What do you think society is going to be like when so many of the people not having kids get older?
It's going to look a lot like Florida, where the local sheriff's office makes checking-up phone calls to its elderly population every single morning as part of their primary duty. It's a great way to make sure the Sheriff gets re-elected that way.
It's going to look like this, where you hire services to check in on you regularly and make sure you are not dead or needing help... Even as the population gets more dispersed, there's a need for things like this so family who lives far away can still make sure parents are OK.
On a side-note, it seems like the Japanese have found a replacement business model for their postal service. We could try doing something similar in the US.
Technology can only get us so far. There always needs to be a certain amount of (live non-remote) human contact.
The fact that there's a technical issue isn't what matters. What matters is that they apparently either didn't think to test it, or didn't warn purchasers that it might be an issue.
I'm not an apple fanboy, but the real fact is that most people don't read warnings anyway (even if they had been given, which they clearly weren't).
For a limited time, Apple should just give refunds to people with tattoos on their wrists. It's not like that many people are going to qualify. Or if those people don't want a refund, they could just disable the wrist detection function and forget about using the heart monitoring and watch apple pay. Let's not pretend that this watch is anything more than a superfluous gadget, a wealth status symbol, or a fashion accessory.
An Apple Watch support page does refer to potential disruption to heart rate monitoring caused by inked skin, however it fails to mention further interference with other key functions. “Permanent or temporary changes to your skin, such as some tattoos, can also impact heart rate sensor performance. The ink, pattern, and saturation of some tattoos can block light from the sensor, making it difficult to get reliable readings,” it reads.
The unlock wrist detection function can be turned off, however this also disables Apple Pay.
I keep seeing people making this exact same quip without providing any evidence that there is any such guarantee. "I think I sound clever" and "They have an app" don't count.
Also I should say, the first time I tried Uber, I was given a promo code for $20 (these are not hard to get if you want to give Uber a try yourself, you just need to google for one, the only problem is that you can only use them once).
In my case, I made sure that the upper limit of my quote was less than $20. So for the first Uber trip I took, I basically didn't risk any of my own money (although, I did need to provide the app with my credit card number). So if the Uber car didn't come within the 3 minutes it said it would, I could have basically walked away not losing a single cent on the transaction.
One beginner mistake I made thought, was to set the pick up location automatically based on my gps sensors. I shouldn't have done that. With Uber, you have to adjust the pick up location manually before you do anything else. The app doesn't allow you to tweak the pick up location after you've inquired about a ride, so be sure to set that part first. That's the only UI usability problem I had with the app, otherwise the rest of the process is done very well and the entire app is extremely well polished (even on Android, which is the phone OS I use).
FedEx/UPS are bonded, insured, and reliable, and have global logistics chains. Uber is some guy with his mom's car, no commercial license, possibly improper insurance, and quite likely operating as an illegal commercial vehicle in many places.
FedEx is a lot more like Uber than you think. FedEx drivers are independent contractors. They get no benefits, no overtime, no sick leave, and no insurance. They pay for and maintain their own vehicles.
And yes, there was even a time when the US Post Office was trying to outlaw FedEx, because FedEx drivers had the gall to sometimes use door mail slots (instead of just leaving the envelopes on the ground in front of people's doorways when they were not home).
In any case, FedEx had some rough patches when it started out and FedEx did some questionable things. The same will happen with Uber. For one thing, now that Uber is no longer a startup, its CEO needs to get fired/resign. He is simply too direct and not socially mature enough to be the mouth-piece for the company.
The official Turkish position is, "Let the historians decide." I'm not sure what good that does them.
Is that a new position? Or does Turkey like the Armenians better than the Kurds somehow?
When Noam Chomsky wrote about the treatment of Kurdish people in Turkey, the position of the Turkish government was to prosecute Noam Chomsky's Turkish publisher.
I keep seeing people making this exact same quip without providing any evidence that there is any such guarantee. "I think I sound clever" and "They have an app" don't count.
