For a brief moment, I had the fancy of thinking entomologists were traveling the Amazon, making new discoveries for large amounts of money. That's pretty l337. I'm going to go back and read xkcd now.
You might even take this a step further and claim that people who spend a lot of time on planes have reduced risk of brain cancer, for all the media is telling us.
Lawyers are part of the disease, too, because there are quite a few "ambulance chasers" who actively seek out people who have no moral values and encourage them to sue, just like you see in the lawyer TV commercials. Don't lawyers also have a moral (and legal) obligation to do due diligence with respect to their clients? And how many of the ambulance chasers do that?
IMHO, Tort Reform is the most difficult issue the USA is facing today, and nothing is getting done about it. Inflation of healthcare costs and a myriad of other things can be traced directly to people abusing the court system.
You forgot to post that as AC. Now the government is sure to bust into your house with submachine guns, since you have given them "probable cause" that you are doing something illegal.
Sure Samsung makes parts for iPhones, but they make pennies on this compared to what they make on a Galaxy handset. Samsung can send Apple packing, and quietly "suggest" a reduction in supply of key components to any other companies that favor Apple too strongly.
Samsung's shareholders would call for the removal of the CEO and board of directors if the company lost an $8 billion contract/year with Apple because of a corporate pissing contest. If Samsung pushes too hard, Apple can build its own fabrication plant with its hordes of cash. Hell, they may even be planning to do that right now. That would be a big loss in business for Samsung.
As far as Samsung telling other companies not to let Apple buy parts from them, that's even more creepy and Microsoftian than what Apple is doing.
As a Power Electronics Engineer, I can confidently say that either situation is highly undesirable, as you will be dead long before the current in your body reaches 15A. (That would mean that you're being cooked like an 1800W resistor!) And remember, the AC peak to peak voltage is 160V... 120V is just the RMS voltage that we usually like to think about.
^^ The parent poster needs to stop acting like a rational adult, and more like a sheltered basement-dweller. Such insight is not welcome when we'd just rather view the world in black and white and make armchair judgements from the comfort of home. After all, complaining is fun, right?
Many white people go to where the money is, and that is generally not science and engineering. You have to be either dedicated or bat-shit insane to pursue a career in the sciences where you'll get paid far below the value of the effort you put in to get educated.
In Asian countries, being an engineer has a connotation with good social and economic status. In the USA, liking science means that you get peer recognition, but not much else from society.
Why go through 5 years of Electrical Engineering from a good school when you could go into medicine, law, or management?
I'm surprised by just how much certain people can be jaded these days. It's like back in the 90's and early 00's when Mac users were spouting all sorts of negative disinformation about MS. Now, certain demographics see an Apple story and they want blood. I'm convinced the Twilight Saga is to blame.
In my day we had token-ring IBM machines all hooked into a netware setup. For those of you who don't know, there's a really serious exploit possible by faking out netware when running over token ring–something that would give you full admin privileges. I believe the packet interception tool was called Pandora, but it's been a long time.
Anyway, one could just go to Barnes and Noble, buy a book about security exploits, and be in business. I never went that far, but there was someone who posted some nasty things about child porn on the admin servers. I'm not sure if they actually used the token-ring method to get the password, but the idea behind what 4chan's/b/ is today was on the root writable part of the netware server at my school.
I found the problem and told the IT admin, who then asked me what the hell I was doing looking around at his filesystem. I told him it was world readable and that he had a bigger problem that he needed to deal with before he went after me. I'm not sure they ever found out who did it. They never bothered me about it after I told them.
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I will take the time at this moment to say that Bitcoins are imaginary property. Should we just void all Bitcoins because they "don't really exist?"
Now if only Rockstar would come out with Grand Theft iPad: Miami
For a brief moment, I had the fancy of thinking entomologists were traveling the Amazon, making new discoveries for large amounts of money. That's pretty l337. I'm going to go back and read xkcd now.
because if you do you will get a cell phone suppository.
Good news everyone!
You completely missed the point of my post. Please reread it and do some thinking.
You might even take this a step further and claim that people who spend a lot of time on planes have reduced risk of brain cancer, for all the media is telling us.
One thing you missed:
Apple will generate its own electricity, via natural gas, to power the entire complex. The grid will be a secondary power source. (Take that PG&E!)
I like to think the iPod silhouette people are the ones who do the dirty work.
