If you think the Stasi or the KGB had anything remotely close to this, you're incredibly naive. The kind of computing power necessary to exploit this kind of database hasn't existed until very recent history. While there may have been databases in Stasi offices, how long does it take to look through paper files for a photo, compared to computer processing? The Stasi would have cum in their pants for modern surveillance capabilities.
Now Facebook is a different story, but it's still my choice whether I join it or not, unlike this system.
It's not the speed that kills. Speed never kills. The planet earth is travelling at several thousand miles per hour, and it doesn't do anything to anybody. What kills is the sudden deceleration when another vehicle collides with your own.
Even the studies that show accidents increase with an increase in speed are flawed. The self-selection bias is incredibly subtle, but these studies all only use statistics from cars/drivers that have been in accidents during the study period. All they prove is that people who are likely to crash are more likely to crash at higher speed.
We're talking about development here. Why do games suddenly come into it? Oh...that's right...you needed to make a point about how tablets are not real computers, and you needed to change the subject to do it.
On that note, a friend of mine has a high end Android phone, which he regularly plays FPS games on. This isn't even a tablet. This is a phone.
Now, as for your "I need a dozen programs running to do development."
Sure, it's a little more difficult on Android, but you're obviously using the most indepth development you can as an example, just to make your point. Incidentally, it's perfectly possible to have a local shell on an Android tablet. I have one on my Android phone. Assuming you're developing for Android, you don't need a remote shell, either.
a) Racism is unfairness directed at a person. Apple is not a person.
b) Racism targets the victim due to race, something beyond their control. Contrast race to Apple's behaviour, which is certainly completely within their control.
72F is hot?!? Where the hell do you live? Antarctica?
I live in Canada; not exactly the warmest country on the planet, and I still don't think 72F is hot.
Here's a question for that idiot:
If using a different processor disqualifies it from being prior art, wouldn't the same logic mean Samsung's technology didn't infringe Apple's patent?
MAD works when you're dealing with sane opponents. I'm not sure Abinajinajihadinbi or whatever his name is, qualifies on that front. When your opponent thinks death brings him an automatic ticket to heaven and 70 virgins, you can't guarantee that they don't want to be destroyed...
Speeders cause fatalities? No, they don't. Doing something moronic at speed causes fatalities. There's a big difference.
I have a mental exercise for you:
Take your local road laws. For me, that's the Ontario Highway Traffic Act. Yours will be something different, I assume.
Now, make the assumption that everyone on the road follows every law in that Act, completely to the letter. What happens? No accidents.
Now, take away any given law/subsection/stanza, (whatever the vernacular is for your legal system) and make the same previous assumption. What happens?
Take away the need to wait for oncoming traffic before turning left (or right, if you drive on the left)? Lots of accidents at intersections. Take away the requirement to stop at a red light? Lots of accidents. Take away the need to drive in your lane, rather than wherever you feel like on the road? Lots of accidents.
Keep in mind, everything still in the law, with the exception of the single thing removed is still followed to the letter.
Now....take away speed limits.
What happens? If everything else is followed to the letter......there are no accidents. People still wait when they need to. They still drive in their lane. They still slow down when traffic blocks the road. They just get to where they're going a hell of a lot quicker.
Speed doesn't cause accidents. The worst it can be is a catalyst for an accident caused by something else stupid. It cannot cause an accident by itself.
Speed limits are merely a bandage by which fatalities are reduced by stupid drivers doing stupid things. Stupid drivers that should never have passed a driver's test, but did, because the examination is little more than "Can you follow simple 3 word instructions?"
In Ontario, and I assume other jurisdictions, also, you are specifically told when taking a driver's test that the examiner will not ask you to do anything illegal. My first question is, why the hell not? How are you supposed to know if a driver knows that something is illegal and dangerous, if you don't ask them to do it? If they do, you give them an instant fail. If they tell you "I can't do that because it's illegal" then they get positive marks, instead.
