Where are you drawing the line to distinguish "your data" that you have a legitimate right to not expect exploitation of vs. something which comes through as a result of using the system?
If I upload my photos to Facebook, I would still expect that is "my data" - I'm using Facebook as a distribution platform, but that doesn't mean I'm handing it over to them. If I were to use a Facebook "app" to modify my photo in a certain way, I could possibly understand your point of view, but a "reasonable person" would still expect continued ownership. Adobe doesn't claim ownership of every file modified with Photoshop, so why should that be different for an online "app"?
And then there's the case of putting your birthdate on Facebook. Partially, Facebook justifies it as complying with the need to check the user is over 13 - you put it in so your friends can be notified of your birthday, and in turn you can be notified of theirs. However, there's little doubt Facebook is shopping this, as well as your gender data, for all it's worth to advertisers - demographics and targeted messaging is key to even 50 year old advertising models. I'd consider my birthdate private information on par with a bank account number - after all, it is so often used to secure the bank accounts. So where's the line?
What the headline promises is how "Big Data" justifies mining personal data, not on what basis it is legal for them to do so. I'd like an answer or an opinion on that, but I'm sure it would be the all-too-obvious data-for-advertising-to-make-the-service-free.
It depends if you take the position that this is just a software feature which could have been enabled for the 3GS but wasn't; given the abilities of MyWi, I'm inclined to think that. That means that this was a deliberately excluded feature - and it's not as though the feature was coming for free to all and sundry.
I'm not saying Apple should not have full control of what features are in software, but I guess this is the first instance where 3GS owners feel like distinctly second class citizens. It won't harm me, it doesn't take away any features I didn't have, but it does incline me towards jailbreaking and trying out MyWi, which should be something I can do with a device I've owned for nearly 2 years now.
Apple doesn't allow charging for updates (yet), but that doesn't stop developers from working around it. Tweetie 1.0 was succeeded by a different version as 2.0, for which the user would need to pay $2 again.
Of course, PC users are used to paying for updated versions, right?
The thing you (and others here) have missed is that Trinity College is essentially just a $20k/yr private dorm. It's not paid for or subsidised by the tax payer in any way.
Sci-Fi's superluminal communication can actually be extrapolated from Quantum entanglement, if you're so inclined. Not saying that's a guaranteed solution, but you can imagine it happening.
Of course, the energy picture is complicated by the fact that DST typically occurs in summer, when temperatures are hotter and there is greater demand for powered cooling, and the demand for that varies from year to year. There's no control environment to measure it against, so it won't satisfy stringent experiment conditions.
In other words, "when pigs fly". In 2009, swine flu.
Err... ok... how exactly are you equating the H1N1 "swine" flu with pigs flying? did you want me to label it independently-ambulatory true porcine gravitational counteraction resulting in the significant unassisted elevation and movement of Suinae Sus?
Eliminate useless crap like Daylight Savings Time. Legal noon and solar noon should have the same offset every day of the year. If you believe that shifting schedules with the seasons has a useful impact, changing your alarm is just as easy as changing your clock.
Changing your own alarm might be easy enough, but changing everyone's schedule is the tough bit. The reason time shifts in daylight savings is to try to extend the evening hours of daylight, reducing energy use. If we don't change the clock and work schedules continue as per the winter, you lose that extra hour of benefit. Either change your clock, or get everyone to agree to opening and closing an hour earlier between April and October.
Note that this is only relevant for locations from around 30 degrees of latitude and beyond, which can cause issues. Closer latitudes don't see nearly as much benefit.
12 hour clocks should be phased out officially as well, they serve no purpose but confusion.
12 hour digital clocks serve no other purpose than historical consistency. 12 hour analogue clocks also do the same, but until 24 hour analogue clocks become commonplace I wouldn't expect it to switch - and a lot of people feel passionate that analogue is "the" way to represent time.
Define a set of purely geographical time zones, equally sized to some chosen chunk of time (likely one hour in keeping with current general practice). Names should be simple and non-political, personally I favor just the standard UTC+/-x:xx format... Geographical time zones should then be assigned to countries based purely on physical location. Where a country crosses a geographical time zone line, it should keep its normal time zone unless it goes significantly in to the next one.
Generally speaking, this is true already, with the exception of certain politically motivated locations where the geographical time is overridden. I estimate you can get global political agreement on timezone consistency shortly after global peace imposed through evidence of porcine aviation.
Where two or more time zones are in use by a country, they should be assigned over as large of political subdivisions as reasonable. Using the US as an example, I'd mainly ride the state lines unless a state had significant ground in multiple geographical zones, then go to county by county if a state needed to be split.
So wait... what's happening now that's any different? At least as far as I can see in the US and Australia where I live, that's roughly the idea. We do have one timezone here that is a half hour, but that is because the political divisions (i.e. states) are straddling two nominal timezones. And given we have "counties" that are larger than American states, it's a little hard to say we'll split on those lines.
China and India are two examples of countries where a single timezone is applied even though it spans multiple timezones - both are cases of administrative convenience, and good luck persuading them to adjust.
