Except it doesn't run iOS, which means it's not an iPad mini. Someone who wants for a Playstation 4 for Christmas doesn't want an Xbox One.
Yes, but Christmas shopping implies that someone else is going to make that purchase for you, and iPad Minis are vastly overpriced.
If you were my relative, this is the tablet I'd get you. It's far cheaper than the iPad Mini. Its screen is almost one inch bigger than the iPad Mini. And its battery lasts a hell of a lot longer too.
The base iPad Mini 2 lists at $299 and was as low as $229 during recent sales; the N1 is launching at $249.
That's probably why the author of the article talked about the base iPad Mini 3, not the iPad Mini 2.
The new Nokia N1 tablet, apparently. At just $250 with 32GB of storage — as opposed to the iPad Mini 3’s base price of $400 for the 16GB model — the Nokia N1 is definitely priced to sell.
And yes, from Apple's own comparison page, there doesn't seem to be any difference between the iPad Mini 2 and the iPad Mini 3. But to be fair to Nokia, its specs are superior to the iPad Mini 2 and 3.
And also, the Android tablets are the ones that initially embraced the 7 inch to 8 inch sizes, so one could say that Apple is the one that cloned those tablets from Asus, Samsung, HTC, and LG. But then again, a specs side-by-side comparison of Nokia's new tablet wouldn't look as good against the newer Android tablets made other manufacturers. Not to mention, the word "iPad" still has the most mind share, where it comes to people talking about tablets in general.
What about Gmail and their ilk? Don't users assume that messages are private in the same sense as users on Facebook sending private messages, that only the recipient reads them?
May be, but targeting Facebook first may just be a matter of strategy.
Facebook resells a lot of the information it gathers from its users, a lot more than Google does. I'm not saying that Google is less evil than Facebook, but if they're doing the same thing as Facebook, Google is lot better at keeping this kind of private information to itself.
What caught my eye is he turned himself in. Was he getting death threats? Or does it say something a bit scary about the UK that someone would tweet an offensive joke, erase it, and then turn themselves into the police?
I would have turned myself in too.
Nobody likes being woken up at 5 AM by a bunch of police thugs breaking down their door, manhandling them, and confiscating all their computers for evidence.
It could be Sony itself. Sony has already admitted to doing Denial of Services Attacks against its enemies, whether those enemies are located in the United States, Europe, Russia, or anywhere else in the World.
Sony really doesn't care about collateral damage, nor national boundaries.
If I was the parent, I'd encourage the kid to create games out of cardboard and paper, and possibly out of other physical materials. And of course, I'd play with him at those games. Also, if creating a game from scratch sounds like it's too hard, I'd ask him to take existing games, modify them little by little, and test how fun they are, among family and friends, after each time he makes a change.
Of course, this doesn't mean I'm opposed to video games. I just felt I needed to add my two cents regarding non-video games, since the video game creation angle is pretty much well covered on Slashdot already.
It's actually quite normal for the Supreme Court to pick cases where the lower courts normally can't agree on. In this case, the Supreme Court ruling was given on December 15th, 2014. So today, being December 19th, 2014, implies that there wasn't a definitive answer on this question until four days ago.
It's always been the case that if the cop had probable cause for conducting the search the results are admissible.
You're extrapolating. In the case of the Supreme Court case, the driver (allegedly) gave the cops consent to search his car. In the case of the parent poster, he doesn't say whether he consented to the search, or not.
Granted, "consent" can mean very little these days, just take a look on Youtube. To some police officers, even leaving your car door closed -- but unlocked, when stepping out of your car on the command of the police officer, implies that you've given them consent to search your car.
The RFID/NFC tag on your passport requires a lot of your private information already as the private key to decrypt it. And even then, the biggest additional piece of information at the first level of encryption it gives you is your picture (the same picture that's already in your passport).
Every time an official checks your passport, that digital picture is only used to verify that the physical picture on the passport hasn't been tampered with. In other words, this feature is used to prevent identity theft, not make it easier to do.
On topic, Google, I appreciate the focus on security, but stop deciding to simply implement however YOU THINK the web should be working.
Google should do whatever it wants. After all, if I get annoyed enough by Google Chrome, I'll just switch back to Firefox or Opera. Only the ChromeOS/ChromeBook/ChromeBox users may be screwed (because they've made the mistake of locking their hardware to a specific vendor browser).
In any case, Google hasn't formally announced a decision yet, it has merely made a proposal public and started a discussion on the subject requesting feedback. The fact that everyone is condemning Google for this proposal vindicates all the companies that keep their discussions private and out of the public eye until they work them out -- all secretly first.
