Two wheels create less friction than four. The car is lighter, smaller. That being said, I don't think anyone believes that this car is superior to a traditional car.
I've been dealing with and reading about Comcast for a long time. This scares me. Already the country has forgotten about the obvious and egregious conflict of interest at the FCC. Face-palm. Comcast now has unprecedented access to the mind-share of the American public, from pre-production to eyeballs.
Comcast along with other companies like Disney, ClearChannel, etc. are not to be trusted. Be wary, my friends.
Don't buy an EA game. Now, I would suggest buying it and then playing the cracked version instead, however that doesn't send the message to EA that they need to hear. So my best advice is just to stay away from EA.
Elon knows very well that you can't simply swap out batteries on a passenger jet. The entire system is subject to rigorous (and expensive) certification that would be tossed out the window if you simply started swapping parts. That's to say nothing of the supplier issues.
In any case yesterday I believe Japanese investigators announced that no fault whatsoever was found with the battery, and instead they were looking into the electronics.
This is just a stunt to bolster is company's profile.
For Newegg's chief legal officer Lee Cheng, it's a huge validation of the strategy the company decided to pursue back in 2007: not to settle with patent trolls. Ever.
Even if it wasn't for the prices and top notch customer service, that would be enough to keep me as a Newegg customer for a very long time.
I have to call BS on this one. Wiring by itself is not an active component. So, one could cause copper wire to act like an antenna by intentionally compromising the shielding, but that's it (short of including digital components in the connectors or something, but they would still need power from somewhere. Anyway I don't consider that a 'bug'). So, assuming you compromised the shielding, if the signal being transmitted through the wire was of sufficient power and high enough frequency, then it would leak enough EMF to be detectable from the outside. However, that is practically useless as a tool for espionage or sabotage. Any aerospace manufacturer worth a dime is going to have specifications on wires that require proper shielding and will test wires from their suppliers to ensure that they meet this specification. I think your "friend" was making stuff up or has too much tinfoil hat in his nature.
I think it's more like a game. A law is created, then the FBI "interprets" how that law applies to them and they create policy to comply. Then it is taken to the courts and the judges publish a decision about how the law should be interpreted. Then the FBI "interprets" the implication of that decision and sets policy again.
So, we need organizations like the ACLU to keep applying pressure to force the agencies to comply with the intention of the law. Donate today!
People who live and work in the system are usually believers. They will always believe that they are trying to do the right thing, that they are helping not hurting. Every time governments start doing evil things and people finally get prosecuted, they always seem to have convinced themselves that they were somehow acting in then best interests of the people.
But, in this case, I just can't seem to figure out what the person who redacted those pages was thinking. Did they actually believe that it was too dangerous to communicate the FBI's policy to the very people they are supposed to be protecting? I just can't figure out what mental twisting they could have used to justify keeping this secret. I can only conclude that they don't actually believe they are acting in the best interests of the people, but in their own interests. Do they really have so much contempt for us?
This is a very good time to point out how much organizations like the ACLU and EFF are needed. Donate if you can, it's tax deductible!
Perhaps Slashdotters in the areas around these meetings would like to get together to plan, practice, and eventually travel to these meetings? Beers/Sodas after the meetings are suggested.
Sales generally peak very early in the release of a game. Opening week is extremely important for a game company.
Don't forget that they have bills and salaries to pay. They can't sit back and live off a trickle of money, hoping it will grow at some point in the future. It's either make decent money or start laying off.
It is a new platform but Microsoft made certain promises to developers, and this story shows that they may not be doing enough to keep those promises. It also shows that they seem to hold great power over them as well.
This story certainly doesn't seem new to anyone who follows the development of indie games, especially WRT the Xbox360. Microsoft has a history of deprioritizing indie games in general, making it difficult to get promotion for titles without large publishers, and general indifference to a healthy developer ecosystem.
No surprise, then, when mobile games suffer the same fate. They seem to think that they can just copy the worst parts of Apple's model and it will just flourish...
As much as I'd love to bash on Microsoft for a while, I must say that there seems to be some FUD floating around here. You have reviewers generally praising the hardware and the OS while at the same time advising readers to stay away because of the struggling App ecosystem. Good luck attracting developers that way.
Seems to me that MS could drop the price to make it a loss-leader and watch them fly off the the shelves, if they wanted.
... is sucked up by lawyers and judicial staff by way of my handset manufacturer.
On any given day you can replace "handset manufacturer" with "OS vendor", "service provider", "app developer", etc. This system stinks and it doesn't function in my interests as a consumer (or an engineer, for that matter).
Is the long arm of the law reaching too far? Sounds like a gambling company was operating in the US, or at least for US customers. Gambling is illegal (unless the government is in on it, a discussion for another day:) in the US. Therefore they filed a complaint. Sounds like everything is legit.
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I hope he isn't just relying on the fact that most people have forgotten about those horrible buzz boxes.
They want to intimidate.
Keep in mind it took nearly two decades to get Jack Thompson disbarred for being an idiot as well.
I think you answered your own question there...
Two wheels create less friction than four. The car is lighter, smaller. That being said, I don't think anyone believes that this car is superior to a traditional car.
Gov: We spy on Americans in secret.
