He has tried contacting the ACLU multiple times and has been ignored; he also "makes too much money" to qualify for a public defender, but (unsurprisingly given how low states tend to set the bar) doesn't actually make enough to afford the $20k minimum a lawyer would actually cost for this. Hence his big push for Internet publicity in the past few days; hopefully it pushes the ACLU or someone to help him out.
Do you realize "-let" is a diminutive? As in "piglet" or "booklet"? "Applet" means, literally, "little app" - which makes sense, since java applets were not generally full-size, full-featured application programs. You can't cut off the diminutive and still claim the word refers only to small things!
NeXTSTEP was using the.app extension for applications starting in the 1980's (long before java applets). Mac OS X was built upon that and used the same designation. Then iOS was built upon that and, surprise, used the same designation. This last OS was the one that got popular enough to really shove the "app" terminology into the mainstream, but that hardly means "app" is limited to mobile or small/less featured software.
One month's worth of toothpaste: $100
One month's worth of toothbrushes: $175
One month's water bill: $315
A smile bright enough to woo a female into a slashdotter's basement: Priceless
What alen referred to was an ARM architectural license, not a standard ARM license. To jump back to the Wikipedia link you posted previously (I can't find a specific list on ARM's own site) there are only six companies listed as architectural licensees:
Companies can also obtain an ARM architectural license for designing their own, different CPU cores using the ARM instruction set. Distinct ARM architecture implementations by licensees include Apple's A6, AppliedMicro's X-Gene, Qualcomm's Snapdragon and Krait, DEC's StrongARM, Marvell (formerly Intel) XScale, and Nvidia's planned Project Denver.
That camera looks pretty damn nice overall. But given that a simple GoPro can record quite clear 1080p, the 640x480 resolution seems anemic. Image quality isn't the absolute most important feature (as long as it is clear enough that you can see who did what), but I'd still love to find a great 1080p-capable dash cam (more likely to capture plate numbers of hit-and-runs or potential witnesses, etc.). I'm also a little wary of GPS data; normal flow of traffic around here is 5-10 MPH over the limit (depending on the road or freeway) and I'd hate to have someone entirely at fault for hitting me try to claim contributory negligence on my part based on my own recorded evidence (I'm sure someone here will take issue with this, but the camera is to cover my ass, not anyone else's).
I've also been looking for a good dash cam and would love some input from Slashdotters. Every single one I've looked at so far seems to get terrible reviews, and/or requires its own proprietary windows-only software to view videos in some funky format (!!?).
Earlier this year I was driving down the street and was suddenly hit by an old lady who was parked at the curb and suddenly pulled out to make a U-turn. Fortunately, as soon as our cars came to a crunching stop, I jumped out and snapped photos with my phone - which went straight to both her and my insurance companies within the hour. Initially her insurance company refused to admit fault, based on her story that she was just innocently driving down the road and tried to make a left turn, whereupon she ran into my car which was crazily driving the wrong way down the oncoming lane. I called them up and asked how the hell they could buy that story when my photos clearly showed me in the correct lane and her at the curb; apparently they never bothered to look at the photos I'd sent! They caved and admitted fault within the hour.
But if it hadn't been for those pictures... suffice it to say, I *really* want a dash cam. (Preferably, if they're cheap enough, two - one rearview.)
You are right that the underlying point is valid even though this anecdote wasn't. But as an aside, it is interesting how none of the news sources you linked bothered with a retraction or update on the articles they left up. The media really, really sucks. Be careful!
No, syncing can be incredibly powerful for people who have more music than fits on their device. Smart playlists are incredible for updating your device without adding any manual effort in your part at all (aside from setting up your smart playlists once, of course).
Stuff like "sync songs I haven't listened to in the past week" or "sync 7GB of my top-rated songs" or "sync everything I've listened to over 100 times, and fill the rest of the space with songs I haven't rated yet" or any AND/NOT combination of criteria you can imagine: "sync all my 4-star and higher rated songs, and sync any 3-star songs I haven't listened to in the past month, and sync everything in my favorites list regardless, do not sync anything I've listened to more than 200 times, and then fill the remaining space on my device with songs I haven't rated yet".
Every time you plug in your phone to charge in the evening, you can automatically end up with a new selection of music perfectly tailored to you with no effort whatsoever despite the fact that you couldn't fit it all on the device at once.
iTunes does actually support manual syncing. It is the only option if you have multiple devices and want different songs on each of them.
Umm, no. Each device has its own unique sync settings. If you dont want to have different itunes libraries for everyone, you can still sync different playlists/albums/artists/songs to each device automatically from one library.
