Wasn't this fixed in a later iOS update? I believe I remember reading this was a "bug". Now, whether or not it really was a bug or by design is for another debate. But my point is, I don't believe this is an issue in current iOS releases.
Whether the "piracy" issue is irrelevant or not, just sitting by and letting your rights be taken away while you are distracted by a larger issue is NOT going to help us in the future. It's precisely at times like this that you need to be vigilant of things that are going on and not just the big issues.
While you were distracted, what is to stop a far-right corporate drone from passing some legislation that further restricts your rights as a citizen and gives more rights to corporations?
You might as well pretend to be an ostrich and bury your head in the sand...
Problem is, that's a very unscientific way to measure the radiation dose and very inaccurate.
The main problem with determining dose to the body from ionizing radiation is that different tissues and organs of the body absorb radiation in different ways. Additionally, some tissues and organs are more sensitive to cellular damage that could potentially lead to cancer more than others. And finally, the absorption is also heavily dependent on the energy levels and spectra of the radiation itself. Some types of radiation are basically harmless and pass through the body without being absorbed. Other types are heavily absorbed and can lead to health impacts.
Accurate does measurement is challenging and even among experts in the field there are differing opinions how to weight the different measurements and come up with an accurate dose representation that translates into meaningful risk assessment.
As an engineer working in the medical imaging field over 20 years, I'm well versed in radiation safety and the effects of radiation on biological processes. These backscatter machines should have NEVER been put into public use. There is literally zero scientific evidence on their efficacy for intended use and safety for both the operator and subject being scanned. In medical imaging, the doctor makes an assessment of risk vs. benefit when deciding to take an X-ray on the patient. If the benefits outweigh the risks, then the X-ray is justified. The major problem with these scanners is that the risk is unknown due to lack of studies validating the safety of the scanners and the population is being unnecessarily exposed to ionizing radiation without a medical reason to do so. This is purely security theater at its finest. I would never voluntarily submit to being scanned by one of these machines, especially with my background knowledge in radiation. If the US government were to decide that use of these scanners is mandatory, then I would cease all travel to/from/within the US by air. As an American living abroad, the end result is alienation by my own government. I for one am glad that the EU will not allow their use, so I may safely travel by air throughout Europe and the rest of the world.
How much longer are you going to tolerate this in the US? You are marching swiftly towards a completely corporate.fascist.militarist state and nobody seems to notice.
You just identified the problem with the current system, it's driven by money. Specifically, campaign contributions. Campaigns should not be determined by how much money they can whip up and this seems to be the only way of winning.
It would be interesting to plot the amount of money raised vs. election outcome. I would be extremely surprised if in more than 90% of the cases the one with the most money didn't win.
Greed, money... that's all that seems to matter in the US any more, even when it comes to politics.
To be honest, a huge proportion of "review" sites in Google searches are not review sites at all, but online retailers that have managed to get their site indexed as a review site.
Just search for "productname review" and see what you get. In most cases you can skip the first 2-5 pages, since all results will be online sellers selling productname, with questionable "reviews" attached to the items. Reviews probably written by employees of the online seller.
Why not give the manufacturer of productname better ranking in the results? Not all companies are just putting up advertising... they usually have useful information there as well, support options, updates and downloads, etc. I make it a point to not download updates from non-official sites anyway, how do you know the file is not tampered with? However, I can place more trust in a file downloaded from the manufacturer's site.
You're missing out one huge advantage in favor of the iPad, it also makes a fine mousepad, assuming you have a mouse that can track on a glass surface. Just try THAT with a cheeseburger!!!
(Hint: Mayonnaise is NOT good for your mouse, not matter what you have heard elsewhere. It starts to stink after a few days.)
It's sad to say that even if you don't link any of your other accounts to your FB profile, your friends will by linking their address books for example. You don't get a chance to opt-in when the information comes via your friend's decision's to link anything and everything to their FB account. This is a huge loophole in the system.
I don't allow any FB apps I choose to use to link to my other accounts, but I realize this is just burying my head in the sand at this point. I hope they will improve the system to be fully opt-in, but I really doubt it will ever happen. Being viral is part of the business plan and FB would probably not survive without it. It's unfortunate this means that any expectations of privacy of your information are not based in reality.
