That broken nose sure did repair itself quickly on the police station CCTV!
Let me guess . . . you think that his nose would fall off if it wasn't taped in place? Broken noses don't work like that.
Is Zimmerman secretly Wolverine?
Are you secretly a troll?
No, I'm just someone who has dealt with a victim of a broken nose up close. Who said anything about tape? A broken nose sustained shortly before appearing to be totally normal on camera like that is just not adding up.
It's like drawing on yourself with a sharpie and then going on camera 15 minutes later. Unless you have access to soap and water, it's going to show. Even then, it can be hard to wash it all off. If he broke his nose (or, as he says, if the kid he chased down and shot dead broke his nose while fighting for his life) then it sure looks like his twin brother on that CCTV footage, or they shot that booking scene before the fight scene.
Where's the continuity person when you need them? Oh right, not a movie!
Broken noses bleed like a pressure washer filled with blood and soap. Even if they'd stopped the bleeding by that time, it would be evident, even on a CCTV camera. His face looks fairly ordinary.
Oh, I don't know... perhaps because a 17 year old kid who had been tracked down and attacked was fighting for his life? The human body is pretty powerful (ie, able to overcome the large size difference between the man and the teenager) when he chased down and assaulted the kid.
Of course, when Zimmerman shot him it was all over. Only so much the body can do. I mean, he had Skittles and Ice Tea on him - maybe if he ate those it would have cured the gunshot wound? Maybe he could have used those "in a threatening manner" against a much larger, angry, racist with a handgun.
Feared for his life? Please. He executed a black kid because he was committing the heinous crime of walking down the street while black.
I'll second this. I use Time Machine too. I don't have any fancy NAS box for it (due to budget mostly) - I just use an external firewire disk right now, and it has been used once due to a full internal drive failure (restoring the iMac back to the state it was in an hour before the failure) as well as the occasional single file recovery.
Most back up systems work well for full system recovery - Time Machine is not unique there - but it's the single file recovery tool that really makes it shine. It's very simple and intuitive to use.
It is totally "hands off" though - you have to trust that it actually is doing what you tell it to, beyond the menu item that gives you a summary of what it's up to (total being backed up at that moment, last backup time etc). It doesn't have a "show me a list of files backed up at x time" feature without the use of third party tools, so people who really want peace of mind may find that annoying.
No, I mean quote something of mine that is a logical fallacy. If you can't, then clearly I didn't make one, and you're just slinging words to try to escape from your losing argument position.
Of course, we both know that's what's happened here.
But that's the point - they are a standard (and ever since their inception, the standards body has been looking for ways to define them based on invariable things, rather than on arbitrary things like a mass of platinum/iridium alloy, or a metal rod that is a certain length.
SI as a system for standardising units across science is not controversial, or even new - the fact that a multi million dollar space mission can fail so spectacularly because one supplier was using imperial units is just unforgivably moronic. They can blame it on "communication errors" all they want - the fact is that the people who built the thing didn't even *look* at the units on the design brief - they just assumed everything was in imperial units.
Supplier did not supply SI, since it bases its measurements on US system.
Problems.
Yes, it was a communication and management error, but not entirely. It has been standard in scientific settings to use SI units for years and years. Failure to use them *especially when specifically outlined by the design brief* is not just a "communications problem" - it's a fundamental error in the product that was delivered unfit for purpose.
That's exactly my point. NASA *does* use SI units... just not consistently. It has suppliers that use non-SI units. Those units are also self-inconsistent in some cases (for example, the size of a gallon).
I would also like to know the juicy details behind the Mars Climate Orbiter not orbiting, but amm.. slamming into Mars.
Well, that one's easy. Failure by one unnamed country to use units that aren't based on the length of the Pharaoh's arm or how fast a horse with 2 bushels of corn can run on a slope that has a variable gradient, but it's close to the palace so it will do.
According to anyone who actually looks at the facts.
Putting *any* corporation in the "Big Evil Corporation" list is naive, since it speaks to a thought process that is one dimensional and superficial. No single large entity is entirely "evil" or "good". Apple has plenty of both, but it's not exclusively one or the other. The world is not made up of Sith and Jedi. The vast majority of people, companies, groups, organisations fall somewhere in the middle.
