Yes, this just seems like yet another attempt by Microsoft to get Linux users to pay for a Windows Server license. Why a hosting center would want to increase their costs like this I do not know.
This kind of behavior has been going on in schoolyards forever. Sometimes its a joke between friends that has no intention of hurting the targets' feelings, as it is never shared outside the group. Other times it is bullying. The difference with Facebook is that you cross the line between a private joke between friends behind someone's back and bullying without intending it.
By refusing to release the evidence, conspiracy theories can run rampant. This may be useful as a tactic to prevent the loose association of terrorist organizations that is known collectively as "Al Qaeda" from rallying around any replacement leader, as many of their members do not believe that the leader needs replacing. But it increasingly looks like Al Qaeda groups are accepting that Bin Laden was killed in this raid, so that particular reason for holding the evidence back may not be relevant anymore.
The underlying back end should be based on cell broadcasts, not SMS. SMS needs to be sent separately to each phone, which ties up the backend infrastructure with unneccesary transactions. Cell broadcasts go to all phones connected to that transmitter as a single message.
I'm guessing the price delta comes from the fact that Gumstix are an actual product you can buy, so the manufacturer has had to face the reality that their volume is too low to get the sort of pricing this article is using, and there are a lot of overheads to amortize if you don't want to lose money on the venture.
This is what the farmers will tell you, because they have grown accustomed to their handouts and can't imagine competing on a level playing field any more. The fact is that fresh produce is best when it is fresh, and flying things halfway around the world wipes out any benefit from low labour costs. And poor countries tend to be poor because they do not have enough fertile, unpopulated land to make decent export earnings from. New Zealand dropped its subsidies in the 1980s in line with free trade agreements which their trading partners later reneged on. The agriculture economy moved within a few years from a distorted economy that produced far more wool and butter than the world needed, to a more diverse agricultural economy that favoured higher profit margin products which constantly adapts to market conditions.
there is a huge economic gap between the farmers who live in the villages, and the consumers in the metropolitan cities. The government tries to subsidize the farmers by giving them money and infrastructure, but it's just not enough.
The subsidies will never be enough. Drop them and force the farmers to run their businesses efficiently and competitively. They'll hurt for a couple of years, but in the long run they'll be much better off.
Given that the going rate in Southern China for electronics factory work is about $6 per day, the company dorm is probably more comfortable than the rural shack they were raised in, and these people are away from home in an area where they have no social connections outside work with the objective to save as much money in as short a time as possible so they can go back to their village and improve the life of their family, I don't think your idea of legality would be particularly welcome there.
Or perhaps the problem will be better solved by giving them easier access to credit - from reputable sources such as banks that don't charge ursurous amounts of interest, coupled with sound financial advice designed to prevent them getting into a debt spiral as a result of trying to give their children a chance to get out of the poverty trap.
OBL was born in Saudi Arabia. I don't know if he has a birth certificate, but I wouldn't trust it if I saw it, given his connection to organizations that routinely use counterfeit documents and the levels of corruption in the governments of the region that might be able to confirm the authenticity of his records.
My experience is that Google's market restrictions (at least the ban on purchasing paid apps that most of the world is still subject to, a situation that leads to rampant app piracy on Android) are implemented by SIM card matching, not the network you are accessing from.
It needed recent legislation? Basic contract law says that they can't make changes to the contract without your agreement. If they're going to pull the "by continuing to use the service you agree to our new terms" bullshit, they at least need to allow you a way out of the contract at that point, or there is no way you can indicate your agreement.
I often saw this attitude when I was working for a company that sold a tool aimed at taking the work out of web UI building. It was very simple to convince the management of potential customers of the benefit they would get from increased productivity. But when it was passed down to developers to evaluate, they dismissed it, usually reporting back that it wasn't suitable for insert specialized backend function here rather than trying to evaluate it for the purpose it was designed for and appreciating that it would allow them to focus on the more interesting and challenging business specific details of their application.
What is interesting about this, is that although Proxima Centauri is currently the nearest star, there are other stars that will be closer within the timeframe it would take to travel there. I'm not a astronomer, so I had no idea that the Milky Way was changing so quickly (40,000 years seems a short time to me on an interstellar scale).
The general public aren't worried about privacy violations from Big Brother, they are worried about the wife snooping around and finding out where the girlfriend lives. Slashdot users of course have different priorities, for obvious reasons.
You only put tests in for problems you think of. Deleting the log file altogether when you turn off location services, is a problem they simply didn't think about. If you think about it the guys writing that part of the code probably assumed that since the file was cached it would be truncated so leaving it around wouldn't matter...
They probably also thought they were working within the walled garden of the iPhone, and didn't expect the file to get copied to the user's PC every time they plugged it in, as the sync was being worked on by another team.
Web Apps have always been copying the iPhone. And the App key on a standard Windows keyboard went unused because noone knew what an App was for until Apple enlightened us.
My guess is that tying the account to the government issued smartcard is intended to provide a secure login for public terminals. This isn't so much aimed at people with internet access at home, rather at those without their own access so they can access government services from terminals in post offices and other public places.
My understanding is that this time it is different people, but using the same tactics that have already been ruled out in other cases brought by Righthaven. Expect early dismissal and possible sanctions for wasting the court's time.
Actually it is more than half honest. In addition to the half who paid using the self-checkouts until they became stuck waiting for approval of alcohol purchases, at least some people walked back out when they realised the shop was unmanned: "We've even heard from a couple of girls who said they came into the supermarket but left when they sensed something was not right."
Maybe there are more patents lurking around animated GIFs, but the main LZW patent that Unisys was using to scare people away from GIF in the 1990's expired years ago.
