This is corruption scheme. Plain and simple. The "scam" part is only a "get out of jail" card played by the ones involved in this corruption racket. In government you need to do a lot of paperwork to justify the purchase of USD$100 worth of USB sticks; to purchase this stuff at such price levels you need to be in a such level of institutionalized corruption that this should be a marker for corrupt government officers that this by far is the least bad crime they are doing, not only in the purchasing countries but also in the ones that allow the operation of the companies that sell this devices.
This scam has at least netted MX$350,000,000 for these bastards. The worst part is that one of the main culprits in this corruption scheme, the former chief of mexican Federal Police, Genaro García Luna is enjoying his impunity in USA while ordering the murder of reporters that have documented his corruption, meanwhile, this crappy devices have landed many innocent people in jail and $deity only knows how many innocents have been killed in Mexico and in the rest of the world. This is not only fraud, it is a well oiled corruption scheme. McCormick and his accomplices are of the few people that really deserve to be hanged in public.
At our datacenter, in the routine inspection of facilities we found a dead cat in the emergency power plant room. The poor thing managed to get inside the room and stayed under the warm engine block, but when a power failure triggered the power plant on it had his skin ripped off by the fan of the generator's diesel engine.
...Apple and Microsoft are not pushing computers with 16GB total storage and 9GB of free space...
Microsoft is pushing a tablet with 64GB of total storage, but only 23 GB of free space. Apple sells devices with 32 GB of storage, and only 24 GB free space.
A new iOS device have only 2-3Gb used by the OS and the built in apps. Those estimates that put it at 7 Gb or more are pulled from someone's ass.
Since Safari 2 or 3 that "Open safe files after downloading" as been the worst design decision by the Safari team. It is the first thing I disable when I do a new install of OS X.
Yes, that money could have better spent blowing up another hut filled with men, women and children in the Middle East.
I'm being sarcastic.
Please read TFA, the key part is:
Scientists were surprised to find a mixture of oxidized, less-oxidized, and even non-oxidized chemicals, providing an energy gradient of the sort many microbes on Earth exploit to live. This partial oxidation was first hinted at when the drill cuttings were revealed to be gray rather than red.
If you know of another, cheaper way to know this I'm all ears.
When they entered in a revenue sharing scheme, they throw away any semblance of justice to the use of these devices. There is an strong incentive to miscalibrate the cameras and fine people that didn't did anything wrong. On principle I'm in favor of the use of technology in public security and transportation, but they need to be in an environment in that they are not considered a direct source of revenue, for the State or for a subcontracted private entity. The "revenue" from increased safety comes in a better standard of living for a given community, and the increase in common welfare by having less people hurt or killed in traffic accidents. The greedy bastards that signed this contract from both parties deserve to never hold again a public office or provide a service to the State for the rest of their lives.
Americans have no idea of how nice they have it. Despite the huge drawback of government and citizens resorting to violence at the drop of a hat, or the lack of a sane health care system, the USA are still a nice place to live, with many really nice people. Police abuse? Last week here in Mexico a bunch of policemen raped a girl and murdered her boyfriend. Evil Obama with his drone war targeting american citizens? Here in Mexico the army and security forces are responsible for at least 2,000 of innocent civilian deaths. Evil government taxes? Just wait until an organized gang of tugs replaces the government demanding their own taxes, err, protection. The strong government designed under liberal principles that served the majority of citizens coupled with its geographic position is what made USA a world power. All the people that decries that they pay taxes to uncle Sam while enjoying the benefits of western civilization will find thousands of people around the world willing to trade places with them.
I would post pictures of it if slashdot could handle images. I don't know why I was modded troll, the market for antivirus for Android is far more healthy than the one for iOS. Google reports about 125,000,000 pages for "Android antivirus" and 22,200,000 pages for "iOS antivirus". As you said, you will not get virus or malware if you follow certain rules; rules that Apple forces to be followed by most if not all of its customers. On the same vein, makes sense to lock down even more OS X like they did with Mountain Lion since the vast majority of PC users view it more like an appliance, not as a tool that they must learn to use. In this environment, it becomes the manufacturer's burden to not let users shoot themselves on the foot.
The problem with a simple switch is that many users are unable to grasp the implications of the permissions that they are granting, so they are better of without that choice. We are talking about a device that holds a large amount of personal information, the implications of bad security are far greater than being simply being p0wned. A locked down, less flexible but more secure device is a better choice for them.
On the plus side, there is no need for antivirus software in devices running iOS, something that I saw advertised prominently the last time I was in Akihabara. Certainly, the rules to get a iOS developer license could be relaxed in such a way to demand less than $100 for it and make room for hoobists, but locked down nature of the devices and the efforts made to get accountability from the developers are a service to Apple's customers.
For most people phones -of any kind- are appliances. For them the lack of freedom to run any arbitrary code is a good feature, and are well served by Apple's model.
I hope to be proven wrong and eat my words;) In my city the main source of pollution are the cars, and the constant gridlock would make overcharging the only problem under my commute more than anything. Still, I think that is better not to lose that 15% of energy unless it is similar to the losses by overhead wiring. I work for a power company, and I worked in many projects in what we where looking for increases of efficiency of 3% or even 1.5% in our power plants. A 20 or even 30% loss for small loads like cell phones or game controllers is meaningless in the big scheme of things, but a 15% loss on hundreds of instances of loads of 150 KW is another thing.
