Australia is known to have cleaned up its tax, banking and property sales with complex ID tracking at a points along every transaction. Thats is what makes this so interesting.
Not really. If you'd read the article, you'd have seen the sentence "It is understood the real estate agency did not request a 100-point identity check and was not required to do so." They didn't bypass the 100-point ID check.
"Steve Jobs complained to me about what he called "onerous terms" that Facebook had demanded for the friends connection "
Steve Jobs is hardly in a position to be able to complain about "onerous terms" being placed on people. How many pages is the EULA for that abortion iTunes up to? 103? It's over a hundred...
Can someone explain to me why Apple behaves this way? I fail to understand. What even bugles my mind is the fact that Apple as a company is [still] a darling in many people's hearts. No bad publicity sticks.
Not here it doesn't. Less than six months after getting an iPhone (after being unable to find an Android phone at the time that didn't have decent enough hardware that also supported the weird 850Mhz 3G frequency required by my carrier for calls outside the city) my opinion of Apple has completely reversed.
Yes, the UI is fairly well thought out and it's relatively easy to use. However the outright refusal to give people what they want grates on my nerves significantly. The promises of iOS4 just didn't deliver. Multitasking is a huge pooch-screw...
Nope. Next time work gives me the option of what phone I want, I'll be picking something Android based - assuming Oracle (a company that is rapidly developing an even worse reputation than Apple) doesn't manage to squash it first.
Perversely, this kind of spam plays hell with the company I work for since we manage IT systems for chemists. Chemists get quite irate when legitimate messages from their suppliers get marked as spam because they mention pharmaceuticals.
Insted of using "leap" seconds why NTP dosn't use a longer interval to adjust the time in small steps?. With 1/1000s adjustment every 1024 seconds (which is the polling interval for most stable ntp client) the leap seconds adjustment need less than 2 week to complete.
The answer can be found in the Wikipedia article on leap seconds - the need for leap seconds isn't constant and predictable.
Plus, by the time it gets rolled out, South Korea will have 10 gig fibre to the home. So, gigabit isn't that unrealistic.
Indeed. Since the idea of the NBN is fibre to the home, I always thought 100meg would most likely be an artificial limit anyway. This "announcement" is simply going to make available more of the capability the network would likely have had in the first place.
The problem I have is that I don't know which side to trust. It's another case of the wrong lizard; it feels like it's just a matter of how comfy the handbasket is, and how well entertained we will be during the ride.
I'm becoming more and more convinced that the only sensible option for this election is to vote "None of the above". Whilst I have to vote, I refuse to consider the notion that I may not take the option of voting "None of the above".
They took something about them screwing up in a moderately serious way while doing something people tend to get upset about them doing, and turned it into being about the quality of their customer service while incidentally advertising a rather expensive game.
There's an old saying that it's not the fact that a company screws up that generates ill will, it's the response from the company to rectify the problem.
This is a company that has heard that saying and has taken it to heart. Bravo.
In Australia, it's even worse, for two main reasons - first, voting is compulsory. You cop a fine if you don't vote. Second (and even worse) is we have preferential voting. In order for your vote to be valid, you have to rank the candidates on your ballot in order of preference. If your first preference doesn't get 50% of the vote in their own right, preferences are taken into account - meaning that you can cast a vote preferring one candidate, and your vote ends up being allocated to a candidate you'd rather not vote for at all.
Who cares? It's his product! I wanted an espresso machine mounted in my dashboard, but nooooo, Honda had to have it their way, and only give me options they wanted me to have.
There is a slight difference. Honda won't stop you mounting an espresso machine in your dashboard after you buy the car. Apple refuses to allow 3rd party addons that it hasn't approved.
If you're referring China, I've just heard someone on the BBC say recently that this policy has been silently dropped, since they NEED young people to have any chance to compete, say, with Indian technology etc.
A little Googling seems to reveal that the policy may have been modified to two children per couple, where both parents have no siblings. Whilst I do believe that population control is absolutely required, I'm not certain that China's approach is the best one. It's the kind of thing that very careful consideration will be required for.
Having less kids is not the only solution [to population control: not growing so old would be another one. Just sayin'.
I agree. Having watched two grandparents rot away from alzheimer's, one grandparent spend two weeks in severe pain followed by six weeks of mostly drugged stupor and with a number of my friends being aged care nurses, I'm a very firm believer in the right to die.
Anal-abusing males and group-masturbating females (commonly known as lesbians) do not contribute children towards the population of Planet Earth and USA in particular.
Contributing children towards Planet Earth is something that governments in general are going to have to discourage. At least one country on Earth already does. The planet simply cannot sustain a growing population indefinitely.
I should also note that many gay or lesbian couples do adopt children, or undergo fertility treatment to have children.
Since it is the job of the future generation to care about the current generation when it becomes elderly, people who do not contribute DNS to the future generation, shall be required to shoulder extra burden for the common good of the society.
In general, the elderly that the current generation care for are their own parents, not other "generic" elderly people. Given your logic, then gay and lesbian people are doing themselves a disservice by leaving themselves without someone to care for them when they grow older.
