No, the problem is requiring them to put everything on the Apple Store in the first place.
What happens if Amazon or B&N doesn't yield? Somehow the Kindle or Nook app gets "rescinded", and stops working when next their iphone or ipad updates. And then the other booksellers have to explain to their customers why all of a sudden, paid-for books can no longer be viewed on the device.
This is monopolistic practices: the next step is Apple announcing how they have "the largest selection of books" in the Apple Store, because they've forcibly extorted Amazon, Barnes&Noble, and every other ebook purveyor to put their books in the Apple Store or be cut off from the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad market entirely.
I wonder what happened to the monopoly abuse lawsuit over iPhone only being on AT&T anyways...
Isn't it nice how the orwellian newspeak keeps creeping into the debate?
The legal term is illegal alien. As in:
- Alien: (n) a resident born in or belonging to another country who has not acquired citizenship by naturalization ( distinguished from citizen). - Illegal: (adj) forbidden by law or statute.
In other words: illegal alien: a foreigner who has entered or resides in a country unlawfully or without the country's authorization.
Sadly, this level of common sense will never take hold in the US.
For all the fact that the US is overwhelmingly screaming for the deportation of illegals - no matter whether they come from china, india, mexico, canada, guatemala, somewhere in europe or africa - a certain political party sees illegals as their next voting bloc.
My city has a major problem with guatemalan illegals - specifically, they have organized into very successful burglary rings that the police are often afraid to tackle because they're hauling semiautomatic weaponry.
It's not about "mexicans", it's not about race... it's about crime.
Actually, no. The Xbox360 won't execute code without permission.
The worst it currently does is check that your firmware and the game you are wanting to play are both up to date, and then if either check fails, tells you you will be signed out of Live (but still free to play the game in offline or LAN mode).
Could I see MS doing this in in the future? Possibly. But I really don't think they consider it that big a deal. The people who have a hacked Xbox360 are already pretty much staying offline anyways so it wouldn't do them much good to insert this kind of code.
It sounds like they're trying to do precisely that - like earlier when Ubisoft tried to make it so your games wouldn't start if you weren't net connected and would die if you lost connection, while holding your savegames hostage.
Though it's going to be very, very interesting the first time some guy gets a bill and the photo shows that it was either (a) a stolen car or (b) some asshole from a valet service taking a joyride.
No, seriously. Our fucked-up senile delinquents on the Supreme Court have ruled that everything under the goddamn sun falls under the "interstate commerce clause."
Want to grow your own wheat to feed to your own chickens, which means you didn't have to buy someone else's wheat? Sorry. ""Interstate Commerce."
The same crap comes up in just about any argument. Want to regulate guns? Well sure, they might conceivably be sold across state lines. Even if the original factory won't sell them out of state, a rebuyer might, or someone might buy one and ship it to someone later or someone from out of state could buy it and transport it themselves or or.... yeah. You get the picture. Regulate food, regulate clothes, everything under the damn sun can be regulated under the "interstate commerce clause"... a clause originally intended to merely stop the various states from erecting tax stations and charging "import tariffs" on each other's borders, as was happening under the Articles of Confederation....
I'm reminded a lot of what the Democrats did at Wellstone's funeral. Mostly because they did it again two weeks ago in Tucson. Shame on them.
That being said, on this issue, Franken is right. Now if only he'd get his head out of his ass the rest of the time... the solution is not with the right-wing retards from the Tea Party/Republicans, nor is it with the left-wing lunatic fringe the Democrats spend too much time cozying up/sucking up to lately.
And sad to say, Franken is not centrist. For example, he went along with the big suck-up fest for Hu Jintao recently... an event lampooned quote credibly as "the guy who didn't deserve the 2009 Nobel kissing the ass of the guy holding the 2010 Nobel winner hostage."
I suggest you get into practice "giving a shit" at all times.
It's easier to form the habit of writing properly, practicing at each opportunity until it becomes fairly instinctive (not that mistakes don't happen, but that you are in the habit of watching for them as much as possible), than it is to "clean up your act" only for certain cases.
Espically in my field, education is very important (not just higher learning, but simply learning new technologies), and if you don't seem willing to even learn anything past the basics, it makes you a much less qualified applicant.
This makes you one of the HR morons I was talking about.
10 years working in the field with the new technologies as they roll out ought to be plenty of "experience" in learning new technologies. But you're too stupid to see that.
Even close to the city, you're likely to have a crapass DSL connection run by the local telco monopoly. The definition of "broadband" is something that gets argued about left and right. Back in my old place, the local telco monopoly was still trying to pass off 1Mbit down / 128kbit up as "broadband."
