Not all of them, sure, but it's easy to go for the low-hanging fruit.
I saw this game listed on the market that was basically just a novelty that used the accelerometer. You had a picture of a trash can in front of you, and the object is to "toss" your phone into the trash (the animation showed you holding a wad of paper, rock, iPhone, etc). The comments on this game were all about how addictive it was, etc. I go to install it, and the list of permissions that thing wanted was staggering. Every kind of location data, full network, call log, message log, phone data, storage, audio, etc. I was actually surprised at the number of reviews this thing had apparently from people who went ahead and installed it anyway.
You then make a leap to conclude that "Android is for 'power users'" and Apple for everyone else.
No, I didn't conclude that. You can tell by the phrase "maybe it's just the case". That's one hypothesis for why Android users seem to favor an open market. I don't know what the actual reason or reasons are, so that's why I guessed.
I would expect Google to tell developers to show source, parse that source for obvious bad behavior, and act to prevent problems, be they memory leaks, Java cache loops, or mad-dialing behavior or attempts to use information they're not supposed to.
They can do that, but they can only do that on their own marketplace. It's fine if Google wants to vet apps, as long as they don't require that all apps that get installed need to have been vetted by Google. That's the negative part of the Apple model.
This is the value of the App Store that geeks/developers consistently underrate.
That's because a lot of geeks and developers don't need Apple to tell them what not to install, they're typically capable of figuring that out on their own. If a simple card game asks for fine-grain location information or full internet access, that should be a red flag to anyone paying attention.
Maybe it's just the case that Android is for "power users" and Apple is for everyone else, but the value that you see in Apple's store is simply not needed by a lot of the people who buy Android devices, and in fact becomes a negative.
A textured surface would somewhat scatter the reflecting light and not bring it to as sharp of a focus as it is currently.
As for painting, it would need to be a dark color to absorb most of the light.
How many luxury hotels have you stayed in that had sandblasted or blacked-out windows? This is a hotel we're talking about, you still need to be able to see out of the glass. It's your window. Onto the world, as it were.
Paint of a different color, perhaps some sort of UV screen shade, perhaps some sort of POV panel film and of course texturing the surface
You know, I'm not sure if painting or texturing the windows is going to have the effect this luxury hotel desires. They already have a film that absorbs or scatters 70% of the light, so they need something better than that. Maybe they could angle all of the window panes a couple degrees to different directions. I'm sure that would be cheap, right?.. right?
Respondent's post was an almost purely system administration/technical reply alluding only to the practical likelyhood of success of rootkit infection and demonstrably failed to grasp the gist of the humor or irony involved.
Ah HA! You have committed a fatal mistake! So you admit that respondent did in fact make the connection between Sony's audio CDs and the well-known fact that they contractually must include a rootkit on all media produced. Granted, respondent's response did not include any hint of humor that anyone other than him could observe, but clearly he had to understand the joke in order to respond so accurately.
I asked for evidence that Obama is illegally wiretapping people
Oh shit, that's what you wanted. Well excuse me, there is just loads of evidence online about what the president is authorizing the NSA to do in secret. Let me dig that right up for you.
I realize that policy and speech isn't the same as action, and that when Obama is supporting a bill that gives new powers to the president to circumvent the FISA court, that doesn't mean he's actually doing it. He just.. you know.. thinks it would be useful for some president, in the future, to be able to do that at some point, in the future, but not him.
Don't worry, citizen. I assure you that every time the government taps your phone, they have a warrant. You have nothing to fear from your government.
I'm sorry sir, but that's an invalid use of "WHOOSH!". The respondent clearly had to "get" the joke in order to respond the way that he did. I'm going to have to issue a demerit, and I would remind you that this will go on your permanent record.
Obama's statement only addressed the objections to the telecom immunity provisions of the bill, while ignoring the objections to the (at least) equally pernicious new warrantless eavesdropping powers the bill authorizes.
