Apple would have done this anyway to drive sales. Every time Apple comes out with a new or upgraded product, they sell like hotcakes - people who have the "old" version pony up even more money to buy the new version. I think the folks who jumped from the iPhone to Android are a very small minority and the rest of the Android crowd are folks who wouldn't have bought Apple anyway.
I can disable the national power grids of half the countries in the world using nothing more than an iPhone
And you need a guy there to knock out the backup generator.
Please, knocking out the power grid or making all the red lights turn green or whatever they're afraid of is nothing like having a bullet penetrate someone or a bomb going off - it's almost impossible, if not impossible to kill someone by hacking into a computer.
Shut something life threatening down or screw it up by hacking into it? There's backup or work around.
"Cyber warfare" is a small threat and not worth all the time and money spent on it. We should be spending the effort on ground surveillance and other means to reducing life threatening issues.
Putting a single click police call on Facebook? Can you imagine all the false alarms - whether by accident or on purpose? Is Australia going to prosecute false alarms?
I think some folks really need to put the Foster's down.
The apparent snub has left the tech blog in a bit of a predicament—according to Editorial Director Brian Lam, Gizmodo is going to use the liveblogging of a number of other sources to construct its own, well, liveblog, of the WWDC keynote instead of its planned, "we're actually there" coverage.
All of the Gizmodo sources can start this concerted effort to make something up. Have one guy write that Steve showed up Naked. One the Steve had a pink faux turtle neck. Steve came out. Steve introduces the iWall for the very wealthy who want a touch screen wall for their internet a movie viewing pleasure..
As a revenge fantasy (I'm afraid that I'd get in trouble because I'm not a big shot businessman or politician), I thought of writing a Python script that would use the modem and call and leave a message.
If you''re not Judge, Cop, member of Congress, or the President; you're little people. Unless, you're the big shot that's funds their campaigns then you own their ass. So I guess that makes members of my list slightly larger people or something.
Is this the world's favorite new way to waste time, suing google for recording publicly available information from wifi spots as they drive?
idiots. ALL idiots.
Idiot?! No, geniuses!
In this economy with government revenues tanking around the World, what better way to balance the budget than suing some big gigantic evil multinational corporation!
Evil corp does evil or close to it
Sue under some privacy law that government violates with impunity
So all this time, Wile E Coyote could have stood to the side, blown just as hard on his sail and gotten away from his bombs that the Road Runner turned on him?
I also think there is tremendous value in showing people the true costs of our oil dependence, so hopefully, society will begin realize that some risks are simply too great to support in our endless quest to satisfy this dependence.
People value their big cars, big homes, energy guzzling electronics and expect other people to solve the problem or they just don't give a shit. As far as some people are concerned, fuck the birds! We need to make way for "progress"! Or God put us here to do what we want!
People are cruel, shallow, and small minded.
All a misanthrope needs to do is sit back with a beer and watch humanity destroy themselves with their shallowness and stupidity.
After all, aren't most winners too poor to afford lawyers to fight the casinos?
If I win my lawsuit, then I'll get $11 Million or $42 Million or whatever and be able to pay my lawyer. And I remember seeing ads on TV for law firms that don't charge unless they win your case.
Or am I missing something important here?
Assuming they take your case. I knew someone that was in an accident and went to one of those lawyers. They told him to rack up a few thousand dollars in medical expenses and then call them back.
How many times have you seen responses like this around the net?
We're not getting dumber; we're getting less patient and less disciplined. We're losing the discipline to read long passages of text and we're becoming more distractable.
Over the last few years, my attention span has gone down dramatically. Reading a long article in Scientific American is a huge chore for me now - I used to read the thing from cover to cover in one sitting.
And let's face it, the internet is one big echo chamber. If you Google something, you'll see the exact same text repeated over and over and over again. I asked my doctor a medical question that basically flew in the face of everything said on the internet.
And let's not forget that journalism has gone to hell because of the internet. Things are being written to bring in traffic.
Where the internet really shines? Consumer awareness. The internet has been a HUGE benefit to consumers.
This will spark Congress to fund useful things like space exploration. Instead of stupid things. Like oh... pick something.
