This is not censorship: this is rating, like done with movies and so already. And this kind of rating can be a great help for parents to rate suitability of some game/movie for their kids.
Apple already rates iphone apps. Actually, the developers rate their own apps, and they get penalized pretty heavily if they miscategorize/misrate their app. It's not a perfect system, for instance somehow the "shaking baby" app still got through (but it was quickly pulled off the market).
What actual real problem are you trying to solve here?
This is a digital medium. Apps get updated quickly, but apps can also be removed just as quickly (which is not the case for in-store games). As mobile apps take advantage more and more of the network/internet connectivity, they're becoming more and more like web sites, and they'll get updated even more quickly, so even if you manage to hire enough people to rate all of them, the rating will become stale as time goes on.
Do you really want a perfect solution for your children? Why can't you just live with Apple's current rules? combined perhaps with some occasional spot-checking?
Does Australia really have an unlimited amount of money for hiring all those reviewers you want? And isn't there the real risk of Australia being left behind everybody else technologically, if they really do try to prevent every new app, every new platform, from entering their marketplace until they got the proper ratings/reviews for every snapshot/versions of everything they have? Again, I've got to ask. What's the real problem you are trying to solve? What are the misrated apps that are causing you problems? How many real Australian children are you really trying to "save" that would have installed that app (or those apps) if not for this extra piece of hypothetical protective legislation??
I can EASILY tell the difference between some random electronic music and the godliness of recording that is an Infected Mushroom album (even if you don't like the music). And no I am not an audiophile or anything; I have a $20 pair of headphones for my iPod and I can tell a huge difference with just that.
Sharing your age would be useful as well. Hearing does degrade linearly with age.
It doesn't matter if the damn thing works or not because eventually it will.
Actually, it doesn't matter if the damn thing works or not, because even if it doesn't -- it can still make your life a living hell.
But I agree with you, eventually it will work, if newspapers have mastered fortune-telling and horoscopes technology, it means it's just a matter of time before the government gets it as well.
Why doesn't a publisher just offer 40% royalties or something and annihilate the competition?
Because the publisher is already selling the book at a 60% discount to the big bookstores (and 20% discounts to the small independent bookstores), and in both cases, the publisher is the one who pays for the shipping, the inventory upfront, the production costs, the marketing, and retaking the inventory if any of it gets damaged or returned by the customer (or by the bookseller who purposefully damages the book so it can return it).
I guess it could offer 40% royalties to the authors who don't mind having their books not show up on the shelves of Barnes & Noble, Borders, and the rest of the big bookstores, but I doubt many authors would be willing to accept such a deal (by that point, those authors might just as well well self-publish, publish on demand, or just publish their books in an electronic format only).
1) most of the time people suing corporations are lazy people that want to get rich
In my case, I've just been too lazy to sue corporations. This puts me squarely at the bottom of your classification I take it. You must really despise me right now.
Why sit cowering in your home for FIVE DAYS then claim you were unable to live your life for MONTHS, when a quick three-digit phone call ("911", in case anyone has forgotten the number) would have started an investigation that would have rapidly debunked it in a hurry?
Three reasons:
1. The law of averages. If you email credible threats to enough people (and when I say credible, I mean to say that since her "friends" colluded with Toyota, that's what made the threats credible to her, I don't mean to say that those threats would have necessarily been credible to the police), so let's say if you email credible threats to two or three thousand people, you are bound to hit a few disturbed individuals (or if not disturbed yet, just at the brink). Plus, I should also say that since those targets were not chosen at random, they were chosen by their so-called "friends", so it would make sense that some of those "friends" would pick the most paranoid and the most emotionally immature persons they know. When it comes to annoyingly paranoid and emotionally immature people, I believe that many of us have the capacity to prey on that weakness and give those types of people a very hard time (that's what some call bullying, notice that strong people and/or emotionally mature people rarely get bullied themselves. I'm not saying that it never happens, just that it rarely does).
2. I don't believe you know 911 very well. 911 is for *immediate* life-threatening emergencies only (at least, in California it is). I've called 911 myself (from my landline) to report a drunk driver that had hit several cars and had driven away just as recklessly (that was before CHP had those signs on the freeway that now tell us to do just that), but at the time, the 911 operator told me very rudely that this wasn't a life-threatening emergency, to call the police instead on their regular line, and to hang up the phone right now! Also, you said "hardened and probably ARMED criminal", good luck saying that to the 911 operator: "W: He's probably armed.", "911: Probably!!? Is he? Or isn't he *ARMED*?", "W: Well, he's probably armed. I haven't seen a weapon yet.", "911: Where is the suspect right now?", "I don't really know. Last time he contacted me, he said he was in Florida, but he said he's coming over. If he's prompt, he's due any minute now. If the guy is a flake, I can't really know for sure."
