The Nook Color is a tablet moron. It's a 7" capacitive LCD device running android. It's main purpose might be as an ereader but it ships with other apps including a web browser. It's a tablet. Grow up ffs.
That's probably true for the shift from combustion to electric vehicles. But I doubt anyone would think it's a job well done if in 40 years people are still gridlocked in the middle of cities in their EVs because the government 40 years ago decided they weren't going to do a damned thing to produce a coherent public transport or clean cities strategy because some Eurocrats suggested mandating the idea.
I don't even understand why the UK opposes it. It's like they're saying "oh no we can;t be a big government and set these limits therefore no limits". Except of course councils receive much of their funding from central government so it is entirely within a government's power to withhold funding to those don't implement certain national policies (e.g. CO2 emissions reductions) and provide funding to those who do.
We're talking of a ban occurring 40 years into the future. Most vehicles are 10 years old or less. I expect it's going to happen that hybrids and eventually electric vehicles replace combustion engines anyway. Of course moving to electric vehicles is one thing, but people shouldn't be driving them into cities without extraordinarily good reasons either, e.g. they live there, they're disabled or whatever. So impose congestion charges, pay & ride schemes and provide decent public transportation that lets people leave their cars at home or on the outskirts and travel the remainder of the way. It's not rocket science but it does need a coordinated and determined timeline to see it through.
I see. So in your view EU governance boils down a simple A or B solution - A) Ban combustion engine cars in cities or B) Stop the muslim hordes. Perhaps you should be asking your doctor which medication is right for you.
Why on earth would anyone develop in Emacs any more? I might understand a quick fix from the command line but actual development? A tool such as Eclipse would be vastly more useful in this regard for numerous reasons There are even plugin suites for Python development, e.g. PyDev with integrated debugging, syntax highlighting, code completion, refactoring. And since Eclipse runs on Linux, Windows & OS X in a relatively similar fashion it means that the OS becomes largely irrelevant for dev work.
Failing that, just install VirtualBox and run Linux inside OS X.
No need to put words into my mouth. I stated quite clearly there are half a dozen brand name tablets coming over the next few months. I stated quite clearly that it is perfectly possible to produce tablets that undercut the iPad and provided examples that already exist and upcoming tablets which are known to as well. I never said at any point in this thread or any other that last year's tablets running Android 2.x were "iPad-killers". What is entirely obvious is that Android 3.0 represents the official entry into the market and it is going to sell in large quantities.
Just as a point on a 7" tablet, it really depends on what it's being used for. The Nook Color is 7" and has sold 3 million devices so clearly some people like the form factor. I expect people who want a device primarily for reading books probably prefer a smaller form factor. BTW I strongly believe Amazon will have an Android tablet soon - their app store initiative doesn't make any sense except in that context.
Now some people would balk at 7" and would want something larger. Just like smart phones you can expect Android tablets in all kinds of shapes & sizes. Some might have keyboards, some might have 4:3 aspect ratio, others 16:10 or 16:9. Some might have a 10.1" screen, others at 5", 7", 9", etc. Some might have lots of storage, some might have little but ship a micro SD. etc.
The point being one size does not fit all and the market will reflect that in the features they focus on and the prices they charge.
Gold farming is something else again, e.g. I pay 10 people to sit there and grind out for items which I then covertly sell to other players through secret means. As far as the game is concerned they just have 10 subscribers. They'd have to actually what the subs are doing to detect farming. I guess a farming operation could be used to launder money but not very easily unless you had 100 people all playing so that their sub & wages was equivalent to the amount of money you wanted to launder..
Heh I didn't have 2 bitcoins to rub together but thanks for the response. Hopefully your money is on its way back original binary form intact.
As for how to detected money launderers, the simplest would be to look for repeating transactions. Even 100 keys means things repeat on average 50 times. Or stick an invisible proxy on port 8333 at the ISP and listen in - I may be mistaken but node activity appears to be plaintext. More sophisticated would be to spoof the initial IRC connect for seeds maybe listening on who was calling that, sending back a few P2P clients that log stuff on the way through.