You need to frame it differently. Find all the congressmen whose districts benefit from this one way or another and have them put in earmarks. Or spin it as some sort of Wall Street rescue package or bailout and watch the fat cats order Congress to fund it.
If you want to get something funded, go the route of pork or benefiting our financial overlords.
Yes, that's true in regards to facts. But not the opinion of said facts. Let's take a contemporary issue - the new law in Arizona about stopping and detaining people if they appear to be illegal.
It's explained all over the internet as to why AZ passed that law. It's all over what the drug gangs are doing, the violence, the strain on local services, etc.... but it doesn't change my opinion that it's wrong because of the potential abuses on citizens and the implications regarding police harassment of people of color.
Wait till next year. There's a rumor that he'll be making an announcement about an election in 2012. And if the economy still sucks, Obama is getting the blame and you know what that means - Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahah!
President Barack Obama's election, driven largely by small donations, has fundamentally changed American politics.
As long as he doesn't start governing according to what the polls want, he will be one of the most credible Presidents we've ever had because of his funding.
The Beltway has lost touch with the rest of the country. They have their own aristocracy of power and their goal is to stay in their cushy overpaid jobs and retire very rich. The internet will break up that political aristocracy and make them more accountable to the people.
"We can no longer try to run this country from the center. We've got to run it, just like the Internet, from the edges."
Up to a point. Exception - Arizona's new immigration law that gives way too much power to local police and tramples our Fourth Amendment rights - what's this BS about "proving" I'm a citizen and "proving" that I'm innocent? You're brown? Gotta be an illegal! Off to jail!
"Google’s capacity to control human thought makes the Catholic church jealous, I bet," Barlow said. "They wish they’d thought of it."
Huh? That makes no sense. Google controls human thought as much as the Encyclopedia Britannica did when I was a kid.
She used her principal's photograph and described him as a pedophile and mentioned a sex act. The girl later apologized, took down the page and was suspended for 10 days.
OK, it's one thing to parody, it's another to accuse someone of a crime that will ruin them for the rest of their life. I think those kids shouldn't be suspended for parodies but when they are using actual images and making false accusations along with them, that's another matter. That fake profile could have gotten that principle murdered. There are many vigilantes out there who would love to knock off a child molester. Then there's the whole social stigma and ruining his life.
Those kids went way too far - they went beyond parody.
...constantly meddling with and attempting to control market forces that it and it's members are incapable of understanding or wanting to understand.
Back in the 1800s, our economy would oscillate between booms and busts. Depressions were the norm during the dips in the business cycle. Sure there were corresponding booms, but the crashes would wipe out most of the wealth created. Businesses wanted government intervention to flatten out the business cycle and make things more predictable.
Completely free markets do not work. They eventually break down and we end up with a crash and an aristocracy. Start reading 19th century American business history (Rockefeller, Morgan, Vanderbilt, etc... ) and see what it was like when the Government was completely hands off.
On the other hand, it is possible to go too far, as in this case with the news or with the airlines, GM and Chrysler, the big banks - those should have been allowed to fail or in the case of the big banks, broken up so that they aren't such a threat to the financial system.
I say let the news organizations fail and the Government step in and create protections for the citizen journalist.
Rand over simplified things - she was speaking from a system and human ideal that is not attainable. Humans are just too frail, self centered, small minded, shallow and cruel for a World like Ayn Rand's to exist.
ts the same argument used by those who stand against gay's right to marry: "if we let gays marry, then people will be marrying sheep! polygamy will be legal too!" bullshit. people understand that homosexual marriage is not bestiality or multiple wives
I had no problem with folks wanting to marry a sheep, cat, goat, or whatever - what they do behind closed doesn't affect me or my liberties.
the slippery slope implies that there is no rational thinking people in the room
It's no the people in the room I'm concerned about. It's the people making policy.
Border patrol. They are there to secure our borders from illegal immigrants and protect the borders from invaders, but yet, they're searching citizen's laptops for child porn. What has child porn have to do with securing our borders? Or drugs for that matter. A citizen sniffing a line of coke won't jeopardize our security or our freedom, but yet, the increased powers of the border guards has limited some of our freedom - Fourth Amendment.
