Having your own UI is, sadly, becoming standard practice now. Most of the Adobe suite has done it for years. Nearly every "quick" app designed for things like driver installation, or the free software you get with your new blu-ray drive or webcam use their own custom UI. I remember that Safari used to back when they were first releasing for Windows, but fortunately they don't seem to be so bad about it anymore.
Thanks, I'll try out that test once Firefox opens. I tried opening it about 30 seconds ago, then I forgot that I started to open it so I clicked it again, so in another 30 seconds it should finally be ready.
The subsequent discussion wasn't about his grammatical error, it was about the stupidity contained in the comment itself. However, the author misinterpreted that as another critique of his grammatical error.
Gizmodo isn't a competitor of Apple, and they didn't steal anything. The only people bound by trade secrets are people who have signed NDAs. Even though Gizmodo paid for a company's trade secret, it had already been lost/stolen/released anyway, so I don't see why they should be in any trouble to begin with. That's the risk you take when you choose to operate with a trade secret instead of under patent/copyright/trademark/etc.
It's not the people who are broken, it's the media. The media is supposed to be like a fourth wing on the checks and balances of government, but it's been completely corrupted and now nobody who isn't one of the two major parties (which are for all intents and purposes identical) has not a chance in hell of even registering as a blip on the radar.
An extremely traumatic and terrible event happened to my wife and I last year. It was front page news in several newspapers, with our full names, our jobs, and other background information about us. When my wife's unique name is googled, it comes up in the first page of results. Neither one of us is even remotely famous, interesting, or worthy of attention in any way, and this was not something that we did or caused.
This has nothing to do with celebrity other than that a celebrity is complaining. Society hasn't quite caught up to the internet yet, and there are some very fucked up things that can happen thanks to the inability for information to be lost/forgotten/hard-to-find, and for information about individuals to be unleashed into that system without those individuals wanting or intending it to be there. Maybe someday society will be able to handle it better, but in the meantime it's worth talking about and trying to deal with, rather than just dismissing it as not having sympathy (by which you really mean empathy) for someone.
It's a modern form of the police state. I don't believe any first world country will ever deal with a serious police state as seen (for example) in Nazi Germany, but don't delude yourself into thinking it's not still a police state. Sure you can say what you want (in designated free speech zones, provided it's not actionable in any way) and file complaints (which will be completely ignored by both the people and power and the media they control) but neither of which will come to anything whatsoever. The abuse will continue, the abusers will never face any punishment, and nobody will rise up and fight against them, because in this modern police state people are kept just comfortable enough.
SMS costs money, and everyone I know has a blackberry, so blackberry messenger was one of the main reasons for buying the phone. I never imagined that they could be so incompetent as to lose mail and IM services for 3 days.
First of all, "anyone under the age of 18" what? You didn't even reply to the questions he asked. Does it matter if they're nude? What level of nudity? Does it need to be sexual?
Second, you said "universally agreed on" and then tried to state an (incomplete) US-only definition. Even in the USA there are plenty of arguments and controversy over what constitutes child pornography, and then if you look outside the US (ie, universally), there are even more ideas.
What scheme are you thinking of? The only rubber hose encryption method I can think of is still 100% foolproof, at least until they can read a dead person's thoughts.
Yes, but math and physics work the same for everybody. Unless the encryption used is flawed in some way (possible), or the government is using secret quantum server farms that are several orders of magnitude of current technology (unlikely), you're extremely wrong.
Even if they actually ARE using hundreds of parallelized quantum computers of which knowledge of the technology does not publicly exist, you're still wrong, because it would not be "realtime" since it would still take minutes or hours to decrypt something that was correctly encrypted.
No, he's rabidly anti-abortion. Read anything about him and you will know that. He wants to remove it because he hates abortion. States rights is just what he says so he doesn't come across as an irrational nutjob.
It doesn't seem like it would be too hard to come up with a plan that divides the income between where the business is located and where the items are shipped (or alternatively, where the items are invoiced).
If you wanted to get complicated I guess you could try to determine which counties/states an item passes through and divvy up some of it there too, since that infrastructure is being used.
This doesn't even relate to taking your hobby blog offline. He didn't just close his social networking accounts, he took every site he ever worked on off the internet.
"infosuicide" may be a dumb word, but I'd certainly say it's not just "we want more and he's not giving it to us". He wanted to take back everything he had previously given us. That's a bit unusual.
And the beauty of the internet isn't to move on, it's nearly the opposite of that. Hundreds of people around the world had his stuff saved and are putting it back online even after he tried to destroy it. THAT is the beauty (and ugliness) of the internet.
That's a great idea, we'll build the fence on wheels so that when the class goes into public (like the entire point of this article) it can follow them around.
The funny thing is that right now, children ARE leashed to the teachers, at least the last time I was in Stockholm. The lines of 5 year olds bundled in winter coats bigger than themselves standing are ridiculously cute.
I think the last time I used a phone that had a keypad on the wall rather than the phone itself (ie, that used fingers instead of thumbs) was like 15 years ago. There may have been a couple of pay phone calls in that time I'm forgetting though.
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Of all the reasons not to buy an iphone, this is by far the stupidest most non-existant one.
Having your own UI is, sadly, becoming standard practice now. Most of the Adobe suite has done it for years. Nearly every "quick" app designed for things like driver installation, or the free software you get with your new blu-ray drive or webcam use their own custom UI. I remember that Safari used to back when they were first releasing for Windows, but fortunately they don't seem to be so bad about it anymore.
