One of the largest threats to global warming (for America at least) is the continued lowering of water levels for the Mississippi River. Historians can correct or amend me here, but empires rise and fall on the strength of their rivers. The US is no different, and should the Mississippi fail then there will be serious strategic and economic threats to the security and health of the nation.
The 990i did not have a capacitive touchscreen. The screen was also relatively tiny, it had a physical keyboard, and was this weird hybrid flip phone. It was also dog slow, you could not install third-party software, and IIRC did not even have a music player. About the only similarity between it and the iPhone were that they both made calls and had icons on its screen. The 990i was a beast, but it was comparable to the iPhone only in the loosest possible sense of the word.
You mean the OS that, by default, blocks you from running content that isn't blessed by Apple? Yes, you can download apps from sources that aren't the App Store - but they still have to be signed, otherwise, it either will refuse to run or lie to you and say that the app is "damaged" and you should "drag it to the trash."
This is complete bullshit. At no point does this ever, ever happen.
And if you try and disable this "feature" then it yells at you, warning you of dire consequences if you try and allow non-Apple-blessed apps to run.
This, too, is so far from true, and said with such force as to considered a lie. Let's take a look, shall we?
Wow, that wasn't so hard, now was it? And the "yelling"? The "dire consequences"? Let's quote: "Choosing 'Anywhere' makes your Mac less secure." That's it. The entire message. But... in your world this is yelling about dire consequences.
Unless the joke was that Mac OS X is a downgrade from Windows 8, which is true, but it sounds like you're saying Mountain Lion is a way to opt out of being spied on by a giant corporation, and it isn't.
Really? So if you don't buy anything from the App Store, and turn off GateKeeper, what information about downloaded files is communicated to Apple?
Are you an astroturfer or something? I find it hard to believe anyone can be this dense unless they're getting paid to do so.
One of the primary reasons that the United States continues its descent into this strange dystopian corporate/security fascist state is because there are, almost without exception, no criminal or political repercussions for acts which are outside the realm of social norms. Black youths can be gunned down, drones can fly unrestricted, SWAT teams can invade and kill completely innocent people, bankers can steal/defraud trillions of dollars, whistleblowers are thrown in jail without trial for years, American citizens are executed at the sole and extra-judicial behest of the President, MPAA/RIAA-friendly treaties are negotiated in secret...
And on and on and on.
There are no repercussions for the actors in any of these cases. Here, the FBI says they can suspend the law because, well, who's going to stop them? Congress? Hardly. The President? Incredibly unlikely. The FBI, and most of the national security apparatus, is wholly safe from suffering any consequences to their actions, no matter how heinous they may be to the American public or the world at large.
You do realize that it isn't a very big step between that, and a criminal sentence for saying anything a majority of people don't like, right?
It is a huge step. Inciting hatred is not political speech.
I realize the UK doesn't have laws protecting what he did. I'm saying maybe it should, because not having them is worse than this guy not going to jail, in the long run.
I don't think this is true. Not all speech prohibitions lead to totalitarian futures. Prohibitions against inciting racial hatred are, I believe, entirely appropriate and make for a better society. The "slippery slope" argument you are advancing is fallacious.
I dunno. I have an HTPC and it's kinda a pain in the ass. If Apple can come out with a TV that has a built-in HD, a decent OS, and Siri, that could very well be the sweet spot for a lot of people, including me. "Siri, I'd like to watch the latest episode of Venture Brothers." Boom. Off ya go.
Now, what WILL be annoying is if their TV is iOS based.
I should preface this by saying that I am no Google fan. I think they have made many poor decisions over the past few years, and the GPYW initiative has caused me to switch over to DuckDuckGo full time.
Having said that...
Why is it illegal for Canadian drug companies to advertise their goods in the United States? The US has insanely high drug prices, and Canadian imports of those same products are (or could be) beneficial to the lives, health, and finances of who knows how many people. This is an unjust law, and am having an incredibly difficult time finding a justification for it.
This seems like yet another instance of the pharmaceutical lobby protecting their vast profits from competition.
Durability? Like, when I spill coffee on mine? Or, drop it? Or, draw mustaches on the people in it?
Anecdotally, I have heard students complain that book publishers have recently introduced a different kind of glue for the books' bindings, one which degrades rather quickly, over a year or so.
