I rented one in Japan for a 2 week trip, but in China obviously simpler and cheaper to buy. Here's an idea - buy a knockoff iphone, use it, then bring it back and post pics.
Having been a long time/. reader, I know that the conclusion is supposed to be that it's all Steve Job's fault, but I'm having a hard time reaching that conclusion from the stated premises. Therefore, I conclude that the premises are wrong.
Oops, I already made a post. You're right, this is what I posted in case it gets buried:
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
His letter turned the tide IMO. Even *I* tend to agree with his stance in the letter...
We (the geeks) actually have a responsibility to educate those poor people rather than calling them idiots. Nothing beats a scammer better than being forewarned.
I would totally agree with your post, but your last sentence there gave me pause. Who says "We the geeks" have that responsibility? Do homeowners, landlords and hotel chain managers have the responsibility to house all the homeless? Does McDonalds have the responsibility to feed the starving kids in [country]? No? Then why do geeks HAVE TO educate the literally millions of clueless computer users who bought their interwebs machine from WalMart along with their milk, bread, sweat shop jeans and cheap 20 piece screwdriver set?
The tech divide is getting wider, not narrower, and after dealing with this VERY SAME philosophical dilemma myself, I am not so sure it is "our" responsibility to do it from an altruistic, moral agenda, tech hero standpoint.
No, if the millions of clueless users want our help, they can hire us to teach them or barter some other goods or services.
Helping family and friends, sure. There IS a certain obligation to do that to a certain extent, but even there we've all experienced and read about the nightmare of doing tech support for relatives.
A wise person once told me that a brilliant consultant's advice, no matter how good, will be ignored if he gives it away for free. Advice paid for dearly is followed to the letter.
I think the only reason McAfee still exists is because of their deals with ISPs and product placement at WalMart. Certainly not because of their reputation in the security industry.
Oh, and because they just get bought out... by Intel. Yeah. And here we all thought (hoped) Intel would let McAfee die quietly in the corner.
Is this a more annoying version of data execute prevention? Maybe call it DERP?
LOL when I was in HS I went on a date with the daughter of someone who was a friend of my father's. Before we left her house he made sure to show me pictures of the elk and caribou he and his son killed with "that rifle right there" while on a hunting trip to Canada. Looking back on it I laugh now. At the time I was "ummm.... that's cool...."
She turned out to be a skank btw. Only one date.
Now, I have 2 daughters of my own. They are both under 10 but the thought of them on a date.... with a teenage boy... having been one myself... AAAAARARRRRGGGG. Not ready for that yet. Also don't like the idea of them ever having a TSA grope. A pat down? Well, ok. Grope?!?! no. That ain't right, ya hear? For anyone, adult, kid, male, female. How is this necessary? How has it come to this?
All of the replies to my post are exactly right. The PERCEIVED validity of faxes does not hold up. Faxes are crap and it is a travesty they are still so prolific. Yet they are convenient in this circumstance:
I executed a contract via email. I printed out the pages to PDF using PrimoPDF, printed the sig page to dead tree, signed that one, scanned it in, used PDFSAM to merge the signed page back in to the PDF, sent it off.
What a complete PAIN. Tedious and time consuming. If I had a fax machine (no landline here since 2003) I could have printed it off, scrawled a signature, plop into the fax, dial, done.
yes there is efax. Yes there are probably better ways (have a digital signature already scanned in.) yada yada. Fine. Still more steps than FAX.
There is no way to implement what Marx theorized about. That's the whole point. Once the theory hits the real world, human nature screws it up.
x2, actual true "communism" is great in theory, but it never seems to get past the stage where they have to pound everyone into the ground at gunpoint first.
When you get a fax you're reasonably certain that the document you get wasn't scanned in and then "adjusted" before emailing. It's personal, you know someone (most likely) physically just handled that document. (or, rather, the original of it).
So for things like contracts a faxed document is still acceptable. The crappy quality gives a sense of legitimacy.
The scan and email rigamarole is STILL too cumbersome and untrustworthy.
Now why is THAT? That is the real question here. Why is there no substitute to the fax? Until there is, it will live on.
The USPS is a socialist service designed to ensure that EVERYONE has SOME form of communication, and reliable communication at that. Nothing else offers that, even if you don't realize it because it doesn't effect you.
So if you can't get "mail" because you're too far away from civilization for the new and efficient post office to service you, then you'll be forced to move because it is now illegal, presumably because it is unsafe. Seems already to be a crime to be off-grid.
