I think it's more to do with the overall company strategy.
As phones have matured as a product people have stopped buying them at the same pace as in early years. And so to counteract this Apple has gone heavily into services, accessories etc.
So just as Apple has increased OS support periods for phones they are much happier now for people to fix their phone and stay in the ecosystem than switch to Android.
> CLAIM: The newest Israeli data on COVID-19 infections indicate a complete vaccine failure on every level. The data from Israel shows that nearly all serious cases and deaths are among the vaccinated.
> AP’S ASSESSMENT: Missing context. The claim ignores the fact that Israel has only a fraction of the COVID-19 cases that it had in January, before vaccines were widespread. Furthermore, the majority of adults in Israel are now vaccinated with two Pfizer shots. No vaccine is perfect at preventing breakthrough cases, but the data shows vaccines are reducing the number of people who are severely ill, hospitalized or die from the virus.
> So far, the CDC has collected and tested more than 100 samples of products, soil, and water from the four patients' homes, but none has turned up positive for B. pseudomallei. The agency noted that tracking down a source of B. pseudomallei can sometimes be difficult as the bacteria can take two to three weeks to develop into an infection, broadening the window of possible exposure times and testing patients' memories.
> Drivers can contact Vertafore to see if their information was hacked by calling 888-479-3560.
We have to call you to find out if you leaked our information? That's some idiotic logic right there. I didn't call you to put my information in your systems, I shouldn't have to call you to find out if you lost it.
> "The department only allows outside use of information for reasons found in Transportation Code Chapter 730 and the Federal Drivers Privacy Protection Act. These laws permit, and at times require, the release of motor vehicle records to authorized parties."
Texas should pass a law requiring any companies who become 'authorized parties' to proactively respond in case of a breach by sending registered letters to everyone affected, telling them how to sign up for the credit monitoring they're entitled to.
DMVs sell just about everything, using fairly standardized contract models that the association of DMVs coordinates,
In some states, it’s illegal for DMV to give other agencies, say a tax department, most information, so the other entity buys the data from a broker. Similar to the contracts with companies like LexisNexis and Thompson where the government needs to pay for a subscription to access its own laws.
Someone didn't read the article. To be honest however one shouldn't have to read an article for common sense.
>Driver's license numbers, names, birthdates, addresses, and vehicle registration information were stolen for nearly 28 million Texas drivers who received a license before February of 2019.
"There's a lot an identity thief can do with this information. They can try to create a new account and they can try to prove they are you when they're logging in to an existing account," said James Lee with the Identity Theft Resource Center.<
No idea about you, but I don't make any of that info public.
What I want has nothing to do with it. They got my data without my input or approval and lost said info. The onus to make this right is on them, thus the recommendation to freeze credit and one free year of credit monitoring.
Did you say the same for the equifax breach?
You thinking the information being public, complete and in a searchable format is nothing big doesn't lessen the very real impacton literally millions of people.
It has everything to do with it because you are imagining a harm that doesn’t exist. Then you complaining about it with your head in the sand. I say this as somebody who lives in Texas, a supposed victim.
> The 2017 report includes two categories for AT&T, one for its oldest DSL technology and another for its DSL-based IP broadband with speeds of up to 45Mbps. [...] The 2018 report only includes AT&T's IP broadband category, leaving out the company's worst results.
I had the same issue with it playing episodes in an awkward order because I wanted it to show me the episodes in "most-recent-first" order, but I wanted it to play in the reverse order. I got around it by creating smart playlists - I have some that are each for a single show, and I have a "back catalog" playlist for a group of podcasts where I'm catching up on older episodes, and it interweaves them all together based on their chronological release dates, so that if there's news that each one discusses, they generally get played back-to-back.
I've never had a problem with it not deleting episodes, so I can't help you there.
I think anyone who's used Siri would debate you about the "as capable as the others" part of your statement. Not to mention that when it was announced, several of its features were tied to the introduction of AirPlay 2, which still has yet to be released.
People keep saying this like he's the person who chose Pai. The way these commissions work is:
- it's staffed by members of each party
- each party's leaders (typically in the Senate) choose the people who will be appointed
- the President typically rubber-stamps those appointments
- the President at the time really only gets to choose which member of the commission is the Chairman
So if you want to blame someone for Pai, you should be blaming Senator McConnell for telling President Obama "here's the Republican we want you to put on the commission".
Not disagreeing with you - I'm taking issue with the parent poster who wanted to blame this on trump. There's plenty of blame to go around in our government, but it doesn't all fall on Trump (as the post I replied to implied)
Not sure who you include in "your generation", but I'm 37 and I just spent the last 4 months or so watching a Super Metroid double-elimination tournament and enjoyed every minute of it. It also re-introduced me to several speedrunners in the community and I'm now a regular watcher and occasional streamer on Twitch.
Let's just say that by "My Generation", I meant that I'm roughly as old as the Who song of that name...
And I did not mean my remark in a normative way. I watch all sorts of sports, I play all sorts of video games, and I have occasionally enjoyed watching Machinima. I don't consider these activities morally superior to watching e-sports or other forms of video game streaming, I just don't see any personal appeal whatsoever in the latter.
I don't think it's a generational thing, I know plenty of older fans of the eSport I follow (Age of Empires 2). There are way more younger fans / players, of course, but that's true of anything about video games.
In many ways, eSports are way better IMO than the traditional sports I watch: the players are more relatable, the casting is more interactive, the broadcasts are more available, the games are strategically much deeper.
Sounds like an update to federal law is in order, at the very least tying that number to inflation (or perhaps to corporate profits?).