It's always been plausible (Go look at a goth nightclub:P), but now we know the reason that everybody in the future does it.
I'm not sure that dress and makeup can be plausible - but I get what you're saying. New Romantics kind of implies there was an old Romantics.
You're not going to convince the ya-hoo spudnicks of that - they've seen everything - from their couch.
Ask them and they'll tell you Berlin is where people wear leather shorts and funny hats with a feather in - and those Japanese get around in kimonos. (sigh). People have been living out their gothic fantasies since Mary Shelley first published - but the spudnicks "think" the French cafe scene is from an episode of the Family Guy where they buy a croissant.
Show 'em pictures of glam rockers from the 70s and they'd think it was science fiction of the future.
People have been dressing up and disguising themselves since mud was discovered - but it doesn't have stop facial recognition techniques (especially the bullshit in the original article).
And by that I do not mean cameras and facial recognition. I'm thinking about in games and books where the characters had strange hair and make up styles. Now, it's becoming plausible.
That's not what plausible means.
Time to update your dictionary to the 19th century???
plausible (plôz-bl)
adj.
1. Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible
The writer was very correct in his usage. Maybe you
haven't seen enough steampunk/cyberpunk movies?
-AI
Comprehension is not your strong point is it - people have had weird hair and make up since the sixties. Burgess didn't invent punk (or MM)
Plausible as in it's plausible that any of these things will help avoid recognition? No - not a hope. That's just fantasy - like the artists impression of how some one might look to avoid recognition.
Maybe you spend too much time watching movie and playing games.
I seriously doubt your local newspaper has more money involved
Which means more resources then doesn't it?
Then again, how much was a subscription with these guys? Remember not all the compromised cards are current accounts, so it adds up to something a lot smaller than the trumpet they are blowing. It's beginning to look like a small group that didn't have the resources to get a temporary hosted web presence going by now instead of a larger group that didn't have the competence to get something going.
I meant to try and find out something about their holding and earnings - but forgot. A cursory search didn't show much I could confirm. Apparently they have 20 full-time staff, mostly just analysts, they are a major customer of Media Monitors (which takes a few bucks) - the estimate I got was that they probably spend close to 7 figures per annum there. I'd guess they'd be using the other big 6 - all of which are more expensive - then there's the collectors and clippers I don't know about (probably heaps). Their list of private subscribers is what they seem so worried about keeping quiet - very big public subscription service (I've used them, there free resources have always been excellent).
Are they making money? It would appear so. Most newspapers are not making much money.
So I'd estimate they'd have to be grossing more than $10 million a year just to pay wages and the various new gathering companies (MediaMonitors are small and cheap on a global scale). I'm only *guessing* but I'd say they have very few resources - but their earning would dwarf those of any "local" paper (nothing unusual there).
I wouldn't try and read anything into a web presence - it's less an indicator of their financials than MacDonalds web presence. Stratfor's website was mostly their free feeds - you pay for anything other than a composite of the worlds media monitoring companies and you get one-on-one teleconferencing and emails - not a web feed or login. Take all that with a bit of salt - I've asked two people and spent more time typing this than I spent checking and thinking about it.
The pictures seem to be in tune with the younger set and would not be out of place at your local college campus; especially when there is a rave going on somewhere.
Kids wearing face paint and outrageous hair styles are not going to be noticed other than with the usual disapproving glances from the geezers they pass along the way...
What - like long hair, floppy hats and beards worked?
I don't think you quite understand the full picture
And by that I do not mean cameras and facial recognition. I'm thinking about in games and books where the characters had strange hair and make up styles. Now, it's becoming plausible.
Hell, I can think of some people I've met at tattoo/piercing places who might fool facial recognition. By the time you've got some extra piercings/implants, it can change quite a bit -- and those people often are already wearing theatrical contacts.
You haven't *really* thought that through have you? Like painting your car with pink polka dots so no one will recognise it...
All of the cameras are extremely sensitive to IR (So they can see at night).
Er no - it's because CCDs are IR sensitive. Which is why IR blocking film has to be placed under the lens. And no, the IR range visible by CCDs doesn't enable them to "see at night" (unless you shine an IR source on the subject). Those CCDs can't "see" heat signatures either (anymore than these techniques actually work - try V4l2 controls) - not unless you stick 'em in an Esky connected to a massively insulated lens and flood the Esky with liquid Nitrogen.
it's like buying a pub where the bartenders or staff don't dip into the till
Man, that's some 20th century thinking there. I don't know of a single tavern that doesn't have a camera pointed at the cash register.