Well, since Stargate Universe was a documentary, must have been some ancient civilization that used the star to power their intergalactic ships. Duh.
Or, conversely, as someone has already mentioned Occams Razor, maybe they got the size or other readings wrong, and it's not small or the elements aren't missing?
Here's my take on Irene. It wasn't "that bad" of a storm but see below. I was in SW Florida from 2003 to 2005 and watched Charlie, Ivan, Katrina and Wilma (and all the others) come by. Some of them were severe. I was directly in the path of Charlie and Wilma. They all had very sharply formed eye walls as I recall, because when you live there you're checking the track and satellite images about every 4 hours. Irene didn't rebuild the eyewall and thus didn't strengthen as much. You looked at Wilma and it just looked mean. They said at the time if the scale went to cat 6 Wilma would be a 6.
That being said even a category 1 hurricane can mess you up. If you're in the way of storm surge and on a coastal region it's simply a good idea to evacuate. Crap can blow into your house and trees can fall on you. If you're on the coast at 1 foot above sea level and they are saying 6 foot storm surge that means you can get 5 feet of water in your house. Want to be there for that? No. Can it happen? Yes. Can it NOT happen? Yes. Do they know 100%? No.
Another thing to mention, even though hurricanes take days to get to you, they can and do change course affecting their landfall by up to several miles in a matter of minutes to hours. Charlie was literally heading right up the Caloosahachee river - which I lived a block away from at the time, just off McGregor Blvd in Fort Myers. I took my pregnant wife and kid and went inland a few miles. When it hit Sanabel Island it changed course and went north and hit Punta Gorda really hard. It was a last minute change. I don't recall the people who evacuated FM bitching that it missed. Instead most were disturbed by the total destruction and deaths where it hit. I worked with a guy who volunteered with the red cross and he was stunned by the scale and totality of destruction caused by Charlie when it hit land in Fla.
You're right, they can't win but they have to error on the side of caution because the cost of not being careful enough is lives lost. The only cost of being wrong the other way is getting yelled at. I'd sleep better at night being careful.
The aftermath of a hurricane sucks. No power. No phone. Cell towers last 24 to 48 hours on battery, then they go out. Gas stations run out of gas. No A/C. Ice is like gold. Cash only, no phone or power for credit cards. Banks aren't open - no power no ATM no cash. Stuff spoils and condiments are EXPENSIVE when you have to replace them all. If you have damage you are likely on your own because everyone around you will have damage too. Watch out for con artist contractors. The good times are when blocks come together and have massive cookouts because you gotta cook the meat before it spoils. Those are the good memories.
Anyway, here's a funny anecdote. Funny now anyway. After Charlie hit there was non-stop news coverage for DAYS on the Fort Myers stations. It basically missed Naples, a very high class city, as you know. The day after it hit, they pre-empted a major golf tournament for hurricane coverage. People from Naples called in to complain they couldn't watch the golf tournament. Their reply was "Um, we're sorry you're unhappy, but we're covering the hurricane now because PEOPLE ARE DEAD AND MISSING.
Feel free to participate by instructing the Hired Help in D.C. as to your wishes for how your tax dollars are spent.
Feel free to participate by running for office locally.
So, either become a lobbyist, a large donor or vote.
I think that a lot of people might be feeling a little disenfranchised across the board here in the USA, namely many people who voted in the last presidential election. Many of those who voted for "change" didn't get anything like what they thought they were voting for. Many who didn't vote for "change" got "change" anyway. Those who voted for a third option (neither for "change" or against "change") didn't get what they wanted either.
Many people are also upset because the "change" is changing things on a massive scale even though the polls are saying that the vast majority of people don't want "change" to change those things at all.
I'm not talking specifics here I'm talking observed results of efforts to do what you are saying we should do.
Instructing the Hired Help in DC is a nice idea but seems to fail as a concept once they actually reach DC.
I like your last option though. Running for local office. How many of the people who typically have had the time to do so have that time because they aren't particularly busy doing anything else constructive? lol, get a bunch of slashdot types running for office. SLASHDOTTERS UNITE! LETS TAKE BACK THE USA!
Other replies also point out that the level of service req'd at a typ hotel is less than in a dense office environ. But, in 5 to 10 years the wireless tech could very well be such that with Wireless draft Q and MMIMMO (mega-multi-in-mega-multi-out) it will likely be a set-it-and-forget-it scenario.
Scatter about some a/p, hook them into the 10gigabit LinksCo switch and... forget about it.
"grunt - wireless weak here, boss" "Swap out the receiver - grunt" "Grunt - ok boss"
How much does the average hotel spend troubleshooting their wireless? I'd say close to zero.