3. And last but not least, city police departments are not all funded equally. When I lived in Oakland, and there was a trespasser in my backyard, the police didn't (or couldn't) come. And when I made the same call when I lived in Alameda, the police came absolutely right away, and in full force. I should also say, that in places like in Berkeley or Alameda, the police usually swarms suspects just like they do on TV. In Oakland, I've witnessed several instances of cops fighting suspects with their battons, losing to them, and the suspects successfully running away, because in all these cases, the cop was alone, and he was against one or more suspects (and also the city cops in Oakland are instructed not to use their use their guns unless their lives are absolutely in danger). And it doesn't stop there, in cities like San Francisco and Oakland, the police will purposefully downplay any crimes that are committed against you, and they'll do everything they can to dissuade you from even filing a police report or starting a formal investigation (because if it gets reported, it goes in their statistics, and if it goes in their statistics, it makes their city look bad). So if you live in a city like that, and have any experience with the police, you come to learn that you can't really depend on the police, especially for something as trivial such as threats made over email -- made by an unknown person (who's not even in their jurisdiction yet according to his own emails/mailed hotel invoices).
Yeah it's a pretty stupid ruling, coming down from people who have no clue.
Also, this incident happened yesterday October 14th in the UK.
1. The actual Surrogates movie has been out on p2p for at least the last two weeks (probably more).
2. The UK *always* gets their movies after we do (British movies excepted, but here I'm just talking about the movies people actually want to watch). It saves on the reproduction cost of the reels. The extra reels that we use during the opening week(s) in the US are then sent to the UK for re-use. This basically ensures that the movie will be out for weeks on p2p before the first opening night in the UK.
Anyway my point is the calculator manufacturers are definitely in a pickle. They can't make their calculators too good, or their primary market - college students - can't use them.
They could sell calculators in packs of two, with one calculator to be used for tests and one calculator to be used to show off how freaking super-cool you are.
And they could make the two calculator casings somehow snap into each other, or something like that... This last step may be able to dissuade students from giving away the extra calculator they receive (after all, the point of this new design would not be to decrease the number of new buyers -- it would be to increase it and increase the price it could charge for it).
Every top architect I worked around at NeXT and Apple had families and never programmed outside of work. They were normal.
As they should, working on a non-company software project on your own personal time is considered treason according to some employers' contracts. As a slashdoter, you should already know this, god knows there are plenty of guys on slashdot *pretending* to have girlfriends. It's only natural that at some point, the pressure becomes too much, and they start marrying their imaginary girlfriends and start producing imaginary off-springs together.
Try writing a browser based graphical game on the iPhone; it's going to fall on its face pretty quickly.
I'm wondering if HTML5 SVG support is going to change that? Also, I'm wondering if HTML5 is going to have a stripped down version of HTML5 on mobile phones (just like Adobe has Flash Lite -- a stripped down & older version of Flash to put on mobile phones)?
One thing that Flash does have is excellent video-codec support... I'm sure that this isn't about to change soon, but even there I'm wondering, some of the browsers-makers have been hard at work trying to build better video support directly into their browsers. I'm wondering if Browser-makers even have a chance to match Adobe in that arena?
If I write iApp and you write iApp, my official name will be iApp.mydomain.com and yours will be iApp.yourdomain.com
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Now because this is relatively simple and straight forward, easily solves the problem, but lacks... "style" and more importantly doesn't make Apple any additional revenue, I do not expect them to sign off on such a solution.
No, it's not just a question of "style", it's a question of usability. Turning the iPhone app namespace into an Eclipse-like plugin directory namespace might work for you, you think like a programmer (a Java programmer most likely), but it's just not going to cut it for the average consumer/user usability-wise.
For one thing, it would shrink the available iPhone namespace even further. Take for example the name "Twitch", which is the name the original submitter is complaining that he couldn't get. Good luck getting that name as a domain name right now, the domain Twitch.com was taken off the market in 1997 (according to its whois records).
