of the nearest hotspot within 200m. Good grief! How hard is it to understand this??
No, it requires knowing where a cell tower or wi-fi hotspot is generally. You're fixated on the "location", but it's NOT the location of the phone that's being recorded. Let me just say it again for you... It's NOT the location of the PHONE that is being recorded. Stop making assumptions about the data. I HAVE an iPhone. I have gone through the process and looked at the actual data recorded. It's NOT where I have been. At best, it's a general map of the cell towers in my area, and in certain instances, points where I might have handed off between a few of them. Much of the data is composed of locations I HAVE NEVER BEEN NEAR. EVER. Are you starting to understand this yet?
The location of the nearest wi-fi hotspot or cell tower *is not* "your location", nor is it "tracking" you. If you look at the actual data in the file, you will find all sorts of entries for places you have never been, or areas you have been to, but at a completely different time. I agree that it was sloppy of Apple to leave the backed up data sitting unencrypted, but it is absolutely different than accurate GPS coordinates of your movements.
So our choices are, "It's those nasty, evil, hackers... taking advantage of Sony's (obviously) inadequate security"... or "It's Sony's (obviously) inadequate security... attracting those nasty, evil, hackers." Meh. Either way, Sony blew it, and doesn't deserve to be trusted anymore. We should have learned with the whole rootkit fiasco, but we do like our gaming... apparently more than our credit cards.
Given the fact that the "consolidated" file tracks information even when locations services are "turned off", you might want to consider that location services and the consolidated file may have completely different purposes. Location services are used by apps in real time and may be transmitted outside your phone if you have the service turned on. this is much the same as with Android. The consolidated file is something else entirely, and it's purpose is not known. Personally, I would be much more concerned that the file is accessible unencrypted to any application on the user's computer rather than the phone itself. If someone steals an iPhone, sure, they could have access to their rough whereabouts, but they also almost certainly have their address, SMS messages and personal contacts, which is much more dangerous.
...Posted by an anonymous coward. What a douche.
Not to minimize what Apple has done, but parent has a point, and just because Warden and Alasdair Allan couldn't find it, doesn't mean it's not there, or that their words are any more gospel than Jobs' (read- true because they say it's so). Read it very slowly, and use some basic logic next time. More so, part of the point parent was making was regarding the cloud to store the tracking information. There are a number of reasons (mainly constant bandwidth drain) that I don't think this is the case, but it's still a valid point. The file may not *need* to be on the phone.
Just because Steve is being an ass, doesn't mean you have to follow suit.
from Wikipedia:
"The United Nations University (UNU) is an academic arm of the United Nations"
You are either a terrible researcher or a liar.
Right, just like California State University is an academic arm of the California state government, which should be held accountable for everything they put out...
You are either an idiot, or... no, you're just an idiot.