I don't need a guarantee. Uber lets me know in real-time where the available Uber cars are located (along with real-time traffic information and the number of stars that a driver has). That's more than enough for me. If I don't see an available Uber car on the map near me before I order, then I know I can't rely on Uber to pick me up. It's as simple as that.
And if I make an order, and an Uber driver accepts that order, then that Uber car is immediately taken off the public map of Uber cars, and I am the only one who can see it moving on the map.
Not only that, but once an Uber car driver accepts a pick up order from someone, he isn't being bombarded with other offers along the way. Also, his rating is at stake, because Uber will ask me to rate him after the ride (whether he picked me up on time, or not). In addition to that, even if I falsify my customer rating of the driver by saying that he took 30 more minutes than he was supposed to by taking a detour in between, Uber could verify my claim with the gps data of the driver, and/or the gps data and time of my pick up on my phone (which I assume is logged when the Uber app is in use).
So this isn't me being clever. I'm just someone who has used Uber in the past. Anyone who uses Uber at least once would come to the same conclusion I have.
That being said, let me add a disclaimer: When I make fun of Taxi cabs, I make fun of the Taxi Cabs in San Francisco. If you don't live or work in a city like San Francisco, or New York, where medallions are extremely expensive and insanely scarce because of corruption, then you may not have had the same problems with taxi cabs during peak hours as I have had.
Well, if it walks like a taxicab and talks like a taxicab, how is it not a taxicab? Because you signal it with a hep and cool app instead of making a phone call?
It's not a taxicab because it actually shows up when you call one.
I bet that maintaining a Twitter and Facebook presence will help with her re-election campaign.
Also, she's not bad looking as far as judges go. In American politics, good looks count for a lot.
Meanwhile, Slaughter emerged on top from a field of four Republicans, which includes Mallia, but she too did not earn the more than 50 percent vote to win her respective race. Slaughter accumulated 10,015 votes while Mallia finished the race with 7,654. Mallia was first elected as a Democrat in 2000, but switched to the GOP in November. Their rivals, Zachary Maloney and Paul Lavalle, combined for approximately 12 percent of the vote.
Slaughter is actually the perfect name for a judge in Texas. I bet she got 3,000 votes for her last name alone.
And Maloney sounds too much like baloney, that poor guy was doomed from the start. Why did he even run? I have no idea.
Where do you draw the line? Which countries' laws do you require all your sites to comply with?
The ones with money.
And what is lost by doing so?
You lose the market of the country in question.
In any case, you're asking the wrong questions. You're looking at it from the perspective of one of those big cloud providers. The truth is, the big players can't protect your site. The big players have too much to lose. If you want your site protected, you can not go to the cloud.
You have to contract with a small independent company (a real company, not just a reseller) who is willing to protect you. If you want to host a porn web site, there are hosting companies that specialize in that, these hosts can even protect you against denial of service attacks. If you want to host a site that doesn't bow down to China, there are hosting companies that specialize in that too. If you want to host a site that is free from the influence of the NSA, you at least know to stay away from US companies (even if they have their servers in your own country).
If you don't know where to look, you just need to look for content that is similar to yours on the internet and trace their ip address to see what host they're using. You'll have to pay a premium for their service, but that's only because those hosting companies are not reselling a commodity, they're selling you a very unique specialized service that is tailored to your needs.
Nor do I remember any calls to boycott a movie over such things. So, if popular culture approves of and encourages it, can't blame the cops too much for doing it despite it being merely illegal...
Finally, a like-minded individual. What movie/book should we boycott next?
I tried boycotting a Harry Potter matinee once, but those little 8 year old kids can be incredibly violent and cruel.
I think that Groupon should assign $500 to that one security flaw disclosed by Brute_Logic (again, it can't be 32 flaws, because it's essentially only one flaw on 32 sites owned by Groupon), and then it should give that money as a donation to the EFF (under the pseudonym Brute_Logic).
This would send the right message to future researchers who discover future flaws, that Groupon can be fair, but that researchers need to follow protocol if they really want the money to go to them.
