Seconded. It just keeps on going, supports Qi wireless charging and runs the newest Lollipop release with only a light coating of surprisingly-not-worthless Moto add-on crud.
Think of Yahoo of a steamship carrying $53 billion worth of precious cargo. The ship captain has been piloting the ship aimlessly around the globe, selling off cargo at each port to pay for fuel to get it to the next port, for no reason. How much would you pay for that boat?
I usually get away with shopping late, but I guess I got my hand caught in the cookie jar on that one. There was no way I'd show up to the family X-mas party without a gift for my nephew (who is also my Godson). I'm just annoyed that Amazon displayed so much confidence in their shippers, and it ended up causing me headaches. The other 51 weeks of the year, 2-day shipping means 2 (occasionally 3) days. They're probably as good as anyone on the planet at shipping consumer goods to people, so when they said, "We've got this," I believed them. Meh.
I ordered a toy for my nephew 5 days before Christmas, with Amazon Prime 2-day GUARANTEED shipping. Right on the item page, Amazon GUARANTEED that it would arrive by Christmas. I don't hold UPS responsible. I hold responsible the vendor that made the claim.
I spent my Christmas Eve driving to a Toys-R-Us 3 towns over, instead of sipping egg nog and decorating the tree.
Let's ask this another way: why aren't business men considering the ethical implications of their investments? Why aren't militaries, bureaucracies, and governments considering the ethical implications of their orders? Why isn't the average person taking five minutes to understand a problem now so he doesn't demand government, the market, and God on high give him an answer that he's going to hate more than the original problem a year from now?
TFA presumes that we as engineers are smarter, better humans than everyone else, that we can and should forsee all of the ethical implications of our work. It's pure hubris, and I call shenanigans. By and large, engineers do what their employers pay them to do, to feed themselves and their families. IMO, every link in the chain should be held to the same standard of moral accountability. We're not exempt, but it's unreasonable to expect us to take any more (or less) responsibility for the bad things that our work makes possible.
That said, I once quit a job working on systems that could be used for what I perceived as evil. My girlfriend (also an engineer) works for a military contractor, and I give her a hard time about that occasionally. Her response is that she works on detection systems, not weapons. To my mind, it's at least a waste of good engineers to further meaningless political power struggles, and keeps the warmongers in business.
Who in their right mind would run an exit node in the first place? Who is this person who thinks it's a good idea to send data and requests on behalf of anonymous users who don't want to get caught doing it themselves?
All I can think of are:
Good Samaritans with fat data pipes and legal immunity
People who want to get on watchlists, to prove a point
It might also have something to do with the fact that all the torrents that, umm, my friend could find when he looked were shitty camcorder recordings.
I think you just hit the nail on the head! Either...
1) Someone in LulzSec stole this dude's wallet 2) Someone in LulzSec fabricated the whole story (most likely, IMO) 3) The thief stole the BC and "donated" it to LulzSec in a bizarro Robin Hood-esque gesture 4) The pastebin is fake or something
Cloud service reliability will only get better. A total loss of data is still *much* less likely with data stored on my hard drive. Granted, regular backups would help a lot, but I'm too lazy.
I'd recommend waiting for the inevitable flood of phone announcements next month at CES. Dual-core phones are coming _soon_.
Yup, that's the fall-back plan. Verizon should announce their LTE (dual-core?) phones then, and my g/f has been bugging me to join her on Big Red for a while. Verizon is evil, but T-Mo is getting lame...
I've been waiting for this phone to renew my T-Mo contract, but the lack of "4G" network capability means I'll probably end up switching to Verizon. Way to fail, Goog-Sung!
To summarize: Alarmist e-zine for PHB's confirms their suspicions that Facebook and YouTube are, in fact, the devil. Why is this on Slashd...oh, it's samzenpus. Never mind...
"People get confused about Net neutrality," Schmidt said. "I want to make sure that everybody understands what we mean about it. What we mean is that if you have one data type, like video, you don't discriminate against one person's video in favor of another. It's OK to discriminate across different types...There is general agreement with Verizon and Google on this issue..."
And what if Verizon decides to prioritize a particular type of data that Google just so happens to use a lot of, at the expense of slowing down other types of data like P2P traffic?
Verizon: We'll speed up latency-sensitive data streams, like online video. Google: What a coincidence! YouTube uses that kind of data. Hulu: Hey, our users use video too. Verizon: Ah, but that's not the kind of video we're prioritizing. PirateBay: Torrent traffic seem to be almost completely blocked. Verizon: Quiet, you.
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Seconded. It just keeps on going, supports Qi wireless charging and runs the newest Lollipop release with only a light coating of surprisingly-not-worthless Moto add-on crud.
I'm no prude, what what the hell does this story have to do with "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters"?
Fsck this crap, I'm out.
Think of Yahoo of a steamship carrying $53 billion worth of precious cargo. The ship captain has been piloting the ship aimlessly around the globe, selling off cargo at each port to pay for fuel to get it to the next port, for no reason. How much would you pay for that boat?
