Isn't the term Personal Computer becoming anachronistic? A minicomputer might have been considered small when the term was first coined, but today the term is useless. As for Personal computing, my iPhone is more personal to me than my laptop. Should we rethink these terms and call current PCs something new?
Actually, you have it totally wrong. Iran is a Shia country, they don't believe in a caliphate, they believe in Velayat-al-Faqih. That's not a threat to Europe, since Iran formed theirs via democracy in their constitution.
Bin Laden wants a caliphate, but that's not why he ordered terrorist attacks. He said so himself in his videos, he wants the US out of "Muslim lands" so they can get rid of their dictatorships and thus let the people form a caliphate.
Pretend for a moment that a Muslim posted on Twitter that a UK politician should be stoned to death. Considering the attempted murder of a MP recently and the UK removing YouTube videos, I'm sure that they'd get arrested. I doubt slashdotters would stand up for him in the same manner as they're doing for this jerk.
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Despite the numerous slashdot articles and buzz about it, I'm seeing scant actual details.
How was it delivered? Via Internet? Botnet? Unknown at this time? According to the article it "can spread using several vectors." It also says 2 of the 4 zero-day vulnerabilities have been patched by MS.
The article about a possible attack scenario leads more credibility to the claim that there had to be inside help. You need people on the inside for Reconnaissance and deployment. Even if it was spread from the internet, someone had to get ahold of the security certificates to crack them and know the specific types of PLCs in use. The arrests that recently took place in Iran are making a lot more sense, despite all the knee-jerk condemnation from the/. posters.
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I don't think he said there are no homosexuals in Iran, he said "We don't have gay people the way you do in America." I think he means they don't really have openly gay people in society like you find in New York. It's interesting because Iran actually allows and pays for sex-change surgeries.
Put yourself in Apple's shoes. They have to walk a very tight line of liability; getting bad press for "Shake the Baby" iPhone apps and being legally liable in places like Germany for any X-rated app on the phone, getting bad relationships with carriers for hogging bandwidth (let alone if there were bittorrent apps in the app store), trying to prevent people unlocking their phones and breaking the contract, trying to learn from Nokia's mistakes and prevent viruses from spreading through iPhones, and trying to prevent piracy of apps. Allowing ad-hoc distribution of apps is just begging for malware and viruses and spyware, like what Android is now feeling the pain and bad rep from.
Apple has come a long way from a "No apps allowed (but we'll turn a blind eye to jailbreaking)," to "almost all apps allowed, >95% approved, and we have codified rules and an appeals process." It's easy to whine about how Apple doesn't do what you want, but if you were in their shoes, what decision could you make that didn't worsen any of the problems up above?
Bear in mind that one big slipup and Apple will be relegated to forever third-place. If you opened the App Store to any app whatsoever, it will lead to massive user data theft because of the now-popular Farmvi11e and other trojan apps, Apple will be sued for millions of dollars and the brand will be tarnished. Allow unlimited background apps, and the battery life will plummet and people will blame Apple and your brand will be stained. If you make jailbreaking easier and piracy overflows on the iPhones, developers will leave the platform. Apple DOES understand the gripes and is working on it. You can provision your app for 100 devices, and distribute enterprise apps outside of the app store. Apple finally allowed background support where its needed and did some tricks to keep battery life good and the user experience nice.
Today, my boss called me into his office to show me the web site of a potential business partner. When he began to type 'virginia' into google, it auto-completed his search with his recent search for 'virgin boy assholes'. I have to go on business trip with him tomorrow. I'm a young guy. FML
Let's not play that game. Throughout history, Christians burned down mosques, Muslims destroyed mandirs, Hindus destroyed churches, Christians attack gurdwaras, Buddhists destroyed mosques, (all examples I can cite). The cycle continues.
Survey shows that 2/3 of those who oppose the Islamic center in lower Manhattan also hate Islam. So you "can" dislike something supported by some members of a group without being "anti" that group, but this is a bad example to prove that point.
Apple removed the carriers' veto power over cell phone features. Verizon has disabled or crippled countless features on their phones. Apple made sure they had creative control over the device; no forced branding, no blocking of features, allowing the use of WiFi and some VoIP
It's not a problem with the iPhone's radio. The problem is that AT&T segregates iPhone data from the rest of the network and locks it at a certain percent of the network traffic. I suppose it's so that the data-hungry iPhone users don't make the network crawl for everyone, but the downside is that iPhone users get screwed with dropped calls etc.
Maybe you live in an echo chamber, but show me public opinion polls claiming support for legalizing Marijuana. If you're so confident, why don't you run for Congress on it, where you can bring it to the floor for a vote?
