the real issue here is the broken permissions system on Android and Iphone.
I don't have an app permission system on my desktop, yet it gets along just fine. The real issue is the real issue: Lousy quality control. Some PHB decided to make a change in business rules without evaluating/testing the impact it would have across their product line.
Steve Jobs and his team made a damn fine piece of technology: A screen large enough for web-surfing & an easy-to-use touch interface. Plus people were already thrilled with the best-selling iPod, so stepping up to an iPhone was a natural next step.
Apple had a monopoly in portable music players. Shortly after, they integrated a music store into their music player's software. Using the RIAA's own stupidity against them, they locked music sold by this store into their own ecosystem using Fairplay. They soon found themselves sitting on a new monopoly in music sales. The RIAA eventually relented, but by then, the monopolist had moved on to gobble up another market: mobile phones. It only makes sense that customers didn't want to lose all that locked music and video content so they bought in to the next step. Then on to tablets. Then on to ebooks. Now, *finally* they are being investigated for illegally exploiting their monopolies. I guess having Al Gore on your board doesn't hurt when it comes to side stepping federal laws.
Apple used to make things that implemented industry standards. Microsoft and Sony did the lock in shenanigans... Now Apple ships AirPlay so you have to buy that AppleTV dongle or a new mini just to mirror your laptop to your TV. Meanwhile, everyone else is shipping TVs with DLNA built in. Apple's not implementing DLNA. It's not in their interests to play nice with industry standard protocols anymore. We'll see how that works out for them. It didn't turn out so well for Microsoft or Sony.
Like other people have mentioned -- if Congress wants DNT as the default, it needs to be required by law. Otherwise, making it the default means making it meaningless.
Yeah, and getting a law passed in the US is like impossible man. What group of people could do that?
I generally have zero trust in MS, but I applaud them on this move. Whether it pans out or not, you have my most sincere thanks for the effort Microsoft.
Then again, Apple does stay on bleeding edge technology.
Bleeding edge? Pfftbt. Apple has just taken stuff that already exists,
Apple invents too. Look at firewire... oh.
made it smaller,
The iPhone is too small. Don't worry, they'll follow the industry's lead and make it bigger.
made the features the predecessor advertised
Imitates competitors, yes.
actually work
Removed 90% of the feature and made the last 10% 'so easy' to use.
with a shiny UI that people can immediately understand and use,
Uh, yeah. Ever played with Automator?:-)
addressed real concerns like battery life,
Underclock their chips when running on battery.
and created the template for all their competitors to attempt to imitate.
After being guilty of said imitation themselves? These great templates... they didn't spring fully formed from the inspiration of some god. Sounds like someone doesn't believe in evolution boys... Get him!;-)
Plants need CO2 to live. CO2 + H2O + Sunlight == glucose. Your CO2 is waste to you. It's mana from heaven for plants. Global warmers are some of the most scientifically and agriculturally illiterate people I've ever encountered
Plants also love shit. And yet somehow this fertilizing mana from heaven is considered pollution. PARADOX. We even have laws preventing people from dumping raw sewage into public waterway for some sort of environmental reason.
And again, evidence the article is correct... You don't know shit. Shit isn't the problem. The pathogens in the shit are the problem. Shit doesn't give you cholorea, the pathogens do.
Our metabolism produces CO2 as a waste product which we expel from our bodies. Same thing with urine. And while you can drink a little bit of urine and be fine (just look at Bear Grylls), and you can breath a little CO2 and be fine, it's clearly crazy to say that emitting CO2 into the atmosphere is not pollution. What if I peed in a drinking water cistern that feeds your neighborhood? It's only a little, it won't hurt you, therefore it's not pollution. According to you.
Plants need CO2 to live. CO2 + H2O + Sunlight == glucose. Your CO2 is waste to you. It's mana from heaven for plants. Global warmers are some of the most scientifically and agriculturally illiterate people I've ever encountered... as TFA states. Thank you AC (and mods stupid enough to mod this up) for proving the point of the article.