The source code for the standard bitcoin client is really sloppy and all over the place with global functions, some C++ and a bit of everything mixed together. I expect there are quite a few points of attack ways to intercept traffic, DDOS a node, or even take down the network. I doubt clients or the network would cope well AT ALL with bogus transactions. For example imagine performing a billion 0.00000001 transactions back and forth. The code suggests it has an antiswamping behaviour but at the same time it still has to process transactions eventually. Bitcoin (the network's) best defence would be for a few independently implemented clients to appear. I doubt it will help with the regulatory side of things though.
I think using actors is dishonest but using real people paid for their time (e.g. with a free Galaxy Tab) would hardly be any more so. If Samsung / Apple / Sony / Motorola / etc. gave me a free device I would be more than happy to encapsulate in convenient gushing sound bites exactly what they wanted to hear.
Yes it's a wonderful device and oh I'm really so much more productive now and it gives me more time with the kids and I whip it out in restaurants to email the presentation to the boss before enjoying my social life and now I'm so wonderfully creative that I'll just pretend to be thoughtfully painting this picture that this device inspired me to make. Later on I might even make a dress inspired by the picture of autumn leaves I snapped while frolicking outside.
I think in Obama's case he really did want to close Guantanamo and then encountered reality. There is no point undermining your own campaign pledges once you discover you're fighting a losing battle.
There's also a significant difference between someone randomly asked their opinion of a device someone asked their opinion of a device in return for cash or a free device. Offer me an iPad 2, point a camera at me and I'll say it shits rainbows if that's what you want to hear.
It's pretty obvious that anyone who appears in these promotions is rewarded for it, whether it is because they're an actor, or a normal user.
For Second Life replace with any game where you can virtualize currency and retrieve it on the other side. Personally I think there must be better ways to launder money.
The Nook Color is a tablet running Android. Just because it doesn't meet your definition of a tablet is irrelevant. It is a tablet, it serves it's purpose and it is affordable. Let me state again for your benefit It really is funny to have people pretend that the iPad represents some magic featureset / price that absolutely cannot be beaten. Just because you love your iPad doesn't mean everyone should do likewise.
The Nook is smaller form factor, perfect for book reading a bit of browsing. The Archos 101 kicks the crap out of the iPad at playing videos. The Vega is a powerful dual core tablet for half the price of an iPad, perfect for hackers. And they're last years models. Many prominent models are coming down the pipe this year. It is quite obvious what will happen whether a zealot such as yourself chooses to acknowledge it or not.
Deny it all you want but there are half a dozen tablets in the process of being released in the next couple of months. As for price matching, there are already tablets which undercut the iPad by a significant amount - the Nook, Archos 101, Advent Vega just being some examples that come to mind. And there are many new models coming with the advantage of running Android 3.0. Samsung's new Tab will undercut the iPad. The Asus Eee Pad will undercut the iPad. I expect by year end that a dozen or more decent brand name tablets will undercut the price of an iPad, all offering Android 3.0, possibly with a few webOS & Windows tablets in there too.
It really is funny to have people pretend that the iPad represents some magic featureset / price that absolutely cannot be beaten. It shouldn't have to be pointed out that a quick look at what happened in the smart phone market pisses all that idea.
Anyone want to lay odds on cryptocurrencies becoming illegal in a host of countries within five years?
I expect that's likely. I also think they'll be helped along by criminals running phoney exchanges, escrow services, money laundering, gambling, ponzis etc.
And if that doesn't do them in, I think it's quite feasible that a hacker could poison entire system with bogus transactions corrupted values that DDOS or crash clients / erase wallets. Or someone with a large amount of resources, e.g. CIA using their distributed computing power to swipe up all the unmined coins and fuck up the economy. Or early adopters taking their real money causing a run on the exchanges which means they close down. Or a commercial provider appearing with a more palatable system which satisfies regulators and is pegged to real money.
