As much as people like we/. denizens will gripe about this, for the average user it's a good solution. Disable by default the installation of unapproved apps. Allow users to opt out of that feature if they so choose.
For most users, who will never figure out how to enable non-market apps, or will have no desire to anyway, this makes their PC much more secure. For "power users", it's trivial enough to live in the old world.
(insert Bill Gates being inexplicably elected President here)
Personally, it has bupkis to do with "votes" these days anyway. You vote for who you're told to; the only real difference is the "D" or "R" on the TV or newspaper tagline next to their names.
Now if you want *real* power to pick who gets elected to a federal office, then go build a huge corporation or a national-sized bank.
(The sad part is, I'm not really trolling...)
Actually, there are about 85% who vote for one side and would never ever vote for the other, and of the remaining 15%, about 14%of them vote based on who's better looking, or who they'd rather have come to their barbecue, not who'd be better at running the country.
To me, this is like saying you will only pay for things using paper checks because buying things from websites is insecure. Paper ballots can be lost, stolen, destroyed, or boxes stuffed. Entire boxes are lost sometimes. Polling places run out of ballots in some elections. The fact that specific platforms and software interactions can produce points of vulnerability does not mean paper is more secure. Even when paper is used, counting is arduous and waste is tremendous, to say nothing of the fact that there are tens of millions of goobers in this country who can't even figure out how to fill out a paper ballot.
Collecting the vote accurately is the first concern, so an electronic touch screen make the most sense at that point.
From there, common sense would make the level of difficulty high enough to ward off most attempts to influence the election. Certainly the voting machines with freaking USB ports on the side or any number of obvious flaws need to be weeded out. But I see no reason why electronic voting can't be made secure.
We trust all the world's financial transactions to electronic means, and nobody is saying stock needs to be traded on paper again. We just need to demand the stupidity be taken out of voting machines.
That was the launch of WP7 - almost a year ago to the day.
This "Mango" version coming out at the end of the year is the version that is REALLY supposed to work. And they have better bands this time. And they got their mobile OS a kewl new food-based nickname. (How original!)
Yes, any year now they should be ready to compete with where Apple and Android were a couple of years ago.
He's right on message with their marketing for the delayed Mango. Earlier articles that (I think) I saw on/. carried the same line: "Ok, really, this is the version that is going to fix all the problems and make it awesome."
I actually like Google+. I think it works pretty well. The problem is that there's no one there. Social media isn't much good if all your friends are on another site. It took years for grandma and aunt gertie to get on facebook, they aren't going to switch to a new site - and damned if I'm going to manage two of the infernal things.
And, there's also the matter of Facebook defending against Google+ by stealing all the best ideas.
I think people would flee urban centers due to the resulting chaos, and most people would die from lack of fresh water from public sources and the inability to locate any other sources.
Personally, I think that in an extended period of breakdown of social order, all these people who buy gold and silver will look like fools - ammunition will be currency.
And make no mistake, most of these stoners/unemployed/cause-of-the-week types will be toting around iPhones, so this app should get a pretty nice reception.
We're just joking around. But actually, living in a border state and knowing a few canadians fairly well, there is a lot more condescension that goes the other direction.
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People are developing for WP7?
As much as people like we /. denizens will gripe about this, for the average user it's a good solution. Disable by default the installation of unapproved apps. Allow users to opt out of that feature if they so choose.
For most users, who will never figure out how to enable non-market apps, or will have no desire to anyway, this makes their PC much more secure. For "power users", it's trivial enough to live in the old world.
We're using Congressional accounting, just round everything up to the nearest billion.
Nope, nope, we can't require finger-identification, there are some people who don't have fingers.
(insert Bill Gates being inexplicably elected President here)
Personally, it has bupkis to do with "votes" these days anyway. You vote for who you're told to; the only real difference is the "D" or "R" on the TV or newspaper tagline next to their names.
Now if you want *real* power to pick who gets elected to a federal office, then go build a huge corporation or a national-sized bank.
(The sad part is, I'm not really trolling...)
Actually, there are about 85% who vote for one side and would never ever vote for the other, and of the remaining 15%, about 14%of them vote based on who's better looking, or who they'd rather have come to their barbecue, not who'd be better at running the country.
To me, this is like saying you will only pay for things using paper checks because buying things from websites is insecure. Paper ballots can be lost, stolen, destroyed, or boxes stuffed. Entire boxes are lost sometimes. Polling places run out of ballots in some elections. The fact that specific platforms and software interactions can produce points of vulnerability does not mean paper is more secure. Even when paper is used, counting is arduous and waste is tremendous, to say nothing of the fact that there are tens of millions of goobers in this country who can't even figure out how to fill out a paper ballot.
Collecting the vote accurately is the first concern, so an electronic touch screen make the most sense at that point.
From there, common sense would make the level of difficulty high enough to ward off most attempts to influence the election. Certainly the voting machines with freaking USB ports on the side or any number of obvious flaws need to be weeded out. But I see no reason why electronic voting can't be made secure.
We trust all the world's financial transactions to electronic means, and nobody is saying stock needs to be traded on paper again. We just need to demand the stupidity be taken out of voting machines.
Trouble is, through the choices of others, virtually all information about your life is already living in and being manipulated by microsoft products.
Linux doesn't have a history of competing with any corporation in any consumer market.
I still don't understand. Can I get a hamburger analogy?
The FDIC typically makes your money available the next day, when a bank is closed down.
In Soviet Russia, bitcoins buy you!
It has the opposite effect on me. I find that Coldplay makes me angry, agitated, and likely to destroy any nearby audio equipment.
Soon Apple will be patent trolling that Google Translate is ripping off Siri
That was the launch of WP7 - almost a year ago to the day.
This "Mango" version coming out at the end of the year is the version that is REALLY supposed to work. And they have better bands this time. And they got their mobile OS a kewl new food-based nickname. (How original!)
Yes, any year now they should be ready to compete with where Apple and Android were a couple of years ago.
He's right on message with their marketing for the delayed Mango. Earlier articles that (I think) I saw on /. carried the same line: "Ok, really, this is the version that is going to fix all the problems and make it awesome."
I see the future of WP7... it looks like WebOS...
I actually like Google+. I think it works pretty well. The problem is that there's no one there. Social media isn't much good if all your friends are on another site. It took years for grandma and aunt gertie to get on facebook, they aren't going to switch to a new site - and damned if I'm going to manage two of the infernal things.
And, there's also the matter of Facebook defending against Google+ by stealing all the best ideas.
I think people would flee urban centers due to the resulting chaos, and most people would die from lack of fresh water from public sources and the inability to locate any other sources.
Personally, I think that in an extended period of breakdown of social order, all these people who buy gold and silver will look like fools - ammunition will be currency.
And make no mistake, most of these stoners/unemployed/cause-of-the-week types will be toting around iPhones, so this app should get a pretty nice reception.
Also, I don't believe you are really Canadian because you didn't catch my Strange Brew quote.
We're just joking around. But actually, living in a border state and knowing a few canadians fairly well, there is a lot more condescension that goes the other direction.
Phoenix, his nostrils wide
"The power of the force has stopped you, you hosers."
Ok. Start now.
Instant change, in that those billions of people would have no idea how to obtain a single one of the necessities of life.