Thanks, I'll try out that test once Firefox opens. I tried opening it about 30 seconds ago, then I forgot that I started to open it so I clicked it again, so in another 30 seconds it should finally be ready.
That depends on your phone. On a Blackberry, and I'm assuming also an Android, you can set permissions for what an app is allowed to access.
The subsequent discussion wasn't about his grammatical error, it was about the stupidity contained in the comment itself. However, the author misinterpreted that as another critique of his grammatical error.
What actor do you know that is a mathematician and scientist? You do know what "acting" is, don't you?
Gizmodo isn't a competitor of Apple, and they didn't steal anything. The only people bound by trade secrets are people who have signed NDAs. Even though Gizmodo paid for a company's trade secret, it had already been lost/stolen/released anyway, so I don't see why they should be in any trouble to begin with. That's the risk you take when you choose to operate with a trade secret instead of under patent/copyright/trademark/etc.
It's not the people who are broken, it's the media. The media is supposed to be like a fourth wing on the checks and balances of government, but it's been completely corrupted and now nobody who isn't one of the two major parties (which are for all intents and purposes identical) has not a chance in hell of even registering as a blip on the radar.
An extremely traumatic and terrible event happened to my wife and I last year. It was front page news in several newspapers, with our full names, our jobs, and other background information about us. When my wife's unique name is googled, it comes up in the first page of results. Neither one of us is even remotely famous, interesting, or worthy of attention in any way, and this was not something that we did or caused.
This has nothing to do with celebrity other than that a celebrity is complaining. Society hasn't quite caught up to the internet yet, and there are some very fucked up things that can happen thanks to the inability for information to be lost/forgotten/hard-to-find, and for information about individuals to be unleashed into that system without those individuals wanting or intending it to be there. Maybe someday society will be able to handle it better, but in the meantime it's worth talking about and trying to deal with, rather than just dismissing it as not having sympathy (by which you really mean empathy) for someone.
What do you use facebook for if not letting family members know what is going on in your life or connecting with your real-life friends?
That's true, but unless they got a model release...
It's a modern form of the police state. I don't believe any first world country will ever deal with a serious police state as seen (for example) in Nazi Germany, but don't delude yourself into thinking it's not still a police state. Sure you can say what you want (in designated free speech zones, provided it's not actionable in any way) and file complaints (which will be completely ignored by both the people and power and the media they control) but neither of which will come to anything whatsoever. The abuse will continue, the abusers will never face any punishment, and nobody will rise up and fight against them, because in this modern police state people are kept just comfortable enough.
SMS costs money, and everyone I know has a blackberry, so blackberry messenger was one of the main reasons for buying the phone. I never imagined that they could be so incompetent as to lose mail and IM services for 3 days.
First of all, "anyone under the age of 18" what? You didn't even reply to the questions he asked. Does it matter if they're nude? What level of nudity? Does it need to be sexual?
Second, you said "universally agreed on" and then tried to state an (incomplete) US-only definition. Even in the USA there are plenty of arguments and controversy over what constitutes child pornography, and then if you look outside the US (ie, universally), there are even more ideas.
What scheme are you thinking of? The only rubber hose encryption method I can think of is still 100% foolproof, at least until they can read a dead person's thoughts.
Yes, but math and physics work the same for everybody. Unless the encryption used is flawed in some way (possible), or the government is using secret quantum server farms that are several orders of magnitude of current technology (unlikely), you're extremely wrong.
Even if they actually ARE using hundreds of parallelized quantum computers of which knowledge of the technology does not publicly exist, you're still wrong, because it would not be "realtime" since it would still take minutes or hours to decrypt something that was correctly encrypted.
No, he's rabidly anti-abortion. Read anything about him and you will know that. He wants to remove it because he hates abortion. States rights is just what he says so he doesn't come across as an irrational nutjob.
That's exactly the MO of a religious nut. All of the craziest psycho religious people I know change religions frequently.
It doesn't seem like it would be too hard to come up with a plan that divides the income between where the business is located and where the items are shipped (or alternatively, where the items are invoiced).
If you wanted to get complicated I guess you could try to determine which counties/states an item passes through and divvy up some of it there too, since that infrastructure is being used.
This doesn't even relate to taking your hobby blog offline. He didn't just close his social networking accounts, he took every site he ever worked on off the internet.
"infosuicide" may be a dumb word, but I'd certainly say it's not just "we want more and he's not giving it to us". He wanted to take back everything he had previously given us. That's a bit unusual.
And the beauty of the internet isn't to move on, it's nearly the opposite of that. Hundreds of people around the world had his stuff saved and are putting it back online even after he tried to destroy it. THAT is the beauty (and ugliness) of the internet.
Oh, someone somewhere probably owns it. If you declare bankruptcy, all your stuff (including IP) goes up for auction.
I'm just guessing, but I imagine very few businesses large enough to have IP close without a fight ending in bankruptcy.
That's a great idea, we'll build the fence on wheels so that when the class goes into public (like the entire point of this article) it can follow them around.
So 5 year olds should have the freedom to wander off and not be tracked? What the hell is wrong with you people?
The funny thing is that right now, children ARE leashed to the teachers, at least the last time I was in Stockholm. The lines of 5 year olds bundled in winter coats bigger than themselves standing are ridiculously cute.
You seriously dial a telephone with your fingers?
I think the last time I used a phone that had a keypad on the wall rather than the phone itself (ie, that used fingers instead of thumbs) was like 15 years ago. There may have been a couple of pay phone calls in that time I'm forgetting though.