They're Harvard graduates coming from a family that's very chummy with the Fortune 100 and can apparently afford lawyers that can take on a billion dollar company. $65 million is probably chump change for them. The overprivileged fighting among themselves for a bigger piece of the pie; couldn't care less.
Only hate speech (inciting discrimination/intolerance and pro-nazi propaganda) is forbidden in the EU; to suggest this somehow limits our freedom is like suggesting you aren't completely free because you cannot own a slave. A freedom is not a freedom if it comes at the cost of the rights of others, your rights end where someone else's begin (in this case the right not to be discriminated against.)
Just a sincerely humble opinion from a user of slashdot, I mean no cynical biased remarks from what follows, now that I got that out of the way:
That's interesting, do you mean to say laws differ from country to country, WOW!
It's not only digital downloads though. Here in Belgium for example we won't be getting the iPad until a month after the UK, France and Germany even though to get to mainland Europe they have to ship these things through our ports. It feels like Apple doesn't have someone setting a global EU policy but instead has several separate divisions doing their thing in opposition to each other.
I prefer running it in a VM which rolls itself back, and has as little customization as possible, so it fits in with the millions of other people running IE with standard XP installs.
I'd like to see some way of tor-ifying all network connections coming out of a VM to make sure there is no leakage instead of running tor inside the VM. I've toyed with the idea of using one VM with tor installed as a router for another VM used for browsing but that seems like overkill.
If it were for laughs, why did he not try cracking email accounts of Hillary or Obama and instead chose Palin?
Palin was already the butt of jokes, she was the most in the public eye and she's a MILF. To put it bluntly she's more interesting than either Obama or Hillary.
Palin was a target because she was (and remains) a threat to the Progressive social & political agenda.
I'm a european so take this with appropriate quantities of salt but from where I'm standing Palin, Beck, the teabaggers, et al seem more of a threat to the internal cohesion of the Republican party than to the "progressive agenda" (whatever that means.)
If there had been anything that could have even remotely made even the most shaky, thin case against Palin in the emails, you don't think it would have been the subject of a special Congressional committee and/or special prosecutor? You don't think that was *exactly* the intent behind the account cracking?
Actually, I was on ebaumsworld when the account was "hacked" and the first screenshots were posted and I can assure you it was done for the lulz and not some some diabolical political purpose.
Except it wasn't the 'obvious password' which did them in, it was the lame drop-box security questions. Make it so all security questions are chosen when the account is created, and not selected from some stupid list, and your problem is solved.
Please answer your security question: "What country were you born in ?" > "Kenya"
Ditto. I just read V.A.L.I.S. and just from the parts of the Exegesis quoted in there it sounds insane and repetitive ("The empire never ended".) Even V.A.L.I.S. was sort of on the edge for me, interesting only because Dick is there to navigate through the madness with the reader and provide context and a counter weight. Can't imagine this will interesting unless heavily edited.
So? iTunes is still a 32-bit Carbon app... a decade after the introduction of Cocoa.
I wasn't talking carbon vs. cocoa but intel vs. powerpc. Photoshop had to run under Rosetta which had an impact on performance. It was a deal breaker for potential switchers and personally know of at least one person who sold his mac because of it. That person didn't believe me when I told him Photoshop was running under an emulator (a testament to how good Rosetta actually is), he just saw that performance was less than he was used to under Windows.
Don't forget the fact Adobe didn't have an intel version of Photoshop ready until well after the platform switch, basically giving Jobs the finger during a critical transition back when they were holding all the cards.
For that matter, it's not like they have a real copy of Flash for any phone yet, let alone the iPhone. Even if Apple hadn't had prevented it, there's no real garantee it would be anything but vaporware yet.
This is a point everybody seems to miss: Adobe don't even have a released version of Flash for Android yet (it's supposedly coming in the second half of this year) nor for Windows Mobile 6.5 or 7. The hottest tech market in years and Adobe botched it badly. The truth is they didn't give a shit about Flash for mobile devices until Apple made them hot again and they didn't have the code to push out there and capitalize on the current controversy and so they have been reduced to whining and begging through the media.
