How the hell is this google's fault anyway? If you don't want your "incredibly private" information in other's hands, then don't fucking broadcast it into the air unencrypted for anyone in a 500' radius to pick up and record. How is this different than reading your email into a radio broadcast and then being shocked (shocked) that someone recorded it by accident. This is stupid.
I think you might be buying the wrong phones or something.
There's one essential difference you seem to be willfully to be forgetting or intentionally ignoring. On my crappy $0 Samsung M520 (or something close to that); I could install anything I wanted. Yes, it directed me back to the sprint store and warned me it's not safe (that warning may even be fair and accurate), but I could install whatever I wanted without their permission and without modifying the phone.
On my Palm (HP?) Pre, I can not only install whatever I want, but I can root the phone as a *supported* activity. You go to developer.palm.com and download the SDK to get a root shell. You can remount / as rw and do whatever the hell you want. If you completely jack up the phone, they have a program to fix that too. It's fully supported.
When you can install whatever you want on your iPhone without voiding your warranty, then you'll have a point. Until then, you're simply incorrect. Perhaps Apple's treatment by the nerds is less than fair, but they've most certainly earned this reputation. Oh yes.
None of your previous phones... perhaps you were picking the wrong phones. My Palm (now HP) pr can be rooted by downloading the SDK from developer.palm.com. It's supported. If you jack it up, they have a kit to fix it.
My previous phone was a crappy $0 samsung (I wanna say M520) and it let me install whatever the hell I want. Yes, sprint tried to direct me to their app store, but I didn't need to modify the phone to install whatever the hell I want.
This very much differs from Apple's attitude. They may not be unique, but I don't believe for a second blackberry users need to modify the phone (in a way that voids the warranty nonetheless) to install software of their choice. I've never really used a blackberry, so I don't actually know, but I just can't accept that.
I call BS on your argument. Apple has earned their reputation by being very anti-tinker. Sorry.
On the PC, I can see what you're saying. On the phones, not so much. In fact, they're rather famous for not allowing you to do what you want with your phone. It took new rules to allow unlocking, for instance. You might argue that the locking had more to do with contracts with ATT than anything else... Maybe you have a point here.
But... How about Project Gutenberg? The Kama Sutra? I think Apple has rightfully earned their reputation as a nanny mothership. They may allow alternate OSes. We'll see on that, but they definitely don't want you running non-approved apps on devices where they control the app store. This particular alternate OS will allow people to run non-approved apps. Apple is not going to allow that.
If they haven't done something to stop Android on the iPhone it's either a) the new unlocking rules or b) it's not very popular so they don't care (yet).
I must have played UU for like 16,000 hours on my BBS. I really miss it most days. I resurrected my copy on dosemu a decade ago, and it was fun, but it needs multiplayer. They're "working" on it; although I expect they'll never finish...
Lemme know when one of the others gets more than about 1% of the vote. Until we get rank order voting or instant runoffs or something it's just not going to change.
fairly easy to prove if the person was texting by looking at cellphone records, right?
Not accurately enough. Sometimes texts don't go our right way on my phone. Particularly on my drive home where the coverage is very spotty. It would be reasonable and possible that the SMS would hit a roaming tower miles away from my office even though I technically sent it before I even started the car.
But I also sometimes use google talk rather than SMS from my phone. That's not going to be on my phone records, but I believe it still counts as texting under the definitions in my state.
In fact, even using my phone to play mp3s is illegal afaik; but to be honest I just ignore the law completely. I haven't changed my behavior at all. The bottom line is: pay attention to the fucking road. But I also like to change the song from time to time. What difference does it make if this is on my stereo or on my phone? I can hold the phone up so I'm looking at the road and the phone at the same time. I think the phone is safer than changing a CD. Illegal, but safer.
If your email is cleartext, then there's always someone that can read it, no matter what the environment is. You can chose GPG/PGP, SSL, and various other things to solve this problem, but if *you choose* to cleartext, the problem will always exist.
I can read my bosses emails... doesn't seem at all right to me, but I need to have that access to maintain the mailserver. I'd suggest encryption, but nobody can be bothered to bother with it. Even when they do, it's only for that one email in a year, so attackers would know exactly which ones to work on.
If you're thinking maybe gmail wouldn't work with pgp/gpg or ssl, well... they do offer free imap, so that's wrong.
Gotta get rural to do the wireless thing. It's pretty hard to compete with wired offerings. If you get customers at all, they're the fed-up pissed-off people that you don't really want to have to deal with.
We do wireless at work all the time, and I can assure you, it's quite a bit easier than you're claiming. I'm sure that happens from time to time, but perhaps your people weren't very good at talking to the local municipalities. We've encountered no resistance. On the contrary, people can't wait to get internet faster than dialup.
