While I understand your point and concede that it is valid for a lot of science fields, here at the medical school it would probably look bad if your doctor kept pulling out his PDA to look up what you're saying...
No, they named it "Cordoba House" because for centuries Cordoba was a place where Christians, Muslims, and Jews freely lived and worked together. Historians all agree that Moorish rule was a period of tolerance in European history, so much so that those centuries were called the "Golden Age of Judaism" since Jews could work and study freely when they were banned elsewhere in Europe. The great Jewish scholar Maimonides came out of that environment, at a time when the Muslims gave free university tuition to all citizens, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.
It's a terrible slander to start accusing the Muslims and Jews and Christians on board with this project as having some sort of malevolence. This Republican talking point shocks me because it's completely false and anyone who even glances at Wikipedia would find it so, yet still gets spread. Rather than argue the point, they renamed the place to Park51 to avoid false controversy
Do you really want to give Al Qaeda a PR victory? Bin Laden and the Taliban are claiming that the US is fighting a war against Islam itself. What better way to convince the Afghani people that it's true than to show videos and photos of Americans burning Qurans?
Apple is not microsoft and they won't do EEE on that basis alone. Second, Apple is not going to favor Flash over Objective-C tools, which they would need to carry out EEE. Third, promoting Flash will mean promoting subpar apps since they will not have the functionality or speed of Objective-C. Apple is not going to shoot themselves in the foot in order to extinguish a foe. Fourth, wouldn't Adobe sue them for trying? Look at the current lawsuit between Google and Oracle over Java.
The problem is that Apple can't trust a third party development environment to take over too much of the app share. In the past stuff like that has wrecked OSes as a vital update breaks the third party APIs that are used in bestseller apps. Apple wants to be able to release iOS 5 and 6 without worrying if they break Flash's internal APIs
This should be modded funny rather than insightful.
Assange is being mature by saying don't jump to conclusions as to the source of this, but at the same time don't rule out that the CIA wouldn't try to capitalize on this incident for their advantage.
This is kind of a red herring to me, because the US government knows that Assange would just be replaced in WikiLeaks if he were thrown in jail. What Bush and Rove used to do was instead play the discredit game; deny, deny, deny, then attack the patriotism of those reporting (NYTimes) and claim those parties leaking were helping the terrorists instead of America. "Poison the well"
Let's look at the other ways the CIA and Pentagon could (and likely will) try to stop WikiLeaks. When someone in the 1990s leaked that the NSA has submarines specifically for the purpose of tapping undersea phone cables, I heard the NSA calmly put out conflicting leaks that the government was using those subs to covertly dump nuclear waste, making activists fight over which version of the story made sense.
If I were the CIA, I'd do some false flag operations on Assange, and then poison the well. Feed him a delicious leak of embarrassing stuff, followed by a real big accusation of something bogus yet plausible, and then when WikiLeaks gives it to the media, the CIA can step forward and show that WikiLeaks is dead wrong and show the media video and photographic proof eg "No, we never executed that Taliban prisoner in front of children, look he's alive in Supermax prison!" One or two of those would "poison the well" and make sure that mainstream media would pay less and less attention as the track record of WikiLeaks went sour.
approach to fighting invasions of privacy. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( X) Those invading privacy can easily use it to target people who want to hide their info ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of email will not put up with it (X ) Google will not put up with it (X ) The police will not put up with it (X ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it (X ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for data collection ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches ( ) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical (X ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses (X ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, jerk! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
Usually you just plug your iPod into another PC with iTunes, and then click "Transfer Purchases" from the menu, and it offloads the paid songs, videos, and apps to the PC.
There are very easy ways to back your iTunes up onto different machines. I know of at least 2 methods. Clearly you haven't been reading the support pages.
Don't pooh pooh Apple's success. If you know something more simple than Apple's interfaces (and Android doesn't look like it) then let us know.
Nope, you have to go into the Ping tab and enable it, then setup your account (which is mainly 3 questions; name, music tastes, and privacy settings). iTunes doen't automatically sign you up.
Apple dug at Google for that yesterday, saying when Apple reports activation numbers for their devices, they don't count simple software updates like "our friends [at Google] do"
I'm looking at this photo of one of the rooms. Is having a glass room suspended from the ceiling really such a good idea for a bunker designed to withstand blasts? It seems like a very bad idea to make a structurally sound bunker with that kind of room. Unless you want your manager to be the first one to die in his office
The US would shut it down by Court order. Countries like Kenya have been embarrassed by WikiLeaks in the past and maybe North Korea and China and South American drug cartels will be the same some day. They could be more likely to send some mercenaries etc. The Mafia in America tried sending car and even boat bombs to silence witnesses.
According to Steve Jobs, they get 1500 app submissions per day. Even so, this wait is unusually long for an approval/reject. Maybe this one just fell through the cracks?
You're wrong. While Apple's consumer line is a pretty big-seller, they also market to the NAB crowd, with Final Cut, Motion, Shake, DVD Studio Pro, Mathematica, Graphic designers etc. They market OS X as a great developer environment with XCode and Ruby on Rails etc.
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While I understand your point and concede that it is valid for a lot of science fields, here at the medical school it would probably look bad if your doctor kept pulling out his PDA to look up what you're saying...
No, they named it "Cordoba House" because for centuries Cordoba was a place where Christians, Muslims, and Jews freely lived and worked together. Historians all agree that Moorish rule was a period of tolerance in European history, so much so that those centuries were called the "Golden Age of Judaism" since Jews could work and study freely when they were banned elsewhere in Europe. The great Jewish scholar Maimonides came out of that environment, at a time when the Muslims gave free university tuition to all citizens, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.