With (Apple-backed) HTML5 now doing all kinds of cool shit Flash's days are numbered anyway (and about time too).
I found this quote from jwz's reply to one of the comments telling :
"Part of the problem with being spoiled for choice is nowhere is there documentation -- that I would have dearly loved to find when I was just starting to learn this stuff -- that says things like, "look, you really don't want to use anything beginning with NS, just use the CG ones, that's the maximally-compatible way." It's damned near impossible to even find statements like, "CG-based stuff will work on 10.3-present, and CG is officially not-yet-deprecated so you've got a least a few more releases before you'll be expected to rewrite it all.""
So basically he implemented things a certain way a couple of years ago and later when he wanted to reuse the code for what's basically another platform he found out that by doing it that way he fucked himself. Then he does what we all do: get mad at the gun for allowing us to shoot ourselves in the foot; "if only there'd been some documentation AND I had read it AND had been smart enough to follow the recommendations". Earth shattering, clearly. The only way this is news is because it contains the magic words Apple and iPad.
Rather than giving good feedback on your code functionality Obj-C fans just go on about how your coding style isn't the one true way.
This is true. I've found that programming for the iPhone a lot revolves around following convention and best practices. I kind of like it, maybe because I'm not that experienced a programmer, it provides a guide.
Don't believe that they'll have you coding iPhone apps in a week. Even as an experienced programmer it took me longer than that to get familiar with Obj-C and learning Cocoa and Touch is more involved than they tell you. XCode is okay but stay away from their crappy Interface Builder as it's a complete waste of time.
Check out the free Stanford course on iTunesU (videos available through iTunes). It's probably the best resource out there if you've already got the necessary background (some C and OOP and design pattern knowledge). You won't be doing The Next Big Thing in under a week, but you can be creating simple demonstration apps in that time.
I think what irks geeks is that these devices could be general purpose computers but Apple chooses not to let them be. It's the same logic that drives them (and by them I mean us) to install Linux on consoles, another of the modern computing appliances. In many ways modern computing has failed to bring its advantages to the public at large (and gloated over the "stupid (l)users" while doing it) and now the mainstream is moving away from general purpose computing to a new way of doing the tasks they want to do. A lot of geeks can't see it though because they can't understand why anyone would want to. It's not lower expectations it's a whole new set of expectations, a new experience.
The argument is that Apple wants control over the user experience. As so many have pointed out the hardware of the iPhone and iPad is hardly revolutionary but the way you interact with these devices is, it is the distinguishing characteristic. So they want native apps developed with the platform in mind, not programmed for common denominator meta-platforms like Flash or Java.
And they certainly don't want to get into the position where they can't change or deprecate APIs because some third party layer would break and a whole host of applications would stop working especially in this stage where they are still working out where they're going with this touch thing. It's been claimed (read that article it's quite good) that Apple has been forced to alter their plans for OSX in the past because vendors had them over a barrel :
"This isn’t some perceived risk, I can think of incidents where Apple reverted OS changes, dumped new APIs, or was forced to committing massive engineering resources to something it did not want to do because a Must Not Break app vendor told them to."
Clearly Apple is bitter over some past goings on and is planning some insurance that won't happen again now they're still top dog.
In an ideal democracy, the press would make the specialized information available to help the general public make an informed choice. Unfortunately, the press seems more likely to run with the pro-filter crowd, in the midst of articles on bloody murder and ads for the newest VW.
You're only worried about the censorship implications if you're already informed, a very small group, if you're part of the unwashed masses however then you are likely uninformed and can be whipped into an anti-pedophilia hysteria. Which group can you sell more papers to you think ? Unrestrained capitalism: profit over ethic.
