Very likely. There's a lot of money and power to be had in putting trackers in everyone's cars. Road tax, toll roads, insurance, speed limits...all of these would become much more lucrative.
Disables all kinds of GPS tracking equipment (as found on ATMs and in OnStar/LoJack for example) although you should use a cell jammer as well or you're only doing half the job.
You know what's funny, all those bullshit products say things like "proven by science" while the real stuff doesn't. So "proven by science" is a phrase that should now cause alarm bells to go off in your head.
And, I wouldn't be surprised if the UN tried to implement all the awful things the US has tried over the years on top of that. Don't forget, many different countries cooperated on ACTA.
I think it was last year's model Focus that introduced the louvers over the front radiator that would close sometimes to improve aerodynamics. They had these two vertical things at the sides of these louvers, and every time I see one of these Focuses the only thing I could think of was the Snake Bite monster truck with the two fangs on the front.
You can either suck it out the dipstick tube or pull the oil pan. Yep, they cheaped out and didn't put a bolt in the oil pan like every other friggin' car on the planet.
Wow, and those cars aren't cheap either. I bet aftermarket Smart oil pans are going to sell like hot cakes.
Every sports car these days is heavy as hell, hyper-complicated and usually quite large. If you want something light and simple that doesn't come in a kit it's gonna be over $50k (and even most kits will be over $30k once completed). Lotus Elise, TVR Sagaris, all too much money. There's nothing new out there for the non-rich enthusiast. The Toyota GT-86 looks like it might be the first decent new sports car (still a bit on the heavy side though), I'd buy one if I had to get a new car, but it's not $25kUS better than my current car so I'll at least wait until they depreciate. The Renault Twingo 133 cup looks pretty good too but the specs are almost the same as my current car.
Actually dying? Hey people can quit instead of throwing themselves off the roof. Of course it's a testament to just how shitty it is there, but unless they're putting their workers in danger I don't think dying is part of the bad working conditions.
iOS has a lot of technical improvements over PalmOS (although it took them some time to get the copy/paste, HTTP download, global search and many other features PalmOS had for a long time), but now you can only run apps approved by Apple vs. on PalmOS where you could run, develop or sell whatever you wanted freely. Is that really better?
Quality is too low? Wow of all the arguments against OSS you could have chosen - too techie-oriented, the names are funny, not "integrated" - you said the quality was too low, likely the poorest possible argument. I don't think you've ever used FOSS apps.
And lack of any "shared vision" is a good thing - even if that vision were a very good one. What if all of OSS followed Canonical's vision, we'd all be stuck with a horrible condescending UI.
Oh not the "number of apps" bullshit again. That has to be the most useless metric of all time. App quantity means nothing, only quality, and I'd bet that as the number of apps increases the average app quality goes down. That's been my experience anyways.
Look at Maemo, probably less than 1K apps in the main repos (not counting libraries and OS components), most of them very useful. PalmOS had a shitload and probably around half of them were shit. iOS and Android have ridiculous numbers and the vast majority of them are shit (and freeware and OSS have been systematically discriminated against, yay progress!). Who wants a fucking Geico app or a specialized reader for a website so that they can collect more detailed metrics on you?
Apple have done more for open mobile computing (by spurring the massive growth and development of Android) than anyone else (with the exception of the actual Android developers, of course, but that's implied - I just thought I should be explicit). The smartphone/mobile computing market is in better shape than it's ever been.
So on one hand they've created a massive walled garden and spurred almost all other companies to do the same, and on the other hand they've spurred development on a mostly-walled-garden OS which is compatible with another open OS (commercial vs. rooted Android) which you can and install open apps on...doesn't sound like a net win to me.
Even if developers are saving money by selling through the App Store, they're still harming themselves and reducing software freedom, giving Apple all control in exchange for *maybe* some savings.
Oh please, before the App Store there was the option of self-publishing an app for an open OS, this is how most PalmOS apps (and of course many Windows apps) were sold for example, no giving up cuts for the privilege of making an app for some platform and no manufacturer control over which apps can run on a platform. The unnecessary middleman between the developer and the user was being eliminated.
Slashdot Mirror
(I hope that no ship would reply solely on GPS, as the article seems to imply they may.)
Set sail for fail:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/automated-to-death/3
Very likely. There's a lot of money and power to be had in putting trackers in everyone's cars. Road tax, toll roads, insurance, speed limits...all of these would become much more lucrative.
I think he was referring to OnStar and insurance companies (insurance trackers are optional right now, but might be "optional" in the future.)
Disables all kinds of GPS tracking equipment (as found on ATMs and in OnStar/LoJack for example) although you should use a cell jammer as well or you're only doing half the job.
