When it installing Messenger, it "needs" access to * Identity * Contacts * Location * SMS * Phone * Media/Photos * Camera * Microphone * Wifi connection info * Device and call info
Basically, EVERY bit of sensitive data on my phone. There was a recent radio broadcast where they were able to determine that FB was checking your location multiple times per second (whether or not you were using the app). So yeah, no f'ing way that PoS app is getting installed on my device.
They'd be better to leave it with a buddy. A non-moving phone at home is pretty obvious, but a phone that goes to a dimly lit bar with a criminal buddy who vouches that you were "having drinks together" would probably be more compelling, especially if the culprit in question does go to the bar for awhile so that at least he/she is recognized by a bouncer or bartender.
Yeah, and after they use it for awhile, trapped heat is probably going to add to that. Even electric generates heat, and a lot of that is going to build up.
Actually that's something most people don't think about. This is a looooooong tunnel, and trains aren't exactly clean (unless we're talking electric), so how do you keep stuff from settling in the tunnel and creating noxious pockets? Around here one just has to look at fences or shrubs near a track and one side is pretty much black from accumulated soot over time.
Motion of the trains themselves probably helps somewhat but it's still going to get kinda dirty in there unless there's a good maintenance plan.
It's not even really "environmentalists" that are the issue, it's career protesters. There was in interview on the news a few months ago about a women who was illegally) picketing one of the big hydroelectric projects. She was talking about how it was affecting locals, jobs, and driving up costs and etc etc. Most of her articles were complete bunk too as local power rates were in fact lower than most of the rest of the country and are in the third lowest in the CONTINENT.
The best part is when she was asked about where exactly she's from, and it turns out that she wasn't even from the province, or even the COUNTRY. Yes, she came thousands of miles to protest one of the cleanest varieties of energy projects that was nowhere near her and had nothing to do with her or anyone she was close/related to. But hey, there was going to be music, hot-dogs, and dancing at the protest (again, she mentioned all this, inviting people to come join), so why not come up and have a big party!
At the very least she is ignorant, but I fear that many of these people are not only clueless but actively being used by others to forward their own agenda. Seems it's pretty easy nowadays for a big corp to get a bus-load of people to "protest" something while they themselves hide in the shadows.
Well, BC in Western Canada does pretty well at power generation through hydroelectric etc. I believe that Alberta is also looking at wind power but that's likely not as effective. Mobile storage may be another concern but they can generally control levels at the dams by adjusting the floodgates.
Petroleum products won't go away, but as a fuel source it may decline. We'll still have a lot of use for such things as plastic, rubber, asphalt, etc which all use petroleum products to some extent.
If enough people in China get pissed off, the government may decide to lean on Microsoft for this. What I'm really wondering though, is why the EU hasn't come down on them like a megaton of bricks for this crap. They're usually pretty good about dropping the hammer on stupid sh*t like this.
Well for Amazon etc it should be fairly simple. Sure, if you want to stay offline you could in theory keep an extra copy of said book even though you sold the digital "original", but that comes at the expense of never being able to sync your device online again. Otherwise, part of the sync process would simply be to purge any "sold" items from a device before downloading new "purchased" items. For Kobo it would be much the same, as would it be for Steam and games, etc. Sure, you could get away with going "offline" forever, but the cost of doing so is likely more than the $8 ebook you're transferring ownership of, because the device costs more than the media.
Now for music etc the argument is a bit different as those have traditionally been a bit more mobile between devices, but realistically those also face different issues in that they're also plenty easy to copy and transfer anyhow.
One way I see managing media in the future would be to have something like a personal encryption "signing key". It doesn't need to be online, but essentially it controls encryption for all your device media. When you get a file, it's uniquely encrypted and identifiable with your key. This could be tied to an account of some sort (i.e. like Google Play, iTunes, Amazon) so that you don't lose it, but could also be used for offline management of digital media with a combination of personal+device keys. Of course it's still possible for more technical individuals to strip the encryption/keys off of media, but for the average person it's not going to be worth it. Essentially it's still a form of DRM and/or identification, but the nice part would be that it might also be useful in terms of theft-prevention. E.G. if somebody steals your music device, at least the library is unavailable when keys are revoked and/or you might even be able to identify the device by the keys when next it goes online.
