It's amusing that people whine about RFID, but go around wearing bluetooth headsets or running with Bluetooth sensors, while carrying cellphones, that operate on wifi radios where wifi points are available.
You were tracked long before RFID came out, and nothing bad has happened.:)
Except there are cases, now , where Firefox will install an extension.. and when OSs install extensions specific to their own things. I've seen adblock and other extensions installed by default in various installations that are rolled out.
End users do not perceive a difference when the functionality is always there, nor do they need to.
I do not see a difference between a feature apple supplied and one that I would have installed at the end of the day. The end result is precisely the same.
Why? Who said anything about me being an apple fanboi?
For the record, I'm a linux fanboi, if I'm ANY fanboi.
And I've been using ad blockers and flash blockers and readability programs/scripting from greasemonkey LONG before Apple came up with a "READER" button.
I could see how they'd want to manage it in the sense of "let us put it off until we have the slicky material for what we're doing in two years time" from the PR team.
The US is doing what their law says to do. They have an extradition treaty with the UK. Therefore, they requested extradition.
REQUESTED extradition. They didn't "demand" it. They didn't "order" the UK to. They didn't send in CIA commandos to kidnap the 43 year old hacker and bring him back on a C130 in the dead of night.
They asked.
The UK's response was, "Why sure, here you go! We don't want to prosecute this case here."
I cannot contemplate why the people from the UK who are angry at the US are angry at the US. It's YOUR country that's selling out a citizen of your country. It's YOUR country that, instead of saying "No, US. We're going to follow our extradition treaty and elect to prosecute here" that handed this man over.
Your country has the ability to prosecute him in the UK. They can do it. They chose not to. Don't blame my country for requesting extradition of a criminal. If your countryman was really an innocent aspie, your country should stand up for him.
Jeeze. Grow a pair. Everyone bitches about the US , all the time, and sure, we have some problems here.. but instead of whining about OUR problems, perhaps you should ask your OWN GOVERNMENT why they're selling out their citizens.
Let us in the States try to make our country better. You work on your own damn country.. cause it's no land of plenty.
I assure you of this, though. If the situation was reversed.. THIS country, the US, wouldn't be so quick to sell out its citizens.
Well, if you're framing him, and you're really hiding in Russia, why not have your son testify that he saw Daddy hit mommy really hard, and then daddy yelled at him, and mommy was crying, and then he saw daddy carry mommy downstairs when mommy was sleeping..
Why make the kid uncertain? I mean, if we're going the distance on frameups here.. why not go all the way.
He's not going to be allowed near a computer with an internet connection. Murderers never are, because you don't want them contacting outsiders to bump off witnesses.
The lawyer stated precisely what I said. He was asked if he felt Reiser may get some lienency if he revealed the location of the body. Hans' lawyer responded by stating: "We'll have to talk to the prosecutor about that, I mean, that would have to be something the prosecutor would have to participate in."
I think full well that his lawyer knows where the body is, or that his client knows where it is. I think that was why Hans Reiser wanted to talk with his lawyer on the way out.
Isn't it obvious? DuBois was reaching out to Hora on the location of Nina Reiser's body. He was indicating that they want to talk.
And you don't talk about bodies without a victim.
The fact is, Hans was trying to beat the rap. Now that he didn't, he's trying to exhibit control over what he has, and what he has left is the location of Nina's body.
Would it change your mind if I said that his lawyer made a comment this morning when asked about returning the body for lienency? This is what his lawyer said:
"We'll have to talk to the prosecutor about that," Du Bois said. "I mean, that would have to be something the prosecutor would have to participate in."
So what would the discussion look like if Nina wasn't dead?
This is the type of case that bothers me. The man is a cold hearted killer. The fact that he used the "geek" defense insults me. I'm a geek, a professional software developer. I knock around on some mud codebases at night, as well as some rougelike codebases. I run linux.
I also happen to have friends, and coworkers, and everyone else in my life. While I'm mostly introverted, I have extroverted moments.
Now Hans Reiser and his lawyer has tried to convince people that being like him is a condition of being a geek. NOT that it's a condition of a man covering up a murder.
I remember shortly after Nina disappeared, Everyone Loves Eric Raymond posted this:
The books were books on police investigations into Murders. Some bloody murders too. As a true crime fanatic, I've read both the books in question. Trust me. A man who buys those at the store to "learn about things" is buying books specifically focused on murder investigations and nothing else.
Odd thing to buy when your wife's still "missing", don't you think?
Hans' friend didn't kill anyone. The police investigated him and cleared him. If he'd testified on the stand, he'd be committing perjury too. Besides, I've read the transcripts. Nobody had Sean Sturgeon on their witness lists. The defense could have called him but didn't.
Doesn't that bother you, though? That through all that we CAN pin on them.. easily.. that there exists some evidence that they STILL don't want us to see because of its damaging value?
I'm not one of those weird conspiracy theorists out there, but man.. what else could they possibly be hiding that's so bad compared to what they've done thus far?
