Sad thing is Motorola Mobility is now owned by Google. Go Figure.
Yeah, and they won't give the binary blob needed to run the camera to the Cyanogenmod folks for the Droid 3 either. I'm using very few of the stock applications, but still, I'd like to have a functional upgrade. Motorola Mobility/Google could reduce its liability surface by just forking over the code and letting all the people who would run CM10.1 on the device go "usupported". They'll shut up and the pool of vociferous complainers will be greatly reduced.
Which raises the question of how "supported" the current version really is...
But still, I don't see how my civil rights are being affected by the lack of an upgrade here, so I don't support the ACLU's action. If there's anything that could be done it would be preventing the carriers from restricting the devices on their network arbitrarily, since the number of networks that are viable is tightly controlled/cartelized by the FCC. Alternately, make it not (impossible - 1) to put up new radio towers and let the competition take care of it.
He's right. It will also stabilize over time, especially once the blockchain is done. If it gets used enough, its value will still increase over time, as the deflationary aspect of it kicks in. This will result in ever-increasing levels of wealth for its users (as is typical in all industries with deflating prices). The reason that statists oppose this is that it's easy for central banks to skim off the difference between real value and productivity increases by inflating their fiat currencies at a level between them. If done subtly, the users of the currency don't notice as their would-be wealth is drained and transferred to the favored classes.
A great feature of Convergence is the ability to have multiple signatures. HTTPS needs this too. Imagine the current scenario where gmail regularly has 25 signors on its certificate and then one day there is only one. With something like EFF's HTTPS Everywhere SSL Observatory, this could be flagged.
But, switching TLS signing to PGP is a big deal and not backwards compatible. What I'd like to see (somebody else do this so I don't have to) would be an extension that would allow multiple certificates to be presented to the client. Old clients would just get the first one, newer clients could get multiple certs from a server. Klunky, yes, but backwards compatible.
We have had a very successful Linux Alpha program and although we will narrowly miss the targeted release date at the end of Q1 we will be making the Linux Public Beta, which includes a much improved licensing scheme, available on 30th April 2013. We have been listening to users and the current licensing scheme has not been up to their expectations.
It looks like licenses are 40 pounds? Sign me up - I'm sick of not having a linux video editor that doesn't crash reliably during any project.
You first need to get your engine block to a temperature far beyond what it's designed to handle.
As I understood the point, they mixed this stuff with oil and then sprayed that mixture over the engine block. The hot engine ignited the oil and the burning oil reached the required temperature, presumably.
even if it only keep 99% of people from keeping a local copy.
99% of people don't want a local copy. Otherwise they'd be ripping DVD's. I know we all know lots of other geeks, but really, the people who rip DVD's are the 1%'ers in the tech world. Those people will find a way to capture DRM'ed Netflix streams anyway.
So the entire exercise is a waste of time, other than that some wankers at the studios don't understand the above paragraph. IP is an immoral concept, so to enshrine it in a W3C standard is the wrong thing to do. Making something immoral easy is to pervert the proper incentives structures.
I have a friend living in Ecuador and the biggest surprise he found is that he can't get baking soda at the grocery store. Apparently there's some way to make some explosive where one of the steps involves baking soda as a reagent. So, a bombing happened one time, and apparently (unless I've been very obscurely punked) they banned baking soda in response.
America will not be safe while baking soda can threaten our children! You bitter clingers with your buttermilk pancakes and your Irish soda bread are just holding on to obsolete notions!
So closed source software vendors may dictate which suite wins between HyperV and Xen.
This may be true in traditional enterprise IT, but when you've got a fully-open stack (lower case) platform, the argument to tying down your hypervisor layer with licensing, when nothing else is so-encumbered, is going to be a very tough sell. Though to be fair, XenServer gets you some of the benefits of Xen, with extra licensing if that's your cup o' tea.
Don't worry, CISPA will make it all illegal anyway, so we can move on to worrying about more important things in life - making money for corporations and politicians and such.
Few would care for their parents music collection.
After being exposed to Taylor Swift and One Direction, my kids heard Kansas, Floyd, and Van Halen.
Their take? "That can't be old-person's music. It's so awesome."
Some of my favorite music was written 5 and 40 years before I was born. But it's true - my parents' music was 50's and 60's schlock, not Hendrix or Miles.
you THEN only have a six-character password.... an attacker would also set up dictionary rules to try Postfix and "mid-fix" (correct horse7xU32w battery staple)
I'm not going to pretend that "correct horse battery staple" has as many bits of entropy as characters, but unless the attacker has a copy of his will, he's going to still have an attack surface that will shut off the account first in nearly every website in existence.
