It’s possible, but it just begs for someone to hack the system and have fake usage stats sent so that they get unlimited access for the lowest monthly rate.
Religion has little to do with whether people are colossal asshats. Culture has everything to do with it, and culture has been around since the beginning of time. Nobody gets a free pass because their guy only wrote his book 1400 years ago and these civilized folks over here had a guy who wrote a book 2000 years ago.
It’s the year 2010 and how long ago your guy wrote a book is irrelevant. Massive changes can take place in a single generation (and many cases throughout history give evidence to this fact).
Being disowned in a Muslim culture is a bit more serious than being disowned in the US. In the Muslim culture, your identity – the fact that you are a person, and have civil rights – is based on your Muslim heritage. If your parents retract it, you’re George Bailey. You weren’t born. You don’t exist.
Like I said, all I can speak for is the churches I’ve been in, anecdotal as that is. Both of the churches that I’ve been a member at were very supportive of the girls who got pregnant outside of marriage, without condoning or excusing the behavior that got them into that situation. I think in one case the grandparents moved the girl back in with them and helped her raise the baby, and in the other case the baby’s father hurried it up and married its mother and even then the grandparents were there to help as needed.
I think that “marriage” is basically a religious institution that is and has always meant the union of one man and one woman. (In polygamous cultures, the marriage was still between one man and one woman; the caveat being that a man – or rarely, a woman – simply wasn’t limited to one marriage at a time.)
As such, the government needs to quit using the word altogether and institute something else for the concerns of joint taxation, inheritances, medical attention, etc. everywhere that “marriage” is currently the defining characteristic. Call this civil construct a “civil union” and be done with it. If gays want to get one, they’re free to do so. In fact if somebody wants to get a civil union with their 87-year-old mother to simplify taxes and medical care issues, that would be perfectly appropriate as well.
Then different churches can continue to issue “marriage” licenses and decry the validity of other churches’ “marriage” licenses and it would all have precisely zero legal effect or implication because “marriage” would be irrelevant in the eyes of the law. You want a $deity-sanctioned marriage? Fine, find a church that will give you one. You want the legal benefits of a civil union? You get a civil union. You want both? Get both.
I was more thinking an extension that updated itself, since it would know which scripts had to be updated and whether or not any of the look-and-feel elements should be changed.
That is referring to his followers being persecuted and rejected by their own family members.
Which, I might add, is an exact description of what happens when a Muslim converts to Christianity. If the family doesn’t outright execute him or her, they at the very least are completely disowned.
The crusades were politically motivated and it’s a shame everyone believed the religious excuse that was used to keep people interested in a perpetual bloody conflict.
The iPhones are using 3G bandwidth overnight to report on how much 3G bandwidth they used during the day?
Undoubtedly no; it’d be tallied up on the provider’s end and then added to your bill by a batch queue running daily. Other than that relatively minor detail, I think their theory is pretty sound.
You don’t need to be a RF geek with fancy equipment to put it in an improvised Faraday cage overnight and see if the phantom charges disappear. Just make sure it gets no signal, then shut it off so it doesn’t drain the battery trying to connect.
The headline is contradicted in the summary. It should read: Sleeping iPhones Appear To Send Phantom Data.
Turns out they don’t, it’s just a total of use from the entire day that accumulated a lot of tiny data transfers made by the iPhone’s system which are too numerous and trivial to itemize on the bill.
Of course I would. The Firefox update process requires a complete restart of the browser. If an extension can update its filter set without requiring a complete extension update and the corresponding browser restart, it should.
In fact, since Javascript is capable of self-modification it’d be nice to see extensions that could update themselves on-the-fly, only updating the actual files on the disk when the browser is restarted.
Why use an extension when you can just change the Firefox search plugin?
Shut down Firefox, browse to %programfiles%\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins\google.xml and make all the <Url template=""> addresses contain https instead of http. Restart Firefox.
Right, if you’re willing to spend the entire operating cost of the US airline industry for a few years you might be able to get something that came close to a representative data sample. Maybe.
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Because you don’t trust it to stay off?
It’s possible, but it just begs for someone to hack the system and have fake usage stats sent so that they get unlimited access for the lowest monthly rate.
Religion has little to do with whether people are colossal asshats. Culture has everything to do with it, and culture has been around since the beginning of time. Nobody gets a free pass because their guy only wrote his book 1400 years ago and these civilized folks over here had a guy who wrote a book 2000 years ago.
It’s the year 2010 and how long ago your guy wrote a book is irrelevant. Massive changes can take place in a single generation (and many cases throughout history give evidence to this fact).
Being disowned in a Muslim culture is a bit more serious than being disowned in the US. In the Muslim culture, your identity – the fact that you are a person, and have civil rights – is based on your Muslim heritage. If your parents retract it, you’re George Bailey. You weren’t born. You don’t exist.
