It's hard for some geeks to grasp that concept and to think about something from someone else's perspective, but it's true.
You might be surprised to learn that some other people use Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Quicken, TurboTax, etc. play certain popular games, etc. There are perfectly usable substitutes for many of these on Linux, but they are not the same, familiar apps. Similar != The Same. Maybe it doesn't matter to you, but other people are sometimes different from you. Understand?
When tweens start to get a little too old to be amused by silly little stories like the Turtles, they occupy their increasingly complex brains by embracing the concepts of "canon" and "continuity", enabling them to continue watching those silly little stories and appreciate them on a different level. That's a good thing. Show me a kid who can tell us the basic plot of any named episode, and who has arguments with his friends about whether Donatello or Michelangelo has beaten Shredder more times, and I'll show you a smart 12-year-old with functioning social skills.
But most people grow out of that. They recognize that the Turtles cartoon is just a bunch of silly stories for children, produced by a corporation who wants to make money selling them toys and crappy food. Their brains are ready for the understanding that canon continuity is just as silly a concept as the stories themselves... something for 12-year-olds instead of 6-year-olds. So when someone comes along and creates something that doesn't fit that continuity... they shrug and accept it. It doesn't mean they have to like it. No one's forcing you to go see a Turtles movie that doesn't look entertaining to you. But the notion that there's the Eastman-Laird Turtles, the Saturday-morning cartoon Turtles, the previous live-action feature film Turtles, and now this high-explosion film about alien Turtles, and that they contradict each other, and some are better than others... shouldn't be threatening to you.
Look, Linux is a kernel. Users don't care about kernels.
What users care about is the userland apps and user interface. Windows offers them familiar apps and a familiar UI. OS X offers them some better apps and a better UI. iOS offers them a metric tonne of cheap apps and a slick UI. Android offers them the same sort of thing without less lock-down.... wait, you say that Android is Linux? Exactly. It's Linux with a userland and UI that offer something that matters to the user, something they don't get elsewhere.
The cartoon that most of y'all think of as the original, canonical TMNT bears little resemblance to the sarcastic parody comics that Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird first produced in the 1980s, so I have a difficult time empathizing with your distress over this latest permutation on the concept. Of course it's idiotic and disrespectful of the previous treatment. What did you expect?
This wouldn't do them a whole lot of good. The key to shutting them down isn't getting physical access/jurisdiction to them in some country, but shutting down their link to the internet. Like with any pirate, if you know where their home port is, you can easily cut them off there. Never mind radar and satellite imaging; all you'd need is traceroute and a someone in the country it leads to who is willing to sign a legal order to disable their internet access.
"To some extent opt 1 means they can't think of anything productive to do with the money, so they're giving it back. Frankly this might be true."
Or (getting in touch with reality briefly) it means that they can't think of anything that they need 100 billion dollars for, but they think that merely tens of billions of dollars, plus the ongoing profits from their money-printing iProducts, will be enough working capital for what they do have planned.
We actually have universal law coverage in the US, Canada, and other countries (at least for criminal charges). It's called a "court-appointed attorney", and it's generally the quality of legal care that you would get by going to a free clinic. It may be adequate if all you have is a throat infection or a laceration on your arm, but pretty much worthless for treatment of your pancreatic cancer.
As I understand it, the images he was arrested and charge over were not even of children. They were adolescent/young-adult characters who might have been of legal age or maybe not. This ambiguity is not uncommon in the work of Japanese artists, especially in light of the cultural taboo (I'm not sure if it's still illegal in Japan) against drawing pubic hair. The initial judgment that the drawings were "child pornography" was made by a supervisor who had not even seen them, let alone someone qualified to somehow make that judgment.
Ah Slashdot! Where an off-the-cuff snarky remark making fun of idiots is greeted with amusement, but is also cause for a hypocritical rebuke from some anonymous coward trying to convince himself that he's better than SOMEBODY, by gum.
That's not what this is about at all. The Netherlands is a country that takes its fundamental privacy-from-the-police assurances more seriously than the US does.
