Isn't this the same Asshat who was involved in creating a NEW DMCA type bill? Oh yeah, He was.. If that's the case, why does the story say "Congress" and not more specifically "Republican Congressman" or "Lamar Asshat"?
That said, I think the Military Industrial Complex is a far more insidious and dangerous entity and poses a much stronger threat to Democracy in the United States. The problem is that they have infested many of the congressional districts and states so that no lawmaker will deny their spending (as it means jobs and constituent happyness for the politico).
To the MASSIVE technological shift that's taken place in this country. Literally in the past 10 years, the country has become computerized and interconnected (through the internet) and people have people who don't understand are SCARED.
Add to this a mix of fascist officials and craven lawmakers who choose to ignore rights in search of appearing to address the security problem (insert Ben Franklin quote here).
It's not a fear of terrorism that drives this sort of thing, or even a fear for our children. It's a fear of our children. We're so scared of the little guys that the instant they bring school into their video game hobby, we freak out.
You're right, it's a culture of fear, but it goes beyond our children. It's the technology and to a large extent, a media-inspired culture of fear... of EVERYTHING.
That's pretty easy... sanitize your home dirs when you get the subpoena, set your PC's BIOS date about 6 months back, *then* mil-std wipe your drive, re-install your OS. Copy your (sanitized) homedir back, then reboot, set the BIOS a few weeks ahead, edit a few files... visit a few websites.. repeat a few times and you have a plausible 6-month history for your squeaky-clean PC.
I know this won't dissuade the more daring, but there's a flaw right there (bolded above). When you visit any external system, you need to make sure the timestamps of the metadata in those files is in-sync (within reason) with your "current datetime"... meaning if you're faking visiting websites from 1998, and the content of those sites you're downloading is from 2007, you better show em your Flux Capacitor, or prepare to get caught for tampering with evidence.
All that said, this whole "fishing expedition" that the RIAA can force on you, AND the fact that shared mp3's are even illegal are quite disturbing to me. Let's pray that in 5-10 years, the music industry wakes up and finds a business model that doesn't require them to play the jack-booted thugs in 1984.
Do I just not "get" it? Why should I use Web-based applications when OpenOffice works just as well? Why complicate things by introducing more points of failure (the whole Internet connection chain of devices, software, and protocols) into the mix?
Wait until Firefox 3 hits the web... once you can run your web-apps offline, you'll wonder how ever put up with non-internet enabled apps in the first place:-)
Contrary to what Apple's marketing department claims, Apple doesn't really innovate. They don't try to implement all the latest features into their products. However, I think that's what makes them so successful.
Apple does innovate... just not on technical features. They are a design (and lately, fashion) company and do an impressive job of it (on the level of Lotus "the car company" and Dyson "vacuums").
What features their products do have work extremely well and are easy to use. Apple knows how to keep things simple.
These are hallmarks of a great design innovation, not necessarily great technical innovation. Look at OSX Leopard: integrated backup "time machine", zfs, Dtrace, multi-windowing... these features are NOT innovative AT ALL... they were innovated elsewhere. What is innovative is how they are packaging them and integrating them. And that is something people are willing to pay $$$ for.
From a geek standpoint, they are closer in my view than most other folks to the elusive moniker of elegance.
Unfortunately, Brian Reynolds (primary designer of Civ 2, Colonization, and Alpha Centauri) is no longer working with Firaxis. I suspect that an Alpha Centauri 2 made by others would be too much "Civ in Space".
Tis sad.. tho his new gaming company, Big Huge Games, has done other nice titles
Who's going to do the filtering/moderating of internet/indie music? Where is a solid "Top 40" or other chart (like Billboard)? Please, tell me. I really do want to know because unless it changes, I whole-heartedly agree with the parent: I just don't have time to wade through shit to get to the 2 good songs I like. I need filtering.
I think the new wave of the future is "personalized" filtering a la Pandora or last.fm. If the indie scene can get on the radar of these "filtering" agents, the bands can avoid the oppressive hierarchy based RIAA type approach, which leads to consolidation of power and profits for the controllers of the system (and a handful of lucky bands that are superstars).
