All apps have access to r/w your sdcard, and to get your identity (esn/imei/meid/phone number). Once you give an app permission to access the internet, your identity and sdcard contents are public.
Google needs to fix this. Don't believe me? Install a file manager app. Most won't ask for permission to access the sdcard, but they will be able to. Some permissions are granted without the app asking for it.
Are you sure? In the app I wrote I had to explicitly request access to these in the application's manifest file, or get an error.
Amazing how mother nature always seems to adapt to whatever man throws at it. And people still continue to say we can blow up the world. Earth took hits from asteroids, wiped out the critters, adapted, evolved and moved on. Same thing with any pollution.
More like Nature adapting to Nature. Why are humans always separated out from natural things? Humans are animals just like ants and bees. Bees create honey, something that would not exist without bees creating it, and it's considered natural. Yet humans create things like "High Fructose Corn Syrup" and it's not considered natural.
No, you expect the appropriate authorities to be told about it. You might rightfully expect some information on the general nature of the threat (if any) but you should not expect to be told about specific persons which seems to be what is happening here.
That would be vigilantism.
This information is generally available in any local newspaper, there is no harm in directly bringing to the attention of a company during a briefing. It's only vigilantism if you actively hunt those people down and punish them outside the laws. I still don't see a problem with police going to a company and saying something like "It looks like Group ABC has been shooting up your gas storage tanks, you might want to have your security guards keep a close eye on their members if you see them in the general area of the tanks."
State Homeland Security Director James Powers explained that he has been including anti-gas drilling activist information in his triweekly intelligence briefings for about a month because there have been “five to 10” incidents of vandalism around the state related to the natural gas industry, which is one of the sectors he is charged with monitoring.
One of those incidents, he said, involved someone shooting a natural gas container tank with a shotgun in Venango County.
If someone is shooting at my stuff, especially if it's the large, exploding kinda stuff, like a gas storage tank. I'd expect to be told about it. This doesn't sound so sinister.
Yes, it's Microsoft's fault that you have to spend 3 or more years in high school learning how to produce a simple document, and another two years or more in college learning how to make more complex documents. Who else would you blame?
This doesn't sound like a "Simple Document" at all. It's over 2000 pages, composed of multiple merged documents, probably hyper-linked internally between documents.
I'd be happy with a flight simulator that had an option to pull its ground textures from these sites. yeah, i know about the flight sim in google earth... I'm talking about something a more complex., like x-plane, ms flight sim, or even orbiter.
Ohh I totally agree with terraforming Mars. I was just trying to explain the mindset of a group of people described in the book Red Mars. They actually came off a bit crazy and extremist to me also, but I think that was part of the author's point.
I had a hard time relating to that group in the book also. But I think it came down to how you see beauty. Something like the grand canyon, without any plant or animal life at all, is worthy of being preserved. The geography of Mars dwarfed anything seen in the Grand Canyon many times over, at a planetary scale. The splinter group felt that it was it's duty to preserve that geography so that people could better understand the solar system as a whole. At least that's the what I got from it. Red Mars really is a great series of books, it's worth the read.
Turning a desert island into a cloud forest is hardly preserving anything...
I am not terribly bothered by the idea of 'improving' Mother Earth, will anybody have a problem with 'improving' Mars?
I don't know if you have ever read Red Mars, and the other books in this series, but it gets in to this question (among MANY others) rather seriously. An entire splinter group of people dedicated to preserving Mars in its cold lifeless state. It's a great set of books that deals with many psychological, and logistical terraforming questions.
The pride in his work is admirable. I always appreciate a developer who's concerned about his user experience. This characteristic is, to me, Steve Jobs' most admirable trait (though I think marketing geeks must appreciate his gift for generating interest in his products.) This guy is following Jobs' finest example here.
I'm left to wonder how he 'discovered' it in the first place...
A few months ago Dmitry Chestnykh, the founder of Coding Robots and copyright holder of Mémoires, discovered that his program – like many others – was being shared via The Pirate Bay.
So while he was looking for a cracked Photoshop, for example, he was amazed to see his own stuff up there? It's rather like a priest complaining about poor service from a prostitute, isn't it?
I do google searches for my name and the names of the program I write all the time. It seems logical to me that he saw his program listed on pirate bay while doing something similar.
Microsoft surface being used for search and rescue. Doesn't the EULA specifically state "not to be used for life saving operations or operations in which failure of the system could result in bodily injury"? A search and rescue robot certainly qualifies as a life saving device, the failure of which could result in people being dropped or crushed.
I wonder why the researchers that made this felt that disregarding the EULA was acceptable.
Probably because they were building a simulator instead of an actual device.
Try again. The "logic" is that petroleum based products are made from a source that we find, separate, treat, and distribute. Compared to hydrogen which we separate and concentrate from naturally replenishing sources. We won't run out in our timescale. And not just for the abundance but for how we are using it. Look up a fuel cell and compare it with an ICE. Different methods are used for the extraction of energy. One is a storage system like a rechargeable battery; the other is a one way rapid oxidation. The battery is actually the hydrogen itself, not the tank. You invest in concentrating the hydrogen and compressing it.
