Those "robust security policies" are nothing but paper walls, that can be slid back or removed entirely at the whim of your host, whose house you're visiting.
And your esteemed and generous host is a businessman who's stated quite clearly that your privacy is for sale for his own profit, and that you are a complete fool for trusting him.
Maybe at some point in the future, people will wise up and stop visiting.
I think at this point in time, you could probably randomly assign slashdot editorship to anyone with an internet connection and get a more dedicated, professional, giving-even-the-slightest-shit approach to the task.
Surely the solution is to disable history or browse in Privacy mode, rather than downgrade and risk exposure to those 21 important security issues present in version 15.
Except that the guy who's been arrested didn't post it to the Find April Facebbok wall, someone else did.
To me it's like telling a similarly bad-tatse 'joke' (it's not really funny) to your mates in a pub. And then someone at the next table hears it and goes to the group therapy grief councelling meeting, or whatever, and says, "This is what some guy in the pub said..." and tells the 'joke'.
Who, among these two people is causing hurt to people in a raw or sensitive state? Who is causing offence?
It's not the first guy - he's just being a harmless dick. And that shouldn't be against the law.
What you don't realise is that Apple is averse to having their stuff copied, and a cartographer's trick is to "make shit up" to put in their map, so that when it's copied, they can tell and sue for infringement: the supposed crappiness of Apple's OS6 maps is actually a form of copy protection.
Well, either that or they decided the best way to make sure nobody copied their maps app was to make sure nobody would ever want to.
...a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of high-yield weapons of mass destruction by two opposing sides would effectively result in the complete, utter and irrevocable annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.
>So, no, 20x faster than the Wii isn't exactly a stellar achievement. That and they've coupled it with 2GB of RAM.
But I read the summary and it clearly states the console will come with either 8GB of MEMORY or 16GB of MEMORY. Now I'm confused!/sarcasm
It would be nice if a website that's supposed to be all about tech and geekdom could actually post stories on its front page that can distinguish between memory (RAM) and STORAGE, wouldn't it?
>The people running Slashdot are trolls, examples of the worst characteristics of journalism that we see many times elsewhere but can't understand why such behavior exists on a site supposedly for geeks
It's click-bait. Clicks from curious or (potentially) outraged readers = money from page views via either direct advert views or data which they can sell to advertisers to encourage adverts being placed... = money, money, money.
It's like those Apple stories that every other site publishes - the apple fans read 'em out of fandom and the iHaters click through to find fault and take issue. The website wins whatever happens. Because clicks mean prizes.
Yeah, iOS deviced have DRM in the hardware, so the Beeb can stream to those devices knowing that license holders will be happy. Android doesn't have that DRM built in so license holders fear pircay will result.
So, to watch BBC programmes on my Android device, because the Beeb won't run a non-flash version on Android, I'm forced to pirate their programmes (which is easy as pie). Erm...
Hang on... I must've got something wrong....
Oh... nope... just a whole lot of piracy/DRM bollocks achieving absolutely nothing other than inconveniencing the customer (license fee payer using Android).
I was going to buy an iPad mini/Air/whatever when it came out - because there are a few apps that I know will never come to android and which I would really really like, but after the monstrous patent bullshit that Apple have pulled I can't in good conscience get one.
I've held out against Apple for a long time, and they make some great hardware - the Macbook Air is, IMO, a perfectly targeted piece of tech. And the new iPad would have been perfect for my needs. Even after I bought a Nexus 7.
But I can't do it. I can't support these carpetbagging assholes. Carving up reality (via software patents, design patents) and claiming total domination, absolute monopoly.
It's the capitalist apex - ownership for the sole exploitation of - in the areas of software and design (art). Fuck that shit. What Apple has claimed ownership of, no one should own.
I can never buy something Apple in good conscience ever again. They've become the Big Brother that they claimed they were in opposition to.
The perfect mixing of computing and the liberal arts? That Jobs guy sure was a good salesman. More bullshit that you can shake a stick at.
