"John Chen, has claimed that net neutrality laws should include forcing app developers to make their services available on all operating systems."
Lets try something equally bizarre but that fits into Chens "logic"
"John Chen, has claimed that net neutrality laws should include forcing phone manufacturers to make their phones available on all operating systems."
... ...
"John Chen, has claimed that net neutrality laws should include forcing phone manufacturers to give away their phones to people who already own another operating system."
When will Blackberry stops discriminating against non-Blackberry users by releasing their mobile OS to other manufacturers?
There's no indication that manufacturers using Android want it, and Apple certainly doesn't. Any manufacturer (eg: Ford) who wants it just has to wait until Blackberry starts circling the bowl in earnest and just buying the whole business.
If they really wanted to, they could always invent their own messaging service. Oh, wait, they did, and it didn't prevent them from their latest near-death experience.
With leadership like this, stockholders must be disappointed that the rumor that Samsung was going to buy them turned out to be false. Looks to me he doesn't have a clue as to what net neutrality is about.
More like crawl. That it does two jobs - both badly - seems to be the end result.
The proposed use case - flying to an emergency then crawling into unreachable spaces - would be better served by a heli-drone dropping off a ground crawler. No danger of trashing the wings on anything sharp, getting stopped by a twig or a pebble, etc. (if you look at the video, this thing needs a smooth surface to crawl).
The US Senate just voted on whether climate change is a hoax
Especially since (1) he doesn't tell us the result of the vote, and (2) he links back to yesterday's article on slashdot that covered the same thing, and to the same article on his web site as yesterday. Nothing - nothing - whatsoever to see here.
Democracy by science also doesn't work. Remember the "scientific basis" behind the eugenics movement, which even after WW2 was used to justify forced sterilization of those deemed mentally retarded? Or the "scientific basis" for blacks being inferior? Or the "scientific basis" for "curing" gays and lesbians? Or the "scientific basis" for trains not being able to travel more than 20 mph because the passengers would have all the air sucked out of their lungs at that terrifying speed? I'm sure that with a bit of thought you can come up with more.
Here's one I haven't heard in years - the sound of static from the tv after a tv station signs off for the night. Oops, make that two - when's the last time a tv station signed off the air for the night?
I think it's a good thing it's not updated too frequently, otherwise they WOULD be more tempted to respond to every crisis by moving the hands. This way, when the hands are moved, it's seen as a significant event because it IS relatively rare.
And for those who argue that it is irrelevant to write about it before the event, it gets people thinking (and talking) about why they want to move the hands this time, and maybe look at the issues involved in a slightly different way than "yeah yeah business as usual..."
Hm... can this clock be moved at all?
You will always move by a fraction of the remaining time, which, you know, proves that doomsday does not exist.
Zeno's Paradox doesn't apply. If the fraction of the remaining time is 100%, doomsday has arrived - and you've got bigger problems than where the hands of the clock point to.
Look for a trade - Google finances the expansion of their networks (both in terms of coverage and capacity) in return for a good deal on wireless services.
I guess you missed the part that I bolded where the parent poster had written "Just like a woman, my god..." right after he complained too many stories "about gender this-or-that in tech. "
We have many issues in tech - including stagnant or declining wages, lousy working conditions, "up-or-out" mentality, ageism, racism, and yes, sexism.
Pretty much every day there are many comments about H1Bs and the lack of job security and "good lock getting a new job after 40", and quite a few stories are about those issues.
That doesn't mean it's okay to give sexist attitudes a pass because there's so many other problems. You can be part of the problem, or part of the solution. Your call.:-) Or if it upsets you so much, just don't read the article. Ignoring the issue won't make it go away, but it will buy you peace of mind.
void that killed the ether theory, explain why there is a limit to the speed of anything and would provide a medium of propagation for the forces without falling back to "magic" fields.
Any sufficiently advanced universe is indistinguishable from magic:-)
Apple could do it... they could offer 50% cash and 50% stock and they'd still be sitting on more money that Microsoft or Google... but they're not that stupid.
Okay kids"... "Repeat after me, NEVER use your real name or post pictures of yourself on the internet".
If you want to share photos with a friend, email them to him/her
Three people can probably keep an email secret only if two of them are dead. Moral of the story - stop with the provocative selfies already - you're distributing child pornography that will end up on the computers of pedophiles all over the world.
If all it took was an accusation and refusal to share their credentials to be "sentenced" to a year of no social media access and/or public service, the system would be guaranteed to be abused.
True, but the students grades (and attention span) would probably improve:-)
A year without social media - you'd have some desperate parents claiming their zombified kids are the bullies even when they're not.
