Google is doing much the same on iPhones. It provides late or diminished google apps like mapping compared to the enhanced and first out features on android.
Not really comparable. iPhone apps go through a very rigorous approval procedure, so it should come as no surprise that Google can launch new/enhanced features faster on their own platform than they can do on iOS, I would also be little surprised if certain features get blocked by Apple if they are perceived as competing with a native application/feature.
it is much more likely that this is a false flag operation to remind people of their fears.
The US State Dept. travel alert is more likely to be a false flag operation as that is something that significantly more people will understand and relate to than this relatively 'geeks only' topic which at best only will earn a few paragraphs in most media. At risk of placing myself in the tinfoil hat category I have to admit that my very first thought when I read about the alert were, "this is very conveniently timed with the XKeyscore leak a few days earlier ".
I guess when they saw me use a planetary orbit calculator to compute precise positions of planets several hundred years in the future, they concluded that I wasn't dangerous, just seriously OCD.
It could also be be that the Catalano's were within X degrees of separation from someone on a watch list and you are not within in the threshold for your searches to raise enough flags. Or they did check you out and learned that you live in your mom's basement and practice a strict Ramen, Mountain Dew and Coffee diet.;-)
Come to think of it, different prices based on nationality is often not about the poor charging the rich more, just ask any Australian that ever bought Photoshop locally and only later learned what Americans pay for the exact same 1's and 0's about his opinion on the matter.
Very likely they applied a "foreigner tax" similar to what were common (it probably still is) in Shenzhen, China in the 90's where many vendors applied a Chinese, Overseas Chinese and Everybody else price. The price I would pay for some veggies or fruit in a food stall were several times higher than the price a local paid. It's a practice that most people from affluent nations that have travelled to poor countries are familiar with, it should come as no surprise that the same is done in North Korea.
So, should Ford be able to control your car after you buy it?
Haven't you noticed? A shocking amount of people believe in principles where that would be the case, and no arguments can ever sway them. The problem is that the believers in that principle actually think that a world where Ford controls your car after you but it isn't that bad after all. Perhaps to them, it is even preferable?
The Believer might be a minority in pure numbers but they are a vast majority in pure monetary interest and influence. The giant corporations and their executives largely are leeches creators who give a piece of themselves -their soul if you are so inclined- to create a piece of art, be it a movie, song or drawing that make you and I stop; think and evolve emotionally.
Genuine art is created by people for the people, deviate from this and we end up with east block propaganda posters and Justin Bieber being the epitome of art. That is not a world I want to be part of, do you?
As such, copyright is by definition an inhibition of the creative process. For a real-life example, see the lawsuits about red double-decker buses in front of a black-and-white Big Ben.
I believe I know the image you are referring to, but I have never heard about a lawsuit in relation to it so I got curious as well as disturbed at the thought of the ridiculousness artists are faced with, sadly my search-fu failed me in my attempts to learn more. Can you provide a citation?
But why should someone who creates something not be able to control how it's used? That seems pretty basic
It do seem basic, however do you really believe that for example Britney Spears, RHCP or any upcoming artist signed to a label by contract have any control of what they create? If you do, then we'd better not continue debating the topic as we obviously live in parallel universes and we'll never be able to even begin to understand each others differentiating opinions.
I don't see what the NSA/FISA has to offer in return
Intelligence on non-US competitors, intelligence on the EU commissioner of competition and so forth. There is plenty of very high financial and strategic value that the NSA could offer in return. Whether doing so would be legal or not is a different story altogether, but it's not like the NSA allow pesky little details as legality get in their way.
If I would have a need for encrypted mobile communications I'd probably opt for the open source options from WhisperSystems, rather than a closed source option. Incidentally I asked on the heml.is blog if the source would be open and under what license terms the software would be released and 4 hours later my post is still awaiting an answer.
France and the UK have a total of 450 active (plus another >500 inactive) warheads between which is is a hell of lot of destructive power, even if only handful were to hit their target.
no known ICBMs
UK have 4 subs equipped with Trident missiles and France have their M51's that are capable of travelling 10.000km. So there are very few locations on Earth that could not be reached even without ICBMs.
