If you buy the theory that the US will have an easier time getting him from Sweden than the UK then it wouldn't make sense for anyone in the US to accuse him of a crime until after he has been extradited to Sweden. If the US was actively seeking extradition it might influence the decision made by the UK.
Given the number of times flash has crashed in chrome on my desktop in the past week, I really don't see myself holding my breath for a stable release of flash on Android. Sure, at least flash doesn't take down the whole browser with it but it seems to crash more often than it did in FireFox and that sucked enough as it was.
Most electronics start as only being available to those with more disposable income. The iPad has only been out for a year. Give it 5 years and there will be plenty of cheep tablets for the masses. These things do take time.
To be fair, the camera in a phone almost certainly will never rival a DSLR from the same year. Thats the problem with these predictions, they are absolutely true. An iPad will never be as useful for writing a novel at starbucks as a laptop.
What Slashdoters fail to understand is that these facts, true as they are, don't matter. At this point my phone is a pretty damn good camera and for my needs its perfect. Its quick and I always have it on me. Do I expect the next layout in national geographic to be shot on an iPhone, no, professionals will likely continue to use professional tools and good for them. Meanwhile the rest of us have what we need in a continent package and we are buying them like hotcakes.
I own a laptop as my primary machine and I find coding on it to be a bit of a pain in the ass. even at 15" there just isn't enough screen real estate. Here at work I have a 27" monitor with a 19" secondary. It gives me room to spread out a bit.
Of course I'm OK with my laptop at home because I don't do as much coding at home, but if I were going to start doing so, I would invest in a desktop and a serious set of monitors. I could see myself going that route and replacing my laptop with a tablet for browsing/email when on the couch.
Sure, I wouldn't have anything for doing "real work" away from my desk, but I have a laptop now and its not really something I do. I think the same is true of my co-workers. I'm sure there are some people for whom the laptop is absolutely essential to their work, but I bet its actually a lot fewer people than you would think, even here on slashdot.
I heard about the arrests but does anyone have anymore info on that. How many people were arrested, has anyone actually been charged with a crime and if so, what crimes. This story seems to have gotten somewhat lost in the noise.
As long as that jackass is working for HBGary they are going to be targeted. If they get rid of him I suspect that, given a little time, things will cool off.
But its not an organized group, there is not command structure. This "vandal" might just be some guy at the conference who thought it would be funny, someone who would never actually engage in hacking under the name anonymous. It might even have been an employee at another security company looking to embarrass the competition. It will take time for the heat to come off HBGary, but its not going to come off at all if Barr is still employed by them (which, last I heard, he was)
I access games a lot on my Iphone and I dont keep them on the first page because I dont need access to those right this second, I cant take a moment or 2 to find them.
The problem is, now my phone is on page 3 or 4. I would really like it if, whenever you woke up your phone, it snapped back to page 1 and your most important applications. It would at least make a nice setting. That way I would always know how to quickly get to my mail or my camera without having to use up one of the 4 bottom most spots. In fact, such an option would probably result in me changing the 4 applications that I keep on the bottom.
What are you talking about whippersnapper! not reading the article is a time honored tradition. You would know that if you had registered your account 6 hours earlier like I did.
I used to do this with my iPod and a video out cable or my computer sometimes.
The thing is, these days most hotels lock you out of any kind of input on the TV, either you cant plug into the back or you cant switch inputs on the TV. Its been years since I have been in a room where I could do this.
Hotels would rather you bought your media from them.
yea, I guess there is a possibility that Woz is simply lying, but he has never really been an attention whore. Assuming he is describing the steps to reproduce the problem correctly it would seem to contradict these finding. There really isn't a lot of room for error if we believe we can take Woz at his word.
Has anyone else reproduced the problem using the steps that Woz describes? Seems like someone on here must own a Prius and have sufficient brains to give it a shot.
This guy isn't actually doing professional engineering, he is petitioning the government to put in a street light and did some reasonably advanced analysis to provide evidence to support his claim. He is in no way liable for the results o f this study nor should he be. If his findings are accurate then a traffic light should be installed after the new road layout is created and certified by a Professional Engineer who would then be liable for his work.
The day they say you can't produce supporting evidence on your own is pretty much the day you loose the constitutional right to petition your government.
I read something about 6 months ago, I dont have the link handy, but the article said that iPhone users spend a lot more money on Apps per month (per person) than Android users. Among the folks I know, this seems to be true. I can't say why, it may have to do with the people (iPhone users have more disposable income than folks buying the cheepest Android phone just to have a smart phone) or it could be because the iPhone is more locked down and more people are pirating apps on Android phones or it could be something else entirely. But it is quite possible that there is simply more money to be made in iPhone app development and that wont necessarily change just because there are more Android devices if the per-device money available is much higher on iOS devices.
Of course there is nothing to say that this trend might not change, but if developers know the money is on iOS they will make more apps there, which might lead to more sales of iOS devices.
Mistype, I meant to say it barely weights more than my motorcycle, which is still actually hyperbole. For the record my Low rider has a curb weight just over 650 lbs.
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If you buy the theory that the US will have an easier time getting him from Sweden than the UK then it wouldn't make sense for anyone in the US to accuse him of a crime until after he has been extradited to Sweden. If the US was actively seeking extradition it might influence the decision made by the UK.
Spreading BS doesnt help your case either.
He left the country after charges were dropped. He even asked for permission. It wasn't until he left the country that all this crap started up again.
Given the number of times flash has crashed in chrome on my desktop in the past week, I really don't see myself holding my breath for a stable release of flash on Android. Sure, at least flash doesn't take down the whole browser with it but it seems to crash more often than it did in FireFox and that sucked enough as it was.