In Europe and South America many countries actually had taxes for healthy 25+, who were unmarried and 30+ still without kids.
Whilst I've never heard of such a tax, I suspect that "had" is the operative word if such taxes did actually exist. We are already straining environmental resources significantly with the population we have. We do not need more to contribute to the problem.
I wouldn't say we don't have the problem. You could get away with another number ob the originating service. We have fewer operators and less competition. which leads to other problems of course.
On all Australian services I've worked with (and as a former Asterisk engineer, I've worked with a few) if you try to present a number that does not belong to the service (or within the number range assigned to that service - provided you've paid for the privilege) then the default number will be presented.
I fail to see how Android is at fault here. That is basically how voicemail is intended to work, and if you don't put a password on it, you're just as much to blame - same as with any computerized system. The fact that you're spoofing it using an Android app is irrelevant.
The article isn't blaming Android for this - the finger is pointed at AT&T for such lax security. The only reason Android is referenced is that there happen to be apps available to spoof caller ID from them.
In Australia, we don't have this problem because caller ID spoofing of any kind is not allowed and is actively blocked from any landline or mobile service - if you attempt to present caller ID for a number that does not belong to the service the call is originating from, then the caller ID is reset to a default.
Where caller ID spoofing of any kind is allowed, carriers should not activate a service without a random pin number being assigned first.
Dont laugh, I've already soldered an RJ45 connection to the iron. The cat is next.
I think soldering an RJ45 to your cat will probably kill it.
Yeah, RJ45 connectors are plastic and will melt easily. Much better just to crimp it to the cat. Just make sure you get out of the way very quickly afterwards.
While in general I oppose the death penalty, IMO if anybody at all is to be executed, it should be the people in the ruling positions. Their decisions affect millions of people. So their actions should be closely monitored, and important failures ruthlessly punished.
...and if you honestly believe this could ever happen, then I've got a lovely bridge to sell you...
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Australia is known to have cleaned up its tax, banking and property sales with complex ID tracking at a points along every transaction.
Thats is what makes this so interesting.
Not really. If you'd read the article, you'd have seen the sentence "It is understood the real estate agency did not request a 100-point identity check and was not required to do so." They didn't bypass the 100-point ID check.
Apple always says Mac OS X and Apple products are secure, non-exploitable and virus free. How are there exploits then?
Because it's pure marketing hype designed to pull the wool over most people's eyes, and pour bullshit into them for those who didn't fall for it.
No operating system is non-exploitable. Believe otherwise at your own peril.
"Steve Jobs complained to me about what he called "onerous terms" that Facebook had demanded for the friends connection "
Steve Jobs is hardly in a position to be able to complain about "onerous terms" being placed on people. How many pages is the EULA for that abortion iTunes up to? 103? It's over a hundred...
Can someone explain to me why Apple behaves this way? I fail to understand. What even bugles my mind is the fact that Apple as a company is [still] a darling in many people's hearts. No bad publicity sticks.
Not here it doesn't. Less than six months after getting an iPhone (after being unable to find an Android phone at the time that didn't have decent enough hardware that also supported the weird 850Mhz 3G frequency required by my carrier for calls outside the city) my opinion of Apple has completely reversed.
Yes, the UI is fairly well thought out and it's relatively easy to use. However the outright refusal to give people what they want grates on my nerves significantly. The promises of iOS4 just didn't deliver. Multitasking is a huge pooch-screw...
Nope. Next time work gives me the option of what phone I want, I'll be picking something Android based - assuming Oracle (a company that is rapidly developing an even worse reputation than Apple) doesn't manage to squash it first.
Perversely, this kind of spam plays hell with the company I work for since we manage IT systems for chemists. Chemists get quite irate when legitimate messages from their suppliers get marked as spam because they mention pharmaceuticals.
Insted of using "leap" seconds why NTP dosn't use a longer interval to adjust the time in small steps?. With 1/1000s adjustment every 1024 seconds (which is the polling interval for most stable ntp client) the leap seconds adjustment need less than 2 week to complete.
The answer can be found in the Wikipedia article on leap seconds - the need for leap seconds isn't constant and predictable.
Any IT specialist worth their salt could have fixed this one...
Plus, by the time it gets rolled out, South Korea will have 10 gig fibre to the home. So, gigabit isn't that unrealistic.
Indeed. Since the idea of the NBN is fibre to the home, I always thought 100meg would most likely be an artificial limit anyway. This "announcement" is simply going to make available more of the capability the network would likely have had in the first place.
The problem I have is that I don't know which side to trust. It's another case of the wrong lizard; it feels like it's just a matter of how comfy the handbasket is, and how well entertained we will be during the ride.
I'm becoming more and more convinced that the only sensible option for this election is to vote "None of the above". Whilst I have to vote, I refuse to consider the notion that I may not take the option of voting "None of the above".
...then we're nerds. Yes, we're fully aware this is Slashdot.
Now, just need a fix for iOS4 being slow and shit on the iPhone 3G....
Apple has already released a fix for this. It's called upgrading to an iPhone 4.
The cats of the world will be most pleased to hear this.
