Facebook is... Facebook has... fucking SEO monkeys must be at work making sure the company isn't referred to as "it", because that ruins the google-ability of the article, and they'd rather have SEO ratings than text that reads like it's been written by a fucking 3rd grader.
The problem is that you can't tell who can and who can't. Do you go by their word? I wouldn't trust a system that states everyone is capable until proven otherwise because the "proven otherwise" scenario usually means harm to others.
I suppose future cars will contain AI like some video games have, that make a level harder if it sees the player is a pro, and vice-versa: set maximum speed to 55 if, after a test, it's detected noob-like driving. Add GPS and a database of speed limits (I've seen a navigation software that already has such a DB), and it's foolproof until someone dies because they couldn't get away from the t-rex chasing them at their max-speed + 1 mph.
Perhaps it could come with a force-override button that also notifies the police, so that they can be the judge of whether the speeding was necessary. But that's getting pretty Orwellian...
As for myself, as a passenger I do pay attention to the roads, making sure I do so when the driver is distracted (e.g. when he glances to make eye contact in discussion). Perhaps passengers need to have that training as well, surely 2 distracted brains are better than one (distracted one).
IMO, visiting aliens (and the human race itself, once it's decided to go for interstellar missions) will more probably be completely electronic, having Kurzweil-esque electronic simulation of neurons and synapses that is our brains, and so being able to survive the very long travel periods.
Actually, why do people take the 140 character limit as if it's the speed of light anyway? I know it's because of SMS, but this is the freaking 21st century! It's like forcing people to use only 26 letters to write stuff because it has to be compatible with the telegraph, and Morse only has encoding for said letters! Arrrgggghhh!!!
Presumably a simple XOR would make them be able to come up with that sentence... hell, any sentence thinkable in the world! "Look, if we apply these bytes, the secret message says [...]!"
But, the "upload file to device" tool doesn't care what file you're trying to upload or if iTunes can open it. That's why you can e.g. upload an Excel file for some 3rd party Excel-clone to display.. iTunes certainly can't open Excel files...
Seconded... it is not a fork people! Unless you want to call all modifications done for different providers (O2, Vodafone, T-Mobile, Verizon) and by different hardware vendors (HTC, Motorola, who else?) "forks", it's not a fork!
It'd be calling an Ubuntu installation that has some extra programs installed and some files in/etc modified a fork...
This is pretty bigoted, IMO.. if the poster didn't mention "India", no one would be talking about "oh is that the training grounds for those outsourced maroons?".
Of course, I can't imagine anyone hoping to talk about GNU/Linux to 8th graders in the west (to paint with a very broad brush), so at least India have the edge there.
What I find embarrassing though is the number of people on forums and mailing lists who say "I want to do [something amateurish], can you provide me how to do this including complete source code?", which shows lack of self education and the inability to google, or even the lack of education on how to build things from parts, maybe because all they've learnt is rote memorization. Unfortunately these people have names which identify them to originate from one particular region of the world...
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Actually, they have these in Europe for the trains that go across the English Channel, here's a vid (starts at 5:32)... but no idea how fast they load/unload.
I wish I could do a Lewis Black-type angry rant using simple text, but why the fuck does Flash deserve to be called "wedge issue"!? Fuck you CWJmike or whatever your nickname is!
Is it an HTC Desire? Google "leedroid", it's a hacker-made Android 2.2, but he does say Orange users need an unlock-code when upgrading the radio firmware... the hacker's also on Orange UK, so he might have some more info.
Ah, my HTC Desire runs a hacker-made Android 2.2 (google "leedroid"), installed using a hacker-made recovery mode (google "unrevoked3"). It runs great, any Vodafone customers reading this should try it.
I wonder how the AJAX-crazy Facebook would work for the poor-sighted anyway... I have a hunch: not very good.
And imagine the TTS-engine: "Moron McDumbass needs an UZI for a Mafia Wars raid. Moron McDumbass needs bullets for a Mafia Wars raid. Moron McDumbass needs a getaway car for a Mafia Wars raid."
... and why would a typical ignorant user bother to jailbreak? If they got the phone jailbroken by their techie friend, it can be hoped that that techie friend also installed this loader warning...
Actually, it'd be great if jailbreakme.com either installs the warn mechanism straight away, or offers it as an opt-out default on their website.
Presumably, one could create an app store app that has a UIWebView and some PDF data with corrupted fonts, and make that a jailbreak tool, but that would be just doing it the hard way...
Oh, the advisory says a corrupted PDF is just one of the exploits, I read somewhere else that the font-parsing mechanism was put in the kernel, and a flaw there allowed a kernel-level exploit, so I guess that's wrong then.
And incredibly for me, because I never use IE, I never updated my Flash for IE plugin, only noticing this problem when Google Earth (which uses the IE engine) couldn't display YouTube videos. So, ironically, using non-IE browsers and keeping the Flash plugin there up-to-date left me more vulnerable to an exploit (if I happen to use a program using the IE engine) -- if I had used IE I would've probably updated Flash sooner.
So there's another hole to exploit: try to load Flash content linked from a Google Earth file, and hope the user has been using the good browsers that he didn't notice that his Flash for IE is outdated...
AFAIK they strive to be independent, although they are paid for by the public (license fees), which is the same model as the BBC, also another trusted name in journalism (depending on who you ask... for a lot of people the only trustworthy name is FOX News).
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"that's not been written by"...
Whargbl!
Facebook is... Facebook has... fucking SEO monkeys must be at work making sure the company isn't referred to as "it", because that ruins the google-ability of the article, and they'd rather have SEO ratings than text that reads like it's been written by a fucking 3rd grader.
SEO-experts... even worse than lawyers.
