Why don't we just start advocating small claims cases en masse? This shifts the tables in favor of the consumer immensely. There are no lawyers to get rich and they are extremely expensive to fight (rather than just settle). You can't get much more punative than that, and the claimant likely gets something out of the deal.
You could, of course, use Android without the Google integration (quite possible) or simply Something Else Entirely, like Meego, Symbian, Bada, WebOS, Blackberry or whatever. Choosing the iPhone for your privacy is just plain moronic.
Modded up without citation because you take the anti-Apple position. Look, smart phones are tracking you. Period. To pretend that somehow the iPhone is terrible and all those others aren't is just naive. Locking down the iPhone is at least as easy as locking down an Android phone. I would guess easier. Jailbreaking is not a difficult process, and from there, you can install nice things like Firewall iP. I would guess that this is FAR easier than getting a nicely working Android image without all google integration stripped.
I understand the Apple model is anathema around here, but don't let it cloud your judgement. The belief that somehow my iPhone is offering me less privacy than anyone's Android phone is plain stupid. I have already said that if you don't want to be tracked (with current technology and laws), you pretty much have to forgo a smartphone.
Here's a representative comment of the type we get around here about smartphones: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2537718&cid=38133148 The android defenders/iphone haters laugh and laugh at the iphone and always push android (even where privacy is concerned). Finally, when backed against a wall about privacy and android, they turn it around and act like it's no biggie that google is building a massive dossier on them. At least I am honest with myself about the privacy invasion that my smartphone represents. And I'm doing things about it, but there seem to be few perfect solutions at the moment. All I see the android army doing is shrugging and going "so what if Google is archiving my every move." Well, in all likelyhood, Apple is archiving a lot less of my activity than google is, and for the moment, that's more privacy than an Android phone gives me.
Unless something has changed or I've missed something, last I looked removing google from android required removing and degrading a lot of functionality (and just replacing google with something else anyway). I can already replace google with something else without degrading functionality by using an iPhone.
Agreed... which if the average Joe valued his or her own privacy and freedom to control their own device, wouldn't be the side that makes billions of dollars a year. But unfortunately, Joe doesn't give a shit, so it is.
I seriously hope you're not referring to android here. Yeah, I want my phone to a direct feed into the servers of the world's largest targeted marketing multinational. I have an iPhone specifically because it lacks Google integration. If the average Joe valued his or her privacy as much as this, he or she wouldn't own a smartphone at all.
I don't think it's that childish even. I find it funny. That's the point of a magic number, spelling humorous things with what you have. It's a little childish, but it's not THAT childish because he just had to pick something anything (within the constraints).
Hey, we're supposed to be the good guys. Not the ones overreacting and lobbing thin accusations of "sexism". Who cares if it was Big Boobs? Everyone loves boobs! I like them all sizes:) Honestly, it's a magic number. Does it really matter?
You raise an interesting point. And, I am forced to agree with you. I guess I should modify my argument. My problem is that these terms are used by the industry (NOT usually the content creators themselves, don't get that confused with the industry) in ways that are extremely emotionally and intellectually manipulative. I don't want to stoop to their level and call this a case of theft or piracy, because that's dishonest. This was a license overstep. You can call it theft or piracy if you want, but I think that's just lending credibility to the way the industry misuses these terms, which is counterproductive to the cause of fair use.
English words have become pretty much embedded in the language unfortunately
I understand what you mean. The US has been such a technical force in the last 200 years that we were on the forefront of all major technological developments (railroads, computing, television, telephones, automobiles). The Internet pretty much cemented English as the lingua franca for the foreseeable future. And we certainly see lots of languages that just take the English word for some new technology and never have a native word.
But, every language borrows, and that's a lot of fun. When I was in China, I said "cest la vie", a Chinese friend said "hey, that's French," and I explained that at this point it's pretty much a part of the English language too. THAT kind of borrowing is a really wonderful thing.
The tech which we're really talking about here is 6LoWPAN, which is IPV6 for these low-power wireless sensor networks. It's a pretty simple software solution, but it's built on some cool stuff. I'm partial to TinyOS over Contiki, but I guess that's just my exposure to it (plus it uses the superb nesC language).
Well, that's the problem. A lot of terms are lobbed around which insight more emotion than understanding. Did they pirate it? Not really. They had permission to exhibit the song in a specific way and broke the terms of the license. Constantly using analogues to physical things ("piracy", "property", "theft") is just dumb. We need to realize that this stuff isn't property and this isn't theft. Should content creators be protected? Yes. Are they currently? IMO way more than is necessary.