The new FISA bill that Obama supports vests new categories of warrantless eavesdropping powers in the President (.pdf), and allows the Government, for the first time, to tap physically into U.S. telecommunications networks inside our country with no individual warrant requirement. To claim that this new bill creates "an independent monitor [to] watch the watchers to prevent abuses and to protect the civil liberties of the American people" is truly misleading, since the new FISA bill actually does the opposite -- it frees the Government from exactly that monitoring in all sorts of broad categories.
Can you believe that the story features alarming reactions to Iran being able to spy on its citizens, without worrying that the US is doing the same thing.
Of course I can. This country focuses on things like should we extend tax breaks, and for whom, and should the government require health care. No one seems to care that the NSA is still wiretapping phones without a warrant. I especially like how the tea partiers carry around signs decrying "big government", and their examples of that are things like health care. Those people don't care that their phones are being monitored without court supervision. So apparently they don't care much for the separation of powers which is why a court warrant is required for these things, and they also don't care that the government can tap any phone with zero oversight. Those things are fine, but when we start talking about health care then everyone starts bitching about "big government".
This is the biggest reason why we fight against greater wiretap rules in the U.S. It's not that we don't trust our government
Uh, no, I'm pretty sure it's actually because the 4th amendment makes what the government has been doing illegal. A side-effect of that is that other governments also don't get to use the loopholes our government would like, but I'm not fighting for their rights, I'm fighting for mine.
URL shortening was around before Twitter. That service started in response to things like instant messaging. People just think shorter URLs are more attractive than larger ones. So the only solution is to shorten all real URLs, and that's not really going to happen. URL shortening services are a bad idea in general, if bit.ly or tinyurl.com shuts down or loses their data then all of these links online are now dead, even though the content is still there. But as long as people think brevity is attractive, people will use those services. It doesn't really have much to do with Twitter, that's just a perfect use for them. Some URLs alone are larger than the character limit on Twitter, so sometimes it's necessary.
If we're talking about capability, then it appears to me that Iran can in fact produce uranium enriched to the point that they can make a crude weapon with it. This article:
makes a claim that Iran has produced up to 22kg of 20% U-235, according to the IAEA. Their reactor in Tehran runs on 19.75%. According to the authority that is Wikipedia, 20% is the threshold between low-enriched and high-enriched. They refer to 20% U-235 as "weapons-usable", rather than the 80-90% "weapons-grade". So, it appears that Iran is in fact capable today of producing low-quality nuclear weapons (or at least the fuel needed). Whether or not they intend to create weapons or actually will, or continue to focus on enrichment, or getting their P-2 centrifuges working, I can't say. I haven't been arguing about what Iran will do, I've been talking about what they are capable of doing. Before you got into this particular track, I was talking about the possibility that Israel wrote the malware to attack Iran, and used the fact of Iran's nuclear capabilities as reasons why Israel might do that.
The limit for SMS still exists, most phones just automatically wrap it to 2 or more messages for you if you type more than 160 characters. If a single message is longer than that, then it's not SMS (or your phone is smart enough to combine several messages into one, if it wants to wait to see if more than one comes in).
In the end, it doesn't really matter why Twitter limits the length of their messages as long as they do so. It only matters that they do, not why they do.
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Eh - malicious devs aren't retarded.
Not all of them, sure, but it's easy to go for the low-hanging fruit.
I saw this game listed on the market that was basically just a novelty that used the accelerometer. You had a picture of a trash can in front of you, and the object is to "toss" your phone into the trash (the animation showed you holding a wad of paper, rock, iPhone, etc). The comments on this game were all about how addictive it was, etc. I go to install it, and the list of permissions that thing wanted was staggering. Every kind of location data, full network, call log, message log, phone data, storage, audio, etc. I was actually surprised at the number of reviews this thing had apparently from people who went ahead and installed it anyway.
It seems like he's been saying stuff recently just to say stuff.
