Win7 does the same thing and it gets in my way more than it helps, but that's probably because I've been using mouse gestures for many years now (MyGestures on Linux, StrokeIt on Windows).
The Droid 4 has the best hardware of any phone right now, I'm not a big fan of the software but I'm considering buying one and changing the OS (running some kind of GNU/Linux on it, or rooted Android if I have no other choice).
Oh and since I'll be called a Google fanboy for dissing an Apple product, none of them were Android phones. All those phones allowed open development and app distribution out of the box and were manufacturer-supported as such.
My current phone and the 2 phones I had before it (that is, all the PDA-phones I've owned) let me download, install, compile, run and freely distribute any apps I want for it, no fees or special licensing required. By that difference alone all iPhones are inferior.
It is hardly surprising that the newest toy will sell like hotcakes for a while (anyone else remember the netbook craze a few years back?) until everyone realizes that while the device is cool and useful for some things, a regular PC is just straight up better in so many ways.
Ah those were the good ol' days. When the hot new fad gadget was still a fully-functional, open computer, rather than a closed revenue extraction device.
There are a few GNU/Linux tablets out there too if you're looking for something open out of the box. Unfortunately they're running on the lower-end hardware for some reason.
Suspicion of terrorism, possibly due to having a name phonetically similar to a known terrorist or travelling to the wrong places while being middle-eastern.
Hah, no more open than Kickstarter then. But the founders did say that the summary was misleading, jjbeshara explained his intentions with the site above, to be more of a "kickstarter for small groups."
But I assume if you pool money to buy weed in bulk it won't go through.
A lot of people don't realize this but SA forums actually have very strict rules. If you posted anything resembling child porn on there you'd be banned fast and hard and have to pay $10 to open a new account. Trolling, griefing, and depending on how and where you post it, porn, is totally fair game though.
I personally disagree that children (as in pre-pubescent, do not have their own sexual desires) can consent but let's ignore that for a moment. Legally, children are almost property, how can you be sure that consent is not coercion? I bet all of Warren Jeffs' child brides would tell you that they consented.
There has to be a line drawn between OMG-FREEDOM-AT-ALL-COSTS and posting sexual pictures of children.
And you try to present a false dichotomy where we either have to live in the curated, controlled, freedomless future you love, or allow child porn.
It's false because you can't stop child porn either way. I agree that reasonable efforts should be taken and Reddit was playing with fire for a while now, but your controlled future will not stop child porn, not as long as people have access to cryptography and darknets. The genie's out of the bottle and you can't put it back by creating a locked-down genie-free zone. You'll just make it worse for people inside the zone while the same activity flourishes outside of it.
Right now, as we speak, a shit-ton of child porn is being traded openly on darknets, and there is nothing anyone can do about it. That won't change if almost everyone is using an Apple-controlled iOS device and Apple is controlling what everybody sees. As long as it is legally, or at the very least physically possible to run an open computer that will continue. Even in the dystopian world of RMS' Right to Read which you jack off to every night, 100% lockdown didn't exist.
You can't control everything, good-faith efforts are the best we can do. Deal with it.
Legally it is, right or wrong. As far as the law is concerned below the age of consent, whatever that is in your jurisdiction (in most places it's 16 or 18), is pedophilia.
The NSA does not come to my office and demand that I arbitrarily plant trojans on our partners' and customers' machines. If they did, I would fight them fang, tooth and claw.
Consider the AT&T interception room, the people working there weren't as upstanding as you. I know it's server-side spying rather than client-side but it's not much better.
Also consider the laws that allow the US government unfettered access to Gmail, Blackberry comms., cellular data...is that so different from the Chinese government asking Chinese companies to spy for them?
And if the Chinese citizens think their government isn't a danger to them, they're morons. They were a danger to their own citizens long before they were a danger to any foreigners.
Hah, if only. Compromising is all they do. It's all they've done since Obama was elected, and now they're surprised when the Repubs won't return the favor. Both parties should have been the "party of no" such that those with the most "noes" gets their way. That's how politics was supposed to work, but the Dems & Repubs work together behind the scenes. Wikileaks revealed that the Dems protected the Repubs from international war crimes prosecution, why? So that the Dems could get away with all the same abuses and worse. They have one thing in common, they both want more power and less oversight for the government.
And now here's the best part, I'm *not* going to tell you to vote for Ron Paul, because he's not better, just different. Lopping off random parts of the government and pulling the control rods out of the economy is not the solution, and if you don't like government in your lives why would you want it in your beds?
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Win7 does the same thing and it gets in my way more than it helps, but that's probably because I've been using mouse gestures for many years now (MyGestures on Linux, StrokeIt on Windows).
Haha I always thought the same thing.
It can't be Eric "privacy is for criminals" Schmidt?
The Droid 4 has the best hardware of any phone right now, I'm not a big fan of the software but I'm considering buying one and changing the OS (running some kind of GNU/Linux on it, or rooted Android if I have no other choice).
