Ok, maybe I'm wrong. I hope I am. Certainly there seems to be a market change with respect to good, relatively cheap phones. Which I seem to have just missed, because when I switched to Virgin Mobile a few months ago, they stuck me with one of their dwindling stock of Motorola Triumphs (running Froyo for crisakes). I'm pretty sure the HTC One V was nowhere in sight, thought it's prominently displayed on their web site now.
Fun fact: there's no magic fairy who goes around making sure all judicial decisions are consistent. Some decades ago, a technically unsavvy judge decided that analog cell phone users had an expectation of privacy, even though anybody could go to Radio Shack and buy a radio for listening in. He was never overruled, probably because nobody uses analog cell phones any more.
Now, a more technically savvy judge realizes that somebody who doesn't encrypt their signal shouldn't expect privacy. Why should he be bound by his predecessor? If the inconsistency is ever an issue, somebody will use it as a basis for appeal, but I predict that the appeals court will decide that the first judge simply didn't understand the case he was adjudication.
If you're using an open access point, and privacy is an issue, you need to use a VPN. If your privacy is violated, do you really care if it's a government agent or some creep who wants your credit card numbers?
Once again, no false dichotomies please. Telling people they need to guard against snooping is not the same as condoning said snooping.
As indicated by the fact that he's arguing with an AC, who probably will never see his response.
I wish we could just get rid of ACs. If you need to post anonymously, use a sockpuppet. I'm so tired of all those stupid posts by people who clearly have no interest in an actual conversation.
I'd say RTFA, but since not even the editor or submitter seems to have done so, it's seems a little lame. Suffice to say that this is not a new regulation banning Uber, but simply a memo reminding cabbies that they're not supposed to use cell phone apps while driving.
You have a bionic middle finger? Most impressive. Still, there's something to be said for the old-fashioned biological finger, which is not subject to the regulations of advanced technology.
Ah jeez. I came into this discussion hoping for a nice slangbang fight about nannystate government regulation versus the freedom to innovate. But no, all we have here is a memo reminding cabbies of the driving-while-distracted law. Which memo cabbies will certainly ignore.
What we have here is yet another submission written by somebody with poor reading skills, reporting something that's purest BS. OK, stupid submissions are unavoidable, but isn't the editor's job to weed them out? Or do they all have reading skills that are just as bad?
Uhm. I'm skeptical, but I won't argue, because I sincerely hope that you're right and I'm wrong. If so, I suppose it would be another case of Google releasing a product way before its time, having its customers pay for the privilege of being guinea pigs, and finally producing a product that actually lives up to all the hype.
Right, and cheapo crap phones are represent such a huge market statement.
It's easy enough to run the latest and greatest OS when you just need to install the OS and throw the product over the wall. I got suckered by a cheapo no-name Chinese tablet that had a 10" screen and ran ICS. But it turned out that the digitizer used an obsolete Palm-style mechanism, that many applications didn't work, and that the thing fell apart after less than a week. Not an indication that ICS support is no big deal.
I don't remember the parties having any colors when I was a kid, though according to WP, the Dems and Reps did indeed sometimes use Red and Blue respectively. And of course everywhere but here, the left is "Red" and the right is "Blue". I think this has to do with the left being fond of waving red flags (an old symbol for a fight to the death) and the right usually being associated with asserting traditional hierarchies, which originally meant rule by so-called Blue Bloods — people who had the right ancestors.
But the red flag became the symbol of the socialist movement, which has always been unpopular in the U.S. I think American liberals consciously avoided using red, so as to avoid assisting those who defined a commie as anybody to the left of Genghis Khan. So the standard color scheme never really caught on here. Meanwhile, the world socialist movement fell out of favor after the biggest Marxist state collapsed and the second-biggest basically switched over to intensive capitalism — pretty much destroying the whole red-versus-blue image. Since Americans aren't great at historical memory, they were now free to re-invent the color scheme.
It's true that the current Red-State/Blue-State thing started out on TV. (WP says it was first used in the 2000 presidential coverage). But I think the main credit for its spread goes to the right, which embraced an image that neatly illustrated their claim that liberals represent a group of people living in a few prosperous coastal states, and who completely ignore the needs of Americans in flyover states.
