This is not about the word app -- it's about the phrase App Store (or appstore, or any permutation involving spaces between the two words and capitalization).
A phrase that Apple is not the first user of in commerce.. in other words, that Apple does not have exclusive use of.
Salesforce.com used it first back in 2006 to refer to a product,
AppStore will give customers a single source for trying, buying and deploying AppExchange applications
Now you tell me.... how different Amazon's product really is in type from Salesforces' ?:)
You're talking about statistical corelations. There is no evidence that having Blue eyes has anything to do with any of those.
People who have allergies or nearsightedness would certainly like to have an app to fix them, though.
Those definitely fall under the category of illness/disability/health problem, just like homosexuality does.
You mean they're worried terrorists might blow something up?
No. TEPCO is the fourth largest power company in the world, and they own 1/3 of the Japanese market.
If another company got the inside scoop on the layout of their reactors, it could enable them to better compete against TEPCO.
If there was an explosion at a wire center for a major city, and it somehow became an international incident, you think AT&T would consent to a foreign government disclosing drone footage?
Hell... last I checked, they don't even allow anyone to bring a cell phone with a built-in camera into any of their facilities.
It's not necessarily so much about stopping terrorists as it may be that.... it could be in violation of the company's disclosure policies... in other words, the company wouldn't provide required permission
In Japan they're even more concerned about that form of privacy than in the US.
Proprietary information doesn't get disclosed.
Catholic priests don't reproduce, either. Should we wipe out the Catholic Church, too?
If you want to write an app to attempt to convince catholic priests who want to buy the app to become non-priests, then more power to you.
Refraining from sexual activity altogether is a bit different from unnatural sexuality.
And catholic priests take a vow not to reproduce -- that's a personal choice, and does not mean they lack sexuality or are not driven to reproduce with the opposite sex.
In fact... there is some question about how many of the Catholic priests are actually faithful to their promise.
Obviously they cannot be married under the church, but it is still very possible for a Catholic priest to go to a bar one night,
get drunk, and wake up in bed with a chick and a blank memory of the previous night.
And there are more intentional affairs as well. Labelling Catholic priests as asexual would be at best disingenuous:)
Reality disagrees. Apparently it IS a normal human trait, for plenty of people. "Normal" is not synonymous with the majority". Or are you going to say that blue-eyed, left-handed, white-skinned people are unnatural and that these are not normal human traits?
Color of eyes, hand preference, and skin color vary without difference in behavior or other negative effects.
On the other hand, homosexuality = inability to reproduce.
Because there is no natural way that two women or two women reproduce.
Just because "plenty" of people have an irregular trait does not make it normal.
If the entire population became homosexual, civilization as we knew it would end within a few generations, since there would be no new births.
You mean an app based on the idea that homosexuality is immoral, and that such people need to be "fixed" is not gay bashing??
Homosexuality is unnatural, as in not a normal human trait.
People who are homosexual have an illness, just like people who are born sterile have an illness/ailment.
If a homosexual person is looking at the app, then they chose to buy it, and they want help curing their illness,
and establishing normal healthy sexuality.
The footage probably shows proprietary possibly security-sensitive information about TEPCO's private facility.
Not necessarily about the 'status' of the reactors, BUT about the design of the reactors -- what they look like -- how the building is laid out, where things are, etc.
Does the US government release Microsoft Windows source code, when there is a worm release such as W32/Blaster?
Who cares about redundancy? The single point of failure in a flying car is the human pilot
And given how badly people drive their earthbound cars, I'm scared as hell at the thought of people driving flying cars.
Especially anywhere near my house.
But if the City's floating, and far from shallow depths, the tsunami travels under the city harmlessly.
The harder problem is storms at sea, and extreme wave activity.
During a storm, the water level at one portion of the city could spike to extreme height, while at the other side there's a 1000ft drop.
In other words the "floating" city could become a sinking city really fast, unless it is completely sealed,
and all the structures in it can survive all sorts of rocky motion and sometimes being flipped completely upside down.
Or the city is so massive in size and internally so structurally sound no storm that ever really happens can compromise the flotation.
Including drop off of water at random places under the middle of the city
If you are just outside the devastation zone, then how are you going to provide for yourself and help others?
