I would much rather have a Samsung Tab if I wanted a tablet but I am not a child, so I am not in the target audience group. It is designed for children and it looks like it suits that group.
No one is criticizing the writing of the article but we question what it is doing here on/. The article belongs in the blogoshere with all the howto use Google Voice or Skype or whatever.
The thing that really annoyed me with the Apple appstore was having to remember passwords for free items that Android do not expect a password for... (i.e. upgrading Skype) I grew to hate the iPhone and much prefer my droid. I am not going to buy an iPad but my brother has one and I cannot understand why it does not have USB given that you can attach USB drives to the Samsung tab... Apple are behind in this now and the litigation will not improve that. They need to stop being arseholes and start improving their products so that people will want to buy them. I do prefer the design of Apple but I buy the thing to use.
It is not the amount but the effectiveness of it. A few years back I was working with air traffic controllers, installing systems that could bring together all the data and recreate and replay an event from all the data, voice, radar etc. Anyway, I was talking to the ATC guys on a small European island and one of them told me about a time when a plane came into his airspace without showing tags that let them know automatically who it is. He demanded to know who it was and the pilot was surprised because even the pilot thought that his stealth plane could not be seen. It turned out that the stealth bomber is only invisible to modern radar and on this island with older larger, dishes they could see the plane as clearly as any other plane. That is old radar like most of our enemies have... The ATC guy explained the technology to me and how to create a system that would see any stealth plane created using current technology (i.e. a range of different bandwidth/size radar dishes).
Trillions of $$$ and it is useless... but we the public are sold on the idea that this technology is unbeatable.
Assault has always been illegal and no stupidity laws were needed by politicians that are more interested in looking like they are doing something that actually taking the time to think about what needs to be done and doing something useful. Assault does require contact, a threat to do something causes harm if the person threatened believes the threat to be real. That is the kicker though, these stupid laws do not require any harm so they are clearly stupid. If I say to you that I am going to kill you when I catch up with you and you know I am joking, under the old laws there was no crime but under the current system it is a crime. If I say that I am going to kick your teeth in and mean it, there is no change. All that is new is that now innocent people can be sent to prison with ease.
For personal, of interest to no one, type communication your point is valid but if I am communicating with regard to trade secrets it is very important to me to know that my communication is secure. Skype used to be secure and therefore this is an issue.
Although I agree that it was rude and morally wrong, I cannot accept that the SS were a reasonable response. He was just behaving like a college kid and a beat officer (sorry, that shows my age) would have been an appropriate response. Have a word with him rather than waste thousands of $$$ on something that would not run against a good lawyer. I think he must have snapped someone with their mistress and the wife saw it.
Where and when was this because there is no legal impediment against using a camera in a place that is open to the public and as for hidden!!! Are you really unaware that there is a camera above the screen of an Apple computer? In general you should expect a camera to be filming you in a store as most stores have cameras so it would be stupid to imply that you believe that you have an expectation of privacy. Running software on a demonstration computer? Errr, that is what they are there for...
You are right that he did not programme in the store hours but you are being picky there. Why would he? Generally, he was behaving like a college kid. Maybe he crossed a line and a policeman going round and telling him so would have been appropriate but no more. The rest is an unreasonable waste of public time and money as well as a gross infringement of his human rights. This is much more like a Soviet system than a society that respects people and supports the people.
I spend my time in poor countries like the Philippines and they had 4G last year. The UK is still talking about this in the future tense? Is Britain copying the US so much that they are even getting stuck in the dark ages with their phone system now?
"Aiding and abetting theft is not a legit role. Kim Dotdouche facilitated criminal activity, and he got what he deserved."
Errr, there was no theft!!! I assume that you are American, so I assume that you understand English... Theft means to take something from someone with the intention of permanently depriving them of that thing. He did not deprive or take anything. Get over the pathetic drama. We are talking about he allowed people to copy other peoples stuff, just like looking at pictures in a shop window or watching a TV in the shop. Just because the *IAA want to add a lot of drama like a prom queen does not mean that the rest of use have to get drawn into it.
I could not think about this without wondering what Compuserve are up to... so I looked at their site http://webcenters.netscape.compuserve.com/menu/about.jsp and cracked up when I saw the Netscape logo at the bottom... These people still think that they are important:-)
Did you actually think before you wrote this? Eire and Northern Ireland are completely separate countries. Eire is a country recognised at the UN with embassies in many other countries (i.e. recognition). Northern Ireland is a part of the UK, another country and also recognised at the UN and with embassies in many other countries. The borders are officially recognised. Northern Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales are not recognised at the UN and do not have embassies in any other countries. They are not countries. Many countries have states with separate legal systems etc. many countries have separate police forces in different regions, these things in themselves do not make a country. You can call anything whatever you like but it is still just your dream until it is recognised.
I think you swallow far too much of your own propaganda. There are lots of really crazy countries that like to start wars that have nuclear weapons but hey, lets worry about the one that has no track record of starting wars just because we do not like them. So the guy hates Israel, what logical minded person would not? They are a warmonger nation with a lot of nuclear weapons that wants to attack him. Seems that he should hate them. He does not do what he is told to do by America!!! Great, it is about time other countries stopped bending over and taking it up the arse from the USA. Most of his neighbours have nukes but you just want to focus on one country because the war machine is telling you to. Sheep.
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I would much rather have a Samsung Tab if I wanted a tablet but I am not a child, so I am not in the target audience group. It is designed for children and it looks like it suits that group.
Total previous budget 3.5 million SEK, new budget for today 400 million SEK - no anomaly there...
Canada is the 51st state.
No one is criticizing the writing of the article but we question what it is doing here on /. The article belongs in the blogoshere with all the howto use Google Voice or Skype or whatever.
