Okay, the term has fallen into disrepute. But isn't the cloud just an extension or enhancement of the concept (pipe + storage space + online applications)? So why not a cloud service analogous to a country's road network?
Why use toilet paper at all? Just wash yourself with soap and water. It's what a lot of folks in Asia do and it's just as hygienic (probably more so) than paper. The toilet would need to be open source too, which points to a composting toilet unless you fancy firing your own porcelain.
I haven't used one, but I've seen videos of automatic Japanese toilets that clean you after you do, uh, your business. Obligatory Wikipedia article with a photo of such a toilet in action (tastefully without its user).
Very true. I wish they also did something similar with phones. Right now Android is perceived by a lot of people as kind of crappy because the phones they buy are kind of crappy.
In some countries Samsung is already selling Android (2.2) phones not much more expensive than an feature phone. So I doubt anybody can sell any cheaper that and still get some measure of quality. And I doubt that Google would be interested in selling cheap smartphones since that segment is already well taken care of by the cellphone service providers (via smoke-and-mirrors subscription plans).
I doubt whether motives can ever be "truly altruistic". I can only speculate on what motivates Bill Gates to be mega charitable (although everybody can safely assume raw greed isn't one of them). Maybe Gates wants to reverse his bad karma as the former CEO of a much reviled company. Maybe he wants to promote capitalism as an ideology. Maybe, just maybe he really wants to help the poor because he saw a TV documentary of some African poster child. So, even if he won't "profit" from his charity, he still has some motive beyond doing good. This isn't being cynical. This is human nature. Guilt, imagined or not, is a very powerful motive.
I don't see how you can look at those figures and arrive at the conclusion that he's not bee much more charitable than the ordinary person.
Bill Gates can give away 99% of his wealth, and he'd still be richer than Mitt Romney. So, yes, he's a good example among the filthy rich. He can afford to be more charitable than ordinary people who'd miss out on simple middle-class essentials like housing or education if they so much as part with half their money.
NPL web site appears to be offline at the time of this post. Maybe they couldn't handle the deluge of electrons headed their way. Science Daily link okay though.
You can get the exact same specs in an even cheaper Chinese tablet; I wouldn't be shocked if these are based on one of those
I would be shocked if the XTab wasn't a rebadged Made in China tablet. Only mainland Chinese companies are capable ATM of producing tablets at those price points. In fact, if you had a couple of thousand dollars you could be selling your own You-Branded tablet, complete with customized logo.
Bookmarked. Waiting for a chance to get my hands on somebody's Android phone. As for the bluetooth keyboard, it's news to me. I'd always thought that pre-4.X, Android support for BT keyboards were manufacturer/third-party dependent.
Yes, I also noticed the other sentence construction errors but chose to focus on what I thought was the most obvious, even to people whose first language isn't English. I don't mind the usual typos and grammatical mistakes, so long as they don't have me scratching my head over the wrong or missing words. But this has to be one of the most poorly written stories I've read thus far.
Scanning the title I thought they got a Kickstarter project for creating an Android command terminal app that would allow you to run standard GNU/BSD tools like grep, find and sort without rooting the phone. Would be really nice to have if you can use an external keyboard with it.
I wonder if unknown websites would make up some imaginary accounts
That or they harvested and spammed some 400,000 email addresses using some sort of web promo where you fill in your contact details for a chance to get a freebie.
Or file a class-action suit if they feel it's worth a damn. The FTC ruling is more of a regulatory move. The FTC isn't a court, and so you won't see the fabulous sums bandied about in law suits.
Google will settle with the FTC for nearly $22.5 million over its bypassing of Apple's Safari browser privacy settings. Google, the largest settlement with FTC over privacy related charges ever.
The part that begins with "Google, the largest settlement" isn't a sentence. Either it's missing a verb or it's a wrongly split part of the first sentence: "Google will settle with the FTC for nearly $22.5 million, the largest settlement with the FTC over privacy-related charges."