Furthermore, I'm pretty sure you're underestimating the value of what a good usable name can do for an app. Now, I'm not one of those special people, I do not have an iPhone, but I do have an awesome unlocked Nokia phone however. Technically-speaking, my phone is actually far superior to the iPhone in many ways, but if there is one thing that drives me nuts, it's the inconsistent user interface and the inconsistent *naming* conventions that Nokia uses. And actually, me saying "naming conventions" is probably going too far. As far as I can tell, Nokia probably doesn't have a naming convention (aside from just requiring unique names). And the names of the apps, even the names of the apps developed by Nokia itself, are pretty inconsistent across the board. And that makes it much more difficult to find the apps I'm looking for, or even find again the apps that I'm used to using. And by constraining the available iPhone namespace even further, as you seem to be suggesting, you would only make it harder for developers to find good usable names for their users to actually understand and easily use.
The Passion of The Christ wasn't banned (although it probably should have been). It triggered arousal, guilt, and hatred, all at the same time (the winning trifecta for good Christians everywhere).
What happens? May be, he should just visit Seoul or Tokyo, and ask them what happened over there. That's the advantage of not being the leader of the pack anymore, we can go to the countries/cities that are leading, and time travel to the future that way.
this is about representing a company, situations like gaming with developers, company islands in second life, twitter feeds for businesses. situations where an employee is representing their organisation on an official level in a digital context.
I doubt that. Those are already depersonalized, white-washed, and boring as can be. Plus, most large tech companies already have policies for what employees can post on their own personal blogs, so this avatar policy just seems to be an extension of that.
for example i apply a simmilar policy to my work mobile. no custom tones or backgrounds, it uses a generic ringtone and the company logo as the background, no good sitting down to a meeting with a client and having the "crazy frog" or star wars theme start blaring out of my phone.
Not me, I'll mute my "crazy frog" phone before I even sit down for a meeting. Generic tones or not, I hate cell phones ringing in meetings.
Plus, the x-rated avatar of my fat naked male body is opt-in only, so if you see me naked -- it's your own damn fault anyway. Everyone else, assuming they don't change their settings, only sees the default PG-13 properly dressed version of me.
ZDNet China is knowingly distributing material that violates copyright.
No, ZDNET China is knowingly distributing material that *may* violate copyright. Just like in the SCO vs. Linux former fiasco, a lot has been said, but nothing has been proven yet.
Having a company very loudly asserting ownership rights doesn't mean it actually owns anything.
Perhaps ZDNET was also knowingly mirroring some of the Linux distributions while the SCO controversy was still going on, if that were the case, may be CBS-US should also have been sued by SCO for any of the Linux distros its subsidiaries in China, in South America, or in Africa, mirrored over there as well.
Actually, I wish all Science diagrams would be as entertaining as that one.
Now on a more serious note, it would seem this guy just worked off this existing wheel design without giving a proper citation (the credit goes to Clumma on that technologyreview.com blog for finding it). And he didn't improve on that wheel design (except for the new cooler looking black background) his copy is much worse than the original (quite unreadable). It's no surprise he developed it while working for Microsoft. It sounds like he took a page out of Microsoft's playbook.
According to wikipedia [wikipedia.org], Facebook and MySpace are cloud applications.
The owner of a cloud application may own his very *own* computing platform, that's true. But in the case where both owners are not the same, the one who owns the computing platform is not necessarily responsible for everything the application creator did/does on it.
I would think a more aggressive approach is the only way to fight back.
Not me. I'm taking the more passive approach. I'm currently stockpiling static ip addresses. I've got three so far. If all the people of Dubai are surviving on one static ip address alone, I figure I should be able to easily survive on three.
I'll gladly start a competitor if you'll provide me with the funding. Personally, I don't qualify for the multimillion dollar loan I'd need to be able to build (or rent) the infrastructure necessary to compete with Comcast or Verizon in just one city, but maybe you do?
Even if you did qualify, you wouldn't put up your own assets/income as collateral anyway. That's just crazy commie talk! The more money you ask for, the less personal accountability is required.
That is why we create fictitious legal people on paper, if something goes wrong, we can always blame that "person" instead.
I think he's talking more copy than rename.
I imagine it's something where they open a.dxf, make their changes, save to a_new.dxf and add that file and commit to the repository where it now sits alongside a.dxf
In the case of Git, the same file could be copied one thousand times, and it maintains just one copy under the covers (I believe Mercurial works the same way). That's why, Git is just perfect for filesh...programming different linux distros.