Groupon doesn't fear bad PR. If it was afraid of bad press, it would have folded long ago.
Possibly they don't mind bad press, but i'll bet they mind press that says their site is insecure, or that if you do businesses with them, "Your identity/credit card number might get stolen"
That's a good point.
By the way, it was actually one single XSS flaw that was affecting 32 different web sites.
At least, this is according to the researcher himself (either that, or he made a mistake expressing himself, because his English is obviously not too good). So if that's really the case that it was only one flaw, but on 32 sites, then I really do have no sympathy for him.
Once a vulnerability is disclosed for one site, it's obvious that hackers are going to try to exploit the same flaw on other sites owned by that same entity And by disclosing the vulnerability of two sites, a disclosure which was not accidental at all, it's obvious that he was pissed off that Groupon wouldn't commit to any minimum amount of money for his initial disclosure .
Groupon's entire business model is based on extracting as much cash as possible from desperate businesses, even if that means those businesses go bankrupt. Groupon doesn't fear bad PR. If it was afraid of bad press, it would have folded long ago.
Also, 32 XSS security issues seems like a pretty high number. Personally, I wouldn't be surprised if those 32 XSS vulnerabilities traced back to a single problem. That being said, I have no idea if that's the case, or not.
Either this researcher, or Groupon, would have to tell us what those 32 XSS vulnerabilities were in the first place, for us to really understand this situation.
Exactly how does that work if the wifi is turned off?
That doesn't matter. The chip iPhone uses combines the wifi/baseband/bluetooth/radio/wifi-assisted-location all-in-one to save on battery.
And per the 3GPP technical specifications for GSM, the low baseband is never actually turned off (in case of an earthquake warning or a tsunami warning, it's always listening for a polling call for it to wake it up, or to boot up the device), This works even when the mobile cell phone service is turned off, when the wifi is turned off, and it can even work even when the phone itself is turned off. This standby mode is called the "paging channel" and it's supposed to only take 1% of the battery each day.
If you know people in Asia where there have been a few tsunami warnings, those people can tell you that their phone (or their friend's phones) will turn on all by themselves when there is a Tsunami warning. So we know that this functionality is already active in some parts of the world.
This headline makes no sense. The first version of Google TV only came out after Android was at 3.0. There is no Google TV that exists below Android 3.0.
Also, my Sony Bravia TV is pretty old (with the crappy Sony OS on it). For a while, there was a "Youtube" app and a "New Youtube" app. Now only the icon of the New Youtube app is visible (which is fine with me, the old Youtube app didn't work with my phone as well as the New Youtube app anyway).
I highly doubt the manufacturers of the phones (LG, Samsung, etc) are the ones pushing for the disabling of the FM chip but requirements from the mobile service providers (Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, etc).
In the case of iOS, it's Apple's fault. In the case of Android, it's usually Verizon's fault.
Many of the Android phones from Samsung, HTC, and Sony have a working FM transmitter as long as they are not purchased from Verizon. However, I'm not sure that makes a difference with most consumers. The FM transmitter needs the wired headset to act as an antenna. And who carries one of those around all the time? Personally, I keep my wired headset unused at home (and I usually use bluetooth instead). And if you're at home, or at your office, it probably means you have access to a standalone emergency FM/AM radio anyway.
From a bluetooth headset, the FM transmitter from the phone doesn't really work, but there is one headset model for instance from Sony that has a FM transmitter and an mp3 built into the headset. I have that model and it works, but I can't really recommend it because it's too easy to lose because of its dangling headphones and because the clip of the base often gets unclipped when I slide in or out of a car.
When I open your search engine, I want the focus of my cursor to default your search form.
After I found out that you didn't even have this, which requires no more than one single attribute in html, I didn't have the confidence to go to any further. Usability testing is cheap. The idea that you would forgo any kind of basic usability testing, before asking for feedback from Slashdot users, tells me you don't have the experience, nor the real desire, to make a decent halfway usable search engine.
This guy's angle is all about milking the PR now. He's hit the short term jackpot and will be the featured speaker at "aviation security" conferences and I hope he makes some money.
