More and more people will be attracted to the Apple closed garden model.
Only the non creative types who don't care or want to know how computers actually work. Oh wait - fancy that - PC users will end up developing the software for the Mac sheeple that just want to doodle in paintshop all day while telling everyone how wonderful their expensive Macs are.
The problem with the closed garden is that it's a closed garden. That's all well and good if you have no idea what a computer is. But if you want to innovate and write, say, the NEXT closed garden, you cannot do that while constrained by artificial limits.
Yup. Strange how history repeats itself, every time slightly different, but generally the same. Instead of gladiators it's American Gladiator. Instead of beasts we have race-cars and steroid laced millionaires. But the circus continues while the state treasure is squandered, politicians try to deal with the barbarian threat on the border by expanding the border, coin is issued with reckless abandon, laws become more and more ridiculous, unenforceable and extreme, and yes hostiles are even offered bribes to stop attacking. I'm just waiting to see who the new Hannibal is going to be.
I guess you're entitled to read however you want - but I did address winter in my post. But that was near the bottom and I guess your attention span had expired long before then.
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Note to grammar nazis - yes I said "is" instead of "are", because I changed the sentence from singular to plural then hit submit, before remembering I forgot to change the verb. Also - fuck you.
than preventing a 12 year old from seeing the human body due to a stigma based off 2000 year old mythology.
People have been wearing clothes for far more than 2000 years, so I would say that the "stigma" runs a lot deeper than the Juedo-Christian reference. I often wonder exactly what it was that drove people to wear clothes - women's self consciousness about their breast size, men's self consciousness about their penis size, fear of mockery of either of the above from others, the obvious deterioration evidenced by aging (only people died rather young back then), women's periods, lack of ass wiping technology or what. It's an amusing mental exercise.
I don't think the weather had much to do with it since even natives from tribes that live in tropical climates wear SOME sort of clothing. Ours has just grown to cover more square centimeters.
I mean ok, I appreciate the effort and it makes sense to go after the control machines. But if a huge number of compromised machines are still out in the wild as dormant zombies, all it takes is for someone to find out how to reactivate them and we're back to square one.
IANAL but IMO you are allowed to lie. You are not allowed to lie in order to commit a crime - that's called fraud. You are not allowed to lie about someone else to the public, that's called slander, defamation or libel depending on how you do it. You are not allowed to lie about your identification to the police when they ask you for it. The rest you are allowed to do. Whether this lying is a good idea or not, and whether it can be "held against you" or not, depends on the nature of the lie and whether a policeman or other agent of the government (customs and immigration, for example) considers it "suspicious behavior" warranting further investigation; or a jury decides you should be punished for it or not. But the lying in itself is not illegal at all.
On the other hand, lying is the entire basis of undercover police work. Without lies, it would be impossible. Since undercover work is essential to discover those individuals or organizations who take more than a few minutes to actually plan out a crime instead of acting on the spur of the moment, I doubt that the police will ever be prevented from lying to you in order to throw you in jail.
While I disagree with the current trend of tarring everyone with the same "sex offender" brush and I strongly advocate the point of view that there should be an understanding of different "levels" of heinousness where crime is concerned (I mean, isn't that what we're supposed to be paying justice systems for, instead of pre-determined verdicts based on "case law" and cookie-cutter sentences?) - the guy didn't know it wasn't a 13 year old girl and thus deserves at least part of what is coming to him, lies or no.
Anyway in the US you have the 5th amendment. In most other societies based on common law, you have the right to silence under other names. It's your only right, but it's pretty powerful. All the police can expect from you is your name and address. Period.
Yes. And I know more than you. But don't let me convince you - just look at the concrete buildings still standing right next to the harbor. Look at the bridges, hospitals and schools that survived.
Oh it will be expensive. And you'll have to fill it with earth, to take the weight. And it will crack. But it can be done easily.
They laughed at the ants too. And boats are so damned slow, who would have thought you can cross an ocean in a few days if you're only going 30 kts.
There is more than one helicopter, and they are making more than one "bomb" run.
Yes, please do say nothing about the tsunami. It's not like being under a wall of water 25 feet high and moving at 100kph can do more damage than an earthquake./sarcasm
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More and more people will be attracted to the Apple closed garden model.
Only the non creative types who don't care or want to know how computers actually work. Oh wait - fancy that - PC users will end up developing the software for the Mac sheeple that just want to doodle in paintshop all day while telling everyone how wonderful their expensive Macs are. The problem with the closed garden is that it's a closed garden. That's all well and good if you have no idea what a computer is. But if you want to innovate and write, say, the NEXT closed garden, you cannot do that while constrained by artificial limits.