That's why the best time-to-effort ratio is to wait for someone like you to summarise and then to skip to the comments rather than wade through an article, linked or otherwise.
There's an inherent risk that summaries might be inaccurate, but generally they're not, or they're called out pretty quick and corrections contain the pertinent information.
(If you're a data sparrow looking for the greatest effort-to-reward ratio. Works with many news sites with comments enabled.)
Replying to myself - apparently the way to fix this, in the short term, is to take control of the Hosts file and then kick the system out of write and modify privilleges.
Yeah, this is basically a cack-handed way of fixing malicious hosts redirects.
It'll prevent malicious programmes from sending you to fake Facebook, but at the expense of entirely overriding any preferences YOU as tthe computer owner might wish to make via the Hosts file.
It's a staggering level of incompetence that this is their solution. It needs to be changed and they need to find either another way of solving it or allow some form of granulation and user input.
Deluge, for Windows, looks to be what uTorrent used to be, but abandoned when it got bought out: lightweight and functional and nothing more.
Seriously, the people running uTorrent are lost. The u is really = micro which is what uTorrent stood for in the face of the bloated beast of Azureus and its kin. I think the tag line was something like "a lightweight little torrent client" or something - the emphasis was low resources, and fast. Before you know it, it'll just be another Vuze.
I think I notice something of this affect when I'm reading online news.
If an article is just words, my mind is less engaged, but if there's a photo or even a diagram, somehow my brain engages more readily.
Perhaps it's something to do with the fact that written language is such a new concept in terms of our evolution, whereas the image is hard-coded into us from almost our very beginnings.
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Those "robust security policies" are nothing but paper walls, that can be slid back or removed entirely at the whim of your host, whose house you're visiting.
And your esteemed and generous host is a businessman who's stated quite clearly that your privacy is for sale for his own profit, and that you are a complete fool for trusting him.
Maybe at some point in the future, people will wise up and stop visiting.
I think at this point in time, you could probably randomly assign slashdot editorship to anyone with an internet connection and get a more dedicated, professional, giving-even-the-slightest-shit approach to the task.
Surely the solution is to disable history or browse in Privacy mode, rather than downgrade and risk exposure to those 21 important security issues present in version 15.
Except that the guy who's been arrested didn't post it to the Find April Facebbok wall, someone else did.
To me it's like telling a similarly bad-tatse 'joke' (it's not really funny) to your mates in a pub. And then someone at the next table hears it and goes to the group therapy grief councelling meeting, or whatever, and says, "This is what some guy in the pub said ..." and tells the 'joke'.
Who, among these two people is causing hurt to people in a raw or sensitive state? Who is causing offence?
It's not the first guy - he's just being a harmless dick. And that shouldn't be against the law.
And additionally, the usefulness of this will depend on how abundant and accessible Gold-Chloride is.
What you don't realise is that Apple is averse to having their stuff copied, and a cartographer's trick is to "make shit up" to put in their map, so that when it's copied, they can tell and sue for infringement: the supposed crappiness of Apple's OS6 maps is actually a form of copy protection.
Well, either that or they decided the best way to make sure nobody copied their maps app was to make sure nobody would ever want to.
But unless you stop deleting cookies, TEH INtARNeTS AS WE DONE KNoW IT GOES BOOM!
USB On The Go works. Even without rooting it. That's extra storage right there.
>Who's side are we supposed to be on?
The third side: mutually assured destruction ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction
>The rapture is here!
It's the IPocalypse!
One possible future: two giant cameras watching each other.
(While everybody goes goes about their lives, unhindered).
>So, no, 20x faster than the Wii isn't exactly a stellar achievement. That and they've coupled it with 2GB of RAM.
But I read the summary and it clearly states the console will come with either 8GB of MEMORY or 16GB of MEMORY. Now I'm confused! /sarcasm
It would be nice if a website that's supposed to be all about tech and geekdom could actually post stories on its front page that can distinguish between memory (RAM) and STORAGE, wouldn't it?
