Unless they go to another country (geographically pretty much equivalent to crossing a state line in the USA), in which case incoming calls/are/ charged.
Which is pretty much like going to Canada and having to pay $3 a minute roaming charges... Are the roaming charges in Europe as bad as they are here?
I guess I'm supposed to assume that even a Democratic Congress doesn't want to "restore Habeas Corpus"?
Actually, in the vote for cloture, in other words, to cut off debate and end the Republican filibuster, every single Democrat in the senate voted Yes. There were even a few Republicans that joined them. In the end, they only got 54 votes, which is not enough to pass 60. So you can try to spin it that "a Democratic congress wants to abolish Habeus Corpus", but that would be anything but the truth. The Democrats are the only ones that are upholding their oath to protect and defend the constitution. Furthermore, that weasel Joe Lieberman joined the Repugnicans in the filibuster, further proving that he is anything but a Democrat, or even Independent.
The fact of the matter is that Habeas Corpus was not suspended in any way, shape, or form.
This is pure and utter bullshit. Habeus Corpus was specifically suspended for non US citizens by the MCA. Despite what some Repugnicans would want you to believe, the constitution clearly states that Habeus Corpus is a right afforded to all people, anywhere, that our government might arrest or detain. It doesn't say "only friends of white male land owners," which it might have, considering at the time the constitution was written, those were the only people allowed to vote.
Habeus Corpus is a fundamental human right that has been present since the Magna Carte of 1215. The fact that you Repugnicans are so eager to throw out over 800 years of established law is absolutely INSANE . Clearly, you are batshit, fucking crazy insane if you believe we should throw this law out or say it doesn't apply to some people, and if you study history at all, you will find that this law will be used in ways that were never intended. History shows us that the law of unintended consequences usually applies in situations like this. I would not be surprised to see 20 years from now Repugnicans are hoisted by their own petard. Jailed by some other, even more malicious and evil government that has taken over and used all of their nice new police state powers that were handed to them.
First off never trust someone who makes their living off of Microsoft products to give you an honest opinion about Microsoft. Ie Bott is without a doubt a shill for Microsoft. Got that? Good.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
Hey! It's a problem because we are the experts, ok? People should ask us what to buy. And we'll suggest some sort of unheard-of niche device, because that's why you asked an expert. Do you need an expert to suggest the most popular device? No. Do you need an expert to configure something that's easy to use? No. We're important. Don't you know that? We know better. We can't look down on the ignorant masses when we acknowledge they made the right choice. So they didn't, no matter how happy they are.
This is so funny because it's true. I swear this sentiment drives 90% of the iPhone haters out there. Most of the haters seem to work in corporate IT as Windows admins (aka the experts you are talking about).
They interrogated him for hours and released him and admitted mistake.
He was still interrogated for hours when they could have just done better police work and realized their mistake BEFORE arresting him, dragging his name through the mud, and subjecting him to hours of sleep deprivation and "interrogation techniques." Just because they don't physically torture you doesn't mean mental torture (sensory deprivation, witholding food, water, and medicine) isn't just as bad, if not worse.
If a Tor system were a TC, remote Tor clients could check that the Tor server was not logging connections, running a version of Tor with a back door, or doing other things to infringe privacy.
Why does it matter, when they could just as easily sniff all outgoing traffic upstream from the Tor node and catch anything that is unencrypted? Like that guy in Germany did when he got all of those embassy passwords.
Germany is soon becoming a screwed up democracy like the USA. I wonder how far this will go until western rooted terrorism comes on par with middle eastern terrorism. If the western governments continue to assault their people like this, terrorism will only grow in scope and severity. Their war on terror will obviously only generate more of what they are fighting. Too bad the politicians slept in class.
I heard a story on NPR today that right-wing conservatives in Germany want to create a registry of muslim converts. They think this information is critical in order to know who "might" commit thought crimes aka Terrorism.
Didn't they learn their lesson last century? I seem to remember another religion where Germany created registries of members... It turned out pretty badly if I recall correctly.
iTunes sucks. I have an iPod 160 and my library has 11,000 songs (and there are folks out there with 50,000+). I'm on Windows XP SP2 on a fast box with 2GB memory and USB 2.0. iTunes is entirely unscalable. It is very slow to do anything with my library, even with manual sync. Adding one song to the iPod is a 5-minute process. File transfer speed is not the problem. For sure iTunes wastes time doing unnecessary work. Ejecting the iPod alone takes over a minute. Also, the iTunes MP3 player is buggy. It has trouble with MP3/VBR and generates clicking in the audio output. MediaMonkey is a much better content organizer. It is very fast. But the Apple's file format change on the iPod Classic means the current version of MM can't handle the iPod filesystem. I hope the MM developers will have the problem solved soon.
