More competition in this space would be good. It's disheartening that such a big player as Amazon can't break in.
The problem isn't the US retail sector. Do you honestly think CVS, Walgreens, et al. wouldn't jump at the chance to sell medications for less. The problem is the US health care industry and laws that end up locking generics out of the market. The whole thing is designed to sell medications for the maximum price. Amazon have taken a look at the razor thin retail margins and said nothankyou.jpg.
Tammie Jo Shults is the pilot who bravely flew Southwest Flight 1380 to safety after part of its left engine ripped off
So what would have been the cowardly variant? Crashing the plane?
Adjectives have meaning. I mean, I'm glad that part of its left engine hasn't "tragically" ripped off since nowadays everything unfortunate or awful is "tragic". But what the fuck is "brave" about saving your beans? "In an extraordinary display of skills, presence of mind and composure": yeah.
There are a fuckload of reasons to admire her feat. Braveness isn't one.
You must be fun at parties.
The pilot is brave because they kept extremely cool and professional under pressure. The definition of bravery is:
1. endure or face (unpleasant conditions or behaviour) without showing fear.
.
I'd say that brave is definitely an apt description of the pilot and crew. I highly doubt that Terry Toughperson behind a keyboard on/. would have been able to maintain their composure.
These engines are manufactured a way not to propel debris towards the body. Explosion are also unlikely. Having all that plus some debris break a window is really bad luck for that passenger.
This, CFM, Rolls Royce, Pratt and Whitney all design do a lot of testing to ensure their engines fail gracefully. I believe that a fan blade separation is one of the most tested scenarios. Debris is meant to be contained within the engine housing.
For US cities, NYC's is probably the most functional metro system. It runs 24/7/365 for one thing, and is extensive enough to be useful. If you're comparing to London or Berlin, you may have a point, though those systems aren't 24h.
Not sure about Berlin, but TfL (Transport For London) is definitely a 24/7 operation. Up until recently the Tube (Underground) was 18/7 and busses ran 24/7 but this changed in 2016. Berlin only has a population of 3.5 Million though while NYC and London have 9 Million. .
The religious right and SJWs have a lot more in common than anyone wants to admit.
I've been saying it for a while, the SJW's are the far right. Its not the liberals who are trying to tell you what you can and cant do with your body or what you're not allowed to say and it's not the liberals who are getting offended when you act differently, it's the far right that cant tolerate opposition or anyone having any different ideas.
And before anyone asks... The far left may be the same... We don't know because the far left doesn't exist in our countries and if you think they do (no doubt with your examples of people who aren't far left) then you are an SJW proving my point for me.
I'm from Luxembourg and my chamber of representatives used the same 'security system' (people can't possibly guess numbers) and was also breached, obviously, since this 'problem' is known since 1991 or so, when the worldwide web was invented.
Yes, Data Protection Acts like the EU GDPR are there to ensure that PII (Personally Identifiable Information) aren't released publicly. However this doesn't mean it wont accidentally be or cant be released. The Canadian govt was silly to let this information to be released under FOI requests (I work with FOI requests in the UK, you're supposed to ensure any PII stripped out, GDPR/DPA trumps FOI and there are strict penalties for non-compliance) but if that fails that doesn't give you carte blanche to copy it, data protection laws still apply.
However I'm going to make a prediction that wont be popular with the/. Mah Freeedums nutters but it will be more accurate, this will go to court, the Canadian will explain why he was doing what he was doing and the judge will order him to delete the records that contain PII and that will be the end of it. No jail, no fines, just a Canadian judge ordering a Canadian to adhere to the Canadian laws. chances are the guy didn't even know that the PII was there before he started.
If only there was a state out there that was full of people that knew how to make cars. Perhaps if such a place existed, it may have been a better place for Tesla to HQ than silicon valley was.
Michigan... I thought they needed people who knew how to make cars.
Setting aside the facial recognition component of the story, is the the first time mass surveillance has actually resulted in the apprehension of a fugitive? England is covered with cameras but you never hear stories about them doing any good.
"Surveillance" catches criminals all the time. However a lot of surveillance is from private cameras, I.E. the murder of Jill Meagher in Australia was caught due to a CCTV camera pointing our of a shop window. The item of note here is the use of face recognition software.
I am surprised that HTC is on the 3-4 list. I've had very good luck with them ensuring that patches come out on time.
The problem with Android is that the carriers can block OTA patches for certain phone types, mostly out of laziness but sometimes to keep their crappy bundled software working. Not so much of an issue here in the ROTW as you can simply switch carriers by swapping a SIM card, but in the US its can be an issue.
