Ok fountain and venice are not going to save anybody from the free ways. People know about side streets, they're not really that much help. This problem isn't going away just like the cities revenue problem which is the only reason this is happening.
The problem is in LA, traffic blows. Not only blows, its becoming a liability costing productivity. If money is taken for this, money can be used for something else promoting less traffic. It isn't about taking money at this stage, I think that it way oversimplified. IMO LA is fubar in terms of traffic which is just one of the reasons I work remotely even though I'm 20 minutes away without traffic, meaning its fricken 2 am in the morning on a tuesday type traffic.
So funny to read some of the marketing folks in this thread writing their stories and tooting their horns. Oh wow, I actually read "marketing is way harder than coding" I learn new things every day.
Does anybody see through these PR plays? They've unlocked many phones in the past for the government, they're protecting their technology and using the moral issue to look good at a time when they're still majorly losing their way. To me this looks like governmental appeasement. Shutting down Snowden and other's methods of private communications is a fantastic gift to the government who doesn't want more of that type of scrutiny and people talking about the NSA badly, there's already enough thinking they're a major problem. What perfect a guise to get it done under another companies name that also happens to be having a great PR week on the back of data they gave up or are going to give up anyway, they always knew that. I wish more people would think for themselves or at least consider why the script might not be reality. They hired him! What happened is a formerly non corporate secure, private form of communication is now... who knows what. Maybe the government just figured out how to deal with the next Lavabit and not deal with more backlash. Nobody trusts them right now, everybody seems to love this Apple letter PR play.
>They've unlocked many phones in the past for the government
I do not really see why this is always brought up. Ofcourse they unlocked phones in the past, they had a master password, they could not legally refuse to do it. There was no legal way for them to resist such actions by the government
Do you understand the difference between the security model today, and previous versions of the iPhone?
Further I do believe there is a Fundamental Difference between Apple run by Steve Jobs, and Apple run by Tim Cook in how they view government. This is why your seeing Apple shift its technology to resist government agents as well as more "traditional" threats
//For the Record, I hate apples business model, and their Walled Garden Ecosystem. I will never own a iPhone because of that, however this on going theme of "well they unlocked it in the past" is just technological ignorance that need to be put down.
What do you mean by hating their business model? Genuinely curious. I don't like Google collecting and selling my personal data so I don't use their products. What is your reasoning for "hating" Apple's model? Seems pretty identical to other companies except they don't collect and sell user data.
I preferred when the software didn't suck and got out of the way. I preferred when they built truly world glass hardware with out of this world materials. I'll keep all the downvotes fuckers, no prob.
How can you possibly be so cynical that you think this? Be an Apple hater all you want, but your comment is just silly. If Apple has "unlocked many phones for the government" before, why does the government have so many they want unlocked? A warrant canary can't "look to you" like it died. It did or it did not, and it most definitely did not. You're blowing this almost as far out of proportion as the article. Where is your proof for all these prior phones they unlocked??
Yes, this could be all smoke and mirrors and Apple is already in bed with the USG and they just playing us and taking us for suckers but setting all these legitimate concerns aside and assuming that this whole controversy is legit, I think Apple's position is vulnerable given their tax policies and hoarding cash reserves in offshore subsidiaries and holding the repatriation of these funds to the US.
I think that the USG could really twist Apple's arm and take them to courts over trumped up tax evasion charges and force Apple to cooperate with them on that FBI issue.
Let's just wait to see how this interesting story evolves and concludes before passing judgements very early.
While I agree that closed-source privacy protection isn't trustable, and therefore isn't sufficient, that doesn't mean that Apple doesn't intend to protect APple customers.
There's a big difference between not going far enough and deliberate deception on this topic. There are also multiple stages to the battle for privacy, and most technology products and services are relatively far behind Apple in that progression.
Not sure if I believe that Apple acqui-hiring this developer was a concession for the bad press they've been giving the government lately. It was his choice to work for Apple; I'm going to guess that they didn't coerce him into taking this deal.
Skype on linux is akin to taking fertility drugs on birth control. It's super dumb and always feels dirty for no reason. It installs 127 packages and then removes only 112, leaving me saying I knew this was a mistake so that I could waste 15 minutes with TopTal because they can't get on a hangout. Skype is owned by the original nerd's evil empire what do you expect. Never should have tainted my system...
It's funny to see amongst all the stock market rout how companies that are (now) subservient to the markets have to react to a down market caused by other bullshit than journalism. The lesson here is Wired, stay true, don't fucking sell to Conde Nast and remain TRULY independent like real journalists should so you don't have to fucking suck dick for money when the big old bullshit tech bubble starts to burst.