Like that makes any difference. Your faith in technology and your own opinion are both misplaced, and have led you to ignore reality. Next you'll be declaring no convenience store staff fiddle the till because of the security camera and pickpockets died with Dickens.
Australian term, meaning "An area of grass beside a roadway, possibly with a few trees or shrubs, lying in between the footpath part and the roadway proper". Basically: Fools store their beer in their front yard, and complain when people take them for free.
Pretty much - except that your nature strip, unlike your front yard, is not your property - it belongs to the local council (for all intensive purposes) though you maintain it. It's where you put your garbage, and thing you don't want (like old furniture) for public collection.
Though people will sometimes complain if things on the nature strip are taken by the public (like out of their rented rubbish skip) the complaint has no legal standing (much like the bullshit legal sounding jargon people append to their emails - modern day hexes).
BTW "silk worms" are not worms and can't mate or lay eggs.
They (the moth) do lay eggs - allthough it might not be immediately obvious. One of my grandkids tried to tell me butterflies laid pupae. (sigh)
we now have Frankensilk
Dont' forget the Chihuahuas - just because because we don't like the outcomes doesn't mean they're wrong. Sometimes the criteria might be suspect Nihlists probably thing Franken$whatever isn't going far enough, and who knows what the white mice think...
Clean installs on everything, new passwords, and don't trust anything executable that has been on the compromised machines anywhere near the time it was hacked.
It's not a huge deal here anyway - because this lot have a high profile everyone forgets how small they really are. Your local newspaper probably has a bigger operation and a hell of a lot more subscribers.
I seriously doubt your local newspaper has more money involved - or any local newspaper. Maybe some of the national broadsheets - but that's a moot point.
Cleanups aren't complicated - but fixes are - they just sound simple. And most commonly people seem to believe they are the same thing - I contend that they're not.
In my experience these things happen again and again to the same companies (though the majority put a lot of effort into keeping it secret). Not the same dog each time, but definitely the same leg action.
I've done a bit of due diligence on companies, listened in on workers at lunch, chatted to ex-staff, and hired investigators - and I've found few that are as clean as presented - it's like buying a pub where the bartenders or staff don't dip into the till, or regulars (and staff) have never dealt in drugs (rare as hen's teeth).
I'm not talking about defending against attackers - and I don't dispute that a determined, well resourced, intelligent attack will always succeed if time permits (it's like robbing armoured cash vans really - or so I've heard). I'm talking about the things that make it easy for attackers - I believe that if you raise the bar enough - all the hurdlers don't get better - just a few of them (and when you're robbed you're robbed, so number of occurrences is important)
What interests me is why there's always talk of plugging gaps and fixing procedures - but never any mention of fixing the primary problem. The primary problem being institutional psychology. Like storing your beer on the nature strip it having it stolen (surprise - people want your beer). Then "cleaning up" by making sure all liquor is secured inside the premises, and "fixing" the problem by telling people to store their beer in the fridge and lecturing them on physical security. It overlooks the possibility that only an untrustworthy idiot would put beer on the nature strip in the first place - and even if they don't put it on the nature strip again they will probably lose a house key, or leave a window open.
A. i don't know if that sort of stupidity can be "cured" (even with vigorous application of the stick of knowledge)*1.
B. I strongly suspect the problem starts at the top (board of directors) - but I'll allow for the possibility the shareholders (or the institutional representatives that vote on their behalf) play a part in the process.*2
*1 I don't believe lazy, stupid staff change if you send them to motivation and inspiration seminars either, certainly I've seen no evidence to support it.
I'm working on a theory that dumb travels downward - I call it "The Argument from Moron Motion"
1. Genetically modified spider escapes into the wild. It mates with other creating a legion of these spiders with super silk. The super silk not only catches normal critters but large animals as well get tangled in the web unable to get out. Hope you all have a Phial from the elves.
2. New spider silk isn't as sticky as normal spider silk. Spiders die of starvation. Pests grow to plague proportions
3. Spider spins web in someones doorway. Homeowner is pissed at new wall.
4. Profit! (GM spider escapes into the wild and mates with spiders in someones backyard. Patent troll finds GM spider and sues homeowner of ip theft and distribution!)
You're a genius. Let me try that reading and comprehension thingy...
1. Genetically modified silkworm escapes into the wild. It mates with other silkworms creating a legion of these silkworms with super silk that's almost as strong as spider silk. The super silk doesn't even catch flies because the flies fail to inside the little cocoons, and because it's no stronger than a spiders web.
2. New silkworm silk isn't as sticky as normal silkworm silk. Genetically modifed silkworms lay eggs in silk cocoons that fail to stick together and they all die.