Heck, you can even by an Android phone that gets the most up to date software and patches. All you have to do is pay for it. It costs about as much as an iPhone... surprised?
Quite surprised actually.
Just yesterday I received the latest security patches of Android 8.1 on my 2 yr old Nexus 5. I only paid $300 for that compared to $600 for the equivalent Iphone and it's still as fast as the day I bought it.
Android gives you the option to have what you want.
Think of it this way... If you live to a ripe old age you'll be sharing your time with boring old farts who dont drink, go to bed early and think the height of excitement is eating a 2nd Werthers Original.
Screw that, I'll have another pint and stay up to 4 am this morning. I'd much rather it be said that granddad died because he spent so much time at rock concerts when he was young he had a heart attack at a strip club at 3 am at the age of 65 than regaling my grandkids with tales of how I went to bed at a respectable time and never touched a sip of wine whilst worrying that next time I feel anything in my trousers that I wont make it to the toilet in time at the age of 90.
1. People who just think globalization is bad because reasons.
2. People who thought the pacific rim countries were just backwards sh*tholes nobody needed. 3. Countries that didn't want US IP and other foolish/lopsided laws foisted on them.
Fixed that for you.
Trump pulling out of the TPP and taking all the laws the US wanted to force on other nations, effectively bypassing their own judicial systems with him was the best thing that happened to the TPP. It turned it from a subversion of democracy into a simple trade deal.
If you want to ensure that gig economy workers have the best wages and conditions, make sure that there are a large number of gig economy service providers competing with each other.
I dont think you get how this "gig economy" is meant to work.
The workers... erm... Contractors aren't meant to get the best wages and/or conditions. The system is designed to transfer costs from the employer to the employee... erm... contractor whilst paying them a less than liveable wage in order to ensure the company can make as much money as possible (which also isn't happening).
Track down the radio play, that was in a BBC walled garden, not so much any more and pretty darn good radio play.
If you had of just wrote "I've got no idea about the BBC" it would have been faster.
The BBC are under obligation to release their content. In fact they try to release it as far and as wide as possible (international sales are revenue for a cash strapped BBC). The reason you cant find a lot of older BBC material is that they used to re-use tape and other storage resources to save money so the recordings simply don't exist any more. This is why it's hard to find old BBC radio plays and early BBC TV series, because they're reliant on having a member of the public possessing a recording.
The family admits that the driver had had issues at that exact location. Why on earth would he use it there then? Why wasn't he paying attention near that spot? Why did he ignore the warnings? He was a programmer. He should have known.
The car was on Autopilot... You know A-U-T-O-Pilot. The car should have driven itself whilst the attendant sat back watching movies on their phone.
That is the logic you can expect from end users. Warnings are just something to be ignored or at the very worst summarily dismissed. Autonomous cars are something that has been sold to them as a magic bullet to their driving woes. The end user fully believes that their time having to pay minimal attention to the road is at an end and that the car will automatically handle everything for them. Also it's going to eliminate congestion because they can go eleventy bajillion leptons per microfortnight whilst bumper to bumper and there will never, ever be any collisions.
Nah, I think it's just because this particular new generation has shit taste in music vs my generation, oddly enough the generation previous to mine also had shit taste in music.
Yes, I may be old but I got to see all the good bands.
There are still a few bands who make decent music and I know sturgeons law applies to everything... but it seems that popular music is crap. I don't blame the "utes" for this, I blame the people pushing it. Musicians with skill and talent tend to have brains that get their own ideas, want a fair slice of the earnings, may even start performing without a label. However if you can churn out a steady stream of talentless pop/rap/electronic crap via autotune then the publishers ultimately control the "creators" and when they also decide what is popular by controlling what gets played its easy to turn any dross into a chart topper.
Back in the 60's, the biggest complaint was that certain popular bands like The Monkeys didn't write their own songs. Now days it doesn't even factor into it (it took 17 people to write Justin Bieber's "Baby") In the 90's we complained that certain artists like Kylie Minogue mimed their concerts, now that is accepted as the "artists" own voice cant match what has been autotuned out as a recording. I think there is a lot of evidence for the notion that music has gotten considerably worse over the years.
If they can figure out a way to work "machine learning" and "blockchain" into this story, I could win jargon bingo and it's barely noon.
May as well... Because the house is as "3D printed" as it is "machine learned" or "block chained".
