You need people engaged enough to have someone run that supports closing the loophole, support them, vote them into office, and have them pass laws to close the loophole. I'm not sure how you can create an engaged electorate... you need to educate some of them (most folks already generally know that the system is corrupt... even a gut feeling/ wo knowledge of things like this... but some don't), and something to inspire/drive them into action... a charismatic leader? I think that's the magic sauce. I wish people weren't influenced by personality/appearances as much as we are... but we are social animals. I guess all we are waiting for is a charismatic leader (crosses finger and mutters "Please don't be a psycho, please don't be a psycho.")
I think John Oliver did an excellent job of educating Snowden on how to speak. I think it's something that many people her on slashdot struggle with. Put it in layman's terms. As John Oliver pointed out to Snowden... most people don't get what you are saying. All the geeks do... and are rightfully freaked-out/outraged by it...but most regular people don't. But mention how the current programs captures all your 'dick pics'... and people start to get it. Hopefully this will help him in the future with how he communicates this with the American public...and hopefully enough of the American public will be freaked out about it and push for roll-back/limits on these things.
Even.1% of a billion devices, is still a lot of devices affected. Even that is still a very conservative number: lowest rate listed and a very small number of devices. This says there are ~1.6 billion phones (http://www.statisticbrain.com/android-phone-statistics/), which doesn't include tablets or any other devices. So percent-wise.1% sounds great... but numbers-wise I hope they get that percent even smaller;) Just saying...
Here's how it gets easier. No cards to carry. I don't know about you but I carry four credit cards with me. Heck I could even imagine no wallet. One less thing to carry. Touch phone to reader... done. Works for other things too... unlike your credit card. Hotel door room, electronic key for your car/house, airline boarding passes, movie passes. (Yes, I mixing the two... but that shows the simplicity of it.) One phone to rule them all! (small print: "And in the darkness bind them."):D
...or in this case, it might as well be called the fan un-edit. I will definitely have a copy of all the movies... but will be one of the first to download a fan edit that is closer to the original story. Hopefully there is enough material in there to repair it. (First thing that comes to mind is the barrel amusement park ride.) If we are in luck, Peter captured a lot of extra footage that could be used from the extras. I still see it big enough for two movies.
Sadly, the reason the RealMedia stuff is still around is due to legacy files. Since they were the leader in streaming for a bunch of years, there are still a lot of files still in this format. I currently have 569 RM files that I need to replace with the ones that I've converted to mp4 and mp3. The older stuff is lower priority so it probably won't be done for another year or two... ugh.
It may not be supported by the latest OS 10.9.x but it is still supported by Lion 10.7.x and Lion is still getting OS updates from Apple. So you are still supported. Eventually that will change once they release Yosemite in the next few months. Apple generally doesn't support more than a couple versions back... basically to cover their 3yr. Apple Care extended warranty. That combined with their OS versions gives you around 5 years minimum of support. While not ideal... it's not too bad.
I also think the hardware support will lengthen as most don't need much more power to email, browse, watch videos, etc. OS versions will probably support older and older hardware, unless some new feature comes along that needs more processing power (better language processing?). My Mac Mini (Early 2009) it will be supported with Yosemite 10.10... which means even if that's the latest it can support... it will end up with minimum of ~8years of support. I think that is pretty good.
Man, it's sometimes hard in threads like these to pick out the real trolls vs the heavy sarcasm. Commenting to undo incorrect moderation. We need a freakin' undo.
Or as it has happened IRL... they mash the gas peddle, swerve around you to get in front, flip you the bird, scream at you with the window rolled down, only to have to stop four seconds later, as you slowly drive up right behind them at the light:P
As a foreigner I view it as an outsider's view of the US news... which I value greatly. With Fox News making stuff up (man, they've got their tin foil hats on tight) and 20/20 doing NSA fluff pieces, it's hard to get anything real from inside the US. Now I know BBC news has it's own tilt, it's just no where near as bad as news from inside the US. Sadly I find myself sometimes agreeing with the "WTF is with Americans?" sentiment of some of the articles.
