Because the point is, with or without a warrant the tapping of the phones of journalists on this scale is terrifying. There is NO justification for behavior like this from our government. If they had a warrant its almost worse.
Political contributions by businesses to politicians are ALWAYS bribes. Period. Businesses expect a return on their investments. Individuals donate to candidates because they feel generally that the candidate will do the right thing in office (or sometimes because they feel their opponent will definitely do the wrong thing) Businesses on the other hand have a very narrow focus, and when they donate to a political figure it's very clear why they are doing that. They want something... and later they will make it clear what that something is. Walmart comes out in favor of some legislation... last election they gave you $50k in donations... voting against this thing they are "Strongly supporting" clearly means what to your next campaign effort? It's pretty easy to do the math.
Lost in all this is the fraud that a $50k/semester college is better than a $5k/semester college. Yes, if you're at the top of your class it will garner you more prestige and maybe a better shot at a higher paying job. But will you actually know any more or have any better skills than if you'd gone somewhere else? Not at all. If your goal is learning, then this is no barrier what-so-ever. If your goal is getting into this countries upper cast, then there's a lot easier ways than attending one of these schools.
When I graduated high school, I went strait to state college. No one in my family had ever attended college before so I didn't have anyone to ask about it ahead of time. At the time I looked down on technical college thinking it wasn't up to par. But the fact is, 66% of the people that attended by state college dropped out. At the local technical college the graduation rate was more than double. The classes were smaller, the teachers more hands on. Now that I have my own son, he'll get taught that technical schools are great and that's exactly where he should start his college years. If he gets to the point where he needs to go to a bigger school to learn the skills he wants to learn then fine. But technical schools are where everyone should start.
I can take my phone into the bathroom at work and sit on the toilet for 30min without my boss giving me a hard time. Try doing that with a NintendoDS 4D ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha (or whatever they are called now)
Cyanogenmod is its own flavor of android. If your particular phone has been modified in such ways that it needs a special flavor of android to work (and granted, most do in the US) then you will need a special flavor of Cyanogenmod. This is not the CM communities problem, nor are they the ones working on your port. Getting it to work on your phone likely isn't nearly as complicated as you think it is (I had to hack one together myself) though you risk bricking your phone if you're not careful. There are less deadly mistakes as well, like getting the modem or media texting screwed up and not realizing that your boss has been trying to call you for 2 days strait. But you can do it yourself if you want.
Your best bet is to buy a phone that doesn't have a contract and has vanilla android on it. Then you wont need these special builds.
Your argument may or may not be sound. I'll not even go there. Would you at least admit that digging up chemicals that have been buried for hundreds of millions of years and burning them, en-mass across the entire globe is probably a bad thing?
Am I the only one that thinks taking CO2 concentration measurements near one of the most active volcanic regions in the world is not such a good idea? Not saying the measurements are wrong, it just seems like they could have picked a better spot...
It can be used either way. In Pro-audio speakers, each has a Resonant Frequency. It's tested as "Fs" or "Free air Resonance" as a result the community ended up mixing the two words ages ago and now everyone calls it Resonance Frequency, Resonant Frequency, Fs or RF. It all means the same thing. Language is a living breathing thing and this guy is only wrong in trying to get someone else to stick to rules that don't exist. His use of the term isn't incorrect, he's just being a dick.
When you charge a monthly subscription to play a game, people then feel obligated to play THAT game. Playing a free game seems silly, because that game will always be there and always be free. As a result players of the game power through content rather fast. So the game producer is now stuck building more and more content because their revenue stream is based on the player base not getting bored. Eventually they try to re-use content, and this is where grind comes in. They make getting through the scenery harder. So the customer wont reach their goals before their monthly sub runs out, so they have to buy another. Eventually the players realize they are on a hamster wheel and the goal line is always getting moved. What keeps them then is the social experience. Guilds and the like. But now you have a customer in a very precarious situation. They likely want to leave, but don't want to lose their friends. So you end up losing customers in catastrophic ways... either the customer waits for some social dysfunction to happen (big argument after a failed raid) after which they leave forever and now can never come back because of the fight or... the entire guild makes a plan to move to a different game and leave in mass exodus.
IMO if MMOs want to survive this sort of thing they need to make a few changes: Offer MMOs in bundles. Multiple games that you can play with the same subscription. And don't charge more just because they can play different games. In truth the load on your servers is the same. Just charge for the game up front, then charge a "network subscription" that covers all of your games. They can buy the games they want to add to that sub for $50 or whatever and then their monthly sub will cover them all. It'll be affordable and will keep the customer in your network and give them enough variety to move around and not get board.
If game mechanics allow, let customers change their in-game identity for free once every 3 months or so. So they can abandon old fights and such. Then they can come back and start new. Server moves should be free as well.