3. The End.
I was wrong - you're not actually a genius.
And what the fuck are "sipders" - anal warts from elves?
We're not moving to Apartheid any more than we're moving to Naziism in the US. Sure things are bad, but let's try to keep a little bit of perspective. I don't see any calls for rounding up massive numbers of people to throw in camps nor is there anybody presently in prison solely for speaking out against abuses of power by the government either.
You may "believe" that - but maybe you should get out a little more.... I've travelled around most of the US, and been there many times - lots of nice people, many of them woefully ignorant. I also travelled through SA in the apartheid era (and was briefly locked up in a backlash against my country for boycotting the apartheid regime, nicest people I met in SA were in Durban gaol).
But in all the world (and I've travelled most of it) only the US and it's unofficial states (like Jamaica) has black ghettos - and in most states of the US you find towns have two sides - usually separated by a railway track - uptown whiteyville, and downtown darktown.
I've caught trains and buses around New York state and I've watched the people who commute every day to staff the hotels and clean the houses on the island in places they can't afford to ever live, and work three jobs to support their families. Just like in SA during apartheid. I know the history of Chiang Kai Shek, Freeway Ricky, and the SDAF - different dogs, same leg action - and here's a surprise - the same fucking players (see Nugan Hand).
And nearly everyone I've met from the rest of the world, if they've been to the south, say Missouri (properly pronounced Misery) where the bone crushing poverty of the black shanty towns is undeniable - won't buy that "no apartheid" bullshit.
Lot's of nice people of all colours in the South - but you've lived like that for so long the realities have become invisible.
And it's not even just the treatment of black people - it's the Irish mining stock in the North, and the so-called hillbillies.
No Nazism you say? Are you fucking serious - I regularly go to Texas where the the skinheads and the fundamentalist one-eyebrowed no-neck sloping-forehead that would keep the soap out of their eyes if they showered dwell - the same place that produced giants like Bill Hicks, also produced the fucking Bushs and arrested Willie Nelson!
Have you ever been to Florida - did you fail to notice those people living under the freeways? Have you forgotten the Japanese your country put into camps and robbed? When is a trailer park not a prison camp? When it's not a tent city run by fifth generation corrupt jailers and their kin, charging the inmates for wearing pink underwear?
I think you're mistaken is all I'm saying. Maybe you don't see your world the way the rest of the planet does - maybe you don't see much of the world you live in 'cause the rest of the planet looks on in astonishment at Democrat vs. Republican vs. whoever, Tea Party and troothers and asks whether that's the same county that put people on the moon.
Yes they did - and if you know your history you'd know that the first trials all failed. But do you know what that white stuff was that they put in the chest cavity?*1 First class genius's and humanitarians (of the SDAF kind, and that's not a casual link if you know your modern history)
Do you know what the thread they used to sew up the incisions was made of? I'm betting you don't - or else you're dumber than boot full of dead frogs.
but most its population could not receive the simplest of medical care.
That's the part of the population who unwillingly were the hidden guinea pigs. But hey, Hitler liked dogs. Apparently. Another top bloke.
Just for the record - the first non-secret implant that didn't immediately kill the patient was done in Texas. And if you did a little research you might not be so fucking proud of that history. Perhaps you also think Fleming discovered penicillin, Cook discovered Australia, and some European invented printing - but you'd be mistaken (the price you pay for not doing your own research instead of letting others feed you).
How about one of those self winding watch mechanisms then?
Like a Green phone for tossers?
"fap fap" I'm charging my phone "fap fap" - they could tweet with one hand and charge with the other "fap fap".
Tailor made opportunity for Facebook to get into the mobile phone business. The Facebook "fhone" - with the environmentally friendly charging system "fap fap".
I'm betting Microsoft already has a patent on it - Steve Balmer has probably been testing it himself - monkeyboy dancing and charging. "Developers!" "fap fap" "Developers!" "fap fap" "It's a Nokia!" "fap fap".
Lets say it was feasible - wouldn't it require you to *leave* your phone in the sun somewhere.....? What could possibly go wrong?
It's hardly fucking rocket science to calculate the ability of a given number of particular type of solar cell to charge a certain battery - yet we're asked to believe this was undertaken "as a trial", with the intention of marketing the end product? Seriously? No drugs involved?
The same surface area covered in the best cells will barely charge a battery sufficient to run a small LED torch under average conditions in Australia. And if you can't get enough sunlight in Australia you're in trouble - and don't forget things tend to get hot in the sun.
Disclaimer: I've only built self-charging remote devices a couple of times - for mobile phones - and each time the real life charge times were pretty close to the design. I'm not a qualified electronic engineer, or particularly good - maybe I just got lucky.