You're obviously missing the point of what Australia's doing here. Their internet firewall is for blocking child pornography, this is what they said and this is what it was sold as. Obviously then blocking this website reduces child porn... I mean, with sufficient amounts of people taking up this option, it does mean that children will become a larger % of the population, which means they're even more of a target!!!
If you think people should be allowed access to information about getting "youth in asia" to old people in Australia, then you're a pedophile.
Maybe Exit International should make a page called "Euthanasia for Child Molesters." That'd help reduce cp AND provide pro-euthenasia info, right ?
This is something I don't get about the way our political systems work (it's the same everywhere.) How is it a representative democracy if my representative isn't present to represent me during a vote which impacts me ? There should be a 90% attendance quorum for votes or better yet pay parliamentarians the median salary of the country and then dock their pay for each vote they missed.
That's great. It shows very nicely the difference between the western techno-fetishistic approach, that would produce big shiny solar panels at enormous expense to run the electric lights, and true human ingenuity.
Come on, we all know Slashdotters live in their parents basement where windows won't do any good. This could finally get some sunlight to them before they evolve into mole people.
Of course this is precisely the reason for licenses like the GPL that explicitly prohibit this kind of bait and switch tactic for "open source" software development. Trusting and relying upon the goodwill of a for-profit company that can have management changes or get taken over by a different company as is this case will always happen.
Score one more for Richard Stallman being proven correct.
Nothing is being "switched" all the OpenSolaris stuff is still there, Oracle just won't be adding new features it develops to it. All the code that was there is still open even without the magical GPL and can be developed further. From TFA :
"The good news is that those of us who have worked so hard to bring this project to life still wholeheartedly believe in it. A core group of the Wonderland team intends to keep the project going. We will be pursuing both for-profit and not-for-profit options that will allow us to become a self-sustaining organization. "
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Any civilization advanced enough to build a Dyson sphere would probably have long since harvested water from the asteroid belt or Europa.
They're Harvard graduates coming from a family that's very chummy with the Fortune 100 and can apparently afford lawyers that can take on a billion dollar company. $65 million is probably chump change for them. The overprivileged fighting among themselves for a bigger piece of the pie; couldn't care less.
told what you can and can not say
Only hate speech (inciting discrimination/intolerance and pro-nazi propaganda) is forbidden in the EU; to suggest this somehow limits our freedom is like suggesting you aren't completely free because you cannot own a slave. A freedom is not a freedom if it comes at the cost of the rights of others, your rights end where someone else's begin (in this case the right not to be discriminated against.)
Just a sincerely humble opinion from a user of slashdot, I mean no cynical biased remarks from what follows, now that I got that out of the way:
That's interesting, do you mean to say laws differ from country to country, WOW!
It's not only digital downloads though. Here in Belgium for example we won't be getting the iPad until a month after the UK, France and Germany even though to get to mainland Europe they have to ship these things through our ports. It feels like Apple doesn't have someone setting a global EU policy but instead has several separate divisions doing their thing in opposition to each other.
I prefer running it in a VM which rolls itself back, and has as little customization as possible, so it fits in with the millions of other people running IE with standard XP installs.
I'd like to see some way of tor-ifying all network connections coming out of a VM to make sure there is no leakage instead of running tor inside the VM. I've toyed with the idea of using one VM with tor installed as a router for another VM used for browsing but that seems like overkill.
If it were for laughs, why did he not try cracking email accounts of Hillary or Obama and instead chose Palin?
Palin was already the butt of jokes, she was the most in the public eye and she's a MILF. To put it bluntly she's more interesting than either Obama or Hillary.
Palin was a target because she was (and remains) a threat to the Progressive social & political agenda.
I'm a european so take this with appropriate quantities of salt but from where I'm standing Palin, Beck, the teabaggers, et al seem more of a threat to the internal cohesion of the Republican party than to the "progressive agenda" (whatever that means.)