This is very much in line with current EU consumer data protection laws. I'm glad to see the EU taking a strong stance in online privacy. Unfortunately it will hit companies that sell consumer data for profit but well, I can't really feel sorry for them. You should not be able to sell data about ME without my consent, period. I am not living on this planet to provide data mining opportunities for companies into this sort of thing.
As if this is new news? Come on, very lame argument there. There have been concerns for irreparable climate change for at least a couple decades now, this is not sneaking up on us from around a corner. The problem is, nobody is willing to sacrifice even a tiny amount in order to reduce our out-of-control energy consumption and the destruction of the planet we live on. It's only more, more, more. The over-consumptive cycle of modern American lifestyle is very heavily to blame. I don't have current numbers to back it up, but basically you have a country with less than 5% of the global population consuming more than 20% of the worlds global energy production. This applies when you look at electric energy usage and fuel usage. The majority of the rest of the world gets by just fine on a fraction of the energy used in the US, and they are not living in grass huts.
I am American, and I am deeply ashamed about this. Unfortunately, the mainstream media is pretty much useless keeping you informed with so-called "facts"... by-and-large, people are more concerned about who is winning American Idol or whose team is winning some useless sporting event. News programs are by-and-large, a joke. The vast majority of America is far too wrapped up in frivolous "crap" to pay attention to matters that really matter. To be honest, we are all totally screwed, maybe not this generation but surely the following generations will have huge problems to deal with that we have created.
Umm... the FF GUI has not had any major changes since... well a long time now. What exactly are you referring to? I do not have a lot of "stuff" broken by a FF update. What kind of add-ons do you have installed? I run relatively few add-ons, and I like the idea that FF8 pops up the add-ons window after updating itself and gives me the option to re-enable any add-ons that it has disabled by default.
Seriously, I don't get all the FF hate on/. lately. Sure, some of the older 4.x-5.x releases were questionable and buggy but since FF7 it has been extremely fast, stable and memory-efficient. I like the new changes and the direction the FF developers are taking. Chrome never really clicked with me, although I use it occasionally. I use Opera far more than Chrome, but FF continues to be my go-to browser of choice.
In my experience you were lucky to get a valid hit on the 4th page. I've tried to find product specifications and had to dig down through 10 or sometimes 20 pages of sellers or auction pages full of useless or inaccurate information.
Same thing tends to happen if you search for " review", pages after pages of sellers and auction sites mostly, rather than legitimate review sites.
And it opens the door for mosquitos with frikin' lasers!!! I mean come on, everyone knows sharks can't move around too well on land or in the air... but mosquitos with frikin' lasers... EVERYONE PANIC NOW!!!
Bang on the point. The real problem is that in America, mass transit is seen as transportation for people who can't afford a car. For the most part, mass transit in America sucks or is non-existent. Where I grew up it was the latter. If you didn't have a car, you were basically dependent on friends and family to take you places. Even sidewalks (for walking!) are very poorly implemented outside of most major cities. In rural areas like where I grew up they are also practically non-existent.
Sadly, I don't see this changing. Tax dollars are needed to fund the infrastructure necessary to have a working mass transit system, and with the current level of corporate greed of American megacorps (and their tax avoidance), this practically guarantees no funding since it would fall on the citizens to accept higher taxes. Until Americans realize that the megacorps are taking everything from the pot and not giving anything in return, it's just not going to change.
I speak this an an American who has lived in Europe for over a decade, and sees a drastically different view than you see from inside the US. Your media and your politicians are wholly owned and controlled by the megacorps, what are you going to do about it?
The data network coverage is probably better than in many rural parts of the US. I travel to Brazil regularly and I've never been without good coverage even outside smaller cities and towns.
While the US telecoms companies sit on their asses and overcharge consumers, the rest of the world is building out wireless networks. In most of the developing countries, they are not buying computers or laptops, they are buying smartphones. This is how they get on the net and read email.
Or any of the literally DOZENS of other small handheld computing devices which had touchscreens long before iDevices. It amazes me how widespread tunnel vision is among Apple fanbois.
Stop spreading FUD. Europeans do not believe the EU is an evil institute. Sure, there are disagreements and minor political conflicts from time to time, just as there are elsewhere, but to imply that all Europeans think the EU is evil is going just a tad too far. At least we are not under the complete control of corporations as in the US. The EU still has a spine, at times, to stand up for what the citizens want in the face of corporate pressure. It's not perfect but it's far better than the US at the moment. When was the last time US politicians did something for their citizens that was not acting in concert with some corporation or organization (**AAs, I'm looking at you)?
