Here's what annoys me - Lock screen: Old CM7 had the 'ok' button in the bottom left corner, now it is in the right, screws up my muscle memory. I end up typing in my lock screen PIN and hitting 0 instead of OK, very annoying. The same thing goes with the 'accept' call slider, before you had to move the slider to the left to accept a call, now you have to slide it to the right. Can't tell how many times I've accidentally hung up on someone calling me because I reflexively move the slider to the left.
Other than that, no issues with the thing, it does seem very, very blue though. Like literally blue, the color, there's a lot of it.
Wouldn't this be considered a successful test? I mean it would only be a failure if everything went perfectly and they felt confident to send the system out into space where it failed. This way at least they know there are still issues.
Well provided they got useful telemtry off the thing then yeah it was successful. If they did not get any usable information off the thing, then no, it was not successful.
Whether a space mission is a (smashing) success (pun intended) or not, I could not care less!
Assume 'curiosity' was to discover something truly amazing, do you think they would tell you? Are you expecting to see CNN suddenly interrupt their programming for "BREAKING NEWS! CITY ON MARS DISCOVERED BY CURIOSITY!" and talk about it for weeks?
If you are, keep watching television:-) For the rest of us, this is just not going to happen anytime soon. The only thing the scum who lord of us fear is a loss of control. They like the completely predictable and conversely they viciously hate the unknown and unpredictable. Something as paradigm shattering as a city on Mars could very well upset the equilibrium they maintain. Have you ever given thought to the white-black symbolisms found in many in Freemasonry? If there were such a city, they would certainly want to know everything they can about it, there would be even more secret follow-up missions, but YOU would never find out except maybe from a few far- and in between whistleblowers that are easily silenced. Not with a gun, but simply by standing these whistleblowers in a spotlight pointing a television camera at them and telling a few jokes about them. You have been well trained.
Did you forget to take your medicine again?
Also: there is *no* way in hell something like "a city on mars" would not get leaked, seriously man, they could not even keep accidental kllings of civilians a secret.
"Eastern European" is not a race, so the phrase you're looking for is "xenophobic stereotyping based on ignorance and prejudice".
I could have used "Slavic", would that have made a difference? Politics in the FSU has a long and storied history of corruption, I guess western politics have too, so there you go.
Kinda fishy since they apparently got hacked into.
You'd think that cybercops would be going after the hackers.
You'd think a lot of things. (This is probably going to sound racist, deal with it) Eastern European politics aren't exactly known for their transparency and willingness to divulge information about the basis for its decision-making.
Oh and it's often corrupt as hell, so make of that what you will. The malware thing was probably just an excuse to go after them for whatever reason they had behind the scenes-
And if the US leaves that middle eastern shithole, you can bet with certainty that no kid from that place will ever set foot on another planet.
Yeah, and?
The world is a harsh and uncaring place, the idea that we can "fix it" or "make it better" is at best needlessly romantic and at worst actually culturally damaging. There are periods in the developing of a stable civilization/nation where a lot of people have to die and a lot more have to go through unimaginable hell, these periods are important and have to happen.
You're right. We can only do one thing at a time. We should focus on more rovers, and tell the Taliban that they're welcome to roll that region back into the Dark Ages again...
Yeah we should Europe had a dark age and then we turned into you guys and modern day Europe. Maybe the "dark ages"-stage of civilization is important and this whole "we can fix it (with bombing)"-attitude is not completely correct.
and do their level best to work their way into more influence in nuclear-armed Pakistan.
Pakistan controls the Taliban, not the other way around. Pakistan WANTS the Taliban to win because then they have a radical Pashtu controlled country loyal to them.
I think we should just create a "freak Olympics" where the rules regarding doping, genetic or mechanical manipulations and other stuff like that is just "go nuts, just don't kill anyone."
