No, they’re just virtue-signaling goodness while being so closed that they can never really be trusted. Their maps will silently fall in line during the next big unrelated news cycle. Their “Find My” location spy network that tracks everything in America will then be put to task, among other evils one will never know about due to the OS and chips all being so closed to external observation.
Nebraska goes, “gol’ durn it! We want our water from the Platte River! It’s ours! We’re going to war with Colorado!”
Colorado goes, “Yeah, so water rarely makes it that far anymore, good luck, gg no re.”
New Mexico is like, “Yeah, all our Ogallala wells pump brine now.”
Reminds me, some of the worst drinking water I have had in my life came from those dust bowl states.
You ever read the water history stuff where back in the (I believe) 1950s, there was a plan to build 6 nuclear reactors to power a pump/pipe system to pipe Mississippi River water up to New Mexico? They decided against it, and decided, “eh, that water will run out in 50 or so years, we’ll let future us worry about that.” Checks calendar.
That’s dope. And factual.
Genuinely LOL’d at your post.
But, to rebuff in some joking annoying science nerd way with a bummer fact:
YOU HAVE NO OCEANS ANYMORE. You used them all up growing corn for moonshine!
“So, large regions of the Ogallala are going to run out of water, particularly in the Southern High Plains – how are we going to embrace that and not just respond to the change?”
Can Colorado slide over and join you left coast states? We’ve been doing stuff like that too, but we’re surrounded by a sea of red.
Although, if the documentary sent back in time to us entitled Hunger Games is any indication, we’ll be the capital of the new nation, so maybe we’re fine.
But then how can we refer to ourselves as a third-person locust that only has a purpose, job, and duty to spend our “infinite” wealth in a never-ending capitalist scheme of profit to assist our betters in buying a fifth yacht?
Humans, and other, more evolved animals survived the Cuban missile crisis.
Many salmon generations in 100 years.
I know this isn’t the topic here, but I really wish these researchers would unroll what all Apple harvests from Apple devices. It’s quite a lot as well. Could help pop that “we’re so private” myth.
Eh, gotta be honest though. Democrats (at the Federal level) love money. Pelosi’s latest Visa stock gambit, vaccines, etc. They use the Republicans to stay profitable. Repubs contrive a fear, Dems monetize it. Capitalists at their core. Not looking out for the People. Just wall street. Because they genuinely believe the machine is what keeps us all living our lives, and to love the machine, and why not make some scratch while you’re at it?
Their modems are crap. The primary function of a phone is to access cellular signal. No thanks.
“My new email address is [email protected]”
Done.
No explanation necessary. Just give people the new address.
(Just used icloud as a bad joke there.)
It is definitely a very American oddity, and possibly Michigan-specific as well, as each state’s laws can vary significantly. Like, Michigan let’s you know when your license is about to expire by mail. Colorado, by comparison, cares not one bit, and it is up to you to remember to renew. Colorado IDs are tied to your birthday, however, while MI is an arbitrary date at day of issue. We like to keep things so complicated in the US that nobody really ever knows what is going on. Probably by design or “freedom” or something.
Since he already has a state ID, he already has an account. So they don’t even need to stub it.
I think, and I apologize in advance if I get this wrong, the part you may not be understanding is that it seems he never had a license to operate a vehicle. The state can still charge a person with suspending driving privileges legally, however, which would then likely stop their ability to apply for a license, and be a gateway to stack further charges in the event they were caught twice.
A State ID is used to buy booze and plane tickets. A Driver’s Licence is a State ID with a driving endorsement. Above that, there are then license endorsements like CDL (semi trucks), motorcycle, limo/chauffeur above standard driver.
Different types of ID for different purposes.
No, they don’t care about privacy. It is just marketing buzz. They give Google and Facebook access to internal data for money. They give governments access to iCloud data for market share.
They then design the OS full of dark patterns to trick you into enabling iCloud. They have telemetry on every aspect of the operating system from a timeline down to the millisecond as to when and where you opened and closed browser tabs, to what application was consuming power at a given time, to where you go and what bluetooth and wifi devices you saw along the way. Metadata scrapers index the contents of your devices under the guise of making it “smart and helpful.” The health monitor is ostensibly capable of dead reckoning location tracking, and you have to jump through hoops to even shut off BTLE when the phone is off.
Their communications platforms log all sorts of metadata, (this can easily be seen by requesting a GDPR data dump) and if one believes they don’t tee every iMessage conversation off to three letter agencies and who knows where else, one would be sorely mistaken. (This, I don’t know of direct evidence of, so it is more inferred based on how the messaging technologies work and how the government(s) wouldn’t truly allow privacy to exist.)
One can’t even stop their Apple product from talking to Apple servers, as they run access to their own systems on a layer of abstraction above the user’s userspace network layer. If they so choose, they can brick your phone at a moment’s notice using their “activation” infrastructure.
Nothing they do is privacy-oriented, beyond making it slightly difficult for Johnny the bicycle thief to gain access.
All without any of the code being available for inspection.
Your Comcast at work.