Pretty sure that both the iOS and Android systems can do this out of the box, they just have chosen not to. There's also the old Kindle deleting 1984 incident.
If you bring up 1984 as an example, then you have to bring up U2.
Now, assuming Sony documents will survive, will be available for everyone, and will be commented, how exactly SONY will know which newspaper has caused an actual harm?
As you say, Sony won't know.
Besides, the newspapers do not need to download anything. They just need to let bloggers do the downloading and do the analysis for them.
Then once the information is out on blogs, and out on foreign newspapers, they can just republish what was said by those other guys.
The only thing they can do really is to stop advertising on the newspapers and on the television channels that choose to republish that information prominently, but this alone can't stop the wide release of the information.
Speed bumps. Waze has done some strange rerouting taking me into the Bay Area. Instead of keeping me on US101 through the admittedly heavy slog by San Jose airport, it wants me to get in a long line of metered traffic to get on 85, then get on the heavily congested 87 freeway and then get in another massive line of metered traffic to rejoin US 101 right at the end of the runway.
Did this happen three days ago during the peak of the storm? Because US 101 was closed for a time? And for the time it wasn't closed, people stalled and damaged their car by driving through water.
...I worry that Uber spells the demise of yet another low tech job. I mean, shouldn't there be something between fast food workers and cube dwellers? So I can see both sides of this.
You're framing both sides of the question incorrectly.
Do not confuse the worker, in this case drivers, with the owner of means of production, in this case the medallions-owners.
Where medallions are artificially scarce and can cost as much as one million dollars in New York, renting a medallion is an incredible weekly expense to have for the drivers and it ensures that taxi driver's lion share of their profits goes to the owners of the medallions, instead of themselves -- the lowly drivers.
Also if anything is destroying the taxi business, it's the medallion system, not Uber. During peak hours where medallions are scarce, one can not possibly hope to get picked up by a taxi during those times (unless perhaps, they're stepping out of a 4 star Hilton). And this artificial constraint only limits the number of driving jobs available. Once you lift this limit, you would only be creating new low tech jobs, instead of artificially limiting their number.
It also sends a really clear message: "This behavior will not be tolerated." If sexual harassment causes your name and work to be disgraced - that's a pretty strong deterrent to people in academia.
Destroying a man's career is already a pretty strong deterrent, not that it helped any in this case. Some people are going to do what they despite of deterrents. Many of those people are arrogant enough to think that they're never going to get caught, so that a particular deterrent doesn't apply to them.
So if you're considering the aggregate effect, you've also got to consider the aggregate improvement in the lives of students who now face less harassment and can learn in a less hostile environment.
Punitive action just for the sake of vengeance is not going to make an academic environment less hostile. If anything, it's going to turn that Professor into a martyr for some and it's going to make the academic environment more hostile in general to sexual harassment claims.
In this case, it was just a set of lectures, but imagine if the work had been a bunch of research papers collaboratively created. No one else likes to be punished for someone else's actions. And if the Professor was a good lecturer (I actually don't know if he really was, but assuming that he was), you're not just punishing him (which I have no problem with), but you're also punishing everyone else who may judge his lectures to be of value.
A raft of excuses ("battery's dead") and security problems come to mind; how would you implement such a system?
Not to worry, I have a phone charger with all the right attachments back in my cruiser. "Phone charging", quote on quote, is part of the many services we provide.
Believe it or not, I even have this handheld $20,000 gizmo that can back up the content of your phone in less than two minutes, whatever brand of phone you use. It also helps that SSD memory, by design, doesn't try to overwrite its memory spaces of deleted pictures with newly taken pictures, unless it's absolutely necessary. It's a way to make the SSD memory more reliable.
So if you're phone is not completely full, I may even find pictures that you deleted more than two years ago. Are you sure you don't want to tell me what illegal activity is on that phone, before I discover it myself. I'd go a lot easier on you if you told me now, instead of just wasting my time. After all, we both know I'm going to find out what you're hiding on that phone eventually, and then you'll be in hell of trouble.
Among other things it's basically giving them permission to search through my phone if they feel like it. Nope, I'll stick to a physical card.
Even with a physical drivers license, they always try to grab your entire wallet before you can pull out the driver license from it.
In California, it's not like they even need my drivers license (motorcycle police officers excluded). Most of the times, the cops in cop cars can already pull any Californian's drivers license from their onboard laptop.
