The web is broken anyway. CAs can't be trusted. Client-Server architecture funnels all data into what amounts to massive NSA honeypots. And look, we're right back to where we were with Windows/IE, except now it's Android/Blink with Google propping up Mozilla to pretend they are competitors.
On the developer end of things, HTML5 sucks. We still can't even rename buttons on a javascript confirm dialog. You need something like SASS just to make CSS usable, and God help you if you have a client that wants tables that work like native ones in OS X.
Oh, and the shepherd of this monstrosity? The guy who preached openness and collaboration? Hollywood asked him for DRM and he's all like, "Sound legit."
The web is doomed. Not because native apps are going to take it out. It's because it is broken and the leadership has all wandered off in their own self interested directions. Something better is going to come along and the web will be remembered fondly, just like newsgroups.
.nomedia herp derp. They only ever delete the videos, probably because of size. Pics stay forever afaik. Totally haxor proof. Now we just need someone to publish a "Snapchat girls gone wild" video. That should make the producer lots of cash and drive a stake through the heart of snapchat at the same time. Then I don't have to hear stories about VCs masturbating themselves over snapchat.
This will just nudge you to take the robbery first, the doughnut second.
Do you really think that's what this is about? I doubt it. Having the location of every cop in town will be very useful to those in charge, but not for the reasons you think. The guys on the ground aren't the only ones subject to corruption and malice. The mob will have an inside guy that will be able to tell them exactly where every cop is at any given moment.
I'd rather have cops eating doughnuts than having the mob knowing with absolute certainty that they are not eating doughnuts at the diversionary shooting on the other side of town. In fact, if I wanted to start intimidating cops, there's nothing better than knowing their exact location at all times.
Don't let your schadenfreude lead you to rally for something stupid. This sounds like a divide and conquer technique to me... "They're watching you!! Serves them right! Let's watch them now too." The correct course of action is to restore the rights of the group who lost them, not take the rights of everyone else away.
You think they're going to support an out-of-pocket payment model with those potential charges?
Goddamnit you people are so fucking stupid. You put on your Blue D or your Red R and you throw all logic right out the goddamn window. READ the fucking article. SHE WAS INSURED. After insurance she still owed $25537 to the hospital. Having insurance does not solve the fucking problem.
The charges are fraudulent. That was my point. There's not another country on Earth where child birth costs $2mil, where treating a bug bite is $83K. THAT is what is broken. Obama's solution is to force me spend 15%+ of my income on insurance to partially pay these fraudulent charges. I've got a better idea: OUTLAW THE FRAUDULENT CHARGES.
When I was growing up, my parents didn't have insurance. They didn't need it. They paid out of pocket. Why the fuck do you think everyone needs insurance now, asshole? Until you've been charged $83K for a bug bite, you to shut the fuck up. Obamacare didn't do a damn thing about hospitals constitutional right to commit fraud against people who will die without their $100 bottle of medicine.
Xperia Z1 was released same day as iPhone 5s. It is faster, waterproof, and has higher res 1080 screen. It also has a 20.7MP camera with a much larger 1/2.3" sensor.
Funny thing about backdoors, they can be used against you. The FBI have had this capability for years. Just google for "roving bug." What could possibly go wrong? Other people who aren't supposed to be using it have figured out how to exploit it? Do tell.
From what I read, knowing someone who works at Google is a primary requirement for landing a job at Google. Seems dumb to me, but then Google will admit to doing dumb things with regards to hiring. They've admitted their entire interview process doesn't really work. But this is a place where top talent like Hugo Barra is forced out of the company, because Google's CEO started banging his girlfriend. Between this, and selling out to the NSA, I don't think I would want to work for Caligula anyway:-/ This patent application is equal parts disgusting and unsurprising to me.
No way! Government funding is better. It's solid and dependable funding that never ever left projects in Antarctica unfunded due to government shut downs in DC.
And do you want to live in a world where a secret court can compel any and every secret private key? It totally defeats the entire security architecture of the internet as it now stands. This is bad juju.
It isn't a question of if we want to. We do. The US Government has lied and covered up these practices at the very highest levels. They are now in the process of locking down so that another Snowden cannot happen again. We cannot trust them, especially if there's no possibility of another whistleblower reporting their wrongdoings the next time.
The genie is out of the bottle. It's not going back in. Don't be the RIAA. Don't sit back and expect the world to go back to the way things were. It's done now. We have to design new systems that take the trust and put in the hands of the end users. What Snowden has done is simply illustrate the problem that was always there.
In 2004, Bin Laden released a tape to Al-Jazeera where the former head of Al Qaeda laid out the purpose of the 9/11 attacks, and the organization’s goals. “We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah,” Bin Laden said.
This is why I always laugh at the phrase "Never Forget." Everyone keeps forgetting!
I hear they even have insiders with the same agenda in the US congress.
Is Apple is doing this, they won't be following his failure.
Failure? Shuttleworth has neither given up nor been surpassed by another competitor in this area. He's simply pointing out that Apple appears to be planning to copy him once the hardware is there. Given the benchmarks on phones coming out this fall, that time will be soon.