I'm not even going to dignify your fatigue vs. boredom argument for rural roads with a serious debate, because you're assuming that all rural drives are for travelling long distances; presumably from one city to the next. It's possible to have a rural drive that only takes 20, 10, or 5 minutes. They're still long, straight, wide, boring roads. Fatigue has nothing to do with it on these short trips.
Turning off the DNS cache doesn't eliminate the problem. It merely increases the size of the hosts file that can be used before the slowdown becomes noticeable. Yes, it needs to be a huge hosts file, but it's still going to be a problem.
Or even if you're not specifically trying to get around the app, what's to stop people from getting frustrated when their phone won't type, and gradually paying more attention to the phone as they're shaking it and cursing?
Hey, cool! I'm being stalked with off topic bullshit by APK!!!
And don't tell me you're not APK, because only APK would know that I'd posted that in response to an AC that claimed to be APK, and only APK would know that it was, in fact, APK that posted the first AC, since APK hasn't got a real account, because any account APK creates gets modded into oblivion because he's such an idiot.
If you weren't an AC for EVERY SINGLE POST you make, you'd be more worth considering as a human being. And you didn't answer my question: Why DO you need to respond twice to virtually every post containing your monogram?
TBH, one other poster has a good idea. If you disappear for a couple of months you're likely to drop away and be lost until they look again for you for some reason. Go camping for a while.
Great, idea. So they follow you into the woods, and knock you off miles from civilization. Nobody finds your body, and even if they do, it looks like you were eaten by a grue...err..bear.
Tell me, why is it that you feel the need to reply twice to virtually every single post directed at you? Do you go on frantic Google searches trying to find ammo for your hopeless arguments?
Ok....here's a response to one of your points:
You claim blocking sites via a hosts file results in speed. That was your first point in the parent post to this one.
Only one problem with that: A large hosts file will actually slow down the PC, resulting in...well....not speed. By the time you get all the ad servers, virus C&C servers, malware servers, drive by download servers, etc, all in there, it's going to be huge.
Drive at 30-50% over the speed limit, and it's not boring any more.
I don't necessarily advocate this in town, as the density of traffic makes it "interesting" enough to hold your attention by itself, but I wouldn't be surprised if the low speed limits we have on rural roads and highways in North America cause as many accidents through boredom as they prevent from the lower speed.
It's rare in Canada to find any out of town road with a speed limit above 80 km/h, with the exception of freeway/motorway kind of roads, which are 100 km/h. Keep in mind, in keeping with the "huge masses of available land" tradition in North America, these are wide, straight, and frequently have completely uninterrupted views of the surroundings for miles in all directions. When I drove in England a few years back, I always enjoyed seeing the "End of all restrictions" signs when leaving town on a narrow little twisty B road. It meant I could open the car up and have fun. These are, of course, sometimes only one lane roads, with plenty of twists and turns - it's England, after all - and frequently a stone wall on one side or the other, if not both. This kind of road would flat out horrify a typical North American driver, and it would give a Canadian or American traffic planner a coronary, but it keeps drivers engaged, alert, and careful, regardless of the speed they may be travelling at.
After all, if you stop paying attention to the road for even a second, you're either through the stone wall, or off the road in some field.
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If you think the Stasi or the KGB had anything remotely close to this, you're incredibly naive. The kind of computing power necessary to exploit this kind of database hasn't existed until very recent history. While there may have been databases in Stasi offices, how long does it take to look through paper files for a photo, compared to computer processing? The Stasi would have cum in their pants for modern surveillance capabilities.
Now Facebook is a different story, but it's still my choice whether I join it or not, unlike this system.
It's not the speed that kills. Speed never kills. The planet earth is travelling at several thousand miles per hour, and it doesn't do anything to anybody. What kills is the sudden deceleration when another vehicle collides with your own.
Even the studies that show accidents increase with an increase in speed are flawed. The self-selection bias is incredibly subtle, but these studies all only use statistics from cars/drivers that have been in accidents during the study period. All they prove is that people who are likely to crash are more likely to crash at higher speed.