A quick search isn't turning up anything about this, but I have heard it enough over the past year or so to give it some credence. Perhaps others on/. who currently are students can share their experiences in this regard.
Don't care. Don't use Office or any competitor. Do not need it, do not want it.
> can't play a dvd
Don't need it to. My iPad has 32gig of storage on it. Right now I have seasons 3 and 4 of the Venture Brothers on there, as well as a few movies for my kids. If that's not enough I can stream stuff from my media server, or from Netflix.
DVDs are a dead storage medium.
> can't store more than a couple dozen gigs
So what? It's not a file server. It's a tablet. It has more than enough storage to do the job. And as mentioned before, streaming options are also available.
> doesn't allow installation of different OSs
So what? What if you don't care about installing different OSes?
> runs anemic, "power-friendly" processors
Powerful enough to run Lego Harry Potter, watch a movie, or anything else I want to do with it. What are you prevented from doing?
> can't multitask well
Same question: what are you prevented from doing? It polls for new emails in the background, if I get an IM I'm notified, etc., etc. What's your bitch?
There have been many similar proposals made over the years. None of them are implemented, because those who maintain power are apparently happy with the way things are. American democracy is a sham, highly susceptible to fraud, and anyone who makes such observations is dismissed by "serious" journalists and citizens.
I'm very glad MS made this proposal. Kudos to them. What would move me from mild approval to full-fledged fanboyism were they to take this idea and have it implemented universally.
Look, honestly, what are you going to do about it? Complaining doesn't matter. The TSA will be here forever, and, as much as we hate to admit it, there is nothing that can be done about it. There is too much money involved, and contractors have vast amounts of power, much more so than any collection of outraged stories and messages on the internet does.
Seriously, I hope the TSA is abolished tomorrow, or hell even five years from now. But honestly without fundamental, almost revolutionary changes to the way the US government works this simply will not happen. Money talks, national security lobbyists have TONS of money, and that's pretty much the end of it.
> Umm... No, these Apple "cultist/fanboy" have existed forever, but only as straw men in the minds of people who seem only capable of seeing things in extremes.
Agreed. It is the modern equivalent of the emperor has no clothes.
Open how? Free as in beer, or speech? I use them because they are free as in beer, and work well. I've used competing products, Hotmail, Yahoo, and they're stuck in geocities age.
Sorry, what part of Google is "free as in beer", exactly? Their search algorithms? Ad placement? Gmail? G+? GTalk? Android?
None of Google's significant properties are open. None. The emperor has no clothes. Here, chew on this:
A protective order in the case restricts access to the Android source code, limiting the number of people who can review the code and requiring that Microsoft and Motorola "give prior written notice" to Google before showing the source code to a technical advisor. Google is to have 10 days to object.
Microsoft did not do that, Google alleged, as it moved to prevent Stevenson from testifying at the evidentiary hearing slated for later this month.
"The confidential source code improperly provided to Dr. Stevenson is highly proprietary source code that Google does not even share with its partners, such as Motorola," Google said.
Code. Android. "Highly proprietary".
There are reasons to like Android, but "openness" is not one of them.
Yeah, that's my thought as well. It looks like they took OS X's Dashboard and put it front-and-center. After Dashboard's initial novelty wore off, I found I didn't use it at all. I don't see how this is particularly different.
That is a surprisingly high number, even after all these years of knowing about various rootkits, viruses, and other malware that have so persistently affected Windows. 1 in 14? That's... crazy.
And what is the economic cost of having to deal with this crap? It must be well into the billions of dollars by now.
It's also consistently depressing that inertia is such that Windows seems like it will maintain its desktop dominance for the foreseeable future. There are better OSes out there. USE ONE, PEOPLE. Please!
I do not trust the government to tell the truth on matters this large. While I doubt bin Laden is alive, I doubt the official version of his death even more.
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One of the largest threats to global warming (for America at least) is the continued lowering of water levels for the Mississippi River. Historians can correct or amend me here, but empires rise and fall on the strength of their rivers. The US is no different, and should the Mississippi fail then there will be serious strategic and economic threats to the security and health of the nation.
Not good.
And this is exactly the reason why Julian Assange is so (wisely) set against being extradited to Sweden.