This is not to say that using different mental models to store files is always a good idea. It's not. It's just that I can be a Git fanboy sometimes.
Contrast to Twitter. Not only are you sending your banking information through multiple (and a somewhat unpredictable set of) unsecured networks, owned and administered by who knows who, but you're sending it to Twitter, who explicitly take ownership of the content, who then send it on, again through and unpredictable set of multiple unsecured networks, to your bank.
See any differences here?
Twitter doesn't send back information back to the bank. Read the article, it's a notification-only system.
Now I'm not much of a Twitter user, but I do have all my banking notifications go to my email and my text messages (depending on the different triggers I have set at my bank). In other words, when I make a purchase, the amount I just spent is sent directly to my phone (the account number isn't sent, just the amount or the balance). If there is anything suspicious, again it goes directly to my phone. If there is any fraud on my account, I won't know 30 days later, not even 5 days later, I'll find out about it 5 seconds after-the-fact -- may be even less (except during the night, I have it scheduled to deliver all my overnight notices just as I'm having breakfast).
If a network is compromised, and thousands of credit card numbers are stolen (including yours), just be grateful that there are people like me around. You just need a few people like me to stay on top of their accounts in (almost) real-time, it makes it that much more difficult for fraudsters overall. And if your bank doesn't have that fine-grain alert features in place, may be it's time for you to switch banks. It's a given that fraudsters will prefer to process credit cards first from the banks that do not try to shut down their transactions/vendor account right away (at least, that's what I would do, I'd start with the easier cards first, and work my way up to the more difficult/riskier cards to use).
It depends. If you're the Barbie playboy twins, you're fine. They only had to show a copy of their birth certificate to Mattel, showing that their last name was indeed Barbie.
If however, your name happens to be Toyota, you're basically fucked. It didn't matter in that case that the guy had that name since birth. The judge ruled against him. Sometimes, rulings can be pretty random.
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This is not censorship: this is rating, like done with movies and so already. And this kind of rating can be a great help for parents to rate suitability of some game/movie for their kids.
Apple already rates iphone apps. Actually, the developers rate their own apps, and they get penalized pretty heavily if they miscategorize/misrate their app. It's not a perfect system, for instance somehow the "shaking baby" app still got through (but it was quickly pulled off the market).
What actual real problem are you trying to solve here?
This is a digital medium. Apps get updated quickly, but apps can also be removed just as quickly (which is not the case for in-store games). As mobile apps take advantage more and more of the network/internet connectivity, they're becoming more and more like web sites, and they'll get updated even more quickly, so even if you manage to hire enough people to rate all of them, the rating will become stale as time goes on.
Do you really want a perfect solution for your children? Why can't you just live with Apple's current rules? combined perhaps with some occasional spot-checking?
Does Australia really have an unlimited amount of money for hiring all those reviewers you want? And isn't there the real risk of Australia being left behind everybody else technologically, if they really do try to prevent every new app, every new platform, from entering their marketplace until they got the proper ratings/reviews for every snapshot/versions of everything they have? Again, I've got to ask. What's the real problem you are trying to solve? What are the misrated apps that are causing you problems? How many real Australian children are you really trying to "save" that would have installed that app (or those apps) if not for this extra piece of hypothetical protective legislation??
I can EASILY tell the difference between some random electronic music and the godliness of recording that is an Infected Mushroom album (even if you don't like the music). And no I am not an audiophile or anything; I have a $20 pair of headphones for my iPod and I can tell a huge difference with just that.
Sharing your age would be useful as well. Hearing does degrade linearly with age.
It doesn't matter if the damn thing works or not because eventually it will.
Actually, it doesn't matter if the damn thing works or not, because even if it doesn't -- it can still make your life a living hell.
But I agree with you, eventually it will work, if newspapers have mastered fortune-telling and horoscopes technology, it means it's just a matter of time before the government gets it as well.
Why doesn't a publisher just offer 40% royalties or something and annihilate the competition?
Because the publisher is already selling the book at a 60% discount to the big bookstores (and 20% discounts to the small independent bookstores), and in both cases, the publisher is the one who pays for the shipping, the inventory upfront, the production costs, the marketing, and retaking the inventory if any of it gets damaged or returned by the customer (or by the bookseller who purposefully damages the book so it can return it).