I think your hate has blinded you to the definition of troll. Using/defending a patent they created != trolling.
Patenting research that was done without any plans to commercialize is harmful to society and contrary to the purpose of patents. Triply so if it's done by a government, against the interests of its people.
As a govt research body, the money they actually make from patents goes into MORE research (unlike actual patent trolls).
Um, you know that's the opposite of a defense, right? They're self-perpetuating patent trolls. Being unbound by the need to actually commercialize anything, they can shake down independent inventors who do commercialize products, and then take that money and do some more R&D, so that they can get another patent and use that to shake down the next implementer.
At least the typical patent troll will just go blow his money on coke, hookers and speedboats.
When you are touch typing on a keyboard are you feeling the keys
Yes. My brain gets an approximately correct position, then the sense of touch helps tune it in, constantly correcting its conception of where the keys are.
I had one of those bluetooth laser keyboards for my Treo back in the day, and touchtyping on it was entirely useless for me - my fingers would drift all over without any tactile feedback to let them know that they were in the right place. If I watched the 'keys' I was fine.
I do much better with normal keys with depressions and edges than with chicklet keyboards for the same reason.
A mobile phone that is good at making phone calls? Fascinating.
(fwiw, I had one of those old-school phone handsets that plugged into the 2.5mm jack on older phones and the call quality was fantastic. It's entirely in the speaker/mic, not the network).
My c. '98 Nokia TDMA phone also had decent sound quality on the built-in gear.
And where do you keep your chording keyboards (err, I mean texting gloves) when you're not using them? A main advantage of a slider is that it has a convenient (and small) storage location.
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Hey, the FBI needed its live Gmail intercept.
Sad thing is Motorola Mobility is now owned by Google. Go Figure.
Yeah, and they won't give the binary blob needed to run the camera to the Cyanogenmod folks for the Droid 3 either. I'm using very few of the stock applications, but still, I'd like to have a functional upgrade. Motorola Mobility/Google could reduce its liability surface by just forking over the code and letting all the people who would run CM10.1 on the device go "usupported". They'll shut up and the pool of vociferous complainers will be greatly reduced.
Which raises the question of how "supported" the current version really is...
But still, I don't see how my civil rights are being affected by the lack of an upgrade here, so I don't support the ACLU's action. If there's anything that could be done it would be preventing the carriers from restricting the devices on their network arbitrarily, since the number of networks that are viable is tightly controlled/cartelized by the FCC. Alternately, make it not (impossible - 1) to put up new radio towers and let the competition take care of it.
He's right. It will also stabilize over time, especially once the blockchain is done. If it gets used enough, its value will still increase over time, as the deflationary aspect of it kicks in. This will result in ever-increasing levels of wealth for its users (as is typical in all industries with deflating prices). The reason that statists oppose this is that it's easy for central banks to skim off the difference between real value and productivity increases by inflating their fiat currencies at a level between them. If done subtly, the users of the currency don't notice as their would-be wealth is drained and transferred to the favored classes.
A great feature of Convergence is the ability to have multiple signatures. HTTPS needs this too. Imagine the current scenario where gmail regularly has 25 signors on its certificate and then one day there is only one. With something like EFF's HTTPS Everywhere SSL Observatory, this could be flagged.
But, switching TLS signing to PGP is a big deal and not backwards compatible. What I'd like to see (somebody else do this so I don't have to) would be an extension that would allow multiple certificates to be presented to the client. Old clients would just get the first one, newer clients could get multiple certs from a server. Klunky, yes, but backwards compatible.
From the very first link on their webpage:
It looks like licenses are 40 pounds? Sign me up - I'm sick of not having a linux video editor that doesn't crash reliably during any project.
You first need to get your engine block to a temperature far beyond what it's designed to handle.
As I understood the point, they mixed this stuff with oil and then sprayed that mixture over the engine block. The hot engine ignited the oil and the burning oil reached the required temperature, presumably.
even if it only keep 99% of people from keeping a local copy.
99% of people don't want a local copy. Otherwise they'd be ripping DVD's. I know we all know lots of other geeks, but really, the people who rip DVD's are the 1%'ers in the tech world. Those people will find a way to capture DRM'ed Netflix streams anyway.
