I apologize if I'm being slow, but I'm stuck on how the note saying, "I derived my password from material I once got from these 10 sources" is the same as producing the passphrase demanded in a court order.
I mean, otherwise wouldn't the defendant in the article here say, "I know it was 120 characters selected at random from War and Peace", and call it a day? Because I'm getting the sense that an answer like that wouldn't cut it.
Certainly, but they'd have to be paying enough per machine to more than account for the licensing cost of Windows on those machines before you'd end up negative. I think that's unlikely, particularly with Lenovos. We buy them for work and there are only two or three titles on there (the dvd 'freeware', disk keeper lite, maybe another) that aren't Lenovo's own software or no-upsell utilities from hw vendors.
HP on the other hand... I usually had to wipe those ones and start over.
Apple is certainly allowed to create artificial barriers and encourage people to upgrade devices. Yes, even if those barriers are motivated entirely by profit.
Meanwhile, potential and existing customers could and should evaluate Apple's business tendencies and attitude towards existing customers. That's part of what a rational consumer does before making any future purchases.
Both sides can and do exhibit varied expectations measured against reality. You called it "entitlement". The rest of us just call it "business".
While they obviously botched this one, I suspect you're right.
If they were simply kicking down doors for everyone with a name like his that sent a single, only vaguely suspicous sounding text message to coworkers, without any other pretext, we'd have a hundred articles like this every day.
Oh, I saw. The shouters were out in force. I probably would've even agreed (at least in part) with your sentiments if you'd limited it to a few ignorant slashdotters.
However, attributing that disproportionate level of noisy stupidity from a handful of goofs (that probably couldn't competently operate a firearm if you wrote an O'Reilly book for it) to everyone that wants something something done about corruption in government... well, that's just unfair.
I agree with most, that SOPA was a disgraceful thing. But most people are not cowardly basement revolutionaries clamoring for rivers of blood. We're just normal people that want our representative government to work for us.
I must have missed the part where we went from, "We want a criminal investigation of someone that openly admits to bribing members of congress", even if that was a fruitless request directed at the wrong people, to "the rule of the delusional internet crazies who think that millions of people should die"?
I'm among the first to say the rhetoric gets pretty stupid around here sometimes, but equidistant from rational in the opposite direction isn't right either.
I have a hard time with the smd stuff. Probably not enough practice, but even with reasonably steady hands and a magnifying lamp on my workbench, I tend to screw things up. And these things are so cheap to begin with, I'd have bought the assembled model anyways.
The only assumption I saw was that most folks would botch assembly due to the teeny smd tolerances.
It seems pretty reasonable to me. I don't know a lot of people with reflow ovens or hands that steady. And at $25 & $35 for the assembled models, I don't know why people would really want to.
I'm 99% sure its HP that has 350 meg printer drivers...
They're one of them. Sometimes you can avoid that by skipping the crap that comes with the machine and downloading the "basic" version of the driver. The bundled one is 349.5 MB of UI designed to sell you HP's ink, derived from genuine unicorn tears.
MRI? iPhones will pop a confirmation asking if you want to dial a number when you initiate a call from outside the dialer. I think that's a potentially reasonable compromise somewhere between nothing and mind reading.
Little side jobs that I do often come from business contacts of friends, followed by word of mouth from those jobs.
Real people like to deal with real people. Asking someone in India to do work for you feels like a bizarre gamble for your average business. That's your competitive advantage and you should use it.
You really shouldn't have to defend that point. You're right, and I don't understand why people always get so aggravated.
Clearly the market thinks they're getting something more in an Apple product, or they wouldn't buy them in greater numbers over the alternatives, at higher prices, even during recessions, year after year. For the only objective definition of "better product", that the features of it are consistently more desirable than the competition at the price they're offered, Apple wins (on their big money makers), hands-down.
There's simply no other rational way to figure it. The rest is emotional nonsense, and any individual's personal preference is largely irrelevant. Including mine, which is typically for non-Apple alternatives.
I said the same thing about SOPA in general. As it turns out, I was wrong. People can be pretty smart and care about important things. I think it's usually just an awareness problem.
Justin Amash âZThe Senators and Representatives . . . shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same.
- Art. I, Sec. 6, Cl. 1 of the United States Constitution
Traditionally, there are five or six groups of middle-men between the camera and your TV. This is two, and you get to vote for content on a source by source basis, with your wallet. You don't get that with cable.
Yeah, it's been baby steps of progress. Netflix, Apple, Amazon, Hulu, Microsoft, Roku, Nintendo (etc) have all shown that inexpensive, easy-to-use, reliable, on-demand content delivery to customers televisions isn't just entirely workable, but popular.
Various billing models for different kinds of media are being tried. Now Netflix, Hulu and Microsoft are getting into exclusive content production. That's a big leap forward.
The trick is, and I think the Y Combinator folks understand this, is to not lose sight of the fact that the customers are increasingly capable and they want what they want. Giving them something else and saying, "Tough, that's the way it is and you'll like it." just isn't going to fly anymore.
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I apologize if I'm being slow, but I'm stuck on how the note saying, "I derived my password from material I once got from these 10 sources" is the same as producing the passphrase demanded in a court order.
I mean, otherwise wouldn't the defendant in the article here say, "I know it was 120 characters selected at random from War and Peace", and call it a day? Because I'm getting the sense that an answer like that wouldn't cut it.
Certainly, but they'd have to be paying enough per machine to more than account for the licensing cost of Windows on those machines before you'd end up negative. I think that's unlikely, particularly with Lenovos. We buy them for work and there are only two or three titles on there (the dvd 'freeware', disk keeper lite, maybe another) that aren't Lenovo's own software or no-upsell utilities from hw vendors.