The tactics are consistent with their shilling campaign on Slashdot, far more negative attacks on competitors (mainly Google) than pro-MS stuff:
http://slashdot.org/journal/273120/list-of-shill-accounts-on-slashdot
You know what's funny, all those bullshit products say things like "proven by science" while the real stuff doesn't. So "proven by science" is a phrase that should now cause alarm bells to go off in your head.
And, I wouldn't be surprised if the UN tried to implement all the awful things the US has tried over the years on top of that. Don't forget, many different countries cooperated on ACTA.
To be fair it blares warnings at you like the world is about to end if you drain the battery to a dangerously low level.
That is a scary level of political fanboyism.
I think it was last year's model Focus that introduced the louvers over the front radiator that would close sometimes to improve aerodynamics. They had these two vertical things at the sides of these louvers, and every time I see one of these Focuses the only thing I could think of was the Snake Bite monster truck with the two fangs on the front.
You can either suck it out the dipstick tube or pull the oil pan. Yep, they cheaped out and didn't put a bolt in the oil pan like every other friggin' car on the planet.
Wow, and those cars aren't cheap either. I bet aftermarket Smart oil pans are going to sell like hot cakes.
Hahahaha the look on the Corvette and Camaro owners' faces must be priceless XD
Every sports car these days is heavy as hell, hyper-complicated and usually quite large. If you want something light and simple that doesn't come in a kit it's gonna be over $50k (and even most kits will be over $30k once completed). Lotus Elise, TVR Sagaris, all too much money. There's nothing new out there for the non-rich enthusiast. The Toyota GT-86 looks like it might be the first decent new sports car (still a bit on the heavy side though), I'd buy one if I had to get a new car, but it's not $25kUS better than my current car so I'll at least wait until they depreciate. The Renault Twingo 133 cup looks pretty good too but the specs are almost the same as my current car.
Holy shit what's wrong with you!? And I thought buying a new car once every 5 years was bad...
Use Flashblock so you don't have to run every flash object out there, thus reducing the performance and security problems.
Gnash mostly works well enough, it should be good enough to stand in until Flash is properly deprecated.
Or the BetterPrivacy plugin.
Actually dying? Hey people can quit instead of throwing themselves off the roof. Of course it's a testament to just how shitty it is there, but unless they're putting their workers in danger I don't think dying is part of the bad working conditions.
iOS has a lot of technical improvements over PalmOS (although it took them some time to get the copy/paste, HTTP download, global search and many other features PalmOS had for a long time), but now you can only run apps approved by Apple vs. on PalmOS where you could run, develop or sell whatever you wanted freely. Is that really better?
Quality is too low? Wow of all the arguments against OSS you could have chosen - too techie-oriented, the names are funny, not "integrated" - you said the quality was too low, likely the poorest possible argument. I don't think you've ever used FOSS apps.
And lack of any "shared vision" is a good thing - even if that vision were a very good one. What if all of OSS followed Canonical's vision, we'd all be stuck with a horrible condescending UI.
Oh not the "number of apps" bullshit again. That has to be the most useless metric of all time. App quantity means nothing, only quality, and I'd bet that as the number of apps increases the average app quality goes down. That's been my experience anyways.
Look at Maemo, probably less than 1K apps in the main repos (not counting libraries and OS components), most of them very useful. PalmOS had a shitload and probably around half of them were shit. iOS and Android have ridiculous numbers and the vast majority of them are shit (and freeware and OSS have been systematically discriminated against, yay progress!). Who wants a fucking Geico app or a specialized reader for a website so that they can collect more detailed metrics on you?
And Windows? A zillion apps and ALMOST ALL SHIT.
Apple have done more for open mobile computing (by spurring the massive growth and development of Android) than anyone else (with the exception of the actual Android developers, of course, but that's implied - I just thought I should be explicit). The smartphone/mobile computing market is in better shape than it's ever been.
So on one hand they've created a massive walled garden and spurred almost all other companies to do the same, and on the other hand they've spurred development on a mostly-walled-garden OS which is compatible with another open OS (commercial vs. rooted Android) which you can and install open apps on...doesn't sound like a net win to me.
Even if developers are saving money by selling through the App Store, they're still harming themselves and reducing software freedom, giving Apple all control in exchange for *maybe* some savings.
Oh please, before the App Store there was the option of self-publishing an app for an open OS, this is how most PalmOS apps (and of course many Windows apps) were sold for example, no giving up cuts for the privilege of making an app for some platform and no manufacturer control over which apps can run on a platform. The unnecessary middleman between the developer and the user was being eliminated.
It's in Eric Holder's fap folder.
Says an iOS user, LOL!