None of those things apply to, eg, the Kindle (nor other pre-iPad tablets. I've never seen an Android tablet)
The only thing listed kinda unique to the iPad is the pinch zoom feature. Everything else could equally apply to other devices. There's also no note on them examining other tablet PCs either, it's possible if they did they would decide other devices are even more similar.
We are after all talking about something which is fundamentally a smartphone OS with a really large screen here.
If the consumers knew about the faulty ladders all along then they DO share the blame.
That's the case here. BP weren't doing anything fraudulent, everyone knew such a leak had no guaranteed fix. It wasn't a secret, it was a well published risk. Just as we all know one of the countless oil tankers leaving Alaska may again rupture and cause another massive Exxon Valdez style disaster. I bet you lot will say "nothing to do with me" on that one too, whilst still expecting the next shipment of cheap, on-demand oil to your local gas station.
Putting all the blame on some company and trying to say we had nothing to do with it is ridiculous.
I just can't understand how this story can be tagged "legalize it" at all.
Whilst I 100% agree that soft drugs like Cannabis should be legalized and can't understand how a substance far less dangerous than alcohol & tobacco can be banned, the same is simply not true for Cocaine.
Cocaine is NOT a harmless drug, it kills people and robs them of a liveliehood at a far greater rate than almost any other drug. It is insanely addictive and knowing a couple of friends who have struggled with it I can only hope for your own sake you never try it.
Yes it will make you feel the best you've ever felt before - for about 10 minutes (followed by hours of feeling downbeat) - but in the process it will taint your enjoyment of everything else in life.
Nuclear fission and ultimately nuclear fusion are clearly the most enviromentally sustainable sources of energy generation for the future.
I think the only problem is that in the past, nuclear power plants haven't exactly operated as role-models of enviromental stewardship. In most western countries though this has massively improved in recent decades.
But why are green laser pointers more popular than red or blue ones?
The implications of completing the RGB chart must be huge, but why are green laser pointers specifically better selling than other laser pointers? (unless ofcourse the Wikipedia article is wrong)
Virtually every proposed form of energy production is disliked by core environmentalists
It sounds like you are simply lumping various completely independent groups of people together as "enviromentatlists" based on very selective critiera.
This over-simplification of the infinite number of different opinions out there into two opposing camps of either pro/anti something is rarely helpful, despite its common usage in the mainstream media (e.g. conservative/liberal labels which mean very little).
As in the link you provide, the opponents aren't representatives of some "enviromentalist" half of society, they are purely a bunch of people concerned the geo-power station will cause earthquakes. Their opinion on (for example) global warming or rainforest deforestation is not-stated and probably completely varied amongst the group.
This leads to many absurd situations, for example where someone who doesn't believe in GW (so opposes the geo-power station because they are worried any earthquake risk however minor) ends up being labelled an "enviromentalist" just because they are worried about a particular enviromental effect of the geo-power station.
There's tons of man-made waste discarded in space. From big pieces of Saturn V rockets to small pieces of smashed up Chinese satellite.
So NASA and and friends aren't too bothered about leaving useless bits of metal in space, but a multi-billion dollar space station of obvious advantage to future manned space flight must be destroyed?
Surely the first question is "who the Hell knows what freedom is"?
All current definitions are extremely vague and unquantifiable. It's pretty difficult to achieve something when noone can even quantify exactly what it is they want to achieve!
"Freedom to do X" is obviously quantifiable, "freedom" (on it's own) isn't. One could make a long list of "Freedom to do X, Y, Z" etc. but a very long list is different from the infinitely long list the singular term "freedom" implies.
This all comes down to control. U.S. Congress wants to control our morals, like a modern-day version of the medieval church.
Almost. I think actually it is just a medieval church still wanting to control our lives and morals. Most Congressmen just want to get elected, and that means heading to the medieval church and its tens of millions of active voters.
A corporation, no matter how evil, cannot lawfully detain you, lock you in a cage or kill you.
In all but a handful of disfunctional tyrannies, to lawfully kill or indefinitely detain you, the government must prove you guilty of a particularly disgusting crime (i.e. one that very few people wouldn't be appalled by). To do otherwise is just as unlawful for the state as any other organization, so what difference does it make?
Something being unlawful doesn't mean it's not done.
His insurance costs are a little higher than mine, but apart from that his overall car costs are probably cheaper than for me!
I've come to realize that's the thing about cars/public transport, with public transport the costs are highly visible, the total cost of car ownership is extremely well hidden.
"That's close to 50% of a normal person's income"
I know plenty of people who actually spend over 50% of thier net income on car costs. If you took a poll of typical guys in their 20's and 30's I would bet the majority spend at least 40% or so of their net income on car costs.
It's pretty crazy. A large proportion of this country's hard-working "young & single" types (me included) spend very long hours working in pursuit of high wages, only to spend half of those high wages simply enabling them to get to work.
Major themes include suppression of sexuality, nationalism and strict following of political doctrine. For someone from the USA (one of the most conservative societies in the western world) to be criticizing one of the most tolerant and liberal societies in the western world that they are entering a 1984 style era, is pretty ironic to say the least!