Not if the issues were with a stripped screw and a unseated connection on the IR device. Chances are the screw would not have moved, and the IR device connection would be the same. Build procedures should still be the same.
ActiveX is the plugin mechanism for IE - they haven't replaced that yet, and it's not like they would replace it with the NPAPI mechanism used in Firefox, Chrome et al.
actually, that could be interpreted as pro-life - after all, you're breaking up large asteroids into smaller meteorites that could scatter everywhere. Of course, there would have to be an optimal balance between small enough to scatter but large enough to survive falling through the atmosphere...
What are they going to do, call your cell phone number? so if it's being used by someone else they'll call them and that person will say "yeah sure go ahead"?
In this case though it's a bit of caveat emptor. This isn't a remote attack vector that you get just by visiting a website - you have to install the app. Be wary of installing apps from unofficial sources and monitor your own damn bill.
This is far from a 1st generation Apple product. They might have the new Sandy Bridge chips and mobo, but by and large these are identical to the previous unibody line.
That's not quite how it was intended - the constitution as we have it was born out of the need for a more cohesive Federal government. Have a look at this wikipedia section for an idea of the difficulties the Federal government had with just 13 states in the union.
Your point is well made, but I would like to think that I'm being a bit more practical about things. It's hard enough to get 3/5s of the senators to agree on any one item, let alone the question of powers available to the federal government; wrangling 2/3rds of the states into agreeing to giving up any sort of power would be nigh on impossible. Practicality and pragmatism wins the day for me, and that's something that is sorely lacking in politicians these days all attempting to play to their "base".
technology advances too fast for you to hang on to the same piece of electronics for years and years.
Technology might advance, but that doesn't mean needs do. For 80% of the people buying these things, the power of a laptop from 3 years ago is more than sufficient - a bit of document editing/spreadsheets, emails, internet, photos and the like and you're hardly likely to notice a change. From personal experience, many would prefer to have a laptop that doesn't break and goes along perfectly fine for 3 years rather than have to upgrade every 12 months.
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Where are you drawing the line to distinguish "your data" that you have a legitimate right to not expect exploitation of vs. something which comes through as a result of using the system?
If I upload my photos to Facebook, I would still expect that is "my data" - I'm using Facebook as a distribution platform, but that doesn't mean I'm handing it over to them. If I were to use a Facebook "app" to modify my photo in a certain way, I could possibly understand your point of view, but a "reasonable person" would still expect continued ownership. Adobe doesn't claim ownership of every file modified with Photoshop, so why should that be different for an online "app"?
And then there's the case of putting your birthdate on Facebook. Partially, Facebook justifies it as complying with the need to check the user is over 13 - you put it in so your friends can be notified of your birthday, and in turn you can be notified of theirs. However, there's little doubt Facebook is shopping this, as well as your gender data, for all it's worth to advertisers - demographics and targeted messaging is key to even 50 year old advertising models. I'd consider my birthdate private information on par with a bank account number - after all, it is so often used to secure the bank accounts. So where's the line?
What the headline promises is how "Big Data" justifies mining personal data, not on what basis it is legal for them to do so. I'd like an answer or an opinion on that, but I'm sure it would be the all-too-obvious data-for-advertising-to-make-the-service-free.
It depends if you take the position that this is just a software feature which could have been enabled for the 3GS but wasn't; given the abilities of MyWi, I'm inclined to think that. That means that this was a deliberately excluded feature - and it's not as though the feature was coming for free to all and sundry.
I'm not saying Apple should not have full control of what features are in software, but I guess this is the first instance where 3GS owners feel like distinctly second class citizens. It won't harm me, it doesn't take away any features I didn't have, but it does incline me towards jailbreaking and trying out MyWi, which should be something I can do with a device I've owned for nearly 2 years now.
Welcome to planned obsolescence! Please take your number and join the queue for the new version in June.
(I'm in the same position, but I've experimented with jailbreak - hadn't found truly compelling reasons for keeping it, but now I'm far more inclined)
Apple doesn't allow charging for updates (yet), but that doesn't stop developers from working around it. Tweetie 1.0 was succeeded by a different version as 2.0, for which the user would need to pay $2 again.
Of course, PC users are used to paying for updated versions, right?
Link?
Goddamn, it actually is. How about that.
The thing you (and others here) have missed is that Trinity College is essentially just a $20k/yr private dorm. It's not paid for or subsidised by the tax payer in any way.
Sci-Fi's superluminal communication can actually be extrapolated from Quantum entanglement, if you're so inclined. Not saying that's a guaranteed solution, but you can imagine it happening.
On the other hand, it's just about the perfect definition of off-site backup!
What studies show that daylight saving time reduces energy use in practice?
http://www.energy.ca.gov/daylightsaving.html links to this DOE 2008 report [PDF] which suggests Daylight Savings saved the US 1.3 TWh over 4 weeks in 2007. While this only corresponds to 0.03% of the annual energy output, it's a fair chunk in absolute terms.
