I've been using solely Apple computers since 1993, and even I am sick of their dumbing down tactics. Many consider Lion to be a step backward from Snow Leopard, and even I consider the changes coming in Mountain Lion to be not in my best interest.
But what's really got my skirt in a bunch is that Apple has forced Craigslist app vendors to remove the ability to easily see the photos in personal ads. The apps that used to show them now either say no ads found, or the picture is greyed out.
The best feature of a new Apple product? A prominent button marked "LEAVE MY SHIT ALONE!"
This information is incorrect and Slashdot is among the last to correct it. The arrest of Robert Cavanaugh was some time ago and he had nothing to do with LulzSec.
Sony needs to breathe new life into their own products. Overdrive Media Console is already available for many devices and many US libraries are already loaning ebooks and audiobooks this way.
http://www.overdrive.com/software/omc/
Agreed. There are a lot of audio books on torrent that are copyrighted, but out of print. What are you infringing if you can't buy the file at any price?
This is not an HIV detector, it's a CD4 T-cell counter. If the count is below 250, it is assumed there is an immune system problem which in poor countries is likely caused by HIV. There is already a cheap test for HIV, using a mouth swab.
Are you this analytical when considering all your other potential toy purchases? Could be that for some of us, it is enough that it appears to be a fun thing to fiddle with.
Here's what I want a high quality, fast and truly usable tablet for : medical care. It should be possible to walk into a patient's room carrying a clipboard sized device that resembled a giant iphone. You should be able to call up medical records, imagery, and the rest with no detectable latency. (because the tablet should use push downloading : each tablet is assigned to a particular doctor or nurse. The table would cache all medical records for each patient assigned to that doctor or nurse, and if a new report comes out for one of those patients, the tablet should automatically download it over the hospital's wireless network)
It should use a glass topped display, like the iphone, so that you could use caustic chemicals to sterilize the surface. The medical industry has enough money that if this product cost $1500 it would barely be noticed as an expense. (especially if it could boost efficiency)
Apple has as good a chance to make this happen as anyone. Medical users would be running custom software for this tablet, so there's no need for it to be windows compatible. While displaying large 2D images like X-rays will require some CPU horsepower, it's still entirely possible for a low power CPU to do the job. And apple's superior user interfaces and integration with hardware mean that it will be cheaper and easier to train doctors and nurses to use this device.
The biggest technical problems I foresee are back end problems, problems with the EMR software, and battery life.(hospital IT departments tend to fuck things up. If they bought a bunch of apple tablets, they probably wouldn't build and maintain the back end servers and wireless AP correctly)
Don't be too sure about technical problems. University of New Mexico Hospital and Clinics are the most wired in the country. Most of the doctors already carry around a smartphone or PDA, typically to quickly check drug interactions. Their system is 100% paperless, any doctor in the system can access any patient in the system from any terminal in the system. Making that available via WiFi will be trivial. I'm sure this will be a smashing success in the medical field.
C. If graphics: turn them into archival quality negatives. If audio: slap 'm on a phonographic record. Yes, they will degrade, but they will degrade 'gracefully' and even if some future generation has no idea what the heck to do with an SD card, figuring out negatives (or positives if you will) and records is rather simple.
Yes, there is something comforting in knowing that in case of total holocaust, if you found a vinyl LP and could round up a cactus thorn, sewing needle, or similar, and something to rotate it, you could at least find out what it was about. It wouldn't be great, but you could recover a hint of the original.
You can solve both problems at once by going with an on-line data warehouse who will guarantee data integrity and mirrors data to multiple locations. This leaves the issue of media life to them, and solves the multiple-location issue.
If were talking serious archiving here, the method mentioned above would have to account for cumulative data errors in all that moving around in the cloud with backups, restores, etc. As in the example, you rip a CD, burn a new CD from that rip, rinse, repeat X times and then do a bit for bit comparison of the first and last CD, they won't match.
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The EFF has provided an up to date list of privacy-enabling tools in the age of Prism. http://prism-break.org/
Your answer had nothing to do with protecting against data collection.
YourAnonNews = Jackal = Christopher Michael Banks. All that needs to be known about this entity can be found at https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Jackal .
I've been using solely Apple computers since 1993, and even I am sick of their dumbing down tactics. Many consider Lion to be a step backward from Snow Leopard, and even I consider the changes coming in Mountain Lion to be not in my best interest.
But what's really got my skirt in a bunch is that Apple has forced Craigslist app vendors to remove the ability to easily see the photos in personal ads. The apps that used to show them now either say no ads found, or the picture is greyed out.
The best feature of a new Apple product? A prominent button marked "LEAVE MY SHIT ALONE!"