The problem is the US has just about zero competition for ISP service, which means zero reason for the telco and cable monopolies to actually provide a decent service. Instead, they just charge monopoly-extortion rates for shitty-ass service. Hell, if it weren't for prior art, I bet Comcrap would try to patent that as a business model!
The problem is that HR departments are home to some of the least cognitive people on the planet.
Want to know how you get through the HR "filter" to someone who can actually make a hiring decision? You fill your resume with meaningless garbage, "certifications" from overglorified cert-mills and degree-mills, pad your experience by about 3-5 years, and do whatever else it takes to fit the computerized filter. And you do this not because it indicates any ability to actually do the job, but because the first thing the HR idiots do is stick all the resumes for a given position in a pile and order a computerized filter to drop all the ones that don't have a precise combination of keywords.
Ability to adapt to new jobs/situations? Not looked for. Have 20 years in the field but been working all that time rather than building up student debt? Sorry, guess you didn't match the keywords they wanted in the "education" field.
that's like saying Christianity is evil because of the KKK, or atheism is evil because of Stalin, or the free market is evil because of Pinochet or Enron.
All arguments I've actually seen in "mainstream" news organizations.
Overpopulation is a real concern in many nations. It continues to be a real global worry; past issues with overpopulation were solved by certain technical changes (sewers and flush toilets replaced tossing shit in the streets, automobiles replaced horse and buggy, air conditioning and pipe-delivered or electrical heating systems replaced sweltering and siestas and wood-burning stoves) that we can't rely on for the future.
At some point, something radical has to change. Either a population limitation will happen from within, or it'll happen because of some hurdle we can't overcome. The scare of SARS, avian flu, etc were overblown, but the possibility of something actually nasty that's airborne and able to take out, say, 20% of the population is pretty real even in the age of modern medicine as long as it's pernicious enough.
With AIDS we actually got lucky that it's a body-fluid transmitted pathogen. Imagine a variant that travels by cough and doesn't get diagnosed till someone's been a carrier for a couple years.
China is the world's worst polluter. Maybe we should be following the Great Khan's example?
(warning: the aforementioned is only slightly tongue-in-cheek; after all, China is home to some of the world's worst human rights abusers, a regime which runs on slave labor, zero environmental protection, and outright theft of IP from anyone stupid enough to do business with them).
At the end of Matrix 2, I honestly thought we were seeing "hey dummy, they're still in the matrix, they're just fooled into thinking they are out so that they'll stop resisting."
After all, Neo's "I can alter the Matrix" powers make sense in the matrix, but there's no rational basis whatsoever for him being fucking telekinetic in the real world. Therefore, as I saw it, the easiest explanation was just that he was starting to get a sense of the second matrix layer and play with it when he made all the squidbots explode.
After all, that makes more logical sense (at least according to the previously relatively internally-consistent rules as established in the movies till that point) than "Neo is fucking jesus, the chosen one gets to have powers in the real world too, he's going to blow up in a cross shape, fuck you", which is what they did with the third movie.
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Dude, I thought at the end of 2 that they were going to go with a "you idiot, they're still in the matrix, the solution to people not being able to handle it was just to fool them into thinking they had escaped so they'd stop fighting it" approach.
After all, THAT would at least have explained better why Neo was able to sense the damn squidbots and blow them up.
But no, then they take the 3rd movie and bash you in the head with "Neo=Jesus" crap and a goddamn Dragonball Z-ish fistfight. The only thing missing was Neo's hair turning bright fucking yellow and standing on end when he Goku'ed out.
I'm sure that this movie will have just about as much to do with real life as any "made for TV movie" ever has.
Of course, after the way Wikileaks shifted from simply releasing data, to massively editorializing and chopping things up to suit their own slant (especially that horribly butchered video), they basically have no credibility left anyways.
Ratings have become as much an ad in themselves and proof positive that the ratings board need to be changed if not abolished.
When I saw a movie rated "PG-13" for "sexual content, some language and teen partying" I just had to laugh for a while. If that doesn't tell you that the stereotype - a bunch of sexless old white women spinsters who think the end of civilization involves naughty words and a bit of sex - is accurate, I don't know what does.
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Do I agree with this? No. It's my phone and my apps. I don't like apple deciding what apps get offered
And that's why I don't own an iPhone.
No, the problem is requiring them to put everything on the Apple Store in the first place.
What happens if Amazon or B&N doesn't yield? Somehow the Kindle or Nook app gets "rescinded", and stops working when next their iphone or ipad updates. And then the other booksellers have to explain to their customers why all of a sudden, paid-for books can no longer be viewed on the device.
This is monopolistic practices: the next step is Apple announcing how they have "the largest selection of books" in the Apple Store, because they've forcibly extorted Amazon, Barnes&Noble, and every other ebook purveyor to put their books in the Apple Store or be cut off from the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad market entirely.
