RMS Is clearly referring to Apple's past use of part of CarrierIQ which, as the_B0fh quite correctly stated earlier, never had the phone home part that android phones included, cannot be called spyware.
I respect RMS for much that he has given us (I use emacs daily as my main text editor on multiple OSs) but that doesn't mean that I am blind when he makes the occasional mistake, This is one of them.
TFA _way_ overstates how rare cannibalism was. It may not have been observed but then how exactly were we to know as it is only with the infrared camera developed/deployed recently that the researcher started to notice cases. Had he been performing the same research decades ago he would almost certainly have noticed instances before.
The current high population levels will make cannibalism more frequent but that is the case in just about all carnivorous populations.
When I set that up it was to gain access to HP/OV maps on a Sun SS20 & it was the best solution to the problem available. Now, I'd use a VPN/SSL or an IPSEC client & connect to the server using the appropriate client (Ajax more likely than not but there are still a few X-only apps that I connect to using a VNC client).
Sometimes you need the X windows application & not just a console access. Web Apps have done away with most of these but some X apps are still indispendable...
The session drops & you loose all apps that were running on the X Desktop... Which is a the reason I used Xvnc when I had a need to do this. Xvnc is headless (a virtual X desktop) that you use VNC to connect to. Xvnc's biggest weakness was VNC -- slooowwww but it worked way back when there was no other means of doing this.
I'm pretty sure that the half dozen Amsterdam cops that knocked the guy to the ground just in front of my wife while yelling "Politie!, Politie!" were not in a very talkative mood. I didn't even make a point about how the one who almost knocked her over when rushing in to grab the guy could have been a little more considerate. I just gathered my wife and responded that I'd willingly move on like they were telling everyone to, if they's just let us by...
You appear to have missed my point. It is now known to be normal for people to have cancer cells. These small cancers are normally caught by the immune system & eliminated so trying to treat every cancer has been shown to be counter-productive (chemo is poison that just kills the cancer faster than it kills you, radiation has side-effects & surgery has it's own issues). The old objective from decades ago of finding the cancer while it is small & easily treated has disappeared. What we now know that we need is a means of distinguishing those cancers that will not be eliminated normally from those that won't.
I saw no mention of this in TFA which make me think that even if the researchers make their test sensitive enough to detect small cancers that the test will have too many "false positives" (cancers that the body would eliminate anyway) to be useful.
I'm not sure that scanning for genetic changes will turn out to be useful.
Not every genetic change results in cancer as many will result in the cells dying off or being innocuous. Working on bringing the detection threshold down to low enough values to detect small tumours may just end up detecting many small cancers.
In addition, recent work shows that many small cancers are not as problematic as as long been thought. We now know that the body naturally wipes out many cancers without help. Detecting the small cancers that need treatment is much harder than it appears.
Go ahead & rant against the Luddites & socialists who refuse anything new or refuse to spend on space "until X is fixed here on earth", but do note that your rant is only slightly related to my post.
Skylon is a British/European endeavor. How much the US spent on Afghanistan (or the much larger amounts spent every year on entitlements) has nothing to do with how much the UK/EU is willing to spend on a project. It's rather how much funding is left after tossing billions down the Greek sinkhole or the cuts in the UK budget to try and stem the red ink. It is in that light that funding is unlikely at present in Europa for a project with a price tag in the billions and no guarantee of success.
All very good points. In addition this is NOT the time to be needing a 10 billion handout from either the UK or the EU. SpaceX is progressing incrementally to reusable staged rockets and does not need any more money than they are getting from their current workload. With the Skylon precooler only just exiting proof of concept tests & really being a barely tested hurdle, I don't see it going any further in today's economic environment.
Please reread my post. The FAA has authorized iPads to replace the paper documentation, _in the cockpit_ where interference would be the most severe. Thus there is tacit acceptation that electronic devices that are not active radio emitters are not a danger to avionics.
Yes, some airlines/attendants are still stuck in the last century & pretending that interference is a danger but as they don't check, sleeping any device that does not have active radios is sufficient. Anyone who wants to push it by saying "nya nya my iphone is still on", is being a jerk & the attendants may take the time to ensure that all his devices are turned off instead of doing all the other things that they need to do. Normal people just sleep the devices and pay attention during take-off & landing.
Yes, sleeping a laptop/tablet is normally sufficient.
They have pretty much stopped trying to perpetuate the lame excuse that things without an active radio are dangerous to the airplane's electronics. after all, pilots are now using iPads in the cockpit to access technical documentation during all regimes of flight.
