I did not hand out personal information when I created my/. account all those years ago. I can express every opinion I want on Slashdot without handing over my blood type.
The problem in your logic is it assumes a person needs a facebook account (or like service). What do Myspace, Google+ and Facebook all have in common? I don't have user accounts on any of them.
I belong to several discussion forums where I post at almost daily. None of them have my real name, phone number, pictures of me or my kids...
I don't want online identities regulated. One more goverment oversight that can be easily abused.
I hope I don't sound trollish, but it is ultimate your responsibility to safegaurd information you don't want passed around. Reliance on Facebook to safegaurd your stuff implies they care about a few phone numbers, or private photos, or whatever. They don't. They'll write some form letter to everyone and apologize and then go back to fretting about their stock price.
At Facebook you the product for sale. As long as you keep coming back they don't have a problem.
IANAScientist but Egypt has spent years DNA testing mummies to identify suspected remains of family dynasties. Most of these are several thousand of years old. By the logic of the article there should be less than 6% of the DNA remaining in a 2000 year old mummy. Yet time after time they have been able to identify remains that have markers clearly indicating they are related.
I think a few people have heard of the Evo, but point taken. HTC is like Nokia. For every good phone they make it seems like they put out a dozen pieces of crap.
One of the most natural things in the world a kid with a lazer pointer will do is shine it straight up into the sky. Watching the unbroken beam of a lazer disappear into infinity is a pretty impressive sight. I could see where a young person casually waving a lazer around the night sky might breifly pass the beam over an aircraft.
Have we slid so far down the slippery slope that something like this will become punishable? Who do I vote for to restore some common sense?
I worry about kids growing up today. There's some really stupid shit that can get them in big trouble.
Apple screwed up (although they are haldly unique) is pushing the concept that an Operating system is a bunch of personal and productivity applications. Road Navigation software is not part of the operating system.
The OS is the core environment, utility, houskeeping software, and desktop. Marketing idiots have confused the common consumer into thinking an OS also has programs for adding glitter to ponies.
As seen here, when an app breaks the perception becomes the who OS is flawed.
Switched to Mate desktop, not going back.
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A heads up display allows you to look straight ahead without adjusting your focal point or moving your eye. This doesn't look as though the image is projected onto the surface of the googles. the user must make an effort to view information, it is not overlayed with the normal field of view. It's just a mini-display tucked into the corner of diving googles.
This is not unique to Android. I have yet to see a click-through EULA that wasn't a take-it-or-leave-it agreement. In fact, if you can find an EULA that allows you to selectively agree to only certain portions I would be interested to see that example.
* Laminar Research is being sued specifically for the Android version * Uniloc is suing Laminar Research because X-Plane phones home to validate it's license * X-Plane is using a system for license validation provided by Google. Nearly everyone else in the Android market is using this same code, so Uniloc is not going to stop here.
I would say Laminar Research needs to get EFF on the phone but I don't know if they would help defend a commercial product.
Google does media distribution now through the Play store and they offer cloud based music storage. It wouldn't be surprising to see Google launch a streaming music service.
What google is doing that Apple is not is test marketing it's own broadband service. If Google Fiber goes nationwide over the next several years Apple and MS both will be scrambling to play catchup.
Apple wants to take over your music and movie library.
Google wants to be your new Cell phone, Cable TV, Netflix, and high speed internet.
With the rumors of an Apple TV odds are Sharp is already a fabrication partner on that project. Apple could buy the plant and transition other product assembly away from Foxconn. I'm sure Japan would love to see the jobs come over from China.
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I did not hand out personal information when I created my /. account all those years ago. I can express every opinion I want on Slashdot without handing over my blood type.
The problem in your logic is it assumes a person needs a facebook account (or like service). What do Myspace, Google+ and Facebook all have in common? I don't have user accounts on any of them.
I belong to several discussion forums where I post at almost daily. None of them have my real name, phone number, pictures of me or my kids...
I don't want online identities regulated. One more goverment oversight that can be easily abused.
I hope I don't sound trollish, but it is ultimate your responsibility to safegaurd information you don't want passed around. Reliance on Facebook to safegaurd your stuff implies they care about a few phone numbers, or private photos, or whatever. They don't. They'll write some form letter to everyone and apologize and then go back to fretting about their stock price.