I wonder what happened to the monopoly abuse lawsuit over iPhone only being on AT&T anyways...
Oh, he's more than new here.
Don't care who proposes it, "internet kill switch" is bad legislation.
They used to do a lot more.
I remember when they'd do the flame-flash with the meat. (Cam'ron, Can't Hurt My Style, "Flame it like Benihana's...")
The juggling with various ingredients to make the fried rice.
A lot of it is skilled knife-work, no question. Then again, ever time I've gone with friends to Benihana, the food's been wonderful.
YMMV by location and by chef, of course. And that pretty much holds for any Teppanyaki place.
Isn't it nice how the orwellian newspeak keeps creeping into the debate?
The legal term is illegal alien. As in:
- Alien: (n) a resident born in or belonging to another country who has not acquired citizenship by naturalization ( distinguished from citizen).
- Illegal: (adj) forbidden by law or statute.
In other words: illegal alien: a foreigner who has entered or resides in a country unlawfully or without the country's authorization.
Sadly, this level of common sense will never take hold in the US.
For all the fact that the US is overwhelmingly screaming for the deportation of illegals - no matter whether they come from china, india, mexico, canada, guatemala, somewhere in europe or africa - a certain political party sees illegals as their next voting bloc.
My city has a major problem with guatemalan illegals - specifically, they have organized into very successful burglary rings that the police are often afraid to tackle because they're hauling semiautomatic weaponry.
It's not about "mexicans", it's not about race... it's about crime.
Actually, no. The Xbox360 won't execute code without permission.
The worst it currently does is check that your firmware and the game you are wanting to play are both up to date, and then if either check fails, tells you you will be signed out of Live (but still free to play the game in offline or LAN mode).
Could I see MS doing this in in the future? Possibly. But I really don't think they consider it that big a deal. The people who have a hacked Xbox360 are already pretty much staying offline anyways so it wouldn't do them much good to insert this kind of code.
Wow, you're really a hopeful type aren't you?
It sounds like they're trying to do precisely that - like earlier when Ubisoft tried to make it so your games wouldn't start if you weren't net connected and would die if you lost connection, while holding your savegames hostage.
Have to agree.
Though it's going to be very, very interesting the first time some guy gets a bill and the photo shows that it was either (a) a stolen car or (b) some asshole from a valet service taking a joyride.
The answer is "interstate commerce clause."
No, seriously. Our fucked-up senile delinquents on the Supreme Court have ruled that everything under the goddamn sun falls under the "interstate commerce clause."
Want to grow your own wheat to feed to your own chickens, which means you didn't have to buy someone else's wheat? Sorry. ""Interstate Commerce."
The same crap comes up in just about any argument. Want to regulate guns? Well sure, they might conceivably be sold across state lines. Even if the original factory won't sell them out of state, a rebuyer might, or someone might buy one and ship it to someone later or someone from out of state could buy it and transport it themselves or or.... yeah. You get the picture. Regulate food, regulate clothes, everything under the damn sun can be regulated under the "interstate commerce clause"... a clause originally intended to merely stop the various states from erecting tax stations and charging "import tariffs" on each other's borders, as was happening under the Articles of Confederation....
I'm reminded a lot of what the Democrats did at Wellstone's funeral.
Mostly because they did it again two weeks ago in Tucson. Shame on them.
That being said, on this issue, Franken is right. Now if only he'd get his head out of his ass the rest of the time... the solution is not with the right-wing retards from the Tea Party/Republicans, nor is it with the left-wing lunatic fringe the Democrats spend too much time cozying up/sucking up to lately.
And sad to say, Franken is not centrist. For example, he went along with the big suck-up fest for Hu Jintao recently... an event lampooned quote credibly as "the guy who didn't deserve the 2009 Nobel kissing the ass of the guy holding the 2010 Nobel winner hostage."
I suggest you get into practice "giving a shit" at all times.
It's easier to form the habit of writing properly, practicing at each opportunity until it becomes fairly instinctive (not that mistakes don't happen, but that you are in the habit of watching for them as much as possible), than it is to "clean up your act" only for certain cases.
Once I get passed these entry level classes (especially the boring IT ones) I'm sure there is a lot to learn.
Ahh, such blissful naivety...
Espically in my field, education is very important (not just higher learning, but simply learning new technologies), and if you don't seem willing to even learn anything past the basics, it makes you a much less qualified applicant.
This makes you one of the HR morons I was talking about.
10 years working in the field with the new technologies as they roll out ought to be plenty of "experience" in learning new technologies. But you're too stupid to see that.
Even close to the city, you're likely to have a crapass DSL connection run by the local telco monopoly. The definition of "broadband" is something that gets argued about left and right. Back in my old place, the local telco monopoly was still trying to pass off 1Mbit down / 128kbit up as "broadband."