I understand the publicity angle, but it will be difficult for him to be the featured speaker at many conferences if he ever gets on the no-fly list.
The contract was $768 / iPAD (I assume this includes warranty) + $200 / content & software license for 3 years.
The firewall-like software (the one that the school district is complaining about because it was bypassed by students) seems to be sold through Apple (here is the pricing sheet, but it's a pdf). Also, Pearson is a formal ConnectED educational partner of Apple (I'm not sure if that means Apple gets a cut of that contract, but I would think it does).
On an unrelated note: I actually don't know how Sphero actually made that list of Educational Partners. I suppose that by Apple's definition, any toy that can connect to iOS automatically makes it worthy enough to be considered educational.
And all the Canadians in the US will be suing you. There's an International Data Treaty the US and Canada signed that says they still have their rights.
What parts of explicitly subscribing to notifications from a particular web app on the chrome store violate Canadian rights?
So after all the problems with malware-ridden popups and other unwanted crap Google gives us this?
I doubt it will be a simple popup, most likely it will go through some kind of notification manager and the notification will appear in a very restricted type of user interface (like they did on Android).
And yes, the push notifications on Android were abused initially (especially by advertisers), until Google made an update to its notification manager (and also back-ported it).
That update allowed the user to long press on a notification, immediately see who sent the notification, and from that screen allowed the user to uninstall the responsible app (or disable all future notifications permanently from that particular app without uninstalling the app and without letting the app developer know that you disabled all those future notifications).
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What do you think society is going to be like when so many of the people not having kids get older?
It's going to look a lot like Florida, where the local sheriff's office makes checking-up phone calls to its elderly population every single morning as part of their primary duty. It's a great way to make sure the Sheriff gets re-elected that way.
It's going to look like this, where you hire services to check in on you regularly and make sure you are not dead or needing help... Even as the population gets more dispersed, there's a need for things like this so family who lives far away can still make sure parents are OK.
On a side-note, it seems like the Japanese have found a replacement business model for their postal service. We could try doing something similar in the US.
Technology can only get us so far. There always needs to be a certain amount of (live non-remote) human contact.
The fact that there's a technical issue isn't what matters. What matters is that they apparently either didn't think to test it, or didn't warn purchasers that it might be an issue.
I'm not an apple fanboy, but the real fact is that most people don't read warnings anyway (even if they had been given, which they clearly weren't).
For a limited time, Apple should just give refunds to people with tattoos on their wrists. It's not like that many people are going to qualify. Or if those people don't want a refund, they could just disable the wrist detection function and forget about using the heart monitoring and watch apple pay. Let's not pretend that this watch is anything more than a superfluous gadget, a wealth status symbol, or a fashion accessory.
An Apple Watch support page does refer to potential disruption to heart rate monitoring caused by inked skin, however it fails to mention further interference with other key functions. “Permanent or temporary changes to your skin, such as some tattoos, can also impact heart rate sensor performance. The ink, pattern, and saturation of some tattoos can block light from the sensor, making it difficult to get reliable readings,” it reads.
The unlock wrist detection function can be turned off, however this also disables Apple Pay.
People with tattoos have many more things to worry about than an Apple watch anyway.
It's really the tattoo parlors that should have warnings and disclaimer forms that clients should sign.
I keep seeing people making this exact same quip without providing any evidence that there is any such guarantee. "I think I sound clever" and "They have an app" don't count.
Also I should say, the first time I tried Uber, I was given a promo code for $20 (these are not hard to get if you want to give Uber a try yourself, you just need to google for one, the only problem is that you can only use them once).
In my case, I made sure that the upper limit of my quote was less than $20. So for the first Uber trip I took, I basically didn't risk any of my own money (although, I did need to provide the app with my credit card number). So if the Uber car didn't come within the 3 minutes it said it would, I could have basically walked away not losing a single cent on the transaction.
