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Gizmodo always does that. The links all revert to their home page like the fucken inbred assholes that they are.

Remove the "#!" part.

http://gizmodo.com/5787176/this-is-the-moon-and-the-earth-like-you-have-never-seen-them-before

http://uk.gizmodo.com/5787176/this-is-the-moon-and-the-earth-like-you-have-never-seen-them-before

The one linked in TFS seemed to take me to the front page with adverts. The above link goes straight to the article.

Erm - right. By the time signal is going through an audio cable, it's past the digital-to-analog converter and so is - wait for it - analog. So anything that made a difference in "the world of analog" should still make a difference.

But gold makes no difference. Get your cable fat enough, and get it nice and cheap and made of copper. The stuff for wiring up electric ovens is probably heavier gauge than needed, but cheap enough you can afford to over-engineer.

http://www.roger-russell.com/wire/wire.htm

http://gizmodo.com/?_escaped_fragment_=305549/james-randi-offers-1-million-if-audiophiles-can-prove-7250-speaker-cables-are-better#!305549/james-randi-offers-1-million-if-audiophiles-can-prove-7250-speaker-cables-are-better

I still wish Microsoft would had released Courier. It would be a perfect tablet, especially for reading ebooks.

If all your phones use excess data that's completely out of the ordinary for a properly designed app, it's effectively DDOSing the network.

http://gizmodo.com/#!5668601/how-an-android-app-brought-down-t+mobile-for-an-entire-city

*snip*

I don't want anyone to forget their illegal warrantless wiretapping and the massive lobbying effort get themselves retroactive immunity for their cooperation over the illegal spying on you.

Thank You for reminding everyone. I was gonna do that till I saw your post.

Or, F-22, Typhoon, Su-33 - I fly so high those barrages of explosives can't reach me.

SR-71 - I'll just outrun a barrage of explosives.
http://gizmodo.com/#!5511236/the-thrill-of-flying-the-sr+71-blackbird

The pilot referes to going well over Mach 3.5, thats damned fast

GSM is only great when you can buy an unlocked phone, choose a provider and pop in a SIM, then change on a whim while paying lower monthly prices due to the lack of a subsidy.

T-Mobile will give you the code to unlock your phone on request for customers of 3 months or more (I believe).

ATT will not.

I don't want anyone to forget their illegal warrantless wiretapping and the massive lobbying effort get themselves retroactive immunity for their cooperation over the illegal spying on you.

1 second was just the median, not actuals, and since the average wasn't given you cannot compute the expected load time.

Cool thing is, when Apple does that, EVERY iOS device

In case of emergency, keep drinking your kool-aid. http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/139721/ios-43-leaves-iphone-3g-owners-exposed http://gizmodo.com/#!5512610/original-iphones-3g-cant-fully-upgrade-to-iphone-os-4

I note that you conveniently hacked off the end of the sentence, where I CONTINUED "that can run the updated code..."

But what else would I expect from an AC?

They are infinitely recyclable and bio degradable, and already in use in some fashion; and improvements keep coming everyday - these materials are not any more difficult to produce and do not take more energy to create - let alone how easy they are to source...

http://gizmodo.com/#!5490624/ibm-develops-infinitely-recyclable-plant+based-plastic
It a major improvement over petroleum plastics -

Moreover - how about 'dem, plant based cleaners - way better than their petroleum counterparts - and I think the same FUD was thrown at them as well.

I wouldn't defend WiMAX so strongly. We're all going to be on LTE eventually, even Sprint.

i doubt that. its just the massive hype generation that propels shitty products like ipad, iphone to heights that they currently are at.

So if the iPad is shitty....

What does that say about the top of the line Android tablet?

http://gizmodo.com/#!5781376/ipad-2-benchmarks-way-better-than-the-xoom-kills-the-original-ipad

http://thegadgets.net/feature/ipad-2-with-ios-4-3-beats-motorola-xoom-in-javascript-benchmark-tests/

http://gizmodo.com/#!5781040/see-the-japans-massive-underwater-earthquake-ripple-across-the-world -- Watch the video on this page, it might provide a little insight into how the waves travel. I didn't understand why Los Angeles wasn't given a more serious warning until I watched it. (I'm extra surprised that they were able to tell in advance that would happen...)

Here is a proper one! http://uk.gizmodo.com/5778006/the-house-from-up-has-been-built-in-real-lifeand-it-flies

Yep http://gizmodo.com/#!5778453/captain-kirk-awakes-discovery-crew-for-the-last-time

But then part of the allure of the Android Market is that it's open; you don't have to play by Google's rules, per se, to get on there like you do with Apple's App Store.