Meh. You're thinking is too black and white to even argue with. Sharing of information does not have any easy analogue in natural law, and therefore any laws we might make are often (at least ideally) drawn up with the intent to protect individual rights and/or benefit society. Lumping sharing of all forms of information together in this absurd absolutist view is exactly what's wrong with legislation today. There's no nuance. Just like the average Christian wouldn't understand the discussion between Luther and Pope Leo, the average human has lost sight of how and why we have many laws in the first place (especially pertaining to privacy and intellectual work, two special and *different* domains). The average person actually believes that information is property (which is insane). There's a nuance here. We need a scalpel and you're thinking at the granularity of a fireaxe.
The technology is already here, we can't close the box, the important thing is whether suitable laws are in place to prevent misuse.
I agree. I also find it amusing how so many people on/. scream "information wants to be free" when talking about recordings of music made by someone, but when it comes to THEIR information, they are all up in arms about how evil corporations are for sharing their information with other corporations.
You are my sworn enemy. Not only do I have to worry about the corporations, I have to worry about their apologists and enablers. Freedom to share music with our friends is very different than freedom to share their personal information. To lump them together is insane. It's intellectually confounded, and disastrous to society to think like this (yes, disastrous). Then, again, I don't think that information wants to be free. I certainly don't want that. OTOH, in some regards, it is best for society; free flow of information is good. The problem is we've got it backwards. All the information that is in society's best interest to flow freely or more freely (scientific publications and creative works as long as we don't destroy the industries behind them) are restricted, while that which ought to be very private (all our private digital lives, search histories, emails, phone calls, texts, GPS coordinates, social connections) are being over-shared.
Your garbage line of reasoning is akin to saying that someone who supports libraries should also support a national biometrics database, because they support public information access. It's heavy-handed, silly and just plain dumb.
Hey me too! Except at the top level (e.g. banking, email), every site has a unique password. At the lowest level, all the forums and miscellany have the same password.
All of my banking passwords are the weakest ones. Most of the banking sites will not allow a full alphabet of special characters (American Express only has something like 6 different special characters you can use). I'm like WTF, is this a banking site or not?
Like always Opera did it first (full disclosure, I used to be a major Opera fanboy). I don't think Firefox is trying to beat anyone. Once Opera got to 10 and worked out the bugs for everyone (stupid websites were only looking at a single digit of the version number at that time, so Opera coded the UA to say something like 9.6), everyone is doing it. For some reason, the Firefox team finds this versioning best for their development process, and so be it. It doesn't really matter what the version numbers are. Web browsers are constantly being updated, regardless of version number.
Some people hate it because they are curmudgeons, but some hate it because it's a resource hog and sluggish to boot (I mean "to boot" as in as well, not like to bootstrap the computer).
I LIKE unity. I really like unity. Unfortunately, it's a big performance cost for the features that matter. Turning off blur and stuff like that helps, but not enough.
I have never been to Magnolia, and I don't really know what it is. But, I'm not sure I know of ANY electronics store with knowledgeable employees. I always have tester questions to see what the people say, like a job interview. I am generally blown away by the outright lies so many employees put up. They just outright make stuff up.
The price is a tad steep. I think I paid $30 for a like-new condition used one some 4 years ago (with the dongle of course). I'll never buy one of those garbage big-box store pieces of junk again. I think there are decent controllers out there, but to get one approaching the quality of the 360 controller, you have to spend almost twice as much. Plus, this one works in linux with minimal fuss.
Maybe I'm the only one, but I don't long for the controllers of days gone. Modern controllers can do just as much more comfortably.
Now, I'll be pysched when someone goes through and develops/tweaks a bunch of emulators for this hardware specifically. A modded Xbox is my go to Emulator device. It runs on very old TVs if necessary and can emulate N64 better than my computer. That's the advantage of emulating on a single hardware target. Everyone's emulator runs pretty much just like the developers machine did.
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Why don't we just start advocating small claims cases en masse? This shifts the tables in favor of the consumer immensely. There are no lawyers to get rich and they are extremely expensive to fight (rather than just settle). You can't get much more punative than that, and the claimant likely gets something out of the deal.
Take it easy. Everyone hates a sore loser.