Is that REALLY what you want your cops doing with your taxes?
Um, you didn't actually mention what it is you think they are REALLY doing, all you did was make a vague reference to CCTV and a 60 year old novel.
We would have to know what your particular conspiracy theory actually is before we could say whether we agree or disagree with it.
Btw, due to the way most current suburban electrical grids work, heat dissipation is wildly acknowledged as the best way of detecting cannabis cultivation.
That's the difference between European and American cultural attitudes towards privacy. Europeans tend to be more trusting of government and less trusting of corporations, whilst Americans are generally more trusting of corporations, less trusting of government.
That's the difference between European and American cultural attitudes towards privacy. Europeans tend to be more trusting of government and less trusting of corporations, whilst Americans are generally more trusting of corporations, less trusting of government.
That's why in countries like Britain, whilst many people don't mind CCTV cameras, they also have far stronger data protection laws then we do etc.
That's simply not true. It's not 100% security and should never be considered such, but if obscurity provides no security at all then why ever bother using encryption (a form of data obscurity)? After all, all widely used encryption algorithims can be cracked given enough computers enough time.
OK, I see in the report where they suggest increasing student exposure to new media entities such as Twitter and Wikipedia, but where exactly is the bit about cutting history subjects?
This seems to have been an element invented by reporters to make a good story.
And if you can also confirm this in a long-term study and hav your conclusions published in a major peer-reviewed medical journal, I'm sure it will also appear as a story here on Slashdot.
Until then, I'm going to go with the decade and a half of research.
Correlation vs. Causation? Wow, why didn't the researchers think of that?
..actually they did, it's discussed in quite some detail (too much for me to examine right now, but it's definitely discussed). The paper was published in the respected Thorax journal (published by the British Medical Association http://thorax.bmj.com/).
Respectable journals tend to check that such issues have been closely examined, even if journalists rarely bother mentioning it.
I use Linux and have never had any problems watching shows on iPlayer. I use it all the time.
The region-locking is for shows they've bought off other networks (e.g. US imports), so the BBC doesn't have much say in the matter. If you ever read the iPlayer blog, it's pretty obvious the developers hate it but it's a case of either have the region-locking or not show them at all.
p.s. the BBC isn't government-run, as evidenced by various court cases over the years where [ruling party of the day] have claimed unfair coverage.
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None of those things apply to, eg, the Kindle (nor other pre-iPad tablets. I've never seen an Android tablet)
The only thing listed kinda unique to the iPad is the pinch zoom feature. Everything else could equally apply to other devices. There's also no note on them examining other tablet PCs either, it's possible if they did they would decide other devices are even more similar.
We are after all talking about something which is fundamentally a smartphone OS with a really large screen here.
If the consumers knew about the faulty ladders all along then they DO share the blame.
That's the case here. BP weren't doing anything fraudulent, everyone knew such a leak had no guaranteed fix. It wasn't a secret, it was a well published risk. Just as we all know one of the countless oil tankers leaving Alaska may again rupture and cause another massive Exxon Valdez style disaster. I bet you lot will say "nothing to do with me" on that one too, whilst still expecting the next shipment of cheap, on-demand oil to your local gas station.
Putting all the blame on some company and trying to say we had nothing to do with it is ridiculous.
I just can't understand how this story can be tagged "legalize it" at all.
Whilst I 100% agree that soft drugs like Cannabis should be legalized and can't understand how a substance far less dangerous than alcohol & tobacco can be banned, the same is simply not true for Cocaine.
Cocaine is NOT a harmless drug, it kills people and robs them of a liveliehood at a far greater rate than almost any other drug. It is insanely addictive and knowing a couple of friends who have struggled with it I can only hope for your own sake you never try it.
Yes it will make you feel the best you've ever felt before - for about 10 minutes (followed by hours of feeling downbeat) - but in the process it will taint your enjoyment of everything else in life.
Surely, if their customers wanted it, Sony would give them the option. That's meant to be what's so good about our laissez-faire capitalist system!
The only possible conclusion is that Sony customers must not want choice.
Couldn't agree more.
Nuclear fission and ultimately nuclear fusion are clearly the most enviromentally sustainable sources of energy generation for the future.
I think the only problem is that in the past, nuclear power plants haven't exactly operated as role-models of enviromental stewardship. In most western countries though this has massively improved in recent decades.
But why are green laser pointers more popular than red or blue ones?
The implications of completing the RGB chart must be huge, but why are green laser pointers specifically better selling than other laser pointers? (unless ofcourse the Wikipedia article is wrong)
The linked wikipedia article states:
Why? Whats so special about green laser pointers?
It sounds like you are simply lumping various completely independent groups of people together as "enviromentatlists" based on very selective critiera.
This over-simplification of the infinite number of different opinions out there into two opposing camps of either pro/anti something is rarely helpful, despite its common usage in the mainstream media (e.g. conservative/liberal labels which mean very little).
