I could see this resulting in much more restrictive laws that basically say doing ANYTHING on your phone is illegal. Need GPS? Better pull over and park. Need to change the music cause the song on right now sucks? Tough. Suck it up or park. There is at least one state where I believe that using ANY mobile device (phone, ipod, portable GPS etc) that isn't attached to the car (e.g. in dash or whatever) is illegal and I believe that the window/dash mounts don't qualify.
I will just point out here that the government HAS offered reimbursement for the development costs. What they WON'T reimburse is the massive loss of goodwill and likely market share if it happens.
Also Apple didn't necessarily WANT the case under seal, they were just okay with fighting it under seal. It's the FBI that decided to make it public thinking the public would be like, "ooh, terrorism!"
Now if I were really conspiracy-minded, I would expect there to be ANOTHER terrorist attack soon, this one much worse, and the government really MUST get at that data because they were part of a group planning more.
Let's get a picture of Tim Cook in cuffs on the front page of the papers and see how long any remaining goodwill between the tech industry and law enforcement lasts. Not to mention that I'm quite sure that Apple's lawyers could easily bury them in so much paperwork they'd have to hire more help.
Yep. I was looking for some mods for a game a few days ago. Nexus Mods had a nice placeholder asking me to disable ad block. I said, okay, fine. I find your site useful so I will. When I got autoplaying video ads on two page loads out of three I said screw you and turned it back on. Not only were they autoplaying ads, they were LOUD, like TV commercials used to be before they passed a law to prevent it. I had headphones on and had to rip them off my head before my ears started bleeding.
I don't think they would need security clearances and I doubt it would cost 8-9 figures. However, I did some back of the envelope calculations based on the number of engineers and support personnel they said would be needed for at least a month. I came up with around 80-100k assuming that it takes a month or a bit more for salaries of those involved. That doesn't count the indirect costs of pulling engineers and support people off their regular OS update cycles, likely delaying those products or requiring more overtime.
Yes, Apple has a lot of money but I can't see how that doesn't count as unduly burdensome. It's not like they can just plug in the thing and take 5 or 10 minutes to do.
Since Mr Woo Woo wants to argue that the 4th amendment doesn't apply because it's a military action then doesn't using the military against Americans within our borders run afoul of the posse comitatus act?
Not that it in any way excuses the prices and rate hikes but I would like the point out that the broadcast transmission fees are paid out to the local tv stations (which more often than not are locally owned) and NOT to the network. So even though they own NBC, Comcast isn't charging the broadcast fee and then paying it to itself.
All that said, Comcast can't go suck an egg. Google will be here soon and I can't wait.
The problem with that is cost. I work in school IT. We pay about $200 per drop to get one installed. Our centrally managed wireless access points cost around $500/ea plus the installation, say $700 total. One access point can easily handle, say, 30 computers. That's $700 vs $3000 for the equivalent number of ethernet drops. Oh, and it also only uses one port for all those machines instead of needing to add a very expensive 48 port switch that costs several thousand dollars to handle the extra drops.
Re: "There are more than a handful of significant challenges that need to be solved before anyone gets a working space elevator"
Hours? Try days. Distance to geosynchronous orbit is a bit over 22,000 miles. Even if your space elevator car could average 1000 mph ascending that's still almost 24 hours to get there. It's doubtful that you're going to have climbers going 1000 mph though. A much more realistic speed might be 250 mph. Well your one day climb is now four days.
Now let's consider that there are two ways to counterweight the elevator. The first method is to extend the cable as far out as it is from the earth, so a total length of around 45,000 miles. The other option is to anchor the cable to a small asteroid located a few thousand miles past geostationary orbit. The asteroid would be a more logical choice since it gives you the raw materials for a space station too. Just hollow it out, send the minerals down to earth for processing if they aren't going to be needed in space, and build your station inside it.
Guess what, we'll assume the station is about 5000 miles past geostationary level. Now we're looking at another 20 hours. Basically five days up and five days down. A space elevator is great for getting lots of stuff up into space cheaply. Not so great for getting it up QUICKLY.
Re: Re: Re: Let's see your super thin carbon nanotube rope cut right through a thunderhead without frying.
Hurricanes won't be an issue because the elevator would have to be on the equator. Hurricanes can't cross the equator, not as hurricanes anyways. The winds are relatively calm within a few degrees of the equator like that as well.
That's possible, assuming it is a franchise and not a corporate-owned location. However I would think that a) he would still be concerned about bad publicity given that the McDonalds is in the area of the protests and thus most of his customers would be too and b) McDonalds corporate office would lean on him heavily because of the bad publicity it would bring them, possibly it could even be a violation of the franchise agreement.
I mean, everyone always complains about how kids these days don't like to read. I can't imagine that for most of them going to adult books is going to be their first choice. So if they're seeking out books instead of watching videos then good on them I say!
with this, aside from the principle of the thing I mean, is let's say that, uh, someone who isn't me likes porn and has AT&T for internet. What happens when their algorithm decides that since they like porn so much they should start getting ads for adult sites injected and their kids start getting those ads since it's the same connection?
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Also Apple didn't necessarily WANT the case under seal, they were just okay with fighting it under seal. It's the FBI that decided to make it public thinking the public would be like, "ooh, terrorism!"
Now if I were really conspiracy-minded, I would expect there to be ANOTHER terrorist attack soon, this one much worse, and the government really MUST get at that data because they were part of a group planning more.
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I would love to see that
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Yes, Apple has a lot of money but I can't see how that doesn't count as unduly burdensome. It's not like they can just plug in the thing and take 5 or 10 minutes to do.
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surveillance is a "military action"?
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All that said, Comcast can't go suck an egg. Google will be here soon and I can't wait.
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Re: "There are more than a handful of significant challenges that need to be solved before anyone gets a working space elevator"
Now let's consider that there are two ways to counterweight the elevator. The first method is to extend the cable as far out as it is from the earth, so a total length of around 45,000 miles. The other option is to anchor the cable to a small asteroid located a few thousand miles past geostationary orbit. The asteroid would be a more logical choice since it gives you the raw materials for a space station too. Just hollow it out, send the minerals down to earth for processing if they aren't going to be needed in space, and build your station inside it.
Guess what, we'll assume the station is about 5000 miles past geostationary level. Now we're looking at another 20 hours. Basically five days up and five days down. A space elevator is great for getting lots of stuff up into space cheaply. Not so great for getting it up QUICKLY.
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Uh, I think it may be too late. That ship has done sailed.
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Hey, at least the kids are reading, right?
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Re: Push it a little harder
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