(On a side note.. the captcha for this entry was the word "Paranoia")
I hate to be technical.. but it does say how old the universe is, by working backwards on the geneology of Jesus (which traces back to Adam in Luke) and being literal with time conventions.
That's the problem. That's the whole reason why people say 6000. Because they're literal.
Seriously. He's trying to do what? Poke fun at the electoral college? How?
Look, if you want to poke fun at the electoral college, only run in the five biggest states. Then, when\if you win and force the election into a three way "tie", and make the senate and house pick the president and VP.. then you'll prove that it's a joke.
But running in 1 state? Just one? It's a media stunt. He has no chance of winning the election, electoral college or not.. by just running in one single state.
No, that's a broad view of the world. A narrow view is that of a linux user. I'm sorry,but seriously, we're not a large class to test out these applications. We're not what most computer users are. What works for us simply won't work for the majority of the world.. it simply won't.
We're to the point now where we have a very stable OS, and a very , very solid base. The only thing we need now are reasons for people to switch. It's a narrow view to assume that because it works for the relatively small percentage of linux users , it must be perfectly ready. It's a broad view to understand that we need to start making impressionable applications for the larger majority of computer users.
There is a difference between a killer app for the very small market share that Linux has, and what others would consider a killer app. For example, look at Firefox. Obviously, it's a very strong app. It even rises to the level of "killer." Yet more people use Firefox on Windows than on Linux. It's not "OUR" killer app.
Linux isn't a killer app in it's own right, it's a killer OS. That's something to be said for the hacker geek, but the end user doesn't care about realtime kernels optimized towards things.. they want spiffy looks.
Then this alone is justification on why something like "My Dream App" would be a godsend for linux. We could take some of these applications, let users get ahold of them and dream up what they'd want, and then they could create something newer and better that might just become a "killer App." Isn't that what Linux is looking for? Don't we want a Killer App?
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It's amusing that people whine about RFID, but go around wearing bluetooth headsets or running with Bluetooth sensors, while carrying cellphones, that operate on wifi radios where wifi points are available.
You were tracked long before RFID came out, and nothing bad has happened. :)
Except there are cases, now , where Firefox will install an extension.. and when OSs install extensions specific to their own things. I've seen adblock and other extensions installed by default in various installations that are rolled out.
End users do not perceive a difference when the functionality is always there, nor do they need to.
I do not see a difference between a feature apple supplied and one that I would have installed at the end of the day. The end result is precisely the same.
Why? Who said anything about me being an apple fanboi?
For the record, I'm a linux fanboi, if I'm ANY fanboi.
And I've been using ad blockers and flash blockers and readability programs/scripting from greasemonkey LONG before Apple came up with a "READER" button.
Maybe you're just a troll?
I'm always amused by stuff like this.
Apple does it: Apple is trying to force an ebook readeresque format.
Firefox does it in an extension: Firefox is allowing users a cleaner, less intrusive reading environment.
Nine hours of watching movies? Cause I'm serious, I spent around 10 hours watching netflix streaming and ripped movies on this iPad.
Short answer?
They never intended to really release it. They just wanted to slow people from buying Apple products.
I could see how they'd want to manage it in the sense of "let us put it off until we have the slicky material for what we're doing in two years time" from the PR team.
I don't understand why everyone's mad at the US.
The US is doing what their law says to do. They have an extradition treaty with the UK. Therefore, they requested extradition.
REQUESTED extradition. They didn't "demand" it. They didn't "order" the UK to. They didn't send in CIA commandos to kidnap the 43 year old hacker and bring him back on a C130 in the dead of night.
They asked.
The UK's response was, "Why sure, here you go! We don't want to prosecute this case here."
I cannot contemplate why the people from the UK who are angry at the US are angry at the US. It's YOUR country that's selling out a citizen of your country. It's YOUR country that, instead of saying "No, US. We're going to follow our extradition treaty and elect to prosecute here" that handed this man over.
Your country has the ability to prosecute him in the UK. They can do it. They chose not to. Don't blame my country for requesting extradition of a criminal. If your countryman was really an innocent aspie, your country should stand up for him.
Jeeze. Grow a pair. Everyone bitches about the US , all the time, and sure, we have some problems here.. but instead of whining about OUR problems, perhaps you should ask your OWN GOVERNMENT why they're selling out their citizens.
Let us in the States try to make our country better. You work on your own damn country.. cause it's no land of plenty.
I assure you of this, though. If the situation was reversed.. THIS country, the US, wouldn't be so quick to sell out its citizens.
Well, if you're framing him, and you're really hiding in Russia, why not have your son testify that he saw Daddy hit mommy really hard, and then daddy yelled at him, and mommy was crying, and then he saw daddy carry mommy downstairs when mommy was sleeping..
Why make the kid uncertain? I mean, if we're going the distance on frameups here.. why not go all the way.
The man received a single grant from Darpa YEARS ago.
He's not been funded by them for a LONG, LONG time, mostly because he didn't deliver. Let's be real here.
He's not going to be allowed near a computer with an internet connection. Murderers never are, because you don't want them contacting outsiders to bump off witnesses.