That is exactly how they do it on a MeteoPlug weather server on a SheevaPlug. Truly plug and play.
This information is incorrect and Slashdot is among the last to correct it. The arrest of Robert Cavanaugh was some time ago and he had nothing to do with LulzSec.
http://www.dailytech.com/LulzSec+Hacked+Nope+Sony+Hacked+Again+Yes+Twice/article21832.htm
Jacob Appelbaum tweeted this earlier. Comodohacker may be for real.
It appears that the #comodogate hacker has posted the secret key for Mozilla's cert: http://pastebin.com/X8znzPWH
Sony needs to breathe new life into their own products. Overdrive Media Console is already available for many devices and many US libraries are already loaning ebooks and audiobooks this way. http://www.overdrive.com/software/omc/
So what he needs is a 27MHz Citizen's Band radio? Besides rednecks and freaks, who still uses CB?
Truck drivers. Oh, wait...
(Disclaimer: I am a truck driver, so I'm allowed to make that joke without being modded troll/flamebait.)
Hey! I resemble that remark! (2 million miles and counting.)
Agreed. There are a lot of audio books on torrent that are copyrighted, but out of print. What are you infringing if you can't buy the file at any price?
Uh oh, and here we are with Sourceforge hosting SBaGen. http://sbagen.sourceforge.net/ Hurry and download it before it's illegal!
Yes, I submitted this story 8 hours ago and it was ignored.
n general term it's still a PITA to use.
I know quite a few Aunt Millies using Ubuntu who'd disagree with you.
I bet those Aunt Millies didn't install it themselves.
This is not an HIV detector, it's a CD4 T-cell counter. If the count is below 250, it is assumed there is an immune system problem which in poor countries is likely caused by HIV. There is already a cheap test for HIV, using a mouth swab.
Are you this analytical when considering all your other potential toy purchases? Could be that for some of us, it is enough that it appears to be a fun thing to fiddle with.
Here's what I want a high quality, fast and truly usable tablet for : medical care. It should be possible to walk into a patient's room carrying a clipboard sized device that resembled a giant iphone. You should be able to call up medical records, imagery, and the rest with no detectable latency. (because the tablet should use push downloading : each tablet is assigned to a particular doctor or nurse. The table would cache all medical records for each patient assigned to that doctor or nurse, and if a new report comes out for one of those patients, the tablet should automatically download it over the hospital's wireless network)
It should use a glass topped display, like the iphone, so that you could use caustic chemicals to sterilize the surface. The medical industry has enough money that if this product cost $1500 it would barely be noticed as an expense. (especially if it could boost efficiency)
Apple has as good a chance to make this happen as anyone. Medical users would be running custom software for this tablet, so there's no need for it to be windows compatible. While displaying large 2D images like X-rays will require some CPU horsepower, it's still entirely possible for a low power CPU to do the job. And apple's superior user interfaces and integration with hardware mean that it will be cheaper and easier to train doctors and nurses to use this device.
The biggest technical problems I foresee are back end problems, problems with the EMR software, and battery life.(hospital IT departments tend to fuck things up. If they bought a bunch of apple tablets, they probably wouldn't build and maintain the back end servers and wireless AP correctly)
Don't be too sure about technical problems. University of New Mexico Hospital and Clinics are the most wired in the country. Most of the doctors already carry around a smartphone or PDA, typically to quickly check drug interactions. Their system is 100% paperless, any doctor in the system can access any patient in the system from any terminal in the system. Making that available via WiFi will be trivial. I'm sure this will be a smashing success in the medical field.
A beautiful, matte screen 24" monitor with 1920x1080p, no TV. Usually can be found for about $250.
C. If graphics: turn them into archival quality negatives. If audio: slap 'm on a phonographic record. Yes, they will degrade, but they will degrade 'gracefully' and even if some future generation has no idea what the heck to do with an SD card, figuring out negatives (or positives if you will) and records is rather simple.
Yes, there is something comforting in knowing that in case of total holocaust, if you found a vinyl LP and could round up a cactus thorn, sewing needle, or similar, and something to rotate it, you could at least find out what it was about. It wouldn't be great, but you could recover a hint of the original.
You can solve both problems at once by going with an on-line data warehouse who will guarantee data integrity and mirrors data to multiple locations. This leaves the issue of media life to them, and solves the multiple-location issue.
If were talking serious archiving here, the method mentioned above would have to account for cumulative data errors in all that moving around in the cloud with backups, restores, etc. As in the example, you rip a CD, burn a new CD from that rip, rinse, repeat X times and then do a bit for bit comparison of the first and last CD, they won't match.