Well that's just "good business." You pump up stock for the quarter so half of the board can cash out on inflated revenue figures. Who cares about "long term viability?" Get in, fire everyone, raise prices, kill R&D. PROFIT.

Remember when the film War Games came out? Half the audience were enamored, "COMPUTERS!" The other half grumbled "turn off the modem." I think we at the same threshold. The solution to your AI servant? Turn off the computer. You might have a more productive meeting.

Does this kind of anti-Apple click bait still work? There was an argument about the Mac, and some for the iPhone, but EAR PODS? Who the fuck repairs ear pods?

Upcoming? The iPhone 16e was released last year. These are schematics for a phone that has been out for a year.

The problem with this document's release is that it's technical information that was supposed to be kept confidential forever.

I'm assuming this is just an error on the FCC's part, and that they automatically released it after a year. Though with the current administration, Hanlon's razor is getting harder and harder to apply.

I've seen languages come and go. At college it was Pascal, which led to a job using Fortran, which led to another job using C, and then my career took a left turn to system/network admin. The point is, Python has been preferred teaching language at universities for, what, a decade now. A vote for Python is NOT a vote AGAINST perl. The vast majority of coders, developers, architects HAVE NEVER USED PERL. Projects will be based around Python because it's best sell in the corporate environment. So of course perl's low on the list. That being said, yeah, my last coding project was in Perl, where I replaced a $100k Infosystem Java project with a week of part time perl coding. Anything with strings, oh, databases, web sites, application integration, are ALL DONE BETTER ON PERL. Sorry, I know the flames heading my way, because people don't want to be proven wrong. Anything to keep the reality distortion Python base happy. Hell, I'd bring back Fortran if I could. Still better than Python. I'll give a nod to C. It's excellent for code where speed is needed. Ever worked in a development environment where one coder optimized apps by dumping the executable to assembly and look for the unused loops? No. You just worked with Python and all the warm fuzzies. I say if you are in a Python asylum, see where you can replace a page of type matching and string to integer spaghetti with a couple of lines for perl hashes. Drive them crazy.

We need to implement a full stop on any data that is less than about a year old. EVERYTHING after that is suspect. Flag it in red, so even the "casuals" can see that it's not verified. I know, how do you do that? No idea. But I'm sure people will want to throw AI at finding the AI fakes. And that will work really well

The Golden Age of television was the 40s and 50s. It's been over for about 70 years.

Americans HAVE SAID THAT THEY have been placing less importance on the value of a college education over the past 15 years, to the point that about a third (35%) now rate it as "very important." Forty percent think it is "fairly important," while 24% say it is "not too important."

No survey ever tells you what anyone believes. It only tells you what they SAY about the subject. It's an important distinction, and makes the survey even more damning.

Not too long. It's defense in depth; it's not meant to be outright impenetrable, just very (very) hard to get through.

Someone with enough drive, enough time, and enough resources will eventually put together an exploit chain that doesn't require an invalid tagged memory access. But if that raises the manpower requirement by 10-fold (to pull a number out of my ass), then it makes it that much more expensive to attack a phone. At some point, the Apple juice won't be worth the squeeze.

Given these changes, how does developer identification work? Is there even dev identification at this point?

My understanding is that Microsoft followed Apple for the same reason: a financial trail allows the stores to better authenticate that a developer is who they say they are, and conversely, it makes it harder for bad actors to get into the store. If Microsoft is no longer charging, do they still have an effective means to ID devs and to screen out fakes?

The original post seems to imply that this is something new. It's been going on since I've been able to understand language, and it's called signal to noise. Back in the 70s (and I guarantee through all history) we were inundated with a false narrative. By the time I got to college, I realized how much "history" is, as they say, written by the victors, at a profound level. Our history books are filled with names and dates around "great events," like wars, technology, governments. Well, what about the other 99% of the time? Aren't these the aberrations in history, and the times with peace and productivity and growth the real story?

So nothing new here. People respond to the history they WANT to hear, not the truth. Not what really went down. It's every time some histories tells you what someone BELIEVED, when it really is just what the are recording saying. In the US we are at a nadir of misinformation. But the messages and the techniques and the lies are the same as always. History is hard. Propaganda is oh so fucking easy. That's why it is so important that critical thinkers are in the driving seat, and not thrown off the bus. If it means moving to a new home 6000 miles away, then DO THAT. Do whatever we need to do to keep history as true as we can make it.

That just means Google is now operating in exactly the same manner that Microsoft used to be when they had dominance over consumer device operating systems. Google now has dominance in the mobile market with Android, and is using that to shove Chrome down people's throats. Personally, the first thing I do with any new phone is download Firefox, just like I did (and still do) with new computers. As the statistics show, though, the vast majority of people don't bother to do that so whatever is the default is what they use. The right and fair thing to do would be to stop them from abusing their monopoly power by offering a choice of browsers at time of install, and not favor their own browser in any way. That would have been the thing to force MS to do as well back when they were being sued for abuse of monopoly power after taking down Netscape with the same tactic. Unfortunately, it didn't happen then and it isn't happening now either. So, Google will continue to dominate the market unless and until some other highly disruptive technology comes along to unseat the current smartphone market and gives another player a chance to enter and eventually dominate the market in a similar fashion.

Please quit pretending that this is a "stake" in the company. It's simply handing the billionaires yet more to stick in their pockets. Well, you might say, that the money trail goes right into R&D, or building a new factory, so how is this a typical Republican hand out? Look at any state lottery. Here in Illinois they justified the lottery by saying that all the money will go to education, and then cancelled all other existent funding. Same here. The execs will give themselves more billion bonus tied "directly to performance" or some other BS. This is a blatant, criminal shuffling of tax payer dollars into Swiss band accounts.

Yet again Apple is caught red handed forcing people to buy new phones by throttling performance. Oh, wait. Apple doesn't do that. Google does. Well it's OK then.

What about those NFTs? How are those working out for you?