People weren't staying away from the Android tablets that most certainly did exist (and failed miserably) over the last year because of it not having "official" tablet support (which is complete retroactive bullshit, there were official Android tablets shipped in 2010, these weren't simply using the non-controlled open source version of Android). The limitations of pre-Honeycomb tablets wouldn't be terribly apparent in the store. If people actually wanted Android tablets, they would have sold well and just had high returns if Gingerbread were insufficient as a tablet OS.
Yes they were staying away. Partly for lack of support, partly for lack of choice and partly for lack of an affordable model. I consider myself very pro Android but I've steered clear of an Android tablet and intend to continue to do so until they become more affordable. I could cite all sorts of reasons Android is great but I'm not so blinded to buy something in spite of its faults.
I was very tempted by the Archos 101 save for the OS version it runs and it not being compatible device as per CDD. I considered the Tab to be a giant phone bloated with useless features and a high price. I'm sure I'm not alone in those opinions. I think this year will be a lot different and the evidence can be seen of new tablet announcements coming from all over the place.
It is effective in the sense that you pay money to one service, transfer it virtually and redeem it on the other side through another account. At the very least this would cause jurisdictional hassle as you try and obtain court orders to look at those records.
There is no such thing as money laundering, only the claim that big government has a right to know how you spend your money.
Actually there is such a thing as money laundering. It where you illegally obtain money or financial instruments and then attempt to legitimize how you appeared to obtain that money. It's also quite obvious why "big government" would wish to have measures to detect it - the prevention of crime, the means to seize the proceeds of crime and for tax audits.
Of course. That is hardly relevant. The question is, how hard is it to write bad code?
I think SQL databases / drivers could do a lot more to protect themselves from bad programmers. For example we all know that a prepared statement is safer from SQL injection than an ad hoc one because params are properly escaped. So why allow ad hoc statements at all by default? Seems to me that drivers should require the app to explicitly override safeguards if they want to dangerous things. Likewise SQL comments are often used to disable the rest of an injection attack but why are they needed in client side sql? So disable them. If the bad programmer absolutely wants to they can throw the switches but perhaps in reading how to do it, he / she might learn to program better and would of course be safe by default rather than insecure by default.
If I bought a car which worked great and someone offered me a replacement car, the same model, except they've painted over the logos and replaced the radio with a crystal receiver then no I wouldn't want to take them up on the offer. Even if they told me how evil my car was for using some part or another.
This is the problem with libre dists based on commercial / pragmatic ones. You're gimping a perfectly functional dist and you get miffed that people don't see the point of it or don't want to swap what they have.
As for free drivers, yes I'd like open source drivers but in the absence of them, I'll take proprietary drivers any day. I don't have an issue with putting pressure on NVidia & AMD to release sources at least for their obsolete hardware ranges. I don't have an issue with alternative drivers like Nouveau. In the absence of a drive any driver is useful. However that doesn't mean I'm going to gimp my hardware for politics when there is a choice.
No, AC has it right. Android has been on tablets for what, half a year now? No one is buying them. I seem to recall a bunch of predictions back in March and April last year that by Fall 2010, iPad would be outsold by the plethora of inexpensive but more powerful Android tablets.
No AC is not right and neither are you. Android 3.0 marks the official support for tablets and there are more than half a dozen models launching in the space of the next few months. And exactly the same thing will happen as happened with phones except Apple have less lead in time.
That's funny. Do you really think the average consumer is going to methodically evaluate the iPad compared to Android tablets and make a choice based on specs?
I'm sure it's a decision made of different factors - price, specs, form factor, features, brand etc. Just as it is with phones. One person might want a tablet that plays all their vids and an HDMI out. Another might want a smaller screen for reading books. Another might like a tablet with a built in keyboard. Another might want which is durable and cheap for kids to play with. If you think exactly one price and form factor suits everyone you are wrong.