This might be true with respect to application developers but not hardware manufacturers such as Archos. To remain cost-competitive with iPod touch, Archos devices are missing various input and output components not needed in a portable media player, such as a cellular radio, compass, and GPS. However, because certain versions of Google's Android Compatibility Definition Document (CDD) list these components as requirements, Archos hasn't been able to include the Android Market application with the devices. To access the Market (and not the AppsLib that has a far smaller selection), one needs hacks that Google could cease-and-desist, just like it cease-and-desisted CyanogenMod for including Google applications.

Stolen property is a not the same thing; false analogy. If they stole my phone I'd want the police to get it back and look at the person to see if he was the crook or knowingly bought stolen goods.

Except the situation the OP was talking about had nothing to do with stolen property. As soon as the phone was properly identified by Apple as being theirs, it was promptly returned to them (2010/4/19). Long after they had their property back, Apple induced the police into raiding the reporters house (2010/4/24).

Stolen property is a not the same thing; false analogy. If they stole my phone I'd want the police to get it back and look at the person to see if he was the crook or knowingly bought stolen goods.

Except the situation the OP was talking about had nothing to do with stolen property. As soon as the phone was properly identified by Apple as being theirs, it was promptly returned to them (2010/4/19). Long after they had their property back, Apple induced the police into raiding the reporters house (2010/4/24).

As far as "those that don't do it on important machines" that you talk of - naturally, this would tend to happen more on non-production, non-critical machines. I am aware that rc/init scripts, if they were ever installed in the first place, can be tested without rebooting. Developers do not always do this though. Dependencies (e.g. making sure your application starts after the database if it depends on the database and needs it running before the particular application is started) are a little more tricky to check but can be dealt with if some thought is put into it by the developer. Thought is not always put into it though.

You ask: "So what's that to get DOZENS then - over one hundred changed init scripts on one machine and a quarter of them with errors in them?" One machine? I am talking about thousands of machines, most of them with a number of (sometimes many) non-system rc/init scripts, touched by hundreds of developers, who are always changing their programs, many of the machines non-production, over the period of time discussed - as long as a machine can manage to stay up - which can be years. As I said in my original post, I am talking about large (financial or otherwise) companies, not small shops.

If you're a sysadmin, what's the largest number of machines you've ever had to support in a developer-heavy environment? If your answer was in the thousands, you would probably be less skeptical. This article says Facebook has 30k servers, Rackspace has 50k servers, Akamai has 60k servers, and Google has over 1000k servers. I can assure you that these companies regularly deal with server problems that the standard sysadmin with dozens of servers to look over is not used to - even a company with one quarter of Facebook's servers is going to have a different sort of quality to their systems setup than a company with 150 or so servers.

Being a gatekeeper does not mean you have control over anything, if there are other gates to be entered through. In the end Apple is only keeping the gate of its own garden, not the city - that is why rejection is not control, because content people can still do whatever they want.

For iPhones, iPads, and iTunes Apple does not allow apps and other software to be install through any route other than Apple. It may be possible to do so but legally Apple doesn't allow or support it. iPhones have to be jailbroken to install software not approved by Apple. And that requires an Apple Developer Connection account, I used to have one but I let it expire. The same is true for iPads and iPods.

Falcon

This reminds me of spray-on skin for burn victims

http://gizmodo.com/#!5749968/spray+on-skin-is-a-reality?comment=36596030

That just blew me away. Instead of weeks of painful recovery and permanent disfigurement, the burn victim is treated in about a week with little or no scarring.

,,, they haven't axed This!

Hmm, looks like Sony already tried something similar but screwed it up. Google for "Sony fresh start" and you'll see a bunch of headlines from 2008 about a feature Sony introduced that allowed you to buy a PC without bloatware. But unfortunately, it came off as "Pay $50 to remove bloatware". Further headlines say, Sony shamed into making FreshStart free. So it looks like a bit of a PR fiasco -- they were forced to keep the lower price, but not get the bloatware subsidy. As there are no results after July 2008 (two months after it was first introduced), I can only assume that they got rid of the option as soon as they possibly could.

So to answer the original question: At the moment, there is absolutely no advantage for not installing bloatware. If you don't include it, people get pissed at you for charging more. So you're in a real no-win situation.

I still think the "CleanBoot certified" is a good idea, but it would take some care to make sure it was positioned properly.