Plus shelf space at the store (included in the retailer mark-up). Even eTailers have to carry inventory, but for digital systems there's a *very* small footprint for that beyond the data-storage systems that are also already being used for a lot of other products.
That $20 DVD at WalMart includes a lot of end-to-end costs. Even Amazon has many of those, albeit less as they have warehouses rather than shopping centres. Steam has a digital distribution network, but it's probably not that much above-and-beyond what many physical-item retailers already need to have in place for inventory/purchase management. So realistically, if I'm buying a game on Steam for 80% of the physical price, in my mind that 20% isn't because it's a "license" rather than a "purchase", but rather because they're saving a *lot* of medium/distribution costs, and at the end of the day I'm not getting a shiny disc or box-art for my collection.
What I wonder is, where does OpenJDK fall in all of this? I mean, seriously, the issue of API reimplementation is one thing, but OpenJDK pretty much does the same thing as Oracle's in most cases (but is free). From my understanding, Oracle isn't involved in OpenJDK itself.
Basically, OpenJDK is a lot more like Oracle's Java (but it isn't tied to a massive revenue stream like Android/Dalvik), so where's the lawsuit for that?
1TB is a pretty decent cap too. I actually reduced my plan recently to a few hundred GB and I still don't exceed my limit (granted we're generally not torrenting movies etc but there is plenty of Netflix/streaming/gaming and other downloads going on).
I was wondering about the steel model myself, but looking at the specs it appears that the Time 2 is steel, though with a standard plastic band out of the box.
The description near the top of "about this project" on the kickstarter says: "A premium heart rate enable stainless-steel smartwatch with an updated color display"
My current pebble supports standard watch bands, so I'd imagine the Time 2 will also. I've ordered a Time 2 and will just get a nice steel band for it (or take one off of one of my older watches).
Lawyers can only work within the (broken) law. If big entities like Apple start feeling pain from shit like this, then they'll probably lobby for at least some patent reform.
It depends on which end you're looking at, the development end or the user end. I'd imagine a lot of Linux users wouldn't be such if it weren't also free as in $
All-in-all, Battleship wasn't that bad a movie. I have *no* idea why they decided to tie it to the game of the same name, but realistically for a sea-combat-with-aliens type movie it was better than expected, certainly better than Pixels (but then again, that's pretty par for a Sandler flick these days).
As silly as it is, I'd rather see them release a movie based on a fairly simplistic game concept than butcher the plot of a more in-depth game (e.g. Doom). I enjoyed "Wreck it Ralph" which was cute - ok, a little too cute sometimes but good for kids - and game-based, but again it had its own canon and wasn't really feasting on the corpse of an established story. The little snippets like Zangief's speedo were good for a chuckle too.
"Why would you say that is what "Islamists" want for the world? Because the news told you?"
Well in my case it's because people I know who escaped and emmigrated as refugees shared with me some of the scary shit that's about in those places. Is that good enough for you, or do you need a signed confession from their president (who is better than the last guy but still scary). Basically if you're not Muslim your life isn't worth 2c. In reality it seems that many Muslims in that situation are such because it's safer to "keep faith", but the hardliners are very dangerous and twisted people.
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When it installing Messenger, it "needs" access to
* Identity
* Contacts
* Location
* SMS
* Phone
* Media/Photos
* Camera
* Microphone
* Wifi connection info
* Device and call info
Basically, EVERY bit of sensitive data on my phone. There was a recent radio broadcast where they were able to determine that FB was checking your location multiple times per second (whether or not you were using the app).
So yeah, no f'ing way that PoS app is getting installed on my device.