Judging the overall value proposition will happen, but it won't be made based on the criteria you are thinking it will be. 15 million people made a value proposition in 2010 for the iPad. Right now Apple cannot make iPad 2's fast enough.
They probably can't. Doesn't mean it's going to last or that the same thing happening with phones isn't going to happen with tablets because it will. The iPad 1 & 2 are nice bits of kit but they are expensive, VERY restrictive, and have enjoyed relatively unfettered exclusivity thus far. All that is changing as we speak. Motorola have launched a tablet. Samsung have launched 2 tablets, Asus have launched 2 tablets. LG, HTC, Dell, Acer et al will be next.
Apple sucks, so we have to copy everything they do.
So what you're saying is that if Samsung is going to copy Apple's astroturfing campaigns, they need to do a better job of it?
Well, they could start copying Apple by actually finding real people who like their products. Remember Ellen Feiss?
It should be easy enough to find real people. Find a bunch of poncy photogenic "creative" types, give them a tablet for their troubles and let them gush profusely about how the device changed their lives. People will whore themselves out quite readily and say any shit you want them to say when there is a shiny toy for their troubles.
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The Nook Color is a tablet moron. It's a 7" capacitive LCD device running android. It's main purpose might be as an ereader but it ships with other apps including a web browser. It's a tablet. Grow up ffs.
That's probably true for the shift from combustion to electric vehicles. But I doubt anyone would think it's a job well done if in 40 years people are still gridlocked in the middle of cities in their EVs because the government 40 years ago decided they weren't going to do a damned thing to produce a coherent public transport or clean cities strategy because some Eurocrats suggested mandating the idea.
I don't even understand why the UK opposes it. It's like they're saying "oh no we can;t be a big government and set these limits therefore no limits". Except of course councils receive much of their funding from central government so it is entirely within a government's power to withhold funding to those don't implement certain national policies (e.g. CO2 emissions reductions) and provide funding to those who do.
We're talking of a ban occurring 40 years into the future. Most vehicles are 10 years old or less. I expect it's going to happen that hybrids and eventually electric vehicles replace combustion engines anyway. Of course moving to electric vehicles is one thing, but people shouldn't be driving them into cities without extraordinarily good reasons either, e.g. they live there, they're disabled or whatever. So impose congestion charges, pay & ride schemes and provide decent public transportation that lets people leave their cars at home or on the outskirts and travel the remainder of the way. It's not rocket science but it does need a coordinated and determined timeline to see it through.
I see. So in your view EU governance boils down a simple A or B solution - A) Ban combustion engine cars in cities or B) Stop the muslim hordes. Perhaps you should be asking your doctor which medication is right for you.
Failing that, just install VirtualBox and run Linux inside OS X.
Just as a point on a 7" tablet, it really depends on what it's being used for. The Nook Color is 7" and has sold 3 million devices so clearly some people like the form factor. I expect people who want a device primarily for reading books probably prefer a smaller form factor. BTW I strongly believe Amazon will have an Android tablet soon - their app store initiative doesn't make any sense except in that context.
Now some people would balk at 7" and would want something larger. Just like smart phones you can expect Android tablets in all kinds of shapes & sizes. Some might have keyboards, some might have 4:3 aspect ratio, others 16:10 or 16:9. Some might have a 10.1" screen, others at 5", 7", 9", etc. Some might have lots of storage, some might have little but ship a micro SD. etc.
The point being one size does not fit all and the market will reflect that in the features they focus on and the prices they charge.
Gold farming is something else again, e.g. I pay 10 people to sit there and grind out for items which I then covertly sell to other players through secret means. As far as the game is concerned they just have 10 subscribers. They'd have to actually what the subs are doing to detect farming. I guess a farming operation could be used to launder money but not very easily unless you had 100 people all playing so that their sub & wages was equivalent to the amount of money you wanted to launder..