The truly justifiable reasons for putting away these devices & unplugging ipods & whatnot is so that: A: You are not distracted from any orders given by cabin personnel during the most potentially dangerous parts of a flight B: Objects big enough to become dangerous flying objects are stowed.
Calling out to an attendant that your laptop isn't actually off will usually be ignored but some will still ask you to turn it off. If you don't actively point it out they wont bother you.
The fact that MS & followers tried & failed for years to deliver a tablet that interested more than a few thousand people whereas Apple has sold millions seems more relevant as to who is correct. If Apple thought that a tablet with keyboard was needed they could have brought one out. They didn't & believing that this is because they believe that they could have made money off of it but chose not to do so shows an absence of insight.
Not quite sure how this is clear, actually I'd be very interested.
No surprise given the level of ignorance you have displayed here.
Don't think I did, I merely said I had seen no evidence, and that it was beside the point
In the 10 years you had to in which you could look into the USG's publicly published documents (which supposedly interest you) you did nothing yet you continue to state incorrectly that Mckinnon committed a minor crime. You're a fool or a liar, which is it?
Unfounded insults don't really add much to your argument.
Calling someone when their duplicity has been exposed a liar is merely stating the truth. Calling you ignorant is also a statement of fact given what you have posted here
I'm guessing you don't pay too much attention to UK politics then.
You comment once again from a position of ignorance,
Nowhere did I claim that this was not set in motion according to international law.
By claiming that Mckinnon should be tried in the UK that is precisely what you did.
he was and still is an Aspergers sufferer, not a 'teenage idiot'.
Mckinnon's mother, as part of her campaign to whip up public opinion, claimed that Aspergers lowers his mental age to that of someone below the age of consent. It's also the only reason that justifies her being more present in his defense than he was.
Negating other countries sovereignty
Back to the beginning: International law has for centuries stated that when extradition treaties are present that prosecution shall take place in the country where the victims are
You clearly wouldn't accept any level of proof the USG gives. The 700000 figure is itemized in the court documents but instead of examining them you ignorantly deny that they are justified. Your pattern of behavior is clear: you prefer ignorance to informed opinions.
As to the reason the available terms are so favorable to the US, IMO the only plausible reason is that some terms that are not public are present in the treaty that every UKG since it was negotiated deems a sufficient counterweight to the public portions. While I do not hold all of them in high esteem, I cannot accept that every successive UK government has been so incapable as to refuse to force a renegotiation of terms otherwise.
Your point, is clear, but it's ignorance/negation of accepted international law make it nonsensical. Why overturn centuries of precedent because a teen aged idiot caused immense damages & then refused to fave the consequences?
Me worked up about your ignorance? You overrate your importance.
This one-sided justice you speak of started with the USA hacking into McKinnon's computers thereby causing over $700000 damages. Yup sure looks one sided to me... except that Mckinnon was the perp & the USG the victim of what you want to label a minor crime.
You are voluntarily blind and ignorant, that much is clear.
No, this is just you displaying your ignorance of international law. The jurisprudence came about from countries that share land borders & was extended for example to events in international waters. Australia does not get to ignore this because you do not share a land border with anyone.
You'd have to be one hell of a twit to fail to realize that it is the principle I referred to & a specific example rendered difficult by peculiar circumstances. Seriously if you think that Australia thinks that a shot fired from an Indonesian vessel that kills an Australian on an Australian vessel would not be prosecuted in Australia, then you're living in a universe different from the rest of us.
The country where a crime was committed was long ago determined NOT to be the most important in where the criminal should be tried. No country on earth accepts that s sniper on a neighboring hill should be tried where the hill is & not where the victims were killed. This self serving, ignorant attempt to justify being tried where one chooses is bullshit.
I find your idea to be the perfect means for Google to demonstrate the non-viability of what the socialist minister is asking for as I foresee a rapid descent into irrelevance of any implementation. However, as doing so would waste Google's time & money I don't see them trying to do so. The desire to force someone else to waste their money in a cock-eyed scheme is a recurrent theme in French Socialists...
I agree with the GP. While it is true that disagreement is not a sufficient reason for down modding, ignorance is.
When I read/. it is not to trudge through posts that are ignorant, but to be able to benefit from the insightful ones. Yes, we should mostly up-mod according to the guidelines but ignorance is sufficient justification in some cases for down-modding with overrated. In other cases, a reply is the best answer as the GP demonstrated.
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RMS Is clearly referring to Apple's past use of part of CarrierIQ which, as the_B0fh quite correctly stated earlier, never had the phone home part that android phones included, cannot be called spyware.