Lawyers are part of the disease, too, because there are quite a few "ambulance chasers" who actively seek out people who have no moral values and encourage them to sue, just like you see in the lawyer TV commercials. Don't lawyers also have a moral (and legal) obligation to do due diligence with respect to their clients? And how many of the ambulance chasers do that?
IMHO, Tort Reform is the most difficult issue the USA is facing today, and nothing is getting done about it. Inflation of healthcare costs and a myriad of other things can be traced directly to people abusing the court system.
Noticeably absent from the list is Apple. Queue the flame war.
He did say virtual girlfriend. Hell, it could be a 40 year old man for all he knows.
You forgot to post that as AC. Now the government is sure to bust into your house with submachine guns, since you have given them "probable cause" that you are doing something illegal.
Big [citation needed] there.
Sure Samsung makes parts for iPhones, but they make pennies on this compared to what they make on a Galaxy handset. Samsung can send Apple packing, and quietly "suggest" a reduction in supply of key components to any other companies that favor Apple too strongly.
Samsung's shareholders would call for the removal of the CEO and board of directors if the company lost an $8 billion contract/year with Apple because of a corporate pissing contest. If Samsung pushes too hard, Apple can build its own fabrication plant with its hordes of cash. Hell, they may even be planning to do that right now. That would be a big loss in business for Samsung.
As far as Samsung telling other companies not to let Apple buy parts from them, that's even more creepy and Microsoftian than what Apple is doing.
Modern ceramic and plastic plates don't have those kinds of bad things in them because they are made in... oh.
Just to be sure, we better nuke the volcano. From the moon.
So it seems that the "ruling" was just an earlier finding of the same agency (and the Slashdot summary was wrong)
FTFT (Fixed that for them)
Apple vs Nokia ended in "Nokia did not infringe Apple's patents", too. Why is it not mentioned?http://www.osnews.com/story/23987/ITC_Staff_Sides_with_Nokia_in_Apple_Complaint
Probably because it doesn't come from a credible source. Please see Bloomberg
For those who don't want to click the link, the ITC judge will make a ruling on whether Nokia violated Apple patents on June 24.
I should clarify that I meant "peak" voltage. Peak to peak is actually 340V in US.
As a Power Electronics Engineer, I can confidently say that either situation is highly undesirable, as you will be dead long before the current in your body reaches 15A. (That would mean that you're being cooked like an 1800W resistor!) And remember, the AC peak to peak voltage is 160V... 120V is just the RMS voltage that we usually like to think about.
Having been customers of both services, I can tell you that both AT&T and T-Mobile will be on the top, and their customers will be on the bottom.
^^ The parent poster needs to stop acting like a rational adult, and more like a sheltered basement-dweller. Such insight is not welcome when we'd just rather view the world in black and white and make armchair judgements from the comfort of home. After all, complaining is fun, right?
Many white people go to where the money is, and that is generally not science and engineering. You have to be either dedicated or bat-shit insane to pursue a career in the sciences where you'll get paid far below the value of the effort you put in to get educated.
In Asian countries, being an engineer has a connotation with good social and economic status. In the USA, liking science means that you get peer recognition, but not much else from society.
Why go through 5 years of Electrical Engineering from a good school when you could go into medicine, law, or management?
I'm surprised by just how much certain people can be jaded these days. It's like back in the 90's and early 00's when Mac users were spouting all sorts of negative disinformation about MS.
Now, certain demographics see an Apple story and they want blood. I'm convinced the Twilight Saga is to blame.
Hey, Some of us play Magic: The Gathering. Don't lump us in with those pokemon losers!
In my day we had token-ring IBM machines all hooked into a netware setup. For those of you who don't know, there's a really serious exploit possible by faking out netware when running over token ring–something that would give you full admin privileges. I believe the packet interception tool was called Pandora, but it's been a long time.
Anyway, one could just go to Barnes and Noble, buy a book about security exploits, and be in business. I never went that far, but there was someone who posted some nasty things about child porn on the admin servers. I'm not sure if they actually used the token-ring method to get the password, but the idea behind what 4chan's /b/ is today was on the root writable part of the netware server at my school.
I found the problem and told the IT admin, who then asked me what the hell I was doing looking around at his filesystem. I told him it was world readable and that he had a bigger problem that he needed to deal with before he went after me. I'm not sure they ever found out who did it. They never bothered me about it after I told them.