Android lets you have multiple Google accounts associated with each device so you can have a family one for app purchases and then everyone also has their own individual ones for email and other personal stuff.
Ignoring the potential licensing/copyright infringement angle (I believe Apple considers sharing within your family to be just fine; hence the existence of the Home Sharing feature) your Apple devices can in fact have separate AppleIDs for app downloads and email/messaging/iCloud. You can even use multiple different accounts for the store itself, though you have to go to settings and log out/in to switch accounts (only when you want to buy an app for the account you're not currently logged in with; updates don't care what account you're logged in with). My mom gets access to all my apps this way, while she also has her own account for when she wants to buy something I don't already have (so that I don't get charged for silly sudoku apps I won't ever use).
sribe's statement was that Google wanted more user data. This is absolutely true (or do you think Google offers Latitude out of the goodness of their hearts?). The claim you seem to be arguing against (that Google wanted Apple to hand over user data directly) doesn't exist anywhere in sribe's statement.
Google wanted to collect more data on iOS users by having Apple integrate one of its user-tracking services directly into the iOS mapping system. Apple was not willing to give a direct competitor that kind of access to their customer base. This is a pretty straightforward and understandable argument, no matter how you try to argue around it.
For the next time you're in the US: Transit ~ Directions with Public Transportation. It supports dozens of cities (not just in the US, either), though obnoxiously it doesn't list them anywhere.
The "more user data" part is bullshit. What Google asked is for... is an opt-in service that lets users (and therefore also Google) track each others' location.
This got modded up? These two statements are blatantly contradictory.
Not sure where you're going with that; it sounds like you're trying to disagree with me (or the DOJ I guess?) but the whole point of my post was that the DOJ thinks officers need to be "trained appropriately." They also address your point that officers tend to go for obstruction/interference charges (since generally recording isn't actually illegal it is a common "workaround"):
...an individual’s recording of police activity from a safe distance without any attendant action intended to obstruct the activity or threaten the safety of others does not amount to interference. Nor does an individual’s conduct amount to interference if he or she expresses criticism of the police or the police activity being observed....BPD’s general order specifically suggests that, if a bystander’s actions are “approaching the level of a criminal offense,” supervisors should “recommend a less-intrusive location to the bystander from which he/she may continue to observe, photograph, or video record the police activity.”... BPD should revise its general order to provide “members” with the same authority.... encourage officers to provide ways in which individuals can continue to exercise their First Amendment rights as officers perform their duties, rather than encourage officers to look for potential violations of the law in order to restrict the individual’s recording.
Now, it's quite possible for departments or individual officers to ignore this advice (like BPD did basically immediately after getting it, as we PINAC readers are aware) but at least this document will help in any ensuing civil cases should you find yourself targeted unjustly - and one hopes as that becomes more common (and recording becomes more common in general) police departments across the country will start to get it.
It is also worth noting the US Department of Justice also believes recording is a constitutional right and important to "engender public confidence in our police departments, promote public access to information necessary to hold our governmental officers accountable, and ensure public and officer safety," and they've set forth a clear set of guidelines that can help police departments set their policy and officer training accordingly.
You shouldn't, obviously. I can't imagine how a crappy chain pizza restaurant stays in business wherever it is you live. But here in the US (most places, anyway) the local places are going to cost double what the shitty chain stores charge.
Honestly, I couldn't get through all that verbal diarrhea in your response, but as to my claim, here:
The police arrested Latif at the gas station for violating state law by pumping gasoline into Home Depot buckets, which are not approved by the Transportation Department, and for stacking up and not securing the buckets...
Just because the papers use the sensational word "hoarding" in their headlines doesn't have any bearing on what he was arrested for. If you actually have some evidence I'm wrong, feel free to cite it.
Umm, no. His crime was filling 30 5-gallon Home Depot buckets with gas, because Home Depot buckets are not made for or approved for holding/transporting gasoline. But don't let that get in the way of your (and the GP's) conspiracy theories.
You've seriously never seen photos of people in low-tech, war-torn areas proudly holding up their inked finger to show they voted?
But all this is beside the point. In-person voter fraud is so incredibly rare it isn't worth worrying about, much less disenfranchising tens or hundreds of thousands of people.
It's possible to restrict distribution using the B2B distribution method (this is different from the in-house Enterprise distribution method) but that's not the way POS apps do it. POS apps are all on the normal App Store for free (well, all the major ones I've tested, obviously that wouldn't include custom in-house implementations). But in order to work they require you have an account on the POS vendor's cloud (this is how transactions are recorded across devices, etc.), and that account is something you have to pay for (for example $1,499 one-time license per location and $49 per iPad per month).