Do you exe strange attachments in your email too? Count me in the 43%. The only thing "cracked" is your computer if you're downloading and executing "free" software on P2P.
This could well render California's wine industry economically unsustainable with only a few degrees change
So one state's booze production qualifies as a national security issue? Ha ha, that's rich!:D 'Mericaaa FUCK YEAH!
Also how do you like hurricanes? Because increased surface temperature and sea level moisture directly drive stronger storms in the American "hurricane ally"
The world's leading predictor of hurricanes, Dr. William Gray has his well educated opinion. You have yours. Hmmm, a Ph.D who has been accurately predicting hurricane frequency and intensity for decades... or some AC preaching about disease, famine, and plagues of locutus? Sorry mate, but you sound a bit religious to me.
So allow me to pull a play out of the climate cult's playbook. Coorelation equals causation: In this graph we show the last 10000 years of human population. And in this one we show the global mean temperature over the same period. Population increases with temperature, therefore we can conclude warmer weather is resulting in more people. Obviously, there's no flaw in the logic, and we have a consensus among scientists regarding these two facts. So it is true. Global warming is good for the human race. Any argument about this point means you are a "denier."
Care to argue? Of course you do. That's the stupidest thing anyone has ever said. Yet, if you exchange population with CO2, it is the exact argument you are presenting.
It blows my mind how many people believe warming is such a dangerous thing. Far more people are killed by the cold each year. Give me warming any day.
You are cherry picking numbers. Married couples pay at a much lower tax rate. Worldwide? When did that excuse Apple for shirking tax responsiblilty here at home? The corporate tax rate in the US is 35% at that income level.
It's a legitimate question. Do you really think Apple should pay less than 10% in federal taxes on $34,000,000,000 in profits while someone struggling to get by on $50,000 pays 25%?
So you think the average US household struggling to make ends meet with $50,000 per year should pay 25% of their income in taxes, but Apple computer should pay less than 10% on $34,000,000,000?
Yeah, that little pink line doesn't look anything like the temperature graphs I've seen. I'm not really seeing a pattern match between actual observations and that pink line in TFA.
T-Mo is doing that. Their $30/mo prepaid plan is pretty sweet. 100 minutes, unlimited text, unlimited data. The only catch is the first 5GB is at 4G speeds. After that, you may be throttled to EDGE. So there's only 100 minutes... who needs minutes with an android + free calls with Google voice?
As far as I'm concerned, it's the best thing to happen to the price of internet access since AOL's $19.95/mo flat rate.
It works seamlessly to those using an iPhone. To everyone else, it seems really stupid that you are sending text messages that show up as multimedia files. To anyone on an android phone, you are sending a picture of your text message. It is typical that an iPhone user would not know that though.
I'm not a lawyer either, but this is my recommendation if it were me.
Fight it. Take them to court. Ask the judge why the same group who distributed the file sharing software is now being allowed to sue you. Why doesn't Grokster apply to AOL? Why does it only apply to Grokster?
Clearly. They didn't have coal fired electrical generators and gas guzzlers back then, so obviously it couldn't be climate change. The climate only started changing when we invented electricity.
Wrong. The skeptics pointed out the predictions made by the alarmist's models were not coming true. Here we have yet another case where alarmist predictions don't match reality. Skeptics 2, Alarmists 0
It always astonishes me that on a geeky site like Slashdot with an audience that in theory puts such a high value on science, you get so many global warming denialists.
Someone interested in discussing science would not use words like "denialist" with the obvious intention of provoking an angry response. Pot, meet kettle.
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Numbers to back up ACs claim. Verizon certainly is fast. Verizon also sells your location data, browsing history, and app usage data. I personally don't think their slightly faster network is worth their blatant invasions of privacy.
the real issue here is the broken permissions system on Android and Iphone.
I don't have an app permission system on my desktop, yet it gets along just fine. The real issue is the real issue: Lousy quality control. Some PHB decided to make a change in business rules without evaluating/testing the impact it would have across their product line.