Shuttleworth should not be looking back over his shoulder. Especially not at Apple. Apple is shrinking into irrelevance. iOS 7 is their Vista.
Keep your eyes on the prize and focus on making the best product Mark.
If they plan on censoring it, I prefer no comments at all. Censorship seems to be the trend these days. It started with filtering spam comments. Oops, I included a $ sign in my comment, my post was blocked. But now it is different. Now if you make a comment the site owners simply disagree with, it disappears. Freedom of speech? Meet the memory hole. With algorithms that can identify sentiment, I fear for the future of open discourse on the web.
I know what I was like when I was four. My brother (3 years older) was doing his math homework at Pizza Hut. Multiplication. I looked at it. I wanted them to explain it to me. My mom told me it was big kid math and I wouldn't understand it. I went home and taught myself to multiply with the solar powered calculator. I was able to do basic maths before entering kindergarten.
My mother felt the same way about a computer when I was in my teens. "All you'll do with it is play games" she said. Then some Zuckerberg guy invents this Facebook thing and makes a fortune with it. Why? Because he had a computer as a kid.
Buy the kid a Nexus 5. Root it. Install Ubuntu. Don't do everything for him. Let him figure it out. Don't turn him into another one of these kids that can't even write a simple script.
Seconded. The NSA has ruined it for the US cloud companies. Permanently. Does Google, Facebook, and friends think that anyone will trust them again? They lied. They lied about lying. Then they lied about that. Now they're pushing to release FISC documents? As if that would somehow sprinkle magical dust on the problem and make it go away?
There are no privacy protection laws limiting the types of data companies collect in the US. These companies collect data because it makes them lots of money. In the process, they are the facilitators for the NSA.
Want to restore trust Google? Stop syncing WiFi passwords on android by default. Stop shipping a browser with Do Not Track defaulted to off. Stop collecting data you don't need or have any business collecting. Of course, that won't happen. That's why this crop of invasive companies have been dealt a deathblow by Snowden. I give them 15 years before they've been made irrelevant by newer peer to peer systems. Maybe less.
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The web is broken anyway. CAs can't be trusted. Client-Server architecture funnels all data into what amounts to massive NSA honeypots. And look, we're right back to where we were with Windows/IE, except now it's Android/Blink with Google propping up Mozilla to pretend they are competitors.
On the developer end of things, HTML5 sucks. We still can't even rename buttons on a javascript confirm dialog. You need something like SASS just to make CSS usable, and God help you if you have a client that wants tables that work like native ones in OS X.
Oh, and the shepherd of this monstrosity? The guy who preached openness and collaboration? Hollywood asked him for DRM and he's all like, "Sound legit."
The web is doomed. Not because native apps are going to take it out. It's because it is broken and the leadership has all wandered off in their own self interested directions. Something better is going to come along and the web will be remembered fondly, just like newsgroups.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2183526
.nomedia herp derp. They only ever delete the videos, probably because of size. Pics stay forever afaik. Totally haxor proof. Now we just need someone to publish a "Snapchat girls gone wild" video. That should make the producer lots of cash and drive a stake through the heart of snapchat at the same time. Then I don't have to hear stories about VCs masturbating themselves over snapchat.
This will just nudge you to take the robbery first, the doughnut second.
Do you really think that's what this is about? I doubt it. Having the location of every cop in town will be very useful to those in charge, but not for the reasons you think. The guys on the ground aren't the only ones subject to corruption and malice. The mob will have an inside guy that will be able to tell them exactly where every cop is at any given moment.
I'd rather have cops eating doughnuts than having the mob knowing with absolute certainty that they are not eating doughnuts at the diversionary shooting on the other side of town. In fact, if I wanted to start intimidating cops, there's nothing better than knowing their exact location at all times.
Don't let your schadenfreude lead you to rally for something stupid. This sounds like a divide and conquer technique to me... "They're watching you!! Serves them right! Let's watch them now too." The correct course of action is to restore the rights of the group who lost them, not take the rights of everyone else away.
You think they're going to support an out-of-pocket payment model with those potential charges?
Goddamnit you people are so fucking stupid. You put on your Blue D or your Red R and you throw all logic right out the goddamn window. READ the fucking article. SHE WAS INSURED. After insurance she still owed $25537 to the hospital. Having insurance does not solve the fucking problem.
The charges are fraudulent. That was my point. There's not another country on Earth where child birth costs $2mil, where treating a bug bite is $83K. THAT is what is broken. Obama's solution is to force me spend 15%+ of my income on insurance to partially pay these fraudulent charges. I've got a better idea: OUTLAW THE FRAUDULENT CHARGES.
Why should I need insurance to pay for a $100 bottle of anti-venom?
When I was growing up, my parents didn't have insurance. They didn't need it. They paid out of pocket. Why the fuck do you think everyone needs insurance now, asshole? Until you've been charged $83K for a bug bite, you to shut the fuck up. Obamacare didn't do a damn thing about hospitals constitutional right to commit fraud against people who will die without their $100 bottle of medicine.
