Just checking -
I'm thinking of writing an app that sends advance warnings every time Apple behaves like a bunch of over zealous arse-hats - anyone know if they've trademarked 'iC*nt' yet?
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Sadly, this kind of crap has been going on for centuries - Sacha's point, I think, is the massive availability of bullshit via digital delivery systems & the feeble excuses used by the big six in pursuit of monetization. I flunked most sciences at school, but I'm pretty sure the algorithms written for these platforms are going to be highly motivated by the interest of maximising turnover. The 'freedom of speech' and 'both sides of the story' propositions are pretty feeble when hate speech, nationalist propoganda or proveable lies are given space to those with significant financial means.
Zucks "we don't deserve..." apology was 100% unconvincing.
If he wants to slurp data about my guitar parts buying preferences or curse word count per sentence, he's welcome to it. I'm sure the authorities would be riveted by my ability to buy a pair of Gretch filtertron pickups for a "fucking bargain"
In thinking about an ideal world where you could set Facebook's policies, how would you handle the following: Someone posts an image of Mark Zuckerberg screwing a chicken.
• This content should be allowed on Facebook, and I would not mind seeing it.
• This content should be allowed on Facebook, and I would not mind seeing it.
• This content should be allowed on Facebook, and I would not mind seeing it.
• This content should be allowed on Facebook, and I would not mind seeing it.
To be fair, there are Americans who have withstood the standard diet of bullshit & snake oil well - it's just a shame that we seldom get to see or hear them through the constant noise & haze of media sensationalism.
Television - the drug of the Nation - breeding ignorance - & feeding radiation.
I do a lot of in-house Photo Retouching & Video editing on a Freelance basis & I have worked for several clients who were rather chuffed that they could offer their 'temp' a Mac Pro to work on. Sad to say that, in every instance, it was an underwhelming experience & I found no advantage over my humble 2013 fully maxed out iMac. Besides, the shape & port access/layout is just silly IMHO - an example of form over function for me.
"...the design and assembly of Apple hardware contributes to the waste problem by making the devices difficult to repair and forcing customers to toss out their old phones and tablets when they break or are replaced."
Which is how consumer commerce works, and (for better or worse) Apple are really good at it. You don't make piles of cash by selling stuff that lasts or is easy & cheap to fix.
... that there is zero relevant information on that iPhone - I read that the Feds found several smartphones at the couples residence that had been smashed prior to their awful rampage, & that the iPhone was one supplied to Farook by the San Bernadino Public service agency he worked at. It just doesn't follow that he would use THAT phone to communicate with any terrorist cell or handler.
For some reason, sadly, I keep being reminded of the awful 'Enabling' act passed into law by a certain National Socialist party all those years ago.
This is simply ambition without brains ( & perhaps conscience). And this is the worst bit -
"… it will soon introduce a "Truth Licence" which, for a buck a day, will let you see whatever people have written about you, regardless of whether you have disallowed it and even, it seems, if you have "deleted" it."
So -
a) EVERY comment is retained? And what happens when this site gets hacked? ( and it will be hacked )
b) Truth Licence? Are you sure thats not "Pay to be humiliated" Licence? This is like an online version of Monty Python's "Argument" sketch.
One look at the comments section on Youtube is bad enough these days. Everyone has a right to express themselves - I get that. However, it doesn't follow that everyone should. If these two apparently naive individuals go ahead with this in the current FUD filled atmosphere soaking the USA - well, good luck to them.
I read that the couple had other mobile phones which they destroyed before their rampage - surely those would have been the most likely to have produced some evidence. Why smash them otherwise?
Also, if Farook was working in a public service capacity, surely the last thing a covert terrorist (if he & his partner were so) would want would be to raise suspicion or leave a trail by using a work supplied phone. The records suggest he made "sporadic" icloud backups of the iPhone in question.
Seems to me the Feds are leveraging this tragedy with a rather overbearing focus on the encryption/decryption agenda. That the San Bernardino officials changed the iCloud password at the behest of the FBI only makes me more suspicious.
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