The hard core single minded zealot voters vote in every election. By having more people vote, you lessen their effects on the overall outcome. People may be misinformed, but they may think of other issues, and then the overall outcome is balanced somewhat.
That and the legitimacy argument. It's harder to push through tough choices with low numbers of votes.
For all those saying that "this will just make people aware of other tools" I just learned about the HDFury. Not saying I'd need to use it - i pretty much rip all DVDs when i buy them. I haven't seen the need for a BluRay player. With the encryption broken I'd buy the BluRay disc and rip/encode it as well, which is legal (well for now).
I hate how they talk about plugging the 'analog hole' like it's some evilness from another dimension inflicted on poor defenseless conglomerate as they fought for us the consumers. Component video was a standard, written to and agreed to by, gasp, other conglomerates. It works between machines because large corporations saw value in having high quality video going over it. So now, after more convenient ways of 'breaking' BluRay surface they pull this garbage. Good thing they're getting this out now or else I'd see a lot of BDRips on TPB.
I've actually softened on Keanu a bit. Yes, he's of limited range, but so are most actors. In the first Matrix, he was actually pretty good, the role was simple and within his range. He can't help it if the Wachovski brothers... err, siblings, took it over the top after that. If you see how much of a hot mess Speed Racer was you can see it's not the actors fault always.
1) Apple tends to be tight lipped about these things, though Verizon is understandably pumped. This seems to be a compromise "Let Verizon stock rise but keep Steve happy"
2) They don't want to talk about LTE. They don't want people waiting for the LTE phone.
As it is, I'd love an LTE iPhone now. If it was coming out in 6 months, I'd wait, which is not what they want. As it is now, we'll probably switch my wife's Sprint/Centro to Verizon CDMA iPhone now, and maybe upgrade her if an LTE iPhone comes out, and I'd get the CDMA one.
When the Uhura-Kirk kiss came on, CBS waited for a firestorm of protest calls. They received just one. A redneck-ish man who called and said something like "I don't approve of white folks and black folks kissing, but if it's Kirk, then it's OK."
"Relatively incompetent"?? Relative to what (or whom)? Jong-Il? One would be hard-pressed to come up with a better example of incompetence than the current leadership.
It's all what you think about. Kim Jong Il has control over his nation, is fed well, has lots of cash, and is revered as a god among men. He's still around even though Saddam has fallen. His tight cronies also are fed well and have autocratic control. He's lost Russian support, but yet, by appearing to be a nutjob he's able to extort money from the US.
He's not incompetent, he's doing what he sets out to do: extort money, keep control. Since we're still dealing with him, he's done his job.
His son seems uninterested in keeping the country going that way. The one major decision he's had was the currency fiasco, which caused some people to be executed (irrelevant), but also caused so much economic chaos that it started the first rumblings of people questioning the wisdom of government (very scary).
I agree. a lot of this has to do with the power handover. From what you hear, Kim Jong Un is relatively incompetent (though not like we'd be able to get first hand sources from anyone) This sabre rattling (the boat attack, the shelling) has a lot to do with that.
As far as the nuclear parking lot consequences, he's already let millions of his countrymen die over decades because of bad policy and outright killings. if you remove empathy for countrymen and you substitute needing to retain power, it makes NK's talk a lot less crazy. It's a calculated risk that he can bring the US to the table to extort more food and that they won't initiate a nuclear campaign (again).
With all the BigBrother stuff happening recently, i wouldn't do it. I wouldn't want rev 2.0 taking cell cultures from my saliva and adding to a DNA database.
Remember that the GVoice app doesn't give you a phone on your iPod/iPhone. It's really a dialer/sms app. It doesn't create a phone endpoint, you 'call' by dialing from the app, and then google calls you and the recipient, creating a connection. There's no SIP endpoint (yet) created on your iPhone/iPod.
It does allow texting, which would help me some on my iPod touch, getting push notifications, but really the mobile websiite has improved so much since the app was first submitted, i don't think it has that much value anymore. Not until they get the SIP endpoint stuff settled.
Microsoft more than anyone knows the value of network effects. More phones means more developers and more apps. More apps means more phones sold. Virtuous cycle an all that. That's what kept/keeps Microsoft Windows as the most sold OS. No phones sold means no cool apps. Pandora is holding off on a Win7 app until it sees sales. This scares people in Redmond. If it doesn't, it should scare their shareholders because they just don't Get It.
