#3 IOS has cloud backup as part of the OS and free. it will backup over wifi when plugged into a power outlet. and will restore over wifi without needing itunes
Do you encrypt the data, or does Apple?
At least with Android/Dropbox, GP has the option to encrypt prior to uploading. Leaving security in the hands of a third party, for-profit venture is never a best practice.
only downside is that its 5GB per itunes account so if you share an apple ID like my wife and i do then you have to pay to cloud backup multiple devices
... So then, it's decidedly not free, unless you stopped acquiring digital property in 2001.
Seriously, that's a bit of a dicking, don't you think? Selling you a 32GB device with "free online storage" that won't even cover 20% of the space available, then charging yet another fee to backup the rest of your shit?
ios you can set it up for email to be on the lock screen
But what about the home screen? I like my communications to at least be hidden behind the lockscreen, not right up front where any asshole that grabs my phone can peruse my account.
the rest are niche geeky things that i would have cared about a decade ago, but not anymore. i hate most of the widgets and have been deleting most of mine lately. the default app thing seems useless. same with outside the app store apps.
Translation: Well, those aren't features that I find awesome, so therefore they are not awesome at all; you fail for not being able to read my mind.
Realistically, most of the points GP made (specifically, 2-4) are quite valid, regardless of your personal feelings about them.
i hate the mail client on the S3 compared to my iphone i hate the keyboard compared to iOS
Personal observations, having nothing to do with the actual features of Android - kinda seems like an arbitrary bitch to me (personally, I like to KNOW when I'm writing in all caps, especially on those occasions where the keyboard covers the part of the screen the typed text is entered into, like a web form).
Also, considering how much of a trivial matter it is to switch keyboards (and mail clients) in Android makes the complaint all the more trivial. Curiously, I wonder - can you even change the keyboard layout in iOS? If so, what's the process?
the screen seems flaky compared to my iphone 5 the S3 is laggy the who HD quality screen is not true. lots of stuff looks better on the iphone
those are more issues with Samsung's hardware than the Android OS, are they not?
which apps have data sharing so i can try them out?
Gmail & Google Calendar spring immediately to mind - I can sync my schedule to every computer I use, and my phone, and my wife's tablet... all of which are manufactured by different companies, and running several different operating systems.
i tried google now for a few days and turned it off. about as useless as siri
Novelty technologies, regardless of source, always seem to end up feeling useless... probably because they are.
My point being, the majority of Android users do have options, albeit not necessarily approved by the Corporate Overlords. With Apple, you get what they sell you and not one bit more, and if you so much as try to roll-your-own setup (i.e., jailbreak), they'll come down on your loyal ass like Mjölnir.
FTR, use of the phrase "[object X] is/are (a) thing(s) of the past" kind of implies that the replacement technology is already here and adopted en masse...
That said, I'm not seeing a whole lot of graphene supercaps for sale on Amazon these days; hopefully soon.
I'm sorry but I disagree in that this DOES matter. They pissed away $15 billion on the olympics (almost a billion just on security) and didn't even secure it properly?
Next Olympics: No computers - no problem!:)
Right; we'll just reorganize the entry gates so they lead into the nearest prison instead of the stadium. Voila!
While technically correct (in the bureaucratic-red-tape-nightmare sense), nothing in the link you posted indicates that is is legal or right to give a citizen a harsher sentence for expressing their right to free speech, TPM restrictions notwithstanding. Any judge giving the defendant a longer sentence solely because said defendent pissed her off (with harmless words, mind you) is an affront to the idea of justice, no matter how you try to spin it.
Also, I noticed you've decided to not respond to the rest of my comment; is this an example of agreement-by-lack-of-valid-argument, or are you still looking for sources to support an anti-liberty stance?
The key is you want the thief not to just wipe it and sell it, they need to power it on.
Depends on the style of thief; your typical, garden-variety tweeker looking for something to sell to the pawn shop probably won't even crack the top, let alone try and boot the thing... a pro or semi-pro identity thief, on the other hand...
Then there's the ever-present bored-teenage-vandal types (especially prevalent this time of year)... those kids are likely going to break into the machine to see what kind of "cool" (read: pornographic) stuff you've got on there, shortly before they completely trash the hardware.
For example, there is something called the reasonable time and place restriction.
[citation needed], as from what I see:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
No such distinction is made; or perhaps 'shall make no law' and 'abridging' has a different meaning in the parallel universe you inhabit?