If your company can afford to hire developers to develop an in-house app, it can afford the $299 per year (if your company is so tiny, a regular developer account is allowed ad-hoc distribution for up to 100 devices). And as far as I can tell, your US-only claim is entirely incorrect (there's a fourth distribution method, Custom B2B, that requires access to Apple's Volume Purchasing Program which so far is only available in the US. Perhaps you were confused).
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He has tried contacting the ACLU multiple times and has been ignored; he also "makes too much money" to qualify for a public defender, but (unsurprisingly given how low states tend to set the bar) doesn't actually make enough to afford the $20k minimum a lawyer would actually cost for this. Hence his big push for Internet publicity in the past few days; hopefully it pushes the ACLU or someone to help him out.
Because we don't use antibiotics, color additives, and unnatural feeds in the production of normal meat...
Do you realize "-let" is a diminutive? As in "piglet" or "booklet"? "Applet" means, literally, "little app" - which makes sense, since java applets were not generally full-size, full-featured application programs. You can't cut off the diminutive and still claim the word refers only to small things!
.app extension for applications starting in the 1980's (long before java applets). Mac OS X was built upon that and used the same designation. Then iOS was built upon that and, surprise, used the same designation. This last OS was the one that got popular enough to really shove the "app" terminology into the mainstream, but that hardly means "app" is limited to mobile or small/less featured software.
NeXTSTEP was using the
One month's worth of toothpaste: $100
One month's worth of toothbrushes: $175
One month's water bill: $315
A smile bright enough to woo a female into a slashdotter's basement: Priceless
Companies can also obtain an ARM architectural license for designing their own, different CPU cores using the ARM instruction set. Distinct ARM architecture implementations by licensees include Apple's A6, AppliedMicro's X-Gene, Qualcomm's Snapdragon and Krait, DEC's StrongARM, Marvell (formerly Intel) XScale, and Nvidia's planned Project Denver.
That camera looks pretty damn nice overall. But given that a simple GoPro can record quite clear 1080p, the 640x480 resolution seems anemic. Image quality isn't the absolute most important feature (as long as it is clear enough that you can see who did what), but I'd still love to find a great 1080p-capable dash cam (more likely to capture plate numbers of hit-and-runs or potential witnesses, etc.). I'm also a little wary of GPS data; normal flow of traffic around here is 5-10 MPH over the limit (depending on the road or freeway) and I'd hate to have someone entirely at fault for hitting me try to claim contributory negligence on my part based on my own recorded evidence (I'm sure someone here will take issue with this, but the camera is to cover my ass, not anyone else's).
I've also been looking for a good dash cam and would love some input from Slashdotters. Every single one I've looked at so far seems to get terrible reviews, and/or requires its own proprietary windows-only software to view videos in some funky format (!!?).
Earlier this year I was driving down the street and was suddenly hit by an old lady who was parked at the curb and suddenly pulled out to make a U-turn. Fortunately, as soon as our cars came to a crunching stop, I jumped out and snapped photos with my phone - which went straight to both her and my insurance companies within the hour. Initially her insurance company refused to admit fault, based on her story that she was just innocently driving down the road and tried to make a left turn, whereupon she ran into my car which was crazily driving the wrong way down the oncoming lane. I called them up and asked how the hell they could buy that story when my photos clearly showed me in the correct lane and her at the curb; apparently they never bothered to look at the photos I'd sent! They caved and admitted fault within the hour.
But if it hadn't been for those pictures... suffice it to say, I *really* want a dash cam. (Preferably, if they're cheap enough, two - one rearview.)
You are right that the underlying point is valid even though this anecdote wasn't. But as an aside, it is interesting how none of the news sources you linked bothered with a retraction or update on the articles they left up. The media really, really sucks. Be careful!
Congratulations on getting a +5 informative moderation on your post for referring to UK tabloid bullshit that was debunked the very same day by Willis' wife on Twitter.
No, syncing can be incredibly powerful for people who have more music than fits on their device. Smart playlists are incredible for updating your device without adding any manual effort in your part at all (aside from setting up your smart playlists once, of course).
Stuff like "sync songs I haven't listened to in the past week" or "sync 7GB of my top-rated songs" or "sync everything I've listened to over 100 times, and fill the rest of the space with songs I haven't rated yet" or any AND/NOT combination of criteria you can imagine: "sync all my 4-star and higher rated songs, and sync any 3-star songs I haven't listened to in the past month, and sync everything in my favorites list regardless, do not sync anything I've listened to more than 200 times, and then fill the remaining space on my device with songs I haven't rated yet".