If there had been anything that could have even remotely made even the most shaky, thin case against Palin in the emails, you don't think it would have been the subject of a special Congressional committee and/or special prosecutor? You don't think that was *exactly* the intent behind the account cracking?
Actually, I was on ebaumsworld when the account was "hacked" and the first screenshots were posted and I can assure you it was done for the lulz and not some some diabolical political purpose.
Except it wasn't the 'obvious password' which did them in, it was the lame drop-box security questions. Make it so all security questions are chosen when the account is created, and not selected from some stupid list, and your problem is solved.
Please answer your security question: "What country were you born in ?"
> "Kenya"
*ducks*
Ditto. I just read V.A.L.I.S. and just from the parts of the Exegesis quoted in there it sounds insane and repetitive ("The empire never ended".) Even V.A.L.I.S. was sort of on the edge for me, interesting only because Dick is there to navigate through the madness with the reader and provide context and a counter weight. Can't imagine this will interesting unless heavily edited.
So? iTunes is still a 32-bit Carbon app... a decade after the introduction of Cocoa.
I wasn't talking carbon vs. cocoa but intel vs. powerpc. Photoshop had to run under Rosetta which had an impact on performance. It was a deal breaker for potential switchers and personally know of at least one person who sold his mac because of it. That person didn't believe me when I told him Photoshop was running under an emulator (a testament to how good Rosetta actually is), he just saw that performance was less than he was used to under Windows.
Don't forget the fact Adobe didn't have an intel version of Photoshop ready until well after the platform switch, basically giving Jobs the finger during a critical transition back when they were holding all the cards.
For that matter, it's not like they have a real copy of Flash for any phone yet, let alone the iPhone. Even if Apple hadn't had prevented it, there's no real garantee it would be anything but vaporware yet.
This is a point everybody seems to miss: Adobe don't even have a released version of Flash for Android yet (it's supposedly coming in the second half of this year) nor for Windows Mobile 6.5 or 7. The hottest tech market in years and Adobe botched it badly. The truth is they didn't give a shit about Flash for mobile devices until Apple made them hot again and they didn't have the code to push out there and capitalize on the current controversy and so they have been reduced to whining and begging through the media.
With (Apple-backed) HTML5 now doing all kinds of cool shit Flash's days are numbered anyway (and about time too).
Mountain View, start your photocopiers.
I found this quote from jwz's reply to one of the comments telling :
"Part of the problem with being spoiled for choice is nowhere is there documentation -- that I would have dearly loved to find when I was just starting to learn this stuff -- that says things like, "look, you really don't want to use anything beginning with NS, just use the CG ones, that's the maximally-compatible way." It's damned near impossible to even find statements like, "CG-based stuff will work on 10.3-present, and CG is officially not-yet-deprecated so you've got a least a few more releases before you'll be expected to rewrite it all.""
So basically he implemented things a certain way a couple of years ago and later when he wanted to reuse the code for what's basically another platform he found out that by doing it that way he fucked himself. Then he does what we all do: get mad at the gun for allowing us to shoot ourselves in the foot; "if only there'd been some documentation AND I had read it AND had been smart enough to follow the recommendations". Earth shattering, clearly. The only way this is news is because it contains the magic words Apple and iPad.
Rather than giving good feedback on your code functionality Obj-C fans just go on about how your coding style isn't the one true way.
This is true. I've found that programming for the iPhone a lot revolves around following convention and best practices. I kind of like it, maybe because I'm not that experienced a programmer, it provides a guide.
Don't believe that they'll have you coding iPhone apps in a week. Even as an experienced programmer it took me longer than that to get familiar with Obj-C and learning Cocoa and Touch is more involved than they tell you. XCode is okay but stay away from their crappy Interface Builder as it's a complete waste of time.
Check out the free Stanford course on iTunesU (videos available through iTunes). It's probably the best resource out there if you've already got the necessary background (some C and OOP and design pattern knowledge). You won't be doing The Next Big Thing in under a week, but you can be creating simple demonstration apps in that time.