The problem is the US has just about zero competition for ISP service, which means zero reason for the telco and cable monopolies to actually provide a decent service. Instead, they just charge monopoly-extortion rates for shitty-ass service. Hell, if it weren't for prior art, I bet Comcrap would try to patent that as a business model!
The problem is that HR departments are home to some of the least cognitive people on the planet.
Want to know how you get through the HR "filter" to someone who can actually make a hiring decision? You fill your resume with meaningless garbage, "certifications" from overglorified cert-mills and degree-mills, pad your experience by about 3-5 years, and do whatever else it takes to fit the computerized filter. And you do this not because it indicates any ability to actually do the job, but because the first thing the HR idiots do is stick all the resumes for a given position in a pile and order a computerized filter to drop all the ones that don't have a precise combination of keywords.
Ability to adapt to new jobs/situations? Not looked for. Have 20 years in the field but been working all that time rather than building up student debt? Sorry, guess you didn't match the keywords they wanted in the "education" field.
that's like saying Christianity is evil because of the KKK, or atheism is evil because of Stalin, or the free market is evil because of Pinochet or Enron.
All arguments I've actually seen in "mainstream" news organizations.
I'm reminded of the old "A Modest Proposal" here.
Overpopulation is a real concern in many nations. It continues to be a real global worry; past issues with overpopulation were solved by certain technical changes (sewers and flush toilets replaced tossing shit in the streets, automobiles replaced horse and buggy, air conditioning and pipe-delivered or electrical heating systems replaced sweltering and siestas and wood-burning stoves) that we can't rely on for the future.
At some point, something radical has to change. Either a population limitation will happen from within, or it'll happen because of some hurdle we can't overcome. The scare of SARS, avian flu, etc were overblown, but the possibility of something actually nasty that's airborne and able to take out, say, 20% of the population is pretty real even in the age of modern medicine as long as it's pernicious enough.
With AIDS we actually got lucky that it's a body-fluid transmitted pathogen. Imagine a variant that travels by cough and doesn't get diagnosed till someone's been a carrier for a couple years.
Well, no, but it raises an important point.
China is the world's worst polluter. Maybe we should be following the Great Khan's example?
(warning: the aforementioned is only slightly tongue-in-cheek; after all, China is home to some of the world's worst human rights abusers, a regime which runs on slave labor, zero environmental protection, and outright theft of IP from anyone stupid enough to do business with them).
At the end of Matrix 2, I honestly thought we were seeing "hey dummy, they're still in the matrix, they're just fooled into thinking they are out so that they'll stop resisting."
After all, Neo's "I can alter the Matrix" powers make sense in the matrix, but there's no rational basis whatsoever for him being fucking telekinetic in the real world. Therefore, as I saw it, the easiest explanation was just that he was starting to get a sense of the second matrix layer and play with it when he made all the squidbots explode.
After all, that makes more logical sense (at least according to the previously relatively internally-consistent rules as established in the movies till that point) than "Neo is fucking jesus, the chosen one gets to have powers in the real world too, he's going to blow up in a cross shape, fuck you", which is what they did with the third movie.
Dude, I thought at the end of 2 that they were going to go with a "you idiot, they're still in the matrix, the solution to people not being able to handle it was just to fool them into thinking they had escaped so they'd stop fighting it" approach.
After all, THAT would at least have explained better why Neo was able to sense the damn squidbots and blow them up.
But no, then they take the 3rd movie and bash you in the head with "Neo=Jesus" crap and a goddamn Dragonball Z-ish fistfight. The only thing missing was Neo's hair turning bright fucking yellow and standing on end when he Goku'ed out.
Interesting.
I'm sure that this movie will have just about as much to do with real life as any "made for TV movie" ever has.
Of course, after the way Wikileaks shifted from simply releasing data, to massively editorializing and chopping things up to suit their own slant (especially that horribly butchered video), they basically have no credibility left anyways.
Ratings have become as much an ad in themselves and proof positive that the ratings board need to be changed if not abolished.
When I saw a movie rated "PG-13" for "sexual content, some language and teen partying" I just had to laugh for a while. If that doesn't tell you that the stereotype - a bunch of sexless old white women spinsters who think the end of civilization involves naughty words and a bit of sex - is accurate, I don't know what does.
Then again, that's what you get with the USA, where a bunch of religious puritans from the usual brainwashing cults still run the place. Remember, "Horrific, deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don't say any naughty words!"
"Local network level" = a $30 linksys router. Linux enablement optional.
It ain't that hard.
Also, I believe there is a law that requires drug manufacturers to put expiration dates on all their products.
If only that law required the "expiration dates" to be REMOTELY ACCURATE...