Totally. He just likes to hear his own voice.
You then make a leap to conclude that "Android is for 'power users'" and Apple for everyone else.
No, I didn't conclude that. You can tell by the phrase "maybe it's just the case". That's one hypothesis for why Android users seem to favor an open market. I don't know what the actual reason or reasons are, so that's why I guessed.
I would expect Google to tell developers to show source, parse that source for obvious bad behavior, and act to prevent problems, be they memory leaks, Java cache loops, or mad-dialing behavior or attempts to use information they're not supposed to.
They can do that, but they can only do that on their own marketplace. It's fine if Google wants to vet apps, as long as they don't require that all apps that get installed need to have been vetted by Google. That's the negative part of the Apple model.
Space hasn't changed, it's still empty
Huh. Space is a static empty void. That's news to me.
This is the value of the App Store that geeks/developers consistently underrate.
That's because a lot of geeks and developers don't need Apple to tell them what not to install, they're typically capable of figuring that out on their own. If a simple card game asks for fine-grain location information or full internet access, that should be a red flag to anyone paying attention.
Maybe it's just the case that Android is for "power users" and Apple is for everyone else, but the value that you see in Apple's store is simply not needed by a lot of the people who buy Android devices, and in fact becomes a negative.
IAEA states categorically that there's no diversion of uranium
And I believe them. But I am, and always have been, talking about capability, not current activity.
A textured surface would somewhat scatter the reflecting light and not bring it to as sharp of a focus as it is currently.
As for painting, it would need to be a dark color to absorb most of the light.
How many luxury hotels have you stayed in that had sandblasted or blacked-out windows? This is a hotel we're talking about, you still need to be able to see out of the glass. It's your window. Onto the world, as it were.
They could set up an infrared camera to monitor where the hot spot is, and have a monitor displaying it, so people could avoid it.
Exactly, that way everyone in the hotel will know where it is. That doesn't help the girl who's sunbathing very much, though.
Paint of a different color, perhaps some sort of UV screen shade, perhaps some sort of POV panel film and of course texturing the surface
You know, I'm not sure if painting or texturing the windows is going to have the effect this luxury hotel desires. They already have a film that absorbs or scatters 70% of the light, so they need something better than that. Maybe they could angle all of the window panes a couple degrees to different directions. I'm sure that would be cheap, right? .. right?
Respondent's post was an almost purely system administration/technical reply alluding only to the practical likelyhood of success of rootkit infection and demonstrably failed to grasp the gist of the humor or irony involved.
Ah HA! You have committed a fatal mistake! So you admit that respondent did in fact make the connection between Sony's audio CDs and the well-known fact that they contractually must include a rootkit on all media produced. Granted, respondent's response did not include any hint of humor that anyone other than him could observe, but clearly he had to understand the joke in order to respond so accurately.
Also, never get into a land war in Asia.
I asked for evidence that Obama is illegally wiretapping people
Oh shit, that's what you wanted. Well excuse me, there is just loads of evidence online about what the president is authorizing the NSA to do in secret. Let me dig that right up for you.
I realize that policy and speech isn't the same as action, and that when Obama is supporting a bill that gives new powers to the president to circumvent the FISA court, that doesn't mean he's actually doing it. He just.. you know.. thinks it would be useful for some president, in the future, to be able to do that at some point, in the future, but not him.
Don't worry, citizen. I assure you that every time the government taps your phone, they have a warrant. You have nothing to fear from your government.
I'm sorry sir, but that's an invalid use of "WHOOSH!". The respondent clearly had to "get" the joke in order to respond the way that he did. I'm going to have to issue a demerit, and I would remind you that this will go on your permanent record.
lol! "the piracy code"!
The code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules...
You want evidence that Obama is not using the FISA court? How about evidence that he is? Feel free to find something newer than this:
http://utdocuments.blogspot.com/2008/07/obamas-new-statement-on-fisa.html
Obama's statement only addressed the objections to the telecom immunity provisions of the bill, while ignoring the objections to the (at least) equally pernicious new warrantless eavesdropping powers the bill authorizes.