This sounds suspiciously like that good old copy/paste troll. I have 50 GB of music in my iTunes collection, in over 10,000 songs. I don't experience anything like what you're talking about. Most of my music is encoded in AAC VBR at an average of 192kbps.
What really sounds suspicious is the 1 minute eject times. It's the same as ejecting any USB mass storage device. Do you seriously want us to believe that syncing your music generated so many cached writes that it took 1 minute to flush them all to disk? That would probably be several gigabytes worth of data, and you said yourself that you only have 2GB of system RAM, so I'm calling BS on this entire post.
Takes me about 30 seconds to fully sync my iPod, and that's usually only when I bought a few new albums. It takes about 2 seconds to eject it.
How could you possibly know whether or not something else is self-aware? If a newborn baby is self-aware, how come a fetus that is about to be born is not self-aware? If a newborn baby is not self-aware, is it okay to carry out a post-birth termination? I think you're made a lot of assumptions here with out really thinking them through. The anti-abortion crowd is not as unreasonable as you make them out to be.
I masturbated earlier today. Did I just commit infanticide by killing millions of sperm that could potentially become babies? Who's to say that sperm are not self-aware? They are able to somehow swim on their own and propel themselves towards an egg. They can survive (for a short time) outside of my body.
The point I'm getting is that all of you pro-life wackos want to drive us towards a Monty Python "Every Sperm is Sacred" world and ordinary people see through your lies and bullshit.
This seems like as good a time as any to remind ourselves about EFF's http://stopthespying.org/ web site. McConnell did not just lie to the press. He had to call Senator Lieberman to "clarify" his testimony because he lied to Congress. It hardly needs to be restated to this audience that we can tell when these guys are lying because their lips are moving, but it is worth remembering that there's something that we can and should be doing right now, which is backing up the EFF efforts.
Mod parent up! The real news here is that McConnell commited a crime of perjury by lying to congress. He probably won't be prosecuted, because he called to "clarify" his testimony. Don't you just love that word "clarify"? These guys are so weasily they don't just say "I admit I lied and was dishonest..." They "clarify" their testimony. As in, "Mr. Attorney General, would you like to clarify your testimony?" In other, non-BS words "we think you're a lying sack of shit and are giving you the opportunity to tell the truth before we send you to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison."
Sometimes I wish congress was less civilized, and that people would actually say what they really thought.
In theory, this mode of failure should be still under warranty because on a docking station a laptop operates at full blast (no power savings) and with the lid closed.
None of them has proper cooling in this mode.
Apple makes laptops that don't overheat with the lid closed. I can't believe people would accept a computer that fails to operate in a standard operating mode. I sure as hell wouldn't. Computer overheats? Defective, it's going back for repair. And over and over again until they fix it right so that it operates without overheating.
I think I will just wait a few days for M$ to shot themselves in the foot... This type of poor business behavior is not sustainable longterm...
It's like they hired Karl Rove and all of the Bush White house appointees that bailed to oversee their product... I haven't seen colossal failure on this level since the 2006 election cycle.
Even MS Word doesn't preserve format from system to system. All you need to do is have a different default printer than the person who sent you the document and it will lay it out differently for you than it did for them. Page boundaries, fonts, pretty much every aspect of the document can change simply by not having the same printer driver they have.
What kind of shitty standard can't even guarantee display consistency between two different computers? Sounds to me like OOXML is fundamentally flawed, but most of us knew that already.
"Airplane Mode" isn't a proper name for having all external signals turned off. On my Treo, you can turn off the phone portion very easily and still use the rest of the PDA. Sounds like the iPhone is far less intuitive.
It's just as intuitive. I used to have a Treo 650, and holding down the power button for a few seconds to turn the radio off is about as intuitive as clicking "Preferences, Airplane Mode" on the iPhone.