Don't even bother with any of that 'legal precedent' nonsense, either, as any 9th grader who stayed awake in Civics can tell you that the Constitution cannot be superseded by anything short of a Constitutional amendment, which case law does not qualify as (perhaps that's what's wrong with our legislators - too busy having coke & whore parties to actually pay attention in their secondary school governance classes).
The same goes for a courtroom; you cannot act out in court.
Seems pretty convenient, that 'free speech' only seems to apply when a citizen is not in sight or earshot of a government agent, doesn't it?
Here's an idea: maybe you should go back and read over some of the other writings of the Constitution's signators, and develop for yourself a concept of why we have civil liberties to begin with. I'll give you a hint: the concept and assignment of rights has absolutely nothing to do with how citizens interact with one another.
Actually, re-read what the right of free speech in the united states means. Then please re-evaluate your statement.
Yea, this.
Contrary to modern ideology, freedom of speech has absolutely nothing to do with the right to blast everyone around you with ads and crappy music, but rather references our natural right to bitch about the government without having to fear repercussions.... like, say, being given an extended prison sentence because you mouthed off to a government agent.
Weev should sue that mean bitch for civil rights violations, maybe even get her Constitutionally-ignorant ass barred from the bench.
A human element comes into play with law enforcement, as in many other areas of our lives. If you drive by a cop, roll down your window, and say, "GOOOD AFTERNOON Pole-eece ossifer!" there's a high likelihood that you'll be pulled over and busted for a minor traffic or safety violation.
Which is a gross violation of your civil liberties, an act that you and every bystander in earshot should actively protest to that pig's face.
We won't have any rights before long, if pussified bitches (like some of the respondents here) won't grow the balls necessary to defend them.
As far as the prison sentence goes, he brought that on himself as well. It is *beyond* stupid to swear at a federal judge and call her a "mean bitch" when she is the one that is sentencing you. It is *beyond* stupid to go on a public forum and post that you intent to commit the same crimes again once you get out of prison. Do not complain when you get the book thrown at you after you try to turn the courtroom and the trial into a three-ring circus. Trolling a federal judge is never a good idea.
Yea, it's not like the people who came up with the idea for this country made it the law that every citizen has a right to bitch to and about government agents, right?
Innocent people should not have to sacrifice their freedom or privacy to stop the 'bad guys.' This is exactly the same mentality that leads to people getting groped at airports, getting spied on by the government, and sent away to free speech zones. I don't care who they want to protect us from; don't punish innocent people to do it.
Hence why I think it's about time we change our national tagline to "Land of the willfully oppressed, Home of the utter chickenshit."
...Because it's not like your side of the story could possibly be corroborated by receipts, packing slips, or even the actual product.
So... guilty until proven innocent, then?
Surveillance itself isn't inherently bad, but it's an all-or-nothing deal. Once the investigators know you've been receiving packages from $ENEMY, they need to also know that those packages were unrelated to $PLOT or $TARGET, so it's obvious you're just another mundane person.
When there's this much data to sift through, they're not going to be idly browsing it.
Right - they're going to scan the images and use OCR software to grep all the info from the envelopes, then add it to their existing, massive database. The data will then be included in a query that will correlate mailings with rumbles of discontent, so they can single out the potential dissidents and silence them before they have a chance to spread their seditious thoughts.
Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
Those fuckers lost a check I sent and it will cost me $30 to cancel and resend. I wonder if I can get a record showing it at least made it into the postal system.
Sure, it'll probably cost you $60.
a tip for you: don't pay it by check
a tip for you: landlords and many small businesses don't take plastic, and mailing cash is just plain dumb.
Someday, when you move out of your mom's basement, you may come to realize this.
The 4th what? Surely you don't mean the 4th amendment? After all, that amendment protects against unreasonable searches, which is completely unrelated to the issue at hand.
Is it? After all, the 4th Amendment defines a reasonable search as one that is Warranted, "but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
In other words, no legal warrant == not a Constitutionally reasonable search.
Nope, I can't do that: I'm a firm believer that anyone has the right to say anything they want, no matter how stupid it is. Also known as the First Amendment to the US Constitution. In return, I reserve the right to call them stupid.
That works for me; maybe if they hear it from "one of their own," they'll actually take the suggestion seriously and tone down the rhetoric.
The problem, of course, is that some people express their opinions so loudly they effectively drown the rest of us out, essentially denying us our right to free expression
Actually, my "point" was that everyone should stop paying bank fees, because there are banks that offer this. I used my bank as an example, but I am aware of several banks with similar accounts.