One beginner mistake I made thought, was to set the pick up location automatically based on my gps sensors. I shouldn't have done that. With Uber, you have to adjust the pick up location manually before you do anything else. The app doesn't allow you to tweak the pick up location after you've inquired about a ride, so be sure to set that part first. That's the only UI usability problem I had with the app, otherwise the rest of the process is done very well and the entire app is extremely well polished (even on Android, which is the phone OS I use).
FedEx/UPS are bonded, insured, and reliable, and have global logistics chains. Uber is some guy with his mom's car, no commercial license, possibly improper insurance, and quite likely operating as an illegal commercial vehicle in many places.
FedEx is a lot more like Uber than you think. FedEx drivers are independent contractors. They get no benefits, no overtime, no sick leave, and no insurance. They pay for and maintain their own vehicles.
And yes, there was even a time when the US Post Office was trying to outlaw FedEx, because FedEx drivers had the gall to sometimes use door mail slots (instead of just leaving the envelopes on the ground in front of people's doorways when they were not home).
In any case, FedEx had some rough patches when it started out and FedEx did some questionable things. The same will happen with Uber. For one thing, now that Uber is no longer a startup, its CEO needs to get fired/resign. He is simply too direct and not socially mature enough to be the mouth-piece for the company.
The official Turkish position is, "Let the historians decide." I'm not sure what good that does them.
Is that a new position? Or does Turkey like the Armenians better than the Kurds somehow?
When Noam Chomsky wrote about the treatment of Kurdish people in Turkey, the position of the Turkish government was to prosecute Noam Chomsky's Turkish publisher.
I keep seeing people making this exact same quip without providing any evidence that there is any such guarantee. "I think I sound clever" and "They have an app" don't count.
I don't need a guarantee. Uber lets me know in real-time where the available Uber cars are located (along with real-time traffic information and the number of stars that a driver has). That's more than enough for me. If I don't see an available Uber car on the map near me before I order, then I know I can't rely on Uber to pick me up. It's as simple as that.
And if I make an order, and an Uber driver accepts that order, then that Uber car is immediately taken off the public map of Uber cars, and I am the only one who can see it moving on the map.
Not only that, but once an Uber car driver accepts a pick up order from someone, he isn't being bombarded with other offers along the way. Also, his rating is at stake, because Uber will ask me to rate him after the ride (whether he picked me up on time, or not). In addition to that, even if I falsify my customer rating of the driver by saying that he took 30 more minutes than he was supposed to by taking a detour in between, Uber could verify my claim with the gps data of the driver, and/or the gps data and time of my pick up on my phone (which I assume is logged when the Uber app is in use).
So this isn't me being clever. I'm just someone who has used Uber in the past. Anyone who uses Uber at least once would come to the same conclusion I have.
That being said, let me add a disclaimer: When I make fun of Taxi cabs, I make fun of the Taxi Cabs in San Francisco. If you don't live or work in a city like San Francisco, or New York, where medallions are extremely expensive and insanely scarce because of corruption, then you may not have had the same problems with taxi cabs during peak hours as I have had.
Well, if it walks like a taxicab and talks like a taxicab, how is it not a taxicab? Because you signal it with a hep and cool app instead of making a phone call?
It's not a taxicab because it actually shows up when you call one.
I wish to subscribe to her twitter feed.
I bet that maintaining a Twitter and Facebook presence will help with her re-election campaign.
Also, she's not bad looking as far as judges go. In American politics, good looks count for a lot.
Meanwhile, Slaughter emerged on top from a field of four Republicans, which includes Mallia, but she too did not earn the more than 50 percent vote to win her respective race.
Slaughter accumulated 10,015 votes while Mallia finished the race with 7,654.
Mallia was first elected as a Democrat in 2000, but switched to the GOP in November.
Their rivals, Zachary Maloney and Paul Lavalle, combined for approximately 12 percent of the vote.
Slaughter is actually the perfect name for a judge in Texas. I bet she got 3,000 votes for her last name alone.
And Maloney sounds too much like baloney, that poor guy was doomed from the start. Why did he even run? I have no idea.
