When i want to accomplish something without it being attributed to me, i just don a cape and cowl. You'd be surprised how much privacy you have when people can only see your mouth and chin.
it doesn't hurt to have a good utility belt and jet car either.
well, if your house burns down and takes your kindle or ipad with it, all of your books will be waiting for you on your new hardware. It's going to be significantly harder and more expensive to replace your physical books.
Agreed. Canonnonical already knows about me. I've downloaded many isos. It doesn't matter much to me if i check in periodically and say i'm still using it. Hell, i think i even want to do that.
We all (or at least many of us) want to see linux on the desktop succeed. Well, that takes money. It's going to be a lot easier to get funding for ubuntu if you can go to investors and say, "look how many installs are currently running", rather than saying, "we had a bunch of downloads".
further this seems to really exemplify the strengths of open source. They can't hide this thing in there. People find it. They have no choice but to be up front and open about what's going on.
Ultimately some paranoid people will run for the hills and a more DIY distro (though they probably already are there). Some people will probably disable it. Many people will just let it run and give them some hard numbers on how many people are using ubuntu who aren't the paranoid uber techy crowd, but just normal computer users.
Well, the important task is to clean/help. Finger pointing and punitive measures aren't going to address the situation. However, I don't see it as morally bankrupt to be compensated for that help.
but nothing helps organizations more than getting something for free. what's better for BP? if the community all went down and cleaned up the gulf for free? or if they had to pay through the ass to clean it up?
(a lot of my tax dollars went to cleaning, i support that, but i would support BP paying me back w interest)
These guys are probably finding bugs in Mozilla to get laid. I know my wingmen and i have used that line to great success many times. You wouldn't believe how fast the ladies forget the fighter pilots, basketball players, and CIA agents at the bar when I tell them about a DOM parsing error i discovered!
To seal the deal i tell them i didn't want the money as i'm already super rich. Tomorrow i leave for africa to help impoverished children install Ubuntu.
This is one money grab i would approve of. While i doubt such an effort would ever curb property taxes, it's not too far fetched to imagine that my taxes could be lower if all my neighbors were paying the permits they were supposed to pay.
It's not like they were inventing a new fee now that they could track something on google earth. Or even worse, giving you a parking ticket because according to google earth, your car was parked on the street in front of your house 24/7 for the past year. These people were expected to pay the permits for having a pool. It's something the residents of the community agreed would be done a long time ago.
At any rate it sounds like a governmental body that actually used technology to accomplish a task in a smart and efficient way. it's the most positive story on government i've heard.
they are instead smug about hopping on the walled-off Apple bandwagon where customizing a device you own is not allowed unless it's approved by the company that sold it to you.
I hate to break it to you, but the vast majority of people who own phones don't care about customizing it.
as someone who develops software i care; A LOT. The past few years has been great for apple devs. Are the next 5? Do i have to dust off my java shoes? Is win mo going to stage a comeback (i say no, but you never know. enough fanbois of xbox live might buy into it before they realize it's kind of gimped as a gaming platform without peer 2 peer networking, or any networking beyond http posts.)
all of this affects me very much regardless of the phone i choose to own.
i keep hearing about how the phones are so awesome in japan and s korea. the only thing i ever see propped up as evidence is that you can watch tv on them. Is it just me or does that sound lame? I don't care if i can get tv through my phone. I wouldn't watch it much if i could. I get my email, i buy stuff, i facetwit, i play games, i open my garage door. I no longer think s koreans and japanese have the ultimate phone life.
How many people here actually use these disks? Don't we all just wipe our new computer of shovelware and install Linux or something? In my experience, i've always thrown away the disks that came with a retail computer. They don't ever restore to the system i wanted. My first dell came with a vanilla win 95 disk that just installed the OS. It wasn't even tied to any kind of hardware identifier. I could install it on my new system, and the system after that (always only one at a time though:))
When recovery disks became tied to computers and installed more than just the OS, i stopped wanting them anyway.
They might be nice for some users, but i kind of think most people don't even know what they do and just take the computer to best buy, etc. The other end of the spectrum are power users who want to install the os and partitions their own way. In the middle are people savvy enough to run the disk, but i really think that's the minority of users.
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This is likely technically illegal, but really it is more in line with toilet papering a house. he didn't do any damage. the changes will wash away, etc. In the end, the time it takes to prosecute isn't even worth it.
What it really is is rude, and it's probably is bad PR for jailbreakers. Most people out there don't understand what jailbreaking is. After hearing this news, are people more likely to recognize jailbreakers as people with a legitimate complaint about the current state of consumer electronics, or pranksters and vandals who are as likely to hack someone else's machine as their own?
It's kind of a shame that immediately after the huge victory won for jailbreaking, some punk pulls this stunt.
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When i want to accomplish something without it being attributed to me, i just don a cape and cowl. You'd be surprised how much privacy you have when people can only see your mouth and chin.
it doesn't hurt to have a good utility belt and jet car either.
well, if your house burns down and takes your kindle or ipad with it, all of your books will be waiting for you on your new hardware. It's going to be significantly harder and more expensive to replace your physical books.