Hate to say it, but I have a hunch that as far as actual IT goes, if stuff goes more and more to a) wireless infrastructure and b) cloud computing - then the role of "IT department" will come down to not much more than TSA agents - underqualified boobs who get ultimate authority.
IT will troubleshoot the desktop systems by rebooting, then if that doesn't work replace it with an identical disposable appliance and send back the "defective" unit for recycling.
Since everything is on the cloud, the only other task for "IT" is to make sure the internet connection stays up and - here's the TSA part - police internet usage to ensure compliance with corporate internet and computer use policy. IT Tools will be comprised of keylogging, remote screen viewing and internet access logs. Noncompliance will be dealt with by more... invasive.... searches.
IT will be staffed by pimply faced youths who are susceptible to power trips and a mean streak.
The IT director will herd the thugs and needs no qualification other than being able to negotiate the company needs with cloud service vendors who - generally - are good at telling companies what they need.
Computing will become not much more than another utility dealt with by the maintenance department.
Bleak? Too pessimistic? Inaccurate? Get back to me in ten years.
That is true, having SpyEye wide open like this will help security researchers and white hats just as much as the skiddies and black hats. TFA mentions as such.
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I rented one in Japan for a 2 week trip, but in China obviously simpler and cheaper to buy. Here's an idea - buy a knockoff iphone, use it, then bring it back and post pics.
*.30-06, 7.62, 5.56, .223, .308
** Pro: Fast, cheap, fun, effective.
** Con: requires you have guns and a place to shoot the drive and make a mess
Clearly, the premises of the article are wrong.
P1: Flash sucks.
P2: Adobe has an outdated business model.
P3: Developers are abandoning Flash.
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C: It's all Steve Jobs's fault.
Having been a long time /. reader, I know that the conclusion is supposed to be that it's all Steve Job's fault, but I'm having a hard time reaching that conclusion from the stated premises. Therefore, I conclude that the premises are wrong.
Oops, I already made a post. You're right, this is what I posted in case it gets buried:
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
His letter turned the tide IMO. Even *I* tend to agree with his stance in the letter...
Right here:
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
So, if I wanted to be a l33t hacker and hack something, I should do it from someone else's computer?
Step 1: 0wnz some doodz pc
Step 2: hack from 0wnzed pc
Step 3 ????
Step 4: Profit!!
Makes sense to me.
We (the geeks) actually have a responsibility to educate those poor people rather than calling them idiots. Nothing beats a scammer better than being forewarned.
I would totally agree with your post, but your last sentence there gave me pause. Who says "We the geeks" have that responsibility? Do homeowners, landlords and hotel chain managers have the responsibility to house all the homeless? Does McDonalds have the responsibility to feed the starving kids in [country]? No? Then why do geeks HAVE TO educate the literally millions of clueless computer users who bought their interwebs machine from WalMart along with their milk, bread, sweat shop jeans and cheap 20 piece screwdriver set?
The tech divide is getting wider, not narrower, and after dealing with this VERY SAME philosophical dilemma myself, I am not so sure it is "our" responsibility to do it from an altruistic, moral agenda, tech hero standpoint.
No, if the millions of clueless users want our help, they can hire us to teach them or barter some other goods or services.
Helping family and friends, sure. There IS a certain obligation to do that to a certain extent, but even there we've all experienced and read about the nightmare of doing tech support for relatives.
A wise person once told me that a brilliant consultant's advice, no matter how good, will be ignored if he gives it away for free. Advice paid for dearly is followed to the letter.
yeah, carry on all they want about "renewable resources" and other buzzwords about energy.
This is about stuxnet.
Or, rather, about their lawyers' assessment of the potential apocalyptic ramifications of Stuxnet and imitators.
I think the only reason McAfee still exists is because of their deals with ISPs and product placement at WalMart. Certainly not because of their reputation in the security industry.
... by Intel. Yeah. And here we all thought (hoped) Intel would let McAfee die quietly in the corner.
Oh, and because they just get bought out
Is this a more annoying version of data execute prevention? Maybe call it DERP?
LOL when I was in HS I went on a date with the daughter of someone who was a friend of my father's. Before we left her house he made sure to show me pictures of the elk and caribou he and his son killed with "that rifle right there" while on a hunting trip to Canada. Looking back on it I laugh now. At the time I was "ummm.... that's cool...."