Every time you plug in your phone to charge in the evening, you can automatically end up with a new selection of music perfectly tailored to you with no effort whatsoever despite the fact that you couldn't fit it all on the device at once.
iTunes does actually support manual syncing. It is the only option if you have multiple devices and want different songs on each of them.
Umm, no. Each device has its own unique sync settings. If you dont want to have different itunes libraries for everyone, you can still sync different playlists/albums/artists/songs to each device automatically from one library.
Android lets you have multiple Google accounts associated with each device so you can have a family one for app purchases and then everyone also has their own individual ones for email and other personal stuff.
Ignoring the potential licensing/copyright infringement angle (I believe Apple considers sharing within your family to be just fine; hence the existence of the Home Sharing feature) your Apple devices can in fact have separate AppleIDs for app downloads and email/messaging/iCloud. You can even use multiple different accounts for the store itself, though you have to go to settings and log out/in to switch accounts (only when you want to buy an app for the account you're not currently logged in with; updates don't care what account you're logged in with). My mom gets access to all my apps this way, while she also has her own account for when she wants to buy something I don't already have (so that I don't get charged for silly sudoku apps I won't ever use).
sribe's statement was that Google wanted more user data. This is absolutely true (or do you think Google offers Latitude out of the goodness of their hearts?). The claim you seem to be arguing against (that Google wanted Apple to hand over user data directly) doesn't exist anywhere in sribe's statement.
Google wanted to collect more data on iOS users by having Apple integrate one of its user-tracking services directly into the iOS mapping system. Apple was not willing to give a direct competitor that kind of access to their customer base. This is a pretty straightforward and understandable argument, no matter how you try to argue around it.
For the next time you're in the US: Transit ~ Directions with Public Transportation. It supports dozens of cities (not just in the US, either), though obnoxiously it doesn't list them anywhere.
The "more user data" part is bullshit. What Google asked is for ... is an opt-in service that lets users (and therefore also Google) track each others' location.
This got modded up? These two statements are blatantly contradictory.
Pretty much designed specifically for this purpose: http://www.tapin.tv/
Now, it's quite possible for departments or individual officers to ignore this advice (like BPD did basically immediately after getting it, as we PINAC readers are aware) but at least this document will help in any ensuing civil cases should you find yourself targeted unjustly - and one hopes as that becomes more common (and recording becomes more common in general) police departments across the country will start to get it.
It is also worth noting the US Department of Justice also believes recording is a constitutional right and important to "engender public confidence in our police departments, promote public access to information necessary to hold our governmental officers accountable, and ensure public and officer safety," and they've set forth a clear set of guidelines that can help police departments set their policy and officer training accordingly.
Only for the iPod Touch (which according to Apple was due to SOX and the way they handled accounting for that first generation iPod Touch).
You shouldn't, obviously. I can't imagine how a crappy chain pizza restaurant stays in business wherever it is you live. But here in the US (most places, anyway) the local places are going to cost double what the shitty chain stores charge.
Just because the papers use the sensational word "hoarding" in their headlines doesn't have any bearing on what he was arrested for. If you actually have some evidence I'm wrong, feel free to cite it.
Umm, no. His crime was filling 30 5-gallon Home Depot buckets with gas, because Home Depot buckets are not made for or approved for holding/transporting gasoline. But don't let that get in the way of your (and the GP's) conspiracy theories.
You've seriously never seen photos of people in low-tech, war-torn areas proudly holding up their inked finger to show they voted?
But all this is beside the point. In-person voter fraud is so incredibly rare it isn't worth worrying about, much less disenfranchising tens or hundreds of thousands of people.
You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means!
It's possible to restrict distribution using the B2B distribution method (this is different from the in-house Enterprise distribution method) but that's not the way POS apps do it. POS apps are all on the normal App Store for free (well, all the major ones I've tested, obviously that wouldn't include custom in-house implementations). But in order to work they require you have an account on the POS vendor's cloud (this is how transactions are recorded across devices, etc.), and that account is something you have to pay for (for example $1,499 one-time license per location and $49 per iPad per month).
If your company can afford to hire developers to develop an in-house app, it can afford the $299 per year (if your company is so tiny, a regular developer account is allowed ad-hoc distribution for up to 100 devices). And as far as I can tell, your US-only claim is entirely incorrect (there's a fourth distribution method, Custom B2B, that requires access to Apple's Volume Purchasing Program which so far is only available in the US. Perhaps you were confused).