You're certainly free to demand whatever the fuck you want. Doesn't mean you're going to get it.
Not if you're in a position of authority over a minor. Otherwise we'd have even more teachers banging their students, priests banging alter boys, and whatever else you want to throw in there.
It's Title VIII. Under section 814 of the Patriot Act.
And if their access can be shown to have harmed someone, they are punishable. Federal law trumps state law (especially a state law that does not, in fact, authorize the school to require the students to hand over their passwords).
I saw nothing in it that gives the school district any authority whatsoever to do such a thing. It makes the bullying illegal, and gives the school the ability to support the victim. But it does not even mention giving school administrators access to private social media accounts of the accused.
It's just a bit long and I did skim in places, please feel free to correct me if you see it in there. But I don't see any provision that is even suggestive of what is being claimed in the aritcle.
I saw this when it was in the firehose yesterday, and I didn't just skim over the text of the actual law. Your analysis is correct. We already have ways to deal with this - call the cops. Cases like http://www.slate.com/articles/...>Rehtaeh Parsons, where the cops initially did nothing, and the resulting backlash anonymous threatening, then revealing the identities of the perps, forced the prosecutors to charge and convict some of them.
There ws actually no need for a "cyber-bullying" law - harassment is illegal no matter the means employed. But I guess legislators are like the patent office - add the words "on the Internet" and it's somehow different.
All fine and good, but if you read the actual text of the law, it doesn't empower schools to require students to hand over passwords to someone working at school. This is just another overreach by petty adults to justify their instinct to act like bullies instead of using their heads.
My sister did it (Microsoft to Apple) because she wanted something that was easier to use. She hasn't looked back - now she has her iMac, iPhone, iPad, etc.
Getting her to switch to linux, even as a secondary OS, was a total failure. People do switch...
All performance analysis they need can be done in-house.
Obviously history disagrees with you - they couldn't even keep the site running properly for how long again ??? I'd look at the companies involved at implementing the site taking this as a cheap and easy way to do analytics (and maybe a few back-room deals as well) rather than a policy of the government.
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"John Chen, has claimed that net neutrality laws should include forcing app developers to make their services available on all operating systems."
Lets try something equally bizarre but that fits into Chens "logic"
"John Chen, has claimed that net neutrality laws should include forcing phone manufacturers to make their phones available on all operating systems."
...
...
"John Chen, has claimed that net neutrality laws should include forcing phone manufacturers to give away their phones to people who already own another operating system."
When will Blackberry stops discriminating against non-Blackberry users by releasing their mobile OS to other manufacturers?
There's no indication that manufacturers using Android want it, and Apple certainly doesn't. Any manufacturer (eg: Ford) who wants it just has to wait until Blackberry starts circling the bowl in earnest and just buying the whole business.
They would have been better off using Android instead of QNX.
If they really wanted to, they could always invent their own messaging service. Oh, wait, they did, and it didn't prevent them from their latest near-death experience.
With leadership like this, stockholders must be disappointed that the rumor that Samsung was going to buy them turned out to be false. Looks to me he doesn't have a clue as to what net neutrality is about.
More like crawl. That it does two jobs - both badly - seems to be the end result.
The proposed use case - flying to an emergency then crawling into unreachable spaces - would be better served by a heli-drone dropping off a ground crawler. No danger of trashing the wings on anything sharp, getting stopped by a twig or a pebble, etc. (if you look at the video, this thing needs a smooth surface to crawl).
The US Senate just voted on whether climate change is a hoax
Especially since (1) he doesn't tell us the result of the vote, and (2) he links back to yesterday's article on slashdot that covered the same thing, and to the same article on his web site as yesterday. Nothing - nothing - whatsoever to see here.
Democracy by science also doesn't work. Remember the "scientific basis" behind the eugenics movement, which even after WW2 was used to justify forced sterilization of those deemed mentally retarded? Or the "scientific basis" for blacks being inferior? Or the "scientific basis" for "curing" gays and lesbians? Or the "scientific basis" for trains not being able to travel more than 20 mph because the passengers would have all the air sucked out of their lungs at that terrifying speed? I'm sure that with a bit of thought you can come up with more.
Science and democracy are orthogonal.
Here's one I haven't heard in years - the sound of static from the tv after a tv station signs off for the night. Oops, make that two - when's the last time a tv station signed off the air for the night?
I think it's a good thing it's not updated too frequently, otherwise they WOULD be more tempted to respond to every crisis by moving the hands. This way, when the hands are moved, it's seen as a significant event because it IS relatively rare.