... having been one myself... AAAAARARRRRGGGG. Not ready for that yet. Also don't like the idea of them ever having a TSA grope. A pat down? Well, ok. Grope?!?! no. That ain't right, ya hear? For anyone, adult, kid, male, female. How is this necessary? How has it come to this?
She turned out to be a skank btw. Only one date.
Now, I have 2 daughters of my own. They are both under 10 but the thought of them on a date.... with a teenage boy
All of the replies to my post are exactly right. The PERCEIVED validity of faxes does not hold up. Faxes are crap and it is a travesty they are still so prolific. Yet they are convenient in this circumstance:
I executed a contract via email. I printed out the pages to PDF using PrimoPDF, printed the sig page to dead tree, signed that one, scanned it in, used PDFSAM to merge the signed page back in to the PDF, sent it off.
What a complete PAIN. Tedious and time consuming. If I had a fax machine (no landline here since 2003) I could have printed it off, scrawled a signature, plop into the fax, dial, done.
yes there is efax. Yes there are probably better ways (have a digital signature already scanned in.) yada yada. Fine. Still more steps than FAX.
Is my battery.
There is no way to implement what Marx theorized about. That's the whole point. Once the theory hits the real world, human nature screws it up.
x2, actual true "communism" is great in theory, but it never seems to get past the stage where they have to pound everyone into the ground at gunpoint first.
When you get a fax you're reasonably certain that the document you get wasn't scanned in and then "adjusted" before emailing. It's personal, you know someone (most likely) physically just handled that document. (or, rather, the original of it).
So for things like contracts a faxed document is still acceptable. The crappy quality gives a sense of legitimacy.
The scan and email rigamarole is STILL too cumbersome and untrustworthy.
Now why is THAT? That is the real question here. Why is there no substitute to the fax? Until there is, it will live on.
I stopped reading when a commenter got the idea to "start armed rebellion."
Just going to that site probably puts you on a list somewhere.
The USPS is a socialist service designed to ensure that EVERYONE has SOME form of communication, and reliable communication at that. Nothing else offers that, even if you don't realize it because it doesn't effect you.
http://offgridsurvival.com/livingoffthegridcrime/
So if you can't get "mail" because you're too far away from civilization for the new and efficient post office to service you, then you'll be forced to move because it is now illegal, presumably because it is unsafe. Seems already to be a crime to be off-grid.
"No doubt, we shall hear more from the BOFH."
What was your user name again? Ah. Ok. "Clicky Clicky."
You know, that wasn't a very nice email you just sent to the President.
Oh, and here, hold this wire.
Well, since Stargate Universe was a documentary, must have been some ancient civilization that used the star to power their intergalactic ships. Duh.
Or, conversely, as someone has already mentioned Occams Razor, maybe they got the size or other readings wrong, and it's not small or the elements aren't missing?
Here's my take on Irene. It wasn't "that bad" of a storm but see below. I was in SW Florida from 2003 to 2005 and watched Charlie, Ivan, Katrina and Wilma (and all the others) come by. Some of them were severe. I was directly in the path of Charlie and Wilma. They all had very sharply formed eye walls as I recall, because when you live there you're checking the track and satellite images about every 4 hours. Irene didn't rebuild the eyewall and thus didn't strengthen as much. You looked at Wilma and it just looked mean. They said at the time if the scale went to cat 6 Wilma would be a 6.
That being said even a category 1 hurricane can mess you up. If you're in the way of storm surge and on a coastal region it's simply a good idea to evacuate. Crap can blow into your house and trees can fall on you. If you're on the coast at 1 foot above sea level and they are saying 6 foot storm surge that means you can get 5 feet of water in your house. Want to be there for that? No. Can it happen? Yes. Can it NOT happen? Yes. Do they know 100%? No.
Another thing to mention, even though hurricanes take days to get to you, they can and do change course affecting their landfall by up to several miles in a matter of minutes to hours. Charlie was literally heading right up the Caloosahachee river - which I lived a block away from at the time, just off McGregor Blvd in Fort Myers. I took my pregnant wife and kid and went inland a few miles. When it hit Sanabel Island it changed course and went north and hit Punta Gorda really hard. It was a last minute change. I don't recall the people who evacuated FM bitching that it missed. Instead most were disturbed by the total destruction and deaths where it hit. I worked with a guy who volunteered with the red cross and he was stunned by the scale and totality of destruction caused by Charlie when it hit land in Fla.
You're right, they can't win but they have to error on the side of caution because the cost of not being careful enough is lives lost. The only cost of being wrong the other way is getting yelled at. I'd sleep better at night being careful.
