You'll see that you can submit your own wifi information. And what Skyhooke wants (which may be different from what they collect, but I digress) is the MAC address and your location.
The article doesn't actually mention if SSID's or MAC addresses are collected. Presumably the MAC address is preferable as it is guaranteed to be unique and less likely to be changed.
It also, IMHO, is less subject to questions about privacy.
But in fact unless someone has found some actual facts we don't know what google or sykhooke actually collect.
I'm typing this on a new (last week) Samsung 2343, 2048x1152, for all of $189 Cdn. If you don't think that is the new sweet spot I don't know what to say.
Actually two of them, which replaced two ancient hires monitors (2048x1600). And while I'm enjoying these I'm thinking that maybe, just maybe, buy a third and do them as an array of three in portrait mode:-)
The nice thing is that Win7 defaults work much better for the typical LCD screen. It was hard to get things to all look ok in the 2048x1600 monitors. Some things did, others didn't.
As opposed to the proselytizers who are funded by the NGO's and the new "Green" capitalists and rent-seekers.
One of the more interesting bits of the Climategate emails showed that Mann was happy to share his data EXCEPT to people who he thought would disagree with his methods and results.
And in this case Mann was also the recipient of the tree ring data showing that again if you agreed with the owners ideas he had no problem getting you copies of what you needed.
If people cannot replicate your results it isn't science.
And with Climate Science part of the process is showing how you collected and interpreted the data. If you are not willing to share the raw data so other researchers can attempt to replicate your methods and results then don't bother publishing.
Notwithstanding the considered opinion of Baillie and Wilson that oaks are “virtually useless as a temperature proxy” and “dangerous” to use in a temperature reconstruction, no fewer than 119 oak chronologies were used in Mann et al 2008.
Among Mann’s oak chronologies were three Baillie chronologies: brit008 – Lockwood; brit042 – Shanes Castle, Northern Ireland; brit044 – Castle Coole, Northern Ireland.
But that was before the dismal performance of the iPad sales. It will take Flash to get those iPad's moving out of the stores and keep those profits moving up.:-)
You don't get to have more than one foreground app running the UI at one time.
But there is full Darwin/BSD under there. And it is doing lots of multi-tasking.
How do you think it manages to notice incoming phone calls, notifications, keep track of your GPS co-ord's, play music, connect to WiFi hotspots seamlessly, manage Bluetooth accessories, check for email, all while you are running your favorite app?
Go for it. If you think developing apps on ANY platform will make you money than developing iPhone apps on a Mac then by all means do so. No real need to tell us about it. I really doubt if this is convincing either the people happy developing iPhone / iPad apps OR people happy developing Android apps to switch or change.
Its not a matter of a slot head screw driver vs a sledgehammer. Its whether Apple should allow non-Metric tools when all the bolts are currently metric sized. Some people want to add a layer of bolt adapters so they can continue to use their old and friendly non-metric sized tools. Apple says fudge that, just buy metric ones.
We really need to invent a new term... The iPhone runs Unix. It has multiprocessing, multitasking, and threading. It just doesn't allow multiple 3rd party apps to run at one time or allow a 3rd party app to install and run a background service. Only 3rd party app's are limited to a single task.
But the point is that IFF the accidents are being caused by the car then it should affect all ages groups more or less the same. It shouldn't affect the older generation more even if they are worse drivers.
Who cares. The number of times it has happened either way is so low that fixing it is simply not cost effective. The money should be spent on solving other known problems that kill far more people every year. Just pumping the money into MADD would be more worthwhile. Driver education or training, more traffic lights. Pretty much anything would be a better place to spend money than chasing (probably) non-existent problems that simply are not killing that many people.
The difference is that 99.99% of neighbors can hear the loud music while 99.99999% of neighbors cannot sense WIFI.
And in fact there is as yet no proof that anyone can sense WIFI and that this is not just a NOCEBO effect.
If I claim that your writing Slashdot entries gives me headaches you probably wouldn't pay much attention. Claims that WIFI gives me headaches merit about the same amount of respect and attention.