I was doing this with a Nokia N95 before the phrase smart phone had been thought of. This is not news.
The thing that really annoyed me with the Apple appstore was having to remember passwords for free items that Android do not expect a password for... (i.e. upgrading Skype) I grew to hate the iPhone and much prefer my droid. I am not going to buy an iPad but my brother has one and I cannot understand why it does not have USB given that you can attach USB drives to the Samsung tab... Apple are behind in this now and the litigation will not improve that. They need to stop being arseholes and start improving their products so that people will want to buy them. I do prefer the design of Apple but I buy the thing to use.
...please do not leave the ship. The water entering the hull is a feature and nothing to worry about.
... bears really do shite in the woods.
It is not the amount but the effectiveness of it. A few years back I was working with air traffic controllers, installing systems that could bring together all the data and recreate and replay an event from all the data, voice, radar etc. Anyway, I was talking to the ATC guys on a small European island and one of them told me about a time when a plane came into his airspace without showing tags that let them know automatically who it is. He demanded to know who it was and the pilot was surprised because even the pilot thought that his stealth plane could not be seen. It turned out that the stealth bomber is only invisible to modern radar and on this island with older larger, dishes they could see the plane as clearly as any other plane. That is old radar like most of our enemies have... The ATC guy explained the technology to me and how to create a system that would see any stealth plane created using current technology (i.e. a range of different bandwidth/size radar dishes).
Trillions of $$$ and it is useless... but we the public are sold on the idea that this technology is unbeatable.
Assault has always been illegal and no stupidity laws were needed by politicians that are more interested in looking like they are doing something that actually taking the time to think about what needs to be done and doing something useful. Assault does require contact, a threat to do something causes harm if the person threatened believes the threat to be real. That is the kicker though, these stupid laws do not require any harm so they are clearly stupid. If I say to you that I am going to kill you when I catch up with you and you know I am joking, under the old laws there was no crime but under the current system it is a crime. If I say that I am going to kick your teeth in and mean it, there is no change. All that is new is that now innocent people can be sent to prison with ease.
... I am the law...
For personal, of interest to no one, type communication your point is valid but if I am communicating with regard to trade secrets it is very important to me to know that my communication is secure. Skype used to be secure and therefore this is an issue.
This will get them so much more good PR than all those other stupid cease and desist letters :-) I for one am positively impressed by this.
...I would boycott them. Really, he ate in MuckDonalds in FRANCE!!!! He deserves to get beaten.
... that Win 95 is now safe to use?
Although I agree that it was rude and morally wrong, I cannot accept that the SS were a reasonable response. He was just behaving like a college kid and a beat officer (sorry, that shows my age) would have been an appropriate response. Have a word with him rather than waste thousands of $$$ on something that would not run against a good lawyer. I think he must have snapped someone with their mistress and the wife saw it.
The store is open to the public, they would have trouble selling to them if it was not.
"and last I checked"
Where and when was this because there is no legal impediment against using a camera in a place that is open to the public and as for hidden!!! Are you really unaware that there is a camera above the screen of an Apple computer? In general you should expect a camera to be filming you in a store as most stores have cameras so it would be stupid to imply that you believe that you have an expectation of privacy. Running software on a demonstration computer? Errr, that is what they are there for...
You are right that he did not programme in the store hours but you are being picky there. Why would he? Generally, he was behaving like a college kid. Maybe he crossed a line and a policeman going round and telling him so would have been appropriate but no more. The rest is an unreasonable waste of public time and money as well as a gross infringement of his human rights. This is much more like a Soviet system than a society that respects people and supports the people.
It all makes me glad I'm not an American...
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I spend my time in poor countries like the Philippines and they had 4G last year. The UK is still talking about this in the future tense? Is Britain copying the US so much that they are even getting stuck in the dark ages with their phone system now?
"Aiding and abetting theft is not a legit role. Kim Dotdouche facilitated criminal activity, and he got what he deserved."
Errr, there was no theft!!! I assume that you are American, so I assume that you understand English... Theft means to take something from someone with the intention of permanently depriving them of that thing. He did not deprive or take anything. Get over the pathetic drama. We are talking about he allowed people to copy other peoples stuff, just like looking at pictures in a shop window or watching a TV in the shop. Just because the *IAA want to add a lot of drama like a prom queen does not mean that the rest of use have to get drawn into it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LENqnjZGX0A
I could not think about this without wondering what Compuserve are up to ... so I looked at their site http://webcenters.netscape.compuserve.com/menu/about.jsp and cracked up when I saw the Netscape logo at the bottom... These people still think that they are important :-)
Did you actually think before you wrote this? Eire and Northern Ireland are completely separate countries. Eire is a country recognised at the UN with embassies in many other countries (i.e. recognition). Northern Ireland is a part of the UK, another country and also recognised at the UN and with embassies in many other countries. The borders are officially recognised. Northern Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales are not recognised at the UN and do not have embassies in any other countries. They are not countries. Many countries have states with separate legal systems etc. many countries have separate police forces in different regions, these things in themselves do not make a country. You can call anything whatever you like but it is still just your dream until it is recognised.
I think you swallow far too much of your own propaganda. There are lots of really crazy countries that like to start wars that have nuclear weapons but hey, lets worry about the one that has no track record of starting wars just because we do not like them. So the guy hates Israel, what logical minded person would not? They are a warmonger nation with a lot of nuclear weapons that wants to attack him. Seems that he should hate them. He does not do what he is told to do by America!!! Great, it is about time other countries stopped bending over and taking it up the arse from the USA. Most of his neighbours have nukes but you just want to focus on one country because the war machine is telling you to. Sheep.