When you buy the ticket and board the plane, you agree to play by their rules. They have the property rights and have sold you limited rights to your seats with stipulations.
It's not their rules. It's the FAA rules. The FAA is part of the US government. Hence the F.
My bet is that even if the FAA gets tid of it (not likely as the plane manufacturers are behind it) Airlines will still chose to keep it because.
1. They really need you to pay attention to the safety announcement.
2, They really need you to react when something goes wrong.
3. They dont trust you, butterfingers, not to lose it when a 200 ton plane does 0-100 in 3 seconds.
... to good old security? You know, checking who gets into the staff premises of a bank?
I've worked on government high security sites and corporate high security sites.
Only the former is really secure. The latter will eschew security for money.
At the government site (not a military site) a sub contractor who didn't have ID or was listed on the work order was denied access by the security guards. He and his boss yelled and screamed until some AFP officers (Australian Federal Police) appeared out of a hidden door and escorted them out. Conversely, I've seen people into "highly secure" data halls containing servers and racks from a dozen major clients because someone rang up and complained. Security officers in all corporations I've worked in get sacked if they interfere with business. OTOH in govt, they get told to do their job and have no problems getting in the way if the right forms aren't filed.
Better make sure you get those expensive Denon HDMI cables for your 72" TV; why spend all that money on a TV and then scrimp on a $5 digital cable when you can pamper your TV with a quality cable.
This isn't what the GGP is saying.
He's talking about the car having the right tyres for the conditions. It doesn't matter if they are $49 Nexxen or $500 Continentals, he didn't have snow tyres at all.
But... Unlike digital cables there really is a difference between good tyres and bad ones. Tyres are the contact between your car and the road, they are responsible for moving you, stopping you and making sure you're staying straight. If you have a remotely powerful car, cheaping out on tyres can be fatal.
But to get back on topic, there should be no difference between a $50 charging cable and a $5 charging cable. However Apple have made sure there is, which is stupid.
There is no denying that Apple make good products but I would never buy one because of their walled garden and antics like this.
Yes there is.
I would have hoped the RDF had of dissipated enough that people would stop parroting this.
Apple's products are pretty unreliable as far as phones go, rather flimsy and have rather stupid design features (like charging cables that have "smart" components) that have no purposes other than vendor lock in.
Fingerprints are good because they replace ZERO security.
Mod parent up. So often geeks think that if they can find some fancy way to overcome a security feature, it somehow automatically makes it completely useless.
Mod parent down.
So often geeks think because there is a fancy security system in place people will use it.
This thing isn't replacing no security because people who have no security honestly think they dont need it. If you think this system is going to make people who dont think they need a passcode put a passcode on their device you are seriously deluded.
I must be missing something about this concept. If you're getting paid (with a net profit) to drive people around, why is it called ride sharing? How is it not a taxi service?
Because they haven't paid the Californian govt for a license.
There may also be liability issues. Certainly in Oz if you paid for a "private" car insurance policy the policy may be declared null and void if you're using the car for commercial purposes.
NFC is kinda pointless until the iPhone supports it. There isn't a single large company that'll move until then. I can't tell you the let down it was when the iPhone 5 didn't have it. As near as I can tell the problem is iPhone users have lots of money and they spend it, so they're a required demographic for any major push forward.
You're right, you do sound like a troll.
With Android outselling Iphones 3 to 1, it really doesn't matter what Apple does. Android eclipsed Iphone long ago.
You'll notice most Iphone features came out on Android first, WiFi and cable tethering, copy and paste, the "new" data usage meter in IOS 7 has been in Android since version 2.
With features, the Android modding community is really the test bed, people who use community ROMS get the features first. The ones that are good get rolled into Android propper in 6 months, Iphone users get them 18 to 24 months after that.. Maybe, if Apple feels like it.
So it really doesn't matter what Apple does, the only ones who will be harmed by Apple choosing not to use NFC will be Iphone users who are no longer a significant audience.
No, not necessarily. They might adopt a strict work-to-rule regime where workers do absolutely nothing that is not by-the-book, no staying 10 minutes over time to finish a job, no doing a job without that is not covered explicitly in their work agreements, taking every minute of meal breaks, reporting every little maintenance task they find in glorious detail, etc.
Otherwise known as a "slow down". Everything checked and double checked, not an I left undotted or T left uncrossed... No matter how long it takes.
