TFA: "The computer was disconnected and taken to the police" and "it is possible police bungled the operation and did not clone the hard drive before disconnecting it"
They might have at least sniffed the network to see what, if anything, the machine was sending and where it was sending it to.
3. For extra protection, buy a crap-ton of DVD-Rs, and burn all your photos on them.
I like WORM media for backups because I'm always tempted to reuse hard disks on which I've taken backups for other purposes. Just burn your collection to a set of DVD's once in a while throw them on a spindle and forget about them.
By 2020 you'll be able to buy a luxury vehicle with the option of autonomous navigation. By 2030 practically all vehicles will have it.
I personally think we'll have a natural resource crisis by 2030 which will make it economically unviable and we'll need to make transport more fuel efficient, which means mass transit or something new but it certainly won't be a car. Just my gut feeling.
Sure ? What happened to the Axim ? Johnny-come-latelies rarely make enough money to keep up interest in a market segment. Apple has made iOS the centrepoint of its strategy, how important is the Streak to Dell ?
Apple is a Steve Jobs personality cult, and he has pancreatic cancer, got end stage liver failure and needed a transplant and is now out on sick leave.
When he dies what happens to Apple?
I don't believe this even though it is the popular perception and Apple seems happy to feed into that because it makes for good PR. Part of how Jobs saved Apple is because he brought back a lot of talented engineers when Apple bought NeXT, people who had fled Apple years before. That's what saved Apple: the ability to convince the talent to come back, not some cult.
Google is not dependent on any individual.
I have this suspicion that Google's stock price would move more than Apple's did on the Jobs news (less than 3%) if Larry and Sergei had to leave. In fact Google's stock moved 6% when they announced a major stock sale in 2010.
No, it speaks AT commands to the cellular modem. The cellular modem is what is in charge of that stuff and no AT commands would let you do such a thing.
Well this sends a message to the manufacturer that something is not right with their product.
It's called the positive benefits of compeition. It's not just Motorola and HTC, there's aslo Samsung, SonyErikson, Huawei, Meizu and so forth. Where one vendor fails, the others take over.
I hope you're right but those companies don't exactly have a great track record in the listening to customers department. I've owned phones by several of them (competition sure didn't stop them making shitty phones then) and I'm skeptical their attitudes have changed since because they've started shipping Android on their phones.
That's still either "open" or "choice." Don't get me wrong I'm glad Google makes a handset that's more open but if there's only 1 good option it makes the difference between the iOS and Android platforms that much smaller. Apple is in this personal computing thing for the long haul, how long will Google make its own handsets and what happens to the openness of the Andoid platform if they stop ?
Admittedly I don't know a lot about this sort of thing. But couldn't it be possible to spoof a sim or an IMEI number or whatever and perform a denial of service that way ? Also ass-covering by legal departments isn't always rational and well thought out.
Because if they didn't there would be no decent dev handsets. The likes of Motorolla, Sumsung and HTC sure don't look to interested in platform building, they just want to shift some phones. You could say the fact Google has to release its own handsets shows the fragility of Android as a platform with only Google pushing the platform and their partners just pushing phones (and thus not caring about old versions, upgradeability, etc.)
What's the practical difference though ? The big advantage of Android compared to iPhone, I'm always told, is that it's open and there are so many different models to choose from. But what remains of those advantages when you have to eliminate a lot of phones because they are just as locked down and then have to research the remaining models to see which can be rooted, what the difficulties are, etc. ?
Probably legal reasons. Maybe if somebody loaded a custom OS on their phone and caused mayhem on a cellular network in some way they could be held liable because they didn't take reasonable precautions to prevent it ?
Without free software to do the heavy lifting, the phone manufacturers wouldn't be able to compete at the same price point in the market, so free software developers actually have some leverage to prevent lockdowns in the future.
Here's a newsflash for you: Google created Android to make sure they have a presence in the lucrative mobile market and could care less about "open" and "free." The reason Android was released as open source is to take advantage of the geek word-of-mouth (or geek internet press) and the geek anti Apple backlash. There won't be any "leveraging" done. I guess this is the point where a a bunch of disillusioned geeks get together and vow to create a 100% pure open(tm) alternative (ETA: 2015.)
...they took away even the *option* to have the status bar.
No, torn between the people that demand that all Firefox features be reduced to addons and the people who want everything in their browser, they gave in to the addon people and made it an addon if you need the old status bar back.
At this point, Mozilla can't win no matter what they do. If they take features away and put them in addons, the people who want everything (like me:) ) complain. If they add features in, the people who want all the features they in particular don't need to be addons complain. They're in a no-win situation
A statusbar isn't a friggin option. It has been a standard UI element for as long as there haven been GUIs (hell it even existed in text-based pseudo GUIs.)