The aftermath of a hurricane sucks. No power. No phone. Cell towers last 24 to 48 hours on battery, then they go out. Gas stations run out of gas. No A/C. Ice is like gold. Cash only, no phone or power for credit cards. Banks aren't open - no power no ATM no cash. Stuff spoils and condiments are EXPENSIVE when you have to replace them all. If you have damage you are likely on your own because everyone around you will have damage too. Watch out for con artist contractors. The good times are when blocks come together and have massive cookouts because you gotta cook the meat before it spoils. Those are the good memories.
Anyway, here's a funny anecdote. Funny now anyway. After Charlie hit there was non-stop news coverage for DAYS on the Fort Myers stations. It basically missed Naples, a very high class city, as you know. The day after it hit, they pre-empted a major golf tournament for hurricane coverage. People from Naples called in to complain they couldn't watch the golf tournament. Their reply was "Um, we're sorry you're unhappy, but we're covering the hurricane now because PEOPLE ARE DEAD AND MISSING.
As previously stated:
This IS a participatory democracy, you know.
Feel free to participate by instructing the Hired Help in D.C. as to your wishes for how your tax dollars are spent.
Feel free to participate by running for office locally.
So, either become a lobbyist, a large donor or vote.
I think that a lot of people might be feeling a little disenfranchised across the board here in the USA, namely many people who voted in the last presidential election. Many of those who voted for "change" didn't get anything like what they thought they were voting for. Many who didn't vote for "change" got "change" anyway. Those who voted for a third option (neither for "change" or against "change") didn't get what they wanted either.
Many people are also upset because the "change" is changing things on a massive scale even though the polls are saying that the vast majority of people don't want "change" to change those things at all.
I'm not talking specifics here I'm talking observed results of efforts to do what you are saying we should do.
Instructing the Hired Help in DC is a nice idea but seems to fail as a concept once they actually reach DC.
I like your last option though. Running for local office. How many of the people who typically have had the time to do so have that time because they aren't particularly busy doing anything else constructive? lol, get a bunch of slashdot types running for office. SLASHDOTTERS UNITE! LETS TAKE BACK THE USA!
I don't understand...why are they removing his account/ability to post?
Is this come kind of corporate thing? If so...just not fair....they guy started the thing...he should have access and account for life...
Well I thought the same thing but I then figured it was the ability to post stories as an editor, he should still be able to post comments....
Scatter about some a/p, hook them into the 10gigabit LinksCo switch and ... forget about it.
Don't forget to run the cat5+PoE to the AP. Oh wait, you laid off your IT guy that does cabling?
I guess the product might do mesh. In which case, don't forget to run a power cable to the AP. Gee that saved a lot of work :-/
The cabling work and POE was done by contractors years ago.
Other replies also point out that the level of service req'd at a typ hotel is less than in a dense office environ. But, in 5 to 10 years the wireless tech could very well be such that with Wireless draft Q and MMIMMO (mega-multi-in-mega-multi-out) it will likely be a set-it-and-forget-it scenario.
... forget about it.
Scatter about some a/p, hook them into the 10gigabit LinksCo switch and
"grunt - wireless weak here, boss" "Swap out the receiver - grunt" "Grunt - ok boss"
How much does the average hotel spend troubleshooting their wireless? I'd say close to zero.
... invasive .... searches.
Hate to say it, but I have a hunch that as far as actual IT goes, if stuff goes more and more to a) wireless infrastructure and b) cloud computing - then the role of "IT department" will come down to not much more than TSA agents - underqualified boobs who get ultimate authority.
IT will troubleshoot the desktop systems by rebooting, then if that doesn't work replace it with an identical disposable appliance and send back the "defective" unit for recycling.
Since everything is on the cloud, the only other task for "IT" is to make sure the internet connection stays up and - here's the TSA part - police internet usage to ensure compliance with corporate internet and computer use policy. IT Tools will be comprised of keylogging, remote screen viewing and internet access logs. Noncompliance will be dealt with by more
IT will be staffed by pimply faced youths who are susceptible to power trips and a mean streak.
The IT director will herd the thugs and needs no qualification other than being able to negotiate the company needs with cloud service vendors who - generally - are good at telling companies what they need.
Computing will become not much more than another utility dealt with by the maintenance department.
Bleak? Too pessimistic? Inaccurate? Get back to me in ten years.
Reminds me of an old sliders ep where everyone was supposed to be high and anyone who wasn't high was arrested and forced to get high.
That is true, having SpyEye wide open like this will help security researchers and white hats just as much as the skiddies and black hats. TFA mentions as such.