The new FISA bill that Obama supports vests new categories of warrantless eavesdropping powers in the President (.pdf), and allows the Government, for the first time, to tap physically into U.S. telecommunications networks inside our country with no individual warrant requirement. To claim that this new bill creates "an independent monitor [to] watch the watchers to prevent abuses and to protect the civil liberties of the American people" is truly misleading, since the new FISA bill actually does the opposite -- it frees the Government from exactly that monitoring in all sorts of broad categories.
Or a nuclear research reactor in Tehran, for that matter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran_Research_Reactor#Tehran
Obviously that was supposed to be a reply to the parent, got the wrong button there.
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Can you believe that the story features alarming reactions to Iran being able to spy on its citizens, without worrying that the US is doing the same thing.
Of course I can. This country focuses on things like should we extend tax breaks, and for whom, and should the government require health care. No one seems to care that the NSA is still wiretapping phones without a warrant. I especially like how the tea partiers carry around signs decrying "big government", and their examples of that are things like health care. Those people don't care that their phones are being monitored without court supervision. So apparently they don't care much for the separation of powers which is why a court warrant is required for these things, and they also don't care that the government can tap any phone with zero oversight. Those things are fine, but when we start talking about health care then everyone starts bitching about "big government".
Kind of frustrating to watch, actually.
This is the biggest reason why we fight against greater wiretap rules in the U.S. It's not that we don't trust our government
Uh, no, I'm pretty sure it's actually because the 4th amendment makes what the government has been doing illegal. A side-effect of that is that other governments also don't get to use the loopholes our government would like, but I'm not fighting for their rights, I'm fighting for mine.
The Geocities-izer is brilliant.
OK, that's funny. I still don't like the concept of URL redirectors, but that's funny.
And if some people can't figure out how to install an extension, an expanded URL probably won't be more useful than a tiny one.
That's right. So tiny URLs are not the issue.
URL shortening was around before Twitter. That service started in response to things like instant messaging. People just think shorter URLs are more attractive than larger ones. So the only solution is to shorten all real URLs, and that's not really going to happen. URL shortening services are a bad idea in general, if bit.ly or tinyurl.com shuts down or loses their data then all of these links online are now dead, even though the content is still there. But as long as people think brevity is attractive, people will use those services. It doesn't really have much to do with Twitter, that's just a perfect use for them. Some URLs alone are larger than the character limit on Twitter, so sometimes it's necessary.
If we're talking about capability, then it appears to me that Iran can in fact produce uranium enriched to the point that they can make a crude weapon with it. This article:
http://en.rian.ru/world/20100908/160512499.html
makes a claim that Iran has produced up to 22kg of 20% U-235, according to the IAEA. Their reactor in Tehran runs on 19.75%. According to the authority that is Wikipedia, 20% is the threshold between low-enriched and high-enriched. They refer to 20% U-235 as "weapons-usable", rather than the 80-90% "weapons-grade". So, it appears that Iran is in fact capable today of producing low-quality nuclear weapons (or at least the fuel needed). Whether or not they intend to create weapons or actually will, or continue to focus on enrichment, or getting their P-2 centrifuges working, I can't say. I haven't been arguing about what Iran will do, I've been talking about what they are capable of doing. Before you got into this particular track, I was talking about the possibility that Israel wrote the malware to attack Iran, and used the fact of Iran's nuclear capabilities as reasons why Israel might do that.
The limit for SMS still exists, most phones just automatically wrap it to 2 or more messages for you if you type more than 160 characters. If a single message is longer than that, then it's not SMS (or your phone is smart enough to combine several messages into one, if it wants to wait to see if more than one comes in).
In the end, it doesn't really matter why Twitter limits the length of their messages as long as they do so. It only matters that they do, not why they do.