"They're fans of Intelli-sense, not Visual Studio. If their text editor can't immediately guess which function they should be using, have to go check the documentation, thus wasting a couple minutes that they could have been programming in, and breaking their flow when they get back."
Fixed that for you. Why badmouth something for making your job easier? "Your car has cruise control? You must really blow at driving if you use it." Why do people think like that?
Because most of the time they're right. I'm sure Colin McRae has used cruise control, but so has Dopey Doris from Lancashire. The difference is Dopey Doris cant drive without it, let alone finish a rally.
Yep, Intellisense is a great tool that helps me a lot (in my DBA role) but how do you tell the difference between a Colin McRae and a Dopey Doris just by looking. The fact is there are a hell of a lot more Doris' than there are Colin's out there.
Like it or not Android is offering very strong competition, and even on fairly low end hardware is now smooth and provides an excellent user experience. I recently installed Cyanogen on an old Galaxy S (~1GHz single core CPU, 512MB RAM) and it's a very nice phone. The reality is you can buy a pretty good dual core, 1GB RAM, large HD screen phone in China for a fraction of what Apple wants to charge and it's as good as the iPhone in most respects to most ordinary people.
This.
The Iphone 5S competes with the Nexus 4 which is half the price, the 5C competes with Huawei phones a third of its price.
No, that was the rumored point of the 5C - back before it was announced, when everyone assumed the C stood for "cheap," or "China." Now it is clear that wasn't it
Got to love fanboy revisionist history.
The rumours were pretty much true. A lower speced Iphone was released to sell alongside the flagship product specifically to target the audience buying lower speced phones. Apple completely missed this target by making it expensive.
I'm going to suggest that people didn't password-protect their iPhones because it would be a pain in the ass to continually enter said password. Fingerprint matching means that I can have my data protected and still have easy access.
I highly doubt it.
The fact is most people dont care about security. Most wouldn't even bother locking their car if it didn't void their insurance.
If you think that people aren't putting passwords on the phones because its inconvenient, you seriously need to get out and talk to people.
Which is the phone manufacturer that has a better record of backwards OS compatibility than Apple?
I'm curious.
Anyone who uses Android.
Backwards compatibility is a key feature of Android. Applications targeted at version 1.1 still work on 4.3. Before you state that applications targeted for 4.x dont work on 2.2, you should know Apple has the same problem. Use a feature added in IOS 6, it wont work on IOS 5.
Apple on the other hand has dropped entire OS's like hot bricks. A lot of small publishing/design houses got burned in the transition from OS9 to OSX.
Because we are on the verge of something tianamin square level in the states. Despite how much people want to bury their heads in the sand.
The irony here is thick. If we were going to have a Tianamin Square incident, it would have happened at Occupy Wall Street. This regime has far more subtly techniques to placate the masses (civilized?). They don't need to use military force for it.
Occupy Wall Street was nowhere near a serious protest, let alone actual rebellion. There was no organisation, no goals, just a loose gathering of people who had nothing in common besides "I dont like something" and thought it would be a good idea to stand in one place together. Even the most dim-witted, backwater banana republic dictator knows you just wait that one out until they all go home for supper. I mean they didn't have an actual goal, no manifesto, not even a somewhat clear idea of what they wanted.
There was no need to send anyone in, except for a few cleaners to pick up the discarded McDonalds wrappers after it dissipated.
Android used to store your wi-fi password locally and never transmit it anywhere. Then came Gingerbread, and all your local data got helpfully "backed up" to google servers. Setting turned on by default, probably before you had a chance to learn it's there. They say they delete your stuff when you turn off the setting, but, naturally, there is no way to really know. Suddenly, google has all your wi-fi passwords, whether you like it or not. It would be naive to assume Apple would behave differently.
WiFi passwords I dont really care about. Same with my Bluetooth settings.
In fact I'm glad my WiFi password gets backed up. Saves me having to put it back in when I re-image my phone (my WiFi password is a 63 character, complex, randomly generated string). Beyond that I've got passwords for the Majestic Grande in Bangkok and a bunch of other hotels around Asia as well as Linksys (the worlds largest free ISP).
If you're storing personal or dangerous data in a WiFi password you're doing something wrong. If you're so paranoid that someone potentially knowing your WiFi password makes you nervous... Why the fuck are you even running WiFi? Dont you know that shit can be cracked?