At Facebook you the product for sale. As long as you keep coming back they don't have a problem.
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Really?
IANAScientist but Egypt has spent years DNA testing mummies to identify suspected remains of family dynasties. Most of these are several thousand of years old. By the logic of the article there should be less than 6% of the DNA remaining in a 2000 year old mummy. Yet time after time they have been able to identify remains that have markers clearly indicating they are related.
There's not even a link to an article. This looks like Soulskill took a creative writing project and threw it on the front page.
I think a few people have heard of the Evo, but point taken. HTC is like Nokia. For every good phone they make it seems like they put out a dozen pieces of crap.
I meant to say Mate desktop. Mate is the default desktop for the Mint distro, so I brainfarted.
... or at least I did for a while.
I switched to KDE after Gnome decided to suck. I liked most of what's in KDE (or at least I've become used to it) but it's not as stable as Gnome was.
So recently I switched to Mint. It's an adjustment again, but the crashes are gone.
Pissing off the youth is always a good idea for a career politician. They never remember stuff like this when they are old enough to vote.
One of the most natural things in the world a kid with a lazer pointer will do is shine it straight up into the sky. Watching the unbroken beam of a lazer disappear into infinity is a pretty impressive sight. I could see where a young person casually waving a lazer around the night sky might breifly pass the beam over an aircraft.
Have we slid so far down the slippery slope that something like this will become punishable? Who do I vote for to restore some common sense?
I worry about kids growing up today. There's some really stupid shit that can get them in big trouble.
>> "While Bond supervillans tend to have these sorts of facilities and liquidity, they don't really exist..."
Well that exactly what Blofeld wants you to think.
Or 'multi-object occultation'?
There are some very dense areas in Nebraska. Some of them are even well populated.
Apple screwed up (although they are haldly unique) is pushing the concept that an Operating system is a bunch of personal and productivity applications. Road Navigation software is not part of the operating system.
The OS is the core environment, utility, houskeeping software, and desktop. Marketing idiots have confused the common consumer into thinking an OS also has programs for adding glitter to ponies.
As seen here, when an app breaks the perception becomes the who OS is flawed.
Adios Gnome.
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Root your android! It will never truely be yours until you do! You can never trust it until you're certain it doesn't call home to your provider.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S2. I'm running a modified ICS spin I downloaded from xda-developers.com with GO Launcher. Touchwiz sucks.
Seriously Fedora, you need to include this as a desktop option ASAP. I put Ubuntu on one of my machines recently. You're losing me.
A heads up display allows you to look straight ahead without adjusting your focal point or moving your eye. This doesn't look as though the image is projected onto the surface of the googles. the user must make an effort to view information, it is not overlayed with the normal field of view. It's just a mini-display tucked into the corner of diving googles.
This is not unique to Android. I have yet to see a click-through EULA that wasn't a take-it-or-leave-it agreement. In fact, if you can find an EULA that allows you to selectively agree to only certain portions I would be interested to see that example.
And you know it's putrid how?
"...without the user's permission"
You click an "Accept & Download" button when installing anything from the Play Store. listed under that button is the permissions the app requires.
* Laminar Research is being sued specifically for the Android version
* Uniloc is suing Laminar Research because X-Plane phones home to validate it's license
* X-Plane is using a system for license validation provided by Google. Nearly everyone else in the Android market is using this same code, so Uniloc is not going to stop here.
I would say Laminar Research needs to get EFF on the phone but I don't know if they would help defend a commercial product.
Google does media distribution now through the Play store and they offer cloud based music storage. It wouldn't be surprising to see Google launch a streaming music service.
What google is doing that Apple is not is test marketing it's own broadband service. If Google Fiber goes nationwide over the next several years Apple and MS both will be scrambling to play catchup.
Apple wants to take over your music and movie library.
Google wants to be your new Cell phone, Cable TV, Netflix, and high speed internet.
Google's battle plan looks more formidable.
With the rumors of an Apple TV odds are Sharp is already a fabrication partner on that project. Apple could buy the plant and transition other product assembly away from Foxconn. I'm sure Japan would love to see the jobs come over from China.
He found a mouse in his beer bottle.