The frame and foundation were still built the old fashioned way. only the walls and part of the roof were constructed using a robot instead of a person directly in control of a machine. Basically they just robotised a concreter's job. After that the fit out and rendering on the walls was still done by manual labour.
Sure, you may say that is some progress, I would agree but we can hardly call it "3D printed".
Besides, where I live in the UK, a house like that would stand out like dogs testicles.
BTW, Yes, I know quite a few 'real' (maxist) communists, and even a real trotskiest.
The more serious 'believers' are very very much in touch with the fact that communism has a fatal flaw in implementation because it
centralises power excessively, and they know what that directly leads to.
I find the same thing with talking to religious people vs actual priests/clergy. A Clergyman has spend years studying their religion and has come to grips with the parts that don't make sense and they'll openly talk about the flaws in their beliefs. Lay preachers and puritans who've never studied their belief in depth are the ones who become quite angry when you point out the flaw in their reasoning.
Only on slashdot is pedantry a good excuse to invalidate the argument being made.
Well played.
At the risk of being ironic... That behaviour is actually commonplace on forums, especially within the Anglosphere. I've lost count of the number of times some people cant get over a typo or misplaced word, let alone be able to read a sentence and understand the meaning in context which may be different to the strict dictionary definitions (this is extremely common when quoting translated texts where words don't strictly share the same meanings in English).
Hey retard - the bill was passed by a nearly unanimous vote of Democrats and Republicans.
IT's not about what Trump wants, it's about what the state wants, which is not to have money flows they cannot easily trace nor workers they cannot control.
Do you seriously doubt for a second if Hillary were president she would not be signing the same bill? Would you wax so eloquent about the utter hypocrisy of those that are supposed to support women when they have literally fucked over the entire sex working population in the U.S.?
Sigh, she lost. Get over it. You cant keep bringing here up to compensate for Trumps failures.
Now as for Trump... Wasn't he supposed to be "different" and be fighting for the little guy. Seems the best thing you can say about Trump is that he is only as corrupt as you imagine the other guy is (where as in reality, he makes Hillary look like a saint int he corruption stakes).
Also, am I the only one that finds it hypocritical that Trump pays for sex, but then reinforces laws that are designed to punish prostitutes and johns?
You wrongly believe that the sex trade is Pretty Woman with a bunch of young women just doing what they do like any other 9-5 job. The reality is its pimp beatings and getting people hooked on drugs or brought to this country as a sex slave in some parlor or under ground brothel so they have no choice but to sell themselves for a few bucks to survive, whether under age or not.
No, that is what the puritanical laws of the US make the sex trade.
Pimps can only operate because the trade is underground. Look at Amsterdam, prostitution is legal and most women are not forced into prostitution. Health services are available, Dutch police take violence very seriously. Even Colombia is evidence against your assertion. Again prostitution is legal and you get very few strung out girls on drugs.
Most of the negative effects of the sex trade in the US are a direct result of sex workers being persecuted, by the police, the media and the religious right. Most of the reason why it's as bad as it is in the US is because prostitutes have no-where to go for help. A girl being beaten by her pimp doesn't feel safe going to the police because the police will charge her for a crime. The girl who was hooked on drugs has no-where and no-one to help her to get clean because drugs are bad mmmkay. The girl smuggled in for prostitution, again, she'll be locked up, shamed and sent somewhere else.
Its easy for pimps to keep girls under their thumb when the authorities make themselves scarier than the pimps or Johns. In places where police will ignore the prostitute but punish the pimp, the problems you describe are rare and definitely not the norm.
What is the use of these numbers? Is there any meaningful conclusion you can take from this? Should I switch to Android because it has more apps in the store. Or should I switch to iOS because there is less old/crap in the store?
It means the market is now mature and we've reached "peak app".
This is bad for Apple as they need to keep the illusion that they're constantly growing. Back in reality however companies and organisations are realising they don't all need an app. My Martial Arts school have recently switched from an App (only one of which worked, if the IOS app worked, the Android app was broken and vice versa) to just using a website. Its good because I can book lessons using my computer or phone instead of having to use my phone. For my school, it's cheaper for them and there has been a marked drop in complaints since.
"Apps" only really came about because smartphones at the time could not handle web pages properly. This hasn't been the case for years (since at least 2010 for Android) and companies are realising that apps are a giant waste of money when they just replicate what you can do on their website.
Slashdot Mirror
More competition in this space would be good. It's disheartening that such a big player as Amazon can't break in.