Steve Jobs and his team made a damn fine piece of technology: A screen large enough for web-surfing & an easy-to-use touch interface. Plus people were already thrilled with the best-selling iPod, so stepping up to an iPhone was a natural next step.
Apple had a monopoly in portable music players. Shortly after, they integrated a music store into their music player's software. Using the RIAA's own stupidity against them, they locked music sold by this store into their own ecosystem using Fairplay. They soon found themselves sitting on a new monopoly in music sales. The RIAA eventually relented, but by then, the monopolist had moved on to gobble up another market: mobile phones. It only makes sense that customers didn't want to lose all that locked music and video content so they bought in to the next step. Then on to tablets. Then on to ebooks. Now, *finally* they are being investigated for illegally exploiting their monopolies. I guess having Al Gore on your board doesn't hurt when it comes to side stepping federal laws.
Apple used to make things that implemented industry standards. Microsoft and Sony did the lock in shenanigans... Now Apple ships AirPlay so you have to buy that AppleTV dongle or a new mini just to mirror your laptop to your TV. Meanwhile, everyone else is shipping TVs with DLNA built in. Apple's not implementing DLNA. It's not in their interests to play nice with industry standard protocols anymore. We'll see how that works out for them. It didn't turn out so well for Microsoft or Sony.
US fuel prices?
Like other people have mentioned -- if Congress wants DNT as the default, it needs to be required by law. Otherwise, making it the default means making it meaningless.
Yeah, and getting a law passed in the US is like impossible man. What group of people could do that?
I generally have zero trust in MS, but I applaud them on this move. Whether it pans out or not, you have my most sincere thanks for the effort Microsoft.
Then again, Apple does stay on bleeding edge technology.
Bleeding edge? Pfftbt. Apple has just taken stuff that already exists,
Apple invents too. Look at firewire... oh.
made it smaller,
The iPhone is too small. Don't worry, they'll follow the industry's lead and make it bigger.
made the features the predecessor advertised
Imitates competitors, yes.
actually work
Removed 90% of the feature and made the last 10% 'so easy' to use.
with a shiny UI that people can immediately understand and use,
Uh, yeah. Ever played with Automator? :-)
addressed real concerns like battery life,
Underclock their chips when running on battery.
and created the template for all their competitors to attempt to imitate.
After being guilty of said imitation themselves? These great templates... they didn't spring fully formed from the inspiration of some god. Sounds like someone doesn't believe in evolution boys... Get him! ;-)
Plants also love shit. And yet somehow this fertilizing mana from heaven is considered pollution. PARADOX. We even have laws preventing people from dumping raw sewage into public waterway for some sort of environmental reason.
And again, evidence the article is correct... You don't know shit. Shit isn't the problem. The pathogens in the shit are the problem. Shit doesn't give you cholorea, the pathogens do.
Being washed away is erosion, not climate change.
The reason being, CO2 is NOT POLLUTION.
Our metabolism produces CO2 as a waste product which we expel from our bodies. Same thing with urine. And while you can drink a little bit of urine and be fine (just look at Bear Grylls), and you can breath a little CO2 and be fine, it's clearly crazy to say that emitting CO2 into the atmosphere is not pollution. What if I peed in a drinking water cistern that feeds your neighborhood? It's only a little, it won't hurt you, therefore it's not pollution. According to you.
Plants need CO2 to live. CO2 + H2O + Sunlight == glucose. Your CO2 is waste to you. It's mana from heaven for plants. Global warmers are some of the most scientifically and agriculturally illiterate people I've ever encountered... as TFA states. Thank you AC (and mods stupid enough to mod this up) for proving the point of the article.
Do you exe strange attachments in your email too? Count me in the 43%. The only thing "cracked" is your computer if you're downloading and executing "free" software on P2P.
You don't own your Tweets.
In the US, you own copyright on any written work you create, automatically. That would include your tweets.
