While Apple has always been able to drive purchases with good technology and great form factors, I'll have a hard time going back to Cingular AND dealing with the apparent cost.
Put another way:
What a great device! Wow, would I like to have one! But... is this really that much more than what I have today at helf the price? Will I trade in my carrier and my Blackberry for an iPhone from Cingular.
Dailey is well-liked in Chicago. Sometimes this surprises me. He has a huge ego, can't speak English worth a darn, and governs like a bully. But Chicagoans generally see him as the "guy who gets things done," the one who keeps the city "on the map." They look the other way when some of the things he does are down-right shady.
THE surprising thing to me is that even the ACLU expressed almost no concern over the potential for abuse. To me this is truly the stuff of Big Brother. But Chicagoans clearly don't care. So when "Dah Mayor" says that, "special software will flag suspicious activity, calling up the scene on video monitors when packages are left in public places, for example, or when a person falls to the ground," No one blinks and eye. I ask... since when is falling down is suspicious? What other things might be "suspicious?"
Do we really want this level of surveilance?? Believe me in the city like Chicago, I do NOT want this power in the hands of the Dailey administration in a city like Chicago.
Picture this in a not too distant future -- cameras trained on Chicagoans all the time -- a system designed to identify, classify and ticket all kinds of "illegal" behavior. Think about moving....
Three years ago, my identity was stolen and the thief applied on-line for a credit card in my name. When the credit card company double-checked the application by calling me, he/she was blocked. With the help of the card people,I then did some investigating of my own.
The thief had submitted an e-mail address using my name. He got this e-mail address from a local company. So, using whois I got the name of the president and the sysadmin... and called Chicago police... my suburban police... the FBI... and the Treasury. In the end, I found out that the Treasury had jurisdiction... and may still.
NO ONE was interested in pursuing the case. Because the theft was "only" for $5,000 it was below the prosecution limits set by the Illinois Attorney General's Office. And a kindly Treasury officer explained that they followed local guidelines and would not be prosecuting... even though I could tell them where and who to call.
Note: we essentially HAD the criminal... we had a street address where the card was to be delivered... I was an officer of a local bank at the time... and... I offered to assist in an investigation by calling the sysadmin or the local company president. No one at local or federal level was remotely interested. (The conversation with the FBI was almost comic... the agent was handing me xeroxed copies of newspaper articles on how to prevent identity theft while I was trying to hand him the crook. He saw it all as my responsibility.)
BTW -- the thief was using my AMEX credit card numbner to apply for "his" new card. Dumpster diving for card numbers at merchant locations is quite common in metro areas like Chicago.
Bingo -- You are correct. The genius of pinball is the way bit connects you to all the sensations of the game: sight, sound and feel. Put these all together carefully and a skilled player can achieve a wonderful pinball "nirvana" when he/she finally gets in the groove. I think the modern machines took this away and made it harder and less interesting to be "in the pinball groove." They directed attention at themselves and away from the players relationship to the game. In the process they became costly to repair and less and less popular. They killed themselves off.
We wrestled with the same problem when I was working for Northwestern U. The CIC (Conference of Big 10 schools plus U of C) held a joint session between archivists and geeks to see what could be done. Lots of good academic information/data is simply going to be lost as MS - Word ages through different versions. In fact it's already being lost. The problem is serious enough that the archivists were sticking paper. (Now there's a scary thought.) In there case, this was partly from a "natural" suspicion of all things technological.
I had suggested developing standards for submission that asked faculty and scholars to submit.txt files, but, alas, this got no where.
The only other obvious suggestion is SGML built from an already established DTD. There are some freebies out there, but editing SGML raises a whole new set of problems.
... that are intended for web-based "collaboration" would do this for you right out of the box and offer things like full-text search as well. We've run WebBoard and SiteScape in applications like this, but it all depends on budget....
So how about it? What do we get when all those people can suddenly SEE what they're doing? Do we have any reliable idea of how much "practical blindness" existed before someone hung lenses on our noses?
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Running 10.9.2 here and gotofail.com continues to report the vulnerability ...
While Apple has always been able to drive purchases with good technology and great form factors, I'll have a hard time going back to Cingular AND dealing with the apparent cost.