Most electronics start as only being available to those with more disposable income. The iPad has only been out for a year. Give it 5 years and there will be plenty of cheep tablets for the masses. These things do take time.
I am a motor boating enthusiast.
The iPad makes a terrible anchor.
Damnit man, now I'm thirsty.
Off to pick up a quart of 10W-40
Yes, blame apple for creating a device that people like and that you (or your favorite company) didn't manage to design first.
Its no wonder this industry is so myopic, nerds can't manage to see the world outside their cubicle.
To be fair, the camera in a phone almost certainly will never rival a DSLR from the same year. Thats the problem with these predictions, they are absolutely true. An iPad will never be as useful for writing a novel at starbucks as a laptop.
What Slashdoters fail to understand is that these facts, true as they are, don't matter. At this point my phone is a pretty damn good camera and for my needs its perfect. Its quick and I always have it on me. Do I expect the next layout in national geographic to be shot on an iPhone, no, professionals will likely continue to use professional tools and good for them. Meanwhile the rest of us have what we need in a continent package and we are buying them like hotcakes.
I own a laptop as my primary machine and I find coding on it to be a bit of a pain in the ass. even at 15" there just isn't enough screen real estate. Here at work I have a 27" monitor with a 19" secondary. It gives me room to spread out a bit.
Of course I'm OK with my laptop at home because I don't do as much coding at home, but if I were going to start doing so, I would invest in a desktop and a serious set of monitors. I could see myself going that route and replacing my laptop with a tablet for browsing/email when on the couch.
Sure, I wouldn't have anything for doing "real work" away from my desk, but I have a laptop now and its not really something I do. I think the same is true of my co-workers. I'm sure there are some people for whom the laptop is absolutely essential to their work, but I bet its actually a lot fewer people than you would think, even here on slashdot.
I heard about the arrests but does anyone have anymore info on that. How many people were arrested, has anyone actually been charged with a crime and if so, what crimes. This story seems to have gotten somewhat lost in the noise.
As long as that jackass is working for HBGary they are going to be targeted. If they get rid of him I suspect that, given a little time, things will cool off.
But its not an organized group, there is not command structure. This "vandal" might just be some guy at the conference who thought it would be funny, someone who would never actually engage in hacking under the name anonymous. It might even have been an employee at another security company looking to embarrass the competition. It will take time for the heat to come off HBGary, but its not going to come off at all if Barr is still employed by them (which, last I heard, he was)
These shows should sometimes be taken seriously, but they should not be taken literally.
I access games a lot on my Iphone and I dont keep them on the first page because I dont need access to those right this second, I cant take a moment or 2 to find them.
The problem is, now my phone is on page 3 or 4. I would really like it if, whenever you woke up your phone, it snapped back to page 1 and your most important applications. It would at least make a nice setting. That way I would always know how to quickly get to my mail or my camera without having to use up one of the 4 bottom most spots. In fact, such an option would probably result in me changing the 4 applications that I keep on the bottom.
What are you talking about whippersnapper! not reading the article is a time honored tradition. You would know that if you had registered your account 6 hours earlier like I did.
Are you telling me you actually read the article?
Go easy on them, Cisco is such a small company and really there was no way they could have seen this coming.
I used to do this with my iPod and a video out cable or my computer sometimes.
The thing is, these days most hotels lock you out of any kind of input on the TV, either you cant plug into the back or you cant switch inputs on the TV. Its been years since I have been in a room where I could do this.
Hotels would rather you bought your media from them.
yea, I guess there is a possibility that Woz is simply lying, but he has never really been an attention whore. Assuming he is describing the steps to reproduce the problem correctly it would seem to contradict these finding. There really isn't a lot of room for error if we believe we can take Woz at his word.
Has anyone else reproduced the problem using the steps that Woz describes? Seems like someone on here must own a Prius and have sufficient brains to give it a shot.
Current insurance providers would just drop your ass.
This guy isn't actually doing professional engineering, he is petitioning the government to put in a street light and did some reasonably advanced analysis to provide evidence to support his claim. He is in no way liable for the results o f this study nor should he be. If his findings are accurate then a traffic light should be installed after the new road layout is created and certified by a Professional Engineer who would then be liable for his work.
The day they say you can't produce supporting evidence on your own is pretty much the day you loose the constitutional right to petition your government.
What makes you think he is a PE is is more than likely just a bureaucrat.
I'm pretty sure that's step one.
I read something about 6 months ago, I dont have the link handy, but the article said that iPhone users spend a lot more money on Apps per month (per person) than Android users. Among the folks I know, this seems to be true. I can't say why, it may have to do with the people (iPhone users have more disposable income than folks buying the cheepest Android phone just to have a smart phone) or it could be because the iPhone is more locked down and more people are pirating apps on Android phones or it could be something else entirely. But it is quite possible that there is simply more money to be made in iPhone app development and that wont necessarily change just because there are more Android devices if the per-device money available is much higher on iOS devices.
Of course there is nothing to say that this trend might not change, but if developers know the money is on iOS they will make more apps there, which might lead to more sales of iOS devices.
Mistype, I meant to say it barely weights more than my motorcycle, which is still actually hyperbole. For the record my Low rider has a curb weight just over 650 lbs.
Actually the Tacoma, both front and rear, is a pretty damn solid vehicle. Hell just Google for the crap the Top Gear guys did to one a few years back.
On the other hand, my Passat has been in a few fender benders in the last few years and its held up much better than you might expect too.