Backing up WiFi details is nothing compared to backing up your contacts (which has been happening since Android 1.5) which contains a shitload more personal data than your WiFi passwords should. But if you dont want any of this backed up either dont log in with your Google account or when you do, un-tick the option that asks if you want all of this backed up. If you just clicked "next, next, next" without reading anything you've only got yourself to blame.
But I dont really care about my contacts either, I like having that synced across all my Android devices. Google are at least pretty open as to what they do with your data (yes I know it's being used to target ads at me, but that's what AdBlock is for).
In the iPhone 5s presentation, it was mentioned that one of the main drivers for the fingerprint scanning technology is because in their research, a large percentage of users never bother to setup a passcode/passphrase, making all of the hardware encryption in the iPhone completely useless.
And nothing of value was gained.
I'll put good money on the fact that people didn't set up passcodes/phrasess on their devices because they thought "I've got nothing worth stealing" or "I dont really care" or the perennial favourite "It'll never happen to me". Adding a new method of authentication wont make these attitudes automagically change.
9ms average access times on a 7200RPM spinning drive == ~100 IOPS.
High-end SSD: 100K IOPS.
The SSD that most consumers are using are neither high end nor have such IOPS ratings.
And this weeks Stating The Fucking Obvious Award goes to... Desler.
Consumer drives will not be as fast as enterprise drives be they solid state or spinning.
If I set up an array of consumer 10K RPM drives in my gaming boxen, do you think it will be as fast as the 10K RPM EMC boxen I have in the server room?
Of course not, nowhere near as fast.But call me when the home user has enough spare cash to drop on an entry level AX4.
You'll find that consumer spinning drives are not as fast as enterprise spinning drives.
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When you buy the ticket and board the plane, you agree to play by their rules. They have the property rights and have sold you limited rights to your seats with stipulations.
It's not their rules. It's the FAA rules. The FAA is part of the US government. Hence the F.
My bet is that even if the FAA gets tid of it (not likely as the plane manufacturers are behind it) Airlines will still chose to keep it because.
1. They really need you to pay attention to the safety announcement.
2, They really need you to react when something goes wrong.
3. They dont trust you, butterfingers, not to lose it when a 200 ton plane does 0-100 in 3 seconds.
If you want to know if someone is ready for another drink, just check whether their glass is empty. Forget body language, just go for the obvious.
Or it could ask?
Would you like another drink?
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... to good old security? You know, checking who gets into the staff premises of a bank?
I've worked on government high security sites and corporate high security sites.
Only the former is really secure. The latter will eschew security for money.
At the government site (not a military site) a sub contractor who didn't have ID or was listed on the work order was denied access by the security guards. He and his boss yelled and screamed until some AFP officers (Australian Federal Police) appeared out of a hidden door and escorted them out. Conversely, I've seen people into "highly secure" data halls containing servers and racks from a dozen major clients because someone rang up and complained. Security officers in all corporations I've worked in get sacked if they interfere with business. OTOH in govt, they get told to do their job and have no problems getting in the way if the right forms aren't filed.
>Try to plug in
>Nope
>Turn over
>Nope
>Turn over again
>Goes in.
It's the work of Satan, I tells ya.
Actually it's proof USB cables operate in 4 dimensions.
Better make sure you get those expensive Denon HDMI cables for your 72" TV; why spend all that money on a TV and then scrimp on a $5 digital cable when you can pamper your TV with a quality cable.
This isn't what the GGP is saying.
He's talking about the car having the right tyres for the conditions. It doesn't matter if they are $49 Nexxen or $500 Continentals, he didn't have snow tyres at all.
But... Unlike digital cables there really is a difference between good tyres and bad ones. Tyres are the contact between your car and the road, they are responsible for moving you, stopping you and making sure you're staying straight. If you have a remotely powerful car, cheaping out on tyres can be fatal.
But to get back on topic, there should be no difference between a $50 charging cable and a $5 charging cable. However Apple have made sure there is, which is stupid.
There is no denying that Apple make good products but I would never buy one because of their walled garden and antics like this.
Yes there is.
I would have hoped the RDF had of dissipated enough that people would stop parroting this.
Apple's products are pretty unreliable as far as phones go, rather flimsy and have rather stupid design features (like charging cables that have "smart" components) that have no purposes other than vendor lock in.
Fingerprints are good because they replace ZERO security.
Mod parent up. So often geeks think that if they can find some fancy way to overcome a security feature, it somehow automatically makes it completely useless.
