> - Adopt crypto principles.
Turn a profit by pumping crappy tech to the masses?
2,382 karma · joined November 17, 2012
Turn a profit by pumping crappy tech to the masses?
- a static image
- a table of addresses with an external map link
It's not just the idea of wheeling around in some 256x256 box added at the last minute to a Contact Us page, the entire concept of an embeddable map is shit
Their main purpose seems to be to add 1 second to page loads across the web, and feed more clickstream back to the mothership
The main exception to this I can think of right now is Flightaware, but even that does not require such detailed rendering
So the anecdote itself is noise, it's intended to show how seriously intractable a problem accurate time is, but it doesn't do that, instead it only demonstrates OP's lack of familiarity with GPS and willingness to regurgitate corporate old wives' tales
It's another cute anecdote, but Google culture is full of these, always scant on details and always intended to show how big/smart/important/complex/indispensable their engineering is.
"Had to" is a strong term here, it's made to sound like USAF could not possibly have noticed some deviation they were likely to correct of their own accord as a matter of routine as they had been doing for the 20 years of the GPS project prior to Google being founded.
The reality is drift and bad clocks are and always have been a feature of GPS, one explicitly designed for, one an entire staff exists to cope with, and designs depending on the absolute accuracy of a single clock have never been correct
The real problem is likely not having armed police, after all, Northern Ireland does not suffer a 246x increase in police-attributed deaths compared to the rest of the UK, but the expectation by police that theirs live are at risk - due to the common access of regular citizens to offensive weaponry
Just give us the unredacted data otherwise we'll presume it is only being used as an instrument of propaganda, because you've already used it that way
Save the predictable accusations, I'm a British citizen depressed the BBC News site will be unreadable for another 6 months thanks to Brexit and this kind of crap
I'm ambivalent regarding Apple's stance. In principle they are doing the right thing, but in practice, it seems they may be kicking up a whole lot of fuss over a relatively minor issue (with the exception that providing an easy means to brute force a phone to the authorities sets a horrible precedent). As for creating a universal backdoor, it seems highly unlikely they couldn't produce a signed OS / coprocessor firmware image that wasn't locked to one of the various serial numbers associated with this particular device
edit: as mentioned below, this order entirely originates with Apple's use of DRM to prevent software modification. Had users actual control over the devices they own the FBI wouldn't need to request a signed firmware in the first place. Please think twice about what Apple might really be defending here before downvoting
> I will use [a language with mandatory garbage collection]
I lol'd
I could go on.
And despite all that, they're priced as if they're in some way equivalent to the real deal. I've tried and failed to make the jump via Kindle and Kobo, and until such times as pricing on the major stores reflects the eBook's status as an inferior, vastly cheaper to produce knockoff of the real deal, I won't be tempted to buy any more ebooks (the price difference should be closer to 50%, not 15%)
Another aspect as an IT guy is that my ability to relax and focus when holding a computer is vastly reduced over a paper book. The limitations of paper books in that sense are actually a feature. I can't search, bookmark (without folding a paper page corner), 'browse', play with some half-baked eInk web browser, switch book etc., all of which are real focus problems I suffer from.
You might want to try putting it behind a CDN to cope with the load
Certainly beats them taking Adobe money (or cash equivalents) to bundle Flash, which is exactly what Chrome does (faster security updates blah blah yes I know, but a better extension update mechanism could work just as well)