Had Intel not dropped the ball on 5G as was reported two weeks ago I think Apple would have taken this the whole way. Huawei was mentioned (on/.) as a possible chip supplier but given the US stance on Huawei 5G tech the preferred outcome had to be Intel or Qualcomm. The really interesting detail is "The companies also have reached a six-year license agreement, effective as of April 1, 2019" because it suggests that Apple's own silicon workshop isn't anywhere near ready to deliver their own mobile radio silicon. I doubt much money will go from Apple to Qualcomm as Apple says the settlement includes a payment from Apple to Qualcomm will need to be offset by the $1 Billion payout recently award in court to Apple. What hasn't come out in any detail yet is if Qualcomm will change the business model that Apple claimed to be unfair. Will Apple continue to pay a percentage of the device value which they got upset about or will they pay a fixed licensing fee for themselves and their suppliers? That's the bit that will tell who really won here. Also don't forget the FTC antitrust lawsuit against Qualcomm was actually the catalyst for Apple's own lawsuit against the company just a few weeks later. How does today's new affect that? I suspect both companies were in a pickle and needed each other in the end.
Had the snip after 2 kids and my libido went through the roof, for the first 2 years, and then dropped off. This is normal as you release testosterone in your semen but after the snip it has no where to go but into your blood so your body lowers your output in response causing your libido to drop off. There's also the psychological factor of knowing you are sterile too. The worst part though was the pain from the epididymitis caused by the sperm backing up with no where to go. So 4 years later, after splitting with my wife who nagged me into getting it in the first place, I had it reversed. [Ouch] Theatre surgery for 2 hours and balls like a couple of over ripe avocados for a month. I've now got my libido back, the epididymitis does occasionally return in a mild form and I've got 6 kids... The pill would have been most welcome alternative to what I've been through.
they can default to, "you're using non-backdoored encryption. You are guilty."
Well supposing I opened a TCP port somewhere and just stuffed random bits down it, at random points in time. Just to fuck with the spooks who are watching. Or say, due to a bug in some IOT device, it was sending random crap somewhere. Who's to say what is encrypted comms and what is just static binary noise? You could be jailed for a bug because someone in power is paranoid. This is a dangerous path the FBI, and others, want to lead us down. It is sad that the "free west" used to hold up the communist east as evil for doing exactly what the west now desperately wants to do to its citizens. If China's citizen credit system proves successful you can be certain it'll be applied globally with your comms history contributing to it. "Thought crime" was what Orwell called it.
Pandora's box was opened a long time ago. Criminals can use open source encryption to avoid mainstream services. The question the FBI and others haven't answered is - how is this any benefit to crime control when all it does is relocate the dark users to their own platforms that they alone hold the keys to? Why therefore break it for the vast majority of law abiding citizens thus exposing us to not just bad actors in government but the criminals too?
Cisco did win because there was an out of court settlement.
"The completion of the lawsuit comes after a third party review of Huawei's products, and after Huawei discontinued the sale of products at issue in the suit. Huawei has agreed to change its command line interface, user manuals, help screens and portions of its source code to address Cisco's concerns. Cisco agreed to suspend its patent infringement lawsuit when the third party review got underway so the settlement of the lawsuit comes as no great surprise.
I'd call that a win and a proof of guilt.
I'm not American and I'm guessing neither are you....
I remember back when Huawei started, I was working at Cisco, and Cisco took them to court for stealing the code to IOS and shipping it running on their own routers (which I think were also hardware copies of cisco routers). Cisco won because Huawei hadn't bothered to fix the typos in the IOS text. The Huawei routers had identical text errors in "their" UI. They also had Cisco's IOS bugs too!
I'm surprised they taken until now to begin this. Having your own silicon design team, who have already produced the W2 chip for the ear buds (yeah I know different ball park but still a toe dipped in wireless), you'd think you'd have started this back when they picked a fight with Qualcomm. Also with the perpetual drive to put everything on a single chip and use less space this seems like an obvious move. I'm guessing it's their habit of focusing on just a few things (CPU, Graphics & AI silicon) that has taken a higher priority until now. But still, only now?