Heck, that would be a useful feature for people who are forever losing their phones. Send a special code and the phone flies home all on its own... :-)
They'd be better to leave it with a buddy. A non-moving phone at home is pretty obvious, but a phone that goes to a dimly lit bar with a criminal buddy who vouches that you were "having drinks together" would probably be more compelling, especially if the culprit in question does go to the bar for awhile so that at least he/she is recognized by a bouncer or bartender.
Yeah, and after they use it for awhile, trapped heat is probably going to add to that. Even electric generates heat, and a lot of that is going to build up.
Looks like the question of fossil vs electric was answered
Actually that's something most people don't think about. This is a looooooong tunnel, and trains aren't exactly clean (unless we're talking electric), so how do you keep stuff from settling in the tunnel and creating noxious pockets? Around here one just has to look at fences or shrubs near a track and one side is pretty much black from accumulated soot over time.
Motion of the trains themselves probably helps somewhat but it's still going to get kinda dirty in there unless there's a good maintenance plan.
I don't know that the RIAA would have a problem with the midget porn, unless it had a copyrighted soundtrack.
After all ,they look after the music industry, not the little guys.
It's not even really "environmentalists" that are the issue, it's career protesters. There was in interview on the news a few months ago about a women who was illegally) picketing one of the big hydroelectric projects. She was talking about how it was affecting locals, jobs, and driving up costs and etc etc. Most of her articles were complete bunk too as local power rates were in fact lower than most of the rest of the country and are in the third lowest in the CONTINENT.
The best part is when she was asked about where exactly she's from, and it turns out that she wasn't even from the province, or even the COUNTRY. Yes, she came thousands of miles to protest one of the cleanest varieties of energy projects that was nowhere near her and had nothing to do with her or anyone she was close/related to. But hey, there was going to be music, hot-dogs, and dancing at the protest (again, she mentioned all this, inviting people to come join), so why not come up and have a big party!
At the very least she is ignorant, but I fear that many of these people are not only clueless but actively being used by others to forward their own agenda. Seems it's pretty easy nowadays for a big corp to get a bus-load of people to "protest" something while they themselves hide in the shadows.
Well, BC in Western Canada does pretty well at power generation through hydroelectric etc. I believe that Alberta is also looking at wind power but that's likely not as effective. Mobile storage may be another concern but they can generally control levels at the dams by adjusting the floodgates.
Petroleum products won't go away, but as a fuel source it may decline. We'll still have a lot of use for such things as plastic, rubber, asphalt, etc which all use petroleum products to some extent.
If enough people in China get pissed off, the government may decide to lean on Microsoft for this. What I'm really wondering though, is why the EU hasn't come down on them like a megaton of bricks for this crap. They're usually pretty good about dropping the hammer on stupid sh*t like this.
I'll take "advertisements in the start menu tiles" for $1,000,000 Alex
I'm fairly sure that encryption vendors, IT firms, etc can make money on it, though not necessarily always directly.
Well for Amazon etc it should be fairly simple. Sure, if you want to stay offline you could in theory keep an extra copy of said book even though you sold the digital "original", but that comes at the expense of never being able to sync your device online again.
Otherwise, part of the sync process would simply be to purge any "sold" items from a device before downloading new "purchased" items.
For Kobo it would be much the same, as would it be for Steam and games, etc. Sure, you could get away with going "offline" forever, but the cost of doing so is likely more than the $8 ebook you're transferring ownership of, because the device costs more than the media.
Now for music etc the argument is a bit different as those have traditionally been a bit more mobile between devices, but realistically those also face different issues in that they're also plenty easy to copy and transfer anyhow.
One way I see managing media in the future would be to have something like a personal encryption "signing key". It doesn't need to be online, but essentially it controls encryption for all your device media. When you get a file, it's uniquely encrypted and identifiable with your key. This could be tied to an account of some sort (i.e. like Google Play, iTunes, Amazon) so that you don't lose it, but could also be used for offline management of digital media with a combination of personal+device keys. Of course it's still possible for more technical individuals to strip the encryption/keys off of media, but for the average person it's not going to be worth it.