Note that redstate.com is an influential political blog, while bluestate.com belongs to an obscure lighting and design firm whose web site has been in parking mode since 2007.
If you couldn't find a phone that didn't run ICS, then you must have simply disregarded all phones that cost less than $400. Or else you signed up for an expensive plan that cost you even more over the next 2 years. Alas, some of us have to spend our money a little more carefully than that.
My dealer put on a cheap license plate frame. I simply left it off when I screwed on the license plates. Eventually I suppose a mechanic will put his frame on when I leave the car for repairs. I probably won't bother to remove it. I prefer to avoid carrying advertisements (I'll never wear a T shirt that advertises a product I didn't help create) but I'm not a fanatic about it.
I'll bet your dad got a lot of funny looks. I applaud his desire not to be a shill, but his efforts are futile on two grounds. First, his attitude is looked down upon by most people. Second, part of a car's branding is its distinctive outline, which can't be removed.
If you only want to read ebooks, then yeah, a simple e-ink reader (especially one with such a dense dot matrix) is the way to go. Alas, there are issues with the name!
But we're talking about lock screen ads, and this thing doesn't even have a lock screen.
ven some of your clothing is most likely a walking ad..
You're referring to the logos on brand-name clothing? That's not an ad, that's part of the product. People want to display these logos, so people will know how cool they are.
In China, where logos used without authorization are the norm, you'll often see clothes displaying multiple logos from competing companies.
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Oops. You're quite right. I seem to have garbled something I learned a long time ago.
Ok, maybe I'm wrong. I hope I am. Certainly there seems to be a market change with respect to good, relatively cheap phones. Which I seem to have just missed, because when I switched to Virgin Mobile a few months ago, they stuck me with one of their dwindling stock of Motorola Triumphs (running Froyo for crisakes). I'm pretty sure the HTC One V was nowhere in sight, thought it's prominently displayed on their web site now.
Foolish consistency, yada yada.
Fun fact: there's no magic fairy who goes around making sure all judicial decisions are consistent. Some decades ago, a technically unsavvy judge decided that analog cell phone users had an expectation of privacy, even though anybody could go to Radio Shack and buy a radio for listening in. He was never overruled, probably because nobody uses analog cell phones any more.
Now, a more technically savvy judge realizes that somebody who doesn't encrypt their signal shouldn't expect privacy. Why should he be bound by his predecessor? If the inconsistency is ever an issue, somebody will use it as a basis for appeal, but I predict that the appeals court will decide that the first judge simply didn't understand the case he was adjudication.
If you're using an open access point, and privacy is an issue, you need to use a VPN. If your privacy is violated, do you really care if it's a government agent or some creep who wants your credit card numbers?
Once again, no false dichotomies please. Telling people they need to guard against snooping is not the same as condoning said snooping.
Because we evil socialists want to control everything! But then, you already knew that, so why did you bother asking the question?
As indicated by the fact that he's arguing with an AC, who probably will never see his response.
I wish we could just get rid of ACs. If you need to post anonymously, use a sockpuppet. I'm so tired of all those stupid posts by people who clearly have no interest in an actual conversation.
I'd say RTFA, but since not even the editor or submitter seems to have done so, it's seems a little lame. Suffice to say that this is not a new regulation banning Uber, but simply a memo reminding cabbies that they're not supposed to use cell phone apps while driving.
You have a bionic middle finger? Most impressive. Still, there's something to be said for the old-fashioned biological finger, which is not subject to the regulations of advanced technology.
Ah jeez. I came into this discussion hoping for a nice slangbang fight about nannystate government regulation versus the freedom to innovate. But no, all we have here is a memo reminding cabbies of the driving-while-distracted law. Which memo cabbies will certainly ignore.
What we have here is yet another submission written by somebody with poor reading skills, reporting something that's purest BS. OK, stupid submissions are unavoidable, but isn't the editor's job to weed them out? Or do they all have reading skills that are just as bad?
