Thats why this stuff needs to NOT be a secret, however I don't know that the insurance companies will refrain from charging more based on the results of that test etc.
The whole point of insurance is to create a pool of money so that people who actually need to use it for a medical bill, can offset the costs. If you start excluding people entirely from the pool based on genes, that pool will shrink to nothing. Tiered rates based on genetic information are another issue, but even in that case medical costs would still hopefully be offset from the real cost.
Thats true, and if you have a newer version of that RNG available in a newer version of Windows, right around the time that vulnerability is disclosed, you are able to influence purchasing decisions to your advantage.
What they don't realize is, if you make the official channels for distribution good enough, no one cares about anything else.
Considering that these are mostly ad supported videos, wtf are they afraid of? That someone will rip out the ads and distribute the video? Most people just want to watch the shows, this is turning into some kind of arms race just to see if they can actually lock the entire platform.
If it costs $50 more to make a device that will last forever, most companies are going to opt for the cheaper design, and plan around a specific lifetime for the device. Look at the iPod if you want an example.
Stewart at least serves a valid reality based purpose, that is to make political idiots look ridiculous in public.
The Daily Show gets people interested and in fact cynical of politicians where they otherwise would not have even cared.
I won't however defend colbert, I've seen him bring too many guests on the show with important things to say, only to have him run his mouth and waste time as if its all a joke. It may be mocking political pundits, but his guests are real and were brought on for a reason, and he talks over them like a moron.
Thats true and also irrelevant, this is not a situation where EMI just decided to participate in P2P, this is a situation where they were never given the rights to publish this bands music online in the first place, and continued to do so even after ALL their rights were revoked by the end of the contract.
One good reason would be that those ISPs are the ones currently datamining everything you do with your connection, so in a way encryption means more to that end than it ever did to countering QoS.
When people refer to OS X as having "numerous issues" like the guy you replied to, they usually mean usability problems, such as being forbidden from maximizing windows without wasting large amounts of time, the number of mouse buttons on their laptop, the Finder, the ridiculous way OS X handles application menus on multi screen systems, being unable to resize windows but from a tiny corner, the tiny little window buttons that are impossible to hit quickly one of which is worthless, you get the point. Thats the sort of thing that ruins OS X for people who need to do more than read email once in a while or spend their entire career in a single application. Even managing your own files is painful in OS X.
But all of those things, despite everyone (including Ars' John Siracusa, the guy who wrote this review) complaining about most of them for YEARS, will remain because Apple says so.
Ok, learn what statistical multiplexing is, please. There is absolutely no way for everyone to have 10Mbps all the time.
You multiply that out and you have an impossible number, one that can't possibly be met by any current technology. Should they restrict your line so that when you max it out, you get exactly the transfer you are allocated by the end of the month? If they did that you would have a 1Mbps line tops, and you wouldn't be able to download much of anything quickly. Most people want to be able to move things quickly but don't need to transfer 100's of gigabytes a month, theres a huge difference, especially when everyone wants to max a 10Mbps line all the time, it just doesn't work that way.
It was my understanding that nothing works at all until you activate the iPhone, am I somehow a conspiracy theorist because Apple set it up that way?
Complaining is not the same thing as being batshit crazy, and I think it's reasonable in this case to assume that Apple locked the phone on purpose because without that lock, they lose the money they think they are entitled to.
They make it sound like they have the right to go after people just because they haven't activated the phone. Apple may not be required to sell them unlocked yet, but consumers have the right to unlock them, plain and simple. This is borderline control freak territory on Apples part, and it looks even worse because they are taking massive kickbacks on an already expensive piece of hardware that was sold far above cost.
Most phone makers get a kickback from the carrier because the consumer never paid the manufacturer directly, but this is not the case with Apple.
I don't think this is entirely about Iran, sure it makes it look bad for Russia right now, but I also have no doubt that Russia would try to do whats stated here.
Are you saying that without the Iran stuff, this would be ok? Or that Russia is being unfairly criticized?
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Thats why this stuff needs to NOT be a secret, however I don't know that the insurance companies will refrain from charging more based on the results of that test etc.
The whole point of insurance is to create a pool of money so that people who actually need to use it for a medical bill, can offset the costs. If you start excluding people entirely from the pool based on genes, that pool will shrink to nothing. Tiered rates based on genetic information are another issue, but even in that case medical costs would still hopefully be offset from the real cost.
You knew it was don't ask don't tell the moment you saw that penguin.
