Not at all, Motorola seems to be making better phones now
WAY better phones. In fact, except for problems like no SD card slots or removable batteries, I think they're making arguably the best phones in the market. Moto X is no Optimus G2 in terms of speed, but it's plenty fast, its battery lasts the whole day and it has brought something new to the table: voice commands. I think it's pretty useless, but at least it's something new. Notifications that take advantage of the AMOLED display were also cool. Moto G is simply the best value for money right now, it's putting every other phone maker to shame. Both can take a fall and are already running KitKat. If you remember Motorola had the Razr HD going against Samsung's Galaxy S3, you can recognize they improved Motorola's game immensely. Maybe Lenovo will carry the momentum, but I fear not. It's a shame, because I really liked where Motorola was going.
It seems that you are saying that any unpunished police assault case is a sign that we must act; that until we reach zero police assaults, we have not done enough.
Yes. Precisely that. And none of your examples acceptably correlate to a member of the police force being abusive. There will always be accidents, we can accept that and take a few precautions. There will always be criminals, therefore we have institutionalized a police force. Those are the best forms of prevention we can muster because we never know who will be in an accident, who will be a criminal. We know who are the policemen. And what we cannot accept is even one member of such force using unjustified brutality. If it happens, he should be swiftly punished. If that means that all policemen must be recorded 24/7, so be it. They are on the job. There's no expectation of privacy when you're in duty, on the streets.
I'd question those hard numbers because police brutality, like sexual abuse and domestic violence, is severely underreported. However, I don't feel the need to. Look at examples. I'm going to post only one video, and not a particularly violent one, though a simple Youtube search for "police brutality" will yield lots of results. Those are the ones caught on camera. What about the ones which aren't? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
I am not afraid of cops getting free pass on some assaults.
I'm very sorry to hear that and to see it moderated +5 Insightful. I hope you change your viewpoint on this topic and I also hope nothing too drastic has to occur for you to realize how terrible what you just said is.
I am afraid of future where anyones life is easily pieced together from footage gathered from hundreds/thousands walking cameras, analyzed for weaknesses and exploited. Anytime you run afoul of little pointless law, anytime you do something that can easily be taken out of context to villify you, any secret you might want to keep secret.
Yes, that sucks, too. But government servants, especially those that have our sanction to act violently, must be watched as closely as you describe.
Seconded. Incredibly lame answers. He missed the obvious answer to #3:
3) "If you were a pizza delivery man, how would you benefit from scissors?" -- Apple, Specialist interview.
That would mostly depend on which neighborhoods I'd be delivering to. I suppose I could feel a bit safer, though since almost every robber has a gun, now, I'm not sure scissors would cut it. (for best results, interrupt the next question with "get it? 'cut it'", then maintain a blank stare for as long as possible)
I actually did this once (did not get the job, despite being recommended by a friend who worked there):
-Name three of your strengths. -Well... I'm honest and... let's see... I'm reasonably quick to spot and diagnose flaws in any given system... and I'd say I'm creative. -Good. And do you have any weaknesses? -I'm a liar.
Since the problem is maintaining transfer speed, it would make more sense to offer heavily discounted plans that would usually provide, say, 35mpbs, but only 1mbps at peak hours (say, 6pm to 10pm).
do I have any physical place where someone finding out my passwords would be the least of my concerns? If you have a place like that, store your passwords there.
You just gave me the best idea ever: tattoo your passwords on your penis. The chance of losing it is small when compared to the chances of losing a notebook or piece of paper, it's a private location and chances are social engineering industrial espionage attempts will have to get pretty interesting. I can see only two minor problems with my plan: first, you might not be able to fit strong passwords in there. If you end up only being able to fit easy to brute force passwords, I suggest you use the old piece of paper method, and maybe a pump. Second, your work may be one of those that use five or six different systems, all with different passwords, and rotate them on a monthly basis. You can still stick with the idea, but oh, boy, you're going to be sore.
Also, his country wants to throw him in jail for exposing foul play, so he is forced to flee. Some other country offers shelter, perhaps in exchange for information, and so an idiot says "oh, that kind of betrayal is unforgivable". Really? Hey, US, protip: want to avoid the risk of defection? Then don't treat your own like enemies to start with.
Interestingly, in my experience, XP is only significantly faster (and has a smaller memory footprint) until you install SP2. Then it's about the same as 7.
OS analogy, in this case, boils down simply to PEBKAC. The OS did its job, but he was trying to achieve gigabit speeds on 802.11b wifi. Many fellow network admins have died doing exactly that.
It's the kind of attitude you'd expect from Jeremy Clakson, an idiot who regularly speeds and sees a fellow idiot crashing at unsafe speeds for public roads as a victim of something other than himself.