Cops will be the good guys when they are replaced by robots. Until then, they are just as lazy, corruptible, malicious, greedy, biased, and negligent as the rest of humanity.
That's a pretty obviously false statement. The contents of a wallet can be searched because they could be dangerous to the officer. How much data has ever physically harmed a police officer making an arrest?
A text/email saying "Arrested, send guys with AKs kthxbye" ?
I've been looking but can't find any reputable source that says a phone can be located when it's switched off. Lots of paranoid ravings on various message boards though. Considering that I'll keep my iPhone thanks.
Good one. That's what people are trying to invent though: a train that drives up to your house and that doesn't have all these annoying other people on it. So look at the requirements (and what is realistic in a post peak-oil world) and actually come up with something that solves our problems both with the car and public transport as it exists now instead of this 50's B-movie robocar shit.
So I'd like to ask you to shut up and stop applying your situation to everybody else. Just because YOU can be happy and content with public transportation does not mean everybody else can.
Politeness counts, the above sentence could apply just as well to you as it does to me substituting car for public transport.
You seem to have missed my main point, which wasn't about public transport but the fact we are hacking things onto an ancient design instead of truly innovating. We've had these pipe dreams of "robotic cars" for decades and they belong in the same category as flying cars: fun sci-fi but wildly unpractical. Fact is automobile travel is becoming impractical in a lot of places (no, not everywhere) , collapsing under the weight of its own popularity. Shifting the chairs on the deck of the Titanic isn't going to help. We need real original thinking.
Stop bolting technology onto a 19th century design. How about designing something from the ground up that solves the issues of our time ? We already have something that allows you to do other things while traveling, it's called a train.
"Children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
Apparently dates from 1953: see Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations Requested from the Congressional Research Service, Edited by Suzy Platt, 1989, number 195. Actually a paraphrase of a quote from Aristophanes' Clouds, a comedic play known for its caricature of Socrates (w:The Clouds)
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They've no evidence whatsoever :
TFA: "The computer was disconnected and taken to the police" and "it is possible police bungled the operation and did not clone the hard drive before disconnecting it"
They might have at least sniffed the network to see what, if anything, the machine was sending and where it was sending it to.
3. For extra protection, buy a crap-ton of DVD-Rs, and burn all your photos on them.
I like WORM media for backups because I'm always tempted to reuse hard disks on which I've taken backups for other purposes. Just burn your collection to a set of DVD's once in a while throw them on a spindle and forget about them.
By 2020 you'll be able to buy a luxury vehicle with the option of autonomous navigation. By 2030 practically all vehicles will have it.
I personally think we'll have a natural resource crisis by 2030 which will make it economically unviable and we'll need to make transport more fuel efficient, which means mass transit or something new but it certainly won't be a car. Just my gut feeling.
Dell is not going anywere anytime soon either.
Sure ? What happened to the Axim ? Johnny-come-latelies rarely make enough money to keep up interest in a market segment. Apple has made iOS the centrepoint of its strategy, how important is the Streak to Dell ?
Apple is a Steve Jobs personality cult, and he has pancreatic cancer, got end stage liver failure and needed a transplant and is now out on sick leave.
When he dies what happens to Apple?
I don't believe this even though it is the popular perception and Apple seems happy to feed into that because it makes for good PR. Part of how Jobs saved Apple is because he brought back a lot of talented engineers when Apple bought NeXT, people who had fled Apple years before. That's what saved Apple: the ability to convince the talent to come back, not some cult.
Google is not dependent on any individual.
I have this suspicion that Google's stock price would move more than Apple's did on the Jobs news (less than 3%) if Larry and Sergei had to leave. In fact Google's stock moved 6% when they announced a major stock sale in 2010.
No, it speaks AT commands to the cellular modem. The cellular modem is what is in charge of that stuff and no AT commands would let you do such a thing.
Stop spreading FUD.
OK, thanks for the explanation.
Haha, well do everyone a favor and keep them honest. Who knows, I might need an Android phone one day :-)
Well this sends a message to the manufacturer that something is not right with their product.
It's called the positive benefits of compeition. It's not just Motorola and HTC, there's aslo Samsung, SonyErikson, Huawei, Meizu and so forth. Where one vendor fails, the others take over.
I hope you're right but those companies don't exactly have a great track record in the listening to customers department. I've owned phones by several of them (competition sure didn't stop them making shitty phones then) and I'm skeptical their attitudes have changed since because they've started shipping Android on their phones.