MIT OpenCourseWare is up to around 2200 courses... let alone the 20+ they've done through MITx. MIT has spent tens of millions of dollars giving free education material to the world.
Disclaimer: I work for MIT OpenCourseWare and still get annoyed that we have a ton of people who don't know about us cranking away at free course materials for the world for more than a decade! (MIT OpenCourseWare was announced in 2001.)
MIT OpenCourseWare (https://archive.org/details/mit_ocw) stores a copy of all the videos on its site on the Internet Archive. Currently that is 75 full video lecture courses and 17 full audio lectures courses, plus a ton of smaller one-offs and mini-series video and audio files. Over a thousand hours of teaching. I would like to think that would be something of use to the human race.
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Nah... for me that doesn't bother me much in 10.7. It's just another menu item under the Apple menu. I just don't use it. I basically don't see it or notice it except when I forget and do the OS 'full screen' and it limits me to one screen (I have a multi-monitor setup)... that is annoying. (I'm glad they finally fixed it in 10.9). The biggest thing moving to 10.7 was all the Rosetta apps I lost. I knew 64bit was coming so I'd have to deal with it at some point. Luckily I found replacements for almost all of them.
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The messed up thing about this is that Apple only legally supports 10.7+ to be virtualized. So if you want to run your older software, you are going to have to buy an older machine (according to Apple). It's too bad they didn't decide to let 10.6 be virtualized since I have some older software too that I'd like to keep.
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Hmmm, is this tin foil hat getting a little tight or is it me? [passes out]
You need people engaged enough to have someone run that supports closing the loophole, support them, vote them into office, and have them pass laws to close the loophole. I'm not sure how you can create an engaged electorate... you need to educate some of them (most folks already generally know that the system is corrupt... even a gut feeling/ wo knowledge of things like this... but some don't), and something to inspire/drive them into action... a charismatic leader? I think that's the magic sauce. I wish people weren't influenced by personality/appearances as much as we are... but we are social animals. I guess all we are waiting for is a charismatic leader (crosses finger and mutters "Please don't be a psycho, please don't be a psycho.")
I think John Oliver did an excellent job of educating Snowden on how to speak. I think it's something that many people her on slashdot struggle with. Put it in layman's terms. As John Oliver pointed out to Snowden... most people don't get what you are saying. All the geeks do... and are rightfully freaked-out/outraged by it ...but most regular people don't. But mention how the current programs captures all your 'dick pics'... and people start to get it. Hopefully this will help him in the future with how he communicates this with the American public ...and hopefully enough of the American public will be freaked out about it and push for roll-back/limits on these things.
Even .1% of a billion devices, is still a lot of devices affected. Even that is still a very conservative number: lowest rate listed and a very small number of devices. This says there are ~1.6 billion phones (http://www.statisticbrain.com/android-phone-statistics/), which doesn't include tablets or any other devices. So percent-wise .1% sounds great... but numbers-wise I hope they get that percent even smaller ;) Just saying...
Here's how it gets easier. No cards to carry. I don't know about you but I carry four credit cards with me. Heck I could even imagine no wallet. One less thing to carry. Touch phone to reader... done. Works for other things too... unlike your credit card. Hotel door room, electronic key for your car/house, airline boarding passes, movie passes. (Yes, I mixing the two... but that shows the simplicity of it.) One phone to rule them all! (small print: "And in the darkness bind them.") :D
...or in this case, it might as well be called the fan un-edit. I will definitely have a copy of all the movies... but will be one of the first to download a fan edit that is closer to the original story. Hopefully there is enough material in there to repair it. (First thing that comes to mind is the barrel amusement park ride.) If we are in luck, Peter captured a lot of extra footage that could be used from the extras. I still see it big enough for two movies.
