No need to hack an iphone in order to get a users data if you are law enforcement. A subpoena (or perhaps even less than that) would get you all the information you need from apple's iCloud. I said "perhaps even less than that" because there's been numerous articles over the last few years highlighting the fact that your data stored in a third parties' datacenter is not protected by your civil rights.
Personally, I think the Android handsets vary from 'cheap piece of crap' to 'significantly better than iPhone'. It depends of what criteria you use, I suppose.
Suggest a phone that is 'significantly better' than the iPhone. I know it's not my HTC or my friend's Samsung headset, so is it Motorola?
Right now that would be most, primarily on account of iphone being 3g, and most current android phones being 4g. All trimmings aside, cell phones are primarily voice and data communications devices and the iphone is far behind on data tech that is several years old now. iPhone's hardware will be competitive again when the iphone5 comes out assuming they upgrade the modem. I would look to the droid razr maxx, HTC one S, or Samsung Galaxy S3. All three in my opinion are significantly superior to iphone 4s.
So are you saying that Samsung and other android phone manufactures should stop trying to mimic the iPhone and go their own path? That would be great, since there are other features that give an Android phone an edge over the iPhone. Unfortunately good quality handset hardware and seamless OS software upgrades aren't one of them.
That's pretty subjective. In my opinion the android phones I've owned have had superior hardware to iphones. Mainly because there is no physical border around the iPhone screen it is extremely susceptible to damage. After 4 years on android with 0 broken screens, I got my daughter an iphone. 8 months in, we're on the third screen. She's not handling it worse, quite the contrary. Unfortunately it is just not as durable due to what I would call a design flaw.
Also, if you're not rooting and running your own OS the upgrades are delivered OTA by your carrier if they come available for your phone. I've had several OS upgrades from Verizon on my droid bionic. The phone had to be rebooted when it was done, but I bet when an iphone gets an OS upgrade it has to at least reboot as well.
You mean how like how in the US the government can take away your business and give the property to some mega-corp with deep government ties via eminent domain?
How often does this really happen, though?
You'd be surprised, apparently. There are (numerous) law firms whose sole practice revolves around defending eminent domain defendants. Law firms don't stay in business if there are no citizens to suck dry needing their services.
That petition will get pulled early too. Look it's doesn't matter how many petitions you stand up. Basically the folks that have the authority and power to control the people, will. Common folk are only here to support the rich and powerful by way of their taxes. Nothing else matters. You're either part of the good-old-boy network, or you're nobody. It's always been this way; for every country; for every regime; for every global power, since time began.
The petitions don't really matter, anyway. There have been several for legalizing marijuana with overwhelming voter support that were simply dismissed by the white house. Nothing was even discussed in any branch of the government as a result. Now, I'm an Obama supporter (vs the nasty alternative that will be available in the next election) but this whole white house petition system is not used for anything other than to placate voters without actually doing anything.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/31/white-house-explains-anti-legalization-position-marijuana_n_1068081.html
About 38 cents a round for 5.56 (including tax), so $11.40 a magazine. Ammo prices constantly go up, I think it's probably a scam. Retailers and manufacturers constantly blame the "left" for the increase in ammo prices (and shortages) but as of yet I haven't seen any laws or anything else that could realistically cause that. I think the only cause for prices to be where they are is greed. I'm fairly new to shooting, but my understanding from others is that just 10 years ago, ammo was less than half of this price. I watch fpsrussia, too. He must spend a ton of money making episodes.
Amazon doesn't sell guns unfortunately. Not real ones, anyway. I bought an AR15 a few weeks ago and would have liked to have bought from amazon so I could take advantage of my free shipping/prime account. I just rechecked, still no guns. I think it's more likely that the shipping company screwed up.
Verizon FiOS isn't doing it...yet. I don't D/L all that often, but I did a few days ago and was not throttled. I can get up to 5.1MB down, but I usually get only 2-3MB on torrents anyway. I have not noticed a change.
I pulled down nearly 2TB last month to test my new upgrade to "quantum" 150/75. I didn't see any performance less than 160/78 during any of that testing.
I sure feel bad for those Brits stuck with BT or Virgin. I'd be furious if I was not getting the service I was paying for.
HBO's online offerings are only available to subscribers in the United States who are also customers of a specific list of cable/satellite TV companies.