I guess it could offer 40% royalties to the authors who don't mind having their books not show up on the shelves of Barnes & Noble, Borders, and the rest of the big bookstores, but I doubt many authors would be willing to accept such a deal (by that point, those authors might just as well well self-publish, publish on demand, or just publish their books in an electronic format only).
1) most of the time people suing corporations are lazy people that want to get rich
In my case, I've just been too lazy to sue corporations. This puts me squarely at the bottom of your classification I take it. You must really despise me right now.
Why sit cowering in your home for FIVE DAYS then claim you were unable to live your life for MONTHS, when a quick three-digit phone call ("911", in case anyone has forgotten the number) would have started an investigation that would have rapidly debunked it in a hurry?
Three reasons:
1. The law of averages. If you email credible threats to enough people (and when I say credible, I mean to say that since her "friends" colluded with Toyota, that's what made the threats credible to her, I don't mean to say that those threats would have necessarily been credible to the police), so let's say if you email credible threats to two or three thousand people, you are bound to hit a few disturbed individuals (or if not disturbed yet, just at the brink). Plus, I should also say that since those targets were not chosen at random, they were chosen by their so-called "friends", so it would make sense that some of those "friends" would pick the most paranoid and the most emotionally immature persons they know. When it comes to annoyingly paranoid and emotionally immature people, I believe that many of us have the capacity to prey on that weakness and give those types of people a very hard time (that's what some call bullying, notice that strong people and/or emotionally mature people rarely get bullied themselves. I'm not saying that it never happens, just that it rarely does).
2. I don't believe you know 911 very well. 911 is for *immediate* life-threatening emergencies only (at least, in California it is). I've called 911 myself (from my landline) to report a drunk driver that had hit several cars and had driven away just as recklessly (that was before CHP had those signs on the freeway that now tell us to do just that), but at the time, the 911 operator told me very rudely that this wasn't a life-threatening emergency, to call the police instead on their regular line, and to hang up the phone right now! Also, you said "hardened and probably ARMED criminal", good luck saying that to the 911 operator: "W: He's probably armed.", "911: Probably!!? Is he? Or isn't he *ARMED*?", "W: Well, he's probably armed. I haven't seen a weapon yet.", "911: Where is the suspect right now?", "I don't really know. Last time he contacted me, he said he was in Florida, but he said he's coming over. If he's prompt, he's due any minute now. If the guy is a flake, I can't really know for sure."
3. And last but not least, city police departments are not all funded equally. When I lived in Oakland, and there was a trespasser in my backyard, the police didn't (or couldn't) come. And when I made the same call when I lived in Alameda, the police came absolutely right away, and in full force. I should also say, that in places like in Berkeley or Alameda, the police usually swarms suspects just like they do on TV. In Oakland, I've witnessed several instances of cops fighting suspects with their battons, losing to them, and the suspects successfully running away, because in all these cases, the cop was alone, and he was against one or more suspects (and also the city cops in Oakland are instructed not to use their use their guns unless their lives are absolutely in danger). And it doesn't stop there, in cities like San Francisco and Oakland, the police will purposefully downplay any crimes that are committed against you, and they'll do everything they can to dissuade you from even filing a police report or starting a formal investigation (because if it gets reported, it goes in their statistics, and if it goes in their statistics, it makes their city look bad). So if you live in a city like that, and have any experience with the police, you come to learn that you can't really depend on the police, especially for something as trivial such as threats made over email -- made by an unknown person (who's not even in their jurisdiction yet according to his own emails/mailed hotel invoices).
Yeah it's a pretty stupid ruling, coming down from people who have no clue.
Also, this incident happened yesterday October 14th in the UK.
1. The actual Surrogates movie has been out on p2p for at least the last two weeks (probably more).
2. The UK *always* gets their movies after we do (British movies excepted, but here I'm just talking about the movies people actually want to watch). It saves on the reproduction cost of the reels. The extra reels that we use during the opening week(s) in the US are then sent to the UK for re-use. This basically ensures that the movie will be out for weeks on p2p before the first opening night in the UK.
The guy lives in the UK. I say the chances that he doesn't have a car, or that his car gets broken into, are pretty high.
Anyway my point is the calculator manufacturers are definitely in a pickle. They can't make their calculators too good, or their primary market - college students - can't use them.