Sadly, the reason the RealMedia stuff is still around is due to legacy files. Since they were the leader in streaming for a bunch of years, there are still a lot of files still in this format. I currently have 569 RM files that I need to replace with the ones that I've converted to mp4 and mp3. The older stuff is lower priority so it probably won't be done for another year or two... ugh.
It may not be supported by the latest OS 10.9.x but it is still supported by Lion 10.7.x and Lion is still getting OS updates from Apple. So you are still supported. Eventually that will change once they release Yosemite in the next few months. Apple generally doesn't support more than a couple versions back... basically to cover their 3yr. Apple Care extended warranty. That combined with their OS versions gives you around 5 years minimum of support. While not ideal... it's not too bad.
I also think the hardware support will lengthen as most don't need much more power to email, browse, watch videos, etc. OS versions will probably support older and older hardware, unless some new feature comes along that needs more processing power (better language processing?). My Mac Mini (Early 2009) it will be supported with Yosemite 10.10... which means even if that's the latest it can support... it will end up with minimum of ~8years of support. I think that is pretty good.
And even more confusion for folks from Boston. They would wonder why they would make a Terrahfactory... it's not even close to Halloween yet!
Man, it's sometimes hard in threads like these to pick out the real trolls vs the heavy sarcasm. Commenting to undo incorrect moderation. We need a freakin' undo.
Maybe the judge has her preferences set to Plain Text ;)
Or as it has happened IRL... they mash the gas peddle, swerve around you to get in front, flip you the bird, scream at you with the window rolled down, only to have to stop four seconds later, as you slowly drive up right behind them at the light :P
What was her name again? ;) Are you sure she not advocating both? Maybe she's seen the latest Judge Dredd movie.
Man, they are going to have one hell of a center piece... "Hey, check out what I found outside." =D
As a foreigner I view it as an outsider's view of the US news... which I value greatly. With Fox News making stuff up (man, they've got their tin foil hats on tight) and 20/20 doing NSA fluff pieces, it's hard to get anything real from inside the US. Now I know BBC news has it's own tilt, it's just no where near as bad as news from inside the US. Sadly I find myself sometimes agreeing with the "WTF is with Americans?" sentiment of some of the articles.
MIT OpenCourseWare is up to around 2200 courses... let alone the 20+ they've done through MITx. MIT has spent tens of millions of dollars giving free education material to the world.
Disclaimer: I work for MIT OpenCourseWare and still get annoyed that we have a ton of people who don't know about us cranking away at free course materials for the world for more than a decade! (MIT OpenCourseWare was announced in 2001.)
Who will now take the responsibility of culling the herd?
Physics.
MIT OpenCourseWare (https://archive.org/details/mit_ocw) stores a copy of all the videos on its site on the Internet Archive. Currently that is 75 full video lecture courses and 17 full audio lectures courses, plus a ton of smaller one-offs and mini-series video and audio files. Over a thousand hours of teaching. I would like to think that would be something of use to the human race.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Undoing mod. Meant for Funny, got Overrated instead. "Missed it by that much."
Yeah... that looks like a tall glass of NOPE!
That's why Half-Life 3 can be produced now ;)
Nah... for me that doesn't bother me much in 10.7. It's just another menu item under the Apple menu. I just don't use it. I basically don't see it or notice it except when I forget and do the OS 'full screen' and it limits me to one screen (I have a multi-monitor setup)... that is annoying. (I'm glad they finally fixed it in 10.9). The biggest thing moving to 10.7 was all the Rosetta apps I lost. I knew 64bit was coming so I'd have to deal with it at some point. Luckily I found replacements for almost all of them.
The messed up thing about this is that Apple only legally supports 10.7+ to be virtualized. So if you want to run your older software, you are going to have to buy an older machine (according to Apple). It's too bad they didn't decide to let 10.6 be virtualized since I have some older software too that I'd like to keep.