Given old inventory, you can lose more than 2 years. For example, the chromebit CS10 got a design award in 2015 and can still found on asus' website with a link for where to buy.. About 1 year of support remaining.
I think a weight loss factor could be added to legal antibiotics to remove the benefits of their overuse.. Caffeinated cows on a rampage might correct the industry.
Suppose racism, discrimination and bullying by the general public were the dominant cause of recidivism.. Would it make sense to allow people from the majority regularly do 3 month sentences and keep members of any minority group indefinitely on their first incident?
Windows is not over? I see Microsoft as similar to IBM now. They will make a lot of money from their Rolodex, possibly more than they ever made before, but they no longer own a relevant platform someone would write new software for.
Perhaps I wasn't clear enough, when a platform is dying its owner:
1. Tries to capture all profit from the edges.
2. Extracts value "unreasonably" both to grab what they still can and to create an explanation for the death. This could be high fees, ads, or extraction of market intelligence.
3. Begins embracing the new platform with compatibility layers.
4. Starts making 2 offers on everything. One with their legacy and one with the rising platforms.
5. Treats their nonfounding CEO as significant and someone to listen to.
Plenty of companies make this transition successfully (I chose IBM as the example) and make huge profits from not having to charge uniform prices across the entire market. But the discussion was the windows platform being replaced by Linux, not Microsoft profits.
Are you aware of IBM in the enterprise software industry? They manage to do almost all of that with their own software and open source rebundled.. No OS/2, almost no 3rd party programmers who are interested in their platform.
That is the future of Microsoft and the non-future of Windows.
A framework I wanted to trial provided VB VMs instead of containers, definitely made me stop for a bit and think if I wanted to use VB (ended up using it anyway).
A portion of the population works in fields like psych where there is standard advice to use unlisted phone numbers to deter stalkers. Given 10 tenants, it is likely one has a good reason to make it harder to picture where they live.
Yes, the intended recipient sentence probably wouldn't be an email if LinkedIn was sending it to an existing account..
But I do think sending unsolicited emails in this fashion is illegal anyway in many places. I always found their attempt to get around this with a specific sender interesting, but I doubt it is universally legal.
I'm pleased that they at least required either a transaction or a warrant. How would they verify that police and the owner are legitimately making the request?
Yeah, I can see the estranged, violent stalker using this feature to find the location of a victim.
So, if your car has the potential of manufacturer tracking, you really need to make sure that any estranged partners cannot activate the feature. I wonder if shelters have some list of cars that can be tracked?
I agree. And am glad they're not handing over personal info without a warrant.
That said, it's easy enough to look up a police departments phone number and call back, should one want to verify they're actually taking to the police. It's not a problem of verifying identity.
> it's easy enough to look up a police departments phone number and call back, should one want to verify they're actually taking to the police
This requires staff, training and monitoring to prevent abuse. When done, it introduces liability. It's reasonable to ask to be compensated for all that.
Complying with police and/or court orders is a cost of doing business. If your business subjects you to that beyond a trivial amount, the cost needs to be otherwise built-in to your business plan.
Especially if you're a multi-billion dollar conglomerate. They can't exactly claim ignorance like a start-up might.
Option 1: comply with LE+owner's request; they have a chance to recover vehicle; costs are low and bad PR is avoided.
Option 2: don't comply with LE+owner's request; deal with later warrant at higher cost (now you have compliance & legal involved); vehicle is not recovered, bad PR is obtained, and everyone loses.
> Option 1: comply with LE+owner's request; they have a chance to recover vehicle; costs are low and bad PR is avoided
Consequence 1b: you released tracking information to a stalker. They fooled your rep into thinking police were involved. Not only do you have a PR nightmare, you've also opened yourself up to legal liability.
I'm not arguing this is the right balance. Finding that balance depends on branding, legal and financial factors. But it's not an unreasonable position.
> They fooled your rep into thinking police were involved.
This is why you have policy for appropriate response and organizational escalation in place if necessary. Not hard to contact the department in question via another directory and verify the request.
Not giving data to police without a warrant who have a story about the owner is competence.
There are a significant number of frauds committed by police (using official resources to stalk, bully, or sell information) and they are caught and prosecuted only when people don't help them bypass things the system can reasonably audit.
Yeah, I think their fundamental error was making a definitive way to join a future airdrop.
They should have just given coins to existing active keybase users. They would have had healthy increase in users based on regret and fear of missing out again.
Personally, I'm happy to lose the data. I found it odd that with both phones and the SIM on the desk in front of me, I couldn't figure out how/if I could vouch for my key changing in any way.
Needing to say I have a new phone just trust me largely defeats the purpose.
If you are on an Android device you can export an encrypted backup and scan a QR code / type in the password to the encrypted archive to transfer messages / group memberships with only a safety number change in most cases.
I think that's the opposite of what I want? I want to inform people of the new safety number using the old channel and purge all data like a good user.
In this respect a keybase like model makes more sense to me.
Two small corrections: Signal-Android's backup works with a passphrase only (no QR codes involved) and does not cause safety number changes on restore.