Russia has many thousands of nukes and delivery capability. Many European nations - like my own - have heavily cut troop levels, training and starved them of all heavy equipment after the Cold War ended
Well the russian armed forces aren't exactly in tip top shape with units lacking basics such as showers in their quarters http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/russia/2013/russia-130204-rianovosti01.htm Hell! It's just 6 months since it was announced that they finally are going to get socks to replace the traditional portyanki (footwrap) they have been wearing for the last 500 years.
The main real strong point is that we're rather massive, it'd take a ridiculously big army to occupy 500 million people's countries, but per capita Europe is weak.
True, however I like to believe that some lessons about the necessity of co-operation between nations at an early stage of aggression have been learned from WWII. Also keep in mind that a heavily outnumbered but better equipped and/or more motivated force can stand up well against an invading force something, that the Finns proved between remarkably well between November 1939 and March 1940 with nearly 5 killed Soviets per 1 Finnish.
Like Sun Tzu said "In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power."
Also, you may not be looking at a big enough map to determine the threats against Europe. Europe's anti-missile defense is provided by the US
And any nation insane enough to initiate a ICBM attack on Europe would soon feel the full wrath of the European retaliation. You know that thing called mutual destruction which kept the world at relative peace during the cold war era.
There seem to be some problems with your theory. NATO membership has expanded significantly since 1991
More specifically it have expanded with 12 nations since then, all of which are formerly members of the Warsaw pact, i.e nations that for good reason consider Russia being a real threat to their sovereignty.
The American military a threat to Europe? I think you are stuck in the fever swamp.
No more or less so than any of the "genuine threats" to EU soil you see during you fever hallucinations.
Samsung among many others manufacture "dumb" screens for purposes such as digital signage so start loff by ooking for resellers of that. Something which doesn't quite fit your specs but that I have been considering to get is one of these: http://www.elotouch.com/Products/IDS/5500L/default.asp.
At the end of the day, you've spent money on one less media box.
That's a bit naive, R&D, hardware and manufacturing costs are still there even if it is integrated into your TV and why would manufacturers not want to recoup those costs?
Chill dude, it's not like anyone were harmed in any way. If anything the additional confusion and lack of a real solution might have had some people say "fuck this dumbass game" to go for a walk or read a book.
They never could, only difference is that now it is confirmed and I can enjoy of saying "I told you so!". However, I would not trust any cloud service regardless of its country of origin with important data.
The fact of the matter is that Europe has long been dependent on the US for filling the gap in Europe's defenses since European nations for the most part don't meet the level of defense spending agreed to by treaty.
That is nonsense. The need for a NATO membership is no longer there for European nations since December 1991. The EU NATO members could to leave NATO today and shut down all the US military bases here EU defensive capabilities would still be more than sufficient against any imaginable threat with the only exception possibly being the US of A. It could be argued that the biggest strategic threat to EU and its financial as well as territorial independence is the permanent presence of US armed forces in UK, Germany, Italy and so forth totaling 69661 US military personnel.
Indeed as he had full knowledge of the question beforehand and in the absurdly unlikely even that he had no prior knowledge about the data collection until that time he would certainly know for certain what the truth was at the time of the actual hearing.
Excerpt of TFA for slashdotters that could not be bothered reading it:
When Clapper was asked by Sen. Ron Wyden in March if the NSA collects "any type of data at all on millions, or hundreds of millions of Americans," Clapper answered, "No sir," before adding, "Not wittingly."
After the revelations emerged about the NSA's activities, Wyden, a member of the Senate Intelligence panel, posted an explanation of that exchange, in which he said he sent the question to Clapper's office one day in advance, and also gave Clapper a chance to amend his answer after the public hearing had ended.
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Why are you giving them free press.
Because in difference from the far too frequent slashvertisments this actually is news for nerds, stuff that matters..
Google is doing much the same on iPhones. It provides late or diminished google apps like mapping compared to the enhanced and first out features on android.
Not really comparable. iPhone apps go through a very rigorous approval procedure, so it should come as no surprise that Google can launch new/enhanced features faster on their own platform than they can do on iOS, I would also be little surprised if certain features get blocked by Apple if they are perceived as competing with a native application/feature.
it is much more likely that this is a false flag operation to remind people of their fears.