Seems like everyone needs to dig and construct a waterproof, earthquake proof, chamber under their house to stock enough food and water
to sustain a few thousand people for a few months.
Long term storage of water should be easy... but I wonder... what type of feed has a long enough shelf life that you could stick it in storage
for a few hundred years, and use it at any time without spoilage or contamination worries?
Even if the diesel is available the traffic snarls up bad. If the data centre is inside a region badly hit the officials will close the area to everyone for their "safety" even if the building is safe.
There are ways around that. You may need to own quite a bit of property though to bulldoze a temporary road into your datacenter, from outside the area,
and you need sufficient fencing and other such items in place to deter unlawful entry by other people who might interfere.
Another way would be to be recognized by your local government as workers supporting critical inrastructure, such as communication services required by the government. With the right papers, signage, and/or social engineering/disguise, it's possible to circumvent any barrier.
They have other options... they could parcel it out.... e.g. " for the low low price of $1000/CPU/year you too can have a prestigious @sun.com e-mail address "
Is there a financial instrument out there that will let me short-sell whatever moron thinks sun.com is worth more than pocket change?
Yeah... it's called selling sun.com to the person.
However, since the person you call moron is actually going to use the domain, probably, you'll have to deliver it.
There's no derivatives exchange for domains, so it's not like you can go to some exchange and buy a PUT option for sun.com.
You could setup to buy the option in private though via private contract; "In exchange for $X, you give me the right to sell you SUN.COM for $Y good until DD/MM/YYYY"; it would necessitate you finding someone who thinks SUN.COM is worth more than you think it is and are willing to take the risk --
$X you pay will probably have to be very large, or they'll be quite averse to that risk, especially if you require them to provide a performance bond (or other assurance that they do not become insolvent and fail to fork over the $$$ to buy the domain from you, should you exercise the option).
The internet is full of links to sun.com from all sorts of web pages that will never be removed. Anyone who owns the domain gets literally millions of link referrals for free.
Invalidation of those links would hurt people who have purchased Sun's products....
In many cases, those would be links to documentation, downloads, help references, etc.
You can't debunk the Spaghetti Monster. He's real. You can try, of course, but if you don't lie or fabricate you can't do it. I'm not sure about invisible pink unicorns.
I can't dig it up at the moment... but there is an ironclad theorem that states "If Invisible Pink unicorns exist, then there is no Spaghetti Monster"
We have spotted some Invisible Pink unicorns in the wild (don't ask how), which proves they exist, therefore, there is no physical Spaghetti Monster, sorry.
We trust in that process to smack down crackpot tabletop fusion physicists.
As a colleague of several tabletop fusion physicists; I resent your namecalling them crackpots.
It's just unfortunate that you are unable to appreciate how truly groundbreaking their work will eventually be, when they succeed,
despite uniformed namesayers throwing around slurs like "crackpot".
The tabletop fusion physicists deserve protection from discrimination too, it seems
Get ready for new proposal from the feds
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Ban of porn web sites and e-mail senders not properly labelled under the.XXX TLD.
This would be useful for law enforcement as well....
Imagine cities where near every corner there's at least one hidden gun shot detector, and several backups on every street;
with PoE network connection and battery+Wireless mesh+GSM backup.
Perhaps you could have some in your home if you wanted, tied to alarm system panic.
Or someone could come up with a county-provided WiFi network with a "WiFi911/Ethernet911 option"
for using IP technology for the gunshot detector to call for help.
If someone shoots off a gun, police may be auto-dispatched to the exact coordinates.
Then if they got a silencer-defeat technology; this could be used to ID dangerous illegal discharge of firearms in ways gun control laws alone cannot.
Final year thesis on the origin of man - "God did it."
Then they'll bust you for length when you go to defend that thesis, fail.
Or... they might have such a sense of humor that they pass you on creativity.
Better have some showing of work to back that up.
I think the rational research process and academic work relevant to your field is more important to them than the subject of what you are arguing.
So if you're in humanities, you could get an A with that thesis. If you're in science, you get an F, because your conclusion cannot come from science.
There is no observation to establish the origin of man. People have tried for millenia; it's a more general philosophy thing, not a science thing.