HP on the other hand... I usually had to wipe those ones and start over.
"Wrong" is subjective here.
Apple is certainly allowed to create artificial barriers and encourage people to upgrade devices. Yes, even if those barriers are motivated entirely by profit.
Meanwhile, potential and existing customers could and should evaluate Apple's business tendencies and attitude towards existing customers. That's part of what a rational consumer does before making any future purchases.
Both sides can and do exhibit varied expectations measured against reality. You called it "entitlement". The rest of us just call it "business".
While they obviously botched this one, I suspect you're right.
If they were simply kicking down doors for everyone with a name like his that sent a single, only vaguely suspicous sounding text message to coworkers, without any other pretext, we'd have a hundred articles like this every day.
Though that doesn't excuse what happened here.
Oh, I saw. The shouters were out in force. I probably would've even agreed (at least in part) with your sentiments if you'd limited it to a few ignorant slashdotters.
However, attributing that disproportionate level of noisy stupidity from a handful of goofs (that probably couldn't competently operate a firearm if you wrote an O'Reilly book for it) to everyone that wants something something done about corruption in government... well, that's just unfair.
I agree with most, that SOPA was a disgraceful thing. But most people are not cowardly basement revolutionaries clamoring for rivers of blood. We're just normal people that want our representative government to work for us.
I must have missed the part where we went from, "We want a criminal investigation of someone that openly admits to bribing members of congress", even if that was a fruitless request directed at the wrong people, to "the rule of the delusional internet crazies who think that millions of people should die"?
I'm among the first to say the rhetoric gets pretty stupid around here sometimes, but equidistant from rational in the opposite direction isn't right either.
I should've guessed a bunch of socialist nazi fascist hippie muslim extremist zionists would show up to disagree.
I have a hard time with the smd stuff. Probably not enough practice, but even with reasonably steady hands and a magnifying lamp on my workbench, I tend to screw things up. And these things are so cheap to begin with, I'd have bought the assembled model anyways.
Fortunately there's always plenty of contentious YRO material for us to bicker over.
The only assumption I saw was that most folks would botch assembly due to the teeny smd tolerances. It seems pretty reasonable to me. I don't know a lot of people with reflow ovens or hands that steady. And at $25 & $35 for the assembled models, I don't know why people would really want to.
I'm 99% sure its HP that has 350 meg printer drivers...
They're one of them. Sometimes you can avoid that by skipping the crap that comes with the machine and downloading the "basic" version of the driver. The bundled one is 349.5 MB of UI designed to sell you HP's ink, derived from genuine unicorn tears.
50%? I think you might be seriously underestimating the importance of "the metal bits and circuit boards". ;)
MRI? iPhones will pop a confirmation asking if you want to dial a number when you initiate a call from outside the dialer. I think that's a potentially reasonable compromise somewhere between nothing and mind reading.
USD is correct is you're trying to specify US dollars. "$" is a mark used for various currencies.
Little side jobs that I do often come from business contacts of friends, followed by word of mouth from those jobs.
Real people like to deal with real people. Asking someone in India to do work for you feels like a bizarre gamble for your average business. That's your competitive advantage and you should use it.
Where did that come from? I didn't say anything like that.
Not disagreeing (hadn't heard about the Boeing thing), but wasn't TARP foisted on Ken Lewis and crew by Paulson during the Bush administration?
These prepared garbage posts about the moderation are hitting most of the articles right away.
I don't know what's going on, but it's getting annoying.
You really shouldn't have to defend that point. You're right, and I don't understand why people always get so aggravated.
Clearly the market thinks they're getting something more in an Apple product, or they wouldn't buy them in greater numbers over the alternatives, at higher prices, even during recessions, year after year. For the only objective definition of "better product", that the features of it are consistently more desirable than the competition at the price they're offered, Apple wins (on their big money makers), hands-down.
There's simply no other rational way to figure it. The rest is emotional nonsense, and any individual's personal preference is largely irrelevant. Including mine, which is typically for non-Apple alternatives.
I said the same thing about SOPA in general. As it turns out, I was wrong. People can be pretty smart and care about important things. I think it's usually just an awareness problem.
Nah, they've done it before.
What's required is a motivated and capable individual (or two). Getting at someone's email isn't the same chore as a ddos with loic.
I'm not saying it's necessarily a good idea, but there are folks out there with the requisite skills and complementary ideologies.
Yeah I'm not qualified to comment on legal application of that, just that they did bust that clause out.
And that Amash guy posted that about an hour ago. I'm not sure what time the RP incident went down.
Congressman Justin Amash on his facebook wall:
Justin Amash
âZThe Senators and Representatives . . . shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same.
- Art. I, Sec. 6, Cl. 1 of the United States Constitution
Free Senator Rand Paul.
Yes.
Traditionally, there are five or six groups of middle-men between the camera and your TV. This is two, and you get to vote for content on a source by source basis, with your wallet. You don't get that with cable.
You may not think that's progress, but it is.
Yeah, it's been baby steps of progress. Netflix, Apple, Amazon, Hulu, Microsoft, Roku, Nintendo (etc) have all shown that inexpensive, easy-to-use, reliable, on-demand content delivery to customers televisions isn't just entirely workable, but popular.
Various billing models for different kinds of media are being tried. Now Netflix, Hulu and Microsoft are getting into exclusive content production. That's a big leap forward.
The trick is, and I think the Y Combinator folks understand this, is to not lose sight of the fact that the customers are increasingly capable and they want what they want. Giving them something else and saying, "Tough, that's the way it is and you'll like it." just isn't going to fly anymore.