The problem isn't the US retail sector. Do you honestly think CVS, Walgreens, et al. wouldn't jump at the chance to sell medications for less. The problem is the US health care industry and laws that end up locking generics out of the market. The whole thing is designed to sell medications for the maximum price. Amazon have taken a look at the razor thin retail margins and said nothankyou.jpg.
Tammie Jo Shults is the pilot who bravely flew Southwest Flight 1380 to safety after part of its left engine ripped off
So what would have been the cowardly variant? Crashing the plane?
Adjectives have meaning. I mean, I'm glad that part of its left engine hasn't "tragically" ripped off since nowadays everything unfortunate or awful is "tragic". But what the fuck is "brave" about saving your beans? "In an extraordinary display of skills, presence of mind and composure": yeah.
There are a fuckload of reasons to admire her feat. Braveness isn't one.
You must be fun at parties.
The pilot is brave because they kept extremely cool and professional under pressure. The definition of bravery is:
1. endure or face (unpleasant conditions or behaviour) without showing fear.
. I'd say that brave is definitely an apt description of the pilot and crew. I highly doubt that Terry Toughperson behind a keyboard on /. would have been able to maintain their composure.
These engines are manufactured a way not to propel debris towards the body. Explosion are also unlikely. Having all that plus some debris break a window is really bad luck for that passenger.
This, CFM, Rolls Royce, Pratt and Whitney all design do a lot of testing to ensure their engines fail gracefully. I believe that a fan blade separation is one of the most tested scenarios. Debris is meant to be contained within the engine housing.
For US cities, NYC's is probably the most functional metro system. It runs 24/7/365 for one thing, and is extensive enough to be useful. If you're comparing to London or Berlin, you may have a point, though those systems aren't 24h.
Not sure about Berlin, but TfL (Transport For London) is definitely a 24/7 operation. Up until recently the Tube (Underground) was 18/7 and busses ran 24/7 but this changed in 2016. Berlin only has a population of 3.5 Million though while NYC and London have 9 Million. .
The religious right and SJWs have a lot more in common than anyone wants to admit.
I've been saying it for a while, the SJW's are the far right. Its not the liberals who are trying to tell you what you can and cant do with your body or what you're not allowed to say and it's not the liberals who are getting offended when you act differently, it's the far right that cant tolerate opposition or anyone having any different ideas.
And before anyone asks... The far left may be the same... We don't know because the far left doesn't exist in our countries and if you think they do (no doubt with your examples of people who aren't far left) then you are an SJW proving my point for me.
...of criminal stupidity.
I'm from Luxembourg and my chamber of representatives used the same 'security system' (people can't possibly guess numbers) and was also breached, obviously, since this 'problem' is known since 1991 or so, when the worldwide web was invented.
Yes, Data Protection Acts like the EU GDPR are there to ensure that PII (Personally Identifiable Information) aren't released publicly. However this doesn't mean it wont accidentally be or cant be released. The Canadian govt was silly to let this information to be released under FOI requests (I work with FOI requests in the UK, you're supposed to ensure any PII stripped out, GDPR/DPA trumps FOI and there are strict penalties for non-compliance) but if that fails that doesn't give you carte blanche to copy it, data protection laws still apply.
/. Mah Freeedums nutters but it will be more accurate, this will go to court, the Canadian will explain why he was doing what he was doing and the judge will order him to delete the records that contain PII and that will be the end of it. No jail, no fines, just a Canadian judge ordering a Canadian to adhere to the Canadian laws. chances are the guy didn't even know that the PII was there before he started.
However I'm going to make a prediction that wont be popular with the
If only there was a state out there that was full of people that knew how to make cars. Perhaps if such a place existed, it may have been a better place for Tesla to HQ than silicon valley was.
Michigan... I thought they needed people who knew how to make cars.
Setting aside the facial recognition component of the story, is the the first time mass surveillance has actually resulted in the apprehension of a fugitive? England is covered with cameras but you never hear stories about them doing any good.
"Surveillance" catches criminals all the time. However a lot of surveillance is from private cameras, I.E. the murder of Jill Meagher in Australia was caught due to a CCTV camera pointing our of a shop window. The item of note here is the use of face recognition software.
Apple will fix this with $100 DRMed power cables.
years ago alienware had an $50+ upgraded power cable as an add on.
Meanwhile, all you need to do is have some kind of transformer or other device that separates electrical circuits.
I am surprised that HTC is on the 3-4 list. I've had very good luck with them ensuring that patches come out on time.
