This was the plan all along with the union, and illustrates the danger when power is consolidated and centralized into the hands of the few.
Well, I've seen quite a few good things that cam from the EU parlament, that couldn't have been done in the same timeframe by all the individual parlaments.
With many small instances of political power, the elite at the top of each pyramid are limited in what they can do, because their pyramids are limited in height (e.g. revenue, and therefore power).
Considering that certain companies have a revenue that surpasses man smaller and medium sized countries and that influence people in almost all countries in the world, I tend to disagree.
On a national level, governments regularily give in the those companies, but on a supernational level (read: EU) they can and do stand up.
The notion that the market will regulate itself is outdated. Companies consolidated to much power and money in the hands of too few people. In many fields the conumer can not exercise his supposed power anymore and NEEDS support by watchdogs and governments.
The absolut worst thing that could happen is not giving the government enough power to keep multinational companies atleast somewhat in check.
Sending information of the cell towers and WiFi networks that you can access/see from your current location is analogous to making pictures of the houses you can see from one point (your house).
Both will allow anybody to triangulate your postition to a certain degree.
Only: In the feature, your iPad will not store data from way back. In the feature, that information will not be synched (synced?) to your Mac/PC? (What would you need it for there anyway?)
'perfectly sane feature'? What's sane about keeping data thats several months old? What's sane about keeping the data when the feature is explicitly turned off?
The feature was implemented poorly and now get's fixed. And that's assuming that Apple has no malicious intend.
Anyone who's been using Apple products for a while expected this, as it's how they typically respond to controversies - by investigating the issue and providing a detailed accounting of what they're doing and why.
Strangely enough, I don't use Apple products and I have a different perception: 1. Apples waits a few days, hoping that the matter will be buried by some other scandal. 2. Steve Jobs comes out saying: 'There's nothing to see here, but look over there! Our competition does that!' 3. Apple release an official statement along the line of 'we didn't make a mistake, but we'll fix it anyway'.
It happened here, it happened with Antennagate, it#s their modus operandi.
My cell phone provider knows, because he needs to know in order to provide his service. The Man can get that information because the law allows him to.
But that doesn't mean that Apple has a right to know, or that any third party has a right to know without my consent.
Can an oppressive government that controls the local cell company locate ANY cellphone with greater accuracy and in real time? Yes.
Can an oppressive government that just found out that you are opposing it get your location data from the last few days, weeks or months to see where you might have met with other dissenters? Well, if you own an iPhone it can.
And the argument that I and GP are not one of those people is bull. The potential alone is a problem.
Ah, so if I took pictures from all the houses around your house and send them somewhere without telling them that the pictures were taken from your house, that's no problem?
When I take your bank statement and remove the bits referencing your name and address, I can send that statement wherever I want because it's not your data anymore?
Have you had a look at the list of companies that join this CCL?
Besides Google we have Xiph.org (who develop Ogg Vorbis, which is the audio codec used by WebM), Matroska (the WEbM container is based on their container format), Mozilla and Opera (who use WebM in their browsers), companies lei MIPS and TI who most probably are in the process of developing chips who will use WebM in hardware, and so on.
These are companies that use WebM in some way and who join the CCL to support each other and the format against patent trolls and attacks like that of MPEG-LA (read: Microsoft and Apple).
While I agree with you in general, you should have compared the Cyanogenmod installs with the number of Android phones out there, not with the number of Android apps.
You only need to install CM once on every phone, but you may install dozens of apps.
Just because people today fail to see the logic behind the system choices in Imperial today doesn't mean they're not still there.
Just because Imperial hat it's uses back in the day doesn't mean that it's still the best choice today when we learn in school who to divide numbers and use computers to do a lot of out work.
Finally, remember there have been Android tablets around for over six months. Developers have had lots of time and reason to make sure their apps work well on them.
Unfortunately, it's not as easy.
On monday I bought an Archos 70 Internet Tablet (Android 2.2, 7", 800x480). Now, there are many Android phones out there, that have a similar screen resolution, but a significantly smaller display.
Since most developers do not care about DPI, apps that look just fine on a phone with WVGA resolution look bad on a tablet with the same resolution, because the elements (buttons and stuff) are just to big.
I don't know if Android doesn't track the DPI of a display, but it should and developers should take that into account.
Somebody mentioned earlier a locked diary. When somebody writes a diary and locks it s/he can expect it's privacy to be respected, even by her/his spouse. Likewise if your spouse doesn't give you the password to her/his email account, this is obviously supposed to be a private area.
Like, the recent discussion about compromised crypto functions in OpenBSD can cease NOW, because that's open source and malicious code would have been detected 10 years ago, right?
Yes, in theory backdoors and the like COULD be detected more easily if the source is available. But the reality is that there is not a million people out there scanning all new code thoroughly.
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Since when, exactly, is Apple known to be open about what they're doing or planing to do?
Damn. Yesterday I had mod points, and didn't use them. :(
This was the plan all along with the union, and illustrates the danger when power is consolidated and centralized into the hands of the few.
Well, I've seen quite a few good things that cam from the EU parlament, that couldn't have been done in the same timeframe by all the individual parlaments.
With many small instances of political power, the elite at the top of each pyramid are limited in what they can do, because their pyramids are limited in height (e.g. revenue, and therefore power).
Considering that certain companies have a revenue that surpasses man smaller and medium sized countries and that influence people in almost all countries in the world, I tend to disagree.