It's a terrible slander to start accusing the Muslims and Jews and Christians on board with this project as having some sort of malevolence. This Republican talking point shocks me because it's completely false and anyone who even glances at Wikipedia would find it so, yet still gets spread. Rather than argue the point, they renamed the place to Park51 to avoid false controversy
Do you really want to give Al Qaeda a PR victory? Bin Laden and the Taliban are claiming that the US is fighting a war against Islam itself. What better way to convince the Afghani people that it's true than to show videos and photos of Americans burning Qurans?
Probably because of the many youtube videos showing awful flash performance on mobile phones.
Apple is not microsoft and they won't do EEE on that basis alone.
Second, Apple is not going to favor Flash over Objective-C tools, which they would need to carry out EEE.
Third, promoting Flash will mean promoting subpar apps since they will not have the functionality or speed of Objective-C. Apple is not going to shoot themselves in the foot in order to extinguish a foe.
Fourth, wouldn't Adobe sue them for trying? Look at the current lawsuit between Google and Oracle over Java.
The problem is that Apple can't trust a third party development environment to take over too much of the app share. In the past stuff like that has wrecked OSes as a vital update breaks the third party APIs that are used in bestseller apps. Apple wants to be able to release iOS 5 and 6 without worrying if they break Flash's internal APIs
Let's clarify, since the description isn't that great. Apple will now allow Adobe's Flash to export in iPhone app format
Also, Apple released their App Store Review Guidelines (PDF). Worth a read.
if that happened, wouldn't more of these allegations come forward once it became clear the organization could be weakened in this manner?
This should be modded funny rather than insightful.
Assange is being mature by saying don't jump to conclusions as to the source of this, but at the same time don't rule out that the CIA wouldn't try to capitalize on this incident for their advantage.
This is kind of a red herring to me, because the US government knows that Assange would just be replaced in WikiLeaks if he were thrown in jail. What Bush and Rove used to do was instead play the discredit game; deny, deny, deny, then attack the patriotism of those reporting (NYTimes) and claim those parties leaking were helping the terrorists instead of America. "Poison the well"
Let's look at the other ways the CIA and Pentagon could (and likely will) try to stop WikiLeaks. When someone in the 1990s leaked that the NSA has submarines specifically for the purpose of tapping undersea phone cables, I heard the NSA calmly put out conflicting leaks that the government was using those subs to covertly dump nuclear waste, making activists fight over which version of the story made sense.
If I were the CIA, I'd do some false flag operations on Assange, and then poison the well. Feed him a delicious leak of embarrassing stuff, followed by a real big accusation of something bogus yet plausible, and then when WikiLeaks gives it to the media, the CIA can step forward and show that WikiLeaks is dead wrong and show the media video and photographic proof eg "No, we never executed that Taliban prisoner in front of children, look he's alive in Supermax prison!" One or two of those would "poison the well" and make sure that mainstream media would pay less and less attention as the track record of WikiLeaks went sour.
How do spammers sleep at night? Do they realize how big of a douche they look like?
Guess it's time to bring this post out, and update it:
Dear Consumer Watchdog
Your post advocates a
( ) technical ( X) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting invasions of privacy. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( X) Those invading privacy can easily use it to target people who want to hide their info
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
(X ) Google will not put up with it
(X ) The police will not put up with it
(X ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(X ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for data collection
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
(X ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
(X ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, jerk! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
Usually you just plug your iPod into another PC with iTunes, and then click "Transfer Purchases" from the menu, and it offloads the paid songs, videos, and apps to the PC.
There are very easy ways to back your iTunes up onto different machines. I know of at least 2 methods. Clearly you haven't been reading the support pages.
Don't pooh pooh Apple's success. If you know something more simple than Apple's interfaces (and Android doesn't look like it) then let us know.
There is a very good mobile client, it just runs on iOS devices.
If you want to complain so much, go use Amazon's store. Apple doesn't want your business and is still #1
Steve Jobs doesn't agree with you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4AXaFlIFQA
Nope, you have to go into the Ping tab and enable it, then setup your account (which is mainly 3 questions; name, music tastes, and privacy settings). iTunes doen't automatically sign you up.
Apple dug at Google for that yesterday, saying when Apple reports activation numbers for their devices, they don't count simple software updates like "our friends [at Google] do"
For those who don't get the reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT75Uce6pqc
I'm looking at this photo of one of the rooms. Is having a glass room suspended from the ceiling really such a good idea for a bunker designed to withstand blasts? It seems like a very bad idea to make a structurally sound bunker with that kind of room. Unless you want your manager to be the first one to die in his office
The US would shut it down by Court order. Countries like Kenya have been embarrassed by WikiLeaks in the past and maybe North Korea and China and South American drug cartels will be the same some day. They could be more likely to send some mercenaries etc. The Mafia in America tried sending car and even boat bombs to silence witnesses.
According to Steve Jobs, they get 1500 app submissions per day. Even so, this wait is unusually long for an approval/reject. Maybe this one just fell through the cracks?
Reminds me of a Classic TheDailyWTF: I'm Sure You Can Deal
Then sue the police department for damages once they total your car
Yeah but it's scarier
You're wrong. While Apple's consumer line is a pretty big-seller, they also market to the NAB crowd, with Final Cut, Motion, Shake, DVD Studio Pro, Mathematica, Graphic designers etc. They market OS X as a great developer environment with XCode and Ruby on Rails etc.