It sounds as if your phone is set up to store entries on the SIM card, which does indeed have this limitation.
That's a pretty poor excuse for moto to screw their whole interface (btw, my wife's E815 has the same issue, and we're on Verizon/CDMA, ie, no SIM... so why the same issues?).
When I was using GSM (tMobile), I had a T610 (still IMHO a decent phone that now gets used as a bluetooth remote via my Sailing Cliker). Interface was OK, but at least SonyEriccson didn't munge their address book. When you dumped to SIM (say if you were moving to a new phone), it simply would flatten the addresses to accomodate the old SIM standard.
Agree with GP poster... Moto deserves an F for interface design.
I don't know if that would do it. Craigslist is partly owned by eBay. It is a minority stake, but it may be enough to get IRS attention.
It's not a case of who owns whom... but more the case that in eBay, the final bid price is enforced and persisted in eBay's servers. Craigslist is merely a messageboard (with some great search functions) and since they don't make any $$ off the sale, the price, completion, etc are all not recorded on the Craigslist servers... thus completely anonymous.
Buyers and ellers on craigslist complete their sales in person, and in private, thus avoiding damning evidence.
Locking down the PC so that the receptionist cannot move data to his/her iPod would also, logically, prevent the iPod from doing anything that s/he would want it to do.
This is not true. The receptionist should be using his/her PC/Mac at HOME to load the iPod with *her* music. No interaction between the mp3 player and the workstation/laptop is necessary. The iPod still plays songs/video as it should, but without interacting with the work computer.
I understand this may be a non-issue for the latest Intel Macs, and so, Apple may not bother.
Hate to break it to ya, but as an owner of a C2D Macbook, I'd have to say, yeah, Spotlight still takes too long to not optimize... faster than my G5 iMac, but could definitely use improvement
Can't Apple employ the technology used in Launchbar or Quicksilver along with their existing technology to make the searches faster?
Sounds like an awesome quick improvement. I'd be all over that in 10.5 if they could add that.
The problem is that Apple's lawsuits could establish precedent that would directly effect legitimate whistleblowers in the future.
Is this truly the case? Prove it.
But if Apple successfully argues that reporters can be held liable for revealing information provided to them by an employee in violation of his NDA, that could have a real chilling effect on reporters in the future trying to report on REAL scandals and public interest stories.
I honestly think NDAs should be grounds for not allowing reporters access UNLESS it's a whistleblower situation (ie, uncovering of wrongdoing).
Seriously, the original finding in this case was very clear, and I don't understand why this judgment awarded court fees to the defendants. The original stated that unless there was some actual whistleblowing being done (ie, again, uncovering wrongdoing), then NDA's trump freedom of speech. In fact, that's expressly what NDA's are meant to do.
Horseshit! Just about every major scandal that ever broke in political or business history has been the result of some leaker willing to break the law and/or risk his life.
Look I understand the point you're trying to make (and I do support whistleblowers), but what part of "major scandal" encompasses what Apple's new product line?
And because I support whistleblowers... comparing AppleInsider and PowerPage to Bob Woodward (not to mention folks like Sibel Edmonds) does these true whistleblowers disrespect.
If I buy a pair of headphones at the dollar store, I'm not surprised when they sound crappy. Same goes for CFLs, people.
Note: at least where I live in CA, the "cheap" 99c price of CFL's are because of subsidized pricing... so please note that in SOME cases, you actually get MORE than what you pay for (ie, when it's subsidized) and shouldn't determine quality directly by price (I mean, is a RAZR that cost $49 with a re-up somehow worth less than the full-price $299 version.. well, assuming you were going to re-up anyway)?
I have both now (Parallels as well as the VMWare beta). Nice thing about VMWare is that the "tools" that give you the upgraded video driver, and drag/drop, work with more than just windows XP... which is great, since I have Ubuntu and win98 images as well.
I'm sick to death of defending MS against anti-MS FUD... but I'm even more sick of irrational and inconsistent bashing of one OS when other OS's don't meet the target either. Basically - FUD sucks in every way possible
Well, when a company like MS puts out as poorly secured and unstable products, it crosses the line to unusable if they aren't patched regularly.