Under that they have to prove that the 3rd party software broke the phone. Just in a car they can't just you put in a 3rd party radio in and say the engine warranty is void.
The radio doesn't control the engine though, so obviously replacing the radio isn't going to void the engine warranty.
But wouldn't fact checking drive away the shills and their sock puppets? Besides - despite all the evidence to the contrary - it must be true. Surely SoulFree wouldn't publish bullshit media releases disguised as "stories".
After all the referenced author author has modestly announced his company are front-runners for the 2012 (my how time flies) Security Products Global Bullshit, sorry I mean, Excellence Award.
Though I'm betting McAffee and Windows 95 might beat them (like a rented mule).
You also can't use it for meaningful data in the US. They (and Trolltech) stupidly decided to use a GSM chip that can't do EDGE, and only supports 1900/2100UMTS, instead of spending about $5 more to get the pin-compatible next version up that supported EDGE (and, I believe, 850/1900MHz UMTS), which means they're GPRS paperweights in the US.
Same in this country - except that I'm not interested in EDGE for data (GSM and EDGE are expensive data options here, 3G is cheap and built in to my netbook) I use mine as a phone;-p. We bought a number of them and use them in a remote non-voice projects running Debian (we spent the holidays exploring the GSM stack, because we can). [aside] Who would have a phone that won't function? Oh yeah (hi Damian) the phone in discussion - designed for Data As A Service, but only to the phone - no USB transfer. Handy.
We have an order in for the GTA04 with Golden Delicious (byo case) - which are capable of the more useful 3G if it's data your after (I prefer my netbook for portable data). And again - you own the phone and pretty much everything is accessible and under your control (the GSM stack is difficult to get to, but that's outside the control of the manufacturer).
Being from the US you might not be aware that "root" has different meaning. Try telling people outside the US you root for your team and watch them back away (getting some ass is gay, and sitting on your fanny is something only women can do - and then with great difficulty).
Giving prominence to your own services on your own website is hardly controversial.
It is if you're a monopoly. Microsoft got into the same trouble over Internet Explorer in the 1990s.
If Google had popups warning you that your non-Chrome browser was a risk, if Google had no set prices for advertising - and told you it'd cost you double (or more) if you used other advertising companies, if Google copied every successful app that ran on Android and released their own version with Android and made it as hard as possible for the original app to be used on Android, if Google offered management golf club and holidays under the table in return for over-riding the purchasing decisions of the tech department (and if Google's head of marketing hired convicted murderers as "bodyguard" and threw chairs, or threatened journalists, maybe if Brin's dad arranged to have the other buyer for the Backscratch algorithm stuck in a holding pattern over the airport while Brin stole the deal) - then you wouldn't be such an obvious shill for MS. Because unlike NicknameOne I find it statistically improbable that you could be so wrong and not seriously hurt yourself trying to climb onto a chair and type this bullshit.
You are from fivers right? I thought so - you're the girl who'll do anything in a shower for $5 - I thought I recognised that tattoo of Bill Gates on your butt.
It is when they're pushing them in the usual search results. It's somewhat cheating, and certainly not honest.
So because I pay Google to advertise my sites - my sites shouldn't appear in the search results as well? Why? The do with Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex.
That's why Google is probably giving them that prominence by moving them to better places, but outside the search results.
Probably? Probably? Is that what they taught you to say at shill school? I don't think so - I think they told you to "sound convincing, if you state it like a fact the fools will believe it's a fact".
That's what EU has been giving them trouble for, anyway.
No it isn't. Not even close. Keep guessing - or use a search engine, it'd be quicker - any one - the answers the same. Allegations of breaching privacy - yes. Paid armies of lobbyists with agendas like yours trying to convince people that Google "monopolises" search results and advertising. Yeah - in the same way the local water supply monopolises beverages.
Did you really think that tattoo of Bill Gates on your butt looked cool?
Thanks for pointing this out. I was beginning to wonder if it was true, considering this is the second post I saw saying that Lumia is doing well in Europe. Is Microsoft assembling its own fifty cent army?
Probably fivers. Though News Corp did commission a "survey" by Roy Morgan of householder and people in Supermarkets - so if you were one of those people asked about how you felt about malware on Android and Google's collection of your private data - you know who paid to influence your opinion - sorry I meant - you know who paid for your insights. Sure Rupert has a large investment in Microsoft, but it don't mean nothing.
If no terms have been made public, how do you know no money has been paid?
A: they are public - ironically you'll want me to what it for you? (tough), and B: both companies publish returns (MS stalled and stalled, but they did publish).