The 990i did not have a capacitive touchscreen. The screen was also relatively tiny, it had a physical keyboard, and was this weird hybrid flip phone. It was also dog slow, you could not install third-party software, and IIRC did not even have a music player. About the only similarity between it and the iPhone were that they both made calls and had icons on its screen. The 990i was a beast, but it was comparable to the iPhone only in the loosest possible sense of the word.
You mean the OS that, by default, blocks you from running content that isn't blessed by Apple? Yes, you can download apps from sources that aren't the App Store - but they still have to be signed, otherwise, it either will refuse to run or lie to you and say that the app is "damaged" and you should "drag it to the trash."
This is complete bullshit. At no point does this ever, ever happen.
And if you try and disable this "feature" then it yells at you, warning you of dire consequences if you try and allow non-Apple-blessed apps to run.
This, too, is so far from true, and said with such force as to considered a lie. Let's take a look, shall we?
GateKeeper fully enabled, Disabling GateKeeper, GateKeeper disabled
Wow, that wasn't so hard, now was it? And the "yelling"? The "dire consequences"? Let's quote: "Choosing 'Anywhere' makes your Mac less secure." That's it. The entire message. But... in your world this is yelling about dire consequences.
Unless the joke was that Mac OS X is a downgrade from Windows 8, which is true, but it sounds like you're saying Mountain Lion is a way to opt out of being spied on by a giant corporation, and it isn't.
Really? So if you don't buy anything from the App Store, and turn off GateKeeper, what information about downloaded files is communicated to Apple?
Are you an astroturfer or something? I find it hard to believe anyone can be this dense unless they're getting paid to do so.
One of the primary reasons that the United States continues its descent into this strange dystopian corporate/security fascist state is because there are, almost without exception, no criminal or political repercussions for acts which are outside the realm of social norms. Black youths can be gunned down, drones can fly unrestricted, SWAT teams can invade and kill completely innocent people, bankers can steal/defraud trillions of dollars, whistleblowers are thrown in jail without trial for years, American citizens are executed at the sole and extra-judicial behest of the President, MPAA/RIAA-friendly treaties are negotiated in secret...
And on and on and on.
There are no repercussions for the actors in any of these cases. Here, the FBI says they can suspend the law because, well, who's going to stop them? Congress? Hardly. The President? Incredibly unlikely. The FBI, and most of the national security apparatus, is wholly safe from suffering any consequences to their actions, no matter how heinous they may be to the American public or the world at large.
You do realize that it isn't a very big step between that, and a criminal sentence for saying anything a majority of people don't like, right?
It is a huge step. Inciting hatred is not political speech.
I realize the UK doesn't have laws protecting what he did. I'm saying maybe it should, because not having them is worse than this guy not going to jail, in the long run.
I don't think this is true. Not all speech prohibitions lead to totalitarian futures. Prohibitions against inciting racial hatred are, I believe, entirely appropriate and make for a better society. The "slippery slope" argument you are advancing is fallacious.
I dunno. I have an HTPC and it's kinda a pain in the ass. If Apple can come out with a TV that has a built-in HD, a decent OS, and Siri, that could very well be the sweet spot for a lot of people, including me. "Siri, I'd like to watch the latest episode of Venture Brothers." Boom. Off ya go.
Now, what WILL be annoying is if their TV is iOS based.
I should preface this by saying that I am no Google fan. I think they have made many poor decisions over the past few years, and the GPYW initiative has caused me to switch over to DuckDuckGo full time.
Having said that...
Why is it illegal for Canadian drug companies to advertise their goods in the United States? The US has insanely high drug prices, and Canadian imports of those same products are (or could be) beneficial to the lives, health, and finances of who knows how many people. This is an unjust law, and am having an incredibly difficult time finding a justification for it.
This seems like yet another instance of the pharmaceutical lobby protecting their vast profits from competition.
Durability? Like, when I spill coffee on mine? Or, drop it? Or, draw mustaches on the people in it?
Anecdotally, I have heard students complain that book publishers have recently introduced a different kind of glue for the books' bindings, one which degrades rather quickly, over a year or so.
A quick search isn't turning up anything about this, but I have heard it enough over the past year or so to give it some credence. Perhaps others on /. who currently are students can share their experiences in this regard.
> costs on the order of a thousand dollars
Weasel words. Base model iPad 2 is $499.
> throws away 30 years of office app development
Don't care. Don't use Office or any competitor. Do not need it, do not want it.