So the entire exercise is a waste of time, other than that some wankers at the studios don't understand the above paragraph. IP is an immoral concept, so to enshrine it in a W3C standard is the wrong thing to do. Making something immoral easy is to pervert the proper incentives structures.
I don't know whether to laugh or to be afraid that Netflix has such a term.
It's true, though. I guess I should be glad that B5 isn't there.
I have a friend living in Ecuador and the biggest surprise he found is that he can't get baking soda at the grocery store. Apparently there's some way to make some explosive where one of the steps involves baking soda as a reagent. So, a bombing happened one time, and apparently (unless I've been very obscurely punked) they banned baking soda in response.
America will not be safe while baking soda can threaten our children! You bitter clingers with your buttermilk pancakes and your Irish soda bread are just holding on to obsolete notions!
So closed source software vendors may dictate which suite wins between HyperV and Xen.
This may be true in traditional enterprise IT, but when you've got a fully-open stack (lower case) platform, the argument to tying down your hypervisor layer with licensing, when nothing else is so-encumbered, is going to be a very tough sell. Though to be fair, XenServer gets you some of the benefits of Xen, with extra licensing if that's your cup o' tea.
Don't worry, CISPA will make it all illegal anyway, so we can move on to worrying about more important things in life - making money for corporations and politicians and such.
Few would care for their parents music collection.
After being exposed to Taylor Swift and One Direction, my kids heard Kansas, Floyd, and Van Halen.
Their take? "That can't be old-person's music. It's so awesome."
Some of my favorite music was written 5 and 40 years before I was born. But it's true - my parents' music was 50's and 60's schlock, not Hendrix or Miles.
you THEN only have a six-character password. ... an attacker would also set up dictionary rules to try Postfix and "mid-fix" (correct horse7xU32w battery staple)
I'm not going to pretend that "correct horse battery staple" has as many bits of entropy as characters, but unless the attacker has a copy of his will, he's going to still have an attack surface that will shut off the account first in nearly every website in existence.
if what you said were necessarily true, NASA would be your worst enemy.
Tell me about the stack of patents NASA has created to exact money from industry, rather than to implement aerospace programs.
how EXACTLY is Bitcoins not a pyramid scheme?
When Bitcoin is done mining all of the coins in the chain, there will be a usable digital currency (assuming no flaws are discovered).
When a pyramid scheme is done building, all of its value collapses.
Both share the aspect of rewarding the early investors, but let's not make a composition error here.
I think your hate has blinded you to the definition of troll. Using/defending a patent they created != trolling.
Patenting research that was done without any plans to commercialize is harmful to society and contrary to the purpose of patents. Triply so if it's done by a government, against the interests of its people.
This article has the background and links.
Half of them may soon be dead anyway. With no chance of release, what good is life in prison as a PoW?
As a govt research body, the money they actually make from patents goes into MORE research (unlike actual patent trolls).
Um, you know that's the opposite of a defense, right? They're self-perpetuating patent trolls. Being unbound by the need to actually commercialize anything, they can shake down independent inventors who do commercialize products, and then take that money and do some more R&D, so that they can get another patent and use that to shake down the next implementer.
At least the typical patent troll will just go blow his money on coke, hookers and speedboats.
Trolls are trolls. Patents are just the modern version of a club for certain trolls.
When you are touch typing on a keyboard are you feeling the keys
Yes. My brain gets an approximately correct position, then the sense of touch helps tune it in, constantly correcting its conception of where the keys are.
I had one of those bluetooth laser keyboards for my Treo back in the day, and touchtyping on it was entirely useless for me - my fingers would drift all over without any tactile feedback to let them know that they were in the right place. If I watched the 'keys' I was fine.
I do much better with normal keys with depressions and edges than with chicklet keyboards for the same reason.
but muscle memory about where the keys are. Which works fine on a touch screen
Wow, you're very talented to have such precise proprioception. Do you play any instruments?
A mobile phone that is good at making phone calls? Fascinating.
(fwiw, I had one of those old-school phone handsets that plugged into the 2.5mm jack on older phones and the call quality was fantastic. It's entirely in the speaker/mic, not the network).
My c. '98 Nokia TDMA phone also had decent sound quality on the built-in gear.
i don't want to have to carry a 5 year old nokia in my bag ... because there's 80% chance my main phone will be out of juice when i need it most.
I carry a spare battery in my bag. Why would an old phone on a separate plan be a better idea?
Something new like a texting glove
And where do you keep your chording keyboards (err, I mean texting gloves) when you're not using them? A main advantage of a slider is that it has a convenient (and small) storage location.