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Now, it's becoming plausible.
It's always been plausible (Go look at a goth nightclub :P), but now we know the reason that everybody in the future does it.
I'm not sure that dress and makeup can be plausible - but I get what you're saying. New Romantics kind of implies there was an old Romantics.
You're not going to convince the ya-hoo spudnicks of that - they've seen everything - from their couch.
Ask them and they'll tell you Berlin is where people wear leather shorts and funny hats with a feather in - and those Japanese get around in kimonos. (sigh). People have been living out their gothic fantasies since Mary Shelley first published - but the spudnicks "think" the French cafe scene is from an episode of the Family Guy where they buy a croissant.
Show 'em pictures of glam rockers from the 70s and they'd think it was science fiction of the future.
People have been dressing up and disguising themselves since mud was discovered - but it doesn't have stop facial recognition techniques (especially the bullshit in the original article).
And by that I do not mean cameras and facial recognition. I'm thinking about in games and books where the characters had strange hair and make up styles. Now, it's becoming plausible.
That's not what plausible means.
Time to update your dictionary to the 19th century???
plausible (plôz-bl) adj. 1. Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible
The writer was very correct in his usage. Maybe you haven't seen enough steampunk/cyberpunk movies?
-AI
Comprehension is not your strong point is it - people have had weird hair and make up since the sixties. Burgess didn't invent punk (or MM)
Plausible as in it's plausible that any of these things will help avoid recognition? No - not a hope. That's just fantasy - like the artists impression of how some one might look to avoid recognition.
Maybe you spend too much time watching movie and playing games.
Which means more resources then doesn't it? Then again, how much was a subscription with these guys? Remember not all the compromised cards are current accounts, so it adds up to something a lot smaller than the trumpet they are blowing. It's beginning to look like a small group that didn't have the resources to get a temporary hosted web presence going by now instead of a larger group that didn't have the competence to get something going.
I meant to try and find out something about their holding and earnings - but forgot. A cursory search didn't show much I could confirm. Apparently they have 20 full-time staff, mostly just analysts, they are a major customer of Media Monitors (which takes a few bucks) - the estimate I got was that they probably spend close to 7 figures per annum there. I'd guess they'd be using the other big 6 - all of which are more expensive - then there's the collectors and clippers I don't know about (probably heaps). Their list of private subscribers is what they seem so worried about keeping quiet - very big public subscription service (I've used them, there free resources have always been excellent).
Are they making money? It would appear so. Most newspapers are not making much money.
So I'd estimate they'd have to be grossing more than $10 million a year just to pay wages and the various new gathering companies (MediaMonitors are small and cheap on a global scale). I'm only *guessing* but I'd say they have very few resources - but their earning would dwarf those of any "local" paper (nothing unusual there).
I wouldn't try and read anything into a web presence - it's less an indicator of their financials than MacDonalds web presence. Stratfor's website was mostly their free feeds - you pay for anything other than a composite of the worlds media monitoring companies and you get one-on-one teleconferencing and emails - not a web feed or login. Take all that with a bit of salt - I've asked two people and spent more time typing this than I spent checking and thinking about it.
The pictures seem to be in tune with the younger set and would not be out of place at your local college campus; especially when there is a rave going on somewhere. Kids wearing face paint and outrageous hair styles are not going to be noticed other than with the usual disapproving glances from the geezers they pass along the way...
What - like long hair, floppy hats and beards worked?
I don't think you quite understand the full picture
And by that I do not mean cameras and facial recognition. I'm thinking about in games and books where the characters had strange hair and make up styles. Now, it's becoming plausible.
That's not what plausible means.
Hell, I can think of some people I've met at tattoo/piercing places who might fool facial recognition. By the time you've got some extra piercings/implants, it can change quite a bit -- and those people often are already wearing theatrical contacts.
You haven't *really* thought that through have you? Like painting your car with pink polka dots so no one will recognise it...
All of the cameras are extremely sensitive to IR (So they can see at night).
Er no - it's because CCDs are IR sensitive. Which is why IR blocking film has to be placed under the lens. And no, the IR range visible by CCDs doesn't enable them to "see at night" (unless you shine an IR source on the subject). Those CCDs can't "see" heat signatures either (anymore than these techniques actually work - try V4l2 controls) - not unless you stick 'em in an Esky connected to a massively insulated lens and flood the Esky with liquid Nitrogen.
You can carry on with the fantasies now.
it's like buying a pub where the bartenders or staff don't dip into the till
Man, that's some 20th century thinking there. I don't know of a single tavern that doesn't have a camera pointed at the cash register.
