You didn't read the article, which I suppose is par for the course on slashdot. They don't care less about Aereo. They care about the precedent that anyone can take their programming free and resell it if you set up enough antennas. If Aereo can do it, anyone can.
Telling them not to broadcast it to you if they don't want you to have it free might sound eminently reasonable, but I suspect there is some law against you. The law isn't always reasonable.
I don't know that Malala knew he was going to get a head shot. But Snowden pretty much knew his fate. If the criteria is self-aware self-sacrifice, I think Snowden wins hands down. But I don't think that ought to be the criteria. Probably ought to be some of the criteria, but certainly not all. In the world scheme of things, female education in Palestine is not as significant as NSA's activities.
I'd hazard to say that the money went into selling the hardware cheaper than it costs to make it, combined with marketing costs, not to mention the fiasco of having to recall poor quality hardware. Life is tough when you're trying to beat out an entrenched player.
Yeah but, if they were born in 86, and the technology existed but wasn't mainstream yet (like CDs), then it still became mainstream in the following years (as they were being parented).
That's what I was wondering. If there is a 4D universe with "stars" somehow analogous to our own, which explains our 3D universe, then logically there would probably have to be a 5D universe needed to explain how these 4D stars can exist. Where will that end? Turtles all the way down?
While there are good reasons for paranoia when it comes to the NSA, I think this paranoia is over the top. Firstly, if Apple is lying, and the fingerprint information is not stuck inside the chip like they say, hackers WILL discover it. Then Apple will have bad publicity from here to eternity. So I don't think Apple would lie. Secondly the government has lots of better and easier ways to harvest fingerprints if they really want to. Thirdly, I don't think fingerprints will really do the government much good, except in crime investigations. If you're worried about that, then you've probably got bigger problems.
Well... I suppose they'd argue it isn't terrorism if the bit of code they inserted merely reported on the identity of the user, and didn't do anything else nefarious.
How does some random guy get access to the "main server"? Any bank worth its salt would have massive security just to get near to it. I could understand getting to some guy at the bank's desktop machine, and even that could be really dangerous, but the server?
Why is it a mistake? All the IOS things they brought to Mac actually seem like an improvement. Sure, you could go too far in moving iOS to Mac, but so far I didn't see that happen.
There's nothing depressing about it. The preferential system is designed to not only elect the most popular, but also to elect the least unpopular. If the preference allocation makes the motoring party the least offensive to the largest possible group of people, then so be it, a good choice for especially the senate watchdog role.
Caps per se aren't such a problem in Australia, but getting sufficient download speeds to actually utilise them is still a problem. I think I'm supposed to have a 250GB a month cap, which sounds like quite a lot, but I don't think I have a hope in hell of using it all because of ordinary download speeds.
So you claim, but let's think through the logic. With lots of music services out there with millions of users, all of them making for themselves playlists, how long before someone, somewhere has a list the same as someone else's list? Then it's not infinitesimal, it's actually nearly certain. So are services like Spotify supposed to monitor this situation and say SORRY, the list of songs you just made is too similar to the list someone else made, and therefore is disallowed?
The ipad is not meant to be that kind of device. It replaces lugging around heavy text books. It mostly replaces lugging around a laptop. It's a conduit for researching on the web. But it's not a device particularly for hacking, computer programming and so forth. Would it be nice to have a device good at both? Sure, but it doesn't mean the ipad isn't great at what it is. Not everyone wants to be a programmer.
The only thing that ever made Microsoft great was its ability to leverage its core OS into new markets. Sure that isn't working lately, but if you take that away, what have they got left? Not a lot.
It's not the scanning to memory bit that's frightening. It's the "compression" bit that's frightening. And it's a tad surprising I think to most people the way it compresses. Maybe not quite as surprising for computer programmers, but I'd bet that even us wouldn't have exactly imagined this possibility.
Well.. actually it is unconstitutional even before the supreme court says. The problem is that most people tend to assume it is valid until the supreme court says. That is the problem. If everyone in the NSA said, hold on, we can't do what we are doing, it is most likely illegal, then things would be ok. The problem is most people make the back to front assumption that anything the government passes is legal. I suppose there is some justification for that in that presumably the government has lawyers which gave it the go ahead, whereas most of the rest of us are not lawyers.
Actually, those secret clauses in the secret Constitution were ruled illegal by the double secret court on the basis of the double secret constitution. This was all ratified by the double secret American populace and signed off by the double secret el-presidente.
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"That means moderation, comments, ratings, votes, indexes and so on that don't decentralize well."
I'm sure it could be decentralized. Just needs some work done on the area. Who would have thought currency could be decentralized? (bit coin).
He's saying that the newspapers stole information via phone hacking, and Snowden stole information.
It's pretty damned ridiculous though since Snowden stole information from the chief information stealers - the NSA.