Fact is, it's a political death sentence. More people would likely oppose it than support it, despite the few rallies of college students. Any politician outside of california who openly supports it would get attacked immediately, and their opponent would be able to raise more money.
If you think Obama is going to make himself a one-term president by advocating for something Congress would never support, write him a letter telling him to stand up and try it. See what he thinks.
The flu shot is tested annually through peer-reviewed clinical trials. The shot is compared to its protective factor year over year. I believe the data shows it works.
Let's take google for example. I can export my google calendars in XML or iCal format. GMail is accessible via IMAP where I can pull all my messages off of it. Google reader has an API, so it would be pretty simple to pull the RSS feeds and the read/unread/shared/starred articles out. Pretty much the same with MobileMe.
Completely the opposite. Go look at Apple's developer pages and SDK, they provide clearcut access to their sync services. Anyone can write a program to interface with their iCal and address book databases, like BusySync and Spanning Sync. If you have a phone-like device you want to sync, Apple offers a plugin architecture called iSync, and if that isn't good enough for you, their SDK allows third party developers to step in, like The Missing Sync.
Does a developer not want to play by Apple's rules? Fine, Apple even offers its iTunes DB in XML format for other devices and applications to read, such as the iLife library that developers can tap into, and some have.
Palm decided to throw all of these out the window and circumvent the software with a bad hack. Apple does not want to be responsible for this hack, because Apple, and not Palm, will bear all the criticism if iTunes 9.1 breaks Pre compatibility, even though it's not Apple's fault. Apple basically left the front door open for Palm to sync its device through the proper channels, and Palm decides it really wants to enter using the window instead.
You've fallen into the availability heuristic, where you associate Islam with terrorists because you don't hear about the non-terrorist Muslims. South America and parts of Europe are crammed with terrorism, but nobody blames Christianity. Maybe culture is a cause, but not the religion, since most Muslims live in non-terrorism areas.
Yeah, we all know the ISI lags behind the CIA. How many governments has the CIA overthrown versus how many the ISI did? How many drugs has the CIA been involved in selling compared to the ISI? Who backed the fighters in Afghanistan in the 80's first, the ISI or the CIA?
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Isn't the term Personal Computer becoming anachronistic? A minicomputer might have been considered small when the term was first coined, but today the term is useless. As for Personal computing, my iPhone is more personal to me than my laptop. Should we rethink these terms and call current PCs something new?
Actually, you have it totally wrong. Iran is a Shia country, they don't believe in a caliphate, they believe in Velayat-al-Faqih. That's not a threat to Europe, since Iran formed theirs via democracy in their constitution.
Bin Laden wants a caliphate, but that's not why he ordered terrorist attacks. He said so himself in his videos, he wants the US out of "Muslim lands" so they can get rid of their dictatorships and thus let the people form a caliphate.
Pretend for a moment that a Muslim posted on Twitter that a UK politician should be stoned to death. Considering the attempted murder of a MP recently and the UK removing YouTube videos, I'm sure that they'd get arrested. I doubt slashdotters would stand up for him in the same manner as they're doing for this jerk.
Despite the numerous slashdot articles and buzz about it, I'm seeing scant actual details.
How was it delivered? Via Internet? Botnet? Unknown at this time? According to the article it "can spread using several vectors."
It also says 2 of the 4 zero-day vulnerabilities have been patched by MS.
The article about a possible attack scenario leads more credibility to the claim that there had to be inside help. You need people on the inside for Reconnaissance and deployment. Even if it was spread from the internet, someone had to get ahold of the security certificates to crack them and know the specific types of PLCs in use. The arrests that recently took place in Iran are making a lot more sense, despite all the knee-jerk condemnation from the /. posters.
I don't think he said there are no homosexuals in Iran, he said "We don't have gay people the way you do in America." I think he means they don't really have openly gay people in society like you find in New York. It's interesting because Iran actually allows and pays for sex-change surgeries.
Put yourself in Apple's shoes. They have to walk a very tight line of liability; getting bad press for "Shake the Baby" iPhone apps and being legally liable in places like Germany for any X-rated app on the phone, getting bad relationships with carriers for hogging bandwidth (let alone if there were bittorrent apps in the app store), trying to prevent people unlocking their phones and breaking the contract, trying to learn from Nokia's mistakes and prevent viruses from spreading through iPhones, and trying to prevent piracy of apps. Allowing ad-hoc distribution of apps is just begging for malware and viruses and spyware, like what Android is now feeling the pain and bad rep from.
Apple has come a long way from a "No apps allowed (but we'll turn a blind eye to jailbreaking)," to "almost all apps allowed, >95% approved, and we have codified rules and an appeals process." It's easy to whine about how Apple doesn't do what you want, but if you were in their shoes, what decision could you make that didn't worsen any of the problems up above?