Wrong. In wired Internets, there's frequently a government granted monopoly. In wireless *anyone* can get a license at put up a wimax tower. You can get towers as cheap as $26,000 and a license for just a couple thousand. You too can compete with verizon if you want to deliver some Internets to a couple small neighborhoods here and there.
And with respect to national networks, there are actually quite a few choices. Stop using verizon.
Sure there's problems with these carriers, but unlike the ILECs, these guys really do have real competition.
Clearly there's going to be exceptions -- that is another feature of human nature. I was speaking in generalities and in that sense I'm not wrong. I think if you check, you'll find you're in the statistically insignificant group.
> why anyone would feel loyal to, or even want to attend, a church
It's because they're human beings. Human beings believe whatever the hell their parents do (by default). Muslims have Muslim kids, Hindus have Hindu kids, Catholics have catholic kids.
On and off for a couple decades, right after Henry made the new church there were various burnings and hangings, the type of thing that got you to go to the church you're told to go to (nobody wants to burn). I also think Queen Liz was about as popular as a monarch can get and she dug the new church her dad made. I think it follows that it'd get some followers (because, really, what difference does it make what church you go to anyway?) and the kids of these followers would *naturally* be CoE followers like their parents before them. It's the default.
Maybe look at WebOS too. I know the Palm Pre didn't really take off,... but the OS is just great; and it really is a linux in all the traditional sense. Grab the SDK, which is just a linux boot image that runs in virtualbox. You'll see what I mean.
Anyone remember a hundred years ago when there was a very real problem with stalkers looking for girl's names in phone books and then stalking them and/or killing them? Phone companies now seem obligated, or at least cooperative, about letting you put whatever the hell you want in phone books. I used to make up the silliest fake names.
Anyway. I'm excited to see what the damages are like when some girls get murdered and raped over their wow forum posts.
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NP-Complete is a much tighter constraint on the computational complexity. Yeah, it's NP-H, but it's also NP-C. NP-Hard must sound harder... I dunno.
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How the hell is this google's fault anyway? If you don't want your "incredibly private" information in other's hands, then don't fucking broadcast it into the air unencrypted for anyone in a 500' radius to pick up and record. How is this different than reading your email into a radio broadcast and then being shocked (shocked) that someone recorded it by accident. This is stupid.
I think you might be buying the wrong phones or something.
There's one essential difference you seem to be willfully to be forgetting or intentionally ignoring. On my crappy $0 Samsung M520 (or something close to that); I could install anything I wanted. Yes, it directed me back to the sprint store and warned me it's not safe (that warning may even be fair and accurate), but I could install whatever I wanted without their permission and without modifying the phone.
On my Palm (HP?) Pre, I can not only install whatever I want, but I can root the phone as a *supported* activity. You go to developer.palm.com and download the SDK to get a root shell. You can remount / as rw and do whatever the hell you want. If you completely jack up the phone, they have a program to fix that too. It's fully supported.
When you can install whatever you want on your iPhone without voiding your warranty, then you'll have a point. Until then, you're simply incorrect. Perhaps Apple's treatment by the nerds is less than fair, but they've most certainly earned this reputation. Oh yes.
If you're anti-tinker, you're anti-nerd.
My previous phone was a crappy $0 samsung (I wanna say M520) and it let me install whatever the hell I want. Yes, sprint tried to direct me to their app store, but I didn't need to modify the phone to install whatever the hell I want.
This very much differs from Apple's attitude. They may not be unique, but I don't believe for a second blackberry users need to modify the phone (in a way that voids the warranty nonetheless) to install software of their choice. I've never really used a blackberry, so I don't actually know, but I just can't accept that.
I call BS on your argument. Apple has earned their reputation by being very anti-tinker. Sorry.
On the PC, I can see what you're saying. On the phones, not so much. In fact, they're rather famous for not allowing you to do what you want with your phone. It took new rules to allow unlocking, for instance. You might argue that the locking had more to do with contracts with ATT than anything else... Maybe you have a point here.
But ... How about Project Gutenberg? The Kama Sutra? I think Apple has rightfully earned their reputation as a nanny mothership. They may allow alternate OSes. We'll see on that, but they definitely don't want you running non-approved apps on devices where they control the app store. This particular alternate OS will allow people to run non-approved apps. Apple is not going to allow that.
If they haven't done something to stop Android on the iPhone it's either a) the new unlocking rules or b) it's not very popular so they don't care (yet).