First off Apple still offers anti-glare displays as an option on ALL their MacBook Pros. So the rant about not offering matte displays is completely off base. In fact, I'm writing this post on a later model Macbook Pro with an antiglare screen and a quick glance at the store shows this option still available.
Bzzzt, wrong. From one of my earlier posts on this topic:
Please check the specs, you have to go for the $1799 15-inch "upgrade" model before anti-glare becomes an option. In the base 15" model it's not available and it's completely off the table for the 13" MBP's.
I hardly think it's correct to say the anti-glare is an option for all MBP's, more correctly it would be at best 50% correct.
Hardly. Please check the specs, you have to go for the $1799 15-inch "upgrade" model before anti-glare becomes an option. In the base 15" model it's not available and it's completely off the table for the 13" MBP's. The Airs are also missing the anti-glare option.
It's kind of ironic, on the MBP specs page it says the 13" MBP is "the high performance notebook for everyone"... well, it's certainly NOT for me since I can't stand glossy screens on a notebook. Apple pushed me away from the 11.6" Air because of a lack of an anti-glare screen, I bought an 11.6" Lenovo instead which was available with anti-glare.
The lack of anti-glare is particularly harsh for small notebooks and netbooks, which by their design are more likely to be carried everywhere and even, shockingly.... used outdoors! This is where a glossy screen is the worst possible option. It's also why I will not buy a laptop with a glossy screen, nor will I buy glossy desktop screens. It was actually challenging to find a couple decent sized non-glossy screens for home use when I went shopping for them last fall. In the end I found 2 very good screens, but the vast majority were glossy. Let's not even get started on the whole 16:9 aspect thing... in fact we could just pile all the glossy and 16:9 screens together and have a huge environmentally-unfriendly bonfire and I would be happy!
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Wasn't this fixed in a later iOS update? I believe I remember reading this was a "bug". Now, whether or not it really was a bug or by design is for another debate. But my point is, I don't believe this is an issue in current iOS releases.
Whether the "piracy" issue is irrelevant or not, just sitting by and letting your rights be taken away while you are distracted by a larger issue is NOT going to help us in the future. It's precisely at times like this that you need to be vigilant of things that are going on and not just the big issues.
While you were distracted, what is to stop a far-right corporate drone from passing some legislation that further restricts your rights as a citizen and gives more rights to corporations?
You might as well pretend to be an ostrich and bury your head in the sand...
Problem is, that's a very unscientific way to measure the radiation dose and very inaccurate.
The main problem with determining dose to the body from ionizing radiation is that different tissues and organs of the body absorb radiation in different ways. Additionally, some tissues and organs are more sensitive to cellular damage that could potentially lead to cancer more than others. And finally, the absorption is also heavily dependent on the energy levels and spectra of the radiation itself. Some types of radiation are basically harmless and pass through the body without being absorbed. Other types are heavily absorbed and can lead to health impacts.
Accurate does measurement is challenging and even among experts in the field there are differing opinions how to weight the different measurements and come up with an accurate dose representation that translates into meaningful risk assessment.
As an engineer working in the medical imaging field over 20 years, I'm well versed in radiation safety and the effects of radiation on biological processes. These backscatter machines should have NEVER been put into public use. There is literally zero scientific evidence on their efficacy for intended use and safety for both the operator and subject being scanned. In medical imaging, the doctor makes an assessment of risk vs. benefit when deciding to take an X-ray on the patient. If the benefits outweigh the risks, then the X-ray is justified. The major problem with these scanners is that the risk is unknown due to lack of studies validating the safety of the scanners and the population is being unnecessarily exposed to ionizing radiation without a medical reason to do so. This is purely security theater at its finest. I would never voluntarily submit to being scanned by one of these machines, especially with my background knowledge in radiation. If the US government were to decide that use of these scanners is mandatory, then I would cease all travel to/from/within the US by air. As an American living abroad, the end result is alienation by my own government. I for one am glad that the EU will not allow their use, so I may safely travel by air throughout Europe and the rest of the world.
How much longer are you going to tolerate this in the US? You are marching swiftly towards a completely corporate.fascist.militarist state and nobody seems to notice.
You just identified the problem with the current system, it's driven by money. Specifically, campaign contributions. Campaigns should not be determined by how much money they can whip up and this seems to be the only way of winning.