End grinding. Let those that want to power through to the end of the game do so. Better yet, make it a setting that gives you a title. If you set your character to "grind mode" or whatever you get a title "Lord of whatever" or something. Generally people that like that sort of thing only like it because they want to brag about how hard it was for them.
With the android OS and the play store, you can require a password to purchase anything. I've set it up on my wifes tablet after my 5yr old bought $10 worth of slingshots in angrybirds by mistake. It should be on by default, but it's easy enough to setup that I'm not going to bitch too much.
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The limits we set on the constitution are chains we put on ourselves. No matter how dangerous you think guns are... or the ability to make them easily... or even terrorists... None of them even approach the dangers of a government unconstrained by a constitution. Hundreds, maybe thousands may die as a result of unconstrained gun rights, I'll not argue that with you. But compare that to the Governments of Germany, Russia, Vietnam, and many others who've murder hundreds of millions of people, tortured even more. Committed genocide, destabilized all of humanity for decades... all because due to lack restraints on government and legal chains put on free people.
An armed citizen may kill a few dozen, but government could kill the world.
My Local Target has this for per-order. I was kind of shocked to see it. This may be a lot bigger deal than I had originally imagined. $99 really brings it down into a reasonable birthday/Christmas present for the kids.
This is like a fire alarm in a dorm. Everyone knows the buildings made out of cinder block, but you just don't know what could happen... and fire alarms are cheap so why the hell not?
This isn't that big of a deal. I know someone that had this job for a while. According to him (and of course this is just something a friend of mine told me over beers so take it for what it's worth) it's a miserable job. You're just stuck, bored to death for very very long periods of time. You have no sunlight. Everyone in the room has sworn and oath and passed psychological tests that prove they will kill you if you threaten a launch or are in any other way ordered to kill you. So it's not like you can really be friends with any of them in any real way. Even when you do get to come out after a tour, you're in the middle of no-where. It's just a vast empty plane. And the entire purpose of you being there is to destroy all of humanity. As bored as you are you have plenty of time to dwell on the nature of your job... your life... why you're th.... BWAP BWAP BWAP!!!!! ALERT ALERT!!! oooo... missed it by 2.3 seconds. Fuck it all to hell.
I can think of several people that I would like to volunteer for a one-way ticket to Mars. Were these volunteers self-nominated, or did Mars One accept third-party nominations?
More importantly, how many responders are serious? Would they really climb into a craft to go to mars? I'd wager around, let's see, none.
Think about how many people have no family left, have been left penniless due to financial problems, maybe even under so much debt they'll never get out... have no retirement left... Why the heck wouldn't they go? They have no hope of what they would consider a meaningful or successful life here... why not try mars?
I've got an uncle that runs one of these systems and the control portion of it doesn't have external access. The point of it is, he knows the status of every fan, vent, boiler, furnace, air conditioner in the building. In the past he'd have to wait until someone complained it was too cold somewhere... walk around till he felt a cold spot... put flow meters over vents in the area... look at diagrams to find which systems feed that area... start testing motors and condensers...
Now... and little red light goes on, he clicks on it and asks him if he'd like to order the part to replace what's broken. It arrives before the end of the day and he installs it. What used to take weeks now takes hours and the vendor gets a sweet exclusive deal on parts. If you've got a building that you want premium service in (in his case it's a casino) then this is the way to go.
Not really. Most applications are used internally. Yes, IE6 is a vulnerability, but it's hidden behind layers upon layers of other security. Firewalls, antivirus, business practice, application management, user management. If your worry really is the security on IE6, there are actually multiple solutions to that problem. 1. get rid of IE6 and upgrade lots of software at a very high cost when you're not ready to. 2. Cut off employees access to facebook. To management, that's a no-brainer.
The fact of the matter is, if you get compromised via IE6, IE6 wasn't your only problem. It was the least of your problems.
Seriously folks... they HAVE nukes. We know this. They've detonated them underground, we've detected the flash. It's fact. (unless both they and our own government is lieing to us... a distinct possibility)
Do they have missiles that can launch them? Who gives a shit? Any ballistic missile they would have would be trivial for our military to shoot down. They do, however, have very sophisticated submarines. All they need to do is load one of their nukes on a sub and sail it into a major harbor anywhere in the world and viola, world catastrophe. This is the threat we should be worried about. The whole missile thing is just sabre rattling, irrelevant of their real capabilities. They'd need thousands to overwhelm our defenses.
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Because the point is, with or without a warrant the tapping of the phones of journalists on this scale is terrifying. There is NO justification for behavior like this from our government. If they had a warrant its almost worse.