Person is arrested. How much chance do you think that he has time to wipe the screen down to hide the smudges from the unlock gesture he keeps using over and over? And what are the odds that he's actually used a combination that's takes advantage of that potential 100K combinations? Every time I've seen someone use this method, they pick something really simple to do, because they choose this method for the fact that it's easy to unlock. Which is exactly what makes it easy for other people to unlock. Which is why the security policies imposed by the corporate e-mail client that we use on Android devices requires the device to use a more secure unlocking method.
I'm not questioning whether Android devices are secure. Calm down, fanboy. I'm just pointing out that this particular choice of authentication method is a poor one.
Setting aside the serious legal implications of this case, I'm amused that the authorities are stymied by a gesture code, because those are ridiculously insecure. They're even easier to pick up than PINs via over-the-shoulder observation (even watching someone do it with the screen away from hem, an observer can narrow it down to a feasible number of alternatives to try), and furthermore the gestures leave telltale smudges that can often be observed after taking the device from the user. I do front-line tech support, and I've had people hand me their phones after unlocking them, and on several occasions I was able to guess their gesture code just from those clues.
To be fair, that headline was practically begging for someone to interpret it as a reference to current humans, not to a population of hominids that lived in the area we call China thousands of years ago.
We're not talking about planets like Mars, or even Titan or Pluto here. A brown dwarf is more like Jupiter, but without the sunsets. You cant "walk around" on one, and I certainly wouldn't want to spend my life looking at one out the window.
<pedantry>In relativistic terms, what we call "deceleration" is simply "acceleration" with the opposite vector (i.e. the other direction).</pedantry> It's absurd to say it's an "incorrect" term, though; we are allowed to have words for opposites, after all.
But yeah: stopping at a brown dwarf or other nomad planet on an interstellar journey makes even less sense than pulling off the expressway and stopping at a gas station to walk around, when you were going 80mph and had a full tank of fuel (i.e. momentum). If they were in the right place and massive enough, they could be worth targeting for a little gravity assist to accelerate a bit more, but what else could they possibly have that would be worth the huge expense in time and energy to stop at one? I'm sure they'd be fascinating enough to warrant exploration in their own right, but for interstellar travel, they'd be "speed bumps" not "stepping stones".
The web site of my local newspaper does no real moderation of the comments on its articles. Aside from obvious spam and things they'd get into legal trouble for leaving up, they clearly welcome and encourage "the free exchange of ideas". Which mean that the site is a cesspool of unemployed cranks and professional spin doctors posting strident and hateful garbage on every article they read. Any article about the president will immediately be littered with hysterical rants about socialism, followed by angry rebuttals, and.... it's just completely useless. I'm sure it gets them ad impressions, but I don't even like going to the comments section to post anything, because it's obvious that there is no one there listening to anything anyone else says. Compared to the old letters-to-the-editor page, which sometimes provided interesting reading, to which I was an occasional contributor, and which people around the city actually read... like I said: useless.
There's a difference between firing someone for their religious beliefs and firing someone for promoting those beliefs at work, especially if the person is in some position of authority over those he's passing the DVDs out to. There's a trend lately with Christians complaining that their religious freedom is being infringed, when what's really happening is that they simply aren't being allowed to impose (to some degree or another) their religion on someone else. Whether it's a teacher lecturing to her students about her religious beliefs, an employer specifying which legal medical treatment an employee's health insurance covers, or a supervisor trying to persuade his team of his religious beliefs, those are all examples of religious "freedom" going far enough to step on others' right to believe differently. Like the old saying that "your freedom to swing your arm ends where my nose begins", your right to proselytize ends at the office door.
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It's hard for some geeks to grasp that concept and to think about something from someone else's perspective, but it's true.
You might be surprised to learn that some other people use Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Quicken, TurboTax, etc. play certain popular games, etc. There are perfectly usable substitutes for many of these on Linux, but they are not the same, familiar apps. Similar != The Same. Maybe it doesn't matter to you, but other people are sometimes different from you. Understand?