I suppose I can dream. :)
>The people running Slashdot are trolls, examples of the worst characteristics of journalism that we see many times elsewhere but can't understand why such behavior exists on a site supposedly for geeks
It's click-bait. Clicks from curious or (potentially) outraged readers = money from page views via either direct advert views or data which they can sell to advertisers to encourage adverts being placed ... = money, money, money.
It's like those Apple stories that every other site publishes - the apple fans read 'em out of fandom and the iHaters click through to find fault and take issue. The website wins whatever happens. Because clicks mean prizes.
WHAT DO CLICKS MEAN ...?
(everybody) PRAHZEZ!
Yeah, iOS deviced have DRM in the hardware, so the Beeb can stream to those devices knowing that license holders will be happy. Android doesn't have that DRM built in so license holders fear pircay will result.
So, to watch BBC programmes on my Android device, because the Beeb won't run a non-flash version on Android, I'm forced to pirate their programmes (which is easy as pie). Erm ...
Hang on ... I must've got something wrong ....
Oh ... nope ... just a whole lot of piracy/DRM bollocks achieving absolutely nothing other than inconveniencing the customer (license fee payer using Android).
Same old, same old.
I'm a big fan of Brian Eno and his music, and the apps I was referring to were Bloom, Air and Trope.
I'd love to see them on Android, but I don't ever see it happening.
I was going to buy an iPad mini/Air/whatever when it came out - because there are a few apps that I know will never come to android and which I would really really like, but after the monstrous patent bullshit that Apple have pulled I can't in good conscience get one.
I've held out against Apple for a long time, and they make some great hardware - the Macbook Air is, IMO, a perfectly targeted piece of tech. And the new iPad would have been perfect for my needs. Even after I bought a Nexus 7.
But I can't do it. I can't support these carpetbagging assholes. Carving up reality (via software patents, design patents) and claiming total domination, absolute monopoly.
It's the capitalist apex - ownership for the sole exploitation of - in the areas of software and design (art). Fuck that shit. What Apple has claimed ownership of, no one should own.
I can never buy something Apple in good conscience ever again. They've become the Big Brother that they claimed they were in opposition to.
The perfect mixing of computing and the liberal arts? That Jobs guy sure was a good salesman. More bullshit that you can shake a stick at.
That's why the best time-to-effort ratio is to wait for someone like you to summarise and then to skip to the comments rather than wade through an article, linked or otherwise.
There's an inherent risk that summaries might be inaccurate, but generally they're not, or they're called out pretty quick and corrections contain the pertinent information.
(If you're a data sparrow looking for the greatest effort-to-reward ratio. Works with many news sites with comments enabled.)
Replying to myself - apparently the way to fix this, in the short term, is to take control of the Hosts file and then kick the system out of write and modify privilleges.
Yeah, this is basically a cack-handed way of fixing malicious hosts redirects.
It'll prevent malicious programmes from sending you to fake Facebook, but at the expense of entirely overriding any preferences YOU as tthe computer owner might wish to make via the Hosts file.
It's a staggering level of incompetence that this is their solution. It needs to be changed and they need to find either another way of solving it or allow some form of granulation and user input.
Deluge, for Windows, looks to be what uTorrent used to be, but abandoned when it got bought out: lightweight and functional and nothing more.
Seriously, the people running uTorrent are lost. The u is really = micro which is what uTorrent stood for in the face of the bloated beast of Azureus and its kin. I think the tag line was something like "a lightweight little torrent client" or something - the emphasis was low resources, and fast. Before you know it, it'll just be another Vuze.
Zombies don't post AC, once they turn, they become 'editors'.
The iPlayer App for Android isn't "compatible" with Jellybean devices which don't have Flash.
The BBC will happily serve up content to iOS users without Flash, though.
Getting into the content business will be the death of Google as an honest broker of information.
I think I notice something of this affect when I'm reading online news.
If an article is just words, my mind is less engaged, but if there's a photo or even a diagram, somehow my brain engages more readily.
Perhaps it's something to do with the fact that written language is such a new concept in terms of our evolution, whereas the image is hard-coded into us from almost our very beginnings.
:)