Also some good spin work.
They took something about them screwing up in a moderately serious way while doing something people tend to get upset about them doing, and turned it into being about the quality of their customer service while incidentally advertising a rather expensive game.
There's an old saying that it's not the fact that a company screws up that generates ill will, it's the response from the company to rectify the problem.
This is a company that has heard that saying and has taken it to heart. Bravo.
They can't let fanboys handle the devices, because then they have to run them through the autoclave and that messes up the electronics.
Fanbois have electronics? No, this can't be true. No fanboi would put themselves in the position where they could be called an Android...
Actually, since 84% of 8 = 6.72, it would be more accurate to say that he owns Faceboc.
Politicians have brains?
Actually I believe that's the point - they don't, therefore they make good bodies for zombies.
In Australia, it's even worse, for two main reasons - first, voting is compulsory. You cop a fine if you don't vote. Second (and even worse) is we have preferential voting. In order for your vote to be valid, you have to rank the candidates on your ballot in order of preference. If your first preference doesn't get 50% of the vote in their own right, preferences are taken into account - meaning that you can cast a vote preferring one candidate, and your vote ends up being allocated to a candidate you'd rather not vote for at all.
Who cares? It's his product! I wanted an espresso machine mounted in my dashboard, but nooooo, Honda had to have it their way, and only give me options they wanted me to have.
There is a slight difference. Honda won't stop you mounting an espresso machine in your dashboard after you buy the car. Apple refuses to allow 3rd party addons that it hasn't approved.
If you're referring China, I've just heard someone on the BBC say recently that this policy has been silently dropped, since they NEED young people to have any chance to compete, say, with Indian technology etc.
A little Googling seems to reveal that the policy may have been modified to two children per couple, where both parents have no siblings. Whilst I do believe that population control is absolutely required, I'm not certain that China's approach is the best one. It's the kind of thing that very careful consideration will be required for.
Having less kids is not the only solution [to population control: not growing so old would be another one. Just sayin'.
I agree. Having watched two grandparents rot away from alzheimer's, one grandparent spend two weeks in severe pain followed by six weeks of mostly drugged stupor and with a number of my friends being aged care nurses, I'm a very firm believer in the right to die.
"Do you know your Sons might be Lesbians?"
I certainly am. I only like women.
Anal-abusing males and group-masturbating females (commonly known as lesbians) do not contribute children towards the population of Planet Earth and USA in particular.
Contributing children towards Planet Earth is something that governments in general are going to have to discourage. At least one country on Earth already does. The planet simply cannot sustain a growing population indefinitely.
I should also note that many gay or lesbian couples do adopt children, or undergo fertility treatment to have children.
Since it is the job of the future generation to care about the current generation when it becomes elderly, people who do not contribute DNS to the future generation, shall be required to shoulder extra burden for the common good of the society.
In general, the elderly that the current generation care for are their own parents, not other "generic" elderly people. Given your logic, then gay and lesbian people are doing themselves a disservice by leaving themselves without someone to care for them when they grow older.
In Europe and South America many countries actually had taxes for healthy 25+, who were unmarried and 30+ still without kids.
Whilst I've never heard of such a tax, I suspect that "had" is the operative word if such taxes did actually exist. We are already straining environmental resources significantly with the population we have. We do not need more to contribute to the problem.
I wouldn't say we don't have the problem. You could get away with another number ob the originating service. We have fewer operators and less competition. which leads to other problems of course.
On all Australian services I've worked with (and as a former Asterisk engineer, I've worked with a few) if you try to present a number that does not belong to the service (or within the number range assigned to that service - provided you've paid for the privilege) then the default number will be presented.
I fail to see how Android is at fault here. That is basically how voicemail is intended to work, and if you don't put a password on it, you're just as much to blame - same as with any computerized system. The fact that you're spoofing it using an Android app is irrelevant.
The article isn't blaming Android for this - the finger is pointed at AT&T for such lax security. The only reason Android is referenced is that there happen to be apps available to spoof caller ID from them.
In Australia, we don't have this problem because caller ID spoofing of any kind is not allowed and is actively blocked from any landline or mobile service - if you attempt to present caller ID for a number that does not belong to the service the call is originating from, then the caller ID is reset to a default.
Where caller ID spoofing of any kind is allowed, carriers should not activate a service without a random pin number being assigned first.
Dont laugh, I've already soldered an RJ45 connection to the iron. The cat is next.
I think soldering an RJ45 to your cat will probably kill it.
Yeah, RJ45 connectors are plastic and will melt easily. Much better just to crimp it to the cat. Just make sure you get out of the way very quickly afterwards.
While in general I oppose the death penalty, IMO if anybody at all is to be executed, it should be the people in the ruling positions. Their decisions affect millions of people. So their actions should be closely monitored, and important failures ruthlessly punished.
...and if you honestly believe this could ever happen, then I've got a lovely bridge to sell you...
Sounds like a plan to me.
When the robot uprising starts, there'll be a million ways to crash the fuckers.
Well, that will teach me to eat dinner whilst reading Slashdot. One keyboard with extra noodles, coming up...