This criminal organization LulzSec hurt the end user. Isn't that what the Slashdot crowd claims to be for? LulzSec exhibited utter lawlessness that, if perpetrated by Sony or Apple or Google or the Department of Homeland Security, it would have all the supposed Slashdot "Libertarians" howling. Read my sig for more details.
I can't believe how many people here are defending the action of LulzSec (not the hack, the posting of info, utterly and completely indefensible).
A CEO's job is to create shareholder wealth, not his own. In fact, Jobs pays himself $1/year.
As an AAPL shareholder for the last 20 years, I'm really happy I didn't have MSFT instead. MSFT had its growth period (largely due to monopoly, not innovation), then died for 11 years. AAPL continues to grow like 95% YoY.
Besides, what's the *second* company Gates founded that was wildly successful (Pixar has had like 15 straight hits)? And when did Gates return to a dying company and make it the best company in America? When did he do that?
Because of EMTALA, a terrible law that has allowed people to use ERs as their primary care. It's federal extortion, not state contract law (i.e., duress).
That money comes from somewhere - the private sector. So private sector expansion is reduced by the $.75B these "created jobs" cost (as if the government will return the money to the private sector when this "loan" is repaid). And considering the private sector is a lot more efficient that government procurement, it's likely a net loss of jobs.
Connecting to TPB and the like without some sort of RIAA/MPAA/BSA countermeasures is just plain dumb. At least use PeerBlock. Better yet, get a proxy service, located in another country from your own. They are pretty cheap. Surprising that with so many security- and privacy-conscious people here, nobody has mentioned it.
Or steal your neighbor's WiFi at least. Then you can stand on your front lawn, shaking your head in disapproval with the other neighbors as he is carted away by the IP police. "Hmm...must be kiddie porn."
I was a non-conformist in HS. Hated the jocks (even though I played football, nothing more conformist than football players at a Catholic school), but hated the little overachieving geeks as well, many of whom were even more aloof and self-satisfied than the jocks.
Ironic that a geek Website can only see in binary terms: conformist or geek. There are other categories, and BTW, Wozniak was the geek. Jobs was a visionary who couldn't code "hello world!". Apple needed both to succeed.
So now you're criticizing Apple for waiting to make sure that its predict is up to standards.
It's interesting that a company with the highest customer satisfaction ratings has so many critics. It's almost as if the people complaining the loudest are not Apple customers, but, on the contrary, the last people who would ever buy Apple products based on some sort of dogma.
I've been wrestling with buying a PS3 for years, paralyzed by indecision. The latest of late-adopters avoids the security breach!
Even better, some guy in Nigeria is offering me a ridiculous amount of money just to help him withdraw some of his money stuck in escrow, so now I can afford a PS3 for free once they fix the security issues. Win-win, suckas!
That's an urban legend. There may be a few (notable!) exceptions, where right-wingers are merely 'in the closet' about some issue (whether being pedophiles or gay, etc), but most of them are legitimately conservative. Conservatism is based on a genetic inclination to fear the unknown to an unreasonable degree, and therefore most conservatives are not experimental when it comes to sex or any other aspect of their lives.
OK, so I am about as right wing as you can get on fiscal/taxing/spending issues, moderate on social issues (so long as I don't have to in any way pay for others' proclivities, or have it rammed down my throat, no pun intended). I wouldn't vote for a Democrat to get out of a burning phone booth. Think Ron Paul with less isolationism. I am as far from a prude as you can get and still be legal and hetero, I hold a doctorate, and have been a Mac user for 30 years and Apple stockholder for 20.
There's my inductive reasoning debunking of TFA for the day.
"To provide location-based services on Apple products, Apple and our partners and licensees may collect, use, and share precise location data, including the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device. This location data is collected anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you and is used by Apple and our partners and licensees to provide and improve location-based products and services. For example, we may share geographic location with application providers when you opt in to their location services."
As I said in GP post, you have to affirmatively opt in for partners to get info. They do not get it automatically via Apple's TOS.
Just like there are subsets of tall, small, white, round, up, los angeles. I guess the GP's native language is not english.
Diction lessons from the guy who didn't capitalize Los Angeles or English, no less. The use of the word "evil" to describe something you disagree with or even disapprove off is not a proper use of the word evil, bub. I mean, seriously, it isn't even illegal to save this info. At least prove it's being abused, as opposed to the potential for misuse.
Next, they'll be sharing it with their 'partners', and using it for direct advertising. You've already agreed to it in the terms.