That's still either "open" or "choice." Don't get me wrong I'm glad Google makes a handset that's more open but if there's only 1 good option it makes the difference between the iOS and Android platforms that much smaller. Apple is in this personal computing thing for the long haul, how long will Google make its own handsets and what happens to the openness of the Andoid platform if they stop ?
Admittedly I don't know a lot about this sort of thing. But couldn't it be possible to spoof a sim or an IMEI number or whatever and perform a denial of service that way ? Also ass-covering by legal departments isn't always rational and well thought out.
Because if they didn't there would be no decent dev handsets. The likes of Motorolla, Sumsung and HTC sure don't look to interested in platform building, they just want to shift some phones. You could say the fact Google has to release its own handsets shows the fragility of Android as a platform with only Google pushing the platform and their partners just pushing phones (and thus not caring about old versions, upgradeability, etc.)
What's the practical difference though ? The big advantage of Android compared to iPhone, I'm always told, is that it's open and there are so many different models to choose from. But what remains of those advantages when you have to eliminate a lot of phones because they are just as locked down and then have to research the remaining models to see which can be rooted, what the difficulties are, etc. ?
Probably legal reasons. Maybe if somebody loaded a custom OS on their phone and caused mayhem on a cellular network in some way they could be held liable because they didn't take reasonable precautions to prevent it ?
Without free software to do the heavy lifting, the phone manufacturers wouldn't be able to compete at the same price point in the market, so free software developers actually have some leverage to prevent lockdowns in the future.
Here's a newsflash for you: Google created Android to make sure they have a presence in the lucrative mobile market and could care less about "open" and "free." The reason Android was released as open source is to take advantage of the geek word-of-mouth (or geek internet press) and the geek anti Apple backlash. There won't be any "leveraging" done. I guess this is the point where a a bunch of disillusioned geeks get together and vow to create a 100% pure open(tm) alternative (ETA: 2015.)
No, torn between the people that demand that all Firefox features be reduced to addons and the people who want everything in their browser, they gave in to the addon people and made it an addon if you need the old status bar back.
At this point, Mozilla can't win no matter what they do. If they take features away and put them in addons, the people who want everything (like me :) ) complain. If they add features in, the people who want all the features they in particular don't need to be addons complain. They're in a no-win situation
A statusbar isn't a friggin option. It has been a standard UI element for as long as there haven been GUIs (hell it even existed in text-based pseudo GUIs.)
Presumably they'll allow you to turn it back on via about:config? If not, I won't be upgrading.
No upgrade for you then. You have to use an extension to get something like a statusbar back (unless they see the light before the final release.)
I just wear a monocle.
It's damned hard to masturbate while trying to trying to balance a netbook. The iPad is the right tool for the job.
This is for you : "Meet The iPad Developers - Message To Mac Customers"
Cops will be the good guys when they are replaced by robots. Until then, they are just as lazy, corruptible, malicious, greedy, biased, and negligent as the rest of humanity.
Let's face it, it won't end well.
That's a pretty obviously false statement. The contents of a wallet can be searched because they could be dangerous to the officer. How much data has ever physically harmed a police officer making an arrest?
A text/email saying "Arrested, send guys with AKs kthxbye" ?
I've been looking but can't find any reputable source that says a phone can be located when it's switched off. Lots of paranoid ravings on various message boards though.
Considering that I'll keep my iPhone thanks.
Good one. That's what people are trying to invent though: a train that drives up to your house and that doesn't have all these annoying other people on it. So look at the requirements (and what is realistic in a post peak-oil world) and actually come up with something that solves our problems both with the car and public transport as it exists now instead of this 50's B-movie robocar shit.
So I'd like to ask you to shut up and stop applying your situation to everybody else. Just because YOU can be happy and content with public transportation does not mean everybody else can.
Politeness counts, the above sentence could apply just as well to you as it does to me substituting car for public transport.
You seem to have missed my main point, which wasn't about public transport but the fact we are hacking things onto an ancient design instead of truly innovating. We've had these pipe dreams of "robotic cars" for decades and they belong in the same category as flying cars: fun sci-fi but wildly unpractical. Fact is automobile travel is becoming impractical in a lot of places (no, not everywhere) , collapsing under the weight of its own popularity. Shifting the chairs on the deck of the Titanic isn't going to help. We need real original thinking.
Stop bolting technology onto a 19th century design. How about designing something from the ground up that solves the issues of our time ? We already have something that allows you to do other things while traveling, it's called a train.
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"Children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
Apparently dates from 1953: see Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations Requested from the Congressional Research Service, Edited by Suzy Platt, 1989, number 195.
Actually a paraphrase of a quote from Aristophanes' Clouds, a comedic play known for its caricature of Socrates (w:The Clouds)