They could sell calculators in packs of two, with one calculator to be used for tests and one calculator to be used to show off how freaking super-cool you are. And they could make the two calculator casings somehow snap into each other, or something like that... This last step may be able to dissuade students from giving away the extra calculator they receive (after all, the point of this new design would not be to decrease the number of new buyers -- it would be to increase it and increase the price it could charge for it).
Every top architect I worked around at NeXT and Apple had families and never programmed outside of work. They were normal.
As they should, working on a non-company software project on your own personal time is considered treason according to some employers' contracts. As a slashdoter, you should already know this, god knows there are plenty of guys on slashdot *pretending* to have girlfriends. It's only natural that at some point, the pressure becomes too much, and they start marrying their imaginary girlfriends and start producing imaginary off-springs together.
Try writing a browser based graphical game on the iPhone; it's going to fall on its face pretty quickly.
I'm wondering if HTML5 SVG support is going to change that? Also, I'm wondering if HTML5 is going to have a stripped down version of HTML5 on mobile phones (just like Adobe has Flash Lite -- a stripped down & older version of Flash to put on mobile phones)?
One thing that Flash does have is excellent video-codec support... I'm sure that this isn't about to change soon, but even there I'm wondering, some of the browsers-makers have been hard at work trying to build better video support directly into their browsers. I'm wondering if Browser-makers even have a chance to match Adobe in that arena?
If I write iApp and you write iApp, my official name will be iApp.mydomain.com and yours will be iApp.yourdomain.com
[...]
Now because this is relatively simple and straight forward, easily solves the problem, but lacks ... "style" and more importantly doesn't make Apple any additional revenue, I do not expect them to sign off on such a solution.
No, it's not just a question of "style", it's a question of usability. Turning the iPhone app namespace into an Eclipse-like plugin directory namespace might work for you, you think like a programmer (a Java programmer most likely), but it's just not going to cut it for the average consumer/user usability-wise.
For one thing, it would shrink the available iPhone namespace even further. Take for example the name "Twitch", which is the name the original submitter is complaining that he couldn't get. Good luck getting that name as a domain name right now, the domain Twitch.com was taken off the market in 1997 (according to its whois records).
Furthermore, I'm pretty sure you're underestimating the value of what a good usable name can do for an app. Now, I'm not one of those special people, I do not have an iPhone, but I do have an awesome unlocked Nokia phone however. Technically-speaking, my phone is actually far superior to the iPhone in many ways, but if there is one thing that drives me nuts, it's the inconsistent user interface and the inconsistent *naming* conventions that Nokia uses. And actually, me saying "naming conventions" is probably going too far. As far as I can tell, Nokia probably doesn't have a naming convention (aside from just requiring unique names). And the names of the apps, even the names of the apps developed by Nokia itself, are pretty inconsistent across the board. And that makes it much more difficult to find the apps I'm looking for, or even find again the apps that I'm used to using. And by constraining the available iPhone namespace even further, as you seem to be suggesting, you would only make it harder for developers to find good usable names for their users to actually understand and easily use.
The Passion of The Christ wasn't banned (although it probably should have been). It triggered arousal, guilt, and hatred, all at the same time (the winning trifecta for good Christians everywhere).
What happens? May be, he should just visit Seoul or Tokyo, and ask them what happened over there. That's the advantage of not being the leader of the pack anymore, we can go to the countries/cities that are leading, and time travel to the future that way.
this is about representing a company, situations like gaming with developers, company islands in second life, twitter feeds for businesses. situations where an employee is representing their organisation on an official level in a digital context.
I doubt that. Those are already depersonalized, white-washed, and boring as can be. Plus, most large tech companies already have policies for what employees can post on their own personal blogs, so this avatar policy just seems to be an extension of that.
for example i apply a simmilar policy to my work mobile. no custom tones or backgrounds, it uses a generic ringtone and the company logo as the background, no good sitting down to a meeting with a client and having the "crazy frog" or star wars theme start blaring out of my phone.
Not me, I'll mute my "crazy frog" phone before I even sit down for a meeting. Generic tones or not, I hate cell phones ringing in meetings.
Plus, the x-rated avatar of my fat naked male body is opt-in only, so if you see me naked -- it's your own damn fault anyway. Everyone else, assuming they don't change their settings, only sees the default PG-13 properly dressed version of me.
ZDNet China is knowingly distributing material that violates copyright.
