Because they may have had a warrant and it was for go daddy.
We don't know. I'm not an expert on international criminal law enforcement. Particularly with sophisticated phishing scams. I think it's a little off the rails to immediately blame the Feds investigating it. We as a culture have decided that hard facts are oppressive and innuendo and paranoia are comforting and I can't get behind that either.
The problem with ongoing investigations, particularly with international ongoing investigations, is that transparency can work against you in big ways. So I really think that the outrage at the US Federal Government is really kind of baseless at this point. They made a request and... Godaddy complied.
However, it's pretty goddamn clear GoDaddy doesn't give two shits about their customers. They should be ashamed of what they do.
As pissed as I am about the anti Government freakout by the libertards on the internet, THIS is what SOPA would do. Unilateral shutdown of sites someone doesn't like.
It's not about picture quality. It's not about 'user experience', which is so vague as to be meaningless.
Something the tech geek crowd will always miss.
There's a reason why iOS has a higher customer satisfaction rating than Android does. It's user experience.
For TVs to work well, it doesn't have to support features, it has to support features to the point where people can look at the remote and not see a sea of buttons.
2k+ content isn't coming for a LOOOONG time. 10 years at least. It took a long enough time to get to 1080i, and 1080p isn't even on the goddamned table.
Why? Bandwidth. There just simply isn't enough OTA bandwidth to support it, not enough satellite bandwidth to support it, cable bandwidth and certainly not enough IP bandwidth to support 2k+ content. Even FiOS isn't a magic bullet; you need back haul to support that kind of downstream and I don't know if Verizon or other FTTP vendors are interested in supporting 1080p+ yet if no network's on board to support it. Even if they had early mover advantage, there's no impetus to get on the move to super duper high res content.
At 1080p, and doing mostly web browsing and non-gaming tasks, a smart TV could in theory, last 10+ years.
What should be more thought provoking isn't that the general public hasn't grasped why general purpose computing is important but why we have failed to make the case as to why general purpose computing is *better*.
People go to restaurants! Must be a war against home cooking.
Slashdot Mirror
Church of the subgenius
Every time the methodology has been talked about for any pseudo scientific claim it's always been somehow wrong.
The JREF has been doing this for decades. They've been trying different methodologies.
Because they may have had a warrant and it was for go daddy.
We don't know. I'm not an expert on international criminal law enforcement. Particularly with sophisticated phishing scams. I think it's a little off the rails to immediately blame the Feds investigating it. We as a culture have decided that hard facts are oppressive and innuendo and paranoia are comforting and I can't get behind that either.
The problem with ongoing investigations, particularly with international ongoing investigations, is that transparency can work against you in big ways. So I really think that the outrage at the US Federal Government is really kind of baseless at this point. They made a request and... Godaddy complied.
However, it's pretty goddamn clear GoDaddy doesn't give two shits about their customers. They should be ashamed of what they do.
As pissed as I am about the anti Government freakout by the libertards on the internet, THIS is what SOPA would do. Unilateral shutdown of sites someone doesn't like.
I'm a U.S. citizen, and I'm so fucking sick and tired of the shit my government is doing lately, particularly this shit
How about some context asshole? They're not shutting it down, in fact, it's back online.
Icon clutterfest? You mean like mission control? Which goes away and comes back at a keystroke or gesture
as opposed to a biannual?
10.0 - 10.2 were kind of the exception but:
2003 - 10.3
2005 - 10.4
2007 - 10.5
2009 - 10.6
2011 - 10.7
and now they're moving to annual updates.
gruber's got a few words on mountain lion..
Interesting to see Apple's moving to an annual release cycle.
Where do they dig up these mouth breathers?
First off, I neary tuned out when he made,a dismissive jab at the iPad calling it fashionable. Cute. Real professional.
Then I started to tune out when he started to drown in corporate double speak about workflows that do not represent reality.
Err. What? I want the minute of my life back.
It's so shiny and Apple claims it really, really cool.
You mean nokia, HTC, moto, sony, samsung, et al aren't Foxconn's customers?
It's close to my lunch time, can I hear from Pizza Analogy Guy?
This was also the same Grammys that just 3 years ago said they were the victim of Chris Brown beating the crap out of Rihanna.
Parse that sentence again.
Yeah, fuck the grammys.
Although it's not just iTunes. Garage Band, Logic Pro and OSX's stellar audio performance and FireWire support probably also helped immensely.
Good to hear the ex-co-ceos of RIM both stick behind their product.
You're assuming everyone has a collection going back to 1979.
As if anyone could POSSIBLY be born before 1992...
It's not about picture quality. It's not about 'user experience', which is so vague as to be meaningless.
Something the tech geek crowd will always miss.
There's a reason why iOS has a higher customer satisfaction rating than Android does. It's user experience.
For TVs to work well, it doesn't have to support features, it has to support features to the point where people can look at the remote and not see a sea of buttons.
Any exec who thought this was UX needs to be dragged out into the street and horsewhipped publicly.
It'd make an awesome controller for MechWarrior though.
The Revolution will be tweeted, facebooked and spread all through out the vast network of Diaspora nodes.
It will be started when a video of a cat batting around a canister of tear gas goes insanely viral.
Except apple tv doesn't work like that. If it sees the content on your network, it plays it. It's how it works for PCs but Apple TVs/iPod/IPad/etc?
Nope. Chuck Testa.
2k+ content isn't coming for a LOOOONG time. 10 years at least. It took a long enough time to get to 1080i, and 1080p isn't even on the goddamned table.
Why? Bandwidth. There just simply isn't enough OTA bandwidth to support it, not enough satellite bandwidth to support it, cable bandwidth and certainly not enough IP bandwidth to support 2k+ content. Even FiOS isn't a magic bullet; you need back haul to support that kind of downstream and I don't know if Verizon or other FTTP vendors are interested in supporting 1080p+ yet if no network's on board to support it. Even if they had early mover advantage, there's no impetus to get on the move to super duper high res content.
At 1080p, and doing mostly web browsing and non-gaming tasks, a smart TV could in theory, last 10+ years.
There's no reason to dislike Windows Phone either, it's all about taste at this point.
Unfortunately this being Windows and Microsoft...
Metro IS gorgeous; but would I want to live with it? It's like a Frank Gehry building. Amazing to look at shitty to live in.
Clearly not but consumption? In order to consume properly a device must be easy to interact with. Thus leading to creation.
I don't think that consumption means what you think it means.
Musicians, artists, writers and all sorts of creative people have been doing wonderful things with tablets.
I think what you're looking for is developer unfriendly.
What should be more thought provoking isn't that the general public hasn't grasped why general purpose computing is important but why we have failed to make the case as to why general purpose computing is *better*.
People go to restaurants! Must be a war against home cooking.
It's ridiculous.
Time to get a few jem hadar to come by and raze your house and destroy your infrastructure.
Then you'll be caught up with them :D
To be fair to the NWS, if they're issuing alerts, they should probably be shouted.
What's more appropriate?
"200 inches of rain expected. You are urged to evacuate." ...or...
"200 INCHES OF RAIN EXPECTED YOU ARE URGED TO EVACUATE"
?