I fail to see how information regarding a person's health can in any way be construed as belonging in the public domain. Health care and issues relating to such are about as private as personal information can be. Saying that the stock holder's have a right to know about Steve Jobs' most personal/private happenings is absurd to say the least.
Therefore, it is my opinion that Apple has no obligation to disclose anything regarding Steve's health, positive or negative, as it is confidential personal information.
You're an idiot if you think that the celebrities in question are the people who actually post content to these pages. I assure you president-elect Barack Obama is far too busy to be running his own twitter feed. Most likely he has a PR agent who is doing it for him, therefore it is reasonable to assume that the password that could be compromised would not be the president-elects, but that of said PR rep. This is a non issue.
Please RTFA before you post. Thank you. The accounts in question had their password reset to a random 12 character string that was then used to post fake tweets. Your comment is irrelevant.
I meant to say, with regards to "bad ass" astronauts with their swagger or what not (seriously? You care about how they look and walk?) That they're just instruments for conducting experiments in space, and are themselves a sort of experiment in "what happens to humans who live in micro-gravity."
"Cool people" doing boring things are still boring people. Dirty Harry being force to play World of Warcraft for 8 hours a day isn't nearly as cool as the Dirty Harry who goes around blowing people away with his handgun, just like Buck Rogers monitoring the status of the experiments being conducted in space quickly becomes dull. The excitement being gone has little to do with the people themselves, and more to do with the conduct.
They need to make it cool again for the younger generations instead of boring as hell geeks in space.
Having grown up all my life living under the knowledge that man has gone to the moon, and we have spaceflight, is what makes it "uncool" to me. It's a conquered experience. There's no great "space race" anymore, we're not doing anything new and exciting in space. We're studying things like "The effects of micro-gravity on the reproductive cycle of some bacteria" or "How do crystals grow in micro-gravity." Wow. Exciting shit right there. In my opinion outer space is just a waste of funding, until all the problems of living on Earth are solved (feed the hungry in Africa) I could give two shits about solving the problems of living in outer space.
Geek or not.
For an insight in to the caliber of people working at the USPTO I refer you to this story of an interview that a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon recounted. These people really have no clue.
Seconded, I am 24 years old and don't have pay-to-watch television. For entertainment I have a DTV box and a 30mbs FiOS connection. Am neither poor nor elderly, but I don't see the point of the current pay-to-watch television system when I can get most anything I want to watch streamed to me on demand from the internet.
As opposed to the $50 and $60 price tags those games carried when they were brand new? What you're not realizing is that to a generation of gamers older than you (most likely) that price is an INCREDIBLE bargain. And still even if you had a working console to this day, those are the prices I would expect to play for cartridges at flea markets/auctions and in my opinion is a completely reasonable price to pay. If you're going to pick something to complain about these games for, price should not be it.
I don't think you want to be drinking the rotten banana peel brandy this holiday season, but maybe the moldy carrot and gooey onion wine is more your style.
According to TFA his design calls for capturing of light outside of the visible spectrum, hence the 500x increase. He's adding new sources for the energy to come from, this isn't just a reworking of current technology that only makes use of visible light.
It's more like this, apples cost $2.50 each (ridiculous price, you're sure the price of apples are going to fall) so you get Farmer Jones, who runs an orchard, to loan you 10 of his apples. You then take them over to the farmer's market at sell them all (making a nice $25.00) When the prices of apples falls back to a more reasonable $0.90 per apple, you buy 10 apples and return them to Farmer Jones.
Close enough you financial people, I'm know to produce low quality analogies.
I imagine this is because one takes greater precautions when taking extreme risks than when doing something mundane and routine that you've done lots of times before.
I think my children would disagree with you as to whether or not I had any role in creating two of the billions of lives on Earth. The mailman probably agrees though.
Man, screw the * all it ever did for me was delete all the files in my home folder. now the ~ that's what I'm talking about, and anyone who disagrees with me is an idiot and a fool.
Some of us come to slashdot for our entertainment. Kinda sad that reading the thoughts of a bunch of geeks is more entertaining to me than Wolfmother or TV on the Radio or whatever the latest "hot" indie band is. (It's the flaming lips isn't it?)
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Thank you for explaining The Sun to me, it makes a lot more sense now.
I fail to see how information regarding a person's health can in any way be construed as belonging in the public domain. Health care and issues relating to such are about as private as personal information can be. Saying that the stock holder's have a right to know about Steve Jobs' most personal/private happenings is absurd to say the least.