Obviously you are not an iPhone user, being intentionally disingenuous, or you have not been reading how pissed off the "partners" are about Apple locking up privacy. Any app or content purchase explicitly asks if the purchaser wants to share info, and he must affirmatively approve of it each time. The idea that iPhone users have already agreed to sharing info with partners in advance is total bullshit, and any iPhone user could tell you otherwise.
Good tip, but Miranda? Really? Bad enough they named the police notification of rights requirement after a rapist, but now we are memorializing that scumbag Ernesto Miranda - who sold autographed Miranda cards like he is some baseball Hall of Famer - with software? Miranda was a very bad man.
Did you even read my post? I said qualified immunity requires the plaintiff show bad faith. It's very rare that a court finds this, and holds an officer liable.
As for the second part, stop impersonating a lawyer. You really don't know what the hell you are talking about. Nothing in that section precludes a state or city from indemnifying a police officer (stop saying "department," cities pay lawsuits, not departments), and California lawrequires the city defend the police officer, and most local codes require the city to do so as well. And the city even has the discretion to pay punitive damages where bad faith has been found, and this authority has been upheld by the 9th Circuit.
Again, lawyer impersonator, I've worked both sides of the bar in police civil rights cases. Your comments about LA are silly. The LA Muni Code requires the city pay damages of police officers, as do most cities, and this has been tested by federal courts, even in punitive damages (bad faith) cases.
If you count the iPad, iOS is kicking Android's booty. Besides, the people who buy Androids don't buy apps. They are cheap people who want 1-cent phones, or geeks who think everything should be free. iPhone owners buy way, way more apps, so developers go where the money is.
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really hate the Slashdot community, if this is the criminal shit you all stand for.
This criminal organization LulzSec hurt the end user. Isn't that what the Slashdot crowd claims to be for? LulzSec exhibited utter lawlessness that, if perpetrated by Sony or Apple or Google or the Department of Homeland Security, it would have all the supposed Slashdot "Libertarians" howling. Read my sig for more details.
I can't believe how many people here are defending the action of LulzSec (not the hack, the posting of info, utterly and completely indefensible).
A CEO's job is to create shareholder wealth, not his own. In fact, Jobs pays himself $1/year.
As an AAPL shareholder for the last 20 years, I'm really happy I didn't have MSFT instead. MSFT had its growth period (largely due to monopoly, not innovation), then died for 11 years. AAPL continues to grow like 95% YoY.
Besides, what's the *second* company Gates founded that was wildly successful (Pixar has had like 15 straight hits)? And when did Gates return to a dying company and make it the best company in America? When did he do that?
Let him do a Facebook share buyback on IPO day with his personal funds, and see how badly the retail investor will do on that over-valuated trade.
Because of EMTALA, a terrible law that has allowed people to use ERs as their primary care. It's federal extortion, not state contract law (i.e., duress).
The one weakness of these boxes is no Web surfing, IMO.
As soon as I get an HDMI-to-bunny ears cable, that's one less box cluttering my living room, baby.
That money comes from somewhere - the private sector. So private sector expansion is reduced by the $.75B these "created jobs" cost (as if the government will return the money to the private sector when this "loan" is repaid). And considering the private sector is a lot more efficient that government procurement, it's likely a net loss of jobs.
When you steal money from the future, there will eventually be a cost, even if you don't notice it. That which is seen, and that which is not seen.
I sure hope that the thief accidentally pushes "yes" instead of "no" to the tracking request.
Secular humanists are no less religious, so is it not a religion because it has no God? Does Gaea count?
Connecting to TPB and the like without some sort of RIAA/MPAA/BSA countermeasures is just plain dumb. At least use PeerBlock. Better yet, get a proxy service, located in another country from your own. They are pretty cheap. Surprising that with so many security- and privacy-conscious people here, nobody has mentioned it.
Or steal your neighbor's WiFi at least. Then you can stand on your front lawn, shaking your head in disapproval with the other neighbors as he is carted away by the IP police. "Hmm...must be kiddie porn."
have less accidents than Honda Accords, per 1000 vehicles. Hmm....
I was a non-conformist in HS. Hated the jocks (even though I played football, nothing more conformist than football players at a Catholic school), but hated the little overachieving geeks as well, many of whom were even more aloof and self-satisfied than the jocks.