Like that makes any difference. Your faith in technology and your own opinion are both misplaced, and have led you to ignore reality. Next you'll be declaring no convenience store staff fiddle the till because of the security camera and pickpockets died with Dickens.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nature_strip
Australian term, meaning "An area of grass beside a roadway, possibly with a few trees or shrubs, lying in between the footpath part and the roadway proper". Basically: Fools store their beer in their front yard, and complain when people take them for free.
Pretty much - except that your nature strip, unlike your front yard, is not your property - it belongs to the local council (for all intensive purposes) though you maintain it. It's where you put your garbage, and thing you don't want (like old furniture) for public collection.
Though people will sometimes complain if things on the nature strip are taken by the public (like out of their rented rubbish skip) the complaint has no legal standing (much like the bullshit legal sounding jargon people append to their emails - modern day hexes).
And what the fuck are "sipders"
SIPDER (n): A typographical error in teh comment.
No-o - tell me it ain't so. Surely it's a collection of ITF VOIP connection errors.
BTW "silk worms" are not worms and can't mate or lay eggs.
They (the moth) do lay eggs - allthough it might not be immediately obvious. One of my grandkids tried to tell me butterflies laid pupae. (sigh)
we now have Frankensilk
Dont' forget the Chihuahuas - just because because we don't like the outcomes doesn't mean they're wrong. Sometimes the criteria might be suspect Nihlists probably thing Franken$whatever isn't going far enough, and who knows what the white mice think...
Clean installs on everything, new passwords, and don't trust anything executable that has been on the compromised machines anywhere near the time it was hacked. It's not a huge deal here anyway - because this lot have a high profile everyone forgets how small they really are. Your local newspaper probably has a bigger operation and a hell of a lot more subscribers.
I seriously doubt your local newspaper has more money involved - or any local newspaper. Maybe some of the national broadsheets - but that's a moot point.
Cleanups aren't complicated - but fixes are - they just sound simple. And most commonly people seem to believe they are the same thing - I contend that they're not.
In my experience these things happen again and again to the same companies (though the majority put a lot of effort into keeping it secret). Not the same dog each time, but definitely the same leg action.
I've done a bit of due diligence on companies, listened in on workers at lunch, chatted to ex-staff, and hired investigators - and I've found few that are as clean as presented - it's like buying a pub where the bartenders or staff don't dip into the till, or regulars (and staff) have never dealt in drugs (rare as hen's teeth).
I'm not talking about defending against attackers - and I don't dispute that a determined, well resourced, intelligent attack will always succeed if time permits (it's like robbing armoured cash vans really - or so I've heard). I'm talking about the things that make it easy for attackers - I believe that if you raise the bar enough - all the hurdlers don't get better - just a few of them (and when you're robbed you're robbed, so number of occurrences is important)
What interests me is why there's always talk of plugging gaps and fixing procedures - but never any mention of fixing the primary problem. The primary problem being institutional psychology. Like storing your beer on the nature strip it having it stolen (surprise - people want your beer). Then "cleaning up" by making sure all liquor is secured inside the premises, and "fixing" the problem by telling people to store their beer in the fridge and lecturing them on physical security. It overlooks the possibility that only an untrustworthy idiot would put beer on the nature strip in the first place - and even if they don't put it on the nature strip again they will probably lose a house key, or leave a window open.
*1 I don't believe lazy, stupid staff change if you send them to motivation and inspiration seminars either, certainly I've seen no evidence to support it.
I'm working on a theory that dumb travels downward - I call it "The Argument from Moron Motion"
1. Genetically modified spider escapes into the wild. It mates with other creating a legion of these spiders with super silk. The super silk not only catches normal critters but large animals as well get tangled in the web unable to get out. Hope you all have a Phial from the elves.
2. New spider silk isn't as sticky as normal spider silk. Spiders die of starvation. Pests grow to plague proportions
3. Spider spins web in someones doorway. Homeowner is pissed at new wall.
4. Profit! (GM spider escapes into the wild and mates with spiders in someones backyard. Patent troll finds GM spider and sues homeowner of ip theft and distribution!)
You're a genius. Let me try that reading and comprehension thingy...
I was wrong - you're not actually a genius.
And what the fuck are "sipders" - anal warts from elves?
We're not moving to Apartheid any more than we're moving to Naziism in the US. Sure things are bad, but let's try to keep a little bit of perspective. I don't see any calls for rounding up massive numbers of people to throw in camps nor is there anybody presently in prison solely for speaking out against abuses of power by the government either.