I asked Slashdot this question 2 weeks ago but I wasn't thinking of just games but all apps. Sure games will have the highest screen time but it would be nice to have an app launch and glance minimum which then earns on a per minute basis. The freemium model has made the App stores a toxic place for the majority app publishers as users have come to expect everything for free, including free from adverts. If your app is used regularly then why not get paid for that % it is used out of a subscription pot. I for one would like a 3rd option to the paid and freemium we've had for too long at least just to try it and see if we can learn anything from it or modify app user attitudes and behaviour. Maybe that last part is too much to dream for...
I wrote an App for a company here in NZ which uses miniaturised Near InfraRed (NIR) spectroscopy to analyse and determine desired characteristics of organic and non-organic materials. The biggest wins they have so far are in what is termed as "bio-prospecting" and one recent big win was in the Australian and NZ hop growers. When you pick hops you can scan them using this device and print off a label with the date and the alpha value (bitterness) as well as other things of interest to brewers. It gets even more interesting for buyers of old hop stocks because hops degrade over time. With this scanner you can tell what the current levels are. It works using machine learning to build models from NIR "finger prints" of known samples. There's a new data arms race that has already started and this one is mining the material world through sophisticated miniature sensors. I predict that in 10 years NIR and other sensors will, together with sophisticated AI hardware and software, be a standard feature in every smart phone just as a camera is today. Imagine being able to scan food or medicines with your phone to check for quality, allergies (nut content), authentication, age etc.
This makes me wonder if advertising, on video media, runs a risk of dying out. Youtube is now offering an ad free subscription. If NetFlix has such a large chunk of the viewing population then where can you get your product videos into eye balls? Facebook? Not everyone uses it and you can ignore most things there. How long until Facebook offers an ad free subscription or does it capitalise on the other channels shutting up shop? It's not like NetFlix customers don't have an alternative as an en masse return to piracy could be one public backlash, A balance must be maintained. This is an interesting study as it raises a lot of questions about the future of screen viewing and advertising's place in it - if at all.
Most of us reading this are probably thinking the same thing - how does someone who's broke pay for some new tech? Ever since the Greek financial woes began I've been saying that they are missing a huge opportunity in legalising weed, selling it to the huge number of tourists they get each year and reaping the tax from that. They have the perfect climate for growing it. Nothing would say F.U to their debtors, like Germany, than letting their citizens get high and wasted for two weeks in the sun each year. This presents a perfect cover story for why they need to sell dope, something that a Californian business would get behind too.
It's a relative question isn't it? If you are in your 20's then you probably aren't that impressed or not as much as I am. Strange to think a CD is antiquated now. As a teenager a Walkman was hi-tech. Now I can stream music wirelessly from my watch to little buds in my ear. My phone knows my face and I can ask it to turn on music in any room in my house. I can video chat with my mother on the other side of the planet in high definition video and audio. Yet with the car industry we're still driving the same shitty combustion engined machines we did as a kid. The electronics and safety are better. What happened to the big dreams of space exploration? Oh yeah, that's right, we decided it was more important to turn our tech on deep sea exploration for hydro carbons to power those shitty combustion engines.
Given the monumental technical task being asked here of Joe Public I wonder if the German cops are really asking hackers, who want to show off their skills, for help?
"I read the news today, oh boy Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire And though the holes were rather small They had to count them all Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall I'd love to turn you" - Lennon/McCartney "A day in a life"
Putting the fruit bashing aside I find this worrying because the sales data I'm seeing from my own business globally would seem to suggest a sudden drop in consumer confidence, especially in the US. If I compare sales last thanksgiving to this year the difference is night and day. Our sales tends to be seasonal and well matched annually in fluctuations. When the dot com bubble burst I was working at Cisco, who were the first company to be valued at $500Billion (look at them now), and I remember Chambers saying how sales hit a brick wall literally over night. Different market (consumer / enterprise) but the global economy affects all. I'm not going to finger point or speculate here I'm just pointing out that it may not be just Apple who are feeling it and if that's true then "winter is coming";)
SpaceX is so far ahead with recycling rockets (= lower launch cost & better margins) that the incumbent rocket contractors appear to have pulled some strings to attempt to slow them down or discount them from the running. Someone needs breathing space to catch up.
In a better world you'd spend 100% of your time focusing on innovating and improving technology instead of wasting time fighting the status quo.