Ironic that a geek Website can only see in binary terms: conformist or geek. There are other categories, and BTW, Wozniak was the geek. Jobs was a visionary who couldn't code "hello world!". Apple needed both to succeed.
So now you're criticizing Apple for waiting to make sure that its predict is up to standards.
It's interesting that a company with the highest customer satisfaction ratings has so many critics. It's almost as if the people complaining the loudest are not Apple customers, but, on the contrary, the last people who would ever buy Apple products based on some sort of dogma.
I wonder if Google will give Apple a tour?
I've been wrestling with buying a PS3 for years, paralyzed by indecision. The latest of late-adopters avoids the security breach!
Even better, some guy in Nigeria is offering me a ridiculous amount of money just to help him withdraw some of his money stuck in escrow, so now I can afford a PS3 for free once they fix the security issues. Win-win, suckas!
That's an urban legend. There may be a few (notable!) exceptions, where right-wingers are merely 'in the closet' about some issue (whether being pedophiles or gay, etc), but most of them are legitimately conservative. Conservatism is based on a genetic inclination to fear the unknown to an unreasonable degree, and therefore most conservatives are not experimental when it comes to sex or any other aspect of their lives.
OK, so I am about as right wing as you can get on fiscal/taxing/spending issues, moderate on social issues (so long as I don't have to in any way pay for others' proclivities, or have it rammed down my throat, no pun intended). I wouldn't vote for a Democrat to get out of a burning phone booth. Think Ron Paul with less isolationism. I am as far from a prude as you can get and still be legal and hetero, I hold a doctorate, and have been a Mac user for 30 years and Apple stockholder for 20.
There's my inductive reasoning debunking of TFA for the day.
"To provide location-based services on Apple products, Apple and our partners and licensees may collect, use, and share precise location data, including the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device. This location data is collected anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you and is used by Apple and our partners and licensees to provide and improve location-based products and services. For example, we may share geographic location with application providers when you opt in to their location services."
As I said in GP post, you have to affirmatively opt in for partners to get info. They do not get it automatically via Apple's TOS.
Just like there are subsets of tall, small, white, round, up, los angeles. I guess the GP's native language is not english.
Diction lessons from the guy who didn't capitalize Los Angeles or English, no less. The use of the word "evil" to describe something you disagree with or even disapprove off is not a proper use of the word evil, bub. I mean, seriously, it isn't even illegal to save this info. At least prove it's being abused, as opposed to the potential for misuse.
Next, they'll be sharing it with their 'partners', and using it for direct advertising. You've already agreed to it in the terms.
Obviously you are not an iPhone user, being intentionally disingenuous, or you have not been reading how pissed off the "partners" are about Apple locking up privacy. Any app or content purchase explicitly asks if the purchaser wants to share info, and he must affirmatively approve of it each time. The idea that iPhone users have already agreed to sharing info with partners in advance is total bullshit, and any iPhone user could tell you otherwise.
Good tip, but Miranda? Really? Bad enough they named the police notification of rights requirement after a rapist, but now we are memorializing that scumbag Ernesto Miranda - who sold autographed Miranda cards like he is some baseball Hall of Famer - with software? Miranda was a very bad man.
Evil? Then what word do we we use for the Einsatzgruppen and serial killers?
Let's put away the hyperbole before the language no longer means anything, K?
So you're telling me if someone physically steals my phone or computer, and is able to break the passwords, they can see private info about me? NFW!
I assure you all that if someone were to do that, I'd have a lot more to worry about than my PC or phone giving up my travel habits.
Did you even read my post? I said qualified immunity requires the plaintiff show bad faith. It's very rare that a court finds this, and holds an officer liable.
As for the second part, stop impersonating a lawyer. You really don't know what the hell you are talking about. Nothing in that section precludes a state or city from indemnifying a police officer (stop saying "department," cities pay lawsuits, not departments), and California law requires the city defend the police officer, and most local codes require the city to do so as well. And the city even has the discretion to pay punitive damages where bad faith has been found, and this authority has been upheld by the 9th Circuit.
Again, lawyer impersonator, I've worked both sides of the bar in police civil rights cases. Your comments about LA are silly. The LA Muni Code requires the city pay damages of police officers, as do most cities, and this has been tested by federal courts, even in punitive damages (bad faith) cases.
If you count the iPad, iOS is kicking Android's booty. Besides, the people who buy Androids don't buy apps. They are cheap people who want 1-cent phones, or geeks who think everything should be free. iPhone owners buy way, way more apps, so developers go where the money is.