In fact, it seems almost like planned obsolescence... their products are so shoddy that if you don't get patches in a timely fashion they become unsafe to use (perhaps this was intentionally done.. I mean they STILL can't get their security story straight). Compare and contrast this with say, OSX or AIX... would you feel terribly unsafe in using their products on a non-mission critical system if they weren't being supported and patched regularly?
Coke has fewer calories per ounce than orange juice, apple juice, or milk.
. Coke (at least in the US) has high-fructose corn syrup, not natural sugars like milk or juices (assuming your OJ != SunnyD). Don't know about you guys but for me these artificial sweeteners are MUCH WORSE than even processed sugar or *lots of calories*.
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But FingerWorks as a company has ceased operations... And it doesnt seem like Apple is going to reissue their products...
It's not about the products. When companies acquire other companies, many things are considered assets... products, as you mention, but also the workers/knowledge, the IP, the customer lists... often times the products sold by the acquired company themselves are not nearly the most valuable thing in an acquisition.
In this case, it was clear the patent portfolio of Fingerworks was the value-add to Apple.
I brought 4 CRV3 rechargeable batteries and a recharger all branded by Juice for a decent price on eBay.
Good on ya, that your camera takes CR-V3 (them's the coolest). Yeah, only wish more folks would design their damn battery cases to allow for CR-V3... only difference between an AA and a CR-V3 is the/\ groove that needs to be removed. I often wanted to sand this down in my devices so I could stop using AA's... especially my external DSLR flash.
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That said, I think the Military Industrial Complex is a far more insidious and dangerous entity and poses a much stronger threat to Democracy in the United States. The problem is that they have infested many of the congressional districts and states so that no lawmaker will deny their spending (as it means jobs and constituent happyness for the politico).
Add to this a mix of fascist officials and craven lawmakers who choose to ignore rights in search of appearing to address the security problem (insert Ben Franklin quote here).
You're right, it's a culture of fear, but it goes beyond our children. It's the technology and to a large extent, a media-inspired culture of fear... of EVERYTHING.
Also it's not a total surprise given the hints that Blizzard has been putting out (validity of "hints" left as an exercise to reader).
All that said, this whole "fishing expedition" that the RIAA can force on you, AND the fact that shared mp3's are even illegal are quite disturbing to me. Let's pray that in 5-10 years, the music industry wakes up and finds a business model that doesn't require them to play the jack-booted thugs in 1984.
I use firefox, because I prefer the wider selection of extensions and I actually prefer XPCOM, but hey... to each his own.
From a geek standpoint, they are closer in my view than most other folks to the elusive moniker of elegance.
Check out the interview about Civ2
When I was using GSM (tMobile), I had a T610 (still IMHO a decent phone that now gets used as a bluetooth remote via my Sailing Cliker). Interface was OK, but at least SonyEriccson didn't munge their address book. When you dumped to SIM (say if you were moving to a new phone), it simply would flatten the addresses to accomodate the old SIM standard.
Agree with GP poster... Moto deserves an F for interface design.
Buyers and ellers on craigslist complete their sales in person, and in private, thus avoiding damning evidence.
And because I support whistleblowers... comparing AppleInsider and PowerPage to Bob Woodward (not to mention folks like Sibel Edmonds) does these true whistleblowers disrespect.
I have both now (Parallels as well as the VMWare beta). Nice thing about VMWare is that the "tools" that give you the upgraded video driver, and drag/drop, work with more than just windows XP... which is great, since I have Ubuntu and win98 images as well.
In fact, it seems almost like planned obsolescence... their products are so shoddy that if you don't get patches in a timely fashion they become unsafe to use (perhaps this was intentionally done.. I mean they STILL can't get their security story straight). Compare and contrast this with say, OSX or AIX... would you feel terribly unsafe in using their products on a non-mission critical system if they weren't being supported and patched regularly?
In this case, it was clear the patent portfolio of Fingerworks was the value-add to Apple.