It would be interesting to plot the amount of money raised vs. election outcome. I would be extremely surprised if in more than 90% of the cases the one with the most money didn't win.
Greed, money... that's all that seems to matter in the US any more, even when it comes to politics.
To be honest, a huge proportion of "review" sites in Google searches are not review sites at all, but online retailers that have managed to get their site indexed as a review site.
Just search for "productname review" and see what you get. In most cases you can skip the first 2-5 pages, since all results will be online sellers selling productname, with questionable "reviews" attached to the items. Reviews probably written by employees of the online seller.
Why not give the manufacturer of productname better ranking in the results? Not all companies are just putting up advertising... they usually have useful information there as well, support options, updates and downloads, etc. I make it a point to not download updates from non-official sites anyway, how do you know the file is not tampered with? However, I can place more trust in a file downloaded from the manufacturer's site.
Taxis in Finland have had them for years now, this is nothing new. As far as I am aware, the cameras record video only and are used to deter crime.
Wish I had mod points for this, incredibly insightful and correct.
You're missing out one huge advantage in favor of the iPad, it also makes a fine mousepad, assuming you have a mouse that can track on a glass surface. Just try THAT with a cheeseburger!!!
(Hint: Mayonnaise is NOT good for your mouse, not matter what you have heard elsewhere. It starts to stink after a few days.)
It's sad to say that even if you don't link any of your other accounts to your FB profile, your friends will by linking their address books for example. You don't get a chance to opt-in when the information comes via your friend's decision's to link anything and everything to their FB account. This is a huge loophole in the system.
I don't allow any FB apps I choose to use to link to my other accounts, but I realize this is just burying my head in the sand at this point. I hope they will improve the system to be fully opt-in, but I really doubt it will ever happen. Being viral is part of the business plan and FB would probably not survive without it. It's unfortunate this means that any expectations of privacy of your information are not based in reality.
This is very much in line with current EU consumer data protection laws. I'm glad to see the EU taking a strong stance in online privacy. Unfortunately it will hit companies that sell consumer data for profit but well, I can't really feel sorry for them. You should not be able to sell data about ME without my consent, period. I am not living on this planet to provide data mining opportunities for companies into this sort of thing.
As if this is new news? Come on, very lame argument there. There have been concerns for irreparable climate change for at least a couple decades now, this is not sneaking up on us from around a corner. The problem is, nobody is willing to sacrifice even a tiny amount in order to reduce our out-of-control energy consumption and the destruction of the planet we live on. It's only more, more, more. The over-consumptive cycle of modern American lifestyle is very heavily to blame. I don't have current numbers to back it up, but basically you have a country with less than 5% of the global population consuming more than 20% of the worlds global energy production. This applies when you look at electric energy usage and fuel usage. The majority of the rest of the world gets by just fine on a fraction of the energy used in the US, and they are not living in grass huts.
I am American, and I am deeply ashamed about this. Unfortunately, the mainstream media is pretty much useless keeping you informed with so-called "facts"... by-and-large, people are more concerned about who is winning American Idol or whose team is winning some useless sporting event. News programs are by-and-large, a joke. The vast majority of America is far too wrapped up in frivolous "crap" to pay attention to matters that really matter. To be honest, we are all totally screwed, maybe not this generation but surely the following generations will have huge problems to deal with that we have created.
Umm... the FF GUI has not had any major changes since... well a long time now. What exactly are you referring to? I do not have a lot of "stuff" broken by a FF update. What kind of add-ons do you have installed? I run relatively few add-ons, and I like the idea that FF8 pops up the add-ons window after updating itself and gives me the option to re-enable any add-ons that it has disabled by default.
Seriously, I don't get all the FF hate on /. lately. Sure, some of the older 4.x-5.x releases were questionable and buggy but since FF7 it has been extremely fast, stable and memory-efficient. I like the new changes and the direction the FF developers are taking. Chrome never really clicked with me, although I use it occasionally. I use Opera far more than Chrome, but FF continues to be my go-to browser of choice.
In my experience you were lucky to get a valid hit on the 4th page. I've tried to find product specifications and had to dig down through 10 or sometimes 20 pages of sellers or auction pages full of useless or inaccurate information.
Same thing tends to happen if you search for " review", pages after pages of sellers and auction sites mostly, rather than legitimate review sites.
This is the kernel we are talking about, I'd say 22 patches is quite a lot for a single contributor.