Gun laws are on this continuous pendulum of restriction and liberation but the net effect over time has been more restrictions on law abiding citizens and our Second Amendment right is withering away . In the meantime, the criminals are shooting away without restriction.
Tax laws - IRS - the Mother of all slipper slopes. The income tax was put in place to pay for a war that has long been over and paid off and yet, the laws become ever more complex and violate our rights more every year.
No. The slippery slope argument exists because it's true. Sure there is a bit a hyperbole occasionally but it doesn't make it not true.
Did they not honestly believe that a disaster could occur? Did the right people not talk to each other? Or was the urge to cut corners simply so great that people ignored the risk?
From the ABC interview with one of the survivors, the BP people were arguing with the Transocean people, insisting that it would be ok to skip some phases of sealing the well because they wanted to move the schedule up. I wonder what that BP manager was thinking.
If BP is like every other big monster multinational corporation, there were multiple departments or divisions arguing with each other and with the contractors. As far as they were concerned, they knew what was the thing to do and everyone else was a bunch of stuffed shirts and the contractors were morons.
As far as the contractors were concerned, the BP guys were big corporate paper pushing morons that if they knew anything, would be working with the contractors.
The 'BP' in the above statement can be searched and replaced with any big corporation and their outsource "partners".
Don't confuse malice with corporate bureaucracy, internal fighting, politics, and the arrogance of people in the field and in the offices.
Now, this being the typical corporate fuck up, everyone will be pointing fingers at the others stating "We told them so!" but the were: too stupid, political, arrogant, or didn't listen and therefore the disaster happened. If only they listened to us.
The CEO will still get his hundred million dollar paycheck but the peons are probably gonna be axed without much compensation. It's good to be king - CEO.
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Apple would have done this anyway to drive sales. Every time Apple comes out with a new or upgraded product, they sell like hotcakes - people who have the "old" version pony up even more money to buy the new version. I think the folks who jumped from the iPhone to Android are a very small minority and the rest of the Android crowd are folks who wouldn't have bought Apple anyway.
Jobs is a marketing God!
I can disable the national power grids of half the countries in the world using nothing more than an iPhone
And you need a guy there to knock out the backup generator.
Please, knocking out the power grid or making all the red lights turn green or whatever they're afraid of is nothing like having a bullet penetrate someone or a bomb going off - it's almost impossible, if not impossible to kill someone by hacking into a computer.
Shut something life threatening down or screw it up by hacking into it? There's backup or work around.
"Cyber warfare" is a small threat and not worth all the time and money spent on it. We should be spending the effort on ground surveillance and other means to reducing life threatening issues.
Guy in bar to babe: "Hey. My phone died. Would you like to go and charge it?"
Putting a single click police call on Facebook? Can you imagine all the false alarms - whether by accident or on purpose? Is Australia going to prosecute false alarms?
I think some folks really need to put the Foster's down.
The apparent snub has left the tech blog in a bit of a predicament—according to Editorial Director Brian Lam, Gizmodo is going to use the liveblogging of a number of other sources to construct its own, well, liveblog, of the WWDC keynote instead of its planned, "we're actually there" coverage.
All of the Gizmodo sources can start this concerted effort to make something up. Have one guy write that Steve showed up Naked. One the Steve had a pink faux turtle neck. Steve came out. Steve introduces the iWall for the very wealthy who want a touch screen wall for their internet a movie viewing pleasure..
This could be really fun!
The logic would be:
And just let it run.
Pfffffttt, Judges are above the law. I hate that!
If you''re not Judge, Cop, member of Congress, or the President; you're little people. Unless, you're the big shot that's funds their campaigns then you own their ass. So I guess that makes members of my list slightly larger people or something.
So are you saying that if the person who fires the gun in is in a different state than Victoria Kolakowski, it's not illegal?
Only if the bullet passes through yet another state.
I saw it on a documentary on Hulu. Funny this is, it's a cartoon so I think it's a legal thing for kids.
Is this the world's favorite new way to waste time, suing google for recording publicly available information from wifi spots as they drive?
idiots. ALL idiots.
Idiot?! No, geniuses!