I think what irks geeks is that these devices could be general purpose computers but Apple chooses not to let them be. It's the same logic that drives them (and by them I mean us) to install Linux on consoles, another of the modern computing appliances. In many ways modern computing has failed to bring its advantages to the public at large (and gloated over the "stupid (l)users" while doing it) and now the mainstream is moving away from general purpose computing to a new way of doing the tasks they want to do. A lot of geeks can't see it though because they can't understand why anyone would want to. It's not lower expectations it's a whole new set of expectations, a new experience.
The argument is that Apple wants control over the user experience. As so many have pointed out the hardware of the iPhone and iPad is hardly revolutionary but the way you interact with these devices is, it is the distinguishing characteristic. So they want native apps developed with the platform in mind, not programmed for common denominator meta-platforms like Flash or Java.
And they certainly don't want to get into the position where they can't change or deprecate APIs because some third party layer would break and a whole host of applications would stop working especially in this stage where they are still working out where they're going with this touch thing. It's been claimed (read that article it's quite good) that Apple has been forced to alter their plans for OSX in the past because vendors had them over a barrel :
"This isn’t some perceived risk, I can think of incidents where Apple reverted OS changes, dumped new APIs, or was forced to committing massive engineering resources to something it did not want to do because a Must Not Break app vendor told them to."
Clearly Apple is bitter over some past goings on and is planning some insurance that won't happen again now they're still top dog.
In an ideal democracy, the press would make the specialized information available to help the general public make an informed choice. Unfortunately, the press seems more likely to run with the pro-filter crowd, in the midst of articles on bloody murder and ads for the newest VW.
You're only worried about the censorship implications if you're already informed, a very small group, if you're part of the unwashed masses however then you are likely uninformed and can be whipped into an anti-pedophilia hysteria. Which group can you sell more papers to you think ? Unrestrained capitalism: profit over ethic.
You're obviously missing the point of what Australia's doing here. Their internet firewall is for blocking child pornography, this is what they said and this is what it was sold as. Obviously then blocking this website reduces child porn... I mean, with sufficient amounts of people taking up this option, it does mean that children will become a larger % of the population, which means they're even more of a target!!!
If you think people should be allowed access to information about getting "youth in asia" to old people in Australia, then you're a pedophile.
Maybe Exit International should make a page called "Euthanasia for Child Molesters." That'd help reduce cp AND provide pro-euthenasia info, right ?
This is something I don't get about the way our political systems work (it's the same everywhere.) How is it a representative democracy if my representative isn't present to represent me during a vote which impacts me ? There should be a 90% attendance quorum for votes or better yet pay parliamentarians the median salary of the country and then dock their pay for each vote they missed.
Democracy is such a farse.
No, the UK is such a farce and apparently not much of a democracy.
That's great. It shows very nicely the difference between the western techno-fetishistic approach, that would produce big shiny solar panels at enormous expense to run the electric lights, and true human ingenuity.
Come on, we all know Slashdotters live in their parents basement where windows won't do any good. This could finally get some sunlight to them before they evolve into mole people.
Looks like he's been put out to pasture.
Of course this is precisely the reason for licenses like the GPL that explicitly prohibit this kind of bait and switch tactic for "open source" software development. Trusting and relying upon the goodwill of a for-profit company that can have management changes or get taken over by a different company as is this case will always happen.
Score one more for Richard Stallman being proven correct.
Nothing is being "switched" all the OpenSolaris stuff is still there, Oracle just won't be adding new features it develops to it. All the code that was there is still open even without the magical GPL and can be developed further. From TFA :
"The good news is that those of us who have worked so hard to bring this project to life still wholeheartedly believe in it. A core group of the Wonderland team intends to keep the project going. We will be pursuing both for-profit and not-for-profit options that will allow us to become a self-sustaining organization. "
From the Changelog:
Just in time for Haiku. Alternative open source OS's need some love too.