Sorry about that. We'll be appending Wikipedia to every article in the future. It's not like you could search it or Google on a separate browser tab, anyway, right?
I'm with you. I strongly prefer printed books due to lots of small reasons, like being virtually mug-free, not running out of batteries, providing conversation material (even when sitting on a bookshelf) etc. However, space has been a problem. My shelves are packed and nowadays I think none of us apartment dwellers has enough space for a proper library. So now I'm considering biting the bullet and getting Pynchon's latest novel on ebook form.
They're about in line with the Moto G, itself a pretty capable phone. Frankly, it's the sweet spot for most people, especially when you factor in non-subsidized prices and power consumption. My Nexus 4 sure is powerful, but the thing can chew through 25% of its battery in less than 10 minutes when doing intense stuff like updating the OS or changing runtime libraries.
Maybe we'll eventually have sewer-like vacuum tubes for solid trash, but until then I don't see plastic bags disappearing. They're needed for storage and transportation.
Well, I tend to choose plastic bags at the supermarket because later I use them for garbage disposal. AFAIK, that's the norm (and very harmful to the environment, but garbage bags are plastic everywhere, aren't they?).
This. I usually check Tom's Hardware, too, but keep in mind they mostly care about gaming. Also, Phoronix is the only site AFAIK that does Linux HW reviews.
Don't start being passive-aggressive with me. There's plenty of others who haven't lost their teeth in the fight against microorganisms. How come fire still works, huh? Fire doesn't make any of your lousy excuses about being overused, and it's been working with us for much longer than you. Mostly on corpses, since it lacks your sense of moderation, but hey, it works really well. In fact, I'd say fire is somewhat like a flame, still burning bright after all these years, while your skills seem to be decomposing, for some reason.
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Not at all, Motorola seems to be making better phones now
WAY better phones. In fact, except for problems like no SD card slots or removable batteries, I think they're making arguably the best phones in the market. Moto X is no Optimus G2 in terms of speed, but it's plenty fast, its battery lasts the whole day and it has brought something new to the table: voice commands. I think it's pretty useless, but at least it's something new. Notifications that take advantage of the AMOLED display were also cool. Moto G is simply the best value for money right now, it's putting every other phone maker to shame. Both can take a fall and are already running KitKat. If you remember Motorola had the Razr HD going against Samsung's Galaxy S3, you can recognize they improved Motorola's game immensely. Maybe Lenovo will carry the momentum, but I fear not. It's a shame, because I really liked where Motorola was going.
Coming from the company that neamed its third Xbox the Xbox One, I'm actually surprised they didn't christen it the SixDrive. It'd be great for ads:
"Xbox network integration, so you can invite a friend over to Xbone with your SixDrive!"
I prefer Simutrans. Passengers having specific destinations is essential to a transport game. It's what makes it interesting and challenging.
It seems that you are saying that any unpunished police assault case is a sign that we must act; that until we reach zero police assaults, we have not done enough.
Yes. Precisely that. And none of your examples acceptably correlate to a member of the police force being abusive. There will always be accidents, we can accept that and take a few precautions. There will always be criminals, therefore we have institutionalized a police force. Those are the best forms of prevention we can muster because we never know who will be in an accident, who will be a criminal. We know who are the policemen. And what we cannot accept is even one member of such force using unjustified brutality. If it happens, he should be swiftly punished. If that means that all policemen must be recorded 24/7, so be it. They are on the job. There's no expectation of privacy when you're in duty, on the streets.
I'd question those hard numbers because police brutality, like sexual abuse and domestic violence, is severely underreported. However, I don't feel the need to. Look at examples. I'm going to post only one video, and not a particularly violent one, though a simple Youtube search for "police brutality" will yield lots of results. Those are the ones caught on camera. What about the ones which aren't? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
I am not afraid of cops getting free pass on some assaults.
I'm very sorry to hear that and to see it moderated +5 Insightful. I hope you change your viewpoint on this topic and I also hope nothing too drastic has to occur for you to realize how terrible what you just said is.
I am afraid of future where anyones life is easily pieced together from footage gathered from hundreds/thousands walking cameras, analyzed for weaknesses and exploited. Anytime you run afoul of little pointless law, anytime you do something that can easily be taken out of context to villify you, any secret you might want to keep secret.
Yes, that sucks, too. But government servants, especially those that have our sanction to act violently, must be watched as closely as you describe.
Who among us would want to remain anonymous? Especially on /.?
Full disclosure: we all know odds are I'm not one of us.