Me: Stop spying on me
Gov: You can't prove that we did
Me: *middle finger*
Does that about cover it?
China and Russia will not agree. Also innocent people... asshat.
And the site you use to convert your dollars to bitcoin will be illegal. What then?
I've been dealing with and reading about Comcast for a long time. This scares me. Already the country has forgotten about the obvious and egregious conflict of interest at the FCC. Face-palm. Comcast now has unprecedented access to the mind-share of the American public, from pre-production to eyeballs.
Comcast along with other companies like Disney, ClearChannel, etc. are not to be trusted. Be wary, my friends.
This. It reflects so badly on the software, and they still don't fix it?
Don't buy an EA game. Now, I would suggest buying it and then playing the cracked version instead, however that doesn't send the message to EA that they need to hear. So my best advice is just to stay away from EA.
Elon knows very well that you can't simply swap out batteries on a passenger jet. The entire system is subject to rigorous (and expensive) certification that would be tossed out the window if you simply started swapping parts. That's to say nothing of the supplier issues.
In any case yesterday I believe Japanese investigators announced that no fault whatsoever was found with the battery, and instead they were looking into the electronics.
This is just a stunt to bolster is company's profile.
From TFA:
For Newegg's chief legal officer Lee Cheng, it's a huge validation of the strategy the company decided to pursue back in 2007: not to settle with patent trolls. Ever.
Even if it wasn't for the prices and top notch customer service, that would be enough to keep me as a Newegg customer for a very long time.
I have to call BS on this one. Wiring by itself is not an active component. So, one could cause copper wire to act like an antenna by intentionally compromising the shielding, but that's it (short of including digital components in the connectors or something, but they would still need power from somewhere. Anyway I don't consider that a 'bug'). So, assuming you compromised the shielding, if the signal being transmitted through the wire was of sufficient power and high enough frequency, then it would leak enough EMF to be detectable from the outside. However, that is practically useless as a tool for espionage or sabotage. Any aerospace manufacturer worth a dime is going to have specifications on wires that require proper shielding and will test wires from their suppliers to ensure that they meet this specification. I think your "friend" was making stuff up or has too much tinfoil hat in his nature.
I think it's more like a game. A law is created, then the FBI "interprets" how that law applies to them and they create policy to comply. Then it is taken to the courts and the judges publish a decision about how the law should be interpreted. Then the FBI "interprets" the implication of that decision and sets policy again.
So, we need organizations like the ACLU to keep applying pressure to force the agencies to comply with the intention of the law. Donate today!
I hope you can use your new language better than you can use English.
Wow, you seem so wise. Please, oh enlightened one, tell use what exactly the hippies knew about FOIA in the 70's.
People who live and work in the system are usually believers. They will always believe that they are trying to do the right thing, that they are helping not hurting. Every time governments start doing evil things and people finally get prosecuted, they always seem to have convinced themselves that they were somehow acting in then best interests of the people.
But, in this case, I just can't seem to figure out what the person who redacted those pages was thinking. Did they actually believe that it was too dangerous to communicate the FBI's policy to the very people they are supposed to be protecting? I just can't figure out what mental twisting they could have used to justify keeping this secret. I can only conclude that they don't actually believe they are acting in the best interests of the people, but in their own interests. Do they really have so much contempt for us?
This is a very good time to point out how much organizations like the ACLU and EFF are needed. Donate if you can, it's tax deductible!
Just long enough so that you won't be upset about having to upgrade.
If that story is true you should leave her now. Save yourself and your kids while you can.
Perhaps Slashdotters in the areas around these meetings would like to get together to plan, practice, and eventually travel to these meetings? Beers/Sodas after the meetings are suggested.
Sales generally peak very early in the release of a game. Opening week is extremely important for a game company.
Don't forget that they have bills and salaries to pay. They can't sit back and live off a trickle of money, hoping it will grow at some point in the future. It's either make decent money or start laying off.
It is a new platform but Microsoft made certain promises to developers, and this story shows that they may not be doing enough to keep those promises. It also shows that they seem to hold great power over them as well.
This story certainly doesn't seem new to anyone who follows the development of indie games, especially WRT the Xbox360. Microsoft has a history of deprioritizing indie games in general, making it difficult to get promotion for titles without large publishers, and general indifference to a healthy developer ecosystem.
No surprise, then, when mobile games suffer the same fate. They seem to think that they can just copy the worst parts of Apple's model and it will just flourish...
As much as I'd love to bash on Microsoft for a while, I must say that there seems to be some FUD floating around here. You have reviewers generally praising the hardware and the OS while at the same time advising readers to stay away because of the struggling App ecosystem. Good luck attracting developers that way.
Seems to me that MS could drop the price to make it a loss-leader and watch them fly off the the shelves, if they wanted.
... is sucked up by lawyers and judicial staff by way of my handset manufacturer.
On any given day you can replace "handset manufacturer" with "OS vendor", "service provider", "app developer", etc.
This system stinks and it doesn't function in my interests as a consumer (or an engineer, for that matter).
Is the long arm of the law reaching too far? Sounds like a gambling company was operating in the US, or at least for US customers. Gambling is illegal (unless the government is in on it, a discussion for another day :) in the US. Therefore they filed a complaint. Sounds like everything is legit.