The problem with Android is that the carriers can block OTA patches for certain phone types, mostly out of laziness but sometimes to keep their crappy bundled software working. Not so much of an issue here in the ROTW as you can simply switch carriers by swapping a SIM card, but in the US its can be an issue.
Heck, you can even by an Android phone that gets the most up to date software and patches. All you have to do is pay for it. It costs about as much as an iPhone... surprised?
Quite surprised actually.
Just yesterday I received the latest security patches of Android 8.1 on my 2 yr old Nexus 5. I only paid $300 for that compared to $600 for the equivalent Iphone and it's still as fast as the day I bought it.
Android gives you the option to have what you want.
Think of it this way... If you live to a ripe old age you'll be sharing your time with boring old farts who dont drink, go to bed early and think the height of excitement is eating a 2nd Werthers Original.
Screw that, I'll have another pint and stay up to 4 am this morning. I'd much rather it be said that granddad died because he spent so much time at rock concerts when he was young he had a heart attack at a strip club at 3 am at the age of 65 than regaling my grandkids with tales of how I went to bed at a respectable time and never touched a sip of wine whilst worrying that next time I feel anything in my trousers that I wont make it to the toilet in time at the age of 90.
You had 3 opponents of the TPP:
1. People who just think globalization is bad because reasons.
2. People who thought the pacific rim countries were just backwards sh*tholes nobody needed.
3. Countries that didn't want US IP and other foolish/lopsided laws foisted on them.
Fixed that for you.
Trump pulling out of the TPP and taking all the laws the US wanted to force on other nations, effectively bypassing their own judicial systems with him was the best thing that happened to the TPP. It turned it from a subversion of democracy into a simple trade deal.
You must be talking about Hillary....
No, it was obvious he was talking about Trump.
If you want to ensure that gig economy workers have the best wages and conditions, make sure that there are a large number of gig economy service providers competing with each other.
I dont think you get how this "gig economy" is meant to work.
The workers... erm... Contractors aren't meant to get the best wages and/or conditions. The system is designed to transfer costs from the employer to the employee... erm... contractor whilst paying them a less than liveable wage in order to ensure the company can make as much money as possible (which also isn't happening).
Track down the radio play, that was in a BBC walled garden, not so much any more and pretty darn good radio play.
If you had of just wrote "I've got no idea about the BBC" it would have been faster.
The BBC are under obligation to release their content. In fact they try to release it as far and as wide as possible (international sales are revenue for a cash strapped BBC). The reason you cant find a lot of older BBC material is that they used to re-use tape and other storage resources to save money so the recordings simply don't exist any more. This is why it's hard to find old BBC radio plays and early BBC TV series, because they're reliant on having a member of the public possessing a recording.
The family admits that the driver had had issues at that exact location. Why on earth would he use it there then? Why wasn't he paying attention near that spot? Why did he ignore the warnings? He was a programmer. He should have known.
The car was on Autopilot... You know A-U-T-O-Pilot. The car should have driven itself whilst the attendant sat back watching movies on their phone.
That is the logic you can expect from end users. Warnings are just something to be ignored or at the very worst summarily dismissed. Autonomous cars are something that has been sold to them as a magic bullet to their driving woes. The end user fully believes that their time having to pay minimal attention to the road is at an end and that the car will automatically handle everything for them. Also it's going to eliminate congestion because they can go eleventy bajillion leptons per microfortnight whilst bumper to bumper and there will never, ever be any collisions.
Why do the telephone companies allow callers to spoof the originating number?
Because they're making money from the spammers.
Phone companies could kill spam and scam calls dead, but they don't want to because it makes them money.
Nah, I think it's just because this particular new generation has shit taste in music vs my generation, oddly enough the generation previous to mine also had shit taste in music.
Yes, I may be old but I got to see all the good bands.
There are still a few bands who make decent music and I know sturgeons law applies to everything... but it seems that popular music is crap. I don't blame the "utes" for this, I blame the people pushing it. Musicians with skill and talent tend to have brains that get their own ideas, want a fair slice of the earnings, may even start performing without a label. However if you can churn out a steady stream of talentless pop/rap/electronic crap via autotune then the publishers ultimately control the "creators" and when they also decide what is popular by controlling what gets played its easy to turn any dross into a chart topper.
Back in the 60's, the biggest complaint was that certain popular bands like The Monkeys didn't write their own songs. Now days it doesn't even factor into it (it took 17 people to write Justin Bieber's "Baby") In the 90's we complained that certain artists like Kylie Minogue mimed their concerts, now that is accepted as the "artists" own voice cant match what has been autotuned out as a recording. I think there is a lot of evidence for the notion that music has gotten considerably worse over the years.
