I seem to recall that Obama wanted to seek no punishment on the telcos for this illegal activity and chose the path of seeking further ability to wiretap citizens. Fuck Obama and fuck Bush Jr.....and especially fuck Cheney!
Our future is being determined by all the wrong people.
for example, the requirement to notify the government 72 hours in advance when you travel domestically
Keep in mind though that his only applies to airlines. There is no government intrusion for people packing up their own private vehicle and driving across the country (almost none anyway).
That's fine and good until you drive within 100 miles of any national border and border agents detain you while they search your car with drug sniffing dogs. The supreme court has already ruled that this infringes upon our rights, but nobody is stopping them from continuing their oppressive checkpoints. Checkpoints. In the United States. Not near any actual border. Think about that. I fear we'll just continue the slide down the slippery slope until we have no personal rights or freedoms left.
Yeah, because IOS is so much more secure than Android. New phones are churning out every 6 months. If you want to be ahead that's the price you have to pay. A new iphone is released every year. I don't really see what you are bitching about. If upgrading your firmware to the latest and shiniest is so damned important, buy a phone that isn't locked down, like a galaxy s or nexus one or htc desire or etc, etc, etc and install from the multitudes of roms floating out there. My "ancient" G1 is running froyo right now, and while it may not be the snappiest, I haven't had too many issues asides from the lack of ram on the g1 and a random reboot every few days due to using swap and a somewhat flaky microsd card.
Really, even my lowly G1 is a million light years ahead of the crappy motorola candybar I replaced it with. This whole security issue is being blown way out of proportion. I would say that android by its own nature is fairly secure, seeing as how most everything runs in a sandbox anyways. If an app elevates permissions it should notify you and ask for your permission. Also it does say what each app has access to when you install. I don't really see what you could exploit here, since its a virtual machine running on top of a linux kernel. Yeah, you could exploit the kernel, but that wouldn't give you access to the VM running on top. Yeah you could get at the dalvik machine and probably execute overflows and whatnot, but there seems to be a good deal of internal checks against that sort of thing. IOS on the other hand runs everything natively. I would be willing to bet that IOS is easier to exploit than Android.
It is really painful on mobile devices. Slashdot needs to get its act together and create a proper mobile site. I know I can turn off dynamic discussions and make things like it is 1999 all over again, and thats great on my phone and all, but when I login with my laptop, I want the d2 because I have cycles to burn usually.
Uh....the gimp can work with adjustment layers and 16-bit and 32-bit color? Oh wait...it can't? Crap. You might as well forget about working with camera raw files (12-14-bit) in glorious 16-bit color. Well at least the gimp allows you to mix color in cmyk. Oh wait. It doesn't? Crap. I guess you can forget about using it in any kind of real production environment where colour conversion is critical so you can send out files to print that should have the converted to within cmyk's limited gamut. When you go to print you need to know what your output is going to look like and potentially adjust things in that colorspace. Of course you obviously don't work in graphic design or the printing industry so you don't see the value of these features. Photoshop does so many more things than the gimp and it does them all very, very well. Even the panorama stitching features are above and beyond hugin and it gives better results too. HDR is nicely integrated as well. Yeah you can do a lot of that stuff with open source software, but not in the gimp and not all in one piece of software. For low res, 8-bit web graphics, sure the gimp is good enough, but outside of that it starts getting pretty ugly and quickly becomes the ghetto-fabulous image editor. Even Photoshop Elements kind of blows it away. The interface sucks too. I could go on and on, but if you can't see why the gimp is drastically inferior to photoshop, you really don't know much at all about what you are whining about do you?
Most imaging sensors are only capable of 12-14 bit depth. That's still greater dynamic range than film. Furthermore, most displays are only optimized for 8-bit color, rendering even 16-bit color more or less useless on a screen. Sure you can make 32-bit images in photoshop, but they won't look anything like you would expect on your 8-16 bit monitor.
As you get older you just want stuff to work. That's why I run Windows 7. The last time I installed linux on real hardware, I had to spend a day and a half just getting stuff to work right. I don't really see that as being fun.....now flashing new custom roms on my phone....that's another story....:)
Yeah...lets see you copy and paste something other than text. I mean something complex....like a vector graphic from inkscape. And paste it anywhere, like into a word processor, like open offic?. I just took a vector from illustrator and dumped it into open office. In fact, I can even just drag and drop it. Can you do that in linux? Last I knew, such functionality didn't really exist yet because it didn't understand enough about different data types.
Sure copy and paste works within an application just fine, but across apps (where you kind of really want it to work) is still pretty broken if you ask me.