I don't blame the guy at all. I had been thinking of getting an iphone but this episode makes it pretty clear that the iphone is best avoided. If I have to study a manual to avoid an unexpected bill for $4800, then no thanks. The device is not ready to sell. It shouldn't be on the market.
I hate to break it to you, but this problem is not iPhone specific. It is a problem of all smart-phones. This guy could just have easily been screwed just as hard if he took a Palm Treo, Windows Mobile, or Blackberry phone with him overseas. All of these phones have the ability to send and receive data while they are not making phone calls.
This should be a wake-up call to people that are too stupid to use technology properly. If you buy a smart phone that has the capability of sending and receiving data, don't be surprised when your phone company actually charges you for the data you sent and received.
Consumers bought some 220,000 iPhones, plus or minus 20,000 or so, in July, according to iSuppli's research. At that pace, consumers would buy between 600,000 and 720,000 by the end of Apple's fiscal quarter in September.
In contrast, Apple predicted that it would sell 730,000 iPhones in the quarter.
Apple never said they would sell 1 million phones in a quarter. It looks to me like they change the number predicted several times in that same article. So which is it? Did Apple predict they were only going to sell 730,000 iPhones in the quarter, or did they predict 1,000,000? And, if they did predict 730,000, selling an estimated 720,000 (again according to that shoddy article) is only 10,000 off. Sounds like a pretty accurate prediction to me.
Stupid fan-boi.
Name calling doesn't help prove your point. And what was your point by the way?
I recently returned a laptop computer ("$549 minus $200 rebates = $349") to Circuit City (this was really a $400 laptop marked up to $549 so they could boast a price of $349 "after rebates"). It was a "sham" offer.
You know that you, as a consumer, have a simple way that you can get companies to "honor" deals like this when they try to scam you. Call your credit card company. Tell them you were overcharged. They will issue a chargeback, and you'll get your money. If enough people did this, shady merchants will go out of business, because if Visa or Mastercard get too many chargebacks from unhappy customers, they will actually pull their merchant account, which will mean they can't take credit cards at all. Having your merchant account cancelled is a death sentence for a retailer in this day and age.
Don't forget you have this power as a consumer. Buy everything with a credit card. If they don't honor the rebate, call the 1-800 number on the back of your card and tell them you were overcharged.
Instead of the story being "Apple lowers price, because of dismal sales", the story is about how people who paid too much are pissed and are getting a rebate.
Dude wtf are you talking about? The iPhone has been selling in record numbers and by all metrics was the best selling smartphone in July.
Maybe when it hits $200 and works with t-mobile out of the box, I'll consider buying one.
Oh that explains it. You're just bitter because you're locked into a T-Mobile contract and don't want to pay an early termination fee for the sexy iPhone. Get over yourself, pay the early termination fee, and buy your iPhone already. Then you can join the rest of us as we bask in the techno-glory of "t3h sh!n3y!"
Haha... I'm only halfway kidding. Has anybody else noticed that the ones that bitch the most about the iPhone are the ones that are locked into T-Mobile contracts? It's like they can't have it, and want it so bad, they want to make the rest of us that do have it feel bad too. Misery loves company were never truer words...
Wow, that's kind of dissapointing. I wrote an intelligent essay on why paying twice for music you already bought is a bad idea, and all you could do was tell me to get a job?!? Haha that's kind of funny that you think I would be able to afford an iPhone and not have a job. Pathetic. Why am I even talking to a slashdot troll?
"This new suite of applications is a new way that we can make connecting, communicating and sharing anywhere a terrific experience on your Windows PC"
When reading this quote, I couldn't help but be reminded that the root of the word "terrific" is terrify. Which makes it pretty accurate.
Even worse, when I first read that sentence, it looked to me like "... we can make connecting, communicating, and sharing anywhere a TERRIFYING experience on your Windows PC..."
Buy a ringtone from AT&T / Verizon / etc. for $2.50. You don't get to pick specifically what you want to use as the ringtone from that download, and in addition, you don't get to have the entire song that you want to make into that ringtone.
So, for $2, you get an entire song, and up to a 30 second ringtone custom configured so you can hear what you want to hear Or, for $2.50, you get a ringtone of a pre-determined length, and only that ringtone, no entire song
I have an 8GB iPhone, which I bought the day it launched. I also occasionally (not that often) buy music on iTunes. I refuse to pay for ringtones, when I already own the music. This is insanity that the record companies are trying to leech even more money out of their customers. It's obvious that Apple would let people make ringtones for free. Hell, they even sell software that would be perfect for editing your own ringtones (GarageBand). The record companies are giving their customers another big "fuck you" and it's high time we just refused to buy them.