I must have played UU for like 16,000 hours on my BBS. I really miss it most days. I resurrected my copy on dosemu a decade ago, and it was fun, but it needs multiplayer. They're "working" on it; although I expect they'll never finish...
http://www.ultimate-universe.com/
AC, that's a -1: didn't like.
Lemme know when one of the others gets more than about 1% of the vote. Until we get rank order voting or instant runoffs or something it's just not going to change.
How about if they pull whitehouse.gov on the grounds that they're promoting breaking the Internet.
Seems a little silly to make that distinction here, since he's clearly talking about the kernel and the way it handles SMP, which ... is not GNU.
fairly easy to prove if the person was texting by looking at cellphone records, right?
Not accurately enough. Sometimes texts don't go our right way on my phone. Particularly on my drive home where the coverage is very spotty. It would be reasonable and possible that the SMS would hit a roaming tower miles away from my office even though I technically sent it before I even started the car.
But I also sometimes use google talk rather than SMS from my phone. That's not going to be on my phone records, but I believe it still counts as texting under the definitions in my state.
In fact, even using my phone to play mp3s is illegal afaik; but to be honest I just ignore the law completely. I haven't changed my behavior at all. The bottom line is: pay attention to the fucking road. But I also like to change the song from time to time. What difference does it make if this is on my stereo or on my phone? I can hold the phone up so I'm looking at the road and the phone at the same time. I think the phone is safer than changing a CD. Illegal, but safer.
So then did the companies with existing towers lobby heavily for this so they can leverage their newly-created prime real estate?
If your email is cleartext, then there's always someone that can read it, no matter what the environment is. You can chose GPG/PGP, SSL, and various other things to solve this problem, but if *you choose* to cleartext, the problem will always exist.
I can read my bosses emails... doesn't seem at all right to me, but I need to have that access to maintain the mailserver. I'd suggest encryption, but nobody can be bothered to bother with it. Even when they do, it's only for that one email in a year, so attackers would know exactly which ones to work on.
If you're thinking maybe gmail wouldn't work with pgp/gpg or ssl, well... they do offer free imap, so that's wrong.
Gotta get rural to do the wireless thing. It's pretty hard to compete with wired offerings. If you get customers at all, they're the fed-up pissed-off people that you don't really want to have to deal with.
We do wireless at work all the time, and I can assure you, it's quite a bit easier than you're claiming. I'm sure that happens from time to time, but perhaps your people weren't very good at talking to the local municipalities. We've encountered no resistance. On the contrary, people can't wait to get internet faster than dialup.
monopolistic
Wrong. In wired Internets, there's frequently a government granted monopoly. In wireless *anyone* can get a license at put up a wimax tower. You can get towers as cheap as $26,000 and a license for just a couple thousand. You too can compete with verizon if you want to deliver some Internets to a couple small neighborhoods here and there.
And with respect to national networks, there are actually quite a few choices. Stop using verizon.
Sure there's problems with these carriers, but unlike the ILECs, these guys really do have real competition.
Clearly there's going to be exceptions -- that is another feature of human nature. I was speaking in generalities and in that sense I'm not wrong. I think if you check, you'll find you're in the statistically insignificant group.
Do they have like a tip jar or something? Cuz raging against 3D sounds like great news to me.
> why anyone would feel loyal to, or even want to attend, a church
It's because they're human beings. Human beings believe whatever the hell their parents do (by default). Muslims have Muslim kids, Hindus have Hindu kids, Catholics have catholic kids.
On and off for a couple decades, right after Henry made the new church there were various burnings and hangings, the type of thing that got you to go to the church you're told to go to (nobody wants to burn). I also think Queen Liz was about as popular as a monarch can get and she dug the new church her dad made. I think it follows that it'd get some followers (because, really, what difference does it make what church you go to anyway?) and the kids of these followers would *naturally* be CoE followers like their parents before them. It's the default.
Not all initialisms are acronyms. I am having some trouble pronouncing YouSeKahGuh anyway.
Now, who's changed the defaults so that their browser actually checks the revocation cert lists? 38 people worldwide?
Until the "bar" is standardized, I think it's probably best to avoid it's use. Agreed. I wish there were some way to learn the signal db vs noise db.
Maybe look at WebOS too. I know the Palm Pre didn't really take off, ... but the OS is just great; and it really is a linux in all the traditional sense. Grab the SDK, which is just a linux boot image that runs in virtualbox. You'll see what I mean.
Anyone remember a hundred years ago when there was a very real problem with stalkers looking for girl's names in phone books and then stalking them and/or killing them? Phone companies now seem obligated, or at least cooperative, about letting you put whatever the hell you want in phone books. I used to make up the silliest fake names.
Anyway. I'm excited to see what the damages are like when some girls get murdered and raped over their wow forum posts.