I respect RMS for much that he has given us (I use emacs daily as my main text editor on multiple OSs) but that doesn't mean that I am blind when he makes the occasional mistake, This is one of them.
TFA _way_ overstates how rare cannibalism was. It may not have been observed but then how exactly were we to know as it is only with the infrared camera developed/deployed recently that the researcher started to notice cases. Had he been performing the same research decades ago he would almost certainly have noticed instances before.
The current high population levels will make cannibalism more frequent but that is the case in just about all carnivorous populations.
RMS makes good points in general but in this instance I thing he's mistaken & just scratching a very old itch of his by habit.
He has been anti-Apple since the days of the look&feel process that Apple won against Digital research for copying the Mac UI in Gem.
That's pretty much the time-frame...
When I set that up it was to gain access to HP/OV maps on a Sun SS20 & it was the best solution to the problem available. Now, I'd use a VPN/SSL or an IPSEC client & connect to the server using the appropriate client (Ajax more likely than not but there are still a few X-only apps that I connect to using a VNC client).
Sometimes you need the X windows application & not just a console access. Web Apps have done away with most of these but some X apps are still indispendable...
The session drops & you loose all apps that were running on the X Desktop... Which is a the reason I used Xvnc when I had a need to do this. Xvnc is headless (a virtual X desktop) that you use VNC to connect to. Xvnc's biggest weakness was VNC -- slooowwww but it worked way back when there was no other means of doing this.
I'm pretty sure that the half dozen Amsterdam cops that knocked the guy to the ground just in front of my wife while yelling "Politie!, Politie!" were not in a very talkative mood. I didn't even make a point about how the one who almost knocked her over when rushing in to grab the guy could have been a little more considerate. I just gathered my wife and responded that I'd willingly move on like they were telling everyone to, if they's just let us by...
You appear to have missed my point. It is now known to be normal for people to have cancer cells. These small cancers are normally caught by the immune system & eliminated so trying to treat every cancer has been shown to be counter-productive (chemo is poison that just kills the cancer faster than it kills you, radiation has side-effects & surgery has it's own issues). The old objective from decades ago of finding the cancer while it is small & easily treated has disappeared. What we now know that we need is a means of distinguishing those cancers that will not be eliminated normally from those that won't.
I saw no mention of this in TFA which make me think that even if the researchers make their test sensitive enough to detect small cancers that the test will have too many "false positives" (cancers that the body would eliminate anyway) to be useful.
I'm not sure that scanning for genetic changes will turn out to be useful.
Not every genetic change results in cancer as many will result in the cells dying off or being innocuous. Working on bringing the detection threshold down to low enough values to detect small tumours may just end up detecting many small cancers.
In addition, recent work shows that many small cancers are not as problematic as as long been thought. We now know that the body naturally wipes out many cancers without help. Detecting the small cancers that need treatment is much harder than it appears.
Go ahead & rant against the Luddites & socialists who refuse anything new or refuse to spend on space "until X is fixed here on earth", but do note that your rant is only slightly related to my post.
Skylon is a British/European endeavor. How much the US spent on Afghanistan (or the much larger amounts spent every year on entitlements) has nothing to do with how much the UK/EU is willing to spend on a project. It's rather how much funding is left after tossing billions down the Greek sinkhole or the cuts in the UK budget to try and stem the red ink. It is in that light that funding is unlikely at present in Europa for a project with a price tag in the billions and no guarantee of success.
All very good points. In addition this is NOT the time to be needing a 10 billion handout from either the UK or the EU. SpaceX is progressing incrementally to reusable staged rockets and does not need any more money than they are getting from their current workload. With the Skylon precooler only just exiting proof of concept tests & really being a barely tested hurdle, I don't see it going any further in today's economic environment.
Please reread my post. The FAA has authorized iPads to replace the paper documentation, _in the cockpit_ where interference would be the most severe. Thus there is tacit acceptation that electronic devices that are not active radio emitters are not a danger to avionics.
Yes, some airlines/attendants are still stuck in the last century & pretending that interference is a danger but as they don't check, sleeping any device that does not have active radios is sufficient. Anyone who wants to push it by saying "nya nya my iphone is still on", is being a jerk & the attendants may take the time to ensure that all his devices are turned off instead of doing all the other things that they need to do. Normal people just sleep the devices and pay attention during take-off & landing.
Yes, sleeping a laptop/tablet is normally sufficient.
They have pretty much stopped trying to perpetuate the lame excuse that things without an active radio are dangerous to the airplane's electronics. after all, pilots are now using iPads in the cockpit to access technical documentation during all regimes of flight.