And it opens the door for mosquitos with frikin' lasers!!! I mean come on, everyone knows sharks can't move around too well on land or in the air... but mosquitos with frikin' lasers... EVERYONE PANIC NOW!!!
Bang on the point. The real problem is that in America, mass transit is seen as transportation for people who can't afford a car. For the most part, mass transit in America sucks or is non-existent. Where I grew up it was the latter. If you didn't have a car, you were basically dependent on friends and family to take you places. Even sidewalks (for walking!) are very poorly implemented outside of most major cities. In rural areas like where I grew up they are also practically non-existent.
Sadly, I don't see this changing. Tax dollars are needed to fund the infrastructure necessary to have a working mass transit system, and with the current level of corporate greed of American megacorps (and their tax avoidance), this practically guarantees no funding since it would fall on the citizens to accept higher taxes. Until Americans realize that the megacorps are taking everything from the pot and not giving anything in return, it's just not going to change.
I speak this an an American who has lived in Europe for over a decade, and sees a drastically different view than you see from inside the US. Your media and your politicians are wholly owned and controlled by the megacorps, what are you going to do about it?
Yeah, lucky for Nokia it's not a rounded-corner rectangle, which is apparently a design wholly owned by Apple.
The data network coverage is probably better than in many rural parts of the US. I travel to Brazil regularly and I've never been without good coverage even outside smaller cities and towns.
While the US telecoms companies sit on their asses and overcharge consumers, the rest of the world is building out wireless networks. In most of the developing countries, they are not buying computers or laptops, they are buying smartphones. This is how they get on the net and read email.
Yes, even Eastern Europe. Growth there is substantial compared to the rest of Europe, but that's mainly because they started from basically zero.
Or any of the literally DOZENS of other small handheld computing devices which had touchscreens long before iDevices. It amazes me how widespread tunnel vision is among Apple fanbois.
Stop spreading FUD. Europeans do not believe the EU is an evil institute. Sure, there are disagreements and minor political conflicts from time to time, just as there are elsewhere, but to imply that all Europeans think the EU is evil is going just a tad too far. At least we are not under the complete control of corporations as in the US. The EU still has a spine, at times, to stand up for what the citizens want in the face of corporate pressure. It's not perfect but it's far better than the US at the moment. When was the last time US politicians did something for their citizens that was not acting in concert with some corporation or organization (**AAs, I'm looking at you)?
Please, take your logical replies elsewhere, you're distracting all the ADD/ADHD types here.
Well, if they are glossy, hopefully at the bottom of a landfill somewhere. Piled right in with 3D glasses...
First off Apple still offers anti-glare displays as an option on ALL their MacBook Pros. So the rant about not offering matte displays is completely off base. In fact, I'm writing this post on a later model Macbook Pro with an antiglare screen and a quick glance at the store shows this option still available.
Bzzzt, wrong. From one of my earlier posts on this topic:
Please check the specs, you have to go for the $1799 15-inch "upgrade" model before anti-glare becomes an option. In the base 15" model it's not available and it's completely off the table for the 13" MBP's.
I hardly think it's correct to say the anti-glare is an option for all MBP's, more correctly it would be at best 50% correct.
Hardly. Please check the specs, you have to go for the $1799 15-inch "upgrade" model before anti-glare becomes an option. In the base 15" model it's not available and it's completely off the table for the 13" MBP's. The Airs are also missing the anti-glare option.
It's kind of ironic, on the MBP specs page it says the 13" MBP is "the high performance notebook for everyone"... well, it's certainly NOT for me since I can't stand glossy screens on a notebook. Apple pushed me away from the 11.6" Air because of a lack of an anti-glare screen, I bought an 11.6" Lenovo instead which was available with anti-glare.
The lack of anti-glare is particularly harsh for small notebooks and netbooks, which by their design are more likely to be carried everywhere and even, shockingly.... used outdoors! This is where a glossy screen is the worst possible option. It's also why I will not buy a laptop with a glossy screen, nor will I buy glossy desktop screens. It was actually challenging to find a couple decent sized non-glossy screens for home use when I went shopping for them last fall. In the end I found 2 very good screens, but the vast majority were glossy. Let's not even get started on the whole 16:9 aspect thing... in fact we could just pile all the glossy and 16:9 screens together and have a huge environmentally-unfriendly bonfire and I would be happy!