This isn't some random market. This isn't XBox where MS can have a nice little niche and battle it out for first or second in games. This isn't the "future of computing." This is current computing. With the iPhone leading to the iPad and Android leading to tablets. Tablets that can run office software, which cuts into Windows sales.
This is big. This is MS having the wrong focus and they may never be able to catch up big. Remember that WinCE (yeah, name your product wince) came out a long long time ago. Why didn't it go critical? It had such a huge lead time, but they never got the right combination of
If Windows phone tanks, this will be very bad for MS. As in MS slowly grows more irrelevant as the world around them changes and the few things they are good at become less important.
3. Reminds me of moronic and illegal paper 'butterfly ballot' used in Florida not that long ago.
Not to be too conspiracy theorist here, but an illegal ballot (and confusing one) that just happens to have a design that gives votes to the Governor's brother.
The thing that pissed me off in the whole hanging chad mess was the fact the ballot was illegal based on Florida rules was almost never brought up. And why wasn't the election committee investigated for allowing an illegal ballot in a national election? Whose ass was canned for the mess? I'd love to do the 'never ascribe to malice what can be given to stupidity or apathy' but that one never sat well with me.
Can't we get competent people to design these things?
You don't see it often, and I see it pretty much every trip home from work. Since this spreads due to network effects, I seem to have many more 'seeds' on my commute home than you have on yours.
I'm glad I saw this blurb, it saved me typing Free Public WiFi into Google to investigate it.
This will just be another clump of dirt on the corpse of Segway. It actually sucks in a way. It was invented to try to radically mix up society and how we travel, change the way we travel in cities. Use less gas, get people moving, less space for parking, all that cool stuff. Instead it became a toy for Segway Polo, jokes for Mall Cops, and t tours. Never getting the impact it was intended for..
I actually believe Android being #1 is much more likely than Itanium ever was, but either way their track record sucks.
Even so, what does it mean? Apple has a long track record of making money when not being the #1 position. Only apple will have decent hardware margins. It will be like the PC industry, with razor thin margins in hardware.
"We believe that Internet Explorer is a really good browser" - Steve Jobs, 1997
I assume you're teasing Mr. Jobs on this. At one time, IE on the Mac was the best browser around. by definition, didn't have ActiveX security errors. This was obviously quite some time ago.
4chan didn't quite break it, more like they broke time's form implementation. They did a lot of 'hacks' but most was on how Time handled the poll - they didn't use any CAPTCHA at the beginning, then took the form offline, but not the voting script, so 4chan voted well past the cut off time, will millions of monkeys voting.
It's not about breaking reCaptcha, it's about avoiding the reCaptcha hurdle on all the sites that use it. If a site put up a captcha, there's some resource it's protecting that other people want. This is a way to get it in a bulk way, therefore economically cheaper.
And you think that a person who can benefit with a fat check will care about some abstraction that they're polluting the village well? For money, people sell drugs that kill people. This is nothing compared to that.
The best way to fix it is to... not give handouts, special privileges, or otherwise interfere with private enterprise. Every time the government does it, it fucks up the economy. Every. Single. Time.
I know this was an A/C, but you do realize you're posting on the Internet, whose basic architecture was due to research by a government program - DARPA research into packet switching networks - where the actual TCP/IP network we know today was created and expanded by research in public, government funded, universities. The researchers may have even been able to get into college from the GI bill, one of the greatest expansions of university students and knowledge in history.
I realize the source of this (Steve Jobs and holding the phone) but remember that Bill Gates actually said something similar. When presented with the security issue of obfuscated links sending people to bad places, the microsoft response was basically "why do you expect to be able to click links in HTML email?" and recommended copy/paste to URL bar.
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The hard core single minded zealot voters vote in every election. By having more people vote, you lessen their effects on the overall outcome. People may be misinformed, but they may think of other issues, and then the overall outcome is balanced somewhat.
That and the legitimacy argument. It's harder to push through tough choices with low numbers of votes.
For all those saying that "this will just make people aware of other tools" I just learned about the HDFury. Not saying I'd need to use it - i pretty much rip all DVDs when i buy them. I haven't seen the need for a BluRay player. With the encryption broken I'd buy the BluRay disc and rip/encode it as well, which is legal (well for now).