No doubt someone had to "steal" some information to uncover the newspaper phone hacking story too.
Idiot politicians.
Maybe that's why you were replaced, lol
You didn't read the article, which I suppose is par for the course on slashdot. They don't care less about Aereo. They care about the precedent that anyone can take their programming free and resell it if you set up enough antennas. If Aereo can do it, anyone can.
Telling them not to broadcast it to you if they don't want you to have it free might sound eminently reasonable, but I suspect there is some law against you. The law isn't always reasonable.
I don't know that Malala knew he was going to get a head shot. But Snowden pretty much knew his fate. If the criteria is self-aware self-sacrifice, I think Snowden wins hands down. But I don't think that ought to be the criteria. Probably ought to be some of the criteria, but certainly not all. In the world scheme of things, female education in Palestine is not as significant as NSA's activities.
I'd hazard to say that the money went into selling the hardware cheaper than it costs to make it, combined with marketing costs, not to mention the fiasco of having to recall poor quality hardware. Life is tough when you're trying to beat out an entrenched player.
Yeah but, if they were born in 86, and the technology existed but wasn't mainstream yet (like CDs), then it still became mainstream in the following years (as they were being parented).
And when the singularity comes, 100% will be obsolete.
That's what I was wondering. If there is a 4D universe with "stars" somehow analogous to our own, which explains our 3D universe, then logically there would probably have to be a 5D universe needed to explain how these 4D stars can exist. Where will that end? Turtles all the way down?
While there are good reasons for paranoia when it comes to the NSA, I think this paranoia is over the top. Firstly, if Apple is lying, and the fingerprint information is not stuck inside the chip like they say, hackers WILL discover it. Then Apple will have bad publicity from here to eternity. So I don't think Apple would lie. Secondly the government has lots of better and easier ways to harvest fingerprints if they really want to. Thirdly, I don't think fingerprints will really do the government much good, except in crime investigations. If you're worried about that, then you've probably got bigger problems.
Well... I suppose they'd argue it isn't terrorism if the bit of code they inserted merely reported on the identity of the user, and didn't do anything else nefarious.
You mean like when Megaupload was shutdown?
How does some random guy get access to the "main server"? Any bank worth its salt would have massive security just to get near to it. I could understand getting to some guy at the bank's desktop machine, and even that could be really dangerous, but the server?
Why is it a mistake? All the IOS things they brought to Mac actually seem like an improvement. Sure, you could go too far in moving iOS to Mac, but so far I didn't see that happen.
Are polygraph tests done under oath?
There's nothing depressing about it. The preferential system is designed to not only elect the most popular, but also to elect the least unpopular. If the preference allocation makes the motoring party the least offensive to the largest possible group of people, then so be it, a good choice for especially the senate watchdog role.
Caps per se aren't such a problem in Australia, but getting sufficient download speeds to actually utilise them is still a problem. I think I'm supposed to have a 250GB a month cap, which sounds like quite a lot, but I don't think I have a hope in hell of using it all because of ordinary download speeds.
So you claim, but let's think through the logic. With lots of music services out there with millions of users, all of them making for themselves playlists, how long before someone, somewhere has a list the same as someone else's list? Then it's not infinitesimal, it's actually nearly certain. So are services like Spotify supposed to monitor this situation and say SORRY, the list of songs you just made is too similar to the list someone else made, and therefore is disallowed?
The ipad is not meant to be that kind of device. It replaces lugging around heavy text books. It mostly replaces lugging around a laptop. It's a conduit for researching on the web. But it's not a device particularly for hacking, computer programming and so forth. Would it be nice to have a device good at both? Sure, but it doesn't mean the ipad isn't great at what it is. Not everyone wants to be a programmer.
The only thing that ever made Microsoft great was its ability to leverage its core OS into new markets. Sure that isn't working lately, but if you take that away, what have they got left? Not a lot.
It's not the scanning to memory bit that's frightening. It's the "compression" bit that's frightening. And it's a tad surprising I think to most people the way it compresses. Maybe not quite as surprising for computer programmers, but I'd bet that even us wouldn't have exactly imagined this possibility.
All 100,000 get honorary darwin awards.
Well.. actually it is unconstitutional even before the supreme court says. The problem is that most people tend to assume it is valid until the supreme court says. That is the problem. If everyone in the NSA said, hold on, we can't do what we are doing, it is most likely illegal, then things would be ok. The problem is most people make the back to front assumption that anything the government passes is legal. I suppose there is some justification for that in that presumably the government has lawyers which gave it the go ahead, whereas most of the rest of us are not lawyers.
Actually, those secret clauses in the secret Constitution were ruled illegal by the double secret court on the basis of the double secret constitution. This was all ratified by the double secret American populace and signed off by the double secret el-presidente.