roake

cpsro said:

lkrupp said:

They want gun control as if that would change anything and the 2nd Amendment is blocking those efforts.

The 2nd Amendment supports gun control--gun control far beyond what we have in the U.S.A. Its text is but one sentence in length:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
That was written roughly 150 years before assault rifles and high capacity magazines appeared.

Gun control would change a lot, as evidenced by every other developed country that doesn't have the problems we do. (Of course the extensive racism in the U.S.A. doesn't help either). But 60% of gun-related deaths in the U.S.A. were suicides, with the vast majority white males.

Don't let the NRA or right-wing talk radio pervert the meaning of the 2nd Amendment.

The purpose of allowing the average citizen to bear arms is protection against a tyrannical government, such as the country the Founders split from - Britain - the same country that is now banning knives.  The Founder realized that any government that has absolute power over the citizens is doomed to corruption and oppression of those citizens.  The people have the right to bear arms, not just the militia.  The militia is voluntary, not conscripted.  The militia was formed of the citizens, all of which carried that constitutional right.  Without the citizens being armed and familiar with the arms, the militia could not have existed.  Now, just because we have a more organized volunteer military, we don’t get to remove the constitutional right for all citizens to bear arms.  

Don’t let the “socialists” or left-wing talk radio pervert the meaning of the 2nd Amendment.

86hawkeye said:

On one hand I can see the "inherently testimonial" argument on this.

On the other hand, how is a warrant to unlock a device via Face ID or Touch ID different than a warrant to allow police into your house to search for something?

A phone has a great deal of private communication that would not be recorded in any fashion in the old fashion legal searches of homes.  We use a phone to store intimate details that we would have never considered placing in a file cabinet or even a safe.  We just aren’t wired to do that.  With regard to storage of personal info, smartphones are something different than existed previously, with no practical analog equivalent.  Police are looking to open the phone of a suspect to go on a fishing expedition.  

Every major case of attempted phone decryption that has garnered nationwide attention is one where the major crime has already been committed and the suspect is usually dead.  They are attempting to use these cases to somehow make standard the ability to go on their fishing trip through any small-time suspect’s personal data.

Get arrested for DUI?  Now the police get to read all your emails and texts, browse your contacts, set up endless webs of associates that would entangle no end of completely innocent people after taking the contact connects a couple of levels deep.  In addition to the DUI, they trip over evidence of multiple of small-time crimes such as evidence of torrent sites or access to an illegal movie-viewing site.  Your racially insensitive joke you messaged one of your old friends offends the Jury.  Now, instead of getting your license suspended for the DUI, you are going to prison for 10 years for demonstrating a pattern of repeated crimes, however small they would be on their own.  All of the contacts on your phone are now on the police’s radar.  If a person shows up on the contact list for two or three of these “repeat-offenders,” than that person gets investigated due to suspect likelihood of similar illegal behavior.

...when the original charge is a DUI.  Serious, yes.  But the other aspects of the case should have been unrelated.

GeorgeBMac said:

Oh, calm down....
So, CNBC reported an analyst's remarks who dished on Apple.   That's their job -- report what analyst's are saying and thinking. 

These are opinions.  Instead of getting all in a huff, treat them as such.  From my experience, the vast majority of articles from CNBC are favorable to Apple.  
We have come to think that every media outlet is a FauxNews or MSNBC spinning some agenda.

Expect to hear a LOT more trashing of Apple by experts, pundits and analysts in a couple weeks after Apple holds its annual September debacle extravaganza.   Yes, Apple will do a great job -- but they will not meet expectations -- they never do.  But, not because they didn't do a great job but because they didn't meet those expectations.  And the experts, pundits and analysts will be out in force reporting the 'failure' and, yes, the media will report what they say.   Deal with it!

I’m not convinced you understood anything this article said.

AliveCor got greedy.  They started requiring you to pay a subscription to see the previous EKG’s that you had stored in your own memory on your own device. That kind of greed is always the beginning of the end.  Then Karma killed them.

StrangeDays said:

roake said:

I have purchased a new iPhone every year since 2007.  This time, though, none of the rumors include a compelling reason to upgrade.  Hopefully, Apple has a surprise or two in store for us.

Incremental, iterative iPhone improvements aren’t designed to make people upgrade every single year. Normal people don’t do that. Phone nerds like us may, but that isn’t how most people spend. The idea with iterative development is when you do upgrade, it will be much better than the model several past. That’s how we get from there to here. 

I agree with everything you said.  However, up until last year, the upgrades were still pretty exciting, to me at least.  I did upgrade last year, but that’s the first time it felt, “bleh.”  This year, I find myself hoping that we will see an exciting new feature from the camera other than just adding an additional lens to slightly improve the photo.  I would love to see time-of-flight mediated 3D photographs.

They have occasionally kept something a complete surprise, like the 64-bit processors, Metal, etc.  Hopefully, there is something like that that hasn’t already leaked.