Science only deals with falsifiable things -- and you can't disprove God as the origin of man, even if it's false.
God is the origin of man, but Science doesn't say that, and it's not even a valid scientific theory, because Science is incapable of having that law
or theory, due to the lack of scientific observation or falsifiability.
So if you bring that as a thesis in a science field, you should be thrown out:)
They can submit their papers for peer review, just like everyone else. Or does "Scientific Scrutiny" count as "Discrimination" these days?
And when their peers reject and the journal refuses to publish, they can sue the journal for discrimination in violation of this Texas law, and compel them to publish and pay punitive damages to teh author.
Literally speaking, they're obviously not essential because there was a time when firearms didn't exist, yet human life was still preserved.
There was not any point in the history of human civilization where there was not some kind of weapon used.
Different types of arms were used at different times.
The purposes were the same, and the dangers were the same.
It's just that they were less effective at preserving human life, and they were not as powerful a deterrant as a modified firearm
You going to say next that sword manufacturers, arrow makers, and people whose trade was to sharpen pointy sticks were evil too?
And any company that makes equipment used by any military is considered unethical?
Hell... if firearm manufacturers are unethical, what do you think about bomb manufacturers?
How about nuclear power plant designers?
Let's just ignore all legitimate uses of these devices and assume they are all inherently evil.
Nobody uses dynamite for any purpose but to blow people up, right?
And guns are used for nothing but to shoot people, right?
It comes from getting the privilege of writing the law.
They are a big corporation, therefore whatever they say is the law to you.
Just be thankful they didn't buy the order to compel everyone who PayPal donated to them to show up in court or be jailed for contempt.
That $50 could cost a few months worth of pay, while their lawyers depose you with zealous interrogation tactics, until you crack... and by "crack" I mean make a mistake and say something inconsistent, that lets them declare you one and the same as the pirate.
Who do you think the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act was really named after?
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This is not about the word app -- it's about the phrase App Store (or appstore, or any permutation involving spaces between the two words and capitalization).
A phrase that Apple is not the first user of in commerce.. in other words, that Apple does not have exclusive use of.
Salesforce.com used it first back in 2006 to refer to a product,
See any negatives in the above list?
You're talking about statistical corelations. There is no evidence that having Blue eyes has anything to do with any of those.
People who have allergies or nearsightedness would certainly like to have an app to fix them, though. Those definitely fall under the category of illness/disability/health problem, just like homosexuality does.
Homosexuality exists in nature. Deal with it.
Just because something exists in nature does not mean it is natural.
Animals kill each other in nature.
That doesn't mean murdering another person and eating their flesh is natural.
You mean they're worried terrorists might blow something up?
No. TEPCO is the fourth largest power company in the world, and they own 1/3 of the Japanese market.
If another company got the inside scoop on the layout of their reactors, it could enable them to better compete against TEPCO.
If there was an explosion at a wire center for a major city, and it somehow became an international incident, you think AT&T would consent to a foreign government disclosing drone footage?
Hell... last I checked, they don't even allow anyone to bring a cell phone with a built-in camera into any of their facilities.
It's not necessarily so much about stopping terrorists as it may be that.... it could be in violation of the company's disclosure policies... in other words, the company wouldn't provide required permission
In Japan they're even more concerned about that form of privacy than in the US. Proprietary information doesn't get disclosed.
Catholic priests don't reproduce, either. Should we wipe out the Catholic Church, too?
If you want to write an app to attempt to convince catholic priests who want to buy the app to become non-priests, then more power to you.
Refraining from sexual activity altogether is a bit different from unnatural sexuality.
And catholic priests take a vow not to reproduce -- that's a personal choice, and does not mean they lack sexuality or are not driven to reproduce with the opposite sex.
In fact... there is some question about how many of the Catholic priests are actually faithful to their promise. Obviously they cannot be married under the church, but it is still very possible for a Catholic priest to go to a bar one night, get drunk, and wake up in bed with a chick and a blank memory of the previous night.
And there are more intentional affairs as well. Labelling Catholic priests as asexual would be at best disingenuous :)
Reality disagrees. Apparently it IS a normal human trait, for plenty of people. "Normal" is not synonymous with the majority". Or are you going to say that blue-eyed, left-handed, white-skinned people are unnatural and that these are not normal human traits?