Or you could have given it to someone who would actually use it for its intended purpose instead of being a dick about it.
Sure, I was a dick, but I didn't do anything Microsoft didn't do itself.
Windows Phone. Stable and gives better performance than any Android phone with twice the specs.
I can confirm. Microsoft gave me a free Windows phone. It now has Android CyanogenMod on it and it is super smooth.
Where do you draw the line? Which countries' laws do you require all your sites to comply with?
The ones with money.
And what is lost by doing so?
You lose the market of the country in question.
In any case, you're asking the wrong questions. You're looking at it from the perspective of one of those big cloud providers. The truth is, the big players can't protect your site. The big players have too much to lose. If you want your site protected, you can not go to the cloud.
You have to contract with a small independent company (a real company, not just a reseller) who is willing to protect you. If you want to host a porn web site, there are hosting companies that specialize in that, these hosts can even protect you against denial of service attacks. If you want to host a site that doesn't bow down to China, there are hosting companies that specialize in that too. If you want to host a site that is free from the influence of the NSA, you at least know to stay away from US companies (even if they have their servers in your own country).
If you don't know where to look, you just need to look for content that is similar to yours on the internet and trace their ip address to see what host they're using. You'll have to pay a premium for their service, but that's only because those hosting companies are not reselling a commodity, they're selling you a very unique specialized service that is tailored to your needs.
Or the more likely case is that German Intelligence are traitors to their own country.
Nor do I remember any calls to boycott a movie over such things. So, if popular culture approves of and encourages it, can't blame the cops too much for doing it despite it being merely illegal...
Finally, a like-minded individual. What movie/book should we boycott next?
I tried boycotting a Harry Potter matinee once, but those little 8 year old kids can be incredibly violent and cruel.
And continuing on my initial line of thought.
I think that Groupon should assign $500 to that one security flaw disclosed by Brute_Logic (again, it can't be 32 flaws, because it's essentially only one flaw on 32 sites owned by Groupon), and then it should give that money as a donation to the EFF (under the pseudonym Brute_Logic).
This would send the right message to future researchers who discover future flaws, that Groupon can be fair, but that researchers need to follow protocol if they really want the money to go to them.
Groupon doesn't fear bad PR. If it was afraid of bad press, it would have folded long ago.
Possibly they don't mind bad press, but i'll bet they mind press that says their site is insecure, or
that if you do businesses with them, "Your identity/credit card number might get stolen"
That's a good point.
By the way, it was actually one single XSS flaw that was affecting 32 different web sites.
At least, this is according to the researcher himself (either that, or he made a mistake expressing himself, because his English is obviously not too good). So if that's really the case that it was only one flaw, but on 32 sites, then I really do have no sympathy for him.
Once a vulnerability is disclosed for one site, it's obvious that hackers are going to try to exploit the same flaw on other sites owned by that same entity And by disclosing the vulnerability of two sites, a disclosure which was not accidental at all, it's obvious that he was pissed off that Groupon wouldn't commit to any minimum amount of money for his initial disclosure .
They'll pay.
It depends.
Groupon's entire business model is based on extracting as much cash as possible from desperate businesses, even if that means those businesses go bankrupt. Groupon doesn't fear bad PR. If it was afraid of bad press, it would have folded long ago.
Also, 32 XSS security issues seems like a pretty high number. Personally, I wouldn't be surprised if those 32 XSS vulnerabilities traced back to a single problem. That being said, I have no idea if that's the case, or not.
Either this researcher, or Groupon, would have to tell us what those 32 XSS vulnerabilities were in the first place, for us to really understand this situation.
Exactly how does that work if the wifi is turned off?
That doesn't matter. The chip iPhone uses combines the wifi/baseband/bluetooth/radio/wifi-assisted-location all-in-one to save on battery.
And per the 3GPP technical specifications for GSM, the low baseband is never actually turned off (in case of an earthquake warning or a tsunami warning, it's always listening for a polling call for it to wake it up, or to boot up the device), This works even when the mobile cell phone service is turned off, when the wifi is turned off, and it can even work even when the phone itself is turned off. This standby mode is called the "paging channel" and it's supposed to only take 1% of the battery each day.