Political contributions by businesses to politicians are ALWAYS bribes. Period. Businesses expect a return on their investments. Individuals donate to candidates because they feel generally that the candidate will do the right thing in office (or sometimes because they feel their opponent will definitely do the wrong thing) Businesses on the other hand have a very narrow focus, and when they donate to a political figure it's very clear why they are doing that. They want something... and later they will make it clear what that something is. Walmart comes out in favor of some legislation... last election they gave you $50k in donations... voting against this thing they are "Strongly supporting" clearly means what to your next campaign effort? It's pretty easy to do the math.
There wouldn't be patents either.
Lost in all this is the fraud that a $50k/semester college is better than a $5k/semester college. Yes, if you're at the top of your class it will garner you more prestige and maybe a better shot at a higher paying job. But will you actually know any more or have any better skills than if you'd gone somewhere else? Not at all. If your goal is learning, then this is no barrier what-so-ever. If your goal is getting into this countries upper cast, then there's a lot easier ways than attending one of these schools.
When I graduated high school, I went strait to state college. No one in my family had ever attended college before so I didn't have anyone to ask about it ahead of time. At the time I looked down on technical college thinking it wasn't up to par. But the fact is, 66% of the people that attended by state college dropped out. At the local technical college the graduation rate was more than double. The classes were smaller, the teachers more hands on. Now that I have my own son, he'll get taught that technical schools are great and that's exactly where he should start his college years. If he gets to the point where he needs to go to a bigger school to learn the skills he wants to learn then fine. But technical schools are where everyone should start.
I can take my phone into the bathroom at work and sit on the toilet for 30min without my boss giving me a hard time. Try doing that with a NintendoDS 4D ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha (or whatever they are called now)
You understand that in this case the police HAD a warrant. What's your complaint?
That encryption is not encryption if Apple can "undo" it.
Apples stock also got cut in half. But if you want to ignore every financial number that means anything go right ahead.
Cyanogenmod is its own flavor of android. If your particular phone has been modified in such ways that it needs a special flavor of android to work (and granted, most do in the US) then you will need a special flavor of Cyanogenmod. This is not the CM communities problem, nor are they the ones working on your port. Getting it to work on your phone likely isn't nearly as complicated as you think it is (I had to hack one together myself) though you risk bricking your phone if you're not careful. There are less deadly mistakes as well, like getting the modem or media texting screwed up and not realizing that your boss has been trying to call you for 2 days strait. But you can do it yourself if you want.
Your best bet is to buy a phone that doesn't have a contract and has vanilla android on it. Then you wont need these special builds.
Your argument may or may not be sound. I'll not even go there. Would you at least admit that digging up chemicals that have been buried for hundreds of millions of years and burning them, en-mass across the entire globe is probably a bad thing?
Am I the only one that thinks taking CO2 concentration measurements near one of the most active volcanic regions in the world is not such a good idea? Not saying the measurements are wrong, it just seems like they could have picked a better spot...
It can be used either way. In Pro-audio speakers, each has a Resonant Frequency. It's tested as "Fs" or "Free air Resonance" as a result the community ended up mixing the two words ages ago and now everyone calls it Resonance Frequency, Resonant Frequency, Fs or RF. It all means the same thing. Language is a living breathing thing and this guy is only wrong in trying to get someone else to stick to rules that don't exist. His use of the term isn't incorrect, he's just being a dick.
This is a Failed business model.
When you charge a monthly subscription to play a game, people then feel obligated to play THAT game. Playing a free game seems silly, because that game will always be there and always be free. As a result players of the game power through content rather fast. So the game producer is now stuck building more and more content because their revenue stream is based on the player base not getting bored. Eventually they try to re-use content, and this is where grind comes in. They make getting through the scenery harder. So the customer wont reach their goals before their monthly sub runs out, so they have to buy another. Eventually the players realize they are on a hamster wheel and the goal line is always getting moved. What keeps them then is the social experience. Guilds and the like. But now you have a customer in a very precarious situation. They likely want to leave, but don't want to lose their friends. So you end up losing customers in catastrophic ways... either the customer waits for some social dysfunction to happen (big argument after a failed raid) after which they leave forever and now can never come back because of the fight or... the entire guild makes a plan to move to a different game and leave in mass exodus.
IMO if MMOs want to survive this sort of thing they need to make a few changes:
Offer MMOs in bundles. Multiple games that you can play with the same subscription. And don't charge more just because they can play different games. In truth the load on your servers is the same. Just charge for the game up front, then charge a "network subscription" that covers all of your games. They can buy the games they want to add to that sub for $50 or whatever and then their monthly sub will cover them all. It'll be affordable and will keep the customer in your network and give them enough variety to move around and not get board.
If game mechanics allow, let customers change their in-game identity for free once every 3 months or so. So they can abandon old fights and such. Then they can come back and start new. Server moves should be free as well.