Seconded. Incredibly lame answers. He missed the obvious answer to #3:
3) "If you were a pizza delivery man, how would you benefit from scissors?" -- Apple, Specialist interview.
That would mostly depend on which neighborhoods I'd be delivering to. I suppose I could feel a bit safer, though since almost every robber has a gun, now, I'm not sure scissors would cut it. (for best results, interrupt the next question with "get it? 'cut it'", then maintain a blank stare for as long as possible)
You have no idea how right you are. It was for a position in marketing.
I actually did this once (did not get the job, despite being recommended by a friend who worked there):
-Name three of your strengths.
-Well... I'm honest and... let's see... I'm reasonably quick to spot and diagnose flaws in any given system... and I'd say I'm creative.
-Good. And do you have any weaknesses?
-I'm a liar.
Since the problem is maintaining transfer speed, it would make more sense to offer heavily discounted plans that would usually provide, say, 35mpbs, but only 1mbps at peak hours (say, 6pm to 10pm).
do I have any physical place where someone finding out my passwords would be the least of my concerns? If you have a place like that, store your passwords there.
You just gave me the best idea ever: tattoo your passwords on your penis. The chance of losing it is small when compared to the chances of losing a notebook or piece of paper, it's a private location and chances are social engineering industrial espionage attempts will have to get pretty interesting. I can see only two minor problems with my plan: first, you might not be able to fit strong passwords in there. If you end up only being able to fit easy to brute force passwords, I suggest you use the old piece of paper method, and maybe a pump. Second, your work may be one of those that use five or six different systems, all with different passwords, and rotate them on a monthly basis. You can still stick with the idea, but oh, boy, you're going to be sore.
Also, his country wants to throw him in jail for exposing foul play, so he is forced to flee. Some other country offers shelter, perhaps in exchange for information, and so an idiot says "oh, that kind of betrayal is unforgivable". Really? Hey, US, protip: want to avoid the risk of defection? Then don't treat your own like enemies to start with.
Interestingly, in my experience, XP is only significantly faster (and has a smaller memory footprint) until you install SP2. Then it's about the same as 7.
OS analogy, in this case, boils down simply to PEBKAC. The OS did its job, but he was trying to achieve gigabit speeds on 802.11b wifi. Many fellow network admins have died doing exactly that.
It's the kind of attitude you'd expect from Jeremy Clakson, an idiot who regularly speeds and sees a fellow idiot crashing at unsafe speeds for public roads as a victim of something other than himself.
Sorry about that. We'll be appending Wikipedia to every article in the future. It's not like you could search it or Google on a separate browser tab, anyway, right?
I'm with you. I strongly prefer printed books due to lots of small reasons, like being virtually mug-free, not running out of batteries, providing conversation material (even when sitting on a bookshelf) etc. However, space has been a problem. My shelves are packed and nowadays I think none of us apartment dwellers has enough space for a proper library. So now I'm considering biting the bullet and getting Pynchon's latest novel on ebook form.
They're about in line with the Moto G, itself a pretty capable phone. Frankly, it's the sweet spot for most people, especially when you factor in non-subsidized prices and power consumption. My Nexus 4 sure is powerful, but the thing can chew through 25% of its battery in less than 10 minutes when doing intense stuff like updating the OS or changing runtime libraries.
The landfill itself seems to be the bigger problem. Everything takes ages to decompose, not only plastic:
http://environment.about.com/od/recycling/a/biodegradable.htm
Maybe we'll eventually have sewer-like vacuum tubes for solid trash, but until then I don't see plastic bags disappearing. They're needed for storage and transportation.
Well, I tend to choose plastic bags at the supermarket because later I use them for garbage disposal. AFAIK, that's the norm (and very harmful to the environment, but garbage bags are plastic everywhere, aren't they?).
This. I usually check Tom's Hardware, too, but keep in mind they mostly care about gaming. Also, Phoronix is the only site AFAIK that does Linux HW reviews.
Don't start being passive-aggressive with me. There's plenty of others who haven't lost their teeth in the fight against microorganisms. How come fire still works, huh? Fire doesn't make any of your lousy excuses about being overused, and it's been working with us for much longer than you. Mostly on corpses, since it lacks your sense of moderation, but hey, it works really well. In fact, I'd say fire is somewhat like a flame, still burning bright after all these years, while your skills seem to be decomposing, for some reason.
7|-|3Y \/\/||_|_ |\|3\/3|2 (/\7(|-| /\/\3 /\|_|\/3
There. Identify me now, bastards.
Wasn't alcohol about as dangerous during the prohibition? I distinctively remember some mobsters and some shooting.
Well, it's your fault for not being effective anymore, fuzzyfuzzyfungus.