The US State Dept. travel alert is more likely to be a false flag operation as that is something that significantly more people will understand and relate to than this relatively 'geeks only' topic which at best only will earn a few paragraphs in most media. At risk of placing myself in the tinfoil hat category I have to admit that my very first thought when I read about the alert were, "this is very conveniently timed with the XKeyscore leak a few days earlier ".
I guess when they saw me use a planetary orbit calculator to compute precise positions of planets several hundred years in the future, they concluded that I wasn't dangerous, just seriously OCD.
It could also be be that the Catalano's were within X degrees of separation from someone on a watch list and you are not within in the threshold for your searches to raise enough flags. Or they did check you out and learned that you live in your mom's basement and practice a strict Ramen, Mountain Dew and Coffee diet. ;-)
Come to think of it, different prices based on nationality is often not about the poor charging the rich more, just ask any Australian that ever bought Photoshop locally and only later learned what Americans pay for the exact same 1's and 0's about his opinion on the matter.
and a rip off.
Very likely they applied a "foreigner tax" similar to what were common (it probably still is) in Shenzhen, China in the 90's where many vendors applied a Chinese, Overseas Chinese and Everybody else price. The price I would pay for some veggies or fruit in a food stall were several times higher than the price a local paid. It's a practice that most people from affluent nations that have travelled to poor countries are familiar with, it should come as no surprise that the same is done in North Korea.
Wow! A comment that's highlighting normal corporate behavior get modded flamebait. Where is the /. of past?
So, should Ford be able to control your car after you buy it?
Haven't you noticed? A shocking amount of people believe in principles where that would be the case, and no arguments can ever sway them. The problem is that the believers in that principle actually think that a world where Ford controls your car after you but it isn't that bad after all. Perhaps to them, it is even preferable?
The Believer might be a minority in pure numbers but they are a vast majority in pure monetary interest and influence. The giant corporations and their executives largely are leeches creators who give a piece of themselves -their soul if you are so inclined- to create a piece of art, be it a movie, song or drawing that make you and I stop; think and evolve emotionally.
Genuine art is created by people for the people, deviate from this and we end up with east block propaganda posters and Justin Bieber being the epitome of art. That is not a world I want to be part of, do you?
As such, copyright is by definition an inhibition of the creative process. For a real-life example, see the lawsuits about red double-decker buses in front of a black-and-white Big Ben.
I believe I know the image you are referring to, but I have never heard about a lawsuit in relation to it so I got curious as well as disturbed at the thought of the ridiculousness artists are faced with, sadly my search-fu failed me in my attempts to learn more. Can you provide a citation?
But why should someone who creates something not be able to control how it's used? That seems pretty basic
It do seem basic, however do you really believe that for example Britney Spears, RHCP or any upcoming artist signed to a label by contract have any control of what they create? If you do, then we'd better not continue debating the topic as we obviously live in parallel universes and we'll never be able to even begin to understand each others differentiating opinions.
As Apple now quite likely will be the only IT tech company using Liquidmetal I doubt that this alleged lower cost will be passed on to the consumers.
I don't see what the NSA/FISA has to offer in return
Intelligence on non-US competitors, intelligence on the EU commissioner of competition and so forth. There is plenty of very high financial and strategic value that the NSA could offer in return. Whether doing so would be legal or not is a different story altogether, but it's not like the NSA allow pesky little details as legality get in their way.
Likewise MS doesn't own all Windows applications only because they happen to run in Windows.
Sssshhh... don't give MSFT (and AAPL) ideas.
If I would have a need for encrypted mobile communications I'd probably opt for the open source options from WhisperSystems, rather than a closed source option. Incidentally I asked on the heml.is blog if the source would be open and under what license terms the software would be released and 4 hours later my post is still awaiting an answer.
there any evidence that he is getting any portion of ticket sales?
He is listed as producer of the movie so it is very likely that he will get a cut of the ticket sales.