Mod parent down.
So often geeks think because there is a fancy security system in place people will use it.
This thing isn't replacing no security because people who have no security honestly think they dont need it. If you think this system is going to make people who dont think they need a passcode put a passcode on their device you are seriously deluded.
Still beats no passcode at all against a casual attacker
Also beats pattern or password unlocks, which can be 'beaten' by just a bit of careful spying.
Actually, no it doesn't.
You literally need to be looking right over their shoulder to observe a pattern unlock.
Fair enough.
'Every man for himself' is the central message of Therevada Buddhism!
Not really, the core of Therevada Buddhism is "Every man to better himself".
Being selfish is pretty much the antithesis of Buddhism.
I must be missing something about this concept. If you're getting paid (with a net profit) to drive people around, why is it called ride sharing? How is it not a taxi service?
Because they haven't paid the Californian govt for a license.
There may also be liability issues. Certainly in Oz if you paid for a "private" car insurance policy the policy may be declared null and void if you're using the car for commercial purposes.
NFC is kinda pointless until the iPhone supports it. There isn't a single large company that'll move until then. I can't tell you the let down it was when the iPhone 5 didn't have it. As near as I can tell the problem is iPhone users have lots of money and they spend it, so they're a required demographic for any major push forward.
You're right, you do sound like a troll.
With Android outselling Iphones 3 to 1, it really doesn't matter what Apple does. Android eclipsed Iphone long ago.
You'll notice most Iphone features came out on Android first, WiFi and cable tethering, copy and paste, the "new" data usage meter in IOS 7 has been in Android since version 2.
With features, the Android modding community is really the test bed, people who use community ROMS get the features first. The ones that are good get rolled into Android propper in 6 months, Iphone users get them 18 to 24 months after that.. Maybe, if Apple feels like it.
So it really doesn't matter what Apple does, the only ones who will be harmed by Apple choosing not to use NFC will be Iphone users who are no longer a significant audience.
"Work to rule" is the common name for this in the UK.
I see,
In Oz it's called a "slow down" or "go slow".
No, not necessarily. They might adopt a strict work-to-rule regime where workers do absolutely nothing that is not by-the-book, no staying 10 minutes over time to finish a job, no doing a job without that is not covered explicitly in their work agreements, taking every minute of meal breaks, reporting every little maintenance task they find in glorious detail, etc.
Otherwise known as a "slow down". Everything checked and double checked, not an I left undotted or T left uncrossed... No matter how long it takes.
"They're fans of Intelli-sense, not Visual Studio. If their text editor can't immediately guess which function they should be using, have to go check the documentation, thus wasting a couple minutes that they could have been programming in, and breaking their flow when they get back."
Fixed that for you. Why badmouth something for making your job easier? "Your car has cruise control? You must really blow at driving if you use it." Why do people think like that?
Because most of the time they're right. I'm sure Colin McRae has used cruise control, but so has Dopey Doris from Lancashire. The difference is Dopey Doris cant drive without it, let alone finish a rally.
Yep, Intellisense is a great tool that helps me a lot (in my DBA role) but how do you tell the difference between a Colin McRae and a Dopey Doris just by looking. The fact is there are a hell of a lot more Doris' than there are Colin's out there.
Like it or not Android is offering very strong competition, and even on fairly low end hardware is now smooth and provides an excellent user experience. I recently installed Cyanogen on an old Galaxy S (~1GHz single core CPU, 512MB RAM) and it's a very nice phone. The reality is you can buy a pretty good dual core, 1GB RAM, large HD screen phone in China for a fraction of what Apple wants to charge and it's as good as the iPhone in most respects to most ordinary people.
This.
The Iphone 5S competes with the Nexus 4 which is half the price, the 5C competes with Huawei phones a third of its price.
Got to love fanboy revisionist history.
The rumours were pretty much true. A lower speced Iphone was released to sell alongside the flagship product specifically to target the audience buying lower speced phones. Apple completely missed this target by making it expensive.
I'm going to suggest that people didn't password-protect their iPhones because it would be a pain in the ass to continually enter said password. Fingerprint matching means that I can have my data protected and still have easy access.
I highly doubt it.
The fact is most people dont care about security. Most wouldn't even bother locking their car if it didn't void their insurance.
If you think that people aren't putting passwords on the phones because its inconvenient, you seriously need to get out and talk to people.