The only thing I'm not sure about is their cell phone coverage. I assume they may not be able to download your data if they're outside of a 4G/3G cell phone coverage area.
What information can't you get that you need Mr. Government?
In San Francisco, a police officer can already pull the list of prescribed medications of any girl in California he's interested in dating (without any audit trail or oversight). Does every cop really "need" that kind of access at his fingertips for the war on drugs?
It would be nice if the information also freely flowed the other way. Can you let us know what prescribed medication police officers take? Which of them take meds for being crazy, or take meds for STDs, the public has the right to know about that. In fact, an STD test should also be required of a police officer anytime that police officer has an open cut, or provokes an open cut in someone else.
And what about the medication lists of district attorneys and sitting judges? It would be nice to know about their meds as well. The same goes for the medication of their wives or girlfriends. After all, if a cop/DA can get the medication information, and by inference the medical information, of myself and/or my significant other on a whim. I should also have the right to do the same to him.
...and home of the lifetime sentence for nearly every crime. Best of luck to you.
Actually, not all the States in the United States have the same laws regarding criminal background checks. If I were him, I'd possibly consider moving.
In addition, many state laws provide some protections for applicants with a criminal past. Some states prohibit employers from asking about arrest records, at least if the arrest is no longer pending. Some states allow employers to ask about convictions only if they relate directly to the job, or require employers who consider convictions to take particular facts into account, such as how serious the crime was and whether the applicant has participated in any rehabilitation efforts. To find out whether your state has a law regarding employer use of arrest and conviction records, select it from the list below.
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Except it doesn't run iOS, which means it's not an iPad mini. Someone who wants for a Playstation 4 for Christmas doesn't want an Xbox One.
Yes, but Christmas shopping implies that someone else is going to make that purchase for you, and iPad Minis are vastly overpriced.
If you were my relative, this is the tablet I'd get you. It's far cheaper than the iPad Mini. Its screen is almost one inch bigger than the iPad Mini. And its battery lasts a hell of a lot longer too.
The base iPad Mini 2 lists at $299 and was as low as $229 during recent sales; the N1 is launching at $249.
That's probably why the author of the article talked about the base iPad Mini 3, not the iPad Mini 2.
The new Nokia N1 tablet, apparently. At just $250 with 32GB of storage — as opposed to the iPad Mini 3’s base price of $400 for the 16GB model — the Nokia N1 is definitely priced to sell.
And yes, from Apple's own comparison page, there doesn't seem to be any difference between the iPad Mini 2 and the iPad Mini 3. But to be fair to Nokia, its specs are superior to the iPad Mini 2 and 3.
And also, the Android tablets are the ones that initially embraced the 7 inch to 8 inch sizes, so one could say that Apple is the one that cloned those tablets from Asus, Samsung, HTC, and LG. But then again, a specs side-by-side comparison of Nokia's new tablet wouldn't look as good against the newer Android tablets made other manufacturers. Not to mention, the word "iPad" still has the most mind share, where it comes to people talking about tablets in general.
What about Gmail and their ilk? Don't users assume that messages are private in the same sense as users on Facebook sending private messages, that only the recipient reads them?
May be, but targeting Facebook first may just be a matter of strategy.
Facebook resells a lot of the information it gathers from its users, a lot more than Google does. I'm not saying that Google is less evil than Facebook, but if they're doing the same thing as Facebook, Google is lot better at keeping this kind of private information to itself.
What caught my eye is he turned himself in. Was he getting death threats? Or does it say something a bit scary about the UK that someone would tweet an offensive joke, erase it, and then turn themselves into the police?
I would have turned myself in too.
Nobody likes being woken up at 5 AM by a bunch of police thugs breaking down their door, manhandling them, and confiscating all their computers for evidence.
...plus how would you even chose which game was in the Olympics?
The same way it's currently done now, with both bribes and sponsorship money.
In any case, I agree with you. If video game studios want their own competitions, they should just organize their own leagues.
Many drone auto-pilots already run on embedded Linux.
The AR Drone 2.0 (which is quite old already) runs on Linux 2.6.32 for instance.
It could be Sony itself. Sony has already admitted to doing Denial of Services Attacks against its enemies, whether those enemies are located in the United States, Europe, Russia, or anywhere else in the World.
Sony really doesn't care about collateral damage, nor national boundaries.
If I was the parent, I'd encourage the kid to create games out of cardboard and paper, and possibly out of other physical materials. And of course, I'd play with him at those games. Also, if creating a game from scratch sounds like it's too hard, I'd ask him to take existing games, modify them little by little, and test how fun they are, among family and friends, after each time he makes a change.