The whole of EU has a few hundred nukes
France and the UK have a total of 450 active (plus another >500 inactive) warheads between which is is a hell of lot of destructive power, even if only handful were to hit their target.
no known ICBMs
UK have 4 subs equipped with Trident missiles and France have their M51's that are capable of travelling 10.000km. So there are very few locations on Earth that could not be reached even without ICBMs.
Russia has many thousands of nukes and delivery capability. Many European nations - like my own - have heavily cut troop levels, training and starved them of all heavy equipment after the Cold War ended
Well the russian armed forces aren't exactly in tip top shape with units lacking basics such as showers in their quarters http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/russia/2013/russia-130204-rianovosti01.htm
Hell! It's just 6 months since it was announced that they finally are going to get socks to replace the traditional portyanki (footwrap) they have been wearing for the last 500 years.
The main real strong point is that we're rather massive, it'd take a ridiculously big army to occupy 500 million people's countries, but per capita Europe is weak.
True, however I like to believe that some lessons about the necessity of co-operation between nations at an early stage of aggression have been learned from WWII. Also keep in mind that a heavily outnumbered but better equipped and/or more motivated force can stand up well against an invading force something, that the Finns proved between remarkably well between November 1939 and March 1940 with nearly 5 killed Soviets per 1 Finnish.
Like Sun Tzu said "In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power."
Cue Government propaganda on how only wide spread NSA surveillance can protect Jay-Z fans from infecting their Android phones.
Also, you may not be looking at a big enough map to determine the threats against Europe. Europe's anti-missile defense is provided by the US
And any nation insane enough to initiate a ICBM attack on Europe would soon feel the full wrath of the European retaliation. You know that thing called mutual destruction which kept the world at relative peace during the cold war era.
There seem to be some problems with your theory. NATO membership has expanded significantly since 1991
More specifically it have expanded with 12 nations since then, all of which are formerly members of the Warsaw pact, i.e nations that for good reason consider Russia being a real threat to their sovereignty.
The American military a threat to Europe? I think you are stuck in the fever swamp.
No more or less so than any of the "genuine threats" to EU soil you see during you fever hallucinations.
Samsung among many others manufacture "dumb" screens for purposes such as digital signage so start loff by ooking for resellers of that. Something which doesn't quite fit your specs but that I have been considering to get is one of these: http://www.elotouch.com/Products/IDS/5500L/default.asp.
At the end of the day, you've spent money on one less media box.
That's a bit naive, R&D, hardware and manufacturing costs are still there even if it is integrated into your TV and why would manufacturers not want to recoup those costs?
Chill dude, it's not like anyone were harmed in any way. If anything the additional confusion and lack of a real solution might have had some people say "fuck this dumbass game" to go for a walk or read a book.
US clouds cannot be trusted anymore.
They never could, only difference is that now it is confirmed and I can enjoy of saying "I told you so!". However, I would not trust any cloud service regardless of its country of origin with important data.
You know that the Russian army is in shambles, right?
The fact of the matter is that Europe has long been dependent on the US for filling the gap in Europe's defenses since European nations for the most part don't meet the level of defense spending agreed to by treaty.
That is nonsense. The need for a NATO membership is no longer there for European nations since December 1991. The EU NATO members could to leave NATO today and shut down all the US military bases here EU defensive capabilities would still be more than sufficient against any imaginable threat with the only exception possibly being the US of A. It could be argued that the biggest strategic threat to EU and its financial as well as territorial independence is the permanent presence of US armed forces in UK, Germany, Italy and so forth totaling 69661 US military personnel.
"Misspoke", my ass.
Indeed as he had full knowledge of the question beforehand and in the absurdly unlikely even that he had no prior knowledge about the data collection until that time he would certainly know for certain what the truth was at the time of the actual hearing. Excerpt of TFA for slashdotters that could not be bothered reading it:
When Clapper was asked by Sen. Ron Wyden in March if the NSA collects "any type of data at all on millions, or hundreds of millions of Americans," Clapper answered, "No sir," before adding, "Not wittingly."
After the revelations emerged about the NSA's activities, Wyden, a member of the Senate Intelligence panel, posted an explanation of that exchange, in which he said he sent the question to Clapper's office one day in advance, and also gave Clapper a chance to amend his answer after the public hearing had ended.