No, ZDNET China is knowingly distributing material that *may* violate copyright. Just like in the SCO vs. Linux former fiasco, a lot has been said, but nothing has been proven yet. Having a company very loudly asserting ownership rights doesn't mean it actually owns anything.
Perhaps ZDNET was also knowingly mirroring some of the Linux distributions while the SCO controversy was still going on, if that were the case, may be CBS-US should also have been sued by SCO for any of the Linux distros its subsidiaries in China, in South America, or in Africa, mirrored over there as well.
Oh wait, isn't that bascially what the RIAA has been doing?
With the help of the Pirate Bay, since the Pirate Bay likes to insert a sample of random ip addresses into its tracker/logs.
WebOS in many ways seems to be a more consumer friendly version of Android.
The company with the least leverage tends to be the most friendly.
Actually, I wish all Science diagrams would be as entertaining as that one.
Now on a more serious note, it would seem this guy just worked off this existing wheel design without giving a proper citation (the credit goes to Clumma on that technologyreview.com blog for finding it). And he didn't improve on that wheel design (except for the new cooler looking black background) his copy is much worse than the original (quite unreadable). It's no surprise he developed it while working for Microsoft. It sounds like he took a page out of Microsoft's playbook.
According to wikipedia [wikipedia.org], Facebook and MySpace are cloud applications.
The owner of a cloud application may own his very *own* computing platform, that's true. But in the case where both owners are not the same, the one who owns the computing platform is not necessarily responsible for everything the application creator did/does on it.
I would think a more aggressive approach is the only way to fight back.
Not me. I'm taking the more passive approach. I'm currently stockpiling static ip addresses. I've got three so far. If all the people of Dubai are surviving on one static ip address alone, I figure I should be able to easily survive on three.
I'll gladly start a competitor if you'll provide me with the funding. Personally, I don't qualify for the multimillion dollar loan I'd need to be able to build (or rent) the infrastructure necessary to compete with Comcast or Verizon in just one city, but maybe you do?
Even if you did qualify, you wouldn't put up your own assets/income as collateral anyway. That's just crazy commie talk! The more money you ask for, the less personal accountability is required. That is why we create fictitious legal people on paper, if something goes wrong, we can always blame that "person" instead.
I think he's talking more copy than rename. I imagine it's something where they open a.dxf, make their changes, save to a_new.dxf and add that file and commit to the repository where it now sits alongside a.dxf
In the case of Git, the same file could be copied one thousand times, and it maintains just one copy under the covers (I believe Mercurial works the same way). That's why, Git is just perfect for filesh...programming different linux distros.
This is not to say that using different mental models to store files is always a good idea. It's not. It's just that I can be a Git fanboy sometimes.
Contrast to Twitter. Not only are you sending your banking information through multiple (and a somewhat unpredictable set of) unsecured networks, owned and administered by who knows who, but you're sending it to Twitter, who explicitly take ownership of the content, who then send it on, again through and unpredictable set of multiple unsecured networks, to your bank. See any differences here?
Twitter doesn't send back information back to the bank. Read the article, it's a notification-only system.
Now I'm not much of a Twitter user, but I do have all my banking notifications go to my email and my text messages (depending on the different triggers I have set at my bank). In other words, when I make a purchase, the amount I just spent is sent directly to my phone (the account number isn't sent, just the amount or the balance). If there is anything suspicious, again it goes directly to my phone. If there is any fraud on my account, I won't know 30 days later, not even 5 days later, I'll find out about it 5 seconds after-the-fact -- may be even less (except during the night, I have it scheduled to deliver all my overnight notices just as I'm having breakfast).
If a network is compromised, and thousands of credit card numbers are stolen (including yours), just be grateful that there are people like me around. You just need a few people like me to stay on top of their accounts in (almost) real-time, it makes it that much more difficult for fraudsters overall. And if your bank doesn't have that fine-grain alert features in place, may be it's time for you to switch banks. It's a given that fraudsters will prefer to process credit cards first from the banks that do not try to shut down their transactions/vendor account right away (at least, that's what I would do, I'd start with the easier cards first, and work my way up to the more difficult/riskier cards to use).
It depends. If you're the Barbie playboy twins, you're fine. They only had to show a copy of their birth certificate to Mattel, showing that their last name was indeed Barbie.
If however, your name happens to be Toyota, you're basically fucked. It didn't matter in that case that the guy had that name since birth. The judge ruled against him. Sometimes, rulings can be pretty random.