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mtriviso said:

Sigh. Just open the movie theaters. There's nothing like watching a movie in a massive IMAX 3D theater. If people are frightened they might get the rona, then just stay at home. Please, just let the rest of us who are unafraid enjoy what our acting troupes have to offer in the milieu to which we have become accustomed. 

Frightened? Maybe informed. My grandparents and parents were WWI and WWII generations. And I'm a boomer pre-vaccine and pre-antibiotics. We know disease and pandemics first hand. 

In reviewing census data for genealogy I would run across families asked how many children did you have? 14. How many still living? 4. My grandparents lost young siblings  and cousins to disease. STDs were a big problem among girls and guys in uniform stateside during WWII -- my mother's job was to help treat them. So was TB -- sanitariums built across the nation to confine them. Nobody thought it was bravery to not care if you came down with these diseases. Certainly, there was sympathy sometimes, but getting sick and not pulling your weight was morally reprehensible. 

Being brave by ignoring a disease. My father's WWII diary mentions some other GI's getting sick -- great way to stay behind for some R&R while others did the fighting for you. Malingering was a problem and pissed off others pulling their weight. 

And I had the pleasure of contracting polio during the 50's epidemic. It was no fun. 

So, coming down with Covid-19 when you are fortunate enough to be able to take precautions is really morally reprehensible -- not willing to pull your weight. 

No amount of harm can ever come from not being able to play a video game.

But does a return to the office makes sense from a productivity perspective? For most employees, in the office is nothing more than a proxy for are you working -- and a poor one at that. 

If you can't afford $99 developer fee, you're not in the business of making a profit. At best, you have a hobby not a profession.

I see another consumer product from Apple -- Apple Wallet wallet -- for only $169.95

dysamoria said:

auxio said:

cornchip said:

I'm not that knowledgeable in OS code engineering, but I understand it at a basic level so I get that it's possible, yet on another level, I don't get why this kind of stuff should be allowed to happen. Seems like anything out of the ordinary should just automatically be shut down. Which I guess the OS architects have made every attempt to ensure, and is what the hackers are constantly attempting to circumvent. So I guess this stuff will just always happen. At least in my lifetime.

The tricky part with iMessage is that they need to allow all sorts of things to be put into messages: text, emoji, images, videos, etc.  Which allows for many different avenues of attack using things which look like legitimate messages, but are really executable code in disguise.

But why are our CPUs executing that errant code? A CPU has no mechanism to separate executable code that was initiated with intent from that which was passed through an overflow, etc?

There is no difference between executable code and data -- that is the nature of Von Neumann machines. Executable code is just data ... until something called an interpreter (for that data) looks at the data and treats it as commands to execute. Everything above the hardware level is just a sequence of 0's and 1's. Every interpreter will try to make sense of that sequence in its own way. Maybe that sequence represents a book, but it isn't unless the book interpreter is told to interpret it, and then that "book" is really executable code which the book interpreter "executes" to render on your device. 

Of course, the interpreter is just data until another interpreter is told to interpret that data as a sequence of commands to execute. The CPU is just another interpreter, and because most CPU's are actually micro-coded, there is another interpreter within the CPU which executes the micro-code data and treat that data as commands. Things finally do happen because this recursion does terminate (it's not an infinite regress), but the number of levels of interpretation is quite large. 

I know neurosurgeons who perform robotic surgery. One of them is my doctor. Quite complex. The equipment they use contain cameras that peer into the brain, eye pieces that enlarge the camera images, robotic arms that hold and manipulate the scalpels, foot pedals and a mouth pieces controlling different aspects of the robotic assembly. 

I had no idea until my doctor and other of his colleagues gave lectures with surgical videos to a broad audience of patients and families of patients. 

Can the Vision Pro support such activities? I'll let the medical technologists make that decision. It's certainly not beyond the possibility. 

This is an issue? Seems like Apple’s privacy statement is perfectly compatible with what is claimed Apple is doing.

Apple never said they were building a car.