The rule at law (at least in most common law based systems) is that you "take your victim as you find him".
The typically cited case is an assault victim with a "thin skull". The defense stating that the blow would not have injured a normal person. Even though the defendant had no reason to believe that his assault would cause injury he is still guilty as he did indeed cause injury with an intentional act.
So even if your actions would NOT cause a normal person to commit suicide, that may not be an adequate defense if someone pre-disposed to suicide does so after you bully them.
Presumably it would also be easy to boot into VMware or similar. Although possibly not as secure as booting on the real hardware (unless the real hardware is compromised via BIOS etc. etc. etc.)
That would be the underlying threat. They are moving to HK so that everyone can save face.... but if there are further issues then they can move to Taiwan. And that would be very embarrassing to the Chinese government.
You'll be able to boot and run x86 in virtual pc's. NASA's stuff was lost because it was a one of type project that lost support. That won't happen with x86 binaries.
The reason why you can't read documents made three decades ago is that not enough of them (the documents) where created to make it worthwhile to keep the software around to continue reading them. There are enough PDF and DOC files extant today that support for reading them will be maintained for centuries.
> Your first paragraph is dead on, with a print out I can pass a doc around the room and each person marks it up and by the time it gets back to me it's a different document, With Email I get 10 different documents.
I guess that works well when your 10 people work in the same office. Not quite so well when they work in multiple countries in four or five different continents. Then even something as simple as GoogleDocs and a conference call can get it done just about as fast as running around the office.
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Last time I checked with wififofum (iPhone app) I could see 20 networks at the top of my driveway. All from my neighbors on my block.
Not to confuse rants with facts.... and facts seem to be loosing ground here.
We don't know what exactly Google or Skyhooke collects. But if you go here: http://www.skyhookwireless.com/howitworks/submit_ap.php
You'll see that you can submit your own wifi information. And what Skyhooke wants (which may be different from what they collect, but I digress) is the MAC address and your location.
The article doesn't actually mention if SSID's or MAC addresses are collected. Presumably the MAC address is preferable as it is guaranteed to be unique and less likely to be changed.
It also, IMHO, is less subject to questions about privacy.
But in fact unless someone has found some actual facts we don't know what google or sykhooke actually collect.
I'm typing this on a new (last week) Samsung 2343, 2048x1152, for all of $189 Cdn. If you don't think that is the new sweet spot I don't know what to say.
Actually two of them, which replaced two ancient hires monitors (2048x1600). And while I'm enjoying these I'm thinking that maybe, just maybe, buy a third and do them as an array of three in portrait mode :-)
The nice thing is that Win7 defaults work much better for the typical LCD screen. It was hard to get things to all look ok in the 2048x1600 monitors. Some things did, others didn't.
As opposed to the proselytizers who are funded by the NGO's and the new "Green" capitalists and rent-seekers.
One of the more interesting bits of the Climategate emails showed that Mann was happy to share his data EXCEPT to people who he thought would disagree with his methods and results.
And in this case Mann was also the recipient of the tree ring data showing that again if you agreed with the owners ideas he had no problem getting you copies of what you needed.
If people cannot replicate your results it isn't science.
And with Climate Science part of the process is showing how you collected and interpreted the data. If you are not willing to share the raw data so other researchers can attempt to replicate your methods and results then don't bother publishing.
From Climate Audit: http://climateaudit.org/2010/04/21/mann-of-oak/
Notwithstanding the considered opinion of Baillie and Wilson that oaks are “virtually useless as a temperature proxy” and “dangerous” to use in a temperature reconstruction, no fewer than 119 oak chronologies were used in Mann et al 2008.
Among Mann’s oak chronologies were three Baillie chronologies: brit008 – Lockwood; brit042 – Shanes Castle, Northern Ireland; brit044 – Castle Coole, Northern Ireland.
But that was before the dismal performance of the iPad sales. It will take Flash to get those iPad's moving out of the stores and keep those profits moving up. :-)
iPhone/iPad/iTouch is multi-tasking.