This could well render California's wine industry economically unsustainable with only a few degrees change
So one state's booze production qualifies as a national security issue? Ha ha, that's rich! :D 'Mericaaa FUCK YEAH!
Also how do you like hurricanes? Because increased surface temperature and sea level moisture directly drive stronger storms in the American "hurricane ally"
The world's leading predictor of hurricanes, Dr. William Gray has his well educated opinion. You have yours. Hmmm, a Ph.D who has been accurately predicting hurricane frequency and intensity for decades... or some AC preaching about disease, famine, and plagues of locutus? Sorry mate, but you sound a bit religious to me.
So allow me to pull a play out of the climate cult's playbook. Coorelation equals causation: In this graph we show the last 10000 years of human population. And in this one we show the global mean temperature over the same period. Population increases with temperature, therefore we can conclude warmer weather is resulting in more people. Obviously, there's no flaw in the logic, and we have a consensus among scientists regarding these two facts. So it is true. Global warming is good for the human race. Any argument about this point means you are a "denier."
Care to argue? Of course you do. That's the stupidest thing anyone has ever said. Yet, if you exchange population with CO2, it is the exact argument you are presenting.
It blows my mind how many people believe warming is such a dangerous thing. Far more people are killed by the cold each year. Give me warming any day.
You are cherry picking numbers. Married couples pay at a much lower tax rate. Worldwide? When did that excuse Apple for shirking tax responsiblilty here at home? The corporate tax rate in the US is 35% at that income level.
It's a legitimate question. Do you really think Apple should pay less than 10% in federal taxes on $34,000,000,000 in profits while someone struggling to get by on $50,000 pays 25%?
So you think the average US household struggling to make ends meet with $50,000 per year should pay 25% of their income in taxes, but Apple computer should pay less than 10% on $34,000,000,000?
But my capital gains have already been taxed once!! Er...
What about the Path app. It would steal your address book and private photos. It's recent and very high profile. That's not malware?
I find it very suspicous that their "empirical analysis" didn't uncover a single bit of "malware" on iOS. Mod article Troll.
Yeah, that little pink line doesn't look anything like the temperature graphs I've seen. I'm not really seeing a pattern match between actual observations and that pink line in TFA.
I thought Intellectual Property laws protected creators from other creators
Funny, I thought they were To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.
T-Mo is doing that. Their $30/mo prepaid plan is pretty sweet. 100 minutes, unlimited text, unlimited data. The only catch is the first 5GB is at 4G speeds. After that, you may be throttled to EDGE. So there's only 100 minutes... who needs minutes with an android + free calls with Google voice?
As far as I'm concerned, it's the best thing to happen to the price of internet access since AOL's $19.95/mo flat rate.
It works seamlessly to those using an iPhone. To everyone else, it seems really stupid that you are sending text messages that show up as multimedia files. To anyone on an android phone, you are sending a picture of your text message. It is typical that an iPhone user would not know that though.
I don't care.
;-)
I'm not a lawyer either, but this is my recommendation if it were me.
Fight it. Take them to court. Ask the judge why the same group who distributed the file sharing software is now being allowed to sue you. Why doesn't Grokster apply to AOL? Why does it only apply to Grokster?
Clearly. They didn't have coal fired electrical generators and gas guzzlers back then, so obviously it couldn't be climate change. The climate only started changing when we invented electricity.
;-)
When my grandfather was young (early 1930's), a typical worker earned $2/day. That worker today earns $160-200/day.
Obama wants cheaper pennies? Tell him to stop redistributing wealth to Wall Street with bailouts that cause such massive inflation.
Whoops, right?
Wrong. The skeptics pointed out the predictions made by the alarmist's models were not coming true. Here we have yet another case where alarmist predictions don't match reality. Skeptics 2, Alarmists 0
It always astonishes me that on a geeky site like Slashdot with an audience that in theory puts such a high value on science, you get so many global warming denialists.
Someone interested in discussing science would not use words like "denialist" with the obvious intention of provoking an angry response. Pot, meet kettle.