Which is the phone manufacturer that has a better record of backwards OS compatibility than Apple?
I'm curious.
Anyone who uses Android.
Backwards compatibility is a key feature of Android. Applications targeted at version 1.1 still work on 4.3. Before you state that applications targeted for 4.x dont work on 2.2, you should know Apple has the same problem. Use a feature added in IOS 6, it wont work on IOS 5.
Apple on the other hand has dropped entire OS's like hot bricks. A lot of small publishing/design houses got burned in the transition from OS9 to OSX.
The irony here is thick. If we were going to have a Tianamin Square incident, it would have happened at Occupy Wall Street. This regime has far more subtly techniques to placate the masses (civilized?). They don't need to use military force for it.
Occupy Wall Street was nowhere near a serious protest, let alone actual rebellion. There was no organisation, no goals, just a loose gathering of people who had nothing in common besides "I dont like something" and thought it would be a good idea to stand in one place together. Even the most dim-witted, backwater banana republic dictator knows you just wait that one out until they all go home for supper. I mean they didn't have an actual goal, no manifesto, not even a somewhat clear idea of what they wanted.
There was no need to send anyone in, except for a few cleaners to pick up the discarded McDonalds wrappers after it dissipated.
Android used to store your wi-fi password locally and never transmit it anywhere. Then came Gingerbread, and all your local data got helpfully "backed up" to google servers. Setting turned on by default, probably before you had a chance to learn it's there. They say they delete your stuff when you turn off the setting, but, naturally, there is no way to really know. Suddenly, google has all your wi-fi passwords, whether you like it or not. It would be naive to assume Apple would behave differently.
WiFi passwords I dont really care about. Same with my Bluetooth settings.
In fact I'm glad my WiFi password gets backed up. Saves me having to put it back in when I re-image my phone (my WiFi password is a 63 character, complex, randomly generated string). Beyond that I've got passwords for the Majestic Grande in Bangkok and a bunch of other hotels around Asia as well as Linksys (the worlds largest free ISP).
If you're storing personal or dangerous data in a WiFi password you're doing something wrong. If you're so paranoid that someone potentially knowing your WiFi password makes you nervous... Why the fuck are you even running WiFi? Dont you know that shit can be cracked?
Backing up WiFi details is nothing compared to backing up your contacts (which has been happening since Android 1.5) which contains a shitload more personal data than your WiFi passwords should. But if you dont want any of this backed up either dont log in with your Google account or when you do, un-tick the option that asks if you want all of this backed up. If you just clicked "next, next, next" without reading anything you've only got yourself to blame.
But I dont really care about my contacts either, I like having that synced across all my Android devices. Google are at least pretty open as to what they do with your data (yes I know it's being used to target ads at me, but that's what AdBlock is for).
In the iPhone 5s presentation, it was mentioned that one of the main drivers for the fingerprint scanning technology is because in their research, a large percentage of users never bother to setup a passcode/passphrase, making all of the hardware encryption in the iPhone completely useless.
And nothing of value was gained.
I'll put good money on the fact that people didn't set up passcodes/phrasess on their devices because they thought "I've got nothing worth stealing" or "I dont really care" or the perennial favourite "It'll never happen to me". Adding a new method of authentication wont make these attitudes automagically change.
9ms average access times on a 7200RPM spinning drive == ~100 IOPS.
High-end SSD: 100K IOPS.
The SSD that most consumers are using are neither high end nor have such IOPS ratings.
And this weeks Stating The Fucking Obvious Award goes to... Desler.
Consumer drives will not be as fast as enterprise drives be they solid state or spinning.
If I set up an array of consumer 10K RPM drives in my gaming boxen, do you think it will be as fast as the 10K RPM EMC boxen I have in the server room?
Of course not, nowhere near as fast.But call me when the home user has enough spare cash to drop on an entry level AX4.
You'll find that consumer spinning drives are not as fast as enterprise spinning drives.
Get a new girlfriend? Or if you want to experiment, I'm free saturday night...
I've always been a fan of Shrodingers work. My lab or yours.
Steambox is a PC designed to hook up to a TV instead of a monitor
So basically Steambox is a PC.
I have a mirrored set of SSD's on all my important machines, and RAID 6 for bulk storage.
Unlike Linus, I can't afford to lose work.
Then pray none of those RAID controllers never fails.
Unless you mean to say that you keep proper backups.