Does this surprise you? We're talking about people who will brick your phone if you dare to get it repaired by a third party and have the audacity to call it a "security feature." The iPhone was deliberately designed, from beginning to end, to limit what you are able to do and take away your right to control your own property. Keeping you locked out of the file system is a fundamental, necessary step in that process.
Still, Apple's rejection of the app on the grounds that it contains "violence against children" would be on much more solid ground if the god damn source material, known as the various iterations of the Bible, didn't have an entire section on Apple's book store dedicated to it.
That's funny. I don't remember any dungeon crawling, psychotic mothers, deformed monsters, or people naked and weeping, curled up on the floor in a dungeon, in the story of Abraham and Isaac.
This sounds like you bought into a manufactured controversy. Again.
Wow, looking over this article and the comments... so much wrong here. The stupid, it burns!
Dimitris Avramopoulos is absolutely right, and this article is completely missing the point. Reducing the violent risks associated with something that is even more harmful to society than violence, which removes a strong disincentive for people to participate in it, does not constitute a net benefit for society! Trading "the social and economic consequences of violence on the streets [and] the long-term damage caused by poor-quality products" for the long-term social and economic damage of a great abundance of freely-available high-quality addictive, destructive substances is a loss, not an improvement.
The reason "the long-running and totally futile 'war on drugs'" has been so destructive is that we've never actually had one. Sure, they use the term, but when's the last time you heard of drug dealers being treated as enemy combatants? If you try to fight a war like it's not a war, of course you're going to lose. (Just look at Vietnam!)
How many of the people spouting Libertarian idiocy about drug legalization on here have ever actually been friends with an addict? That really opens your eyes. Violence can kill you, but drug addiction is quite literally a fate worse than death, because it enslaves you, strips you of your dignity and your humanity, destroys your relationships with family and friends, impoverishes you, destroys your health, and all too often drives you to crime, before finally killing you. Anyone who thinks we need more of that, rather than considering it a pernicious evil to be utterly eradicated, needs to have their head examined.
I don't really see the problem here. Does it take a warrant to run a stakeout? This is not indiscriminate mass surveillance we're talking about; it was a single camera targeted at a single bad guy, watching and looking for evidence. (You know, exactly the sort of thing Techdirt says we need to be doing more of with technology, instead of mass surveillance...) And they found exactly what they were looking for, so it's not like they had it wrong or something. What exactly did the cops do wrong? By Techdirt's own standards it seems like they did everything right.
Precisely. Error 53 is pure anticompetitive spite on Apple's part, and there are laws specifically prohibiting analogous behavior in car repairs. Apple really needs to face charges over this, both because they did something obviously wrong and to set a precedent.
For the 'infotainment' system now being deployed: that should be a completely separate system from the car's controls.
That's easier said than done. For example, the "infotainment" computer in my car also manages the backup camera. When I put the car in Reverse, it displays the camera view on the screen, and overlays lines on it that curve as I turn the wheel, to indicate my path of travel. That's an incredibly useful safety feature that couldn't exist if the computer didn't have access to the steering wheel.
That's really not a good question to ask, since trying to run a government like a business is a bad idea in general, and occasionally a catastrophically bad idea. Just ask the residents of Flint, Michigan.
You mean the same Supreme Court that handed down the Citizens United and McCutcheon vs. FEC decisions? Why in the world would they nullify a corporate power grab?
Strange. The guy writes to him in English and he responds in Spanish? (And in pretty good Spanish, too; that doesn't look like it came out of Google Translate.)
Translation:
Abusing copyright to censor the Internet is not good business. Maybe you should do something else.
It would also be a good idea to learn about sarcasm and what "copyfraud" means.
But... I'm hoping that people can still separate out the core idea that was there behind React World, and distance it from the fact that it was being put in place by people who had too much bad history to make it work.
Don't get your hopes up too high. People always seem to have a hard time distinguishing between a bad idea and a bad implementation of a good idea. (Just look at how many people call Prohibition the former when it was clearly the latter, for example...)
Not sure if trolling or serious, but just in case I was legitimately not clear in what I wrote, "the originator" that needs to be verified is the phone placing the call, not the person holding it. If Evulz McTrollington can place a call that the phone company thinks is coming from your phone at your house, then something's very wrong with the phone company's system, and that's the first thing that needs to be fixed.
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That's funny. I don't remember any dungeon crawling, psychotic mothers, deformed monsters, or people naked and weeping, curled up on the floor in a dungeon, in the story of Abraham and Isaac.
This sounds like you bought into a manufactured controversy. Again.
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Dimitris Avramopoulos is absolutely right, and this article is completely missing the point. Reducing the violent risks associated with something that is even more harmful to society than violence, which removes a strong disincentive for people to participate in it, does not constitute a net benefit for society! Trading "the social and economic consequences of violence on the streets [and] the long-term damage caused by poor-quality products" for the long-term social and economic damage of a great abundance of freely-available high-quality addictive, destructive substances is a loss, not an improvement.
The reason "the long-running and totally futile 'war on drugs'" has been so destructive is that we've never actually had one. Sure, they use the term, but when's the last time you heard of drug dealers being treated as enemy combatants? If you try to fight a war like it's not a war, of course you're going to lose. (Just look at Vietnam!)
How many of the people spouting Libertarian idiocy about drug legalization on here have ever actually been friends with an addict? That really opens your eyes. Violence can kill you, but drug addiction is quite literally a fate worse than death, because it enslaves you, strips you of your dignity and your humanity, destroys your relationships with family and friends, impoverishes you, destroys your health, and all too often drives you to crime, before finally killing you. Anyone who thinks we need more of that, rather than considering it a pernicious evil to be utterly eradicated, needs to have their head examined.
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That's easier said than done. For example, the "infotainment" computer in my car also manages the backup camera. When I put the car in Reverse, it displays the camera view on the screen, and overlays lines on it that curve as I turn the wheel, to indicate my path of travel. That's an incredibly useful safety feature that couldn't exist if the computer didn't have access to the steering wheel.
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Don't get your hopes up too high. People always seem to have a hard time distinguishing between a bad idea and a bad implementation of a good idea. (Just look at how many people call Prohibition the former when it was clearly the latter, for example...)
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