I see this more like a pork project for Bombardier from the Canadian government. Considering the huge losses from the wireless chargers and the mass of the bus and passengers, this will be hardly viable on commercial terms, even taking into account the cheap hydroelectric energy in Canada.
If the long term effects are far worse for our species, then concentrating in short term benefit is not only greedy, but frankly evil.
And none of the proposed solutions require we become hunter gatherers again. That's inflammatory to the point of outright dishonesty.
Not only evil. It is beyond stupid. We all benefit from the increased efficiency in industrial processes via lower prices and lower pollution. Even if the future climate research discovers that the situation is not as dire than predicted in early years, we as species and society will be still enjoying the benefits from cleaner air, much more efficient lighting, heat insulation and air conditioning, better cars and more efficient planes in the years to come.
Connect your brain, clear the word "rape" from your mind, get an account and then get back to/.
If you accept that in the pursuit of criminals you want to punish innocent people too you destroy the reward-punishment equation that makes the social contract work. Why would otherwise law abiding citizens respect the law if they would end punished even if they didn't any crime? Middle east dictators tried that. It didn't work in the long run.
We decommissioned last year 2 Sunfire 15K, upgraded to 25K level except for the system controllers; they clocked around 10 years of service; very nice hardware, but, essentially, they where what a modern 12U blade server is now.
Did you know that Iceland is the oldest democracy in existence? And, by the treatment received by bankers and politicians during the most recent financial crisis, it is the best performing democracy too.
The first contact with an Android phone I had was with the phone of a friend that was handed down to her by her dad 3 years ago. The old man couldn't cope with the slowness, the complicated interface and the fact that it wasn't good to make phone calls, so he got the old Nokia from my friend, and used it up to recently when he changed his and my friend's phone for a pair of iPhone 4s last Christmas. There is value in something that is easy to use. Certainly, he could have bought a modern Android phone or a simpler phone, but he wanted to use some features that only a smartphone could give like a good camera, video calls and some apps he liked from my friend's iPad. To make a modern gadget that a 75 years old man would find easy to use is not a small feat.
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This is corruption scheme. Plain and simple. The "scam" part is only a "get out of jail" card played by the ones involved in this corruption racket. In government you need to do a lot of paperwork to justify the purchase of USD$100 worth of USB sticks; to purchase this stuff at such price levels you need to be in a such level of institutionalized corruption that this should be a marker for corrupt government officers that this by far is the least bad crime they are doing, not only in the purchasing countries but also in the ones that allow the operation of the companies that sell this devices.
This scam has at least netted MX$350,000,000 for these bastards. The worst part is that one of the main culprits in this corruption scheme, the former chief of mexican Federal Police, Genaro García Luna is enjoying his impunity in USA while ordering the murder of reporters that have documented his corruption, meanwhile, this crappy devices have landed many innocent people in jail and $deity only knows how many innocents have been killed in Mexico and in the rest of the world. This is not only fraud, it is a well oiled corruption scheme. McCormick and his accomplices are of the few people that really deserve to be hanged in public.
At our datacenter, in the routine inspection of facilities we found a dead cat in the emergency power plant room. The poor thing managed to get inside the room and stayed under the warm engine block, but when a power failure triggered the power plant on it had his skin ripped off by the fan of the generator's diesel engine.
I think we fell for an obvious troll. But when we mix Google, Microsoft or Apple sanity goes out the window on Slashdot.
Best Regards.
...Apple and Microsoft are not pushing computers with 16GB total storage and 9GB of free space...
Microsoft is pushing a tablet with 64GB of total storage, but only 23 GB of free space. Apple sells devices with 32 GB of storage, and only 24 GB free space.
A new iOS device have only 2-3Gb used by the OS and the built in apps. Those estimates that put it at 7 Gb or more are pulled from someone's ass.
Since Safari 2 or 3 that "Open safe files after downloading" as been the worst design decision by the Safari team. It is the first thing I disable when I do a new install of OS X.
Yes, that money could have better spent blowing up another hut filled with men, women and children in the Middle East.
I'm being sarcastic.
Please read TFA, the key part is:
Scientists were surprised to find a mixture of oxidized, less-oxidized, and even non-oxidized chemicals, providing an energy gradient of the sort many microbes on Earth exploit to live. This partial oxidation was first hinted at when the drill cuttings were revealed to be gray rather than red.
If you know of another, cheaper way to know this I'm all ears.
When they entered in a revenue sharing scheme, they throw away any semblance of justice to the use of these devices. There is an strong incentive to miscalibrate the cameras and fine people that didn't did anything wrong. On principle I'm in favor of the use of technology in public security and transportation, but they need to be in an environment in that they are not considered a direct source of revenue, for the State or for a subcontracted private entity. The "revenue" from increased safety comes in a better standard of living for a given community, and the increase in common welfare by having less people hurt or killed in traffic accidents. The greedy bastards that signed this contract from both parties deserve to never hold again a public office or provide a service to the State for the rest of their lives.