Uhm. I'm skeptical, but I won't argue, because I sincerely hope that you're right and I'm wrong. If so, I suppose it would be another case of Google releasing a product way before its time, having its customers pay for the privilege of being guinea pigs, and finally producing a product that actually lives up to all the hype.
Why do you need a frame at all? It's not like people stand around and say, "Ooh, that's a really nice license plate!"
Right, and cheapo crap phones are represent such a huge market statement.
It's easy enough to run the latest and greatest OS when you just need to install the OS and throw the product over the wall. I got suckered by a cheapo no-name Chinese tablet that had a 10" screen and ran ICS. But it turned out that the digitizer used an obsolete Palm-style mechanism, that many applications didn't work, and that the thing fell apart after less than a week. Not an indication that ICS support is no big deal.
I don't remember the parties having any colors when I was a kid, though according to WP, the Dems and Reps did indeed sometimes use Red and Blue respectively. And of course everywhere but here, the left is "Red" and the right is "Blue". I think this has to do with the left being fond of waving red flags (an old symbol for a fight to the death) and the right usually being associated with asserting traditional hierarchies, which originally meant rule by so-called Blue Bloods — people who had the right ancestors.
But the red flag became the symbol of the socialist movement, which has always been unpopular in the U.S. I think American liberals consciously avoided using red, so as to avoid assisting those who defined a commie as anybody to the left of Genghis Khan. So the standard color scheme never really caught on here. Meanwhile, the world socialist movement fell out of favor after the biggest Marxist state collapsed and the second-biggest basically switched over to intensive capitalism — pretty much destroying the whole red-versus-blue image. Since Americans aren't great at historical memory, they were now free to re-invent the color scheme.
It's true that the current Red-State/Blue-State thing started out on TV. (WP says it was first used in the 2000 presidential coverage). But I think the main credit for its spread goes to the right, which embraced an image that neatly illustrated their claim that liberals represent a group of people living in a few prosperous coastal states, and who completely ignore the needs of Americans in flyover states.
Note that redstate.com is an influential political blog, while bluestate.com belongs to an obscure lighting and design firm whose web site has been in parking mode since 2007.
If you couldn't find a phone that didn't run ICS, then you must have simply disregarded all phones that cost less than $400. Or else you signed up for an expensive plan that cost you even more over the next 2 years. Alas, some of us have to spend our money a little more carefully than that.
My dealer put on a cheap license plate frame. I simply left it off when I screwed on the license plates. Eventually I suppose a mechanic will put his frame on when I leave the car for repairs. I probably won't bother to remove it. I prefer to avoid carrying advertisements (I'll never wear a T shirt that advertises a product I didn't help create) but I'm not a fanatic about it.
No longer appropriate for a country that is only nominally Communist, and happens to be the biggest Capitalistic entity on the planet.
Red tides have a number of causes, some of which are quite natural. The algal bloom is often toxic, which makes me worry for the fisherman in TFA.
Red and brown are pretty much the same color at different brightness. Weird, but true.
Jeez dude, lighten up, and enjoy some good old-fashioned Communist Propaganda.
Sorry, the color red no longer belongs to socialism. It's been take over by a totally different movement.
I'll bet your dad got a lot of funny looks. I applaud his desire not to be a shill, but his efforts are futile on two grounds. First, his attitude is looked down upon by most people. Second, part of a car's branding is its distinctive outline, which can't be removed.
If you only want to read ebooks, then yeah, a simple e-ink reader (especially one with such a dense dot matrix) is the way to go. Alas, there are issues with the name!
But we're talking about lock screen ads, and this thing doesn't even have a lock screen.
ven some of your clothing is most likely a walking ad..
You're referring to the logos on brand-name clothing? That's not an ad, that's part of the product. People want to display these logos, so people will know how cool they are.
In China, where logos used without authorization are the norm, you'll often see clothes displaying multiple logos from competing companies.
Recall the guy in Diamond Age who made a name for himself by putting animated ads on chopsticks? As always, SF is way ahead of reality.
Great. Using a mouse instead of a finger to manipulate an interface designed for a finger is way more efficient.