Like the Coby Kyros reviewed in the article, Archos products have resistive touch screens, making them more suited to a stylus than a finger. (I have an Archos 43, with which I use my DS Lite stylus.) Also like the Kyros, Archos products come with AppsLib and lack access to Google's Android Market without hacks such as ArcTools that Google could cease-and-desist at any moment the way it C&D'd Google Apps in CyanogenMod.

That reminded me of a post on Gizmodo awhile back where someone was already doing that.

Absolutely wrong. You're very misinformed.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/20/commodore64-iphone-app-finished-denied-by-apple/

http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2008/09/13445/

http://www.iphonefreak.com/2011/02/sony-reader-denied-app-store-debut.html

http://mobihealthnews.com/6932/interview-the-iphone-medical-app-denied-510k/

http://gizmodo.com/5611169/why-the-hell-did-apple-pull-camera%252B-from-the-app-store

Google around, you'll find a million similar cases. Developers hear that their apps will be fine, and then at the last minute they are denied and not told why. It takes them alot of calling and emails to Apple and takes months before they can even find out why.

Make higher quality meat than most of the current producers (that's not hard, we're not talking wagyu here) and do it cheaper than them (and that *really* shouldn't be hard, you're basically making beer here).

Economics will do the rest.

You've got it wrong, buddy, the "economy doing the rest" I mean. Here's my take on the "faith in the economy at work" (I dare you to prove me wrong, with real-world examples in the last 10 years):

1. set up the process to produce meant and do it at a good enough quality (don;t care even to do it at "higher than most of the producers", the trick is: you don't need to. Don't believe me? Continue reading)

2. outsource the production plants to India/China. This is how they'll become cheaper (and the associated env impact NIMBY, who cares that some people the other side of the globe commit suicide or are poisoned in the process?)

3. create the MeatMart chain of stores to distribute the product to US. Macas and BurgerKing will be quite happy to have a slice of it (better said "a mince of it")... after all, their most stable consumers don't care if it can be made to taste reasonable (read: "deep fried and/or full of saturated fats, MSG and other flavor enhancers"), it's dirt cheap and comes in supersized serves (now they'll be able to have it HYPERSIZED for the same price).

4. drive into the ground the US farmers, by I-don't-know-what-miracle (hormones and mexican workforce in slaughter-houses?) they still manage somehow to produce excess of beef carcases for the export (7.2 percent in 2009).. That's simply unacceptable, better drive them 9 feet under, they'll be quiet and won't get to use their shotguns the X-th amendment allows them to bear for just-in-case

5. ... profit... (what else).

As extension, whine hard about taxes and use some of your (untaxed, in a Cayman Island bank) profit to sponsor the Tea Party, lobby the Congress and fuel another bubble (at your choice, but don't try another house bubble as yet: the "economics" isn't now quite on the "build and they'll come" side)

Ah, well *that* is a good argument then. The lemmings one, not so much. A couple apps that are bad - that is a problem. 642 bullshit apps from one dev - there is clearly something lame going on.

For what its worth, I've used Android for years and have never noticed too much spam. But then I'm not searching for "sexy" apps either. Or at least not after the first time I looked and it was all crap.

For the most part, the Android Market is fine if you either just download things other people recommend, or you browse the popular apps. If you're trying to find something out of the blue, then yeah, its crap. Not sure if the iOS app store is any better, but I did have an original iPhone back in the day and I remember that it was nice that you could browse for apps in iTunes.

Android has long needed some kind of desktop companion (even if its browser based), and if there was one, it would probably help with app discovery.

So yeah, app discovery is the issue that I think you're actually struggling with. How do I find the good apps when there is so much crap? Eliminating some of the crap would help, but ultimately, blind searches are not the best way to find good apps. Google is working on that by recommending more apps that are good, and now showing "related apps" in the new market they rolled out a few months ago.

And I do know that people complain about app discovery in iOS too. Its a big problem for developers.

And although this isn't a solution to the problem (since google needs to fix it themselves) gizmodo often posts lists of good apps. If you didn't see it, you might like this, which was just posted today:
http://gizmodo.com/5739420/the-best-android-apps?skyline=true&s=i

-Taylor

Go back and look at Android circa 2005, and you'll find it was nothing like what shipped. Back then it was just a rip off of the BlackBerry. It was only when the iPhone was release that Android change who it was copying from.

http://gizmodo.com/334909/google-android-prototype-in-the-wild

http://gizmodo.com/5735008/humanoid-robot-mirrors-its-master-courtesy-kinect

What's sad is that there was early indication (2009) that they were going to specifically target the office environment with the "Microsoft Courier" tablet. Then their internal management cancelled it, and now not only is Microsoft 2 years behind, I doubt they can roll out anything in enough time in the near to capture any market share. The market segment is about to be saturated with iPad & other 3rd parties, and Microsoft missed the boat.