People in China don't have that option. Unions are illegal, and there is no recourse for poor working conditions. There is no reason to believe in fact that things will ever change over there, or that we will ever be able to compete with the near slave labor conditions in their factories.
Right, as I said - China is going through its industrial revolution right now, with the migration of workers away from subsistence farming and other non-technology jobs into an industrial workforce, with the corresponding rise of a middle class. That is exactly what happened in the West too - just much further back in time. If you think it will never change (or that is hasn't already changed *enormously* over the last 20 years), then you don't really have an eye on history.
Your assertion as to why manufacturing phones in China is more cost effective, is baseless and speculative at best. The Chinese workers are not going to be able to stand up for themselves legally and anyone with half a brain knows it.
They're not baseless and speculative; they are well understood and heavily researched and calculated. A mass market consumer product supply chain is one of the things large companies know a lot about.
On a side note I can't help but notice that this thread has been carpeted with one sided moderation on the issue. Makes me wonder...
What, that reality has a "bias" that doesn't agree with you, thus it must be some secret conspiracy of paid moderation designed to silence the highly influential and world-famous/. commenters?
Slashdot *wishes* that Apple was pureeing Chinese children and using their bones to make glue for iPad screens because that type of glue is extra sticky and impossible to remove, making the device harder to repair at home, then perhaps they would have some actual justification for the frothing rage and wild speculation that goes into their white-hot hate of the company. As it is, they're just another large American company; some bad parts, some good parts, some uninteresting parts. It's not like they have a secret underground volcano lair.
I see you don't understand the nuance of the supply chain. The reason that iPhones and so on (and other devices like Xboxes, HP computers, Playstations, Android phones and other things made in that same factory as the iPhone) are not made in the US isn't really a wage issue, it's a worker numbers issue, as well as a logistics problem. All the pieces that make a product are made nearby (or a great many of them are), so moving the assembly to the other side of the world creates huge issues unless there is a very specific reason that makes it economically viable (like in Brazil, where enormous import taxes have made it favourable to build an assembly line inside the country). There are some instances where a component is made in a different place and then shipped (for example, Samsung's Texas facility that is making ARM chips for Apple), but generally minimising the need to ship components around *really* cuts the cost of assembly (far more than the cost of paying hypothetical US factory worker wages, of which there aren't nearly enough to staff an operation of that size anyway).
They use China because it is cost effective to do so - they have a strong manufacturing base, a large and upwardly-mobile workforce (since they are going through their industrial revolution right now), a growing middle class and a solid infrastructure. The claim that they're using China to dodge environmental regulations is laughable - one of the first companies to limit the amount of expanded polystyrene used, the use of low-lead solder, the removal of PVC from cabling and plastics... and all this before Greenpeace "shamed them" into "making changes" (ie, just telling people what they were doing).
Putting Apple in the "Big Evil Corporation" list over something like this is just enormously naive. Globalisation is not going away, nor are Apple the only ones doing it (nor are they the "worst offenders" by an extremely long distance). This doesn't give them a free pass - they need to demand better conditions and so on (and they are doing so), but the world is not the black and white super simple "everyone is either a Jedi or a Sith" Star Wars fantasy.
Being secure by design does not mean it's immune to trojans and software exploits. The two things are not mutually exclusive. You can design a system with an eye on security (for example, not running as root by default, have the default state of network-facing services be "off", that sort of thing) but it does not mean that the software will be immune. There will always be bugs and holes - and on the Mac, there are plenty. There are relatively frequent security updates for OS X (more in the early days, but they have not dried up completely) as potential exploits are discovered and patched.
This isn't even the first trojan for OS X. The hole was patched three years ago though, so only non-updated machines are at risk*.
*note, machines still vulnerable to other OS X security threats, of which there are a few, mainly trojans. Don't download a piece of software from a torrent site claiming to be Microsoft Office.dmg, but is only a few 10's of MB - it's probably a trojan.
If that were true, he'd be after the picture taker. Not Google. Censoring search results is, actually, trying to put things retroactively back in the box. It doesn't work, but its trying to do that.