As for how to detected money launderers, the simplest would be to look for repeating transactions. Even 100 keys means things repeat on average 50 times. Or stick an invisible proxy on port 8333 at the ISP and listen in - I may be mistaken but node activity appears to be plaintext. More sophisticated would be to spoof the initial IRC connect for seeds maybe listening on who was calling that, sending back a few P2P clients that log stuff on the way through.
The source code for the standard bitcoin client is really sloppy and all over the place with global functions, some C++ and a bit of everything mixed together. I expect there are quite a few points of attack ways to intercept traffic, DDOS a node, or even take down the network. I doubt clients or the network would cope well AT ALL with bogus transactions. For example imagine performing a billion 0.00000001 transactions back and forth. The code suggests it has an antiswamping behaviour but at the same time it still has to process transactions eventually. Bitcoin (the network's) best defence would be for a few independently implemented clients to appear. I doubt it will help with the regulatory side of things though.
Ah I understand now. Your colossal intellect appears to have trouble comprehending other points of view.
Yes it's a wonderful device and oh I'm really so much more productive now and it gives me more time with the kids and I whip it out in restaurants to email the presentation to the boss before enjoying my social life and now I'm so wonderfully creative that I'll just pretend to be thoughtfully painting this picture that this device inspired me to make. Later on I might even make a dress inspired by the picture of autumn leaves I snapped while frolicking outside.
I think in Obama's case he really did want to close Guantanamo and then encountered reality. There is no point undermining your own campaign pledges once you discover you're fighting a losing battle.
It's pretty obvious that anyone who appears in these promotions is rewarded for it, whether it is because they're an actor, or a normal user.
For Second Life replace with any game where you can virtualize currency and retrieve it on the other side. Personally I think there must be better ways to launder money.
The Nook is smaller form factor, perfect for book reading a bit of browsing. The Archos 101 kicks the crap out of the iPad at playing videos. The Vega is a powerful dual core tablet for half the price of an iPad, perfect for hackers. And they're last years models. Many prominent models are coming down the pipe this year. It is quite obvious what will happen whether a zealot such as yourself chooses to acknowledge it or not.
It really is funny to have people pretend that the iPad represents some magic featureset / price that absolutely cannot be beaten. It shouldn't have to be pointed out that a quick look at what happened in the smart phone market pisses all that idea.
Anyone want to lay odds on cryptocurrencies becoming illegal in a host of countries within five years?
I expect that's likely. I also think they'll be helped along by criminals running phoney exchanges, escrow services, money laundering, gambling, ponzis etc.
And if that doesn't do them in, I think it's quite feasible that a hacker could poison entire system with bogus transactions corrupted values that DDOS or crash clients / erase wallets. Or someone with a large amount of resources, e.g. CIA using their distributed computing power to swipe up all the unmined coins and fuck up the economy. Or early adopters taking their real money causing a run on the exchanges which means they close down. Or a commercial provider appearing with a more palatable system which satisfies regulators and is pegged to real money.
People weren't staying away from the Android tablets that most certainly did exist (and failed miserably) over the last year because of it not having "official" tablet support (which is complete retroactive bullshit, there were official Android tablets shipped in 2010, these weren't simply using the non-controlled open source version of Android). The limitations of pre-Honeycomb tablets wouldn't be terribly apparent in the store. If people actually wanted Android tablets, they would have sold well and just had high returns if Gingerbread were insufficient as a tablet OS.
Yes they were staying away. Partly for lack of support, partly for lack of choice and partly for lack of an affordable model. I consider myself very pro Android but I've steered clear of an Android tablet and intend to continue to do so until they become more affordable. I could cite all sorts of reasons Android is great but I'm not so blinded to buy something in spite of its faults.
I was very tempted by the Archos 101 save for the OS version it runs and it not being compatible device as per CDD. I considered the Tab to be a giant phone bloated with useless features and a high price. I'm sure I'm not alone in those opinions. I think this year will be a lot different and the evidence can be seen of new tablet announcements coming from all over the place.