Really, if developers are the audience why not just farm out this feature to the Seamonkey communication suite, the direct descendant of the Mozilla kitchensink browser + email client + HTML editor, etc. Wasn't the goal of Firefox to become the original speed browser by throwing out all the non-web features of the Mozilla dinosaur?
Right. Plus, you could try the Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release) version, which is supported for the not quite long-term period of one year. It won't shut up the high-version numbers but it would allow you to skip from, say, version 10 to 15+ or whatever version comes a year after the initial release of the current ESR.
Who knows, maybe heavyweight Dotcom's money is "stored" in stone. What worries me is what determines jurisdiction when mere accusation can put criminal suspects in the court system of another country? Personally, I'd prefer if the trials are done in the country where they live, even those accused of trading in illegal drugs. (Proof of possible guilt appears to be lighter in extradition cases.) I'd probably make an exception for war criminals and terrorists. The ideal solution would be for them to be tried in a truly international court, but with the way the UN works, who knows how the verdict would go?
I've not been arrested for terrorism, so I don't know. Seriously, I've always thought that funds are frozen only for people alleged to have committed serious shit like blowing up buildings or selling large quantities of hallucinogens.
I'm only following his case through this fine forum. So I'm curious, does King Dotcom have all his funds stashed away in some US bank? Or does the US have the ability to put a hold order on money stoned in another country?
Secure Boot appears to be an attempt to impose a Microsoft solution to a security problem. Secure Boot would be perfect for Windows systems because such systems would be EOL'd anyway if Microsoft goes belly up.
But for FLOSS users it would only complicate the maintainance and upgrade paths, even if they decide to use Ubundora's "solutions". There's a chance that a working system would stop working because the boot certificate was revoked.
Just a quibble with your list of "pirate" sites: Mininova went legit a long time ago. From the usual source:
Mininova is a website offering BitTorrent downloads. Mininova was once one of the largest sites offering torrents of copyrighted material, but in November 2009, following legal action in the Dutch courts, the site operators deleted all torrent files uploaded by regular users including torrents that enabled users to download copyrighted material.
if, a few years into the future, somebody dusts off an old copy of Windows Vista/7 and runs an update. Will that version of Vista/7 still update? Will it still work?
I'm asking because of this whole business with certificate revocation. Obviously, to revoke a certificate "successfully" without inconveniencing users, you have to update users' systems to the new certificate using the old one. This has obvious consequences for the maintainance of Secure Boot-enabled systems.
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Okay, the term has fallen into disrepute. But isn't the cloud just an extension or enhancement of the concept (pipe + storage space + online applications)? So why not a cloud service analogous to a country's road network?
So that's where Mark got his inspiration for a site name.
I haven't used one, but I've seen videos of automatic Japanese toilets that clean you after you do, uh, your business. Obligatory Wikipedia article with a photo of such a toilet in action (tastefully without its user).
... the inanimate aluminum rod.
In some countries Samsung is already selling Android (2.2) phones not much more expensive than an feature phone. So I doubt anybody can sell any cheaper that and still get some measure of quality. And I doubt that Google would be interested in selling cheap smartphones since that segment is already well taken care of by the cellphone service providers (via smoke-and-mirrors subscription plans).
I doubt whether motives can ever be "truly altruistic". I can only speculate on what motivates Bill Gates to be mega charitable (although everybody can safely assume raw greed isn't one of them). Maybe Gates wants to reverse his bad karma as the former CEO of a much reviled company. Maybe he wants to promote capitalism as an ideology. Maybe, just maybe he really wants to help the poor because he saw a TV documentary of some African poster child. So, even if he won't "profit" from his charity, he still has some motive beyond doing good. This isn't being cynical. This is human nature. Guilt, imagined or not, is a very powerful motive.
Bill Gates can give away 99% of his wealth, and he'd still be richer than Mitt Romney. So, yes, he's a good example among the filthy rich. He can afford to be more charitable than ordinary people who'd miss out on simple middle-class essentials like housing or education if they so much as part with half their money.