Uh. Can I copy and paste between any application in linux? Oh wait. I can't? In windows I can copy and paste almost anything (within certain limits). MacOS too. I'm sure certain things work, between certain applications (text certainly does), but windows is far more seamless. Copy and paste is pretty basic functionality. Until the linux people work towards some sort of common desktop platform, linux will always remain the highly fragmented stew of competing desktop environments it is now, and yes I realize that linux is just the kernel, not the OS, but hey, I digress.
Yeah...the clipboard is so basic. Linux will never be a desktop OS until the clipboard works.
What's interesting is that android will soon become the dominant end user linux experience. Linux has filled several niches quite admirably. The desktop is certainly not one of them.
Yeah...chdk is what makes the cheap canon P&S cameras really shine. Still wish I hadn't dropped my A590IS off a wall. Those cameras became impossible to find when the successors removed the manual controls.
What are you talking about? My camera is 12mp and it outputs 4000x3000px files. That is *drum roll* 12 million pixels! Shocking right? So actually, to interpret RBG from 3 sensors (each with a color filter), there must be....36MP? The raw files are simply just the output of each sensor....the algorithm that interprets this data varies between raw processing softwares, but the concept takes the pixels and interpolates them into color using a color matrix. Interestingly, there are like 2x as many "green" pixels than red or blue because that is the color that the eye dominantly sees, so I have no idea how it manages to generate rgb, but I do know that they resulting files are definitely 12MP.
Yeah, but the fuji camera you are referring to drops down to 6mp for its high sensitivity mode and the results aren't all that spectacular even at 6mp if you ask me. Sure you get more range, but at a huge loss in resolution, and that lens isn't really remotely sharp, so its probably resolving less than 6mp anyways. I really wanted to like the fuji cameras, but their lens system needs some serious work, and something tells me that as these lenses start approaching 30x of zoom, that the manufacturers are compromising IQ for something that sounds better to the average consumer. The Panny Leica designed 18x (27-486mm) lens was probably the sharpest of all the superzooms. Its too bad that they moved up to 24x, because the sharpness is pretty awful now. The FZ100 reads like a dream on paper, but has far worse image quality than my FZ28 and FZ35. You just can't simply make a decent 27-600mm lens.
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I seem to recall that Obama wanted to seek no punishment on the telcos for this illegal activity and chose the path of seeking further ability to wiretap citizens. Fuck Obama and fuck Bush Jr.....and especially fuck Cheney!
Our future is being determined by all the wrong people.
for example, the requirement to notify the government 72 hours in advance when you travel domestically
Keep in mind though that his only applies to airlines. There is no government intrusion for people packing up their own private vehicle and driving across the country (almost none anyway).
That's fine and good until you drive within 100 miles of any national border and border agents detain you while they search your car with drug sniffing dogs. The supreme court has already ruled that this infringes upon our rights, but nobody is stopping them from continuing their oppressive checkpoints. Checkpoints. In the United States. Not near any actual border. Think about that. I fear we'll just continue the slide down the slippery slope until we have no personal rights or freedoms left.
Mod up people....his font is smaller and actually legible! He wins the internets!
Yeah, because IOS is so much more secure than Android. New phones are churning out every 6 months. If you want to be ahead that's the price you have to pay. A new iphone is released every year. I don't really see what you are bitching about. If upgrading your firmware to the latest and shiniest is so damned important, buy a phone that isn't locked down, like a galaxy s or nexus one or htc desire or etc, etc, etc and install from the multitudes of roms floating out there. My "ancient" G1 is running froyo right now, and while it may not be the snappiest, I haven't had too many issues asides from the lack of ram on the g1 and a random reboot every few days due to using swap and a somewhat flaky microsd card.
Really, even my lowly G1 is a million light years ahead of the crappy motorola candybar I replaced it with. This whole security issue is being blown way out of proportion. I would say that android by its own nature is fairly secure, seeing as how most everything runs in a sandbox anyways. If an app elevates permissions it should notify you and ask for your permission. Also it does say what each app has access to when you install. I don't really see what you could exploit here, since its a virtual machine running on top of a linux kernel. Yeah, you could exploit the kernel, but that wouldn't give you access to the VM running on top. Yeah you could get at the dalvik machine and probably execute overflows and whatnot, but there seems to be a good deal of internal checks against that sort of thing. IOS on the other hand runs everything natively. I would be willing to bet that IOS is easier to exploit than Android.
They studied froyo. RTFA already.
It is really painful on mobile devices. Slashdot needs to get its act together and create a proper mobile site. I know I can turn off dynamic discussions and make things like it is 1999 all over again, and thats great on my phone and all, but when I login with my laptop, I want the d2 because I have cycles to burn usually.
You just tell the FBI agents that. I'm quite sure they would see it your way.
If you'd RTFA you would learn that his mechanic had found it and that they typically hide it a lot better than they did.