When tweens start to get a little too old to be amused by silly little stories like the Turtles, they occupy their increasingly complex brains by embracing the concepts of "canon" and "continuity", enabling them to continue watching those silly little stories and appreciate them on a different level. That's a good thing. Show me a kid who can tell us the basic plot of any named episode, and who has arguments with his friends about whether Donatello or Michelangelo has beaten Shredder more times, and I'll show you a smart 12-year-old with functioning social skills.
But most people grow out of that. They recognize that the Turtles cartoon is just a bunch of silly stories for children, produced by a corporation who wants to make money selling them toys and crappy food. Their brains are ready for the understanding that canon continuity is just as silly a concept as the stories themselves... something for 12-year-olds instead of 6-year-olds. So when someone comes along and creates something that doesn't fit that continuity... they shrug and accept it. It doesn't mean they have to like it. No one's forcing you to go see a Turtles movie that doesn't look entertaining to you. But the notion that there's the Eastman-Laird Turtles, the Saturday-morning cartoon Turtles, the previous live-action feature film Turtles, and now this high-explosion film about alien Turtles, and that they contradict each other, and some are better than others... shouldn't be threatening to you.
"Why not?" is lousy marketing.
Look, Linux is a kernel. Users don't care about kernels.
What users care about is the userland apps and user interface. Windows offers them familiar apps and a familiar UI. OS X offers them some better apps and a better UI. iOS offers them a metric tonne of cheap apps and a slick UI. Android offers them the same sort of thing without less lock-down.... wait, you say that Android is Linux? Exactly. It's Linux with a userland and UI that offer something that matters to the user, something they don't get elsewhere.
The cartoon that most of y'all think of as the original, canonical TMNT bears little resemblance to the sarcastic parody comics that Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird first produced in the 1980s, so I have a difficult time empathizing with your distress over this latest permutation on the concept. Of course it's idiotic and disrespectful of the previous treatment. What did you expect?
Two essentials: an office with a door, and a timeclock.
And it'll really help if you develop a second personality: that of "team leader" who thinks of your other personality as a bit of a goof-off.
This wouldn't do them a whole lot of good. The key to shutting them down isn't getting physical access/jurisdiction to them in some country, but shutting down their link to the internet. Like with any pirate, if you know where their home port is, you can easily cut them off there. Never mind radar and satellite imaging; all you'd need is traceroute and a someone in the country it leads to who is willing to sign a legal order to disable their internet access.
"To some extent opt 1 means they can't think of anything productive to do with the money, so they're giving it back. Frankly this might be true."
Or (getting in touch with reality briefly) it means that they can't think of anything that they need 100 billion dollars for, but they think that merely tens of billions of dollars, plus the ongoing profits from their money-printing iProducts, will be enough working capital for what they do have planned.
The writer is being sloppy (or confused).
"Graywater" is water that does not contain human waste, but has been used for other purposes and isn't fit for drinking.
"Blackwater" is sewage water containing human waste (and easily confused with the mercenary business formerly owned by Erik Prince).
Does the patent cover giving the customer a refund if she pushes the "off" button?
We actually have universal law coverage in the US, Canada, and other countries (at least for criminal charges). It's called a "court-appointed attorney", and it's generally the quality of legal care that you would get by going to a free clinic. It may be adequate if all you have is a throat infection or a laceration on your arm, but pretty much worthless for treatment of your pancreatic cancer.
As I understand it, the images he was arrested and charge over were not even of children. They were adolescent/young-adult characters who might have been of legal age or maybe not. This ambiguity is not uncommon in the work of Japanese artists, especially in light of the cultural taboo (I'm not sure if it's still illegal in Japan) against drawing pubic hair. The initial judgment that the drawings were "child pornography" was made by a supervisor who had not even seen them, let alone someone qualified to somehow make that judgment.
The actual cost of his defense was $75K. The other $30K was paid by the two legal defense funds.
The defendant's personal statement about the case is worth reading: rather chilling: http://cbldf.org/homepage/ryan-mathesons-personal-statement/
Ah Slashdot! Where an off-the-cuff snarky remark making fun of idiots is greeted with amusement, but is also cause for a hypocritical rebuke from some anonymous coward trying to convince himself that he's better than SOMEBODY, by gum.
