Slightly different..

I bought a fake rolex from a guy on the street on a vacation to NYC.
Customs comes to my house in Monowi Nebraska, opens the doors with a key, goes to my bedroom, finds my watch on my dresser and takes it.
The semantics are important. Simply because we let them have the keys (to our devices) does not mean we have given permission. They will use every power we give them. Its our job to define what is abuse.

Hear hear.

Its the frog in hot water example for most people - they just can't see the noose - its just too big for their minds right now.

But imagine you get in your car tomorrow to find that Nissan disabled it from the factory. Or you go to turn on your TV and Sony had disabled your TV because it was doing something they didn't like. Or even better - you go to use the Weather App or the MP3 Player App - and over night Sony sent an update to Disable them.
This kind of behavior is nuts. Its ludicrous. We can't accept it anymore than we would accept going in for an oil change, and mechanic removing the radio and turn the car into a 3 cylinder because the manufacturer mandated some Emissions changes. Now imagine they go door to door, with masterkeys to all the cars - this is what is happening

Remember - you own the thing. It is yours. We are on the verge of a 'slow quiet takeover' of the meaning of ownership.
https://www.extremetech.com/co...

Its just the beginning.. they have all the power to do this.

Both Articles - IB Times - super short on details. Which is a nice way to say no details. And then the "The Information" Article - adds 1 more detail before you hit the $400/year paywall - "former employee's say".
--sigh ----

So reporter Kevin Kelly - went to magic leap, put on the prototype and says:
Magic Leap’s solution is an optical system that creates the illusion of depth in such a way that your eyes focus far for far things, and near for near, and will converge or diverge at the correct distances. In trying out Magic Leap’s prototype, I found that it worked amazingly well close up, within arm’s reach, which was not true of many of the other mixed- and virtual-reality systems I used. I also found that the transition back to the real world while removing the Magic Leap’s optics was effortless, as comfortable as slipping off sunglasses, which I also did not experience in other systems. It felt natural.

Is he a shill? Like folks have said here. . it's really hard to deliver. . if it wasn't, every nerd with an idea would be making a billion bucks selling us our dream come true. But this article is painfully missing facts, and sloppy with f, u, and d.

Mac user since 2001... sad but true.. Last quarter Apple sold - 28 Billion in iPhones vs. only 6 Billion in All Mac's. They couldn't care less what MacPro users want. That machine by no measurement, state of the art, unless thinness is now a professional feature - and iirc the surface is still lighter. They have an agenda, and they are dragging they're user base along. Its unadulterated BS. Courage? BS. For the battery life? BS.. Not needed by pro's? BS Verge reporter didn't even ask about 'Donglegate' or that their Flagship Computer will not plug into their flagship phone. The user base, and the press will again, give them a pass.. let it go.. and buy more. . . They will put out crap because people accept crap from them. The difference between the two platforms according to Mr. S - is that the Mac has a menubar at the top and always will, and the IOS devices don't and never will. These new laptops are made for Schmo's who want what people think is cool.

Its not a barometer in that space. Of course we all know this because we rtfaritcle. Its a barometric vent (with some cool spring type mechanics.) So .. they didn't make room for a barometer.. (its always had that... ) they made room for a vent. For the barometer. And benjamindees so aptly put. Its forced progress with the goal of domination: If the corporation can drive progress, and successfully pull its users along, it is impossible for competitors to edge in on you. If you have a userbase who will follow you down any road, then you can do things like remove the headphone jack get at the head of the new headphone selling line, and eat your cake, and the headphone cake too. Do you know notice the regular update schedule? This is to move users away from the idea of the phone as a platform (steady, stable, buildable upon..) to phone a service - always moving, always changing, - and others are welcome to board that boat - if they pay the Apple Tax first ( or M$ tax, or google tax). Its the same phone. The same phone. The same phone. 5 and 5s ---- 6 and 6s ------ ----------- This is the same company that took years to introduce a new color - white and sold the color WHITE as an innovative new feature. The headphone jack - is only a symbol of the shift.. They have all shifted.. The platform is closed. They are the keepers of the gate. They charge to play and decide what you have and what you don't have. Here's the cool part.. They can give it to you today and take it away from you tomorrow, and there's not a thing you can do about it.. Anyone remember the split iPad keyboard? iPhoto? iMovie? -- Its one thing to stop development and support.. its quite another - to proactively remove things from folks device, and they are so there. Enjoy the ride. // Full disclosure - typing this on a Macbook, beside my iPhone6

sad but likely. netmarketshare reports Win7 - is at 47.82% and Win10: 15.34% the supposition that someone at microsoft's targets are not being met sounds plausible.