It is effective in the sense that you pay money to one service, transfer it virtually and redeem it on the other side through another account. At the very least this would cause jurisdictional hassle as you try and obtain court orders to look at those records.
I wonder how hard it is to track Bitcoin laundering considering that each wallet has over 100 different keys it can use in any given transaction...
Send me some bitcoins on 13jvPmUNSjXFvw5dUTTBS116UghJJi438s and I'll tell you.
There is no such thing as money laundering, only the claim that big government has a right to know how you spend your money.
Actually there is such a thing as money laundering. It where you illegally obtain money or financial instruments and then attempt to legitimize how you appeared to obtain that money. It's also quite obvious why "big government" would wish to have measures to detect it - the prevention of crime, the means to seize the proceeds of crime and for tax audits.
Of course. That is hardly relevant. The question is, how hard is it to write bad code?
I think SQL databases / drivers could do a lot more to protect themselves from bad programmers. For example we all know that a prepared statement is safer from SQL injection than an ad hoc one because params are properly escaped. So why allow ad hoc statements at all by default? Seems to me that drivers should require the app to explicitly override safeguards if they want to dangerous things. Likewise SQL comments are often used to disable the rest of an injection attack but why are they needed in client side sql? So disable them. If the bad programmer absolutely wants to they can throw the switches but perhaps in reading how to do it, he / she might learn to program better and would of course be safe by default rather than insecure by default.
This is the problem with libre dists based on commercial / pragmatic ones. You're gimping a perfectly functional dist and you get miffed that people don't see the point of it or don't want to swap what they have.
As for free drivers, yes I'd like open source drivers but in the absence of them, I'll take proprietary drivers any day. I don't have an issue with putting pressure on NVidia & AMD to release sources at least for their obsolete hardware ranges. I don't have an issue with alternative drivers like Nouveau. In the absence of a drive any driver is useful. However that doesn't mean I'm going to gimp my hardware for politics when there is a choice.
No, AC has it right. Android has been on tablets for what, half a year now? No one is buying them. I seem to recall a bunch of predictions back in March and April last year that by Fall 2010, iPad would be outsold by the plethora of inexpensive but more powerful Android tablets.
No AC is not right and neither are you. Android 3.0 marks the official support for tablets and there are more than half a dozen models launching in the space of the next few months. And exactly the same thing will happen as happened with phones except Apple have less lead in time.
That's funny. Do you really think the average consumer is going to methodically evaluate the iPad compared to Android tablets and make a choice based on specs?
I'm sure it's a decision made of different factors - price, specs, form factor, features, brand etc. Just as it is with phones. One person might want a tablet that plays all their vids and an HDMI out. Another might want a smaller screen for reading books. Another might like a tablet with a built in keyboard. Another might want which is durable and cheap for kids to play with. If you think exactly one price and form factor suits everyone you are wrong.
Judging the overall value proposition will happen, but it won't be made based on the criteria you are thinking it will be. 15 million people made a value proposition in 2010 for the iPad. Right now Apple cannot make iPad 2's fast enough.
They probably can't. Doesn't mean it's going to last or that the same thing happening with phones isn't going to happen with tablets because it will. The iPad 1 & 2 are nice bits of kit but they are expensive, VERY restrictive, and have enjoyed relatively unfettered exclusivity thus far. All that is changing as we speak. Motorola have launched a tablet. Samsung have launched 2 tablets, Asus have launched 2 tablets. LG, HTC, Dell, Acer et al will be next.
Apple sucks, so we have to copy everything they do.
So what you're saying is that if Samsung is going to copy Apple's astroturfing campaigns, they need to do a better job of it?
Well, they could start copying Apple by actually finding real people who like their products. Remember Ellen Feiss?
It should be easy enough to find real people. Find a bunch of poncy photogenic "creative" types, give them a tablet for their troubles and let them gush profusely about how the device changed their lives. People will whore themselves out quite readily and say any shit you want them to say when there is a shiny toy for their troubles.