Get help, you loser. :P
That's not what this is about at all. The Netherlands is a country that takes its fundamental privacy-from-the-police assurances more seriously than the US does.
There's a glitch in this timeline: it shows dates billions of years before God actually created the universe!
Person is arrested. How much chance do you think that he has time to wipe the screen down to hide the smudges from the unlock gesture he keeps using over and over? And what are the odds that he's actually used a combination that's takes advantage of that potential 100K combinations? Every time I've seen someone use this method, they pick something really simple to do, because they choose this method for the fact that it's easy to unlock. Which is exactly what makes it easy for other people to unlock. Which is why the security policies imposed by the corporate e-mail client that we use on Android devices requires the device to use a more secure unlocking method.
I'm not questioning whether Android devices are secure. Calm down, fanboy. I'm just pointing out that this particular choice of authentication method is a poor one.
Setting aside the serious legal implications of this case, I'm amused that the authorities are stymied by a gesture code, because those are ridiculously insecure. They're even easier to pick up than PINs via over-the-shoulder observation (even watching someone do it with the screen away from hem, an observer can narrow it down to a feasible number of alternatives to try), and furthermore the gestures leave telltale smudges that can often be observed after taking the device from the user. I do front-line tech support, and I've had people hand me their phones after unlocking them, and on several occasions I was able to guess their gesture code just from those clues.
To be fair, that headline was practically begging for someone to interpret it as a reference to current humans, not to a population of hominids that lived in the area we call China thousands of years ago.
Has it occurred to you that the date is spoken in that order in America because that's how it's always written here?
We're not talking about planets like Mars, or even Titan or Pluto here. A brown dwarf is more like Jupiter, but without the sunsets. You cant "walk around" on one, and I certainly wouldn't want to spend my life looking at one out the window.
That's what I was talking about, using it for gravity assist.
And your snooker game is pretty much exactly how interplanetary probes get where they're going within the solar system.
<pedantry>In relativistic terms, what we call "deceleration" is simply "acceleration" with the opposite vector (i.e. the other direction).</pedantry>
It's absurd to say it's an "incorrect" term, though; we are allowed to have words for opposites, after all.
But yeah: stopping at a brown dwarf or other nomad planet on an interstellar journey makes even less sense than pulling off the expressway and stopping at a gas station to walk around, when you were going 80mph and had a full tank of fuel (i.e. momentum). If they were in the right place and massive enough, they could be worth targeting for a little gravity assist to accelerate a bit more, but what else could they possibly have that would be worth the huge expense in time and energy to stop at one? I'm sure they'd be fascinating enough to warrant exploration in their own right, but for interstellar travel, they'd be "speed bumps" not "stepping stones".
The web site of my local newspaper does no real moderation of the comments on its articles. Aside from obvious spam and things they'd get into legal trouble for leaving up, they clearly welcome and encourage "the free exchange of ideas". Which mean that the site is a cesspool of unemployed cranks and professional spin doctors posting strident and hateful garbage on every article they read. Any article about the president will immediately be littered with hysterical rants about socialism, followed by angry rebuttals, and.... it's just completely useless. I'm sure it gets them ad impressions, but I don't even like going to the comments section to post anything, because it's obvious that there is no one there listening to anything anyone else says. Compared to the old letters-to-the-editor page, which sometimes provided interesting reading, to which I was an occasional contributor, and which people around the city actually read... like I said: useless.
There's a difference between firing someone for their religious beliefs and firing someone for promoting those beliefs at work, especially if the person is in some position of authority over those he's passing the DVDs out to. There's a trend lately with Christians complaining that their religious freedom is being infringed, when what's really happening is that they simply aren't being allowed to impose (to some degree or another) their religion on someone else. Whether it's a teacher lecturing to her students about her religious beliefs, an employer specifying which legal medical treatment an employee's health insurance covers, or a supervisor trying to persuade his team of his religious beliefs, those are all examples of religious "freedom" going far enough to step on others' right to believe differently. Like the old saying that "your freedom to swing your arm ends where my nose begins", your right to proselytize ends at the office door.