Has there ever been a company which has had to endure as much media sponsored market manipulation as Tesla? Two days ago the news headline was: "Tesla reports surprise profit, stock surges. Tesla reported its third-ever profit in its eight years as a public company. This exceeded average analyst expectations of losses of 15 cents per share on revenue of $6.32 billion." Today more speculative drama chipping away at its integrity and success.
Did that "stock surge" burn someone? Did someone think "oh dear, I was wrong, I should have gotten in earlier" or are the shorties still dreaming they can topple it?
If you did a survey which Apple strategy would be the most important to consumers? 1 - Maintaining Privacy and continuing to strengthen it 2 - Restoring the headphone jack
"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil." - Niccolo Machiavelli
We should organise a mass boycott of banking apps in protest. To pay for anything turn up at you bank and use up the bank's employee's time to make payments. That should get the message across by proxy. Governments (five eyes anyway) don't listen to tech companies or the public. They do listen to the money men though.
When I saw this feature my 1st thought was "I wonder how the emergency services call centres will deal with a higher volume of false calls?" This isn't the first (v)blogger to try out this new Apple watch feature and, from what I've seen so far, it looks like it's takes more than a theatrical fall to trigger it. It takes no great technical genius to set up something that starts a 1 minute timer after the accelerometer detects an impact and call 911/999/111/etc What Apple's not telling is how they've mitigated, if at all, false positives for this fall and call feature. I did wonder if they were relying on the user being over 65 but since that can be by-passed then they really need some form of smart decision making. Two things that could hurt Apple's much guarded reputation here: 1) Some 65+ user falls and dies and their S4 Apple Watch does nothing. This is priority. Better lots of false positives than one death. 2) Too many under 65's switch it on and it the increase in false emergency calls brings out the grand standing politicians summoning the angry crowd with torches & pitchforks. Yes, I know the watch asks you if you are ok before calling but you might be distracted long enough to not notice or be able to respond.
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Had Intel not dropped the ball on 5G as was reported two weeks ago I think Apple would have taken this the whole way. /.) as a possible chip supplier but given the US stance on Huawei 5G tech the preferred outcome had to be Intel or Qualcomm.
Huawei was mentioned (on
The really interesting detail is "The companies also have reached a six-year license agreement, effective as of April 1, 2019" because it suggests that Apple's own silicon workshop isn't anywhere near ready to deliver their own mobile radio silicon.
I doubt much money will go from Apple to Qualcomm as Apple says the settlement includes a payment from Apple to Qualcomm will need to be offset by the $1 Billion payout recently award in court to Apple.
What hasn't come out in any detail yet is if Qualcomm will change the business model that Apple claimed to be unfair.
Will Apple continue to pay a percentage of the device value which they got upset about or will they pay a fixed licensing fee for themselves and their suppliers?
That's the bit that will tell who really won here.
Also don't forget the FTC antitrust lawsuit against Qualcomm was actually the catalyst for Apple's own lawsuit against the company just a few weeks later.
How does today's new affect that? I suspect both companies were in a pickle and needed each other in the end.
Had the snip after 2 kids and my libido went through the roof, for the first 2 years, and then dropped off.
This is normal as you release testosterone in your semen but after the snip it has no where to go but into your blood so your body lowers your output in response causing your libido to drop off. There's also the psychological factor of knowing you are sterile too.
The worst part though was the pain from the epididymitis caused by the sperm backing up with no where to go.
So 4 years later, after splitting with my wife who nagged me into getting it in the first place, I had it reversed.
[Ouch] Theatre surgery for 2 hours and balls like a couple of over ripe avocados for a month.
I've now got my libido back, the epididymitis does occasionally return in a mild form and I've got 6 kids...
The pill would have been most welcome alternative to what I've been through.
they can default to, "you're using non-backdoored encryption. You are guilty."
Well supposing I opened a TCP port somewhere and just stuffed random bits down it, at random points in time. Just to fuck with the spooks who are watching.
Or say, due to a bug in some IOT device, it was sending random crap somewhere.
Who's to say what is encrypted comms and what is just static binary noise? You could be jailed for a bug because someone in power is paranoid.
This is a dangerous path the FBI, and others, want to lead us down.
It is sad that the "free west" used to hold up the communist east as evil for doing exactly what the west now desperately wants to do to its citizens.
If China's citizen credit system proves successful you can be certain it'll be applied globally with your comms history contributing to it.
"Thought crime" was what Orwell called it.