Then you should have said that. Inferring intent from an internet post is next to impossible, you know.
And yes, I do think anyone who stays with an account that charges fees after being shown the alternatives is stupid. There is absolultely no reason to do so with so many fee free options available.
Which is your opinion, and you are entitled to it, just as I am entitled to mine.
If the concept of saving hundreds of dollars a year on bank fees is "pure silliness" to you, then I don't think there's much hope for you.
False equivalence, or reading comprehension issue? Unlike yourself, I very specifically stated what I was referring to when I wrote that: your apparent assertions that anyone who banks where you don't is intellectually inferior. Again, if that's not what you meant then you should have been more clear when you made your original post.
As for my grasp of english... I don't see how that affects how much people pay in bank fees.
It doesn't; what it affects is other people's perceptions of you: the occasional typo aside, poor spelling and grammar skills are often indicative of poor education and low intellect. Contrary to how it may appear (which, granted, is a result of your own preconceived notions), I'm actually trying to help you appear more credible.
FYI, to that end - English is a proper noun, and thus should be capitalized.
You'd have to somehow get the car in front of the embassy door: inside the building, in a corridor, you'd need a tiny, tiny car that car climb stairs or fit in elevators.
For the record, there are a significant percentage of liberals who complain about Obama's behavior as much as we did Bush's.
We in the middle appreciate your contributions, but could we ask a favor of you (this goes for reasonable people who identify as conservatives as well): could you please, please get the loud and crazy members of your social grouping to shut the fuck up with all the partisan attack shit? I get sooo tired of every lib (and con) I disagree with on some random topic condemning my entire platform because I don't march in lock-step with them.
Slashdot Mirror
#3 IOS has cloud backup as part of the OS and free. it will backup over wifi when plugged into a power outlet. and will restore over wifi without needing itunes
Do you encrypt the data, or does Apple?
At least with Android/Dropbox, GP has the option to encrypt prior to uploading. Leaving security in the hands of a third party, for-profit venture is never a best practice.
only downside is that its 5GB per itunes account so if you share an apple ID like my wife and i do then you have to pay to cloud backup multiple devices
... So then, it's decidedly not free, unless you stopped acquiring digital property in 2001.
Seriously, that's a bit of a dicking, don't you think? Selling you a 32GB device with "free online storage" that won't even cover 20% of the space available, then charging yet another fee to backup the rest of your shit?
ios you can set it up for email to be on the lock screen
But what about the home screen? I like my communications to at least be hidden behind the lockscreen, not right up front where any asshole that grabs my phone can peruse my account.
the rest are niche geeky things that i would have cared about a decade ago, but not anymore. i hate most of the widgets and have been deleting most of mine lately. the default app thing seems useless. same with outside the app store apps.
Translation: Well, those aren't features that I find awesome, so therefore they are not awesome at all; you fail for not being able to read my mind.
Realistically, most of the points GP made (specifically, 2-4) are quite valid, regardless of your personal feelings about them.
i hate the mail client on the S3 compared to my iphone
i hate the keyboard compared to iOS
Personal observations, having nothing to do with the actual features of Android - kinda seems like an arbitrary bitch to me (personally, I like to KNOW when I'm writing in all caps, especially on those occasions where the keyboard covers the part of the screen the typed text is entered into, like a web form).
Also, considering how much of a trivial matter it is to switch keyboards (and mail clients) in Android makes the complaint all the more trivial. Curiously, I wonder - can you even change the keyboard layout in iOS? If so, what's the process?
the screen seems flaky compared to my iphone 5
the S3 is laggy
the who HD quality screen is not true. lots of stuff looks better on the iphone
those are more issues with Samsung's hardware than the Android OS, are they not?
which apps have data sharing so i can try them out?
Gmail & Google Calendar spring immediately to mind - I can sync my schedule to every computer I use, and my phone, and my wife's tablet... all of which are manufactured by different companies, and running several different operating systems.
i tried google now for a few days and turned it off. about as useless as siri
Novelty technologies, regardless of source, always seem to end up feeling useless... probably because they are.
Unless you have a 1st gen iPad because they dropped support for those after iOS 5. Which is why I now own an Android tablet, ...
Hopefully that Android tablet is not a 1st gen Kindle Fire because they were release with Android 2.3 and were never upgraded.
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=update+kindle+fire+to+android+4
Many other Android devices have also never been updated to 4.0.
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Devices
My point being, the majority of Android users do have options, albeit not necessarily approved by the Corporate Overlords. With Apple, you get what they sell you and not one bit more, and if you so much as try to roll-your-own setup (i.e., jailbreak), they'll come down on your loyal ass like Mjölnir.