Speed by itself can't even cause an accident.
Autocorrect was trying to tell you why coding on tablets will never take over from desktops/laptops.
Shitty on screen keyboards....
We're talking about development here. Why do games suddenly come into it? Oh...that's right...you needed to make a point about how tablets are not real computers, and you needed to change the subject to do it.
On that note, a friend of mine has a high end Android phone, which he regularly plays FPS games on. This isn't even a tablet. This is a phone.
Now, as for your "I need a dozen programs running to do development."
Sure, it's a little more difficult on Android, but you're obviously using the most indepth development you can as an example, just to make your point. Incidentally, it's perfectly possible to have a local shell on an Android tablet. I have one on my Android phone.
Assuming you're developing for Android, you don't need a remote shell, either.
That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
a) Racism is unfairness directed at a person. Apple is not a person.
b) Racism targets the victim due to race, something beyond their control. Contrast race to Apple's behaviour, which is certainly completely within their control.
72F is hot?!? Where the hell do you live? Antarctica?
I live in Canada; not exactly the warmest country on the planet, and I still don't think 72F is hot.
My kingdom for a mod point! :-)
I'm Canadian, too, BTW...
Waaaaah!
But that's not convenient...
Waaaah!!
Security breach *attempts*?
I'm guessing a simple csv of that would be several TB in size. That's probably why you can't get a working list.
Here's a question for that idiot:
If using a different processor disqualifies it from being prior art, wouldn't the same logic mean Samsung's technology didn't infringe Apple's patent?
MAD works when you're dealing with sane opponents. I'm not sure Abinajinajihadinbi or whatever his name is, qualifies on that front. When your opponent thinks death brings him an automatic ticket to heaven and 70 virgins, you can't guarantee that they don't want to be destroyed...
Speeders cause fatalities? No, they don't. Doing something moronic at speed causes fatalities. There's a big difference.
I have a mental exercise for you:
Take your local road laws. For me, that's the Ontario Highway Traffic Act. Yours will be something different, I assume.
Now, make the assumption that everyone on the road follows every law in that Act, completely to the letter. What happens? No accidents.
Now, take away any given law/subsection/stanza, (whatever the vernacular is for your legal system) and make the same previous assumption.
What happens?
Take away the need to wait for oncoming traffic before turning left (or right, if you drive on the left)? Lots of accidents at intersections.
Take away the requirement to stop at a red light? Lots of accidents.
Take away the need to drive in your lane, rather than wherever you feel like on the road? Lots of accidents.
Keep in mind, everything still in the law, with the exception of the single thing removed is still followed to the letter.
Now....take away speed limits.
What happens? If everything else is followed to the letter......there are no accidents.
People still wait when they need to. They still drive in their lane. They still slow down when traffic blocks the road. They just get to where they're going a hell of a lot quicker.
Speed doesn't cause accidents. The worst it can be is a catalyst for an accident caused by something else stupid. It cannot cause an accident by itself.
Speed limits are merely a bandage by which fatalities are reduced by stupid drivers doing stupid things. Stupid drivers that should never have passed a driver's test, but did, because the examination is little more than "Can you follow simple 3 word instructions?"
In Ontario, and I assume other jurisdictions, also, you are specifically told when taking a driver's test that the examiner will not ask you to do anything illegal.
My first question is, why the hell not? How are you supposed to know if a driver knows that something is illegal and dangerous, if you don't ask them to do it?
If they do, you give them an instant fail. If they tell you "I can't do that because it's illegal" then they get positive marks, instead.
I'm not even going to dignify your fatigue vs. boredom argument for rural roads with a serious debate, because you're assuming that all rural drives are for travelling long distances; presumably from one city to the next. It's possible to have a rural drive that only takes 20, 10, or 5 minutes. They're still long, straight, wide, boring roads. Fatigue has nothing to do with it on these short trips.