Folks, don't buy the ringtones on the iTunes store. It's the only way we can tell them that we refuse to pay for music twice. I suspect that most of the clueless fucktards that will buy an iPhone will have no problem paying for their music twice to get the "c00l n3w r1ngt0n3s", but I personally am boycotting this feature. If I really want music to play, I'll hack my iPhone to get ringtones on there. This insanity about buying your music two or three times is the slippery slope towards "pay per listen." What's next, the record companies want royalties every time you receive a phone call because somebody might hear your ringtone?
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Grandparent needs to be modded down. +5 insightful? There are so many lies in there it's hard for me to even finish reading.
Habeus Corpus is a fundamental human right that has been present since the Magna Carte of 1215. The fact that you Repugnicans are so eager to throw out over 800 years of established law is absolutely INSANE . Clearly, you are batshit, fucking crazy insane if you believe we should throw this law out or say it doesn't apply to some people, and if you study history at all, you will find that this law will be used in ways that were never intended. History shows us that the law of unintended consequences usually applies in situations like this. I would not be surprised to see 20 years from now Repugnicans are hoisted by their own petard. Jailed by some other, even more malicious and evil government that has taken over and used all of their nice new police state powers that were handed to them.
Didn't they learn their lesson last century? I seem to remember another religion where Germany created registries of members... It turned out pretty badly if I recall correctly.
What really sounds suspicious is the 1 minute eject times. It's the same as ejecting any USB mass storage device. Do you seriously want us to believe that syncing your music generated so many cached writes that it took 1 minute to flush them all to disk? That would probably be several gigabytes worth of data, and you said yourself that you only have 2GB of system RAM, so I'm calling BS on this entire post.
Takes me about 30 seconds to fully sync my iPod, and that's usually only when I bought a few new albums. It takes about 2 seconds to eject it.
The point I'm getting is that all of you pro-life wackos want to drive us towards a Monty Python "Every Sperm is Sacred" world and ordinary people see through your lies and bullshit.
Sometimes I wish congress was less civilized, and that people would actually say what they really thought.
Why do PC users accept different?
Derka derka derk... mohammad jihad!
This should be a wake-up call to people that are too stupid to use technology properly. If you buy a smart phone that has the capability of sending and receiving data, don't be surprised when your phone company actually charges you for the data you sent and received.
Jokes on you cause they just sold their 1 millionth iPhone: Suck it.
Apple never said they would sell 1 million phones in a quarter. It looks to me like they change the number predicted several times in that same article. So which is it? Did Apple predict they were only going to sell 730,000 iPhones in the quarter, or did they predict 1,000,000? And, if they did predict 730,000, selling an estimated 720,000 (again according to that shoddy article) is only 10,000 off. Sounds like a pretty accurate prediction to me.Name calling doesn't help prove your point. And what was your point by the way?
Don't forget you have this power as a consumer. Buy everything with a credit card. If they don't honor the rebate, call the 1-800 number on the back of your card and tell them you were overcharged.
Haha... I'm only halfway kidding. Has anybody else noticed that the ones that bitch the most about the iPhone are the ones that are locked into T-Mobile contracts? It's like they can't have it, and want it so bad, they want to make the rest of us that do have it feel bad too. Misery loves company were never truer words...
Wow, that's kind of dissapointing. I wrote an intelligent essay on why paying twice for music you already bought is a bad idea, and all you could do was tell me to get a job?!? Haha that's kind of funny that you think I would be able to afford an iPhone and not have a job. Pathetic. Why am I even talking to a slashdot troll?
Folks, don't buy the ringtones on the iTunes store. It's the only way we can tell them that we refuse to pay for music twice. I suspect that most of the clueless fucktards that will buy an iPhone will have no problem paying for their music twice to get the "c00l n3w r1ngt0n3s", but I personally am boycotting this feature. If I really want music to play, I'll hack my iPhone to get ringtones on there. This insanity about buying your music two or three times is the slippery slope towards "pay per listen." What's next, the record companies want royalties every time you receive a phone call because somebody might hear your ringtone?