FTR, use of the phrase "[object X] is/are (a) thing(s) of the past" kind of implies that the replacement technology is already here and adopted en masse...
That said, I'm not seeing a whole lot of graphene supercaps for sale on Amazon these days; hopefully soon.
I'm sorry but I disagree in that this DOES matter. They pissed away $15 billion on the olympics (almost a billion just on security) and didn't even secure it properly?
Next Olympics: No computers - no problem! :)
Right; we'll just reorganize the entry gates so they lead into the nearest prison instead of the stadium. Voila!
Sounds like a Best of Craigslist post in the making.
Citation? No problem.
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Time,+Place,+and+Manner+Restrictions
While technically correct (in the bureaucratic-red-tape-nightmare sense), nothing in the link you posted indicates that is is legal or right to give a citizen a harsher sentence for expressing their right to free speech, TPM restrictions notwithstanding. Any judge giving the defendant a longer sentence solely because said defendent pissed her off (with harmless words, mind you) is an affront to the idea of justice, no matter how you try to spin it.
Also, I noticed you've decided to not respond to the rest of my comment; is this an example of agreement-by-lack-of-valid-argument, or are you still looking for sources to support an anti-liberty stance?
So... all of them, then?
Zing.
The key is you want the thief not to just wipe it and sell it, they need to power it on.
Depends on the style of thief; your typical, garden-variety tweeker looking for something to sell to the pawn shop probably won't even crack the top, let alone try and boot the thing... a pro or semi-pro identity thief, on the other hand...
Then there's the ever-present bored-teenage-vandal types (especially prevalent this time of year)... those kids are likely going to break into the machine to see what kind of "cool" (read: pornographic) stuff you've got on there, shortly before they completely trash the hardware.
For example, there is something called the reasonable time and place restriction.
[citation needed], as from what I see:
No such distinction is made; or perhaps 'shall make no law' and 'abridging' has a different meaning in the parallel universe you inhabit?
Don't even bother with any of that 'legal precedent' nonsense, either, as any 9th grader who stayed awake in Civics can tell you that the Constitution cannot be superseded by anything short of a Constitutional amendment, which case law does not qualify as (perhaps that's what's wrong with our legislators - too busy having coke & whore parties to actually pay attention in their secondary school governance classes).
The same goes for a courtroom; you cannot act out in court.
... and yet, stripping naked in a public place is considered "protected speech"...
Seems pretty convenient, that 'free speech' only seems to apply when a citizen is not in sight or earshot of a government agent, doesn't it?
Here's an idea: maybe you should go back and read over some of the other writings of the Constitution's signators, and develop for yourself a concept of why we have civil liberties to begin with. I'll give you a hint: the concept and assignment of rights has absolutely nothing to do with how citizens interact with one another.
Actually, re-read what the right of free speech in the united states means. Then please re-evaluate your statement.
Yea, this.
Contrary to modern ideology, freedom of speech has absolutely nothing to do with the right to blast everyone around you with ads and crappy music, but rather references our natural right to bitch about the government without having to fear repercussions.... like, say, being given an extended prison sentence because you mouthed off to a government agent.
Weev should sue that mean bitch for civil rights violations, maybe even get her Constitutionally-ignorant ass barred from the bench.
A human element comes into play with law enforcement, as in many other areas of our lives. If you drive by a cop, roll down your window, and say, "GOOOD AFTERNOON Pole-eece ossifer!" there's a high likelihood that you'll be pulled over and busted for a minor traffic or safety violation.
Which is a gross violation of your civil liberties, an act that you and every bystander in earshot should actively protest to that pig's face.
We won't have any rights before long, if pussified bitches (like some of the respondents here) won't grow the balls necessary to defend them.
You have the right to free speech. That doesn't mean you have immunity from the consequences of your speech.
When it comes to speech about the government, you're supposed to have immunity.
That's kinda the whole fucking point; they aren't really civil liberties if you can be punished by the government by exercising them.
As far as the prison sentence goes, he brought that on himself as well. It is *beyond* stupid to swear at a federal judge and call her a "mean bitch" when she is the one that is sentencing you. It is *beyond* stupid to go on a public forum and post that you intent to commit the same crimes again once you get out of prison. Do not complain when you get the book thrown at you after you try to turn the courtroom and the trial into a three-ring circus. Trolling a federal judge is never a good idea.