I suppose future cars will contain AI like some video games have, that make a level harder if it sees the player is a pro, and vice-versa: set maximum speed to 55 if, after a test, it's detected noob-like driving. Add GPS and a database of speed limits (I've seen a navigation software that already has such a DB), and it's foolproof until someone dies because they couldn't get away from the t-rex chasing them at their max-speed + 1 mph.
Perhaps it could come with a force-override button that also notifies the police, so that they can be the judge of whether the speeding was necessary. But that's getting pretty Orwellian...
Wikipedia has some, and some against...
As for myself, as a passenger I do pay attention to the roads, making sure I do so when the driver is distracted (e.g. when he glances to make eye contact in discussion). Perhaps passengers need to have that training as well, surely 2 distracted brains are better than one (distracted one).
IMO, visiting aliens (and the human race itself, once it's decided to go for interstellar missions) will more probably be completely electronic, having Kurzweil-esque electronic simulation of neurons and synapses that is our brains, and so being able to survive the very long travel periods.
Actually, why do people take the 140 character limit as if it's the speed of light anyway? I know it's because of SMS, but this is the freaking 21st century! It's like forcing people to use only 26 letters to write stuff because it has to be compatible with the telegraph, and Morse only has encoding for said letters! Arrrgggghhh!!!
Presumably a simple XOR would make them be able to come up with that sentence... hell, any sentence thinkable in the world! "Look, if we apply these bytes, the secret message says [...]!"
Boo, predictable.
How about, "The quest for answer is suffering. Only when you have stopped searching can you reach enlightment."
But, the "upload file to device" tool doesn't care what file you're trying to upload or if iTunes can open it. That's why you can e.g. upload an Excel file for some 3rd party Excel-clone to display.. iTunes certainly can't open Excel files...
Seconded... it is not a fork people! Unless you want to call all modifications done for different providers (O2, Vodafone, T-Mobile, Verizon) and by different hardware vendors (HTC, Motorola, who else?) "forks", it's not a fork!
It'd be calling an Ubuntu installation that has some extra programs installed and some files in /etc modified a fork...
This is pretty bigoted, IMO.. if the poster didn't mention "India", no one would be talking about "oh is that the training grounds for those outsourced maroons?".
Of course, I can't imagine anyone hoping to talk about GNU/Linux to 8th graders in the west (to paint with a very broad brush), so at least India have the edge there.
What I find embarrassing though is the number of people on forums and mailing lists who say "I want to do [something amateurish], can you provide me how to do this including complete source code?", which shows lack of self education and the inability to google, or even the lack of education on how to build things from parts, maybe because all they've learnt is rote memorization. Unfortunately these people have names which identify them to originate from one particular region of the world...
So where does Evelyn Salt come into all this?
Get Sarah Palin in there! She'll just hop from her porch, and rear her ugly head into the airspace!
That'd be a funny Mr. Magoo-style spy film, Sarah Palin in a Salt-like action flick...
What's the Godwin equivalent of Sarah Palin threadjack?
Actually, they have these in Europe for the trains that go across the English Channel, here's a vid (starts at 5:32)... but no idea how fast they load/unload.
I wish I could do a Lewis Black-type angry rant using simple text, but why the fuck does Flash deserve to be called "wedge issue"!? Fuck you CWJmike or whatever your nickname is!
Is it an HTC Desire? Google "leedroid", it's a hacker-made Android 2.2, but he does say Orange users need an unlock-code when upgrading the radio firmware... the hacker's also on Orange UK, so he might have some more info.
Ah, my HTC Desire runs a hacker-made Android 2.2 (google "leedroid"), installed using a hacker-made recovery mode (google "unrevoked3"). It runs great, any Vodafone customers reading this should try it.
I wonder how the AJAX-crazy Facebook would work for the poor-sighted anyway... I have a hunch: not very good.
And imagine the TTS-engine:
"Moron McDumbass needs an UZI for a Mafia Wars raid.
Moron McDumbass needs bullets for a Mafia Wars raid.
Moron McDumbass needs a getaway car for a Mafia Wars raid."
... and why would a typical ignorant user bother to jailbreak? If they got the phone jailbroken by their techie friend, it can be hoped that that techie friend also installed this loader warning...
Actually, it'd be great if jailbreakme.com either installs the warn mechanism straight away, or offers it as an opt-out default on their website.
you forgot to add "if you don't like it, you can use HTML5"!
Presumably, one could create an app store app that has a UIWebView and some PDF data with corrupted fonts, and make that a jailbreak tool, but that would be just doing it the hard way...
Oh, the advisory says a corrupted PDF is just one of the exploits, I read somewhere else that the font-parsing mechanism was put in the kernel, and a flaw there allowed a kernel-level exploit, so I guess that's wrong then.
And incredibly for me, because I never use IE, I never updated my Flash for IE plugin, only noticing this problem when Google Earth (which uses the IE engine) couldn't display YouTube videos. So, ironically, using non-IE browsers and keeping the Flash plugin there up-to-date left me more vulnerable to an exploit (if I happen to use a program using the IE engine) -- if I had used IE I would've probably updated Flash sooner.
So there's another hole to exploit: try to load Flash content linked from a Google Earth file, and hope the user has been using the good browsers that he didn't notice that his Flash for IE is outdated...
Another tip is, don't use a frigging uncompressed 4 bytes-per-pixel BMP format for your header image!
Morons...
Several alternatives are there:
1. Use different browsers: Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari
2. Use different Firefox profiles ( http://lifehacker.com/231646/geek-to-live--manage-multiple-firefox-profiles )
3. Use the "private browsing" mode in browsers that provide them
AFAIK they strive to be independent, although they are paid for by the public (license fees), which is the same model as the BBC, also another trusted name in journalism (depending on who you ask... for a lot of people the only trustworthy name is FOX News).