In this economy with government revenues tanking around the World, what better way to balance the budget than suing some big gigantic evil multinational corporation!
Some genius!
I also think there is tremendous value in showing people the true costs of our oil dependence, so hopefully, society will begin realize that some risks are simply too great to support in our endless quest to satisfy this dependence.
People value their big cars, big homes, energy guzzling electronics and expect other people to solve the problem or they just don't give a shit. As far as some people are concerned, fuck the birds! We need to make way for "progress"! Or God put us here to do what we want!
People are cruel, shallow, and small minded.
All a misanthrope needs to do is sit back with a beer and watch humanity destroy themselves with their shallowness and stupidity.
After all, aren't most winners too poor to afford lawyers to fight the casinos?
If I win my lawsuit, then I'll get $11 Million or $42 Million or whatever and be able to pay my lawyer. And I remember seeing ads on TV for law firms that don't charge unless they win your case.
Or am I missing something important here?
Assuming they take your case. I knew someone that was in an accident and went to one of those lawyers. They told him to rack up a few thousand dollars in medical expenses and then call them back.
Never hire a lawyer who advertises.
We're not getting dumber; we're getting less patient and less disciplined. We're losing the discipline to read long passages of text and we're becoming more distractable.
Over the last few years, my attention span has gone down dramatically. Reading a long article in Scientific American is a huge chore for me now - I used to read the thing from cover to cover in one sitting.
And let's face it, the internet is one big echo chamber. If you Google something, you'll see the exact same text repeated over and over and over again. I asked my doctor a medical question that basically flew in the face of everything said on the internet.
And let's not forget that journalism has gone to hell because of the internet. Things are being written to bring in traffic.
Where the internet really shines? Consumer awareness. The internet has been a HUGE benefit to consumers.
As long as the other platforms use Flash, you're just kinda left out in the cold.
Pfft. There's plenty of porn on MP3 and WMV.
This will spark Congress to fund useful things like space exploration. Instead of stupid things. Like oh... pick something.
You need to frame it differently. Find all the congressmen whose districts benefit from this one way or another and have them put in earmarks. Or spin it as some sort of Wall Street rescue package or bailout and watch the fat cats order Congress to fund it.
If you want to get something funded, go the route of pork or benefiting our financial overlords.
It's explained all over the internet as to why AZ passed that law. It's all over what the drug gangs are doing, the violence, the strain on local services, etc.... but it doesn't change my opinion that it's wrong because of the potential abuses on citizens and the implications regarding police harassment of people of color.
It was driven by the fact that the country was sick of GWB and the GOP.
Obama didn't win by a landslide. In my area, Bush and the Republicans are the only ones who are considered able to protect this country.
Just because it's on the internet doesn't make it factual.
Wait, I'm reading that statement on the internet so it doesn't make it factual, but yet it may be factual but it's on the internet and.....
Landrew! Guide me! Landrew! Landrew!
I thought Newt Gingrich was gone?
Wait till next year. There's a rumor that he'll be making an announcement about an election in 2012. And if the economy still sucks, Obama is getting the blame and you know what that means - Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahah!
President Barack Obama's election, driven largely by small donations, has fundamentally changed American politics.
As long as he doesn't start governing according to what the polls want, he will be one of the most credible Presidents we've ever had because of his funding.
The Beltway has lost touch with the rest of the country. They have their own aristocracy of power and their goal is to stay in their cushy overpaid jobs and retire very rich. The internet will break up that political aristocracy and make them more accountable to the people.
"We can no longer try to run this country from the center. We've got to run it, just like the Internet, from the edges."
Up to a point. Exception - Arizona's new immigration law that gives way too much power to local police and tramples our Fourth Amendment rights - what's this BS about "proving" I'm a citizen and "proving" that I'm innocent? You're brown? Gotta be an illegal! Off to jail!
"Google’s capacity to control human thought makes the Catholic church jealous, I bet," Barlow said. "They wish they’d thought of it."
Huh? That makes no sense. Google controls human thought as much as the Encyclopedia Britannica did when I was a kid.
She used her principal's photograph and described him as a pedophile and mentioned a sex act. The girl later apologized, took down the page and was suspended for 10 days.