Try it. Requires some G-fu but the https:/// URL is discoverable within minutes.
NPL web site appears to be offline at the time of this post. Maybe they couldn't handle the deluge of electrons headed their way. Science Daily link okay though.
I would be shocked if the XTab wasn't a rebadged Made in China tablet. Only mainland Chinese companies are capable ATM of producing tablets at those price points. In fact, if you had a couple of thousand dollars you could be selling your own You-Branded tablet, complete with customized logo.
Bookmarked. Waiting for a chance to get my hands on somebody's Android phone. As for the bluetooth keyboard, it's news to me. I'd always thought that pre-4.X, Android support for BT keyboards were manufacturer/third-party dependent.
Yes, I also noticed the other sentence construction errors but chose to focus on what I thought was the most obvious, even to people whose first language isn't English. I don't mind the usual typos and grammatical mistakes, so long as they don't have me scratching my head over the wrong or missing words. But this has to be one of the most poorly written stories I've read thus far.
Scanning the title I thought they got a Kickstarter project for creating an Android command terminal app that would allow you to run standard GNU/BSD tools like grep, find and sort without rooting the phone. Would be really nice to have if you can use an external keyboard with it.
That or they harvested and spammed some 400,000 email addresses using some sort of web promo where you fill in your contact details for a chance to get a freebie.
Or file a class-action suit if they feel it's worth a damn. The FTC ruling is more of a regulatory move. The FTC isn't a court, and so you won't see the fabulous sums bandied about in law suits.
The part that begins with "Google, the largest settlement" isn't a sentence. Either it's missing a verb or it's a wrongly split part of the first sentence: "Google will settle with the FTC for nearly $22.5 million, the largest settlement with the FTC over privacy-related charges."
Really, if developers are the audience why not just farm out this feature to the Seamonkey communication suite, the direct descendant of the Mozilla kitchensink browser + email client + HTML editor, etc. Wasn't the goal of Firefox to become the original speed browser by throwing out all the non-web features of the Mozilla dinosaur?
Right. Plus, you could try the Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release) version, which is supported for the not quite long-term period of one year. It won't shut up the high-version numbers but it would allow you to skip from, say, version 10 to 15+ or whatever version comes a year after the initial release of the current ESR.
Who knows, maybe heavyweight Dotcom's money is "stored" in stone. What worries me is what determines jurisdiction when mere accusation can put criminal suspects in the court system of another country? Personally, I'd prefer if the trials are done in the country where they live, even those accused of trading in illegal drugs. (Proof of possible guilt appears to be lighter in extradition cases.) I'd probably make an exception for war criminals and terrorists. The ideal solution would be for them to be tried in a truly international court, but with the way the UN works, who knows how the verdict would go?
I've not been arrested for terrorism, so I don't know. Seriously, I've always thought that funds are frozen only for people alleged to have committed serious shit like blowing up buildings or selling large quantities of hallucinogens.
I'm only following his case through this fine forum. So I'm curious, does King Dotcom have all his funds stashed away in some US bank? Or does the US have the ability to put a hold order on money stoned in another country?
Forgot about that one.
Secure Boot appears to be an attempt to impose a Microsoft solution to a security problem. Secure Boot would be perfect for Windows systems because such systems would be EOL'd anyway if Microsoft goes belly up.
But for FLOSS users it would only complicate the maintainance and upgrade paths, even if they decide to use Ubundora's "solutions". There's a chance that a working system would stop working because the boot certificate was revoked.
I think that one was the victim of a judicial DoS. So technically it wasn't censored. Suppressed perhaps?
if, a few years into the future, somebody dusts off an old copy of Windows Vista/7 and runs an update. Will that version of Vista/7 still update? Will it still work?
I'm asking because of this whole business with certificate revocation. Obviously, to revoke a certificate "successfully" without inconveniencing users, you have to update users' systems to the new certificate using the old one. This has obvious consequences for the maintainance of Secure Boot-enabled systems.