I'm using the version of maps that comes with a Nexus 5.
Nope. Location On, Location services Off I'm using Google maps without signing into a google account too.
like, you want phone navigation? that requires location services.
You can enable the GPS without using Google's location services. I used Google maps today. Location services off.
New phone almost as fast as month old phone.
Xperia Z1 was released same day as iPhone 5s. It is faster, waterproof, and has higher res 1080 screen. It also has a 20.7MP camera with a much larger 1/2.3" sensor.
You've got a Quad-Core ARM running at twice their Ghz and you barely post benchmarks ahead of a Dual-Core A7, you know you're stupid for buying one.
Stupid for buying a faster phone at half the price? You have a strange concept of stupid :-)
Funny thing about backdoors, they can be used against you. The FBI have had this capability for years. Just google for "roving bug." What could possibly go wrong? Other people who aren't supposed to be using it have figured out how to exploit it? Do tell.
From what I read, knowing someone who works at Google is a primary requirement for landing a job at Google. Seems dumb to me, but then Google will admit to doing dumb things with regards to hiring. They've admitted their entire interview process doesn't really work. But this is a place where top talent like Hugo Barra is forced out of the company, because Google's CEO started banging his girlfriend. Between this, and selling out to the NSA, I don't think I would want to work for Caligula anyway :-/ This patent application is equal parts disgusting and unsurprising to me.
I've seen enough smartphones explode. I do not want to strap that to my wrist.
You'd die from the g force before that. You would die from old age since the closest black hole is light years away. And, if you were traveling through space near the speed of light, then you would observer yourself suffocating. Then you would stop observing.
No way! Government funding is better. It's solid and dependable funding that never ever left projects in Antarctica unfunded due to government shut downs in DC.
And do you want to live in a world where a secret court can compel any and every secret private key? It totally defeats the entire security architecture of the internet as it now stands. This is bad juju.
It isn't a question of if we want to. We do. The US Government has lied and covered up these practices at the very highest levels. They are now in the process of locking down so that another Snowden cannot happen again. We cannot trust them, especially if there's no possibility of another whistleblower reporting their wrongdoings the next time.
The genie is out of the bottle. It's not going back in. Don't be the RIAA. Don't sit back and expect the world to go back to the way things were. It's done now. We have to design new systems that take the trust and put in the hands of the end users. What Snowden has done is simply illustrate the problem that was always there.
How much freer could Android be?
It could be free of surveillance.
This will likely help Facebook seem relevant again too. No such thing as bad press.
This is why I always laugh at the phrase "Never Forget." Everyone keeps forgetting!
I hear they even have insiders with the same agenda in the US congress.
Is Apple is doing this, they won't be following his failure.
Failure? Shuttleworth has neither given up nor been surpassed by another competitor in this area. He's simply pointing out that Apple appears to be planning to copy him once the hardware is there. Given the benchmarks on phones coming out this fall, that time will be soon.
Shuttleworth should not be looking back over his shoulder. Especially not at Apple. Apple is shrinking into irrelevance. iOS 7 is their Vista.
Keep your eyes on the prize and focus on making the best product Mark.
How many conspiracies, like Global Warming, are built on such unshakable foundations as this. Consensus! Peer reviewed! :)
If they plan on censoring it, I prefer no comments at all. Censorship seems to be the trend these days. It started with filtering spam comments. Oops, I included a $ sign in my comment, my post was blocked. But now it is different. Now if you make a comment the site owners simply disagree with, it disappears. Freedom of speech? Meet the memory hole. With algorithms that can identify sentiment, I fear for the future of open discourse on the web.
I know what I was like when I was four. My brother (3 years older) was doing his math homework at Pizza Hut. Multiplication. I looked at it. I wanted them to explain it to me. My mom told me it was big kid math and I wouldn't understand it. I went home and taught myself to multiply with the solar powered calculator. I was able to do basic maths before entering kindergarten.
My mother felt the same way about a computer when I was in my teens. "All you'll do with it is play games" she said. Then some Zuckerberg guy invents this Facebook thing and makes a fortune with it. Why? Because he had a computer as a kid.
Buy the kid a Nexus 5. Root it. Install Ubuntu. Don't do everything for him. Let him figure it out. Don't turn him into another one of these kids that can't even write a simple script.
Seconded. The NSA has ruined it for the US cloud companies. Permanently. Does Google, Facebook, and friends think that anyone will trust them again? They lied. They lied about lying. Then they lied about that. Now they're pushing to release FISC documents? As if that would somehow sprinkle magical dust on the problem and make it go away?
There are no privacy protection laws limiting the types of data companies collect in the US. These companies collect data because it makes them lots of money. In the process, they are the facilitators for the NSA.
Want to restore trust Google? Stop syncing WiFi passwords on android by default. Stop shipping a browser with Do Not Track defaulted to off. Stop collecting data you don't need or have any business collecting. Of course, that won't happen. That's why this crop of invasive companies have been dealt a deathblow by Snowden. I give them 15 years before they've been made irrelevant by newer peer to peer systems. Maybe less.