That doesn't really help the subscriber in Australia or Europe. Why are those customers unable to stream/download content that their American counterparts can? Why are the same shows delayed by days or weeks in non-US countries?
Good point. The region concept for content is complete garbage. I've got a friend who recently moved from the US to Greece. He's having a hell of a time getting content over there. I believe he finally resorted to using a VPN provider.
Not that I disagree with the "theme" of the article, but the author clearly has missed some pertinent facts.
The hit HBO show Game of Thrones is a quintessential example of this. The show is sometimes downloaded illegally more times each week than it is watched on cable television. But even if HBO put the shows online, the price it could charge would still pale in comparison to the money it makes through cable operators.
Whoops. Game of thrones has been available online/streaming via HBO GO since the very first episode. It's a free streaming service for HBO subscribers. Pretty sure episodes become available right when the they air on the cable channel, too. So that whole theory about an "inverse relationship" because the show isn't available online is (to use a technical term) bullshit. The author might have been well served to visit the website of the companies he was writing about at least a single time prior to writing an article about them. It's called research if you want to use the term loosely.
BTW, Showtime (and probably most other pay channels) do the same thing. The other show the author mentioned "Dexter" is available online for showtime subscribers for no additional charge. http://www.sho.com/sho/showtime-anytime http://www.hbogo.com/
Sounds to me like they chose the wrong country to host the games. Between this and arresting people for tweeting harmless complaints at athletes who failed, they might as well have picked China or North Korea to host.
Sounds like a reasonable theory. However, it is possible they were telling the truth considering every product they make gets a codename during development and a brand name at release time. Here's a list:
I don't think the new name is particularly good, but at least I don't think it's lame like i did with "metro". I wish I could say the same for the actual UI that the name represents.
Slashdot Mirror
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don't_stuff_beans_up_your_nose
You sir, are a hero.
LOL Thanks, that was great!
I'm pretty sure the government can only lie. Maybe you are thinking of some government other than the U.S. government?
No need to hack an iphone in order to get a users data if you are law enforcement. A subpoena (or perhaps even less than that) would get you all the information you need from apple's iCloud. I said "perhaps even less than that" because there's been numerous articles over the last few years highlighting the fact that your data stored in a third parties' datacenter is not protected by your civil rights.
Suggest a phone that is 'significantly better' than the iPhone. I know it's not my HTC or my friend's Samsung headset, so is it Motorola?
Right now that would be most, primarily on account of iphone being 3g, and most current android phones being 4g. All trimmings aside, cell phones are primarily voice and data communications devices and the iphone is far behind on data tech that is several years old now. iPhone's hardware will be competitive again when the iphone5 comes out assuming they upgrade the modem. I would look to the droid razr maxx, HTC one S, or Samsung Galaxy S3. All three in my opinion are significantly superior to iphone 4s.
So are you saying that Samsung and other android phone manufactures should stop trying to mimic the iPhone and go their own path? That would be great, since there are other features that give an Android phone an edge over the iPhone. Unfortunately good quality handset hardware and seamless OS software upgrades aren't one of them.
That's pretty subjective. In my opinion the android phones I've owned have had superior hardware to iphones. Mainly because there is no physical border around the iPhone screen it is extremely susceptible to damage. After 4 years on android with 0 broken screens, I got my daughter an iphone. 8 months in, we're on the third screen. She's not handling it worse, quite the contrary. Unfortunately it is just not as durable due to what I would call a design flaw. Also, if you're not rooting and running your own OS the upgrades are delivered OTA by your carrier if they come available for your phone. I've had several OS upgrades from Verizon on my droid bionic. The phone had to be rebooted when it was done, but I bet when an iphone gets an OS upgrade it has to at least reboot as well.
Exactly what I was going to post. "Color printing reaches the highest resolution yet" would have been better.
Because I was expecting to find an article about a large number of shell subsidiaries. http://www.shell.com/
or not soon enough.
How often does this really happen, though?
You'd be surprised, apparently. There are (numerous) law firms whose sole practice revolves around defending eminent domain defendants. Law firms don't stay in business if there are no citizens to suck dry needing their services.
We need a petition for the petition!
That petition will get pulled early too. Look it's doesn't matter how many petitions you stand up. Basically the folks that have the authority and power to control the people, will. Common folk are only here to support the rich and powerful by way of their taxes. Nothing else matters. You're either part of the good-old-boy network, or you're nobody. It's always been this way; for every country; for every regime; for every global power, since time began.