Yea, it's not like the people who came up with the idea for this country made it the law that every citizen has a right to bitch to and about government agents, right?
Oh, wait...
You know, it's a sad day in America when the exercise of our civil liberties is colloquially considered to be a "stupid" action...
...and how do you get a camera to send the image to the data-base as a text so that it becomes a command?
Barcode?
Hi, welcome to 10 years ago
Innocent people should not have to sacrifice their freedom or privacy to stop the 'bad guys.' This is exactly the same mentality that leads to people getting groped at airports, getting spied on by the government, and sent away to free speech zones. I don't care who they want to protect us from; don't punish innocent people to do it.
Hence why I think it's about time we change our national tagline to "Land of the willfully oppressed, Home of the utter chickenshit."
I have nothing to hide!
Then why do your windows have blinds?
Do you?
Maybe, not that it's any of your or anyone else's goddamn business.
Which is kinda the point.
...Because it's not like your side of the story could possibly be corroborated by receipts, packing slips, or even the actual product.
So... guilty until proven innocent, then?
Surveillance itself isn't inherently bad, but it's an all-or-nothing deal. Once the investigators know you've been receiving packages from $ENEMY, they need to also know that those packages were unrelated to $PLOT or $TARGET, so it's obvious you're just another mundane person.
I'll take that as a 'yes.'
When there's this much data to sift through, they're not going to be idly browsing it.
Right - they're going to scan the images and use OCR software to grep all the info from the envelopes, then add it to their existing, massive database. The data will then be included in a query that will correlate mailings with rumbles of discontent, so they can single out the potential dissidents and silence them before they have a chance to spread their seditious thoughts.
Those fuckers lost a check I sent and it will cost me $30 to cancel and resend. I wonder if I can get a record showing it at least made it into the postal system.
Sure, it'll probably cost you $60.
a tip for you: don't pay it by check
a tip for you: landlords and many small businesses don't take plastic, and mailing cash is just plain dumb.
Someday, when you move out of your mom's basement, you may come to realize this.
The 4th what? Surely you don't mean the 4th amendment? After all, that amendment protects against unreasonable searches, which is completely unrelated to the issue at hand.
Is it? After all, the 4th Amendment defines a reasonable search as one that is Warranted, "but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
In other words, no legal warrant == not a Constitutionally reasonable search.
Nope, I can't do that: I'm a firm believer that anyone has the right to say anything they want, no matter how stupid it is. Also known as the First Amendment to the US Constitution. In return, I reserve the right to call them stupid.
That works for me; maybe if they hear it from "one of their own," they'll actually take the suggestion seriously and tone down the rhetoric.
The problem, of course, is that some people express their opinions so loudly they effectively drown the rest of us out, essentially denying us our right to free expression
Actually, my "point" was that everyone should stop paying bank fees, because there are banks that offer this. I used my bank as an example, but I am aware of several banks with similar accounts.
Then you should have said that. Inferring intent from an internet post is next to impossible, you know.
And yes, I do think anyone who stays with an account that charges fees after being shown the alternatives is stupid. There is absolultely no reason to do so with so many fee free options available.
Which is your opinion, and you are entitled to it, just as I am entitled to mine.
If the concept of saving hundreds of dollars a year on bank fees is "pure silliness" to you, then I don't think there's much hope for you.
False equivalence, or reading comprehension issue? Unlike yourself, I very specifically stated what I was referring to when I wrote that: your apparent assertions that anyone who banks where you don't is intellectually inferior. Again, if that's not what you meant then you should have been more clear when you made your original post.
As for my grasp of english... I don't see how that affects how much people pay in bank fees.
It doesn't; what it affects is other people's perceptions of you: the occasional typo aside, poor spelling and grammar skills are often indicative of poor education and low intellect. Contrary to how it may appear (which, granted, is a result of your own preconceived notions), I'm actually trying to help you appear more credible.
FYI, to that end - English is a proper noun, and thus should be capitalized.
You'd have to somehow get the car in front of the embassy door: inside the building, in a corridor, you'd need a tiny, tiny car that car climb stairs or fit in elevators.
Problem solved!
For the record, there are a significant percentage of liberals who complain about Obama's behavior as much as we did Bush's.
We in the middle appreciate your contributions, but could we ask a favor of you (this goes for reasonable people who identify as conservatives as well): could you please, please get the loud and crazy members of your social grouping to shut the fuck up with all the partisan attack shit? I get sooo tired of every lib (and con) I disagree with on some random topic condemning my entire platform because I don't march in lock-step with them.
Much obliged.