If you know people in Asia where there have been a few tsunami warnings, those people can tell you that their phone (or their friend's phones) will turn on all by themselves when there is a Tsunami warning. So we know that this functionality is already active in some parts of the world.
...to a "breakfast meeting" and having security box up their stuff while they're in the meeting room (and not giving them breakfast, either).
Wow! I would have been pissed.
No one should ever fire me when I have low blood sugar.
This headline makes no sense. The first version of Google TV only came out after Android was at 3.0. There is no Google TV that exists below Android 3.0.
Also, my Sony Bravia TV is pretty old (with the crappy Sony OS on it). For a while, there was a "Youtube" app and a "New Youtube" app. Now only the icon of the New Youtube app is visible (which is fine with me, the old Youtube app didn't work with my phone as well as the New Youtube app anyway).
I highly doubt the manufacturers of the phones (LG, Samsung, etc) are the ones pushing for the disabling of the FM chip but requirements from the mobile service providers (Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, etc).
In the case of iOS, it's Apple's fault. In the case of Android, it's usually Verizon's fault.
Many of the Android phones from Samsung, HTC, and Sony have a working FM transmitter as long as they are not purchased from Verizon. However, I'm not sure that makes a difference with most consumers. The FM transmitter needs the wired headset to act as an antenna. And who carries one of those around all the time? Personally, I keep my wired headset unused at home (and I usually use bluetooth instead). And if you're at home, or at your office, it probably means you have access to a standalone emergency FM/AM radio anyway.
From a bluetooth headset, the FM transmitter from the phone doesn't really work, but there is one headset model for instance from Sony that has a FM transmitter and an mp3 built into the headset. I have that model and it works, but I can't really recommend it because it's too easy to lose because of its dangling headphones and because the clip of the base often gets unclipped when I slide in or out of a car.
When I open your search engine, I want the focus of my cursor to default your search form.
After I found out that you didn't even have this, which requires no more than one single attribute in html, I didn't have the confidence to go to any further. Usability testing is cheap. The idea that you would forgo any kind of basic usability testing, before asking for feedback from Slashdot users, tells me you don't have the experience, nor the real desire, to make a decent halfway usable search engine.
This guy's angle is all about milking the PR now. He's hit the short term jackpot and will be the featured speaker at "aviation security" conferences and I hope he makes some money.
I understand the publicity angle, but it will be difficult for him to be the featured speaker at many conferences if he ever gets on the no-fly list.
The contract was $768 / iPAD (I assume this includes warranty) + $200 / content & software license for 3 years.
The firewall-like software (the one that the school district is complaining about because it was bypassed by students) seems to be sold through Apple (here is the pricing sheet, but it's a pdf). Also, Pearson is a formal ConnectED educational partner of Apple (I'm not sure if that means Apple gets a cut of that contract, but I would think it does).
On an unrelated note: I actually don't know how Sphero actually made that list of Educational Partners. I suppose that by Apple's definition, any toy that can connect to iOS automatically makes it worthy enough to be considered educational.
And all the Canadians in the US will be suing you. There's an International Data Treaty the US and Canada signed that says they still have their rights.
What parts of explicitly subscribing to notifications from a particular web app on the chrome store violate Canadian rights?
When has user "free will" been revoked in Canada?
So after all the problems with malware-ridden popups and other unwanted crap Google gives us this?
I doubt it will be a simple popup, most likely it will go through some kind of notification manager and the notification will appear in a very restricted type of user interface (like they did on Android).
And yes, the push notifications on Android were abused initially (especially by advertisers), until Google made an update to its notification manager (and also back-ported it).
That update allowed the user to long press on a notification, immediately see who sent the notification, and from that screen allowed the user to uninstall the responsible app (or disable all future notifications permanently from that particular app without uninstalling the app and without letting the app developer know that you disabled all those future notifications).