Fuck Netflix too. We know that telco's are evil. You've just given them a big win, and a taste for blood.
Thanks for nothing, Netflix. You broke the Internet. We won't forget this.
I usually get away with shopping late, but I guess I got my hand caught in the cookie jar on that one. There was no way I'd show up to the family X-mas party without a gift for my nephew (who is also my Godson). I'm just annoyed that Amazon displayed so much confidence in their shippers, and it ended up causing me headaches. The other 51 weeks of the year, 2-day shipping means 2 (occasionally 3) days. They're probably as good as anyone on the planet at shipping consumer goods to people, so when they said, "We've got this," I believed them. Meh.
I ordered a toy for my nephew 5 days before Christmas, with Amazon Prime 2-day GUARANTEED shipping. Right on the item page, Amazon GUARANTEED that it would arrive by Christmas. I don't hold UPS responsible. I hold responsible the vendor that made the claim. I spent my Christmas Eve driving to a Toys-R-Us 3 towns over, instead of sipping egg nog and decorating the tree.
Let's ask this another way: why aren't business men considering the ethical implications of their investments? Why aren't militaries, bureaucracies, and governments considering the ethical implications of their orders? Why isn't the average person taking five minutes to understand a problem now so he doesn't demand government, the market, and God on high give him an answer that he's going to hate more than the original problem a year from now?
TFA presumes that we as engineers are smarter, better humans than everyone else, that we can and should forsee all of the ethical implications of our work. It's pure hubris, and I call shenanigans. By and large, engineers do what their employers pay them to do, to feed themselves and their families. IMO, every link in the chain should be held to the same standard of moral accountability. We're not exempt, but it's unreasonable to expect us to take any more (or less) responsibility for the bad things that our work makes possible.
That said, I once quit a job working on systems that could be used for what I perceived as evil. My girlfriend (also an engineer) works for a military contractor, and I give her a hard time about that occasionally. Her response is that she works on detection systems, not weapons. To my mind, it's at least a waste of good engineers to further meaningless political power struggles, and keeps the warmongers in business.
Who in their right mind would run an exit node in the first place? Who is this person who thinks it's a good idea to send data and requests on behalf of anonymous users who don't want to get caught doing it themselves?
All I can think of are:
These were awesome, back when you could get 'em: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilberito
So your job has a culture of peer-pressuring each other into working yourselves to death, and pretending it's a choice?
It might also have something to do with the fact that all the torrents that, umm, my friend could find when he looked were shitty camcorder recordings.
I think you just hit the nail on the head! Either...
1) Someone in LulzSec stole this dude's wallet
2) Someone in LulzSec fabricated the whole story (most likely, IMO)
3) The thief stole the BC and "donated" it to LulzSec in a bizarro Robin Hood-esque gesture
4) The pastebin is fake or something
Lawyer replaced by shell script
Err, data loss is *more* likely on my hard disk.
Cloud service reliability will only get better. A total loss of data is still *much* less likely with data stored on my hard drive. Granted, regular backups would help a lot, but I'm too lazy.
I think we'd all agree that a crappy app atop a good OS can lead to a crappy experience. Ergo, a crappy experience does not imply a crappy OS.
Where's the mobile app?
Here ya go: http://blogs.forbes.com/firewall/2010/12/13/the-lessons-of-gawkers-security-mess/
The Gawker hack has completely disenfranchised their users
That's quite a hack, depriving users of their right to vote...
I'd recommend waiting for the inevitable flood of phone announcements next month at CES. Dual-core phones are coming _soon_.
Yup, that's the fall-back plan. Verizon should announce their LTE (dual-core?) phones then, and my g/f has been bugging me to join her on Big Red for a while. Verizon is evil, but T-Mo is getting lame...
I've been waiting for this phone to renew my T-Mo contract, but the lack of "4G" network capability means I'll probably end up switching to Verizon. Way to fail, Goog-Sung!
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To summarize: Alarmist e-zine for PHB's confirms their suspicions that Facebook and YouTube are, in fact, the devil. Why is this on Slashd...oh, it's samzenpus. Never mind...
Here ya go. I used this to power my G1 while I was down in the Grand Canyon this summer.
http://www.scosche.com/products/productID/1905
There was no T-Mo signal, but was using the GPS.
"People get confused about Net neutrality," Schmidt said. "I want to make sure that everybody understands what we mean about it. What we mean is that if you have one data type, like video, you don't discriminate against one person's video in favor of another. It's OK to discriminate across different types...There is general agreement with Verizon and Google on this issue..."
And what if Verizon decides to prioritize a particular type of data that Google just so happens to use a lot of, at the expense of slowing down other types of data like P2P traffic?
Verizon: We'll speed up latency-sensitive data streams, like online video.
Google: What a coincidence! YouTube uses that kind of data.
Hulu: Hey, our users use video too.
Verizon: Ah, but that's not the kind of video we're prioritizing.
PirateBay: Torrent traffic seem to be almost completely blocked.
Verizon: Quiet, you.