He is after the picture taker, and also the newspaper that broke the story.
He did get a bum rap. Plus, it's hardly good business sense for the hookers (or the business that manages them) - word gets around. You think they'll see repeat business from him or anyone connected to him?
I see you're trying to bring patent trolls into this (for some reason?!) Slashdot seems to be *all about* privacy until someone actually tries to do something about it.
Also, where do you get off judging his sexual preferences, claiming it somehow justifies what happened to him. So what? If he was just fucking them one at a time with the lights off, missionary style while the others waited their turn outside then it would be "less weird" and thus subject to more stringent privacy?
His argument regarding the release of the information in a sleazy red top was that it was in no way "relevant" news to the wider public. This isn;t about whistleblowers, or patent trolls (?! again, wtf?!), or something like a politician running on an anti-gay platform getting caught with his cock up a guy's ass. It was a private (yet famous) person having their privacy violated to sell newspapers.
He knows this - and he is fully accepting that the cat is out of the bag (he talks about it openly in interviews, for example). What he's doing is "taking one for the rest of us" to put laws into place so that what happened to him (the exposure of his private life, captured during a time when an expectation of privacy was legitimate) can't easily happen to someone else.
Now, this does seem like an exercise in trying to staple gun sand to the wall (witness the Ryan Giggs superinjunction debacle), but it certainly is a privacy issue. He's not trying to retroactively put everything back into the box, just make it a little more difficult for other people's boxes to be opened.
It's not the first time they've done this - they did it with Mini-Displayport too, and now you see those all over the place, and it works for Apple because they really like small and simple connectors.
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Actually they tried solving this "like gentlemen" many, many years ago.
Then they sued.
It's been ongoing for some time.
That broken nose sure did repair itself quickly on the police station CCTV!
Let me guess . . . you think that his nose would fall off if it wasn't taped in place? Broken noses don't work like that.
Is Zimmerman secretly Wolverine?
Are you secretly a troll?
No, I'm just someone who has dealt with a victim of a broken nose up close. Who said anything about tape? A broken nose sustained shortly before appearing to be totally normal on camera like that is just not adding up.
It's like drawing on yourself with a sharpie and then going on camera 15 minutes later. Unless you have access to soap and water, it's going to show. Even then, it can be hard to wash it all off. If he broke his nose (or, as he says, if the kid he chased down and shot dead broke his nose while fighting for his life) then it sure looks like his twin brother on that CCTV footage, or they shot that booking scene before the fight scene.
Where's the continuity person when you need them? Oh right, not a movie!
By "sneaking around" do you mean "walking down the street while black"?
Broken noses bleed like a pressure washer filled with blood and soap. Even if they'd stopped the bleeding by that time, it would be evident, even on a CCTV camera. His face looks fairly ordinary.
Well, Fox did go to court to defend the right to lie in "news" stories. Take anything you read or hear from Fox with a *massive* grain of salt.
That broken nose sure did repair itself quickly on the police station CCTV!
Is Zimmerman secretly Wolverine?
Just like the police ignored eyewitness testimony that did not agree with Zimmerman's account...
Oops!
Oh, I don't know... perhaps because a 17 year old kid who had been tracked down and attacked was fighting for his life? The human body is pretty powerful (ie, able to overcome the large size difference between the man and the teenager) when he chased down and assaulted the kid.
Of course, when Zimmerman shot him it was all over. Only so much the body can do. I mean, he had Skittles and Ice Tea on him - maybe if he ate those it would have cured the gunshot wound? Maybe he could have used those "in a threatening manner" against a much larger, angry, racist with a handgun.
Feared for his life? Please. He executed a black kid because he was committing the heinous crime of walking down the street while black.
I'll second this. I use Time Machine too. I don't have any fancy NAS box for it (due to budget mostly) - I just use an external firewire disk right now, and it has been used once due to a full internal drive failure (restoring the iMac back to the state it was in an hour before the failure) as well as the occasional single file recovery.
Most back up systems work well for full system recovery - Time Machine is not unique there - but it's the single file recovery tool that really makes it shine. It's very simple and intuitive to use.