Why would you want to download a dodgy third party app for this, when the ability to terminate applications and services is built right in to the Settings/Applications menu?
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Yes, this just seems like yet another attempt by Microsoft to get Linux users to pay for a Windows Server license. Why a hosting center would want to increase their costs like this I do not know.
This kind of behavior has been going on in schoolyards forever. Sometimes its a joke between friends that has no intention of hurting the targets' feelings, as it is never shared outside the group. Other times it is bullying. The difference with Facebook is that you cross the line between a private joke between friends behind someone's back and bullying without intending it.
I think you're exaggerating by quite a wide margin. My Windows XP machine only takes 10 minutes to shutdown most days.
By refusing to release the evidence, conspiracy theories can run rampant. This may be useful as a tactic to prevent the loose association of terrorist organizations that is known collectively as "Al Qaeda" from rallying around any replacement leader, as many of their members do not believe that the leader needs replacing. But it increasingly looks like Al Qaeda groups are accepting that Bin Laden was killed in this raid, so that particular reason for holding the evidence back may not be relevant anymore.
The underlying back end should be based on cell broadcasts, not SMS. SMS needs to be sent separately to each phone, which ties up the backend infrastructure with unneccesary transactions. Cell broadcasts go to all phones connected to that transmitter as a single message.
I'm guessing the price delta comes from the fact that Gumstix are an actual product you can buy, so the manufacturer has had to face the reality that their volume is too low to get the sort of pricing this article is using, and there are a lot of overheads to amortize if you don't want to lose money on the venture.
Not the OP, but I'd guess its a case of "Oops, wrong baseless lawsuit against open source".
This is what the farmers will tell you, because they have grown accustomed to their handouts and can't imagine competing on a level playing field any more. The fact is that fresh produce is best when it is fresh, and flying things halfway around the world wipes out any benefit from low labour costs. And poor countries tend to be poor because they do not have enough fertile, unpopulated land to make decent export earnings from. New Zealand dropped its subsidies in the 1980s in line with free trade agreements which their trading partners later reneged on. The agriculture economy moved within a few years from a distorted economy that produced far more wool and butter than the world needed, to a more diverse agricultural economy that favoured higher profit margin products which constantly adapts to market conditions.
The subsidies will never be enough. Drop them and force the farmers to run their businesses efficiently and competitively. They'll hurt for a couple of years, but in the long run they'll be much better off.
Given that the going rate in Southern China for electronics factory work is about $6 per day, the company dorm is probably more comfortable than the rural shack they were raised in, and these people are away from home in an area where they have no social connections outside work with the objective to save as much money in as short a time as possible so they can go back to their village and improve the life of their family, I don't think your idea of legality would be particularly welcome there.
Or perhaps the problem will be better solved by giving them easier access to credit - from reputable sources such as banks that don't charge ursurous amounts of interest, coupled with sound financial advice designed to prevent them getting into a debt spiral as a result of trying to give their children a chance to get out of the poverty trap.
OBL was born in Saudi Arabia. I don't know if he has a birth certificate, but I wouldn't trust it if I saw it, given his connection to organizations that routinely use counterfeit documents and the levels of corruption in the governments of the region that might be able to confirm the authenticity of his records.
My experience is that Google's market restrictions (at least the ban on purchasing paid apps that most of the world is still subject to, a situation that leads to rampant app piracy on Android) are implemented by SIM card matching, not the network you are accessing from.
It needed recent legislation? Basic contract law says that they can't make changes to the contract without your agreement. If they're going to pull the "by continuing to use the service you agree to our new terms" bullshit, they at least need to allow you a way out of the contract at that point, or there is no way you can indicate your agreement.
I often saw this attitude when I was working for a company that sold a tool aimed at taking the work out of web UI building. It was very simple to convince the management of potential customers of the benefit they would get from increased productivity. But when it was passed down to developers to evaluate, they dismissed it, usually reporting back that it wasn't suitable for insert specialized backend function here rather than trying to evaluate it for the purpose it was designed for and appreciating that it would allow them to focus on the more interesting and challenging business specific details of their application.
What is interesting about this, is that although Proxima Centauri is currently the nearest star, there are other stars that will be closer within the timeframe it would take to travel there. I'm not a astronomer, so I had no idea that the Milky Way was changing so quickly (40,000 years seems a short time to me on an interstellar scale).
The general public aren't worried about privacy violations from Big Brother, they are worried about the wife snooping around and finding out where the girlfriend lives. Slashdot users of course have different priorities, for obvious reasons.
They probably also thought they were working within the walled garden of the iPhone, and didn't expect the file to get copied to the user's PC every time they plugged it in, as the sync was being worked on by another team.
Web Apps have always been copying the iPhone. And the App key on a standard Windows keyboard went unused because noone knew what an App was for until Apple enlightened us.
My guess is that tying the account to the government issued smartcard is intended to provide a secure login for public terminals. This isn't so much aimed at people with internet access at home, rather at those without their own access so they can access government services from terminals in post offices and other public places.
My understanding is that this time it is different people, but using the same tactics that have already been ruled out in other cases brought by Righthaven. Expect early dismissal and possible sanctions for wasting the court's time.
Actually it is more than half honest. In addition to the half who paid using the self-checkouts until they became stuck waiting for approval of alcohol purchases, at least some people walked back out when they realised the shop was unmanned: "We've even heard from a couple of girls who said they came into the supermarket but left when they sensed something was not right."
It's not the reason they arrested approximately a third of them, at least.
Maybe there are more patents lurking around animated GIFs, but the main LZW patent that Unisys was using to scare people away from GIF in the 1990's expired years ago.
Why would you want to download a dodgy third party app for this, when the ability to terminate applications and services is built right in to the Settings/Applications menu?