> can't play a dvd
Don't need it to. My iPad has 32gig of storage on it. Right now I have seasons 3 and 4 of the Venture Brothers on there, as well as a few movies for my kids. If that's not enough I can stream stuff from my media server, or from Netflix.
DVDs are a dead storage medium.
> can't store more than a couple dozen gigs
So what? It's not a file server. It's a tablet. It has more than enough storage to do the job. And as mentioned before, streaming options are also available.
> doesn't allow installation of different OSs
So what? What if you don't care about installing different OSes?
> runs anemic, "power-friendly" processors
Powerful enough to run Lego Harry Potter, watch a movie, or anything else I want to do with it. What are you prevented from doing?
> can't multitask well
Same question: what are you prevented from doing? It polls for new emails in the background, if I get an IM I'm notified, etc., etc. What's your bitch?
Won't happen.
There have been many similar proposals made over the years. None of them are implemented, because those who maintain power are apparently happy with the way things are. American democracy is a sham, highly susceptible to fraud, and anyone who makes such observations is dismissed by "serious" journalists and citizens.
I'm very glad MS made this proposal. Kudos to them. What would move me from mild approval to full-fledged fanboyism were they to take this idea and have it implemented universally.
Look, honestly, what are you going to do about it? Complaining doesn't matter. The TSA will be here forever, and, as much as we hate to admit it, there is nothing that can be done about it. There is too much money involved, and contractors have vast amounts of power, much more so than any collection of outraged stories and messages on the internet does.
Seriously, I hope the TSA is abolished tomorrow, or hell even five years from now. But honestly without fundamental, almost revolutionary changes to the way the US government works this simply will not happen. Money talks, national security lobbyists have TONS of money, and that's pretty much the end of it.
I was there. It did exist. Now, it's Slashdot is primarily based around Apple hate and imbeciles.
There are other places on the internet. No harm, no foul.
> Umm... No, these Apple "cultist/fanboy" have existed forever, but only as straw men in the minds of people who seem only capable of seeing things in extremes.
Agreed. It is the modern equivalent of the emperor has no clothes.
The iPad has an on-screen keyboard, and if that isn't good enough for you then you can connect a Bluetooth one to it.
Open how? Free as in beer, or speech? I use them because they are free as in beer, and work well. I've used competing products, Hotmail, Yahoo, and they're stuck in geocities age.
Sorry, what part of Google is "free as in beer", exactly? Their search algorithms? Ad placement? Gmail? G+? GTalk? Android?
None of Google's significant properties are open. None. The emperor has no clothes. Here, chew on this:
A protective order in the case restricts access to the Android source code, limiting the number of people who can review the code and requiring that Microsoft and Motorola "give prior written notice" to Google before showing the source code to a technical advisor. Google is to have 10 days to object.
Microsoft did not do that, Google alleged, as it moved to prevent Stevenson from testifying at the evidentiary hearing slated for later this month.
"The confidential source code improperly provided to Dr. Stevenson is highly proprietary source code that Google does not even share with its partners, such as Motorola," Google said.
Code. Android. "Highly proprietary".
There are reasons to like Android, but "openness" is not one of them.
> All the Android fans could only hope that Apple would be this galactically stupid.
Which is exactly why this article was posted in the first place.
Hype? More like "running joke". DNF wasn't hyped so much as it was ridiculed and made the butt of jokes.
And not in a good way, either.
Now the only thing left is a homophobic reference about Steve Jobs.
Yeah, that's my thought as well. It looks like they took OS X's Dashboard and put it front-and-center. After Dashboard's initial novelty wore off, I found I didn't use it at all. I don't see how this is particularly different.
MacDefender is not a virus. There are no known in-the-wild viruses for OS X.
That is a surprisingly high number, even after all these years of knowing about various rootkits, viruses, and other malware that have so persistently affected Windows. 1 in 14? That's... crazy.
And what is the economic cost of having to deal with this crap? It must be well into the billions of dollars by now.
It's also consistently depressing that inertia is such that Windows seems like it will maintain its desktop dominance for the foreseeable future. There are better OSes out there. USE ONE, PEOPLE. Please!
I refuse to live in fear of nebulous enemies. Show the photos.
I do not trust the government to tell the truth on matters this large. While I doubt bin Laden is alive, I doubt the official version of his death even more.