Yes. as I stated to someone else. I totally agree with you. I was just taking the flawed logic of the OP to it's natural conclusion. The OP stated the hydrogen wasn't renewable, but listed others that were. I was stating that based on his criteria for hydrogen not being renewable, none of the other items in his list were either.
At the human scale, then. Better? You dig for oil, with the oil that comes out you can build machines that can dig 10x faster, 10x deeper for 10x longer. That's why we use the stuff.
If we could dig for elemental molecular free hydrogen, we'd do it. It's not freely available, so we have to make it.
Clear now? Sinking in?
I think you misunderstand me. I'm arguing that the listed items ARE renewable. I think we agree. I was just following out the flawed logic of the OP in stating that Hydrogen wasn't renewable, but the other items somehow were.
So what WOULD you consider a renewable energy source if this isn't one (according to the OP)? The OP suggested that "solar/wind/geothermal" power were renewable energy sources, and that hydrogen wasn't. I was pointing out that at a large scale NONE of these are renewable.
Yes, it's hard to make someone with less than an 8th grade understanding of science realize that hydrogen is a storage medium, not an energy source. That, sadly, leaves out a good bit of the US - and I suspect a large fraction of the rest of the world's population as well.
By that logic there was only ever one energy source in existence, the Big Bang. Even the sun is just a huge ball of hydrogen and few other things that was all created long ago and will one day run out.
If someone decided to dump pounds of gold for $600 US / oz, would that be considered 'market value'?
If i had a huge reserve of it, and i decided to sell it, then yes. it could be fair market value. By deciding to sell my reserve i have increased the supply, if demand hasn't changed, and supply increases, the the result is a lower price.
I think you're confused. The price was set in the "Helium Privitization Act of 1996," that's simply a fact and has nothing to do with market forces.
When the government makes a law which says "we will sell our helium for $1.50 per cubic meter until it is gone" and that supply is 1/3 the global total market for two decades, the "market" has not set the price.
Why does it matter that the government does it? If i had a supply of helium and decided to sell it for $1.50 per cubic meter, that is my choice to supply helium at that price, others are free to set a lower or higher price on their supply. But suddenly when the government does the same thing its bad? The government participates in "the market" as a supplier, just as much as private individuals do.
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All apps have access to r/w your sdcard, and to get your identity (esn/imei/meid/phone number). Once you give an app permission to access the internet, your identity and sdcard contents are public.
Google needs to fix this. Don't believe me? Install a file manager app. Most won't ask for permission to access the sdcard, but they will be able to. Some permissions are granted without the app asking for it.
Are you sure? In the app I wrote I had to explicitly request access to these in the application's manifest file, or get an error.
This should make for some wonderful new kinds of pop up ads that can't be dismissed or in any way taken out of focus.
Amazing how mother nature always seems to adapt to whatever man throws at it.
And people still continue to say we can blow up the world. Earth took hits from
asteroids, wiped out the critters, adapted, evolved and moved on. Same thing with
any pollution.
More like Nature adapting to Nature.
Why are humans always separated out from natural things? Humans are animals just like ants and bees. Bees create honey, something that would not exist without bees creating it, and it's considered natural. Yet humans create things like "High Fructose Corn Syrup" and it's not considered natural.
Reminds me of the Manhacks from Half Life.
http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Manhack
30% Subscription revenue says they are planning to continue to milk the subscription content sellers.
It sounds to me like apple has decided its easier to fleece the flock of developers than actually charge the end user for what their services cost.
Boy, I wonder why Google hasn't thought about that.....
30% is the same cut google takes on android market applications.
This information is generally available in any local newspaper, there is no harm in directly bringing to the attention of a company during a briefing. It's only vigilantism if you actively hunt those people down and punish them outside the laws. I still don't see a problem with police going to a company and saying something like "It looks like Group ABC has been shooting up your gas storage tanks, you might want to have your security guards keep a close eye on their members if you see them in the general area of the tanks."
If someone is shooting at my stuff, especially if it's the large, exploding kinda stuff, like a gas storage tank. I'd expect to be told about it. This doesn't sound so sinister.
So, what you're saying is, this is a win-win scenario for both Microsoft and non-US NGOs. Don't they teach win-win being a wonderful thing at school?
You are thinking of the elusive "win-win-win.....win"
This doesn't sound like a "Simple Document" at all. It's over 2000 pages, composed of multiple merged documents, probably hyper-linked internally between documents.
I'd be happy with a flight simulator that had an option to pull its ground textures from these sites. yeah, i know about the flight sim in google earth... I'm talking about something a more complex., like x-plane, ms flight sim, or even orbiter.
Ohh I totally agree with terraforming Mars. I was just trying to explain the mindset of a group of people described in the book Red Mars. They actually came off a bit crazy and extremist to me also, but I think that was part of the author's point.
