for all phones sometime since 9/11 (IIRC) under the guise of helping you (ie - helping the 911 emergency service locate you). Not sure when it was implemented though.
With the microphone, camera, and other sensors plus ubiquity - cell phones is one of the most insidious government spy tools around. Tiny little trojan horses we pay for.
But will lot of apps emerge that will take advantage of the big increase in speed(at the cost of alienating the 15 million existing iPad 1 owners)?
You mean, the same thing that's been facing consumers since computers have been around?
Tell you what, if some app emerges (on whatever platform) that takes advantage of the feature Y, whether or not iPad B was around, iPad A still wouldn't be able run it. What's the alienation?
Since Yahoo is powered by Bing, isn't this a little like saying Bing has "overtook" Bing?
In one sense, yes. But in another, no. Yahoo was once powered by Google. Since Yahoo can just switch out what they use relatively seamlessly from the perspective of the average user, it's implicitly understood that the numbers are just comparing what the internet population uses as a portal/url for search.
Why? I played it a few minutes. I'm not especially young, but it was rather boring, and I was able to grasp the limits of the whole game in under half a minute.
More than ever, especially at the government level?
With closed source, they just get magical black boxes that somehow work (or not, in this case), without actually understanding what it does. Unless they want to spend more money reverse engineering the whole thing.
If you are so out of touch with what your kid does online that you need this.. then you forgot to sacrifice something somewhere along the way.
I kinda knew this would be the standard/. response. However, kids lie and lie well. Many probably know how to wipe their history. Many won't and don't know how to check for a keylogger. And in the end, honestly, I don't think there is enough hours in the day to know "everything your kid is doing."
I think I might use something like this. But not to spy on their internet activity. Just when I was in MS/HS, I knew a few kids that went missing or ran away with an older person. Then, such a tool would get you way ahead of the game on might have happened.
Of course, there will be abuse of the tool. It would be perching on your kid's shoulder, and if they sense you are doing that, they'll just as soon seek another computer, or go to a friend's computer, or from a school computer find out how to bypass it a million different ways (Linux Live CD for one if no BIOS PW). And I know parents who go out of their way to make sure their older HS kids don't look at porn. If they are actively seeking it out, they're old enough to look, imo - though it might signal a talk, not restrictions.
But I'm sure the likely outcome to the Police Chief's talks is that more than a few people will start spying on their spouses.
If Freedom of Speech only protected popular speech, you wouldn't need an amendment.
I believe most sexual harassment laws stem from having a superior position where you have power over that person. You can't just sexually harass a woman, you can't sexually harass a person. Take the sexual out of it, harassment is illegal. This has nothing to do with speech alone.
Some jurisdictions make it illegal to protest within 500 feet or so in response to Phelps. However, you can't make his ideas illegal.
Be really careful of implementing permanent and wideranging laws in response to sporadic and shortlived nuisances.
I'm getting one for my parents when the 2nd generation is out. They travel to europe a lot and as it's unlocked, they'll be able to put in a sim card and get their email and other things any time they want. Since the sim card is not a contract, they can just get the region they need for a month and be done with it. And if they lose it or it gets stolen, it's no big deal, compared to a notebook.
Too bad the iPhone isn't unlocked by default... but getting hold of prepaid data/call plan (microsim too iirc) just for a month might be harder anyway.
What geeks/nerds like and what the mass audience likes are two different things.
Witness the comments on the iPad before release. Going by the tech blogs and the sheer amount of apocalyptic predictions, it should have been the biggest disaster for Apple since the G4 Cube.
I'm not a fan of the graphic novel. I do enjoy manga and doujins.
I saw Watchmen in the theater based on the sheer hype. It was entertaining but I haven't though about it since. I liked Kick Ass better, although there were less themes and it was more about putting your brain on hold and seeing action.
There isn't anything wrong with Watchmen per se, but if the potential audience is smaller, it would be better to just make the movie with a smaller budget. The average person isn't all that deep or thinks about themes and all that stuff too much, and I guess I have to include myself in that segment as well as English class was my most despised subject.
That's not forgiveness, that is approval. To be forgiveness, one party has to feel wronged first. That the average American would cede their Constitutional Rights under the veil of "security" is no surprise to me, just a source of disappointment.
E=mc^2 represents a lot more knowledge to me than the entire 3,000 episode run of "The View" or similiar programs -- even though it's a lot more concise.
I could take a yottapixel photo of dirt and it sure won't tell me a lot.
The real solution is to stop using energy to push 3500 pound cars with a few hundred pounds of human all over the place. Half the cars in this country should be replaced by bicycles.
The problem is that so much of this country has been built around the car. The bike is excellent in Europe, specifically Holland. But the zoning there doesn't seperated stores from the people in the same way they do it here, surburbia wasn't sold to them as the ultimate dream like it was here in the 1950s to get away from the cities.