At least in China it's because all those damned children playing Starcraft are coming in late for their shifts at the factories...
You would be amazed at the amount of people who equate pedantry with intelligence.
Yup. Strange how history repeats itself, every time slightly different, but generally the same. Instead of gladiators it's American Gladiator. Instead of beasts we have race-cars and steroid laced millionaires. But the circus continues while the state treasure is squandered, politicians try to deal with the barbarian threat on the border by expanding the border, coin is issued with reckless abandon, laws become more and more ridiculous, unenforceable and extreme, and yes hostiles are even offered bribes to stop attacking. I'm just waiting to see who the new Hannibal is going to be.
IMO the "West" has lost the moral high ground forever, since Iraq. Now anything you say can and will be used against you.
He was pointing to the guy next to you.
You're right. Khaddafi should be compared to Abraham Lincoln. /troll
I guess you're entitled to read however you want - but I did address winter in my post. But that was near the bottom and I guess your attention span had expired long before then.
Note to grammar nazis - yes I said "is" instead of "are", because I changed the sentence from singular to plural then hit submit, before remembering I forgot to change the verb. Also - fuck you.
What do you mean? The people who run .gov is the biggest scammers of all!
than preventing a 12 year old from seeing the human body due to a stigma based off 2000 year old mythology.
People have been wearing clothes for far more than 2000 years, so I would say that the "stigma" runs a lot deeper than the Juedo-Christian reference. I often wonder exactly what it was that drove people to wear clothes - women's self consciousness about their breast size, men's self consciousness about their penis size, fear of mockery of either of the above from others, the obvious deterioration evidenced by aging (only people died rather young back then), women's periods, lack of ass wiping technology or what. It's an amusing mental exercise.
I don't think the weather had much to do with it since even natives from tribes that live in tropical climates wear SOME sort of clothing. Ours has just grown to cover more square centimeters.
Countdown to criminalization of all non-.xxx porn.
Well I agree that soft porn SHOULD be criminal... oh wait
But we already have goatse - what more do you want?
One problem remains - finding the stuff that's worth reading in the ocean of crap.
You missed the "in co-operation with federal agents" part, huh?
I mean ok, I appreciate the effort and it makes sense to go after the control machines. But if a huge number of compromised machines are still out in the wild as dormant zombies, all it takes is for someone to find out how to reactivate them and we're back to square one.
Then you get labeled non-cooperative and your silence is used against you.
No, you hire yourself a lawyer who will prevent that label from ever being used against you. You watch too much TV.
On the other hand, lying is the entire basis of undercover police work. Without lies, it would be impossible. Since undercover work is essential to discover those individuals or organizations who take more than a few minutes to actually plan out a crime instead of acting on the spur of the moment, I doubt that the police will ever be prevented from lying to you in order to throw you in jail.
While I disagree with the current trend of tarring everyone with the same "sex offender" brush and I strongly advocate the point of view that there should be an understanding of different "levels" of heinousness where crime is concerned (I mean, isn't that what we're supposed to be paying justice systems for, instead of pre-determined verdicts based on "case law" and cookie-cutter sentences?) - the guy didn't know it wasn't a 13 year old girl and thus deserves at least part of what is coming to him, lies or no.
Anyway in the US you have the 5th amendment. In most other societies based on common law, you have the right to silence under other names. It's your only right, but it's pretty powerful. All the police can expect from you is your name and address. Period.
Yes. And I know more than you. But don't let me convince you - just look at the concrete buildings still standing right next to the harbor. Look at the bridges, hospitals and schools that survived. Oh it will be expensive. And you'll have to fill it with earth, to take the weight. And it will crack. But it can be done easily.
Are you a cop? You have to tell me if you're a cop.
This is where you go wrong - right there in step 1. Cops are allowed to lie to you.
Yeah because nothing will be learned from this disaster.
They laughed at the ants too. And boats are so damned slow, who would have thought you can cross an ocean in a few days if you're only going 30 kts. There is more than one helicopter, and they are making more than one "bomb" run.
Hah, and then instead of using them to bomb Taliban, they can just park a few around known hideouts... why bother with decontamination?
And that's to say nothing of the tsunami.
Yes, please do say nothing about the tsunami. It's not like being under a wall of water 25 feet high and moving at 100kph can do more damage than an earthquake. /sarcasm