On a national level, governments regularily give in the those companies, but on a supernational level (read: EU) they can and do stand up.
The notion that the market will regulate itself is outdated. Companies consolidated to much power and money in the hands of too few people.
In many fields the conumer can not exercise his supposed power anymore and NEEDS support by watchdogs and governments.
The absolut worst thing that could happen is not giving the government enough power to keep multinational companies atleast somewhat in check.
Sending information of the cell towers and WiFi networks that you can access/see from your current location is analogous to making pictures of the houses you can see from one point (your house).
Both will allow anybody to triangulate your postition to a certain degree.
Ever heard of portableapps.com?
It's about portable Windows programs, and it's definitely older than the iPhone.
You will still have this feature.
Only:
In the feature, your iPad will not store data from way back.
In the feature, that information will not be synched (synced?) to your Mac/PC? (What would you need it for there anyway?)
'perfectly sane feature'?
What's sane about keeping data thats several months old?
What's sane about keeping the data when the feature is explicitly turned off?
The feature was implemented poorly and now get's fixed.
And that's assuming that Apple has no malicious intend.
And? The question is still valid, as the next owner might not want his data being collected.
This 'if I sell it it's somebody else's problem' mentality is really short-sighted.
Anyone who's been using Apple products for a while expected this, as it's how they typically respond to controversies - by investigating the issue and providing a detailed accounting of what they're doing and why.
Strangely enough, I don't use Apple products and I have a different perception:
1. Apples waits a few days, hoping that the matter will be buried by some other scandal.
2. Steve Jobs comes out saying: 'There's nothing to see here, but look over there! Our competition does that!'
3. Apple release an official statement along the line of 'we didn't make a mistake, but we'll fix it anyway'.
It happened here, it happened with Antennagate, it#s their modus operandi.
My cell phone provider knows, because he needs to know in order to provide his service.
The Man can get that information because the law allows him to.
But that doesn't mean that Apple has a right to know, or that any third party has a right to know without my consent.
Can an oppressive government that controls the local cell company locate ANY cellphone with greater accuracy and in real time? Yes.
Can an oppressive government that just found out that you are opposing it get your location data from the last few days, weeks or months to see where you might have met with other dissenters?
Well, if you own an iPhone it can.
And the argument that I and GP are not one of those people is bull. The potential alone is a problem.
Ah, so if I took pictures from all the houses around your house and send them somewhere without telling them that the pictures were taken from your house, that's no problem?
When I take your bank statement and remove the bits referencing your name and address, I can send that statement wherever I want because it's not your data anymore?
Good to know...
Have you had a look at the list of companies that join this CCL?
Besides Google we have Xiph.org (who develop Ogg Vorbis, which is the audio codec used by WebM), Matroska (the WEbM container is based on their container format), Mozilla and Opera (who use WebM in their browsers), companies lei MIPS and TI who most probably are in the process of developing chips who will use WebM in hardware, and so on.
These are companies that use WebM in some way and who join the CCL to support each other and the format against patent trolls and attacks like that of MPEG-LA (read: Microsoft and Apple).
While I agree with you in general, you should have compared the Cyanogenmod installs with the number of Android phones out there, not with the number of Android apps.
You only need to install CM once on every phone, but you may install dozens of apps.
Always defending your guru Steve Jobs, are you?
(Disclaimer: I don't own an Android smartphone, I don't use Chrome, I only use Gmail for synching my contacts)
Just because people today fail to see the logic behind the system choices in Imperial today doesn't mean they're not still there.
Just because Imperial hat it's uses back in the day doesn't mean that it's still the best choice today when we learn in school who to divide numbers and use computers to do a lot of out work.
If they speak American English then they obviously use imperial units, right?
You do not know how Dropbox works, right?
Dropbox doesn't just look for the size of a file or the access time.
Actually, the WIndows Mobile phones I know and own have the Start button on the top left. :D
But hey, you say tomato, I say Tomate
Finally, remember there have been Android tablets around for over six months. Developers have had lots of time and reason to make sure their apps work well on them.
Unfortunately, it's not as easy.
On monday I bought an Archos 70 Internet Tablet (Android 2.2, 7", 800x480).
Now, there are many Android phones out there, that have a similar screen resolution, but a significantly smaller display.
Since most developers do not care about DPI, apps that look just fine on a phone with WVGA resolution look bad on a tablet with the same resolution, because the elements (buttons and stuff) are just to big.
I don't know if Android doesn't track the DPI of a display, but it should and developers should take that into account.
The statement is that Debian is the oldest community-driven distribution.
Personally, as a Debian user, I always think of Slackware as the oldest distribution still in use.
You are not listening.
Nobody here says that the US laws do not apply.
We're only saying that the EU laws ALSO apply.
"a lot of" is not the same as "all of".
Somebody mentioned earlier a locked diary.
When somebody writes a diary and locks it s/he can expect it's privacy to be respected, even by her/his spouse.
Likewise if your spouse doesn't give you the password to her/his email account, this is obviously supposed to be a private area.
Which could never happen with Open Source, right?
Like, the recent discussion about compromised crypto functions in OpenBSD can cease NOW, because that's open source and malicious code would have been detected 10 years ago, right?
Yes, in theory backdoors and the like COULD be detected more easily if the source is available. But the reality is that there is not a million people out there scanning all new code thoroughly.
Type "opera:config" in the address field, Enter, type "tray" in the search field, e voila "Show Tray Icon [ ]"
But yeah, there is just no way in hell to disable the Tray Icon...