Essentially it's still a form of DRM and/or identification, but the nice part would be that it might also be useful in terms of theft-prevention. E.G. if somebody steals your music device, at least the library is unavailable when keys are revoked and/or you might even be able to identify the device by the keys when next it goes online.
Plus shelf space at the store (included in the retailer mark-up). Even eTailers have to carry inventory, but for digital systems there's a *very* small footprint for that beyond the data-storage systems that are also already being used for a lot of other products.
That $20 DVD at WalMart includes a lot of end-to-end costs. Even Amazon has many of those, albeit less as they have warehouses rather than shopping centres. Steam has a digital distribution network, but it's probably not that much above-and-beyond what many physical-item retailers already need to have in place for inventory/purchase management. So realistically, if I'm buying a game on Steam for 80% of the physical price, in my mind that 20% isn't because it's a "license" rather than a "purchase", but rather because they're saving a *lot* of medium/distribution costs, and at the end of the day I'm not getting a shiny disc or box-art for my collection.
What I wonder is, where does OpenJDK fall in all of this? I mean, seriously, the issue of API reimplementation is one thing, but OpenJDK pretty much does the same thing as Oracle's in most cases (but is free). From my understanding, Oracle isn't involved in OpenJDK itself.
Basically, OpenJDK is a lot more like Oracle's Java (but it isn't tied to a massive revenue stream like Android/Dalvik), so where's the lawsuit for that?
1TB is a pretty decent cap too. I actually reduced my plan recently to a few hundred GB and I still don't exceed my limit (granted we're generally not torrenting movies etc but there is plenty of Netflix/streaming/gaming and other downloads going on).
"Wear all brown so no running colors."
Especially underwear, as then you don't need to use a heavy bleach to clean out any unsightly stains!
I was wondering about the steel model myself, but looking at the specs it appears that the Time 2 is steel, though with a standard plastic band out of the box.
The description near the top of "about this project" on the kickstarter says:
"A premium heart rate enable stainless-steel smartwatch with an updated color display"
My current pebble supports standard watch bands, so I'd imagine the Time 2 will also. I've ordered a Time 2 and will just get a nice steel band for it (or take one off of one of my older watches).
Lawyers can only work within the (broken) law. If big entities like Apple start feeling pain from shit like this, then they'll probably lobby for at least some patent reform.
It depends on which end you're looking at, the development end or the user end. I'd imagine a lot of Linux users wouldn't be such if it weren't also free as in $
I don't know about views and revenue, but using somebody else's material without licensing sounds like a good basis for getting sued...
All-in-all, Battleship wasn't that bad a movie. I have *no* idea why they decided to tie it to the game of the same name, but realistically for a sea-combat-with-aliens type movie it was better than expected, certainly better than Pixels (but then again, that's pretty par for a Sandler flick these days).
As silly as it is, I'd rather see them release a movie based on a fairly simplistic game concept than butcher the plot of a more in-depth game (e.g. Doom). I enjoyed "Wreck it Ralph" which was cute - ok, a little too cute sometimes but good for kids - and game-based, but again it had its own canon and wasn't really feasting on the corpse of an established story. The little snippets like Zangief's speedo were good for a chuckle too.
You do realize it's been a *LONG* time since Nixon, right, and that many things have changed (not for the better)?
"Why would you say that is what "Islamists" want for the world? Because the news told you?"
Well in my case it's because people I know who escaped and emmigrated as refugees shared with me some of the scary shit that's about in those places. Is that good enough for you, or do you need a signed confession from their president (who is better than the last guy but still scary). Basically if you're not Muslim your life isn't worth 2c. In reality it seems that many Muslims in that situation are such because it's safer to "keep faith", but the hardliners are very dangerous and twisted people.
"Alternatively I wonder why a DVD player feels it has to obey "unskippable" directives"
Actually, the funny thing is that most brand-name players will obey the no-skip directive, but the cheaper models actually didn't bother.