You don't get to have more than one foreground app running the UI at one time.
But there is full Darwin/BSD under there. And it is doing lots of multi-tasking.
How do you think it manages to notice incoming phone calls, notifications, keep track of your GPS co-ord's, play music, connect to WiFi hotspots seamlessly, manage Bluetooth accessories, check for email, all while you are running your favorite app?
You will be missed. Seriously.
Go for it. If you think developing apps on ANY platform will make you money than developing iPhone apps on a Mac then by all means do so. No real need to tell us about it. I really doubt if this is convincing either the people happy developing iPhone / iPad apps OR people happy developing Android apps to switch or change.
Its not a matter of a slot head screw driver vs a sledgehammer. Its whether Apple should allow non-Metric tools when all the bolts are currently metric sized. Some people want to add a layer of bolt adapters so they can continue to use their old and friendly non-metric sized tools. Apple says fudge that, just buy metric ones.
And a whole bunch of engineers at Microsoft have iPhones so they can check out the competition :-)
We really need to invent a new term... The iPhone runs Unix. It has multiprocessing, multitasking, and threading. It just doesn't allow multiple 3rd party apps to run at one time or allow a 3rd party app to install and run a background service. Only 3rd party app's are limited to a single task.
Perhaps "multiapping".
But the point is that IFF the accidents are being caused by the car then it should affect all ages groups more or less the same. It shouldn't affect the older generation more even if they are worse drivers.
Who cares. The number of times it has happened either way is so low that fixing it is simply not cost effective. The money should be spent on solving other known problems that kill far more people every year. Just pumping the money into MADD would be more worthwhile. Driver education or training, more traffic lights. Pretty much anything would be a better place to spend money than chasing (probably) non-existent problems that simply are not killing that many people.
The difference is that 99.99% of neighbors can hear the loud music while 99.99999% of neighbors cannot sense WIFI.
And in fact there is as yet no proof that anyone can sense WIFI and that this is not just a NOCEBO effect.
If I claim that your writing Slashdot entries gives me headaches you probably wouldn't pay much attention. Claims that WIFI gives me headaches merit about the same amount of respect and attention.
Maybe in YOUR litigious society... there are slashdotters outside the US.
Up here in the Great Frozen North we let our Human Rights Commissions handle that. :-)
Which all in all is probably at least as entertaining.
The rule at law (at least in most common law based systems) is that you "take your victim as you find him".
The typically cited case is an assault victim with a "thin skull". The defense stating that the blow would not have injured a normal person. Even though the defendant had no reason to believe that his assault would cause injury he is still guilty as he did indeed cause injury with an intentional act.
So even if your actions would NOT cause a normal person to commit suicide, that may not be an adequate defense if someone pre-disposed to suicide does so after you bully them.
Presumably it would also be easy to boot into VMware or similar. Although possibly not as secure as booting on the real hardware (unless the real hardware is compromised via BIOS etc. etc. etc.)
That would be the underlying threat. They are moving to HK so that everyone can save face.... but if there are further issues then they can move to Taiwan. And that would be very embarrassing to the Chinese government.
You'll be able to boot and run x86 in virtual pc's. NASA's stuff was lost because it was a one of type project that lost support. That won't happen with x86 binaries.
The reason why you can't read documents made three decades ago is that not enough of them (the documents) where created to make it worthwhile to keep the software around to continue reading them. There are enough PDF and DOC files extant today that support for reading them will be maintained for centuries.
> Your first paragraph is dead on, with a print out I can pass a doc around the room and each person marks it up and by the time it gets back to me it's a different document, With Email I get 10 different documents.
I guess that works well when your 10 people work in the same office. Not quite so well when they work in multiple countries in four or five different continents. Then even something as simple as GoogleDocs and a conference call can get it done just about as fast as running around the office.
Windows - a great (now) UI on a crappy OS.
Linux - a crappy (still) UI on a great OS.
iPhone/iTouch/iPad - a great UI (within the limits of their intended audience) on a great OS.