Pandora's box was opened a long time ago. Criminals can use open source encryption to avoid mainstream services.
The question the FBI and others haven't answered is - how is this any benefit to crime control when all it does is relocate the dark users to their own platforms that they alone hold the keys to?
Why therefore break it for the vast majority of law abiding citizens thus exposing us to not just bad actors in government but the criminals too?
Cisco did win because there was an out of court settlement.
"The completion of the lawsuit comes after a third party review of Huawei's products, and after Huawei discontinued the sale of products at issue in the suit. Huawei has agreed to change its command line interface, user manuals, help screens and portions of its source code to address Cisco's concerns. Cisco agreed to suspend its patent infringement lawsuit when the third party review got underway so the settlement of the lawsuit comes as no great surprise.
I'd call that a win and a proof of guilt.
I'm not American and I'm guessing neither are you....
I remember back when Huawei started, I was working at Cisco, and Cisco took them to court for stealing the code to IOS and shipping it running on their own routers (which I think were also hardware copies of cisco routers).
Cisco won because Huawei hadn't bothered to fix the typos in the IOS text. The Huawei routers had identical text errors in "their" UI. They also had Cisco's IOS bugs too!
I'm surprised they taken until now to begin this. Having your own silicon design team, who have already produced the W2 chip for the ear buds (yeah I know different ball park but still a toe dipped in wireless), you'd think you'd have started this back when they picked a fight with Qualcomm.
Also with the perpetual drive to put everything on a single chip and use less space this seems like an obvious move.
I'm guessing it's their habit of focusing on just a few things (CPU, Graphics & AI silicon) that has taken a higher priority until now. But still, only now?
I asked Slashdot this question 2 weeks ago but I wasn't thinking of just games but all apps. Sure games will have the highest screen time but it would be nice to have an app launch and glance minimum which then earns on a per minute basis.
The freemium model has made the App stores a toxic place for the majority app publishers as users have come to expect everything for free, including free from adverts. If your app is used regularly then why not get paid for that % it is used out of a subscription pot.
I for one would like a 3rd option to the paid and freemium we've had for too long at least just to try it and see if we can learn anything from it or modify app user attitudes and behaviour. Maybe that last part is too much to dream for...
I wrote an App for a company here in NZ which uses miniaturised Near InfraRed (NIR) spectroscopy to analyse and determine desired characteristics of organic and non-organic materials.
The biggest wins they have so far are in what is termed as "bio-prospecting" and one recent big win was in the Australian and NZ hop growers.
When you pick hops you can scan them using this device and print off a label with the date and the alpha value (bitterness) as well as other things of interest to brewers.
It gets even more interesting for buyers of old hop stocks because hops degrade over time. With this scanner you can tell what the current levels are.
It works using machine learning to build models from NIR "finger prints" of known samples.
There's a new data arms race that has already started and this one is mining the material world through sophisticated miniature sensors.
I predict that in 10 years NIR and other sensors will, together with sophisticated AI hardware and software, be a standard feature in every smart phone just as a camera is today.
Imagine being able to scan food or medicines with your phone to check for quality, allergies (nut content), authentication, age etc.
This makes me wonder if advertising, on video media, runs a risk of dying out.
Youtube is now offering an ad free subscription.
If NetFlix has such a large chunk of the viewing population then where can you get your product videos into eye balls?
Facebook? Not everyone uses it and you can ignore most things there.
How long until Facebook offers an ad free subscription or does it capitalise on the other channels shutting up shop?
It's not like NetFlix customers don't have an alternative as an en masse return to piracy could be one public backlash,
A balance must be maintained.
This is an interesting study as it raises a lot of questions about the future of screen viewing and advertising's place in it - if at all.
After all the money Russia has spent on advertising on Facebook...
Most of us reading this are probably thinking the same thing - how does someone who's broke pay for some new tech?
Ever since the Greek financial woes began I've been saying that they are missing a huge opportunity in legalising weed, selling it to the huge number of tourists they get each year and reaping the tax from that. They have the perfect climate for growing it.
Nothing would say F.U to their debtors, like Germany, than letting their citizens get high and wasted for two weeks in the sun each year.
This presents a perfect cover story for why they need to sell dope, something that a Californian business would get behind too.
It's a relative question isn't it? If you are in your 20's then you probably aren't that impressed or not as much as I am.