Of course, this doesn't mean I'm opposed to video games. I just felt I needed to add my two cents regarding non-video games, since the video game creation angle is pretty much well covered on Slashdot already.
No, what happened to you was odd.
It's actually quite normal for the Supreme Court to pick cases where the lower courts normally can't agree on. In this case, the Supreme Court ruling was given on December 15th, 2014. So today, being December 19th, 2014, implies that there wasn't a definitive answer on this question until four days ago.
It's always been the case that if the cop had probable cause for conducting the search the results are admissible.
You're extrapolating. In the case of the Supreme Court case, the driver (allegedly) gave the cops consent to search his car. In the case of the parent poster, he doesn't say whether he consented to the search, or not.
Granted, "consent" can mean very little these days, just take a look on Youtube. To some police officers, even leaving your car door closed -- but unlocked, when stepping out of your car on the command of the police officer, implies that you've given them consent to search your car.
The RFID/NFC tag on your passport requires a lot of your private information already as the private key to decrypt it. And even then, the biggest additional piece of information at the first level of encryption it gives you is your picture (the same picture that's already in your passport).
Users with Android phones with NFC capabilities can check this for themselves.
Every time an official checks your passport, that digital picture is only used to verify that the physical picture on the passport hasn't been tampered with. In other words, this feature is used to prevent identity theft, not make it easier to do.
Yep, this only emboldens the bad guys, now that some hackers have actually gotten companies to run away screaming from a fictional movie.
If they're not going to show it, they should at least release the movie to the file-sharing community. I just checked, but I couldn't find it.
On topic, Google, I appreciate the focus on security, but stop deciding to simply implement however YOU THINK the web should be working.
Google should do whatever it wants. After all, if I get annoyed enough by Google Chrome, I'll just switch back to Firefox or Opera. Only the ChromeOS/ChromeBook/ChromeBox users may be screwed (because they've made the mistake of locking their hardware to a specific vendor browser).
In any case, Google hasn't formally announced a decision yet, it has merely made a proposal public and started a discussion on the subject requesting feedback. The fact that everyone is condemning Google for this proposal vindicates all the companies that keep their discussions private and out of the public eye until they work them out -- all secretly first.
Pretty sure that both the iOS and Android systems can do this out of the box, they just have chosen not to. There's also the old Kindle deleting 1984 incident.
If you bring up 1984 as an example, then you have to bring up U2.
...but iOS itself cannot install software without asking the user.
Can't you install an app on an iPhone by only through iTunes on a PC?
If so, then yes, iOS supports remote installs.
Me for one. I refused until the "Sign it or Mcdonalds is hiring" speech.
Were you interviewing to be a fry cook? Because that's an incredibly insulting thing to say otherwise.
Nobody insults someone they really want to hire.
Wish more companies consistently bought into their own message. Cisco employees should be able to work from home from any place in the world, right??
To be fair, Cisco is beginning to work like that.
The Cisco Systems executives remotely work from their yatch and the Cisco Systems workers remotely work from India.
Now, assuming Sony documents will survive, will be available for everyone, and will be commented, how exactly SONY will know which newspaper has caused an actual harm?
As you say, Sony won't know.
Besides, the newspapers do not need to download anything. They just need to let bloggers do the downloading and do the analysis for them.
Then once the information is out on blogs, and out on foreign newspapers, they can just republish what was said by those other guys.
The only thing they can do really is to stop advertising on the newspapers and on the television channels that choose to republish that information prominently, but this alone can't stop the wide release of the information.
Speed bumps. Waze has done some strange rerouting taking me into the Bay Area. Instead of keeping me on US101 through the admittedly heavy slog by San Jose airport, it wants me to get in a long line of metered traffic to get on 85, then get on the heavily congested 87 freeway and then get in another massive line of metered traffic to rejoin US 101 right at the end of the runway.
Did this happen three days ago during the peak of the storm? Because US 101 was closed for a time? And for the time it wasn't closed, people stalled and damaged their car by driving through water.
...I worry that Uber spells the demise of yet another low tech job. I mean, shouldn't there be something between fast food workers and cube dwellers? So I can see both sides of this.
You're framing both sides of the question incorrectly.
Do not confuse the worker, in this case drivers, with the owner of means of production, in this case the medallions-owners.
Where medallions are artificially scarce and can cost as much as one million dollars in New York, renting a medallion is an incredible weekly expense to have for the drivers and it ensures that taxi driver's lion share of their profits goes to the owners of the medallions, instead of themselves -- the lowly drivers.