Agreed. Canonnonical already knows about me. I've downloaded many isos. It doesn't matter much to me if i check in periodically and say i'm still using it. Hell, i think i even want to do that.
We all (or at least many of us) want to see linux on the desktop succeed. Well, that takes money. It's going to be a lot easier to get funding for ubuntu if you can go to investors and say, "look how many installs are currently running", rather than saying, "we had a bunch of downloads".
further this seems to really exemplify the strengths of open source. They can't hide this thing in there. People find it. They have no choice but to be up front and open about what's going on.
Ultimately some paranoid people will run for the hills and a more DIY distro (though they probably already are there). Some people will probably disable it. Many people will just let it run and give them some hard numbers on how many people are using ubuntu who aren't the paranoid uber techy crowd, but just normal computer users.
that post WAS clever.
true, but i don't think the victimless argument of marijuana works for kiddie porn.
Well, the important task is to clean/help. Finger pointing and punitive measures aren't going to address the situation. However, I don't see it as morally bankrupt to be compensated for that help.
It's not a tumor at all!
but nothing helps organizations more than getting something for free. what's better for BP? if the community all went down and cleaned up the gulf for free? or if they had to pay through the ass to clean it up?
(a lot of my tax dollars went to cleaning, i support that, but i would support BP paying me back w interest)
These guys are probably finding bugs in Mozilla to get laid. I know my wingmen and i have used that line to great success many times. You wouldn't believe how fast the ladies forget the fighter pilots, basketball players, and CIA agents at the bar when I tell them about a DOM parsing error i discovered!
To seal the deal i tell them i didn't want the money as i'm already super rich. Tomorrow i leave for africa to help impoverished children install Ubuntu.
With an end to anonymity, the real slim shady could finally stand up.
Some fatal crashes have occurred when the car's velocity was 0. they were trapped on railroad tracks.
They certainly do.
This is one money grab i would approve of. While i doubt such an effort would ever curb property taxes, it's not too far fetched to imagine that my taxes could be lower if all my neighbors were paying the permits they were supposed to pay.
It's not like they were inventing a new fee now that they could track something on google earth. Or even worse, giving you a parking ticket because according to google earth, your car was parked on the street in front of your house 24/7 for the past year. These people were expected to pay the permits for having a pool. It's something the residents of the community agreed would be done a long time ago.
At any rate it sounds like a governmental body that actually used technology to accomplish a task in a smart and efficient way. it's the most positive story on government i've heard.
Ohm my god! these puns are ridiculous!
they are instead smug about hopping on the walled-off Apple bandwagon where customizing a device you own is not allowed unless it's approved by the company that sold it to you.
I hate to break it to you, but the vast majority of people who own phones don't care about customizing it.
I hate to break it to you, but: http://www.phonebling.net/
as someone who develops software i care; A LOT. The past few years has been great for apple devs. Are the next 5? Do i have to dust off my java shoes? Is win mo going to stage a comeback (i say no, but you never know. enough fanbois of xbox live might buy into it before they realize it's kind of gimped as a gaming platform without peer 2 peer networking, or any networking beyond http posts.)
all of this affects me very much regardless of the phone i choose to own.
i keep hearing about how the phones are so awesome in japan and s korea. the only thing i ever see propped up as evidence is that you can watch tv on them. Is it just me or does that sound lame? I don't care if i can get tv through my phone. I wouldn't watch it much if i could. I get my email, i buy stuff, i facetwit, i play games, i open my garage door. I no longer think s koreans and japanese have the ultimate phone life.
Call of Duty really made WWII seem like a fun colorful war opposed to the bleak greyscale war it actually was.
It's funny because it's modded insightful. it's like a tounge in a cheek within a tounge in a cheek
I've often wondered why anyone would feel loyal to, or even want to attend, a church
Probably to avoid eternal damnation.
How many people here actually use these disks? Don't we all just wipe our new computer of shovelware and install Linux or something? In my experience, i've always thrown away the disks that came with a retail computer. They don't ever restore to the system i wanted. My first dell came with a vanilla win 95 disk that just installed the OS. It wasn't even tied to any kind of hardware identifier. I could install it on my new system, and the system after that (always only one at a time though :))
When recovery disks became tied to computers and installed more than just the OS, i stopped wanting them anyway.
They might be nice for some users, but i kind of think most people don't even know what they do and just take the computer to best buy, etc. The other end of the spectrum are power users who want to install the os and partitions their own way. In the middle are people savvy enough to run the disk, but i really think that's the minority of users.
http://store.microsoft.com/microsoft/Windows-Windows-7/category/102
This is likely technically illegal, but really it is more in line with toilet papering a house. he didn't do any damage. the changes will wash away, etc. In the end, the time it takes to prosecute isn't even worth it.
What it really is is rude, and it's probably is bad PR for jailbreakers. Most people out there don't understand what jailbreaking is. After hearing this news, are people more likely to recognize jailbreakers as people with a legitimate complaint about the current state of consumer electronics, or pranksters and vandals who are as likely to hack someone else's machine as their own?
It's kind of a shame that immediately after the huge victory won for jailbreaking, some punk pulls this stunt.
touche.