You could, of course, use Android without the Google integration (quite possible) or simply Something Else Entirely, like Meego, Symbian, Bada, WebOS, Blackberry or whatever. Choosing the iPhone for your privacy is just plain moronic.
Modded up without citation because you take the anti-Apple position. Look, smart phones are tracking you. Period. To pretend that somehow the iPhone is terrible and all those others aren't is just naive. Locking down the iPhone is at least as easy as locking down an Android phone. I would guess easier. Jailbreaking is not a difficult process, and from there, you can install nice things like Firewall iP. I would guess that this is FAR easier than getting a nicely working Android image without all google integration stripped.
I understand the Apple model is anathema around here, but don't let it cloud your judgement. The belief that somehow my iPhone is offering me less privacy than anyone's Android phone is plain stupid. I have already said that if you don't want to be tracked (with current technology and laws), you pretty much have to forgo a smartphone.
Here's a representative comment of the type we get around here about smartphones: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2537718&cid=38133148 The android defenders/iphone haters laugh and laugh at the iphone and always push android (even where privacy is concerned). Finally, when backed against a wall about privacy and android, they turn it around and act like it's no biggie that google is building a massive dossier on them. At least I am honest with myself about the privacy invasion that my smartphone represents. And I'm doing things about it, but there seem to be few perfect solutions at the moment. All I see the android army doing is shrugging and going "so what if Google is archiving my every move." Well, in all likelyhood, Apple is archiving a lot less of my activity than google is, and for the moment, that's more privacy than an Android phone gives me.
Unless something has changed or I've missed something, last I looked removing google from android required removing and degrading a lot of functionality (and just replacing google with something else anyway). I can already replace google with something else without degrading functionality by using an iPhone.
Agreed... which if the average Joe valued his or her own privacy and freedom to control their own device, wouldn't be the side that makes billions of dollars a year. But unfortunately, Joe doesn't give a shit, so it is.
I seriously hope you're not referring to android here. Yeah, I want my phone to a direct feed into the servers of the world's largest targeted marketing multinational. I have an iPhone specifically because it lacks Google integration. If the average Joe valued his or her privacy as much as this, he or she wouldn't own a smartphone at all.
I don't think it's that childish even. I find it funny. That's the point of a magic number, spelling humorous things with what you have. It's a little childish, but it's not THAT childish because he just had to pick something anything (within the constraints).
Poongoon? ...
is this why they think we're sexist in the tech industry? my bad, guys!
I literally just now saw 0xFEEDFACE in a microcontroller manual. I saw this not a half hour after seeing this story. The universe is crazy sometimes.
Hey, we're supposed to be the good guys. Not the ones overreacting and lobbing thin accusations of "sexism". Who cares if it was Big Boobs? Everyone loves boobs! I like them all sizes :) Honestly, it's a magic number. Does it really matter?
You raise an interesting point. And, I am forced to agree with you. I guess I should modify my argument. My problem is that these terms are used by the industry (NOT usually the content creators themselves, don't get that confused with the industry) in ways that are extremely emotionally and intellectually manipulative. I don't want to stoop to their level and call this a case of theft or piracy, because that's dishonest. This was a license overstep. You can call it theft or piracy if you want, but I think that's just lending credibility to the way the industry misuses these terms, which is counterproductive to the cause of fair use.
English words have become pretty much embedded in the language unfortunately
I understand what you mean. The US has been such a technical force in the last 200 years that we were on the forefront of all major technological developments (railroads, computing, television, telephones, automobiles). The Internet pretty much cemented English as the lingua franca for the foreseeable future. And we certainly see lots of languages that just take the English word for some new technology and never have a native word.
But, every language borrows, and that's a lot of fun. When I was in China, I said "cest la vie", a Chinese friend said "hey, that's French," and I explained that at this point it's pretty much a part of the English language too. THAT kind of borrowing is a really wonderful thing.
The tech which we're really talking about here is 6LoWPAN, which is IPV6 for these low-power wireless sensor networks. It's a pretty simple software solution, but it's built on some cool stuff. I'm partial to TinyOS over Contiki, but I guess that's just my exposure to it (plus it uses the superb nesC language).
Well, that's the problem. A lot of terms are lobbed around which insight more emotion than understanding. Did they pirate it? Not really. They had permission to exhibit the song in a specific way and broke the terms of the license. Constantly using analogues to physical things ("piracy", "property", "theft") is just dumb. We need to realize that this stuff isn't property and this isn't theft. Should content creators be protected? Yes. Are they currently? IMO way more than is necessary.