Also, weight is not the ultimate problem. A honda civic gets 30mpg. A moped/motorcycle that has a small engine but still can go highway speeds gets maybe 75mpg, often 60mpg. For the sacrifice, not a huge multiplier. If you can get away with 60mph top speed, then maybe a moped with 100mpg. Really not the 300mpg some people I talked to thought in the past (when gas was nearing $4 a gallon). It surprised them because they see a lot of sacrificed weight (saftey) and convenience (space).
For one, standard bicycles/motorcycles have a tall profile with the rider in the standard position, not that aerodynamic compared to a lower car or recumbent bicycle (which hold the speed records since aerodynamics make a huge difference at speed). Then another factor is rolling resistance -- trains are heavy as hell but their steel wheels deform a lot less than a rubber wheel - giving them decent efficiency all things considered (along with not stop and going and aerodynamics). Lastly is the huge engines Americans love even though they never use 90% of the capacity. In Germany, with the unlimited autobahn and where they go at least 85mph (~140kph) on average on the autobahn, many drivers make do with 1.2-1.6L engines while in America so many people have 1.8-2.4L+ just so they can peel out the driveway a fraction of a second faster. And consume more fuel the rest of the time.
I don't see the US making the move to rail/bike lanes. Too much central control and will power needed to make the changes. Before we go to mopeds/bikes, something like the Aptera could provide similiar mileage w/o too many sacrifices. Too bad it'll never get made.
Nimbys and environmentalist wackos will have to be slapped asiden and nuclear plants (and breeder plants) built for the first time in 30 years. Nuclear is the real hope. Solar and Wind is a pipe dream except for localized energy.
Another advantage is that the government will not be able to shutdown the Internet. Egyptian citizens would have an ad hoc network that would still be able to communicate with each other. If the US government gets its kill switch, if the people can't vote the idiots out, then perhaps they'll have a way around the interference.
Would this even work? It's been forever since I have taken network communications and I don't have much to do with it day to day. But even if every house in America gets wired up for this, isn't the time-to-live in IP limited to 255, and while measured in seconds, every hop must deprecate this by 1. Generously giving each hop 1 mile distance (internet shut down, no main routes), wouldn't the packets be lucky to go across half a state, if that?
Of course, some other protocol may be used, but they'd have to be pretty widespread.
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For insulation as well. Several companies make it, but hard to get a hold of a decent size of it at anywhere near an economical price.
Hopefully this spurns added demand to find a cheap way to produce it en masse.
for all phones sometime since 9/11 (IIRC) under the guise of helping you (ie - helping the 911 emergency service locate you). Not sure when it was implemented though.
With the microphone, camera, and other sensors plus ubiquity - cell phones is one of the most insidious government spy tools around. Tiny little trojan horses we pay for.
I was under impression PCs were invented many years later, in the 80s.
Wish they would go for some type of fractal/vector/postscript type system:( In this day and age, we should stop relying on specific resolutions.
You mean, the same thing that's been facing consumers since computers have been around?
Tell you what, if some app emerges (on whatever platform) that takes advantage of the feature Y, whether or not iPad B was around, iPad A still wouldn't be able run it. What's the alienation?
In one sense, yes. But in another, no. Yahoo was once powered by Google. Since Yahoo can just switch out what they use relatively seamlessly from the perspective of the average user, it's implicitly understood that the numbers are just comparing what the internet population uses as a portal/url for search.
Why? I played it a few minutes. I'm not especially young, but it was rather boring, and I was able to grasp the limits of the whole game in under half a minute.
More than ever, especially at the government level?
With closed source, they just get magical black boxes that somehow work (or not, in this case), without actually understanding what it does. Unless they want to spend more money reverse engineering the whole thing.
I kinda knew this would be the standard /. response. However, kids lie and lie well. Many probably know how to wipe their history. Many won't and don't know how to check for a keylogger. And in the end, honestly, I don't think there is enough hours in the day to know "everything your kid is doing."
I think I might use something like this. But not to spy on their internet activity. Just when I was in MS/HS, I knew a few kids that went missing or ran away with an older person. Then, such a tool would get you way ahead of the game on might have happened.
Of course, there will be abuse of the tool. It would be perching on your kid's shoulder, and if they sense you are doing that, they'll just as soon seek another computer, or go to a friend's computer, or from a school computer find out how to bypass it a million different ways (Linux Live CD for one if no BIOS PW). And I know parents who go out of their way to make sure their older HS kids don't look at porn. If they are actively seeking it out, they're old enough to look, imo - though it might signal a talk, not restrictions.
But I'm sure the likely outcome to the Police Chief's talks is that more than a few people will start spying on their spouses.
If Freedom of Speech only protected popular speech, you wouldn't need an amendment.
I believe most sexual harassment laws stem from having a superior position where you have power over that person. You can't just sexually harass a woman, you can't sexually harass a person. Take the sexual out of it, harassment is illegal. This has nothing to do with speech alone.