Drop a $7K coffee table on it.

Sorry, someone had to say it.

That's exactly what I was thinking, even the story is about the plane being shot down in 1999 , and the technology is from the 70s considering the F-117's first flight was 1981 and has already been retired.

IF the new Chinese 5th generation figher is based on 1970's designs then we have nothing to worry about, especially since it won't be released until 2018 and seeing how the Chinese government controls all the media they'll swear the fighter is the most amazing jet in the world even if it never leaves the ground.

Our 5th generation fighter, the Raptor, has been out since 2005 and we're already working on a second, the F-35 Lightning II

Besides, we're already working on unmanned 6th generation fighters, planes that can fly much faster and cost millions less by removing lift support systems and sophisticated instrumentation required for pilots. Seeing how a cheap $150 Kinect can create a 3D map of the real world there's little doubt that unmanned fighters are the future.

you forgot the internet, they are trying to ban that there too.

http://gizmodo.com/5064310/australia-to-build-great-firewall-down-under

Yes, it was just total shit wasn't it...

http://gizmodo.com/5510095/ipad-test-notes-battery-life

Far better than the AT&T bait and switch with iPad plans... remember that? Changed before the device was even available for a full month.

I don't know about you but I got grandfathered on my plan. I still get unlimited data from AT&T for the same price as before. There was no bait-and-switch involved. If you got the plan before the change then you can have unlimited data for $30/month, if you got the plan after the change then you can get 2GB for $25/month and each additional 2GB is $25.

If you think that being a real victim of sexual abuse or rape is on par with being taken advantage of financially or being sold bad products, then I suggest you read this and reconsider: http://gizmodo.com/5726667/the-agonizing-last-words-of-bill-zeller

MySpace, the choice of bat shit insane mass murderers everywhere.

The public doesn't know for sure, but there's a whole lot of really strong evidence that's surfaced in the last week that they're announcing the Verizon iPhone this Tuesday (Jan 11), with a release date of later this month.

It's no guarantee of course, but there's a lot of oddly specific independent corroboration (including invites addressed to specific Apple-focused tech reporters instead of the news org itself, and no invite to Gizmodo [whom Apple has cut off from all events after the iPhone 4 leak]). Even WSJ has said that's what Tuesday's announcement is about (they've historically been right on this sort of thing).

I like the Motorola Xoom myself, and so does Gizmodo. Engadget posted a great list of all they saw at CES, including OS, price, and availability. (If the info is available that is)

Here you go. And here's a better one.

Already done.

1)You don't "accidentally" retain sniffed traffic logs of that size, across your entire international operations, for months if not years, "accidentally." See http://gizmodo.com/5671049/google-street-view-cars-collected-emails-and-passwords I mean come on...someone would have noticed the drives filling up, wondered why, etc. These people are supposedly geniuses, right?

2)There's no political grandstanding here. This is a major privacy invasion. The "grandstanding" has been international, because people are PISSED. Google collected and correlated with location data...MAC addresses and IPs of base stations and client devices. Email addresses. Passwords. URLs. I'm going to be VERY generous and assume that they only captured the sniffed traffic, and not that they intentionally extracted all that from traffic and only stored the extracted data, because that would have been even more obviously-intentional.

3)It's slightly creepy when you go around wardriving. When an international corporation which has a always demonstrated an intense interest in profiling its users and mining its users data for advertising purposes, does it, across the planet? That's just slightly different.

1. Why not? If everything that touched that data from then on was all automated systems that are told to read the first 15 bytes (or whatever), then a red flag might never have gotten raised over the data being too big.

Hell, on MY hard drives, I have data that I intended to delete 4 years ago still floating around. I'm not a giant corporation, I'm just a person who happened to find a bunch of music videos that I was interested in years ago that were supposed to have long since been deleted (they are now), so why is it beyond the realm of possibility that a large corporation wouldn't be able to overlook the exact same data? I mean, I'm sure this data is insignificant in size when compared to the images they were storing at the same time.

2. They are "grandstanding' because (in the US at least), NO LAWS WERE BROKEN! The government wants to confiscate data that was unencrypted in public space from a private company when no laws were broken! If they want this damn data so bad, they can go collect it themselves from the source!

3. Many routers give the option to lower the strength of the signal. You can lower it (trial and error) if you wanted to the point that the signal doesn't leave your house, OR just realize that when you are sending unencrypted data OTA, you have to realize that it's NOT private! Its not hard to fix the issue, all you have to do is encrypt the data on the router. If you do that, it's a crime to decrypt and the entire issue becomes relevant.