You win the internets today!
Americans have no idea of how nice they have it. Despite the huge drawback of government and citizens resorting to violence at the drop of a hat, or the lack of a sane health care system, the USA are still a nice place to live, with many really nice people. Police abuse? Last week here in Mexico a bunch of policemen raped a girl and murdered her boyfriend. Evil Obama with his drone war targeting american citizens? Here in Mexico the army and security forces are responsible for at least 2,000 of innocent civilian deaths. Evil government taxes? Just wait until an organized gang of tugs replaces the government demanding their own taxes, err, protection. The strong government designed under liberal principles that served the majority of citizens coupled with its geographic position is what made USA a world power. All the people that decries that they pay taxes to uncle Sam while enjoying the benefits of western civilization will find thousands of people around the world willing to trade places with them.
I would post pictures of it if slashdot could handle images. I don't know why I was modded troll, the market for antivirus for Android is far more healthy than the one for iOS. Google reports about 125,000,000 pages for "Android antivirus" and 22,200,000 pages for "iOS antivirus". As you said, you will not get virus or malware if you follow certain rules; rules that Apple forces to be followed by most if not all of its customers. On the same vein, makes sense to lock down even more OS X like they did with Mountain Lion since the vast majority of PC users view it more like an appliance, not as a tool that they must learn to use. In this environment, it becomes the manufacturer's burden to not let users shoot themselves on the foot.
Best Regards.
The problem with a simple switch is that many users are unable to grasp the implications of the permissions that they are granting, so they are better of without that choice. We are talking about a device that holds a large amount of personal information, the implications of bad security are far greater than being simply being p0wned. A locked down, less flexible but more secure device is a better choice for them.
On the plus side, there is no need for antivirus software in devices running iOS, something that I saw advertised prominently the last time I was in Akihabara. Certainly, the rules to get a iOS developer license could be relaxed in such a way to demand less than $100 for it and make room for hoobists, but locked down nature of the devices and the efforts made to get accountability from the developers are a service to Apple's customers.
For most people phones -of any kind- are appliances. For them the lack of freedom to run any arbitrary code is a good feature, and are well served by Apple's model.
Yeah, it is not like the vulnerabilities used by jailbreak tools could ever be also used by malware or anything.
GGP has been reading too much Immanuel Velikovsky for his own good.
And aesthetically designed by Sir Ive too!
I hope to be proven wrong and eat my words ;) In my city the main source of pollution are the cars, and the constant gridlock would make overcharging the only problem under my commute more than anything. Still, I think that is better not to lose that 15% of energy unless it is similar to the losses by overhead wiring. I work for a power company, and I worked in many projects in what we where looking for increases of efficiency of 3% or even 1.5% in our power plants. A 20 or even 30% loss for small loads like cell phones or game controllers is meaningless in the big scheme of things, but a 15% loss on hundreds of instances of loads of 150 KW is another thing.
Best regards.
I see this more like a pork project for Bombardier from the Canadian government. Considering the huge losses from the wireless chargers and the mass of the bus and passengers, this will be hardly viable on commercial terms, even taking into account the cheap hydroelectric energy in Canada.
If the long term effects are far worse for our species, then concentrating in short term benefit is not only greedy, but frankly evil.
And none of the proposed solutions require we become hunter gatherers again. That's inflammatory to the point of outright dishonesty.
Not only evil. It is beyond stupid. We all benefit from the increased efficiency in industrial processes via lower prices and lower pollution. Even if the future climate research discovers that the situation is not as dire than predicted in early years, we as species and society will be still enjoying the benefits from cleaner air, much more efficient lighting, heat insulation and air conditioning, better cars and more efficient planes in the years to come.
Connect your brain, clear the word "rape" from your mind, get an account and then get back to /.
If you accept that in the pursuit of criminals you want to punish innocent people too you destroy the reward-punishment equation that makes the social contract work. Why would otherwise law abiding citizens respect the law if they would end punished even if they didn't any crime? Middle east dictators tried that. It didn't work in the long run.
We decommissioned last year 2 Sunfire 15K, upgraded to 25K level except for the system controllers; they clocked around 10 years of service; very nice hardware, but, essentially, they where what a modern 12U blade server is now.
Did you know that Iceland is the oldest democracy in existence? And, by the treatment received by bankers and politicians during the most recent financial crisis, it is the best performing democracy too.
The first contact with an Android phone I had was with the phone of a friend that was handed down to her by her dad 3 years ago. The old man couldn't cope with the slowness, the complicated interface and the fact that it wasn't good to make phone calls, so he got the old Nokia from my friend, and used it up to recently when he changed his and my friend's phone for a pair of iPhone 4s last Christmas. There is value in something that is easy to use. Certainly, he could have bought a modern Android phone or a simpler phone, but he wanted to use some features that only a smartphone could give like a good camera, video calls and some apps he liked from my friend's iPad. To make a modern gadget that a 75 years old man would find easy to use is not a small feat.
The afghans would deploy their ID-3 Hoihoi san or RRX-7.8 Combato san. That if they survive the culture shock at Akihabara.