Some jurisdictions make it illegal to protest within 500 feet or so in response to Phelps. However, you can't make his ideas illegal.
Be really careful of implementing permanent and wideranging laws in response to sporadic and shortlived nuisances.
I'm getting one for my parents when the 2nd generation is out. They travel to europe a lot and as it's unlocked, they'll be able to put in a sim card and get their email and other things any time they want. Since the sim card is not a contract, they can just get the region they need for a month and be done with it. And if they lose it or it gets stolen, it's no big deal, compared to a notebook.
Too bad the iPhone isn't unlocked by default... but getting hold of prepaid data/call plan (microsim too iirc) just for a month might be harder anyway.
In other words, "This item is of no use to me for whatever reason so anyone else who finds it useful is an idiot with too much money."
Meanwhile Apple is making billions whiles nerds rage on.
A plastic bag and then aluminum foil. Or one of those mylar lined freezer bags?
What geeks/nerds like and what the mass audience likes are two different things.
Witness the comments on the iPad before release. Going by the tech blogs and the sheer amount of apocalyptic predictions, it should have been the biggest disaster for Apple since the G4 Cube.
Snakes on the Plane was an internet baby. Etc.
I'm not a fan of the graphic novel. I do enjoy manga and doujins.
I saw Watchmen in the theater based on the sheer hype. It was entertaining but I haven't though about it since. I liked Kick Ass better, although there were less themes and it was more about putting your brain on hold and seeing action.
There isn't anything wrong with Watchmen per se, but if the potential audience is smaller, it would be better to just make the movie with a smaller budget. The average person isn't all that deep or thinks about themes and all that stuff too much, and I guess I have to include myself in that segment as well as English class was my most despised subject.
He owns the media in Italy.
That's not forgiveness, that is approval. To be forgiveness, one party has to feel wronged first. That the average American would cede their Constitutional Rights under the veil of "security" is no surprise to me, just a source of disappointment.
E=mc^2 represents a lot more knowledge to me than the entire 3,000 episode run of "The View" or similiar programs -- even though it's a lot more concise.
I could take a yottapixel photo of dirt and it sure won't tell me a lot.
None of this doesn't make it right.
Don't mix up forgiveness with apathy.
The problem is that so much of this country has been built around the car. The bike is excellent in Europe, specifically Holland. But the zoning there doesn't seperated stores from the people in the same way they do it here, surburbia wasn't sold to them as the ultimate dream like it was here in the 1950s to get away from the cities.
Also, weight is not the ultimate problem. A honda civic gets 30mpg. A moped/motorcycle that has a small engine but still can go highway speeds gets maybe 75mpg, often 60mpg. For the sacrifice, not a huge multiplier. If you can get away with 60mph top speed, then maybe a moped with 100mpg. Really not the 300mpg some people I talked to thought in the past (when gas was nearing $4 a gallon). It surprised them because they see a lot of sacrificed weight (saftey) and convenience (space).
For one, standard bicycles/motorcycles have a tall profile with the rider in the standard position, not that aerodynamic compared to a lower car or recumbent bicycle (which hold the speed records since aerodynamics make a huge difference at speed). Then another factor is rolling resistance -- trains are heavy as hell but their steel wheels deform a lot less than a rubber wheel - giving them decent efficiency all things considered (along with not stop and going and aerodynamics). Lastly is the huge engines Americans love even though they never use 90% of the capacity. In Germany, with the unlimited autobahn and where they go at least 85mph (~140kph) on average on the autobahn, many drivers make do with 1.2-1.6L engines while in America so many people have 1.8-2.4L+ just so they can peel out the driveway a fraction of a second faster. And consume more fuel the rest of the time.
I don't see the US making the move to rail/bike lanes. Too much central control and will power needed to make the changes. Before we go to mopeds/bikes, something like the Aptera could provide similiar mileage w/o too many sacrifices. Too bad it'll never get made.
Solar/Wind won't do it.
Nimbys and environmentalist wackos will have to be slapped asiden and nuclear plants (and breeder plants) built for the first time in 30 years. Nuclear is the real hope. Solar and Wind is a pipe dream except for localized energy.
The question, of course, is not how much oil Canada has, but how easy it is to extract and process.
Teachers in that area are well paid. Overpaid in fact, considering all the benefits.
Suburban teachers are not in the same poor position as urban or rural teachers.
5th Amendment.
You don't need to "forget" the password. You just refuse to give it over.
Would this even work? It's been forever since I have taken network communications and I don't have much to do with it day to day. But even if every house in America gets wired up for this, isn't the time-to-live in IP limited to 255, and while measured in seconds, every hop must deprecate this by 1. Generously giving each hop 1 mile distance (internet shut down, no main routes), wouldn't the packets be lucky to go across half a state, if that?
Of course, some other protocol may be used, but they'd have to be pretty widespread.