1)You don't "accidentally" retain sniffed traffic logs of that size, across your entire international operations, for months if not years, "accidentally." See http://gizmodo.com/5671049/google-street-view-cars-collected-emails-and-passwords I mean come on...someone would have noticed the drives filling up, wondered why, etc. These people are supposedly geniuses, right?

First off, they wanted to capture some basic data about WiFi networks, SSID and possibly a few other things, not traffic. If you have a smartphone running iOS or Android (not sure about the others) both of those use WiFi to assist with location services. The way it does so is based on a database lookup of SSID + a few other factors which have been previously gathered by whatever company is running the location database.

Secondly, considering they were capturing that WiFi data along with the massive amount of photos necessary to make StreetView work you actually think the extra sniffed traffic amounted to any noticeable difference in the overall size of the collected data such that someone would express alarm at the size?

1)You don't "accidentally" retain sniffed traffic logs of that size, across your entire international operations, for months if not years, "accidentally." See http://gizmodo.com/5671049/google-street-view-cars-collected-emails-and-passwords [gizmodo.com] I mean come on...someone would have noticed the drives filling up, wondered why, etc. These people are supposedly geniuses, right?

Eric: Hey Larry, this D drive is filling up pretty quick.
Larry: Huh?
Eric: I said the D drive is filling up pretty quick.
Larry: It's probably nothing, what are you doing?
Eric: Oh, nothing..I was just going to create a new logo for the anniversary of the invention of the potato peeler and I got this message.
Larry: What did it say?
Eric: I don't remember exactly, I just clicked ok, but it said something about disk-space, and wouldn't let me create my jpeg.
Larry: Well did you check the Control Panel?
Eric: Yeah, it's saying it's all full...
Larry: What? Seriously? I thought we put a 100Gb in there a few months ago? It shouldn't be full.
Eric: Well...it is. See? All blue!
Larry: Should we delete some of it?
Eric: I did, last week, and the week before...maybe it's a virus?
Larry: What are all these? Hmmm. They look important...probably Sergey's.
Eric:Shit...Sergey. Do you think...shall we tell him? Shall we tell Sergey?
Larry: Do you want to tell him? He's going to be super pissed when he finds out you filled the new hard-drive with porn or whatever you did..
Eric: I...Good point. I'll go down to best-buy and get one of those external disk things. What should I get? 200Gb or 300Gb?
Larry:I don't know? Just get the biggest one you can, and hurry! It's his turn to use the computer next!!
Sergey: Hey guys, what's up?
Eric & Larry (together): Nothing!

End Scene.

1)You don't "accidentally" retain sniffed traffic logs of that size, across your entire international operations, for months if not years, "accidentally." See http://gizmodo.com/5671049/google-street-view-cars-collected-emails-and-passwords I mean come on...someone would have noticed the drives filling up, wondered why, etc. These people are supposedly geniuses, right?

2)There's no political grandstanding here. This is a major privacy invasion. The "grandstanding" has been international, because people are PISSED. Google collected and correlated with location data...MAC addresses and IPs of base stations and client devices. Email addresses. Passwords. URLs. I'm going to be VERY generous and assume that they only captured the sniffed traffic, and not that they intentionally extracted all that from traffic and only stored the extracted data, because that would have been even more obviously-intentional.

3)It's slightly creepy when you go around wardriving. When an international corporation which has a always demonstrated an intense interest in profiling its users and mining its users data for advertising purposes, does it, across the planet? That's just slightly different.

So, you can use the free version, but if you do, make sure you don't store anything of value because it might go "poof" without notice.

I too read the fine print in TOS, which is why I don't use itunes. If I want to build nuclear weapons using my mp3 library, who is apple to tell me I can't do that?

But then they'd have to admit that 4G and 3G are sometimes exactly the same.

http://gizmodo.com/5704797/verizon-lte-speed-test-insanely-fast

I would be happy with 7-10mbps (the slow results). My 3G tends to be around .5-2mbps. Verizon says you should expect about 14mbps from LTE. Since when are we scoffing at 5-20x increases in average performance?

No network connection required.

http://gizmodo.com/5714462/translate-signs-and-menus-instantly-using-word-lens-crazy+amazing-iphone-app

They've got an ongoing battle with their own commenters as well, esp articles like this one that got many many accounts banned if you disagreed with the article "writer" (Joel): http://gizmodo.com/5687692/you-write-bias-journalism-and-i-read-derp