I am talking about that 16 year old Chinese girl, Ye Shiwen, who broke a world record in swimming competition, resulting in a respected American swimming coach John Leonard, who also happen to be the US executive director of the World Swimming Coaches Association, said that Chinese girl must have been using "genetic manipulation" to enhance athletic performance
What is "Genetic manipulation"? Is this guy seriously suggesting the Chinese geneticly engineered Ye Shiwen just to win swimming medals?
The list of products that people actually bought is a little more scary. 3 of those products (iron oxide, aluminum powder, magnesium ribbon) are all you need to make thermite. Which I guess answers the long-standing question I've had since making thermite in high school about where I can get the ingredients easily. Might as well add a little uranium to the mix and see what happens.
Yeah I'm sure ordering the ingredients for an incendiary device from Amazon wont get you put on all kinds of fun lists.
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Steal the NASA one
Well here's my impression, it's alright.
Here's what annoys me - Lock screen: Old CM7 had the 'ok' button in the bottom left corner, now it is in the right, screws up my muscle memory. I end up typing in my lock screen PIN and hitting 0 instead of OK, very annoying.
The same thing goes with the 'accept' call slider, before you had to move the slider to the left to accept a call, now you have to slide it to the right. Can't tell how many times I've accidentally hung up on someone calling me because I reflexively move the slider to the left.
Other than that, no issues with the thing, it does seem very, very blue though. Like literally blue, the color, there's a lot of it.
Hi Jay Little how are you?
Seriously man, what's your beef with that APK guy? I mean I get that you think he's weird, but honestly man, you kinda are too.
Sorry guys, I didn't rtfa, but doesn't our current hand have the ability to feel temps and textures?
Nope.
Wouldn't this be considered a successful test? I mean it would only be a failure if everything went perfectly and they felt confident to send the system out into space where it failed. This way at least they know there are still issues.
Well provided they got useful telemtry off the thing then yeah it was successful. If they did not get any usable information off the thing, then no, it was not successful.
You're just upset because you don't get paid to build things and blow them up.
You have no idea man, no idea at all.
If "destructive testing" was a career I'd be all up in that mother.
Whether a space mission is a (smashing) success (pun intended) or not, I could not care less!
Assume 'curiosity' was to discover something truly amazing, do you think they would
tell you? Are you expecting to see CNN suddenly interrupt their programming for
"BREAKING NEWS! CITY ON MARS DISCOVERED BY CURIOSITY!" and talk about
it for weeks?
If you are, keep watching television :-) For the rest of us, this is just not going to happen anytime
soon. The only thing the scum who lord of us fear is a loss of control. They like the completely
predictable and conversely they viciously hate the unknown and unpredictable. Something
as paradigm shattering as a city on Mars could very well upset the equilibrium they maintain.
Have you ever given thought to the white-black symbolisms found in many in Freemasonry?
If there were such a city, they would certainly want to know everything they can about it, there
would be even more secret follow-up missions, but YOU would never find out except maybe
from a few far- and in between whistleblowers that are easily silenced. Not with a gun, but simply
by standing these whistleblowers in a spotlight pointing a television camera at them and telling
a few jokes about them. You have been well trained.
Did you forget to take your medicine again?
Also: there is *no* way in hell something like "a city on mars" would not get leaked, seriously man, they could not even keep accidental kllings of civilians a secret.
The students found it would take a bomb about a billion times stronger than the biggest bomb ever detonated on Earth."
We have those!
Admittedly I did not actually RTFA, but, assuming "the biggest bomb" refers to The Tsar Bomb, then no, no we don't.
Think the largest nuclear weapons in service today are in the 100 - 500 kT range, with the posibility of dialing them up into the low MT range.
So Poland starting with its Constitution of 1791 was and remains a place with a long history of corruption. Good one.
Basically, yes.
That said Poland was never in the Soviet Union.
"Eastern European" is not a race, so the phrase you're looking for is "xenophobic stereotyping based on ignorance and prejudice".