Thats true, and if you have a newer version of that RNG available in a newer version of Windows, right around the time that vulnerability is disclosed, you are able to influence purchasing decisions to your advantage.
What they don't realize is, if you make the official channels for distribution good enough, no one cares about anything else.
Considering that these are mostly ad supported videos, wtf are they afraid of? That someone will rip out the ads and distribute the video? Most people just want to watch the shows, this is turning into some kind of arms race just to see if they can actually lock the entire platform.
To be fair, there have been a lot of phones and mp3 players that have worthless interfaces, making the devices painful to use.
So in that respect, iPhone has an advantage of function over a lot of other devices.
The cure is to balance usability with security, not run to FOSS every time some vulnerability is discovered in Windows.
If it costs $50 more to make a device that will last forever, most companies are going to opt for the cheaper design, and plan around a specific lifetime for the device. Look at the iPod if you want an example.
Your logic is flawed.
If they suddenly can't find documents they were known to have had, it looks quite bad for them and could leave them open to prosecution.
Except for the fact that YOUR client negotiated the key to decrypt that data with the other end.
I don't see them doing much of importance anymore.....ever
Stewart at least serves a valid reality based purpose, that is to make political idiots look ridiculous in public.
The Daily Show gets people interested and in fact cynical of politicians where they otherwise would not have even cared.
I won't however defend colbert, I've seen him bring too many guests on the show with important things to say, only to have him run his mouth and waste time as if its all a joke. It may be mocking political pundits, but his guests are real and were brought on for a reason, and he talks over them like a moron.
Thats true and also irrelevant, this is not a situation where EMI just decided to participate in P2P, this is a situation where they were never given the rights to publish this bands music online in the first place, and continued to do so even after ALL their rights were revoked by the end of the contract.
One good reason would be that those ISPs are the ones currently datamining everything you do with your connection, so in a way encryption means more to that end than it ever did to countering QoS.
I know quite a bit about OS X architecture, and I also know there's a reason only a few Xserve clusters exist: it's a novelty.
PiratFS :D
When people refer to OS X as having "numerous issues" like the guy you replied to, they usually mean usability problems, such as being forbidden from maximizing windows without wasting large amounts of time, the number of mouse buttons on their laptop, the Finder, the ridiculous way OS X handles application menus on multi screen systems, being unable to resize windows but from a tiny corner, the tiny little window buttons that are impossible to hit quickly one of which is worthless, you get the point. Thats the sort of thing that ruins OS X for people who need to do more than read email once in a while or spend their entire career in a single application. Even managing your own files is painful in OS X.
But all of those things, despite everyone (including Ars' John Siracusa, the guy who wrote this review) complaining about most of them for YEARS, will remain because Apple says so.
Ok, learn what statistical multiplexing is, please. There is absolutely no way for everyone to have 10Mbps all the time.
You multiply that out and you have an impossible number, one that can't possibly be met by any current technology. Should they restrict your line so that when you max it out, you get exactly the transfer you are allocated by the end of the month? If they did that you would have a 1Mbps line tops, and you wouldn't be able to download much of anything quickly. Most people want to be able to move things quickly but don't need to transfer 100's of gigabytes a month, theres a huge difference, especially when everyone wants to max a 10Mbps line all the time, it just doesn't work that way.
It was my understanding that nothing works at all until you activate the iPhone, am I somehow a conspiracy theorist because Apple set it up that way?
Complaining is not the same thing as being batshit crazy, and I think it's reasonable in this case to assume that Apple locked the phone on purpose because without that lock, they lose the money they think they are entitled to.
Even Firefox has security problems when JS is involved, quit pretending like ultra secure browsers and a lack of incompetence will fix everything.
At least make the claim that you trust the sites you visit, don't pretend its ok because you're lazy.
They make it sound like they have the right to go after people just because they haven't activated the phone. Apple may not be required to sell them unlocked yet, but consumers have the right to unlock them, plain and simple. This is borderline control freak territory on Apples part, and it looks even worse because they are taking massive kickbacks on an already expensive piece of hardware that was sold far above cost.
Most phone makers get a kickback from the carrier because the consumer never paid the manufacturer directly, but this is not the case with Apple.
I don't think this is entirely about Iran, sure it makes it look bad for Russia right now, but I also have no doubt that Russia would try to do whats stated here.
Are you saying that without the Iran stuff, this would be ok? Or that Russia is being unfairly criticized?
The current major version of KDE is almost as old as windows XP, and the current gnome version is and always has been unusable for real work
Don't you guys understand that low IDs always win
Reusing code = library
Forcing dependency on a program is not the same thing.