Why didn't I think of that? First, kill off all TV signals and force people to use cable companies, then invent a system to...
transmit TV signals! Brilliant!
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Can you explain the TLAs and ETLAs used? Maybe we can all understand what you are trying to say...
..., but there are still a lot of Palm fans out there.
Well, I was once one of them. Palm made crappy hardware, like screens that were scratched beyond use in just three weeks by normal use, but PalmOS was way better than WinCE. Then they made the most stupid move ever: to combine the most crappy OS (Windows Mobile) with their own most crappy hardware. They may have learned from their mistake, but I did too.
Simon Bransfield-Garth, the chief executive of Cellcrypt, says Nohl's efforts could put sophisticated mobile interception technology — limited to reasonably well-funded criminal organizations — within the reach of any government and intelligence agency.
Populated areas only make the problem worse. People go out to work at about the same time, go home about the same time, it gets dark at the same time. It is nice that you can power the filled offices from the empty homes, but where does your energy comes from when you switch on the light bulb when it gets dark? From storage, that's what. Only, with that many people doing about the same things, the individual problem just adds up.
Especially the comments about "gifts" dazzle me. Do you view a free open source program as a gift to the government? You can see it as a gift to humanity, so also a gift to government. On the other side, you could see it as "part of nature": free for anyone to pick up, but not given by anyone.
When you see it as a gift, is it automatically seen as a potential bribe? In that case, government would be forbidden to use anything that is open source and free of charge. That would surely not be a good thing.
In fact, many open source programs already form an alternative to the monetary system, and the anti-bribe rules do take into account that bribes are not necessary money.
I don't think end users will get any better. Existing hacks will not go away, and HTML5 only defines new, "exiting" ways to spy on users, standardise personal private data and store even more tracking on the user's device.
I haven't seen a browser yet that allows the persistent storage to be switched off, and I haven't seen any browser yet that admits that it is a privacy problem. The only difference between persistent HTML5 storage and flash cookies is that flash cookies are acknowledged as a privacy threat.
And people in the western world do not want to pay craftsmen anymore. IT managers don't even believe they exist, and often manage programmers like conveyor belt workers. So what we need is better managers who know what they are doing (almost a contradictio in terminis, I know).
And off course the western world needs to wake up. What are we without craftsmen? A society of just managers and social workers? (insert Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes here)
But what especially the USA needs is less lawyers And the "no cure no pay" system should be acknowledged as being criminal, because that is what made US courts into the gambling houses they are now. Programming is dangerous, just like building small aircraft is. The (very real) fear for billion-claims has wiped out most of the small aircraft industry, and small programming companies will go the same way if any random ridiculous claim can make you go bankrupt.
I mean, just read the stories on any day on slashdot. Would you want to become a programmer when you read it? Do you think your code is more than just a weapon in court? If I had to decide now, I'd have picked a safer and more rewarding profession.
For patients that would be far better off with medical weed than with current medication, this is helping people in need. Especially in the US, people who have used marijuana as a medicine have ended up in jail. How much more need do you want?
Because of other things? To name one: I find MySQL a great database for agile database development. I can write SQL in a way that upgrades toward a situation instead of failing when the incorrect old situation was there . Lots of those things can be done without stored procedures, in a legible and maintainable manner. In PostgreSQL, I would probably have to write lots and lots of procedures, making this totally unmaintainable.
Some program on the computer will fire up IE instead of the default browser, and IE makes itself the default browser like it always has.
Nothing's changed.
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Why didn't I think of that? First, kill off all TV signals and force people to use cable companies, then invent a system to ...
transmit TV signals!
Brilliant!
Can you explain the TLAs and ETLAs used? Maybe we can all understand what you are trying to say...
Can somebody mod this up please?
I like the sound of calling every security problem a "cloud feature". Suddenly it does not sound bad at all anymore!
But it's their store. And if everything that you want on your device has to come from their store, just maybe you should have thought of that first.
Regedit. Seriously, it is my favourite microsoft application. No over-bloated interface, stable and it just works.