And for those who argue that it is irrelevant to write about it before the event, it gets people thinking (and talking) about why they want to move the hands this time, and maybe look at the issues involved in a slightly different way than "yeah yeah business as usual ..."
Hm... can this clock be moved at all? You will always move by a fraction of the remaining time, which, you know, proves that doomsday does not exist.
Zeno's Paradox doesn't apply. If the fraction of the remaining time is 100%, doomsday has arrived - and you've got bigger problems than where the hands of the clock point to.
Look for a trade - Google finances the expansion of their networks (both in terms of coverage and capacity) in return for a good deal on wireless services.
I guess you missed the part that I bolded where the parent poster had written "Just like a woman, my god ..." right after he complained too many stories "about gender this-or-that in tech. "
We have many issues in tech - including stagnant or declining wages, lousy working conditions, "up-or-out" mentality, ageism, racism, and yes, sexism.
Pretty much every day there are many comments about H1Bs and the lack of job security and "good lock getting a new job after 40", and quite a few stories are about those issues.
That doesn't mean it's okay to give sexist attitudes a pass because there's so many other problems. You can be part of the problem, or part of the solution. Your call. :-) Or if it upsets you so much, just don't read the article. Ignoring the issue won't make it go away, but it will buy you peace of mind.
void that killed the ether theory, explain why there is a limit to the speed of anything and would provide a medium of propagation for the forces without falling back to "magic" fields.
Any sufficiently advanced universe is indistinguishable from magic :-)
Apple could do it ... they could offer 50% cash and 50% stock and they'd still be sitting on more money that Microsoft or Google ... but they're not that stupid.
Okay kids"... "Repeat after me, NEVER use your real name or post pictures of yourself on the internet".
If you want to share photos with a friend, email them to him/her
Three people can probably keep an email secret only if two of them are dead. Moral of the story - stop with the provocative selfies already - you're distributing child pornography that will end up on the computers of pedophiles all over the world.
If all it took was an accusation and refusal to share their credentials to be "sentenced" to a year of no social media access and/or public service, the system would be guaranteed to be abused.
True, but the students grades (and attention span) would probably improve :-)
A year without social media - you'd have some desperate parents claiming their zombified kids are the bullies even when they're not.
You're certainly free to demand whatever the fuck you want. Doesn't mean you're going to get it.
Not if you're in a position of authority over a minor. Otherwise we'd have even more teachers banging their students, priests banging alter boys, and whatever else you want to throw in there.
It's Title VIII. Under section 814 of the Patriot Act.
And if their access can be shown to have harmed someone, they are punishable. Federal law trumps state law (especially a state law that does not, in fact, authorize the school to require the students to hand over their passwords).
The word "password" is not in the text anywhere.
I saw nothing in it that gives the school district any authority whatsoever to do such a thing. It makes the bullying illegal, and gives the school the ability to support the victim. But it does not even mention giving school administrators access to private social media accounts of the accused.
It's just a bit long and I did skim in places, please feel free to correct me if you see it in there. But I don't see any provision that is even suggestive of what is being claimed in the aritcle.
I saw this when it was in the firehose yesterday, and I didn't just skim over the text of the actual law. Your analysis is correct. We already have ways to deal with this - call the cops. Cases like http://www.slate.com/articles/...>Rehtaeh Parsons, where the cops initially did nothing, and the resulting backlash anonymous threatening, then revealing the identities of the perps, forced the prosecutors to charge and convict some of them.
There ws actually no need for a "cyber-bullying" law - harassment is illegal no matter the means employed. But I guess legislators are like the patent office - add the words "on the Internet" and it's somehow different.
All fine and good, but if you read the actual text of the law, it doesn't empower schools to require students to hand over passwords to someone working at school. This is just another overreach by petty adults to justify their instinct to act like bullies instead of using their heads.
My sister did it (Microsoft to Apple) because she wanted something that was easier to use. She hasn't looked back - now she has her iMac, iPhone, iPad, etc.
Getting her to switch to linux, even as a secondary OS, was a total failure. People do switch ...
All performance analysis they need can be done in-house.
Obviously history disagrees with you - they couldn't even keep the site running properly for how long again ??? I'd look at the companies involved at implementing the site taking this as a cheap and easy way to do analytics (and maybe a few back-room deals as well) rather than a policy of the government.
Google, thanks to real name policies, certainly has information uniquely identifying someone using Google services.
Google 's real name policy is dead.
And Facebook also had to back down when a single vigilante used it to harass people.