OK, it's one thing to parody, it's another to accuse someone of a crime that will ruin them for the rest of their life. I think those kids shouldn't be suspended for parodies but when they are using actual images and making false accusations along with them, that's another matter. That fake profile could have gotten that principle murdered. There are many vigilantes out there who would love to knock off a child molester. Then there's the whole social stigma and ruining his life.
Those kids went way too far - they went beyond parody.
I just don't know why people aren't boycotting Apple.
I never thought I'd see the day on Slashdot when someone called Apple evil and then get modded up.
What next, a black President?
...constantly meddling with and attempting to control market forces that it and it's members are incapable of understanding or wanting to understand.
Back in the 1800s, our economy would oscillate between booms and busts. Depressions were the norm during the dips in the business cycle. Sure there were corresponding booms, but the crashes would wipe out most of the wealth created. Businesses wanted government intervention to flatten out the business cycle and make things more predictable.
Completely free markets do not work. They eventually break down and we end up with a crash and an aristocracy. Start reading 19th century American business history (Rockefeller, Morgan, Vanderbilt, etc... ) and see what it was like when the Government was completely hands off.
On the other hand, it is possible to go too far, as in this case with the news or with the airlines, GM and Chrysler, the big banks - those should have been allowed to fail or in the case of the big banks, broken up so that they aren't such a threat to the financial system.
I say let the news organizations fail and the Government step in and create protections for the citizen journalist.
Rand over simplified things - she was speaking from a system and human ideal that is not attainable. Humans are just too frail, self centered, small minded, shallow and cruel for a World like Ayn Rand's to exist.
ts the same argument used by those who stand against gay's right to marry: "if we let gays marry, then people will be marrying sheep! polygamy will be legal too!" bullshit. people understand that homosexual marriage is not bestiality or multiple wives
I had no problem with folks wanting to marry a sheep, cat, goat, or whatever - what they do behind closed doesn't affect me or my liberties.
the slippery slope implies that there is no rational thinking people in the room
It's no the people in the room I'm concerned about. It's the people making policy.
Border patrol. They are there to secure our borders from illegal immigrants and protect the borders from invaders, but yet, they're searching citizen's laptops for child porn. What has child porn have to do with securing our borders? Or drugs for that matter. A citizen sniffing a line of coke won't jeopardize our security or our freedom, but yet, the increased powers of the border guards has limited some of our freedom - Fourth Amendment.
Gun laws are on this continuous pendulum of restriction and liberation but the net effect over time has been more restrictions on law abiding citizens and our Second Amendment right is withering away . In the meantime, the criminals are shooting away without restriction.
Tax laws - IRS - the Mother of all slipper slopes. The income tax was put in place to pay for a war that has long been over and paid off and yet, the laws become ever more complex and violate our rights more every year.
No. The slippery slope argument exists because it's true. Sure there is a bit a hyperbole occasionally but it doesn't make it not true.
Did they not honestly believe that a disaster could occur? Did the right people not talk to each other? Or was the urge to cut corners simply so great that people ignored the risk?
From the ABC interview with one of the survivors, the BP people were arguing with the Transocean people, insisting that it would be ok to skip some phases of sealing the well because they wanted to move the schedule up. I wonder what that BP manager was thinking.
If BP is like every other big monster multinational corporation, there were multiple departments or divisions arguing with each other and with the contractors. As far as they were concerned, they knew what was the thing to do and everyone else was a bunch of stuffed shirts and the contractors were morons.
As far as the contractors were concerned, the BP guys were big corporate paper pushing morons that if they knew anything, would be working with the contractors.
The 'BP' in the above statement can be searched and replaced with any big corporation and their outsource "partners".
Don't confuse malice with corporate bureaucracy, internal fighting, politics, and the arrogance of people in the field and in the offices.
Now, this being the typical corporate fuck up, everyone will be pointing fingers at the others stating "We told them so!" but the were: too stupid, political, arrogant, or didn't listen and therefore the disaster happened. If only they listened to us.
The CEO will still get his hundred million dollar paycheck but the peons are probably gonna be axed without much compensation. It's good to be king - CEO.