Color of eyes, hand preference, and skin color vary without difference in behavior or other negative effects.
On the other hand, homosexuality = inability to reproduce. Because there is no natural way that two women or two women reproduce.
Just because "plenty" of people have an irregular trait does not make it normal.
If the entire population became homosexual, civilization as we knew it would end within a few generations, since there would be no new births.
Would you be equally against someone releasing an app to try and stop people from smoking?
I talked to a friend who works for a cigarette company, and he found the notion as an app to 'try and stop people from smoking' to be outrageous.
I'm sure should such an app emerge, there would be many cries for Apple to pull the app out of respect for smokers' religion.
You mean an app based on the idea that homosexuality is immoral, and that such people need to be "fixed" is not gay bashing??
Homosexuality is unnatural, as in not a normal human trait. People who are homosexual have an illness, just like people who are born sterile have an illness/ailment.
If a homosexual person is looking at the app, then they chose to buy it, and they want help curing their illness, and establishing normal healthy sexuality.
The footage probably shows proprietary possibly security-sensitive information about TEPCO's private facility.
Not necessarily about the 'status' of the reactors, BUT about the design of the reactors -- what they look like -- how the building is laid out, where things are, etc.
Does the US government release Microsoft Windows source code, when there is a worm release such as W32/Blaster?
Who cares about redundancy? The single point of failure in a flying car is the human pilot
And given how badly people drive their earthbound cars, I'm scared as hell at the thought of people driving flying cars. Especially anywhere near my house.
How would tsunamis affect a city floating in the air?
Floating in the air, you have hurricanes and cosmic radiation to deal with.
The higher you float, the greater the problem the radiation exposure is. The lower you float, the more likely a tsunami would be devastating
Underwater eathquakes cause tsunamis.
But if the City's floating, and far from shallow depths, the tsunami travels under the city harmlessly.
The harder problem is storms at sea, and extreme wave activity.
During a storm, the water level at one portion of the city could spike to extreme height, while at the other side there's a 1000ft drop.
In other words the "floating" city could become a sinking city really fast, unless it is completely sealed, and all the structures in it can survive all sorts of rocky motion and sometimes being flipped completely upside down.
Or the city is so massive in size and internally so structurally sound no storm that ever really happens can compromise the flotation.
Including drop off of water at random places under the middle of the city
If you are just outside the devastation zone, then how are you going to provide for yourself and help others?
Seems like everyone needs to dig and construct a waterproof, earthquake proof, chamber under their house to stock enough food and water to sustain a few thousand people for a few months.
Long term storage of water should be easy... but I wonder... what type of feed has a long enough shelf life that you could stick it in storage for a few hundred years, and use it at any time without spoilage or contamination worries?
Even if the diesel is available the traffic snarls up bad. If the data centre is inside a region badly hit the officials will close the area to everyone for their "safety" even if the building is safe.
There are ways around that. You may need to own quite a bit of property though to bulldoze a temporary road into your datacenter, from outside the area, and you need sufficient fencing and other such items in place to deter unlawful entry by other people who might interfere.
Another way would be to be recognized by your local government as workers supporting critical inrastructure, such as communication services required by the government. With the right papers, signage, and/or social engineering/disguise, it's possible to circumvent any barrier.
They have other options... they could parcel it out.... e.g. " for the low low price of $1000/CPU/year you too can have a prestigious @sun.com e-mail address "
Is there a financial instrument out there that will let me short-sell whatever moron thinks sun.com is worth more than pocket change?
Yeah... it's called selling sun.com to the person.
However, since the person you call moron is actually going to use the domain, probably, you'll have to deliver it.
There's no derivatives exchange for domains, so it's not like you can go to some exchange and buy a PUT option for sun.com. You could setup to buy the option in private though via private contract; "In exchange for $X, you give me the right to sell you SUN.COM for $Y good until DD/MM/YYYY"; it would necessitate you finding someone who thinks SUN.COM is worth more than you think it is and are willing to take the risk -- $X you pay will probably have to be very large, or they'll be quite averse to that risk, especially if you require them to provide a performance bond (or other assurance that they do not become insolvent and fail to fork over the $$$ to buy the domain from you, should you exercise the option).