Bear in mind that one big slipup and Apple will be relegated to forever third-place. If you opened the App Store to any app whatsoever, it will lead to massive user data theft because of the now-popular Farmvi11e and other trojan apps, Apple will be sued for millions of dollars and the brand will be tarnished. Allow unlimited background apps, and the battery life will plummet and people will blame Apple and your brand will be stained. If you make jailbreaking easier and piracy overflows on the iPhones, developers will leave the platform. Apple DOES understand the gripes and is working on it. You can provision your app for 100 devices, and distribute enterprise apps outside of the app store. Apple finally allowed background support where its needed and did some tricks to keep battery life good and the user experience nice.
Today, my boss called me into his office to show me the web site of a potential business partner. When he began to type 'virginia' into google, it auto-completed his search with his recent search for 'virgin boy assholes'. I have to go on business trip with him tomorrow. I'm a young guy. FML
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Let's not play that game. Throughout history, Christians burned down mosques, Muslims destroyed mandirs, Hindus destroyed churches, Christians attack gurdwaras, Buddhists destroyed mosques, (all examples I can cite). The cycle continues.
Survey shows that 2/3 of those who oppose the Islamic center in lower Manhattan also hate Islam. So you "can" dislike something supported by some members of a group without being "anti" that group, but this is a bad example to prove that point.
If so, how is this iPhone's fault if RIM brags about outselling the blackberry
Wrist rocket? Are you Iron Man?
Apple removed the carriers' veto power over cell phone features. Verizon has disabled or crippled countless features on their phones. Apple made sure they had creative control over the device; no forced branding, no blocking of features, allowing the use of WiFi and some VoIP
It's not a problem with the iPhone's radio. The problem is that AT&T segregates iPhone data from the rest of the network and locks it at a certain percent of the network traffic. I suppose it's so that the data-hungry iPhone users don't make the network crawl for everyone, but the downside is that iPhone users get screwed with dropped calls etc.
Maybe you live in an echo chamber, but show me public opinion polls claiming support for legalizing Marijuana. If you're so confident, why don't you run for Congress on it, where you can bring it to the floor for a vote?
Fact is, it's a political death sentence. More people would likely oppose it than support it, despite the few rallies of college students. Any politician outside of california who openly supports it would get attacked immediately, and their opponent would be able to raise more money.
If you think Obama is going to make himself a one-term president by advocating for something Congress would never support, write him a letter telling him to stand up and try it. See what he thinks.
Yes but the updated Skype to allow this has not yet hit the App Store.
Mod parent up! This is better data than a magazine article
The flu shot is tested annually through peer-reviewed clinical trials. The shot is compared to its protective factor year over year. I believe the data shows it works.
Not quite the same everywhere.
Let's take google for example. I can export my google calendars in XML or iCal format. GMail is accessible via IMAP where I can pull all my messages off of it. Google reader has an API, so it would be pretty simple to pull the RSS feeds and the read/unread/shared/starred articles out. Pretty much the same with MobileMe.
Completely the opposite. Go look at Apple's developer pages and SDK, they provide clearcut access to their sync services. Anyone can write a program to interface with their iCal and address book databases, like BusySync and Spanning Sync. If you have a phone-like device you want to sync, Apple offers a plugin architecture called iSync, and if that isn't good enough for you, their SDK allows third party developers to step in, like The Missing Sync.
Does a developer not want to play by Apple's rules? Fine, Apple even offers its iTunes DB in XML format for other devices and applications to read, such as the iLife library that developers can tap into, and some have.
Palm decided to throw all of these out the window and circumvent the software with a bad hack. Apple does not want to be responsible for this hack, because Apple, and not Palm, will bear all the criticism if iTunes 9.1 breaks Pre compatibility, even though it's not Apple's fault. Apple basically left the front door open for Palm to sync its device through the proper channels, and Palm decides it really wants to enter using the window instead.
You've fallen into the availability heuristic, where you associate Islam with terrorists because you don't hear about the non-terrorist Muslims. South America and parts of Europe are crammed with terrorism, but nobody blames Christianity. Maybe culture is a cause, but not the religion, since most Muslims live in non-terrorism areas.
Yeah, we all know the ISI lags behind the CIA. How many governments has the CIA overthrown versus how many the ISI did? How many drugs has the CIA been involved in selling compared to the ISI? Who backed the fighters in Afghanistan in the 80's first, the ISI or the CIA?
Interesting point. Maybe the 3.1 update will put it under the passcode lock settings
or maybe the fact that the reward offers went ignored, the decided to call the cops regardless of ethnicity
Pinch your microphone, or press Answer on the screen. Some non-apple vendors add the microphone on the headphone wire as well.
Actually the iPhone has emoji support