I've seen very apolitical people do a buy nothing for kids stuff. I called it the great chain of baby stuff. Just last week a coworker dropped off some diapers that their kid grew out of at another coworkers desk who could use them. Cribs, toys, clothes, handed from one family to another. I've seen a crib go to three different families.
They don't have the membrane because they don't need it. With the old keyboards, any spec of dust would cause them to stick. That means these are back to the original, non-fragile keyboards with good travel.
It there is anyone who can recover those files to a modern readable format, even if only in an emulator, it's him. Also, if you have any old Apple II, C64, or other vintage floppies, he's love to archive them. He's always up for copying....that floppy.
This will give the techies a reason to give to their bosses to pay off that technical debt that has accrued with these systems. Every system that uses outdated websites will need to upgrade. And they will have two years to do it. It makes the argument go from the nebulous "it will make us safer" to the concrete "things will not work".
And yes, it's a heavy handed way, but the fact there are "There are still some essential government, military and corporate websites relying on these protocols that will not be updated any time soon" shows the soft touch isn't working.
Anything that gets large enough to matter will have to deal with false copyright claims and censoring content bullshit, without the help of the Google legal department. Your future is a future of hosts constantly disappearing, due to copyright claims, child pornography, and not wanting to deal with the bullshit drama of running a server anymore. With a couple of surviving, but being way locked down and moderated. 21st century phpbb message boards, ephemeral as hell.
Not to say I don't approve of the software. A self hosting video platform that doesn't die at the first viral video is a powerful thing. But Youtube is Youtube because of network effects and monetization, not technology.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/10/what-businessweek-got...
Finally, in response to questions we have received from other news organizations since Businessweek published its story, we are not under any kind of gag order or other confidentiality obligations.
If you compare the article, the main takeaway is that Apple seems to be starting to use some of the improvements that Google has been adding to their map program the last several years.
-Satellite imagery to generate build footprints.
-Lots of human intervention
-Land based car imagery
Sadly, where I lived summers usually brought the mother of all high pressure zones, which meant WHAT BREEZE?!!!! Much of the American south has the hottest, most humid type of the year matched with only the dream of wind.
The first time I went to the desert I was amazed at how much you can change the climate without a hermetically enclosed environment. Fans work! Shade works! Blowing air over water works! Ice wrapped in a towel works!
You can make 115 feel tolerable with very little electricity or effort. THAT'S CHEATING!
They work much better in dry climates that cool down massively at night, and require that digging that far into the ground doesn't make you hit the water table.
Evaporative cooling plus the fact it freezes at night, and they have a system for transferring melted run off to the outside to refreeze.
Being originally from a hot, HUMID climate, I find these articles so exasperating. It can get to 85 degrees at night where I was born. So thanks, thanks for the mystic knowledge of the ancients, but it's central and a fridgedair for me.
Half the articles are trying to stop people from using cooling compressors, and discuss the limitations in passing.
If they have positional data they could do a correlation of location speed, along time time of week. If they constantly see you going to the same places on the weekends, that might be a clue, especially if in close proximity. Especially if traveling at the exact same high speed in close proximity (Driving there). GPS, at the high range, can tell location within meters.
And none of this would have to happen while you were talking about cars, or anything else. Just enough times to make the correlation, and with data that could have been collected months to years ago. Google Now did that for my commute from work to home.
I think it is more likely Facebook is using location data to create edges on a shadow social network. We just bleed metadata.
My biggest issue as well. People seem to be drawn to creating a DSL for their problem set, and then programming in that. I've thought of Go as the Anti Lisp, in that there will be NONE OF THOSE SHENANIGANS LIKE THAT HERE. I think that's why Go draws so much vehemence. It's the "No fun allowed" of computer languages.