Fat? Really? I'm 5 foot 11, and weigh less than 150 lbs.
My father in law calls me "the stick".
And you're an obnoxious ass, but I don't let that bother me.
Well, my tourist map sign page describes the sign as "End of all restrictions."
I guess that could be taken as "End of all restrictions above and beyond what national laws give you" but I didn't read the British highway laws.....
Turning off the DNS cache doesn't eliminate the problem. It merely increases the size of the hosts file that can be used before the slowdown becomes noticeable.
Yes, it needs to be a huge hosts file, but it's still going to be a problem.
How the hell do you write a sentence with that meaning, and manage to get 5 spelling mistakes in it?!?
Yes, because in America people can only do one thing at a time. Or is that just the morons?
You're being redundant again.....
(hardyharhar. It's a joke. It's not supposed to be politically correct. If it offends you, then there must be some truth to it in your eyes....)
Or even if you're not specifically trying to get around the app, what's to stop people from getting frustrated when their phone won't type, and gradually paying more attention to the phone as they're shaking it and cursing?
Hey, cool! I'm being stalked with off topic bullshit by APK!!!
And don't tell me you're not APK, because only APK would know that I'd posted that in response to an AC that claimed to be APK, and only APK would know that it was, in fact, APK that posted the first AC, since APK hasn't got a real account, because any account APK creates gets modded into oblivion because he's such an idiot.
If you weren't an AC for EVERY SINGLE POST you make, you'd be more worth considering as a human being.
And you didn't answer my question: Why DO you need to respond twice to virtually every post containing your monogram?
TBH, one other poster has a good idea. If you disappear for a couple of months you're likely to drop away and be lost until they look again for you for some reason. Go camping for a while.
Great, idea.
So they follow you into the woods, and knock you off miles from civilization. Nobody finds your body, and even if they do, it looks like you were eaten by a grue...err..bear.
That would imply American drivers were actually any good.....
French? So you're just going to surrender, then? :-)
Tell me, why is it that you feel the need to reply twice to virtually every single post directed at you? Do you go on frantic Google searches trying to find ammo for your hopeless arguments?
Ok....here's a response to one of your points:
You claim blocking sites via a hosts file results in speed. That was your first point in the parent post to this one.
Only one problem with that:
A large hosts file will actually slow down the PC, resulting in...well....not speed.
By the time you get all the ad servers, virus C&C servers, malware servers, drive by download servers, etc, all in there, it's going to be huge.
From http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm:
Editors Note: in most cases a large HOSTS file (over 135 kb) tends to slow down the machine.
Win 8 is an improvement over an already excellent Win7 with lots of cool new features
Okaaaay..
I was very apprehensive about loosing the start menu search function
Obviously a grammar checker isn't one of those new features.....
Drive at 30-50% over the speed limit, and it's not boring any more.
I don't necessarily advocate this in town, as the density of traffic makes it "interesting" enough to hold your attention by itself, but I wouldn't be surprised if the low speed limits we have on rural roads and highways in North America cause as many accidents through boredom as they prevent from the lower speed.
It's rare in Canada to find any out of town road with a speed limit above 80 km/h, with the exception of freeway/motorway kind of roads, which are 100 km/h.
Keep in mind, in keeping with the "huge masses of available land" tradition in North America, these are wide, straight, and frequently have completely uninterrupted views of the surroundings for miles in all directions.
When I drove in England a few years back, I always enjoyed seeing the "End of all restrictions" signs when leaving town on a narrow little twisty B road. It meant I could open the car up and have fun. These are, of course, sometimes only one lane roads, with plenty of twists and turns - it's England, after all - and frequently a stone wall on one side or the other, if not both. This kind of road would flat out horrify a typical North American driver, and it would give a Canadian or American traffic planner a coronary, but it keeps drivers engaged, alert, and careful, regardless of the speed they may be travelling at.
After all, if you stop paying attention to the road for even a second, you're either through the stone wall, or off the road in some field.