The petitions don't really matter, anyway. There have been several for legalizing marijuana with overwhelming voter support that were simply dismissed by the white house. Nothing was even discussed in any branch of the government as a result. Now, I'm an Obama supporter (vs the nasty alternative that will be available in the next election) but this whole white house petition system is not used for anything other than to placate voters without actually doing anything. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/31/white-house-explains-anti-legalization-position-marijuana_n_1068081.html
tl; dr.
I think the slashdot tagline includes "stuff that matters" hence the reason it wasn't posted.
Because a sex toy based on this technology could be so good it would end the human race.
About 38 cents a round for 5.56 (including tax), so $11.40 a magazine. Ammo prices constantly go up, I think it's probably a scam. Retailers and manufacturers constantly blame the "left" for the increase in ammo prices (and shortages) but as of yet I haven't seen any laws or anything else that could realistically cause that. I think the only cause for prices to be where they are is greed. I'm fairly new to shooting, but my understanding from others is that just 10 years ago, ammo was less than half of this price.
I watch fpsrussia, too. He must spend a ton of money making episodes.
Your laws are funny in the USA. Isn't that a simple mechanical modification to make ?
Mechanical modification, yes. Simple? Far from it. Also, highly illegal. It would be far cheaper, easier, and safer to just install one of these.
I've used one, they work GREAT! They're also great at emptying your wallet, since a 30rd mag goes in about 5 seconds.
Did anyone else read that as 'How many of you Actually use Meth?'
I did, actually. Not that it's a bad article, but it was a little anticlimactic when I though I was going to read about some doper on here.
Amazon doesn't sell guns unfortunately. Not real ones, anyway. I bought an AR15 a few weeks ago and would have liked to have bought from amazon so I could take advantage of my free shipping/prime account. I just rechecked, still no guns. I think it's more likely that the shipping company screwed up.
Verizon FiOS isn't doing it...yet. I don't D/L all that often, but I did a few days ago and was not throttled. I can get up to 5.1MB down, but I usually get only 2-3MB on torrents anyway. I have not noticed a change.
I pulled down nearly 2TB last month to test my new upgrade to "quantum" 150/75. I didn't see any performance less than 160/78 during any of that testing. I sure feel bad for those Brits stuck with BT or Virgin. I'd be furious if I was not getting the service I was paying for.
I think it's interesting only as a matter of curiosity at this point.
HBO's online offerings are only available to subscribers in the United States who are also customers of a specific list of cable/satellite TV companies.
That doesn't really help the subscriber in Australia or Europe. Why are those customers unable to stream/download content that their American counterparts can? Why are the same shows delayed by days or weeks in non-US countries?
Good point. The region concept for content is complete garbage. I've got a friend who recently moved from the US to Greece. He's having a hell of a time getting content over there. I believe he finally resorted to using a VPN provider.
The hit HBO show Game of Thrones is a quintessential example of this. The show is sometimes downloaded illegally more times each week than it is watched on cable television. But even if HBO put the shows online, the price it could charge would still pale in comparison to the money it makes through cable operators.
Whoops. Game of thrones has been available online/streaming via HBO GO since the very first episode. It's a free streaming service for HBO subscribers. Pretty sure episodes become available right when the they air on the cable channel, too. So that whole theory about an "inverse relationship" because the show isn't available online is (to use a technical term) bullshit. The author might have been well served to visit the website of the companies he was writing about at least a single time prior to writing an article about them. It's called research if you want to use the term loosely.
BTW, Showtime (and probably most other pay channels) do the same thing. The other show the author mentioned "Dexter" is available online for showtime subscribers for no additional charge.
http://www.sho.com/sho/showtime-anytime
http://www.hbogo.com/
Sounds to me like they chose the wrong country to host the games. Between this and arresting people for tweeting harmless complaints at athletes who failed, they might as well have picked China or North Korea to host.
Sounds like a reasonable theory. However, it is possible they were telling the truth considering every product they make gets a codename during development and a brand name at release time. Here's a list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_codenames
I don't think the new name is particularly good, but at least I don't think it's lame like i did with "metro". I wish I could say the same for the actual UI that the name represents.
Actually, it doesn't make sense.
If an employer wants my Facebook Password, it is really simple, "NO". I don't need a law to protect me.
Prior to this law, you could be fired for giving that answer in Illinois.