Am I the only one who thinks this is completely reasonable and acceptable?
Meh. You're thinking is too black and white to even argue with. Sharing of information does not have any easy analogue in natural law, and therefore any laws we might make are often (at least ideally) drawn up with the intent to protect individual rights and/or benefit society. Lumping sharing of all forms of information together in this absurd absolutist view is exactly what's wrong with legislation today. There's no nuance. Just like the average Christian wouldn't understand the discussion between Luther and Pope Leo, the average human has lost sight of how and why we have many laws in the first place (especially pertaining to privacy and intellectual work, two special and *different* domains). The average person actually believes that information is property (which is insane). There's a nuance here. We need a scalpel and you're thinking at the granularity of a fireaxe.
The technology is already here, we can't close the box, the important thing is whether suitable laws are in place to prevent misuse.
I agree. I also find it amusing how so many people on /. scream "information wants to be free" when talking about recordings of music made by someone, but when it comes to THEIR information, they are all up in arms about how evil corporations are for sharing their information with other corporations.
You are my sworn enemy. Not only do I have to worry about the corporations, I have to worry about their apologists and enablers. Freedom to share music with our friends is very different than freedom to share their personal information. To lump them together is insane. It's intellectually confounded, and disastrous to society to think like this (yes, disastrous). Then, again, I don't think that information wants to be free. I certainly don't want that. OTOH, in some regards, it is best for society; free flow of information is good. The problem is we've got it backwards. All the information that is in society's best interest to flow freely or more freely (scientific publications and creative works as long as we don't destroy the industries behind them) are restricted, while that which ought to be very private (all our private digital lives, search histories, emails, phone calls, texts, GPS coordinates, social connections) are being over-shared.
Your garbage line of reasoning is akin to saying that someone who supports libraries should also support a national biometrics database, because they support public information access. It's heavy-handed, silly and just plain dumb.
Hey me too! Except at the top level (e.g. banking, email), every site has a unique password. At the lowest level, all the forums and miscellany have the same password.
All of my banking passwords are the weakest ones. Most of the banking sites will not allow a full alphabet of special characters (American Express only has something like 6 different special characters you can use). I'm like WTF, is this a banking site or not?
Like always Opera did it first (full disclosure, I used to be a major Opera fanboy). I don't think Firefox is trying to beat anyone. Once Opera got to 10 and worked out the bugs for everyone (stupid websites were only looking at a single digit of the version number at that time, so Opera coded the UA to say something like 9.6), everyone is doing it. For some reason, the Firefox team finds this versioning best for their development process, and so be it. It doesn't really matter what the version numbers are. Web browsers are constantly being updated, regardless of version number.
Some people hate it because they are curmudgeons, but some hate it because it's a resource hog and sluggish to boot (I mean "to boot" as in as well, not like to bootstrap the computer).
I LIKE unity. I really like unity. Unfortunately, it's a big performance cost for the features that matter. Turning off blur and stuff like that helps, but not enough.
I have never been to Magnolia, and I don't really know what it is. But, I'm not sure I know of ANY electronics store with knowledgeable employees. I always have tester questions to see what the people say, like a job interview. I am generally blown away by the outright lies so many employees put up. They just outright make stuff up.
"Daaamn, they had to call backup. Must have been the printer. " Lol
I guess I have Surreal64 Beta 5.00. PM me if you need more help. I actually haven't played it in over a year, but I remember it working.
Agreed.
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Xbox-Wireless-Controller-Windows/dp/B004QRKWKQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1341597176&sr=8-1&keywords=xbox+360+controller+for+pc
The price is a tad steep. I think I paid $30 for a like-new condition used one some 4 years ago (with the dongle of course). I'll never buy one of those garbage big-box store pieces of junk again. I think there are decent controllers out there, but to get one approaching the quality of the 360 controller, you have to spend almost twice as much. Plus, this one works in linux with minimal fuss.
Let's hope he doesn't go to London or they'll ship his ass to the States for a fair* trial.
Maybe I'm the only one, but I don't long for the controllers of days gone. Modern controllers can do just as much more comfortably.
Now, I'll be pysched when someone goes through and develops/tweaks a bunch of emulators for this hardware specifically. A modded Xbox is my go to Emulator device. It runs on very old TVs if necessary and can emulate N64 better than my computer. That's the advantage of emulating on a single hardware target. Everyone's emulator runs pretty much just like the developers machine did.