Aluminium with stainless steel on a sledge? Combine that with salt (splashed up from the road) and you get a nasty bit of corrosion.
..., but there are still a lot of Palm fans out there.
Well, I was once one of them. Palm made crappy hardware, like screens that were scratched beyond use in just three weeks by normal use, but PalmOS was way better than WinCE. Then they made the most stupid move ever: to combine the most crappy OS (Windows Mobile) with their own most crappy hardware. They may have learned from their mistake, but I did too.
Bad guys usually want to disguise as companies who make money and governments. Not the other way around.
As long as IT salesmen sell "flashy" sites and bleat that it is professional to put a flash lock on your site, developers will have to build it.
As you already say that most things can be done in javascript, I don't see that HTML5 support would hurt the use of flash.
Simon Bransfield-Garth, the chief executive of Cellcrypt, says Nohl's efforts could put sophisticated mobile interception technology — limited to reasonably well-funded criminal organizations — within the reach of any government and intelligence agency.
There, fixed that for you.
George, is that you?
"Perl gem" sounds good!
Populated areas only make the problem worse. People go out to work at about the same time, go home about the same time, it gets dark at the same time. It is nice that you can power the filled offices from the empty homes, but where does your energy comes from when you switch on the light bulb when it gets dark? From storage, that's what. Only, with that many people doing about the same things, the individual problem just adds up.
Especially the comments about "gifts" dazzle me. Do you view a free open source program as a gift to the government? You can see it as a gift to humanity, so also a gift to government. On the other side, you could see it as "part of nature": free for anyone to pick up, but not given by anyone.
When you see it as a gift, is it automatically seen as a potential bribe? In that case, government would be forbidden to use anything that is open source and free of charge. That would surely not be a good thing.
In fact, many open source programs already form an alternative to the monetary system, and the anti-bribe rules do take into account that bribes are not necessary money.
The technology is even less trusted than it already was by end users.
I don't think end users will get any better. Existing hacks will not go away, and HTML5 only defines new, "exiting" ways to spy on users, standardise personal private data and store even more tracking on the user's device.
I haven't seen a browser yet that allows the persistent storage to be switched off, and I haven't seen any browser yet that admits that it is a privacy problem. The only difference between persistent HTML5 storage and flash cookies is that flash cookies are acknowledged as a privacy threat.
Can you switch the HTML5 "features" like and persistent storage off? When I read the HTML5 specifications, it seems to be mainly made for advertisers...
And people in the western world do not want to pay craftsmen anymore. IT managers don't even believe they exist, and often manage programmers like conveyor belt workers. So what we need is better managers who know what they are doing (almost a contradictio in terminis, I know).
And off course the western world needs to wake up. What are we without craftsmen? A society of just managers and social workers? (insert Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes here)
But what especially the USA needs is less lawyers And the "no cure no pay" system should be acknowledged as being criminal, because that is what made US courts into the gambling houses they are now. Programming is dangerous, just like building small aircraft is. The (very real) fear for billion-claims has wiped out most of the small aircraft industry, and small programming companies will go the same way if any random ridiculous claim can make you go bankrupt.
I mean, just read the stories on any day on slashdot. Would you want to become a programmer when you read it? Do you think your code is more than just a weapon in court? If I had to decide now, I'd have picked a safer and more rewarding profession.
And suddenly it is the Mother of all Jobs!
But the USA already has one. They call him "President".
How about "Flabbergasment"?
I think Bush was the one where the heart was ripped out. They needed a monkey with brains for the other scene.
For patients that would be far better off with medical weed than with current medication, this is helping people in need. Especially in the US, people who have used marijuana as a medicine have ended up in jail. How much more need do you want?
Because of other things? To name one: I find MySQL a great database for agile database development. I can write SQL in a way that upgrades toward a situation instead of failing when the incorrect old situation was there . Lots of those things can be done without stored procedures, in a legible and maintainable manner. In PostgreSQL, I would probably have to write lots and lots of procedures, making this totally unmaintainable.
See Evolving a database with MySQL
Some program on the computer will fire up IE instead of the default browser, and IE makes itself the default browser like it always has. Nothing's changed.