The truly justifiable reasons for putting away these devices & unplugging ipods & whatnot is so that:
A: You are not distracted from any orders given by cabin personnel during the most potentially dangerous parts of a flight
B: Objects big enough to become dangerous flying objects are stowed.
Calling out to an attendant that your laptop isn't actually off will usually be ignored but some will still ask you to turn it off. If you don't actively point it out they wont bother you.
Robot Porn...
The fact that MS & followers tried & failed for years to deliver a tablet that interested more than a few thousand people whereas Apple has sold millions seems more relevant as to who is correct. If Apple thought that a tablet with keyboard was needed they could have brought one out. They didn't & believing that this is because they believe that they could have made money off of it but chose not to do so shows an absence of insight.
Not quite sure how this is clear, actually I'd be very interested.
No surprise given the level of ignorance you have displayed here.
Don't think I did, I merely said I had seen no evidence, and that it was beside the point
In the 10 years you had to in which you could look into the USG's publicly published documents (which supposedly interest you) you did nothing yet you continue to state incorrectly that Mckinnon committed a minor crime. You're a fool or a liar, which is it?
Unfounded insults don't really add much to your argument.
Calling someone when their duplicity has been exposed a liar is merely stating the truth. Calling you ignorant is also a statement of fact given what you have posted here
I'm guessing you don't pay too much attention to UK politics then.
You comment once again from a position of ignorance,
Nowhere did I claim that this was not set in motion according to international law.
By claiming that Mckinnon should be tried in the UK that is precisely what you did.
he was and still is an Aspergers sufferer, not a 'teenage idiot'.
Mckinnon's mother, as part of her campaign to whip up public opinion, claimed that Aspergers lowers his mental age to that of someone below the age of consent. It's also the only reason that justifies her being more present in his defense than he was.
Negating other countries sovereignty
Back to the beginning: International law has for centuries stated that when extradition treaties are present that prosecution shall take place in the country where the victims are
You clearly wouldn't accept any level of proof the USG gives. The 700000 figure is itemized in the court documents but instead of examining them you ignorantly deny that they are justified. Your pattern of behavior is clear: you prefer ignorance to informed opinions.
As to the reason the available terms are so favorable to the US, IMO the only plausible reason is that some terms that are not public are present in the treaty that every UKG since it was negotiated deems a sufficient counterweight to the public portions. While I do not hold all of them in high esteem, I cannot accept that every successive UK government has been so incapable as to refuse to force a renegotiation of terms otherwise.
Your point, is clear, but it's ignorance/negation of accepted international law make it nonsensical. Why overturn centuries of precedent because a teen aged idiot caused immense damages & then refused to fave the consequences?
Me worked up about your ignorance? You overrate your importance.
This one-sided justice you speak of started with the USA hacking into McKinnon's computers thereby causing over $700000 damages. Yup sure looks one sided to me... except that Mckinnon was the perp & the USG the victim of what you want to label a minor crime.
You are voluntarily blind and ignorant, that much is clear.
No, this is just you displaying your ignorance of international law. The jurisprudence came about from countries that share land borders & was extended for example to events in international waters. Australia does not get to ignore this because you do not share a land border with anyone.
You'd have to be one hell of a twit to fail to realize that it is the principle I referred to & a specific example rendered difficult by peculiar circumstances. Seriously if you think that Australia thinks that a shot fired from an Indonesian vessel that kills an Australian on an Australian vessel would not be prosecuted in Australia, then you're living in a universe different from the rest of us.
The country where a crime was committed was long ago determined NOT to be the most important in where the criminal should be tried. No country on earth accepts that s sniper on a neighboring hill should be tried where the hill is & not where the victims were killed. This self serving, ignorant attempt to justify being tried where one chooses is bullshit.
France has no ready expression for obsolete & undeserving of artificial maintenance like "buggy whip" evokes in English unfortunately...
Meh, Courrier Internationale is better, & given the slant I on much of what LMD publishes, I question their independence.
I find your idea to be the perfect means for Google to demonstrate the non-viability of what the socialist minister is asking for as I foresee a rapid descent into irrelevance of any implementation. However, as doing so would waste Google's time & money I don't see them trying to do so. The desire to force someone else to waste their money in a cock-eyed scheme is a recurrent theme in French Socialists...
I agree with the GP. While it is true that disagreement is not a sufficient reason for down modding, ignorance is.
When I read /. it is not to trudge through posts that are ignorant, but to be able to benefit from the insightful ones. Yes, we should mostly up-mod according to the guidelines but ignorance is sufficient justification in some cases for down-modding with overrated. In other cases, a reply is the best answer as the GP demonstrated.