I hate how they talk about plugging the 'analog hole' like it's some evilness from another dimension inflicted on poor defenseless conglomerate as they fought for us the consumers. Component video was a standard, written to and agreed to by, gasp, other conglomerates. It works between machines because large corporations saw value in having high quality video going over it. So now, after more convenient ways of 'breaking' BluRay surface they pull this garbage. Good thing they're getting this out now or else I'd see a lot of BDRips on TPB.
Keanu really can't act very well.
I've actually softened on Keanu a bit. Yes, he's of limited range, but so are most actors. In the first Matrix, he was actually pretty good, the role was simple and within his range. He can't help it if the Wachovski brothers... err, siblings, took it over the top after that. If you see how much of a hot mess Speed Racer was you can see it's not the actors fault always.
For some reason I keep on thinking this calls for a remix of 'I Lost on Jeopardy", but now with with AutoTune.
Suicide may have a lower recidivism rate.
1) Apple tends to be tight lipped about these things, though Verizon is understandably pumped. This seems to be a compromise "Let Verizon stock rise but keep Steve happy"
2) They don't want to talk about LTE. They don't want people waiting for the LTE phone.
As it is, I'd love an LTE iPhone now. If it was coming out in 6 months, I'd wait, which is not what they want. As it is now, we'll probably switch my wife's Sprint/Centro to Verizon CDMA iPhone now, and maybe upgrade her if an LTE iPhone comes out, and I'd get the CDMA one.
When the Uhura-Kirk kiss came on, CBS waited for a firestorm of protest calls. They received just one. A redneck-ish man who called and said something like "I don't approve of white folks and black folks kissing, but if it's Kirk, then it's OK."
"Relatively incompetent"?? Relative to what (or whom)? Jong-Il? One would be hard-pressed to come up with a better example of incompetence than the current leadership.
It's all what you think about.
Kim Jong Il has control over his nation, is fed well, has lots of cash, and is revered as a god among men. He's still around even though Saddam has fallen. His tight cronies also are fed well and have autocratic control. He's lost Russian support, but yet, by appearing to be a nutjob he's able to extort money from the US.
He's not incompetent, he's doing what he sets out to do: extort money, keep control. Since we're still dealing with him, he's done his job.
His son seems uninterested in keeping the country going that way. The one major decision he's had was the currency fiasco, which caused some people to be executed (irrelevant), but also caused so much economic chaos that it started the first rumblings of people questioning the wisdom of government (very scary).
I agree. a lot of this has to do with the power handover. From what you hear, Kim Jong Un is relatively incompetent (though not like we'd be able to get first hand sources from anyone) This sabre rattling (the boat attack, the shelling) has a lot to do with that.
As far as the nuclear parking lot consequences, he's already let millions of his countrymen die over decades because of bad policy and outright killings. if you remove empathy for countrymen and you substitute needing to retain power, it makes NK's talk a lot less crazy. It's a calculated risk that he can bring the US to the table to extort more food and that they won't initiate a nuclear campaign (again).
With all the BigBrother stuff happening recently, i wouldn't do it. I wouldn't want rev 2.0 taking cell cultures from my saliva and adding to a DNA database.
I agree, my guess is they're using some techniques like panopticlick https://panopticlick.eff.org/
I have a linux desktop with a couple programming fonts added, so i'm unique on the eff site.
I think TFA is a bit unclear.
Remember that the GVoice app doesn't give you a phone on your iPod/iPhone. It's really a dialer/sms app. It doesn't create a phone endpoint, you 'call' by dialing from the app, and then google calls you and the recipient, creating a connection. There's no SIP endpoint (yet) created on your iPhone/iPod.
It does allow texting, which would help me some on my iPod touch, getting push notifications, but really the mobile websiite has improved so much since the app was first submitted, i don't think it has that much value anymore. Not until they get the SIP endpoint stuff settled.
Microsoft more than anyone knows the value of network effects. More phones means more developers and more apps. More apps means more phones sold. Virtuous cycle an all that. That's what kept/keeps Microsoft Windows as the most sold OS. No phones sold means no cool apps. Pandora is holding off on a Win7 app until it sees sales. This scares people in Redmond. If it doesn't, it should scare their shareholders because they just don't Get It.