... is this really that much more than what I have today at helf the price? Will I trade in my carrier and my Blackberry for an iPhone from Cingular.
Put another way:
What a great device! Wow, would I like to have one! But
I'm not sure.
Well ...
... since when is falling down is suspicious? What other things might be "suspicious?"
i -0409090277sep09,1,1169245.column?coll=chi-news-co l/). I mean .... come on. Who is kidding who? This is harrassment, plain and simple.
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Dailey is well-liked in Chicago. Sometimes this surprises me. He has a huge ego, can't speak English worth a darn, and governs like a bully. But Chicagoans generally see him as the "guy who gets things done," the one who keeps the city "on the map." They look the other way when some of the things he does are down-right shady.
THE surprising thing to me is that even the ACLU expressed almost no concern over the potential for abuse. To me this is truly the stuff of Big Brother. But Chicagoans clearly don't care. So when "Dah Mayor" says that, "special software will flag suspicious activity, calling up the scene on video monitors when packages are left in public places, for example, or when a person falls to the ground," No one blinks and eye. I ask
Do we really want this level of surveilance?? Believe me in the city like Chicago, I do NOT want this power in the hands of the Dailey administration in a city like Chicago.
This week, Chicago Transit Police "caught" a grad student "sleeping on the subway." They arrested Guarav Bhatia -- a chemnical engineerng student at IIT -- and handed him a $50 ticket for sleeping illegally on the El (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ch
Picture this in a not too distant future -- cameras trained on Chicagoans all the time -- a system designed to identify, classify and ticket all kinds of "illegal" behavior. Think about moving
Three years ago, my identity was stolen and the thief applied on-line for a credit card in my name. When the credit card company double-checked the application by calling me, he/she was blocked. With the help of the card people,I then did some investigating of my own.
... and called Chicago police ... my suburban police ... the FBI ... and the Treasury. In the end, I found out that the Treasury had jurisdiction ... and may still.
... even though I could tell them where and who to call.
... we had a street address where the card was to be delivered ... I was an officer of a local bank at the time ... and ... I offered to assist in an investigation by calling the sysadmin or the local company president. No one at local or federal level was remotely interested. (The conversation with the FBI was almost comic ... the agent was handing me xeroxed copies of newspaper articles on how to prevent identity theft while I was trying to hand him the crook. He saw it all as my responsibility.)
The thief had submitted an e-mail address using my name. He got this e-mail address from a local company. So, using whois I got the name of the president and the sysadmin
NO ONE was interested in pursuing the case. Because the theft was "only" for $5,000 it was below the prosecution limits set by the Illinois Attorney General's Office. And a kindly Treasury officer explained that they followed local guidelines and would not be prosecuting
Note: we essentially HAD the criminal
BTW -- the thief was using my AMEX credit card numbner to apply for "his" new card. Dumpster diving for card numbers at merchant locations is quite common in metro areas like Chicago.
Bingo -- You are correct. The genius of pinball is the way bit connects you to all the sensations of the game: sight, sound and feel. Put these all together carefully and a skilled player can achieve a wonderful pinball "nirvana" when he/she finally gets in the groove. I think the modern machines took this away and made it harder and less interesting to be "in the pinball groove." They directed attention at themselves and away from the players relationship to the game. In the process they became costly to repair and less and less popular. They killed themselves off.
We wrestled with the same problem when I was working for Northwestern U. The CIC (Conference of Big 10 schools plus U of C) held a joint session between archivists and geeks to see what could be done. Lots of good academic information/data is simply going to be lost as MS - Word ages through different versions. In fact it's already being lost. The problem is serious enough that the archivists were sticking paper. (Now there's a scary thought.) In there case, this was partly from a "natural" suspicion of all things technological. I had suggested developing standards for submission that asked faculty and scholars to submit .txt files, but, alas, this got no where.
The only other obvious suggestion is SGML built from an already established DTD. There are some freebies out there, but editing SGML raises a whole new set of problems.
... that are intended for web-based "collaboration" would do this for you right out of the box and offer things like full-text search as well. We've run WebBoard and SiteScape in applications like this, but it all depends on budget ....
So how about it? What do we get when all those people can suddenly SEE what they're doing? Do we have any reliable idea of how much "practical blindness" existed before someone hung lenses on our noses?