he's specifically responding to someone who said amazon doesn't do this. he isn't addressing the morality of the activity, he's addressing the assertion that amazon isn't engaging in this activity.
Is it ethical for Apple or its customers to expect outsiders to spend hundreds or thousands of man hours finding bugs in their software for free? Apple is certainly rich enough to either pay bounties or to hire an army of security researchers to test their products.
apple didn't expect or require anything from him. he knew before he started that apple doesn't pay bounties for bugs and he still chose to spend his time and effort looking for a bug specifically so he could release it into the wild. he could have spent his time researching software from a company that does pay bounties for bugs.
he's a dick.
the only way that would be feasible is if it were an international law and the entire world boycotted china as a market for those products. otherwise, a company boycotting china is just giving a market of 1 billion people to their competitors.
(if we're including scripting languages, can we also include markup languages)?
no. scripting languages are still programming languages. they are just interpreted on the fly rather than compiled or byte-compiled.
html is a layout language. if you need conditional statements, branching, or to control the flow of logic in any other way, you fall back to javascript precisely because html is not a programming language.
Trump is the only one cutting his shitty steaks with a spoon.
in his defense, all of the forks and knives were dirty because he used them to eat a pizza.
when i bought a new iphone, i went to the apple store, bought it and took it home. then i realized my old phone had a different size sim card so i went to the at&t store and asked for the newer size sim card for my number. I didn't take the new phone with me, so the guy just put his imei from his phone in and gave me the new card. i went home, popped it in the new phone and it worked. phone is not locked to the carrier, carrier doesn't have my imei, and (outside of actually paying for the phone) it cost me nothing. If i had already had the right size sim card, i wouldn't have needed to give them an imei for the new phone either. apparently it is only used to activate the sim and is not used at all afterward.
Back in the day when i first got at&t, i just picked up a sim from them and put it in my iphone i had then without any issues. i don't remember if i gave them its imei or not. i do know before that i was using a t-mobile sim when t-mobile wasn't officially supported by iphones (this was an original iphone 1) without any issues and without informing t-mobile of the new phone.
the agreement said that apple would pay a license fee to qualcomm and then qualcomm would rebate some of that money back to apple. both parties adhered to that until south korea subpoena'd apple for information on qualcomm's licensing practices during an investigation into qualcomm's licensing terms. apple cooperated and qualcomm responded by cutting off the rebates they were paying to apple. apple then stopped paying the license fee in response to qualcomm no longer paying the rebate.
if you do a search for summit, there are photos of the data center it is in. looks pretty clean to me.
> By the time this article posts, Apple will probably be back on top.
a quick check on google shows apple is up by $6 billion right now.
under the agreement apple had with qualcomm, qualcomm gave apple rebates on those payments. however, qualcomm stopped giving the rebate as a punitive measure for apple cooperating in the korean fair trade commission's investigation into qualcomm's licensing practices. so, it sounds like qualcomm was in breach of that agreement first and apple stopping payments under the agreement was appropriate.
the korean fair trade commission ultimately fined qualcomm $853 million. the ftc has also sued qualcomm for the same practices.
it does have LTE on both sims. this problem only exists with verizon sims in the united states. at&t and t-mobile sims work with LTE in both primary and secondary positions. verizon sims work with LTE in the secondary position in europe.
from the article :
"AT&T's and T-Mobile's systems work fine in either the primary or secondary positions, supporting those carriers' voice-over-LTE networks."
so, explain to me how this is because of apple's hardware, but is only broken for verizon.
why would i ignore the rural parts? the original comment started by saying he lived in rural denmark on a farm.
Developed land in the united states is about 3% of the total land, so 113,820 square miles. (6.8 times the total size of denmark)
75% of the population lives in that space. The U.S. population is about 317 million people, so about 237,750,000 people.
denmark's population is about 5,607,000 people.
So if we just use the developed land in the United States, it's 6.8 times the size of denmark and has 42 times the number of people living in it. And it's broken up into separated pieces of developed space that exists in different regulatory and physical environments.
I still don't think they're comparable situations.
well, denmark covers 16,639 square miles. the united states covers 3.794 million square miles.
do you think maybe these two situations are not comparable?
i never said i felt that way at all. I was providing an analogy that more correctly described the FSF's position, not mine. Do you disagree that the analogy represents the FSF position accurately?
My point is that if that is indeed an accurate representation of their point then they are advocating the position that you should not use anything that you don't own and control, because to do so would require you trust that the owner/maintainer has installed the locks properly and that they haven't been tampered with.
yeah. i'd say that is probably a fairly accurate description of the FSF position.
well, the only one you would have heard of would be apple.
And what exactly did you inspect and verify?
well, i worked at apple. i had servers in the data centers so i had to know and adhere to all of the security policies relating to the data centers.
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