I could have used "Slavic", would that have made a difference? Politics in the FSU has a long and storied history of corruption, I guess western politics have too, so there you go.
Junkies.
Pretty much spot on. I loves me some caffeine.
Imagine now, how nervous are these sharks with lasers.
Stop it. Now.
Kinda fishy since they apparently got hacked into.
You'd think that cybercops would be going after the hackers.
You'd think a lot of things. (This is probably going to sound racist, deal with it) Eastern European politics aren't exactly known for their transparency and willingness to divulge information about the basis for its decision-making.
Oh and it's often corrupt as hell, so make of that what you will.
The malware thing was probably just an excuse to go after them for whatever reason they had behind the scenes-
And if the US leaves that middle eastern shithole, you can bet with certainty that no kid from that place will ever set foot on another planet.
Yeah, and?
The world is a harsh and uncaring place, the idea that we can "fix it" or "make it better" is at best needlessly romantic and at worst actually culturally damaging.
There are periods in the developing of a stable civilization/nation where a lot of people have to die and a lot more have to go through unimaginable hell, these periods are important and have to happen.
You're right. We can only do one thing at a time. We should focus on more rovers, and tell the Taliban that they're welcome to roll that region back into the Dark Ages again...
Yeah we should Europe had a dark age and then we turned into you guys and modern day Europe. Maybe the "dark ages"-stage of civilization is important and this whole "we can fix it (with bombing)"-attitude is not completely correct.
and do their level best to work their way into more influence in nuclear-armed Pakistan.
Pakistan controls the Taliban, not the other way around. Pakistan WANTS the Taliban to win because then they have a radical Pashtu controlled country loyal to them.
Well if the story is anything to go by, then the site was not closed down over copyright claims, it was shutdown over serving malware adds.
I can see why the Ukranians would shut it down over that.
Russian doesn't give a damn about US copyright claims.
The user doesn't have to put up with surly condescending attitude on a chat call.
I am fairly certain it is possible to have a bad/condescending attitude in text.
The user doesn't have to put up with poor language skills or a heavy accent, or a shitty phone connection.
Dey don? wow i knewr new! how u get perfct text speek?
The user doesn't have to give out a telephone number, and be monitored and recorded for quality control purposes.
Telephone number, no, IP address + whatever info can be pulled from their browser, yeah.
Also it *is* possible to log texts, it has been for ages. Like if I wanted to I could even save this entire post to my harddrive!
No silly. In true slashdot tradition, it would be Natily Portman dressed only in a crispy bacon bikini, slathering herself in hot grits.
That sounds distinctively unpleasant.
If by "fun" you mean "batshit insane" then yeah.
Patent frivolous patent lawsuits and sue EVERYONE!
Reptile obviously, turns out David Icke was right after all, didn't you see the article on slashdot a few days ago?
You might have missed it though, the reptiles didn't let it stay up for long.
I think we should just create a "freak Olympics" where the rules regarding doping, genetic or mechanical manipulations and other stuff like that is just "go nuts, just don't kill anyone."
I am talking about that 16 year old Chinese girl, Ye Shiwen, who broke a world record in swimming competition, resulting in a respected American swimming coach John Leonard, who also happen to be the US executive director of the World Swimming Coaches Association, said that Chinese girl must have been using "genetic manipulation" to enhance athletic performance
What is "Genetic manipulation"? Is this guy seriously suggesting the Chinese geneticly engineered Ye Shiwen just to win swimming medals?
It's this stuff, apparently.
The list of products that people actually bought is a little more scary. 3 of those products (iron oxide, aluminum powder, magnesium ribbon) are all you need to make thermite. Which I guess answers the long-standing question I've had since making thermite in high school about where I can get the ingredients easily. Might as well add a little uranium to the mix and see what happens.
Yeah I'm sure ordering the ingredients for an incendiary device from Amazon wont get you put on all kinds of fun lists.
Uranium and bleach