The lawyer stated precisely what I said. He was asked if he felt Reiser may get some lienency if he revealed the location of the body. Hans' lawyer responded by stating: "We'll have to talk to the prosecutor about that, I mean, that would have to be something the prosecutor would have to participate in."
I think full well that his lawyer knows where the body is, or that his client knows where it is. I think that was why Hans Reiser wanted to talk with his lawyer on the way out.
Isn't it obvious? DuBois was reaching out to Hora on the location of Nina Reiser's body. He was indicating that they want to talk.
And you don't talk about bodies without a victim.
The fact is, Hans was trying to beat the rap. Now that he didn't, he's trying to exhibit control over what he has, and what he has left is the location of Nina's body.
Would it change your mind if I said that his lawyer made a comment this morning when asked about returning the body for lienency? This is what his lawyer said:
"We'll have to talk to the prosecutor about that," Du Bois said. "I mean, that would have to be something the prosecutor would have to participate in."
So what would the discussion look like if Nina wasn't dead?
This is the type of case that bothers me. The man is a cold hearted killer. The fact that he used the "geek" defense insults me. I'm a geek, a professional software developer. I knock around on some mud codebases at night, as well as some rougelike codebases. I run linux.
I also happen to have friends, and coworkers, and everyone else in my life. While I'm mostly introverted, I have extroverted moments.
Now Hans Reiser and his lawyer has tried to convince people that being like him is a condition of being a geek. NOT that it's a condition of a man covering up a murder.
I remember shortly after Nina disappeared, Everyone Loves Eric Raymond posted this:
http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/so-i-married-a-kernel-programmer
Even THEN people knew or suspected the man was capable of this. His discussions on the LKML were horrendously bile filled.
Yet, now, people are like "Well, he _IS_ a geek.. and geeks do things that normal people don't understand."
Great. Just great. Could be that he's a MURDERER, and that geeks are for the most part average people trying to make a living.
The books were books on police investigations into Murders. Some bloody murders too. As a true crime fanatic, I've read both the books in question. Trust me. A man who buys those at the store to "learn about things" is buying books specifically focused on murder investigations and nothing else.
Odd thing to buy when your wife's still "missing", don't you think?
It doesn't bother you that this "Serial Killer" was Hans' best friend, who Hans had previously been sued by?
I mean, seriously, everyone talks about what Nina did with this guy.. how do you think she MET Sturgeon?
Uh.
Hans' friend didn't kill anyone. The police investigated him and cleared him. If he'd testified on the stand, he'd be committing perjury too. Besides, I've read the transcripts. Nobody had Sean Sturgeon on their witness lists. The defense could have called him but didn't.
The jury was not allowed to hear it because neither side attempted to call Sturgeon to the stand. He was on neither list.
And either way, the police checked out Sturgeon's "claims" and found there was no evidence. Sturgeon's not even in jail right now.
Doesn't that bother you, though? That through all that we CAN pin on them.. easily.. that there exists some evidence that they STILL don't want us to see because of its damaging value?
I'm not one of those weird conspiracy theorists out there, but man.. what else could they possibly be hiding that's so bad compared to what they've done thus far?
(On a side note.. the captcha for this entry was the word "Paranoia")
I hate to be technical.. but it does say how old the universe is, by working backwards on the geneology of Jesus (which traces back to Adam in Luke) and being literal with time conventions.
That's the problem. That's the whole reason why people say 6000. Because they're literal.
If they didn't bribe a foreign government official, they're not going to be in trouble.
Seriously. He's trying to do what? Poke fun at the electoral college? How?
Look, if you want to poke fun at the electoral college, only run in the five biggest states. Then, when\if you win and force the election into a three way "tie", and make the senate and house pick the president and VP.. then you'll prove that it's a joke.
But running in 1 state? Just one? It's a media stunt. He has no chance of winning the election, electoral college or not.. by just running in one single state.
No, that's a broad view of the world. A narrow view is that of a linux user. I'm sorry ,but seriously, we're not a large class to test out these applications. We're not what most computer users are. What works for us simply won't work for the majority of the world.. it simply won't.
We're to the point now where we have a very stable OS, and a very , very solid base. The only thing we need now are reasons for people to switch. It's a narrow view to assume that because it works for the relatively small percentage of linux users , it must be perfectly ready. It's a broad view to understand that we need to start making impressionable applications for the larger majority of computer users.
There is a difference between a killer app for the very small market share that Linux has, and what others would consider a killer app. For example, look at Firefox. Obviously, it's a very strong app. It even rises to the level of "killer." Yet more people use Firefox on Windows than on Linux. It's not "OUR" killer app.
Linux isn't a killer app in it's own right, it's a killer OS. That's something to be said for the hacker geek, but the end user doesn't care about realtime kernels optimized towards things.. they want spiffy looks.
Then this alone is justification on why something like "My Dream App" would be a godsend for linux. We could take some of these applications, let users get ahold of them and dream up what they'd want, and then they could create something newer and better that might just become a "killer App." Isn't that what Linux is looking for? Don't we want a Killer App?