As in the link you provide, the opponents aren't representatives of some "enviromentalist" half of society, they are purely a bunch of people concerned the geo-power station will cause earthquakes. Their opinion on (for example) global warming or rainforest deforestation is not-stated and probably completely varied amongst the group.
This leads to many absurd situations, for example where someone who doesn't believe in GW (so opposes the geo-power station because they are worried any earthquake risk however minor) ends up being labelled an "enviromentalist" just because they are worried about a particular enviromental effect of the geo-power station.
I'm confused, isn't this sort of problem exactly why you carry out system tests?
Sending out new cards to card testers during a systems test is hardly extraordinary.
That makes no sense at all.
There's tons of man-made waste discarded in space. From big pieces of Saturn V rockets to small pieces of smashed up Chinese satellite.
So NASA and and friends aren't too bothered about leaving useless bits of metal in space, but a multi-billion dollar space station of obvious advantage to future manned space flight must be destroyed?
You do know that if a police officer requests your identity it is already a crime not to provide it. ID card or no ID card.
If you say "I'm not going to tell you who I am or where I live" all the policeman's ears would hear is "please put me in a cell copper, please"
Surely the first question is "who the Hell knows what freedom is"?
All current definitions are extremely vague and unquantifiable. It's pretty difficult to achieve something when noone can even quantify exactly what it is they want to achieve!
"Freedom to do X" is obviously quantifiable, "freedom" (on it's own) isn't. One could make a long list of "Freedom to do X, Y, Z" etc. but a very long list is different from the infinitely long list the singular term "freedom" implies.
Almost. I think actually it is just a medieval church still wanting to control our lives and morals. Most Congressmen just want to get elected, and that means heading to the medieval church and its tens of millions of active voters.
In all but a handful of disfunctional tyrannies, to lawfully kill or indefinitely detain you, the government must prove you guilty of a particularly disgusting crime (i.e. one that very few people wouldn't be appalled by). To do otherwise is just as unlawful for the state as any other organization, so what difference does it make?
Something being unlawful doesn't mean it's not done.
His insurance costs are a little higher than mine, but apart from that his overall car costs are probably cheaper than for me!
I've come to realize that's the thing about cars/public transport, with public transport the costs are highly visible, the total cost of car ownership is extremely well hidden.
"That's close to 50% of a normal person's income"
I know plenty of people who actually spend over 50% of thier net income on car costs. If you took a poll of typical guys in their 20's and 30's I would bet the majority spend at least 40% or so of their net income on car costs.
It's pretty crazy. A large proportion of this country's hard-working "young & single" types (me included) spend very long hours working in pursuit of high wages, only to spend half of those high wages simply enabling them to get to work.
It's kind of like self-imposed slavery.
Have you actually read 1984?
Major themes include suppression of sexuality, nationalism and strict following of political doctrine. For someone from the USA (one of the most conservative societies in the western world) to be criticizing one of the most tolerant and liberal societies in the western world that they are entering a 1984 style era, is pretty ironic to say the least!
Um, you didn't actually mention what it is you think they are REALLY doing, all you did was make a vague reference to CCTV and a 60 year old novel.
We would have to know what your particular conspiracy theory actually is before we could say whether we agree or disagree with it.
Btw, due to the way most current suburban electrical grids work, heat dissipation is wildly acknowledged as the best way of detecting cannabis cultivation.
That's the difference between European and American cultural attitudes towards privacy. Europeans tend to be more trusting of government and less trusting of corporations, whilst Americans are generally more trusting of corporations, less trusting of government.
That's the difference between European and American cultural attitudes towards privacy. Europeans tend to be more trusting of government and less trusting of corporations, whilst Americans are generally more trusting of corporations, less trusting of government.
That's why in countries like Britain, whilst many people don't mind CCTV cameras, they also have far stronger data protection laws then we do etc.
"Rule #1 is:
Security through obscurity isn't."
That's simply not true. It's not 100% security and should never be considered such, but if obscurity provides no security at all then why ever bother using encryption (a form of data obscurity)? After all, all widely used encryption algorithims can be cracked given enough computers enough time.
OK, I see in the report where they suggest increasing student exposure to new media entities such as Twitter and Wikipedia, but where exactly is the bit about cutting history subjects?
This seems to have been an element invented by reporters to make a good story.
"I think Amazon sells crowbars to remove your foot from your mouth."
And if you can also confirm this in a long-term study and hav your conclusions published in a major peer-reviewed medical journal, I'm sure it will also appear as a story here on Slashdot.
Until then, I'm going to go with the decade and a half of research.
Correlation vs. Causation? Wow, why didn't the researchers think of that?
Respectable journals tend to check that such issues have been closely examined, even if journalists rarely bother mentioning it.
I use Linux and have never had any problems watching shows on iPlayer. I use it all the time.
The region-locking is for shows they've bought off other networks (e.g. US imports), so the BBC doesn't have much say in the matter. If you ever read the iPlayer blog, it's pretty obvious the developers hate it but it's a case of either have the region-locking or not show them at all.
p.s. the BBC isn't government-run, as evidenced by various court cases over the years where [ruling party of the day] have claimed unfair coverage.