Of course, the energy picture is complicated by the fact that DST typically occurs in summer, when temperatures are hotter and there is greater demand for powered cooling, and the demand for that varies from year to year. There's no control environment to measure it against, so it won't satisfy stringent experiment conditions.
In other words, "when pigs fly". In 2009, swine flu.
Err... ok... how exactly are you equating the H1N1 "swine" flu with pigs flying? did you want me to label it independently-ambulatory true porcine gravitational counteraction resulting in the significant unassisted elevation and movement of Suinae Sus?
Are you suggesting there was no editing in that video?
If you do a little reading up on it, that's partially already the case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone#Skewing_of_zones
Eliminate useless crap like Daylight Savings Time. Legal noon and solar noon should have the same offset every day of the year. If you believe that shifting schedules with the seasons has a useful impact, changing your alarm is just as easy as changing your clock.
Changing your own alarm might be easy enough, but changing everyone's schedule is the tough bit. The reason time shifts in daylight savings is to try to extend the evening hours of daylight, reducing energy use. If we don't change the clock and work schedules continue as per the winter, you lose that extra hour of benefit. Either change your clock, or get everyone to agree to opening and closing an hour earlier between April and October.
Note that this is only relevant for locations from around 30 degrees of latitude and beyond, which can cause issues. Closer latitudes don't see nearly as much benefit.
12 hour clocks should be phased out officially as well, they serve no purpose but confusion.
12 hour digital clocks serve no other purpose than historical consistency. 12 hour analogue clocks also do the same, but until 24 hour analogue clocks become commonplace I wouldn't expect it to switch - and a lot of people feel passionate that analogue is "the" way to represent time.
Define a set of purely geographical time zones, equally sized to some chosen chunk of time (likely one hour in keeping with current general practice). Names should be simple and non-political, personally I favor just the standard UTC+/-x:xx format... Geographical time zones should then be assigned to countries based purely on physical location. Where a country crosses a geographical time zone line, it should keep its normal time zone unless it goes significantly in to the next one.
Generally speaking, this is true already, with the exception of certain politically motivated locations where the geographical time is overridden. I estimate you can get global political agreement on timezone consistency shortly after global peace imposed through evidence of porcine aviation.
Where two or more time zones are in use by a country, they should be assigned over as large of political subdivisions as reasonable. Using the US as an example, I'd mainly ride the state lines unless a state had significant ground in multiple geographical zones, then go to county by county if a state needed to be split.
So wait... what's happening now that's any different? At least as far as I can see in the US and Australia where I live, that's roughly the idea. We do have one timezone here that is a half hour, but that is because the political divisions (i.e. states) are straddling two nominal timezones. And given we have "counties" that are larger than American states, it's a little hard to say we'll split on those lines.
China and India are two examples of countries where a single timezone is applied even though it spans multiple timezones - both are cases of administrative convenience, and good luck persuading them to adjust.
Either (1) There must be a whole lot of self-love abstination, or (2) there's a whole lotta memes that never see the light of morning...
Not if the issues were with a stripped screw and a unseated connection on the IR device. Chances are the screw would not have moved, and the IR device connection would be the same. Build procedures should still be the same.
Let's not even mention what they'd do with execute permission.
ActiveX is the plugin mechanism for IE - they haven't replaced that yet, and it's not like they would replace it with the NPAPI mechanism used in Firefox, Chrome et al.
No, Javascript is not an ActiveX plugin.
actually, that could be interpreted as pro-life - after all, you're breaking up large asteroids into smaller meteorites that could scatter everywhere. Of course, there would have to be an optimal balance between small enough to scatter but large enough to survive falling through the atmosphere...
What are they going to do, call your cell phone number? so if it's being used by someone else they'll call them and that person will say "yeah sure go ahead"?
In this case though it's a bit of caveat emptor. This isn't a remote attack vector that you get just by visiting a website - you have to install the app. Be wary of installing apps from unofficial sources and monitor your own damn bill.
This is far from a 1st generation Apple product. They might have the new Sandy Bridge chips and mobo, but by and large these are identical to the previous unibody line.
That's not quite how it was intended - the constitution as we have it was born out of the need for a more cohesive Federal government. Have a look at this wikipedia section for an idea of the difficulties the Federal government had with just 13 states in the union.
Your point is well made, but I would like to think that I'm being a bit more practical about things. It's hard enough to get 3/5s of the senators to agree on any one item, let alone the question of powers available to the federal government; wrangling 2/3rds of the states into agreeing to giving up any sort of power would be nigh on impossible. Practicality and pragmatism wins the day for me, and that's something that is sorely lacking in politicians these days all attempting to play to their "base".
technology advances too fast for you to hang on to the same piece of electronics for years and years.
Technology might advance, but that doesn't mean needs do. For 80% of the people buying these things, the power of a laptop from 3 years ago is more than sufficient - a bit of document editing/spreadsheets, emails, internet, photos and the like and you're hardly likely to notice a change. From personal experience, many would prefer to have a laptop that doesn't break and goes along perfectly fine for 3 years rather than have to upgrade every 12 months.
(posted from my 2008 MacBook Pro)