Strange to think a CD is antiquated now.
As a teenager a Walkman was hi-tech.
Now I can stream music wirelessly from my watch to little buds in my ear.
My phone knows my face and I can ask it to turn on music in any room in my house.
I can video chat with my mother on the other side of the planet in high definition video and audio.
Yet with the car industry we're still driving the same shitty combustion engined machines we did as a kid.
The electronics and safety are better.
What happened to the big dreams of space exploration?
Oh yeah, that's right, we decided it was more important to turn our tech on deep sea exploration for hydro carbons to power those shitty combustion engines.
Given the monumental technical task being asked here of Joe Public I wonder if the German cops are really asking hackers, who want to show off their skills, for help?
That headline reminds me of this song.
"I read the news today, oh boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall
I'd love to turn you"
- Lennon/McCartney "A day in a life"
Putting the fruit bashing aside I find this worrying because the sales data I'm seeing from my own business globally would seem to suggest a sudden drop in consumer confidence, especially in the US. ;)
If I compare sales last thanksgiving to this year the difference is night and day. Our sales tends to be seasonal and well matched annually in fluctuations.
When the dot com bubble burst I was working at Cisco, who were the first company to be valued at $500Billion (look at them now), and I remember Chambers saying how sales hit a brick wall literally over night. Different market (consumer / enterprise) but the global economy affects all.
I'm not going to finger point or speculate here I'm just pointing out that it may not be just Apple who are feeling it and if that's true then "winter is coming"
SpaceX is so far ahead with recycling rockets (= lower launch cost & better margins) that the incumbent rocket contractors appear to have pulled some strings to attempt to slow them down or discount them from the running. Someone needs breathing space to catch up.
In a better world you'd spend 100% of your time focusing on innovating and improving technology instead of wasting time fighting the status quo.
"I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Starbucks Americano."
Doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
Has there ever been a company which has had to endure as much media sponsored market manipulation as Tesla?
Two days ago the news headline was:
"Tesla reports surprise profit, stock surges. Tesla reported its third-ever profit in its eight years as a public company. This exceeded average analyst expectations of losses of 15 cents per share on revenue of $6.32 billion."
Today more speculative drama chipping away at its integrity and success.
Did that "stock surge" burn someone? Did someone think "oh dear, I was wrong, I should have gotten in earlier" or are the shorties still dreaming they can topple it?
If you did a survey which Apple strategy would be the most important to consumers?
1 - Maintaining Privacy and continuing to strengthen it
2 - Restoring the headphone jack
"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil." - Niccolo Machiavelli
Under which category does a nuclear winter fall? Engineered or political?
We should organise a mass boycott of banking apps in protest.
To pay for anything turn up at you bank and use up the bank's employee's time to make payments.
That should get the message across by proxy.
Governments (five eyes anyway) don't listen to tech companies or the public. They do listen to the money men though.
Didn't you read this /. post a few days ago:
Apple Said To Have 'Dramatically Reduced' Multi-Billion-Dollar iPhone Repair Fraud in China
How is a company to protect itself from fraud and still honor a warranty when the product's guts have been swapped out by a 3rd party chop shop?
When I saw this feature my 1st thought was "I wonder how the emergency services call centres will deal with a higher volume of false calls?"
This isn't the first (v)blogger to try out this new Apple watch feature and, from what I've seen so far, it looks like it's takes more than a theatrical fall to trigger it.
It takes no great technical genius to set up something that starts a 1 minute timer after the accelerometer detects an impact and call 911/999/111/etc
What Apple's not telling is how they've mitigated, if at all, false positives for this fall and call feature.
I did wonder if they were relying on the user being over 65 but since that can be by-passed then they really need some form of smart decision making.
Two things that could hurt Apple's much guarded reputation here:
1) Some 65+ user falls and dies and their S4 Apple Watch does nothing. This is priority. Better lots of false positives than one death.
2) Too many under 65's switch it on and it the increase in false emergency calls brings out the grand standing politicians summoning the angry crowd with torches & pitchforks. Yes, I know the watch asks you if you are ok before calling but you might be distracted long enough to not notice or be able to respond.
Time will tell I suppose.
You've obviously never been for a drive in a Soviet era Lada car?
"no one wanted what they made" for a damn good reason.