Oh and since I'll be called a Google fanboy for dissing an Apple product, none of them were Android phones. All those phones allowed open development and app distribution out of the box and were manufacturer-supported as such.
My current phone and the 2 phones I had before it (that is, all the PDA-phones I've owned) let me download, install, compile, run and freely distribute any apps I want for it, no fees or special licensing required. By that difference alone all iPhones are inferior.
And what about law abiding young people?
A tiny minority. Most youths are like the scary ones on TV, always burning stuff and getting into trouble you know :-P
From what I understand they prefer to ride silly-looking motorcycles around.
It is hardly surprising that the newest toy will sell like hotcakes for a while (anyone else remember the netbook craze a few years back?) until everyone realizes that while the device is cool and useful for some things, a regular PC is just straight up better in so many ways.
Ah those were the good ol' days. When the hot new fad gadget was still a fully-functional, open computer, rather than a closed revenue extraction device.
There are a few GNU/Linux tablets out there too if you're looking for something open out of the box. Unfortunately they're running on the lower-end hardware for some reason.
Suspicion of terrorism, possibly due to having a name phonetically similar to a known terrorist or travelling to the wrong places while being middle-eastern.
While I agree with you morally, we can't have a "civilized" society as we know it without the things we have from other countries at Walmart prices.
Yes, god forbid we stop making a few people ludicrously rich at everyone else's expense.
Here's a couple more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_coal_sludge_spill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_County_sludge_spill
It's more cotton and denim than wood-pulp paper IIRC.
If they let us non-Americans pay for stuff online we'll just use it for money laundering, don'tcha know :-P
Hah, no more open than Kickstarter then. But the founders did say that the summary was misleading, jjbeshara explained his intentions with the site above, to be more of a "kickstarter for small groups."
But I assume if you pool money to buy weed in bulk it won't go through.
Or Solidcoin which fixes the security problems of Bitcoin.
A lot of people don't realize this but SA forums actually have very strict rules. If you posted anything resembling child porn on there you'd be banned fast and hard and have to pay $10 to open a new account. Trolling, griefing, and depending on how and where you post it, porn, is totally fair game though.
Relevant quote:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0576930/quotes?qt0236135
I personally disagree that children (as in pre-pubescent, do not have their own sexual desires) can consent but let's ignore that for a moment. Legally, children are almost property, how can you be sure that consent is not coercion? I bet all of Warren Jeffs' child brides would tell you that they consented.
There has to be a line drawn between OMG-FREEDOM-AT-ALL-COSTS and posting sexual pictures of children.
And you try to present a false dichotomy where we either have to live in the curated, controlled, freedomless future you love, or allow child porn.
It's false because you can't stop child porn either way. I agree that reasonable efforts should be taken and Reddit was playing with fire for a while now, but your controlled future will not stop child porn, not as long as people have access to cryptography and darknets. The genie's out of the bottle and you can't put it back by creating a locked-down genie-free zone. You'll just make it worse for people inside the zone while the same activity flourishes outside of it.
Right now, as we speak, a shit-ton of child porn is being traded openly on darknets, and there is nothing anyone can do about it. That won't change if almost everyone is using an Apple-controlled iOS device and Apple is controlling what everybody sees. As long as it is legally, or at the very least physically possible to run an open computer that will continue. Even in the dystopian world of RMS' Right to Read which you jack off to every night, 100% lockdown didn't exist.
You can't control everything, good-faith efforts are the best we can do. Deal with it.
Legally it is, right or wrong. As far as the law is concerned below the age of consent, whatever that is in your jurisdiction (in most places it's 16 or 18), is pedophilia.
The NSA does not come to my office and demand that I arbitrarily plant trojans on our partners' and customers' machines. If they did, I would fight them fang, tooth and claw.
Consider the AT&T interception room, the people working there weren't as upstanding as you. I know it's server-side spying rather than client-side but it's not much better.
Also consider the laws that allow the US government unfettered access to Gmail, Blackberry comms., cellular data...is that so different from the Chinese government asking Chinese companies to spy for them?
And if the Chinese citizens think their government isn't a danger to them, they're morons. They were a danger to their own citizens long before they were a danger to any foreigners.
Didn't you have your book up on some DRM-free ebook site before? I remember I was planning on buying it from there.
The Dems do not compromise
Hah, if only. Compromising is all they do. It's all they've done since Obama was elected, and now they're surprised when the Repubs won't return the favor. Both parties should have been the "party of no" such that those with the most "noes" gets their way. That's how politics was supposed to work, but the Dems & Repubs work together behind the scenes. Wikileaks revealed that the Dems protected the Repubs from international war crimes prosecution, why? So that the Dems could get away with all the same abuses and worse. They have one thing in common, they both want more power and less oversight for the government.
And now here's the best part, I'm *not* going to tell you to vote for Ron Paul, because he's not better, just different. Lopping off random parts of the government and pulling the control rods out of the economy is not the solution, and if you don't like government in your lives why would you want it in your beds?