Also if anything is destroying the taxi business, it's the medallion system, not Uber. During peak hours where medallions are scarce, one can not possibly hope to get picked up by a taxi during those times (unless perhaps, they're stepping out of a 4 star Hilton). And this artificial constraint only limits the number of driving jobs available. Once you lift this limit, you would only be creating new low tech jobs, instead of artificially limiting their number.
It also sends a really clear message: "This behavior will not be tolerated." If sexual harassment causes your name and work to be disgraced - that's a pretty strong deterrent to people in academia.
Destroying a man's career is already a pretty strong deterrent, not that it helped any in this case. Some people are going to do what they despite of deterrents. Many of those people are arrogant enough to think that they're never going to get caught, so that a particular deterrent doesn't apply to them.
So if you're considering the aggregate effect, you've also got to consider the aggregate improvement in the lives of students who now face less harassment and can learn in a less hostile environment.
Punitive action just for the sake of vengeance is not going to make an academic environment less hostile. If anything, it's going to turn that Professor into a martyr for some and it's going to make the academic environment more hostile in general to sexual harassment claims.
In this case, it was just a set of lectures, but imagine if the work had been a bunch of research papers collaboratively created. No one else likes to be punished for someone else's actions. And if the Professor was a good lecturer (I actually don't know if he really was, but assuming that he was), you're not just punishing him (which I have no problem with), but you're also punishing everyone else who may judge his lectures to be of value.
A raft of excuses ("battery's dead") and security problems come to mind; how would you implement such a system?
Not to worry, I have a phone charger with all the right attachments back in my cruiser. "Phone charging", quote on quote, is part of the many services we provide.
Believe it or not, I even have this handheld $20,000 gizmo that can back up the content of your phone in less than two minutes, whatever brand of phone you use. It also helps that SSD memory, by design, doesn't try to overwrite its memory spaces of deleted pictures with newly taken pictures, unless it's absolutely necessary. It's a way to make the SSD memory more reliable.
So if you're phone is not completely full, I may even find pictures that you deleted more than two years ago. Are you sure you don't want to tell me what illegal activity is on that phone, before I discover it myself. I'd go a lot easier on you if you told me now, instead of just wasting my time. After all, we both know I'm going to find out what you're hiding on that phone eventually, and then you'll be in hell of trouble.
Among other things it's basically giving them permission to search through my phone if they feel like it. Nope, I'll stick to a physical card.
Even with a physical drivers license, they always try to grab your entire wallet before you can pull out the driver license from it.
In California, it's not like they even need my drivers license (motorcycle police officers excluded). Most of the times, the cops in cop cars can already pull any Californian's drivers license from their onboard laptop.
The only thing I'm not sure about is their cell phone coverage. I assume they may not be able to download your data if they're outside of a 4G/3G cell phone coverage area.
The court kept the evidence found in the phone — a photo of a gun and a draft text message referring to jewelry that said "We did it."
The guy should have just used SnapChat.
That's what robbers, who seek external validation from their friends, do nowadays after they rob jewelry stores or liquor stores.
I just can't believe SnapChat wasn't around in 2009.
So what information can't you get that you need?
You stole my question.
What information can't you get that you need Mr. Government?
In San Francisco, a police officer can already pull the list of prescribed medications of any girl in California he's interested in dating (without any audit trail or oversight). Does every cop really "need" that kind of access at his fingertips for the war on drugs?
It would be nice if the information also freely flowed the other way. Can you let us know what prescribed medication police officers take? Which of them take meds for being crazy, or take meds for STDs, the public has the right to know about that. In fact, an STD test should also be required of a police officer anytime that police officer has an open cut, or provokes an open cut in someone else.
And what about the medication lists of district attorneys and sitting judges? It would be nice to know about their meds as well. The same goes for the medication of their wives or girlfriends. After all, if a cop/DA can get the medication information, and by inference the medical information, of myself and/or my significant other on a whim. I should also have the right to do the same to him.
America, land of the free...
Actually, not all the States in the United States have the same laws regarding criminal background checks. If I were him, I'd possibly consider moving.
In addition, many state laws provide some protections for applicants with a criminal past. Some states prohibit employers from asking about arrest records, at least if the arrest is no longer pending. Some states allow employers to ask about convictions only if they relate directly to the job, or require employers who consider convictions to take particular facts into account, such as how serious the crime was and whether the applicant has participated in any rehabilitation efforts. To find out whether your state has a law regarding employer use of arrest and conviction records, select it from the list below.
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