You may "believe" that - but maybe you should get out a little more.... I've travelled around most of the US, and been there many times - lots of nice people, many of them woefully ignorant. I also travelled through SA in the apartheid era (and was briefly locked up in a backlash against my country for boycotting the apartheid regime, nicest people I met in SA were in Durban gaol).
But in all the world (and I've travelled most of it) only the US and it's unofficial states (like Jamaica) has black ghettos - and in most states of the US you find towns have two sides - usually separated by a railway track - uptown whiteyville, and downtown darktown.
I've caught trains and buses around New York state and I've watched the people who commute every day to staff the hotels and clean the houses on the island in places they can't afford to ever live, and work three jobs to support their families. Just like in SA during apartheid. I know the history of Chiang Kai Shek, Freeway Ricky, and the SDAF - different dogs, same leg action - and here's a surprise - the same fucking players (see Nugan Hand).
And nearly everyone I've met from the rest of the world, if they've been to the south, say Missouri (properly pronounced Misery) where the bone crushing poverty of the black shanty towns is undeniable - won't buy that "no apartheid" bullshit.
Lot's of nice people of all colours in the South - but you've lived like that for so long the realities have become invisible.
And it's not even just the treatment of black people - it's the Irish mining stock in the North, and the so-called hillbillies.
No Nazism you say? Are you fucking serious - I regularly go to Texas where the the skinheads and the fundamentalist one-eyebrowed no-neck sloping-forehead that would keep the soap out of their eyes if they showered dwell - the same place that produced giants like Bill Hicks, also produced the fucking Bushs and arrested Willie Nelson!
Have you ever been to Florida - did you fail to notice those people living under the freeways? Have you forgotten the Japanese your country put into camps and robbed? When is a trailer park not a prison camp? When it's not a tent city run by fifth generation corrupt jailers and their kin, charging the inmates for wearing pink underwear?
I think you're mistaken is all I'm saying. Maybe you don't see your world the way the rest of the planet does - maybe you don't see much of the world you live in 'cause the rest of the planet looks on in astonishment at Democrat vs. Republican vs. whoever, Tea Party and troothers and asks whether that's the same county that put people on the moon.
They invented the artificial heart...
Yes they did - and if you know your history you'd know that the first trials all failed. But do you know what that white stuff was that they put in the chest cavity?*1 First class genius's and humanitarians (of the SDAF kind, and that's not a casual link if you know your modern history)
Do you know what the thread they used to sew up the incisions was made of? I'm betting you don't - or else you're dumber than boot full of dead frogs.
but most its population could not receive the simplest of medical care.
That's the part of the population who unwillingly were the hidden guinea pigs. But hey, Hitler liked dogs. Apparently. Another top bloke.
Just for the record - the first non-secret implant that didn't immediately kill the patient was done in Texas. And if you did a little research you might not be so fucking proud of that history. Perhaps you also think Fleming discovered penicillin, Cook discovered Australia, and some European invented printing - but you'd be mistaken (the price you pay for not doing your own research instead of letting others feed you).
*1 Hint: James Scum Hardie
How about one of those self winding watch mechanisms then?
Like a Green phone for tossers?
"fap fap" I'm charging my phone "fap fap" - they could tweet with one hand and charge with the other "fap fap".
Tailor made opportunity for Facebook to get into the mobile phone business. The Facebook "fhone" - with the environmentally friendly charging system "fap fap".
I'm betting Microsoft already has a patent on it - Steve Balmer has probably been testing it himself - monkeyboy dancing and charging. "Developers!" "fap fap" "Developers!" "fap fap" "It's a Nokia!" "fap fap".
Lets say it was feasible - wouldn't it require you to *leave* your phone in the sun somewhere.....? What could possibly go wrong?
It's hardly fucking rocket science to calculate the ability of a given number of particular type of solar cell to charge a certain battery - yet we're asked to believe this was undertaken "as a trial", with the intention of marketing the end product? Seriously? No drugs involved?
The same surface area covered in the best cells will barely charge a battery sufficient to run a small LED torch under average conditions in Australia. And if you can't get enough sunlight in Australia you're in trouble - and don't forget things tend to get hot in the sun.
Disclaimer: I've only built self-charging remote devices a couple of times - for mobile phones - and each time the real life charge times were pretty close to the design. I'm not a qualified electronic engineer, or particularly good - maybe I just got lucky.
Under that they have to prove that the 3rd party software broke the phone. Just in a car they can't just you put in a 3rd party radio in and say the engine warranty is void.
The radio doesn't control the engine though, so obviously replacing the radio isn't going to void the engine warranty.
What if the radio had rounded corners?