The internet is full of links to sun.com from all sorts of web pages that will never be removed. Anyone who owns the domain gets literally millions of link referrals for free.
Invalidation of those links would hurt people who have purchased Sun's products....
In many cases, those would be links to documentation, downloads, help references, etc.
You can't debunk the Spaghetti Monster. He's real. You can try, of course, but if you don't lie or fabricate you can't do it. I'm not sure about invisible pink unicorns.
I can't dig it up at the moment... but there is an ironclad theorem that states "If Invisible Pink unicorns exist, then there is no Spaghetti Monster"
We have spotted some Invisible Pink unicorns in the wild (don't ask how), which proves they exist, therefore, there is no physical Spaghetti Monster, sorry.
We trust in that process to smack down crackpot tabletop fusion physicists.
As a colleague of several tabletop fusion physicists; I resent your namecalling them crackpots.
It's just unfortunate that you are unable to appreciate how truly groundbreaking their work will eventually be, when they succeed, despite uniformed namesayers throwing around slurs like "crackpot".
The tabletop fusion physicists deserve protection from discrimination too, it seems
Ban of porn web sites and e-mail senders not properly labelled under the .XXX TLD.
This would be useful for law enforcement as well....
Imagine cities where near every corner there's at least one hidden gun shot detector, and several backups on every street; with PoE network connection and battery+Wireless mesh+GSM backup. Perhaps you could have some in your home if you wanted, tied to alarm system panic. Or someone could come up with a county-provided WiFi network with a "WiFi911/Ethernet911 option" for using IP technology for the gunshot detector to call for help.
If someone shoots off a gun, police may be auto-dispatched to the exact coordinates.
Then if they got a silencer-defeat technology; this could be used to ID dangerous illegal discharge of firearms in ways gun control laws alone cannot.
Final year thesis on the origin of man - "God did it."
Then they'll bust you for length when you go to defend that thesis, fail.
Or... they might have such a sense of humor that they pass you on creativity. Better have some showing of work to back that up. I think the rational research process and academic work relevant to your field is more important to them than the subject of what you are arguing.
So if you're in humanities, you could get an A with that thesis. If you're in science, you get an F, because your conclusion cannot come from science. There is no observation to establish the origin of man. People have tried for millenia; it's a more general philosophy thing, not a science thing.
Science only deals with falsifiable things -- and you can't disprove God as the origin of man, even if it's false.
God is the origin of man, but Science doesn't say that, and it's not even a valid scientific theory, because Science is incapable of having that law or theory, due to the lack of scientific observation or falsifiability.
So if you bring that as a thesis in a science field, you should be thrown out :)
They can submit their papers for peer review, just like everyone else. Or does "Scientific Scrutiny" count as "Discrimination" these days?
And when their peers reject and the journal refuses to publish, they can sue the journal for discrimination in violation of this Texas law, and compel them to publish and pay punitive damages to teh author.
Literally speaking, they're obviously not essential because there was a time when firearms didn't exist, yet human life was still preserved.
There was not any point in the history of human civilization where there was not some kind of weapon used.
Different types of arms were used at different times. The purposes were the same, and the dangers were the same. It's just that they were less effective at preserving human life, and they were not as powerful a deterrant as a modified firearm
You going to say next that sword manufacturers, arrow makers, and people whose trade was to sharpen pointy sticks were evil too?
And any company that makes equipment used by any military is considered unethical?
Hell... if firearm manufacturers are unethical, what do you think about bomb manufacturers? How about nuclear power plant designers?
Let's just ignore all legitimate uses of these devices and assume they are all inherently evil. Nobody uses dynamite for any purpose but to blow people up, right? And guns are used for nothing but to shoot people, right?
It comes from getting the privilege of writing the law.
They are a big corporation, therefore whatever they say is the law to you. Just be thankful they didn't buy the order to compel everyone who PayPal donated to them to show up in court or be jailed for contempt.
That $50 could cost a few months worth of pay, while their lawyers depose you with zealous interrogation tactics, until you crack... and by "crack" I mean make a mistake and say something inconsistent, that lets them declare you one and the same as the pirate.
Who do you think the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act was really named after?