It is totally "hands off" though - you have to trust that it actually is doing what you tell it to, beyond the menu item that gives you a summary of what it's up to (total being backed up at that moment, last backup time etc). It doesn't have a "show me a list of files backed up at x time" feature without the use of third party tools, so people who really want peace of mind may find that annoying.
No, I mean quote something of mine that is a logical fallacy. If you can't, then clearly I didn't make one, and you're just slinging words to try to escape from your losing argument position.
Of course, we both know that's what's happened here.
But that's the point - they are a standard (and ever since their inception, the standards body has been looking for ways to define them based on invariable things, rather than on arbitrary things like a mass of platinum/iridium alloy, or a metal rod that is a certain length.
SI as a system for standardising units across science is not controversial, or even new - the fact that a multi million dollar space mission can fail so spectacularly because one supplier was using imperial units is just unforgivably moronic. They can blame it on "communication errors" all they want - the fact is that the people who built the thing didn't even *look* at the units on the design brief - they just assumed everything was in imperial units.
Point one out to me, just for kicks.
Quote it specifically.
Answer: yes.
They were morons who weren't following the standards (or assumed they would just convert down the line).
SI units in science are hardly controversial.
NASA specified SI.
Supplier did not supply SI, since it bases its measurements on US system.
Problems.
Yes, it was a communication and management error, but not entirely. It has been standard in scientific settings to use SI units for years and years. Failure to use them *especially when specifically outlined by the design brief* is not just a "communications problem" - it's a fundamental error in the product that was delivered unfit for purpose.
That's exactly my point. NASA *does* use SI units... just not consistently. It has suppliers that use non-SI units. Those units are also self-inconsistent in some cases (for example, the size of a gallon).
I would also like to know the juicy details behind the Mars Climate Orbiter not orbiting, but amm.. slamming into Mars.
Well, that one's easy. Failure by one unnamed country to use units that aren't based on the length of the Pharaoh's arm or how fast a horse with 2 bushels of corn can run on a slope that has a variable gradient, but it's close to the palace so it will do.
You misspelled "astroturfers", or you're 12.
Still deciding.
Nice counterpoint though, I can really see the thought and intelligence behind your argument!
According to anyone who actually looks at the facts.
Putting *any* corporation in the "Big Evil Corporation" list is naive, since it speaks to a thought process that is one dimensional and superficial. No single large entity is entirely "evil" or "good". Apple has plenty of both, but it's not exclusively one or the other. The world is not made up of Sith and Jedi. The vast majority of people, companies, groups, organisations fall somewhere in the middle.
People in China don't have that option. Unions are illegal, and there is no recourse for poor working conditions. There is no reason to believe in fact that things will ever change over there, or that we will ever be able to compete with the near slave labor conditions in their factories.
Right, as I said - China is going through its industrial revolution right now, with the migration of workers away from subsistence farming and other non-technology jobs into an industrial workforce, with the corresponding rise of a middle class. That is exactly what happened in the West too - just much further back in time. If you think it will never change (or that is hasn't already changed *enormously* over the last 20 years), then you don't really have an eye on history.
Your assertion as to why manufacturing phones in China is more cost effective, is baseless and speculative at best. The Chinese workers are not going to be able to stand up for themselves legally and anyone with half a brain knows it.
They're not baseless and speculative; they are well understood and heavily researched and calculated. A mass market consumer product supply chain is one of the things large companies know a lot about.
On a side note I can't help but notice that this thread has been carpeted with one sided moderation on the issue. Makes me wonder...
What, that reality has a "bias" that doesn't agree with you, thus it must be some secret conspiracy of paid moderation designed to silence the highly influential and world-famous /. commenters?
Slashdot *wishes* that Apple was pureeing Chinese children and using their bones to make glue for iPad screens because that type of glue is extra sticky and impossible to remove, making the device harder to repair at home, then perhaps they would have some actual justification for the frothing rage and wild speculation that goes into their white-hot hate of the company. As it is, they're just another large American company; some bad parts, some good parts, some uninteresting parts. It's not like they have a secret underground volcano lair.