Uh....the gimp can work with adjustment layers and 16-bit and 32-bit color? Oh wait...it can't? Crap. You might as well forget about working with camera raw files (12-14-bit) in glorious 16-bit color. Well at least the gimp allows you to mix color in cmyk. Oh wait. It doesn't? Crap. I guess you can forget about using it in any kind of real production environment where colour conversion is critical so you can send out files to print that should have the converted to within cmyk's limited gamut. When you go to print you need to know what your output is going to look like and potentially adjust things in that colorspace. Of course you obviously don't work in graphic design or the printing industry so you don't see the value of these features. Photoshop does so many more things than the gimp and it does them all very, very well. Even the panorama stitching features are above and beyond hugin and it gives better results too. HDR is nicely integrated as well. Yeah you can do a lot of that stuff with open source software, but not in the gimp and not all in one piece of software. For low res, 8-bit web graphics, sure the gimp is good enough, but outside of that it starts getting pretty ugly and quickly becomes the ghetto-fabulous image editor. Even Photoshop Elements kind of blows it away. The interface sucks too. I could go on and on, but if you can't see why the gimp is drastically inferior to photoshop, you really don't know much at all about what you are whining about do you?
68-48-40? Not a bad shade of brown.....I've seen far worse!
Most imaging sensors are only capable of 12-14 bit depth. That's still greater dynamic range than film. Furthermore, most displays are only optimized for 8-bit color, rendering even 16-bit color more or less useless on a screen. Sure you can make 32-bit images in photoshop, but they won't look anything like you would expect on your 8-16 bit monitor.
Actually, IIRC, possession is totally illegal. If the feds search your computer and find child porn, you are in deep shit.
You are not trying hard enough!
As you get older you just want stuff to work. That's why I run Windows 7. The last time I installed linux on real hardware, I had to spend a day and a half just getting stuff to work right. I don't really see that as being fun.....now flashing new custom roms on my phone....that's another story.... :)
Yeah...lets see you copy and paste something other than text. I mean something complex....like a vector graphic from inkscape. And paste it anywhere, like into a word processor, like open offic?. I just took a vector from illustrator and dumped it into open office. In fact, I can even just drag and drop it. Can you do that in linux? Last I knew, such functionality didn't really exist yet because it didn't understand enough about different data types.
Sure copy and paste works within an application just fine, but across apps (where you kind of really want it to work) is still pretty broken if you ask me.
Uh. Can I copy and paste between any application in linux? Oh wait. I can't? In windows I can copy and paste almost anything (within certain limits). MacOS too. I'm sure certain things work, between certain applications (text certainly does), but windows is far more seamless. Copy and paste is pretty basic functionality. Until the linux people work towards some sort of common desktop platform, linux will always remain the highly fragmented stew of competing desktop environments it is now, and yes I realize that linux is just the kernel, not the OS, but hey, I digress.
Man, and I thought I had no life!
I'll have to check it out.
Since when do designers make $100/hr? If that's the case, I'm working at the wrong place. :P
Yeah...the clipboard is so basic. Linux will never be a desktop OS until the clipboard works.
What's interesting is that android will soon become the dominant end user linux experience. Linux has filled several niches quite admirably. The desktop is certainly not one of them.
I wouldn't possibly leave a one liner just to draw people to my site......
Can't say I have. :)
Yeah...chdk is what makes the cheap canon P&S cameras really shine. Still wish I hadn't dropped my A590IS off a wall. Those cameras became impossible to find when the successors removed the manual controls.
What are you talking about? My camera is 12mp and it outputs 4000x3000px files. That is *drum roll* 12 million pixels! Shocking right? So actually, to interpret RBG from 3 sensors (each with a color filter), there must be....36MP? The raw files are simply just the output of each sensor....the algorithm that interprets this data varies between raw processing softwares, but the concept takes the pixels and interpolates them into color using a color matrix. Interestingly, there are like 2x as many "green" pixels than red or blue because that is the color that the eye dominantly sees, so I have no idea how it manages to generate rgb, but I do know that they resulting files are definitely 12MP.
Yeah, but the fuji camera you are referring to drops down to 6mp for its high sensitivity mode and the results aren't all that spectacular even at 6mp if you ask me. Sure you get more range, but at a huge loss in resolution, and that lens isn't really remotely sharp, so its probably resolving less than 6mp anyways. I really wanted to like the fuji cameras, but their lens system needs some serious work, and something tells me that as these lenses start approaching 30x of zoom, that the manufacturers are compromising IQ for something that sounds better to the average consumer. The Panny Leica designed 18x (27-486mm) lens was probably the sharpest of all the superzooms. Its too bad that they moved up to 24x, because the sharpness is pretty awful now. The FZ100 reads like a dream on paper, but has far worse image quality than my FZ28 and FZ35. You just can't simply make a decent 27-600mm lens.