Thou shalt henceforth vacate my greenery.
If they can figure out a way to work "machine learning" and "blockchain" into this story, I could win jargon bingo and it's barely noon.
May as well... Because the house is as "3D printed" as it is "machine learned" or "block chained".
The frame and foundation were still built the old fashioned way. only the walls and part of the roof were constructed using a robot instead of a person directly in control of a machine. Basically they just robotised a concreter's job. After that the fit out and rendering on the walls was still done by manual labour.
Sure, you may say that is some progress, I would agree but we can hardly call it "3D printed".
Besides, where I live in the UK, a house like that would stand out like dogs testicles.
I find the same thing with talking to religious people vs actual priests/clergy. A Clergyman has spend years studying their religion and has come to grips with the parts that don't make sense and they'll openly talk about the flaws in their beliefs. Lay preachers and puritans who've never studied their belief in depth are the ones who become quite angry when you point out the flaw in their reasoning.
Only on slashdot is pedantry a good excuse to invalidate the argument being made.
Well played.
At the risk of being ironic... That behaviour is actually commonplace on forums, especially within the Anglosphere. I've lost count of the number of times some people cant get over a typo or misplaced word, let alone be able to read a sentence and understand the meaning in context which may be different to the strict dictionary definitions (this is extremely common when quoting translated texts where words don't strictly share the same meanings in English).
Donald Trump pushing morality laws.
Hey retard - the bill was passed by a nearly unanimous vote of Democrats and Republicans.
IT's not about what Trump wants, it's about what the state wants, which is not to have money flows they cannot easily trace nor workers they cannot control.
Do you seriously doubt for a second if Hillary were president she would not be signing the same bill? Would you wax so eloquent about the utter hypocrisy of those that are supposed to support women when they have literally fucked over the entire sex working population in the U.S.?
Sigh, she lost. Get over it. You cant keep bringing here up to compensate for Trumps failures.
Now as for Trump... Wasn't he supposed to be "different" and be fighting for the little guy. Seems the best thing you can say about Trump is that he is only as corrupt as you imagine the other guy is (where as in reality, he makes Hillary look like a saint int he corruption stakes).
Also, am I the only one that finds it hypocritical that Trump pays for sex, but then reinforces laws that are designed to punish prostitutes and johns?
You wrongly believe that the sex trade is Pretty Woman with a bunch of young women just doing what they do like any other 9-5 job. The reality is its pimp beatings and getting people hooked on drugs or brought to this country as a sex slave in some parlor or under ground brothel so they have no choice but to sell themselves for a few bucks to survive, whether under age or not.
No, that is what the puritanical laws of the US make the sex trade.
Pimps can only operate because the trade is underground. Look at Amsterdam, prostitution is legal and most women are not forced into prostitution. Health services are available, Dutch police take violence very seriously. Even Colombia is evidence against your assertion. Again prostitution is legal and you get very few strung out girls on drugs.
Most of the negative effects of the sex trade in the US are a direct result of sex workers being persecuted, by the police, the media and the religious right. Most of the reason why it's as bad as it is in the US is because prostitutes have no-where to go for help. A girl being beaten by her pimp doesn't feel safe going to the police because the police will charge her for a crime. The girl who was hooked on drugs has no-where and no-one to help her to get clean because drugs are bad mmmkay. The girl smuggled in for prostitution, again, she'll be locked up, shamed and sent somewhere else.
Its easy for pimps to keep girls under their thumb when the authorities make themselves scarier than the pimps or Johns. In places where police will ignore the prostitute but punish the pimp, the problems you describe are rare and definitely not the norm.
What is the use of these numbers? Is there any meaningful conclusion you can take from this? Should I switch to Android because it has more apps in the store. Or should I switch to iOS because there is less old/crap in the store?
It means the market is now mature and we've reached "peak app".
This is bad for Apple as they need to keep the illusion that they're constantly growing. Back in reality however companies and organisations are realising they don't all need an app. My Martial Arts school have recently switched from an App (only one of which worked, if the IOS app worked, the Android app was broken and vice versa) to just using a website. Its good because I can book lessons using my computer or phone instead of having to use my phone. For my school, it's cheaper for them and there has been a marked drop in complaints since.
"Apps" only really came about because smartphones at the time could not handle web pages properly. This hasn't been the case for years (since at least 2010 for Android) and companies are realising that apps are a giant waste of money when they just replicate what you can do on their website.