End grinding. Let those that want to power through to the end of the game do so. Better yet, make it a setting that gives you a title. If you set your character to "grind mode" or whatever you get a title "Lord of whatever" or something. Generally people that like that sort of thing only like it because they want to brag about how hard it was for them.
With the android OS and the play store, you can require a password to purchase anything. I've set it up on my wifes tablet after my 5yr old bought $10 worth of slingshots in angrybirds by mistake. It should be on by default, but it's easy enough to setup that I'm not going to bitch too much.
The limits we set on the constitution are chains we put on ourselves. No matter how dangerous you think guns are... or the ability to make them easily... or even terrorists... None of them even approach the dangers of a government unconstrained by a constitution. Hundreds, maybe thousands may die as a result of unconstrained gun rights, I'll not argue that with you. But compare that to the Governments of Germany, Russia, Vietnam, and many others who've murder hundreds of millions of people, tortured even more. Committed genocide, destabilized all of humanity for decades... all because due to lack restraints on government and legal chains put on free people.
An armed citizen may kill a few dozen, but government could kill the world.
My Local Target has this for per-order. I was kind of shocked to see it. This may be a lot bigger deal than I had originally imagined. $99 really brings it down into a reasonable birthday/Christmas present for the kids.
This is like a fire alarm in a dorm. Everyone knows the buildings made out of cinder block, but you just don't know what could happen... and fire alarms are cheap so why the hell not?
Why would it have to be US waters?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Singapore
Half of the world's annual supply of crude oil flows through this port... Think about it.
You don't... you put it IN the sub... sail it into port, detonate.
This isn't that big of a deal. I know someone that had this job for a while. According to him (and of course this is just something a friend of mine told me over beers so take it for what it's worth) it's a miserable job. You're just stuck, bored to death for very very long periods of time. You have no sunlight. Everyone in the room has sworn and oath and passed psychological tests that prove they will kill you if you threaten a launch or are in any other way ordered to kill you. So it's not like you can really be friends with any of them in any real way. Even when you do get to come out after a tour, you're in the middle of no-where. It's just a vast empty plane. And the entire purpose of you being there is to destroy all of humanity. As bored as you are you have plenty of time to dwell on the nature of your job... your life... why you're th.... BWAP BWAP BWAP!!!!! ALERT ALERT!!! oooo... missed it by 2.3 seconds. Fuck it all to hell.
I can think of several people that I would like to volunteer for a one-way ticket to Mars. Were these volunteers self-nominated, or did Mars One accept third-party nominations?
More importantly, how many responders are serious? Would they really climb into a craft to go to mars? I'd wager around, let's see, none.
Think about how many people have no family left, have been left penniless due to financial problems, maybe even under so much debt they'll never get out... have no retirement left... Why the heck wouldn't they go? They have no hope of what they would consider a meaningful or successful life here... why not try mars?
I've got an uncle that runs one of these systems and the control portion of it doesn't have external access. The point of it is, he knows the status of every fan, vent, boiler, furnace, air conditioner in the building. In the past he'd have to wait until someone complained it was too cold somewhere... walk around till he felt a cold spot... put flow meters over vents in the area... look at diagrams to find which systems feed that area... start testing motors and condensers...
Now... and little red light goes on, he clicks on it and asks him if he'd like to order the part to replace what's broken. It arrives before the end of the day and he installs it. What used to take weeks now takes hours and the vendor gets a sweet exclusive deal on parts. If you've got a building that you want premium service in (in his case it's a casino) then this is the way to go.
Not really. Most applications are used internally. Yes, IE6 is a vulnerability, but it's hidden behind layers upon layers of other security. Firewalls, antivirus, business practice, application management, user management. If your worry really is the security on IE6, there are actually multiple solutions to that problem. 1. get rid of IE6 and upgrade lots of software at a very high cost when you're not ready to. 2. Cut off employees access to facebook. To management, that's a no-brainer.
The fact of the matter is, if you get compromised via IE6, IE6 wasn't your only problem. It was the least of your problems.
Seriously folks... they HAVE nukes. We know this. They've detonated them underground, we've detected the flash. It's fact. (unless both they and our own government is lieing to us... a distinct possibility)
Do they have missiles that can launch them? Who gives a shit? Any ballistic missile they would have would be trivial for our military to shoot down. They do, however, have very sophisticated submarines. All they need to do is load one of their nukes on a sub and sail it into a major harbor anywhere in the world and viola, world catastrophe. This is the threat we should be worried about. The whole missile thing is just sabre rattling, irrelevant of their real capabilities. They'd need thousands to overwhelm our defenses.
They could be iterative design mockups for producing the real thing, or it could be a massive display of horseshit for propaganda.
Or... what's more likely... both.
You're asking the wrong question. The correct question is: Why should they upgrade?
And if your answer doesn't involve making or saving money, you're going to get laughed out of your bosses office.