Therefore, it is my opinion that Apple has no obligation to disclose anything regarding Steve's health, positive or negative, as it is confidential personal information.
You're an idiot if you think that the celebrities in question are the people who actually post content to these pages. I assure you president-elect Barack Obama is far too busy to be running his own twitter feed. Most likely he has a PR agent who is doing it for him, therefore it is reasonable to assume that the password that could be compromised would not be the president-elects, but that of said PR rep. This is a non issue.
Please RTFA before you post. Thank you. The accounts in question had their password reset to a random 12 character string that was then used to post fake tweets. Your comment is irrelevant.
I meant to say, with regards to "bad ass" astronauts with their swagger or what not (seriously? You care about how they look and walk?) That they're just instruments for conducting experiments in space, and are themselves a sort of experiment in "what happens to humans who live in micro-gravity."
"Cool people" doing boring things are still boring people. Dirty Harry being force to play World of Warcraft for 8 hours a day isn't nearly as cool as the Dirty Harry who goes around blowing people away with his handgun, just like Buck Rogers monitoring the status of the experiments being conducted in space quickly becomes dull. The excitement being gone has little to do with the people themselves, and more to do with the conduct.
They need to make it cool again for the younger generations instead of boring as hell geeks in space.
Having grown up all my life living under the knowledge that man has gone to the moon, and we have spaceflight, is what makes it "uncool" to me. It's a conquered experience. There's no great "space race" anymore, we're not doing anything new and exciting in space. We're studying things like "The effects of micro-gravity on the reproductive cycle of some bacteria" or "How do crystals grow in micro-gravity." Wow. Exciting shit right there. In my opinion outer space is just a waste of funding, until all the problems of living on Earth are solved (feed the hungry in Africa) I could give two shits about solving the problems of living in outer space. Geek or not.
For an insight in to the caliber of people working at the USPTO I refer you to this story of an interview that a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon recounted. These people really have no clue.
Seconded, I am 24 years old and don't have pay-to-watch television. For entertainment I have a DTV box and a 30mbs FiOS connection. Am neither poor nor elderly, but I don't see the point of the current pay-to-watch television system when I can get most anything I want to watch streamed to me on demand from the internet.
As opposed to the $50 and $60 price tags those games carried when they were brand new? What you're not realizing is that to a generation of gamers older than you (most likely) that price is an INCREDIBLE bargain. And still even if you had a working console to this day, those are the prices I would expect to play for cartridges at flea markets/auctions and in my opinion is a completely reasonable price to pay. If you're going to pick something to complain about these games for, price should not be it.
I don't think you want to be drinking the rotten banana peel brandy this holiday season, but maybe the moldy carrot and gooey onion wine is more your style.
No, humans make mistakes.
According to TFA his design calls for capturing of light outside of the visible spectrum, hence the 500x increase. He's adding new sources for the energy to come from, this isn't just a reworking of current technology that only makes use of visible light.
Wow, what do you have against the Swedes man? That looks much more like your native tongue of foot in mouth to me.
They'd have to be able to get in to orbit first and it would seem that is what is giving them trouble.
It's more like this, apples cost $2.50 each (ridiculous price, you're sure the price of apples are going to fall) so you get Farmer Jones, who runs an orchard, to loan you 10 of his apples. You then take them over to the farmer's market at sell them all (making a nice $25.00) When the prices of apples falls back to a more reasonable $0.90 per apple, you buy 10 apples and return them to Farmer Jones.
Close enough you financial people, I'm know to produce low quality analogies.
You own your car vs you own a license to Microsoft's Operating System.
There's the difference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
Tad bit nuts, or the inventor of a filesystem with a russian bride. (Too soon?)
That's $38-39 per hour, shit I'll help you move for that much.
I imagine this is because one takes greater precautions when taking extreme risks than when doing something mundane and routine that you've done lots of times before.
I think my children would disagree with you as to whether or not I had any role in creating two of the billions of lives on Earth. The mailman probably agrees though.
What about viruses that mutate to resonate at the same frequency as blood?
Man, screw the * all it ever did for me was delete all the files in my home folder. now the ~ that's what I'm talking about, and anyone who disagrees with me is an idiot and a fool.
Some of us come to slashdot for our entertainment. Kinda sad that reading the thoughts of a bunch of geeks is more entertaining to me than Wolfmother or TV on the Radio or whatever the latest "hot" indie band is. (It's the flaming lips isn't it?)
400,000,000 / 6,000,000,000 ~ = 6/100 1/5
Statistically it's not that big a deal.