The Android operating system doesn't just lack an integrated IPsec VPN client
someone should actually do come fact checking before posting these stories. http://en.flossmanuals.net/basic-internet-security/ch050_vpn-on-android/
But wouldn't fact checking drive away the shills and their sock puppets? Besides - despite all the evidence to the contrary - it must be true. Surely SoulFree wouldn't publish bullshit media releases disguised as "stories".
After all the referenced author author has modestly announced his company are front-runners for the 2012 (my how time flies) Security Products Global Bullshit, sorry I mean, Excellence Award.
Though I'm betting McAffee and Windows 95 might beat them (like a rented mule).
Is there a page 3 job available? I'll take it thanks.
Job's already taken by APK - not sure it's what you had in mind. Every day it features another goatse.
> Yep - can't root my Moko FreeRunner.
You also can't use it for meaningful data in the US. They (and Trolltech) stupidly decided to use a GSM chip that can't do EDGE, and only supports 1900/2100UMTS, instead of spending about $5 more to get the pin-compatible next version up that supported EDGE (and, I believe, 850/1900MHz UMTS), which means they're GPRS paperweights in the US.
Same in this country - except that I'm not interested in EDGE for data (GSM and EDGE are expensive data options here, 3G is cheap and built in to my netbook) I use mine as a phone ;-p. We bought a number of them and use them in a remote non-voice projects running Debian (we spent the holidays exploring the GSM stack, because we can). [aside] Who would have a phone that won't function? Oh yeah (hi Damian) the phone in discussion - designed for Data As A Service, but only to the phone - no USB transfer. Handy.
We have an order in for the GTA04 with Golden Delicious (byo case) - which are capable of the more useful 3G if it's data your after (I prefer my netbook for portable data). And again - you own the phone and pretty much everything is accessible and under your control (the GSM stack is difficult to get to, but that's outside the control of the manufacturer).
Being from the US you might not be aware that "root" has different meaning. Try telling people outside the US you root for your team and watch them back away (getting some ass is gay, and sitting on your fanny is something only women can do - and then with great difficulty).
It is if you're a monopoly. Microsoft got into the same trouble over Internet Explorer in the 1990s.
If Google had popups warning you that your non-Chrome browser was a risk, if Google had no set prices for advertising - and told you it'd cost you double (or more) if you used other advertising companies, if Google copied every successful app that ran on Android and released their own version with Android and made it as hard as possible for the original app to be used on Android, if Google offered management golf club and holidays under the table in return for over-riding the purchasing decisions of the tech department (and if Google's head of marketing hired convicted murderers as "bodyguard" and threw chairs, or threatened journalists, maybe if Brin's dad arranged to have the other buyer for the Backscratch algorithm stuck in a holding pattern over the airport while Brin stole the deal) - then you wouldn't be such an obvious shill for MS. Because unlike NicknameOne I find it statistically improbable that you could be so wrong and not seriously hurt yourself trying to climb onto a chair and type this bullshit.
You are from fivers right? I thought so - you're the girl who'll do anything in a shower for $5 - I thought I recognised that tattoo of Bill Gates on your butt.
It is when they're pushing them in the usual search results. It's somewhat cheating, and certainly not honest.
So because I pay Google to advertise my sites - my sites shouldn't appear in the search results as well? Why? The do with Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex.
That's why Google is probably giving them that prominence by moving them to better places, but outside the search results.
Probably? Probably? Is that what they taught you to say at shill school? I don't think so - I think they told you to "sound convincing, if you state it like a fact the fools will believe it's a fact".
That's what EU has been giving them trouble for, anyway.
No it isn't. Not even close. Keep guessing - or use a search engine, it'd be quicker - any one - the answers the same. Allegations of breaching privacy - yes. Paid armies of lobbyists with agendas like yours trying to convince people that Google "monopolises" search results and advertising. Yeah - in the same way the local water supply monopolises beverages.
Did you really think that tattoo of Bill Gates on your butt looked cool?
Thanks for pointing this out. I was beginning to wonder if it was true, considering this is the second post I saw saying that Lumia is doing well in Europe. Is Microsoft assembling its own fifty cent army?
Probably fivers. Though News Corp did commission a "survey" by Roy Morgan of householder and people in Supermarkets - so if you were one of those people asked about how you felt about malware on Android and Google's collection of your private data - you know who paid to influence your opinion - sorry I meant - you know who paid for your insights. Sure Rupert has a large investment in Microsoft, but it don't mean nothing.
If no terms have been made public, how do you know no money has been paid?
A: they are public - ironically you'll want me to what it for you? (tough), and B: both companies publish returns (MS stalled and stalled, but they did publish).