I see you don't understand the nuance of the supply chain. The reason that iPhones and so on (and other devices like Xboxes, HP computers, Playstations, Android phones and other things made in that same factory as the iPhone) are not made in the US isn't really a wage issue, it's a worker numbers issue, as well as a logistics problem. All the pieces that make a product are made nearby (or a great many of them are), so moving the assembly to the other side of the world creates huge issues unless there is a very specific reason that makes it economically viable (like in Brazil, where enormous import taxes have made it favourable to build an assembly line inside the country). There are some instances where a component is made in a different place and then shipped (for example, Samsung's Texas facility that is making ARM chips for Apple), but generally minimising the need to ship components around *really* cuts the cost of assembly (far more than the cost of paying hypothetical US factory worker wages, of which there aren't nearly enough to staff an operation of that size anyway).
They use China because it is cost effective to do so - they have a strong manufacturing base, a large and upwardly-mobile workforce (since they are going through their industrial revolution right now), a growing middle class and a solid infrastructure. The claim that they're using China to dodge environmental regulations is laughable - one of the first companies to limit the amount of expanded polystyrene used, the use of low-lead solder, the removal of PVC from cabling and plastics... and all this before Greenpeace "shamed them" into "making changes" (ie, just telling people what they were doing).
Putting Apple in the "Big Evil Corporation" list over something like this is just enormously naive. Globalisation is not going away, nor are Apple the only ones doing it (nor are they the "worst offenders" by an extremely long distance). This doesn't give them a free pass - they need to demand better conditions and so on (and they are doing so), but the world is not the black and white super simple "everyone is either a Jedi or a Sith" Star Wars fantasy.
Being secure by design does not mean it's immune to trojans and software exploits. The two things are not mutually exclusive. You can design a system with an eye on security (for example, not running as root by default, have the default state of network-facing services be "off", that sort of thing) but it does not mean that the software will be immune. There will always be bugs and holes - and on the Mac, there are plenty. There are relatively frequent security updates for OS X (more in the early days, but they have not dried up completely) as potential exploits are discovered and patched.
This isn't even the first trojan for OS X. The hole was patched three years ago though, so only non-updated machines are at risk*.
*note, machines still vulnerable to other OS X security threats, of which there are a few, mainly trojans. Don't download a piece of software from a torrent site claiming to be Microsoft Office.dmg, but is only a few 10's of MB - it's probably a trojan.
If that were true, he'd be after the picture taker. Not Google. Censoring search results is, actually, trying to put things retroactively back in the box. It doesn't work, but its trying to do that.
He is after the picture taker, and also the newspaper that broke the story.
He can do more than one thing at once.
He did get a bum rap. Plus, it's hardly good business sense for the hookers (or the business that manages them) - word gets around. You think they'll see repeat business from him or anyone connected to him?
I see you're trying to bring patent trolls into this (for some reason?!) Slashdot seems to be *all about* privacy until someone actually tries to do something about it.
Also, where do you get off judging his sexual preferences, claiming it somehow justifies what happened to him. So what? If he was just fucking them one at a time with the lights off, missionary style while the others waited their turn outside then it would be "less weird" and thus subject to more stringent privacy?
His argument regarding the release of the information in a sleazy red top was that it was in no way "relevant" news to the wider public. This isn;t about whistleblowers, or patent trolls (?! again, wtf?!), or something like a politician running on an anti-gay platform getting caught with his cock up a guy's ass. It was a private (yet famous) person having their privacy violated to sell newspapers.
He knows this - and he is fully accepting that the cat is out of the bag (he talks about it openly in interviews, for example). What he's doing is "taking one for the rest of us" to put laws into place so that what happened to him (the exposure of his private life, captured during a time when an expectation of privacy was legitimate) can't easily happen to someone else.
Now, this does seem like an exercise in trying to staple gun sand to the wall (witness the Ryan Giggs superinjunction debacle), but it certainly is a privacy issue. He's not trying to retroactively put everything back into the box, just make it a little more difficult for other people's boxes to be opened.
A better standard that works for them.
It's not the first time they've done this - they did it with Mini-Displayport too, and now you see those all over the place, and it works for Apple because they really like small and simple connectors.