This isn't some random market. This isn't XBox where MS can have a nice little niche and battle it out for first or second in games. This isn't the "future of computing." This is current computing. With the iPhone leading to the iPad and Android leading to tablets. Tablets that can run office software, which cuts into Windows sales.
This is big. This is MS having the wrong focus and they may never be able to catch up big. Remember that WinCE (yeah, name your product wince) came out a long long time ago. Why didn't it go critical? It had such a huge lead time, but they never got the right combination of
If Windows phone tanks, this will be very bad for MS. As in MS slowly grows more irrelevant as the world around them changes and the few things they are good at become less important.
Not to be too conspiracy theorist here, but an illegal ballot (and confusing one) that just happens to have a design that gives votes to the Governor's brother.
The thing that pissed me off in the whole hanging chad mess was the fact the ballot was illegal based on Florida rules was almost never brought up. And why wasn't the election committee investigated for allowing an illegal ballot in a national election? Whose ass was canned for the mess? I'd love to do the 'never ascribe to malice what can be given to stupidity or apathy' but that one never sat well with me.
It may have functioned as designed.
You don't see it often, and I see it pretty much every trip home from work. Since this spreads due to network effects, I seem to have many more 'seeds' on my commute home than you have on yours.
I'm glad I saw this blurb, it saved me typing Free Public WiFi into Google to investigate it.
This will just be another clump of dirt on the corpse of Segway. It actually sucks in a way. It was invented to try to radically mix up society and how we travel, change the way we travel in cities. Use less gas, get people moving, less space for parking, all that cool stuff. Instead it became a toy for Segway Polo, jokes for Mall Cops, and t tours. Never getting the impact it was intended for..
From 2004:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/02/25/gartner_analyst_explains_hp/
I actually believe Android being #1 is much more likely than Itanium ever was, but either way their track record sucks.
Even so, what does it mean? Apple has a long track record of making money when not being the #1 position. Only apple will have decent hardware margins. It will be like the PC industry, with razor thin margins in hardware.
"We believe that Internet Explorer is a really good browser" - Steve Jobs, 1997
I assume you're teasing Mr. Jobs on this. At one time, IE on the Mac was the best browser around. by definition, didn't have ActiveX security errors. This was obviously quite some time ago.
4chan didn't quite break it, more like they broke time's form implementation. They did a lot of 'hacks' but most was on how Time handled the poll - they didn't use any CAPTCHA at the beginning, then took the form offline, but not the voting script, so 4chan voted well past the cut off time, will millions of monkeys voting.
see reCaptcha blog and this well written article
It's not about breaking reCaptcha, it's about avoiding the reCaptcha hurdle on all the sites that use it. If a site put up a captcha, there's some resource it's protecting that other people want. This is a way to get it in a bulk way, therefore economically cheaper.
And you think that a person who can benefit with a fat check will care about some abstraction that they're polluting the village well? For money, people sell drugs that kill people. This is nothing compared to that.
"There is algorithmic terrorism and then there is reverse engineering, which is probably just part of good business practice," Bates said. ..
can we please stop the 'terrorist' thing? please?
For that matter, maybe what they are reading now will be classic some day.
A good read from cracked.com, 6 Great novels that were hated in their time
The best way to fix it is to... not give handouts, special privileges, or otherwise interfere with private enterprise. Every time the government does it, it fucks up the economy. Every. Single. Time.
I know this was an A/C, but you do realize you're posting on the Internet, whose basic architecture was due to research by a government program - DARPA research into packet switching networks - where the actual TCP/IP network we know today was created and expanded by research in public, government funded, universities. The researchers may have even been able to get into college from the GI bill, one of the greatest expansions of university students and knowledge in history.
I realize the source of this (Steve Jobs and holding the phone) but remember that Bill Gates actually said something similar. When presented with the security issue of obfuscated links sending people to bad places, the microsoft response was basically "why do you expect to be able to click links in HTML email?" and recommended copy/paste to URL bar.
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that's a great song, odd to say that the lyrics are better than santana in it (and i love santana)
Most people don't know, everlast didn't start in house of pain, but was solo before it. He was a sorta gangsta-rapper from Ice-T's Rhyme Syndicate