When are are going to star calling BS on 1000 people surveys? I will spare you the math, but 1000 out 321,442,019? Really?

Correct me here.. Did the fw portion of the hack happen on the lan or wan? It seems to imply wan, but some statements seem like they used their physical access to the camera.

Toyota techs come by your house in the middle of the night.
Unlock the car. Install a fix on the engine. Change the steering ratio. Remove the radio.
Lock up and leave.

You wouldn't mind that would you?

>>The affected PC had Speccy, a hardware information program, installed and Windows 10 notified me after the upgrade that the
>> software had been removed from the system because of incompatibilities.

Um. Photo's doesn't support local networking because they know the dollars come when you put yourself in the middle. Why do you think companies love cloud infrastructure? Because Data centers are fun to run? Because they want to protect people for local events? Because storage is order of mag cheaper than its ever been? *** They want to be squarely in-between people and their data. And once the data is firmly encased in the cloud, they will set up a toll booth. *** They will then modulate the terms and prices so as to exact the maximum profit over the longest term.

In what bizarro universe does it make more sense to look at your photos with TV by first sending them to a data center in North Carolina? It makes no sense. Unless you know that 75% of users will stay with a service where all their photo's are. Even through service changes, TOS changes, and price increases.

This same week we witnessed Microsoft unilaterally change their terms of service - on the Unlimited plan they sold just the week before. "By unlimited - we mean very limited." Why would you trust 'the Cloud'?

1. They could disappear tomorrow . Wikipedia lists about 40 photo sharing sites, about 18 of which are recently defunct.
2. They secure your data with "hope and good will".
3. They are unnecessary. The shortest distance between the laptop and the tv is through Cupertino and Washington
4. The terms of the agreement you make with them could not be more one sided. Essentially: we may change anything, at anytime.

Its not a question of 'design' its a question of long term profit around access to data.
As far as the Cert issue - you are being conditioned by Apple and Microsoft to let them be the gatekeeper of your personal devices. Its simple, the same way your drill calls Craftsman before it lets you put in a new drill bit. The same way your Chevy, sends a message to Detroit with your picture and gps info, every time you take a trip. The same way your fridge keeps an inventory of what you put in it, and sends that back to LG everytime you open the door. The same way the police in your town track your license plate at 12 different intersections across town, and photograph and build a map of where you've gone, storing forever. In the same way your ISP decodes all your traffic and logs it with your local government.

Its normal for your computer to verify every application you run with them. Because they know. And they know best. You should just trust them. And their ability to turn off apps from 3000 miles away is good for you and for all of us. Because those bad hackers can't defeat that process, and us good corporation would never mess up or make mistakes. And its not like you need have programs to run, or would ever need to use a program when you're offline. And if they don't want you to run it, then you shouldn't run it anyway.

You willfully accept any problems the company purposefully or accidentally imposes.

I use Cathode for the nostalgia. It can become the C-64 from my pre-teen years, or the TRS-80 from High School, or those DEC Terms from Undergrad or that VAX system over the Summer, or the Pre-X terms still left oer in the computer lab in Grad School. Its great. You can decide how curved the CRT is, how much flicker or overscan or even burn in. And the wonderful clicks and bells are still there. Something about it just says 'this is a computer' - it speaks my mother tongue in some way.. Its fun. Otherwise I use Terminal in OSX.. meh.

A quote from the article.. This smells funny: "Young's service would increase the quality, or sampling rate, of the music from 44,100 times per second in a CD (44.1KHz) to 192,000 times per second (192KHz), and will boost the bit depth from 16-bit to 24-bit." Too lazy to actually go there, but if it means convert your cruddy 16bit 44.1k music into clear 24bit 192k music.. ehhhh...