I had a hard time relating to that group in the book also. But I think it came down to how you see beauty. Something like the grand canyon, without any plant or animal life at all, is worthy of being preserved. The geography of Mars dwarfed anything seen in the Grand Canyon many times over, at a planetary scale. The splinter group felt that it was it's duty to preserve that geography so that people could better understand the solar system as a whole. At least that's the what I got from it. Red Mars really is a great series of books, it's worth the read.
Turning a desert island into a cloud forest is hardly preserving anything...
I am not terribly bothered by the idea of 'improving' Mother Earth, will anybody have a problem with 'improving' Mars?
I don't know if you have ever read Red Mars, and the other books in this series, but it gets in to this question (among MANY others) rather seriously. An entire splinter group of people dedicated to preserving Mars in its cold lifeless state. It's a great set of books that deals with many psychological, and logistical terraforming questions.
The pride in his work is admirable. I always appreciate a developer who's concerned about his user experience. This characteristic is, to me, Steve Jobs' most admirable trait (though I think marketing geeks must appreciate his gift for generating interest in his products.) This guy is following Jobs' finest example here.
I'm left to wonder how he 'discovered' it in the first place...
A few months ago Dmitry Chestnykh, the founder of Coding Robots and copyright holder of Mémoires, discovered that his program – like many others – was being shared via The Pirate Bay.
So while he was looking for a cracked Photoshop, for example, he was amazed to see his own stuff up there? It's rather like a priest complaining about poor service from a prostitute, isn't it?
I do google searches for my name and the names of the program I write all the time. It seems logical to me that he saw his program listed on pirate bay while doing something similar.
Microsoft surface being used for search and rescue. Doesn't the EULA specifically state "not to be used for life saving operations or operations in which failure of the system could result in bodily injury"? A search and rescue robot certainly qualifies as a life saving device, the failure of which could result in people being dropped or crushed.
I wonder why the researchers that made this felt that disregarding the EULA was acceptable.
Probably because they were building a simulator instead of an actual device.
WOOOOSH...
Try again.
The "logic" is that petroleum based products are made from a source that we find, separate, treat, and distribute. Compared to hydrogen which we separate and concentrate from naturally replenishing sources. We won't run out in our timescale. And not just for the abundance but for how we are using it. Look up a fuel cell and compare it with an ICE. Different methods are used for the extraction of energy. One is a storage system like a rechargeable battery; the other is a one way rapid oxidation. The battery is actually the hydrogen itself, not the tank. You invest in concentrating the hydrogen and compressing it.
Yes. as I stated to someone else. I totally agree with you. I was just taking the flawed logic of the OP to it's natural conclusion. The OP stated the hydrogen wasn't renewable, but listed others that were. I was stating that based on his criteria for hydrogen not being renewable, none of the other items in his list were either.
At the human scale, then. Better? You dig for oil, with the oil that comes out you can build machines that can dig 10x faster, 10x deeper for 10x longer. That's why we use the stuff.
If we could dig for elemental molecular free hydrogen, we'd do it. It's not freely available, so we have to make it.
Clear now? Sinking in?
I think you misunderstand me. I'm arguing that the listed items ARE renewable. I think we agree. I was just following out the flawed logic of the OP in stating that Hydrogen wasn't renewable, but the other items somehow were.
Yes, and?
So what WOULD you consider a renewable energy source if this isn't one (according to the OP)?
The OP suggested that "solar/wind/geothermal" power were renewable energy sources, and that hydrogen wasn't. I was pointing out that at a large scale NONE of these are renewable.
Yes, it's hard to make someone with less than an 8th grade understanding of science realize that hydrogen is a storage medium, not an energy source. That, sadly, leaves out a good bit of the US - and I suspect a large fraction of the rest of the world's population as well.
By that logic there was only ever one energy source in existence, the Big Bang. Even the sun is just a huge ball of hydrogen and few other things that was all created long ago and will one day run out.
Ever hear of elections?
The article explains this one, so im not going in to it other than to say "Blimps".
Yes, and Yes... see here http://www.helium.com/items/874929-understanding-the-helium-privitization-act-of-1996
why would the government pay taxes to it's self?
If i had a huge reserve of it, and i decided to sell it, then yes. it could be fair market value. By deciding to sell my reserve i have increased the supply, if demand hasn't changed, and supply increases, the the result is a lower price.
Why does it matter that the government does it? If i had a supply of helium and decided to sell it for $1.50 per cubic meter, that is my choice to supply helium at that price, others are free to set a lower or higher price on their supply. But suddenly when the government does the same thing its bad? The government participates in "the market" as a supplier, just as much as private individuals do.
Easy, just install a video camera to record what they visit.
So we are forced to GIVE you our property so that you can sell it for profit? Why aren't you paying us?
don't worry, those will be fixed up with CGI in the 2nd next release. to you know, show them they way they should have been from the start.