Saying death to a Pakistani idiot because he is saying death to Americans
And
Saying death to Americans because they are saying Muhammad/Islam is a joke
Are not comparable.
Oh, and the people who are saying death to this Pakistani zealot? It’s almost guaranteed that they’re not even serious, unlike him.
Like I said, all I can speak for is the churches I’ve been in, anecdotal as that is. Both of the churches that I’ve been a member at were very supportive of the girls who got pregnant outside of marriage, without condoning or excusing the behavior that got them into that situation. I think in one case the grandparents moved the girl back in with them and helped her raise the baby, and in the other case the baby’s father hurried it up and married its mother and even then the grandparents were there to help as needed.
I think that “marriage” is basically a religious institution that is and has always meant the union of one man and one woman. (In polygamous cultures, the marriage was still between one man and one woman; the caveat being that a man – or rarely, a woman – simply wasn’t limited to one marriage at a time.)
As such, the government needs to quit using the word altogether and institute something else for the concerns of joint taxation, inheritances, medical attention, etc. everywhere that “marriage” is currently the defining characteristic. Call this civil construct a “civil union” and be done with it. If gays want to get one, they’re free to do so. In fact if somebody wants to get a civil union with their 87-year-old mother to simplify taxes and medical care issues, that would be perfectly appropriate as well.
Then different churches can continue to issue “marriage” licenses and decry the validity of other churches’ “marriage” licenses and it would all have precisely zero legal effect or implication because “marriage” would be irrelevant in the eyes of the law. You want a $deity-sanctioned marriage? Fine, find a church that will give you one. You want the legal benefits of a civil union? You get a civil union. You want both? Get both.
How much more simple could it be?
Every church I’ve ever been a member of didn’t see it that way.
I know, I know... anecdotal evidence.
I was more thinking an extension that updated itself, since it would know which scripts had to be updated and whether or not any of the look-and-feel elements should be changed.
That is referring to his followers being persecuted and rejected by their own family members.
Which, I might add, is an exact description of what happens when a Muslim converts to Christianity. If the family doesn’t outright execute him or her, they at the very least are completely disowned.
The crusades were politically motivated and it’s a shame everyone believed the religious excuse that was used to keep people interested in a perpetual bloody conflict.
Damn, foiled again.
Except that it doesn’t?
That’s apparently the difference between us... I don’t believe that insulting someone’s religion should carry the death penalty.
You’re just as bad as this idiot Pakistani lawyer.
The iPhones are using 3G bandwidth overnight to report on how much 3G bandwidth they used during the day?
Undoubtedly no; it’d be tallied up on the provider’s end and then added to your bill by a batch queue running daily. Other than that relatively minor detail, I think their theory is pretty sound.
You don’t need to be a RF geek with fancy equipment to put it in an improvised Faraday cage overnight and see if the phantom charges disappear. Just make sure it gets no signal, then shut it off so it doesn’t drain the battery trying to connect.
Well, I can suggest a way to find out for sure: Put your tinfoil hat over your iPhone before you go to bed.
The headline is contradicted in the summary. It should read: Sleeping iPhones Appear To Send Phantom Data.
Turns out they don’t, it’s just a total of use from the entire day that accumulated a lot of tiny data transfers made by the iPhone’s system which are too numerous and trivial to itemize on the bill.
Of course I would. The Firefox update process requires a complete restart of the browser. If an extension can update its filter set without requiring a complete extension update and the corresponding browser restart, it should.
In fact, since Javascript is capable of self-modification it’d be nice to see extensions that could update themselves on-the-fly, only updating the actual files on the disk when the browser is restarted.
I’m thinking more of, “Opt-in” like NetNanny is opt-in.
As in, nobody in their right mind would use it on themselves but plenty of people will do it for the sake of their children.
...because Javascript obviously can’t be doing anything bad in the untrustworthy tab that you just switched away from?
Why use an extension when you can just change the Firefox search plugin?
Shut down Firefox, browse to %programfiles%\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins\google.xml and make all the <Url template=""> addresses contain https instead of http. Restart Firefox.
I’m going to have to call bullshit on that. Citation needed.
http://noscript.net/features
Show me which of those features requires frequent updates to NoScript’s actual engine.
I can see why noscript has frequent updates, since it's in an arms race with malware writers
So is AdBlock Plus, and it manages to provide a delivery system that doesn’t require frequent updates to the extension itself.
Furthermore you innately don’t need to update a whitelist as often as a blacklist.
Right, if you’re willing to spend the entire operating cost of the US airline industry for a few years you might be able to get something that came close to a representative data sample. Maybe.