... you should be able to install whatever version of software you want on your phone.
The *only* think I want from a phone is a safe enough firmware bootloader that if someone installs something that doesn't work on a device, they can un-brick it and replace it with something that works.
That would handle the specific case of "rollbacks" this article want; as well as the more general case of deleting Windows Phone and putting Android on the otherwise nice hardware.
In Japan, MtGox is not liable because bitcoins aren't money (i.e. nothing real was lost).
Couldn't one say the same about most any fiat currency (backed by nothing but the whims of some private company (the Federal Reserve Bank) - not unlike how WoW gold is backed by nothing but the whims of Bilzzard)? And also the same about any currency with lenders that get to do fractional reserve banking (they essentially get to make money on whims by loaning out more than they have)?
Seems Bitcoins aren't that different than Zimbabwe Dollars.
they'd remove the blacklist completely --- and all the driver vendors would quickly fix the bugs (if there even are any).
As it is, no-one fixes the drivers because there aren't that many test cases showing the hypothetical bugs. And a good way to get those test cases would be with a frequently used app like Chromium.
By keeping the blacklist, it means those bugs they think are there will likely never be found and fixed.
But if you're in public, assume you're taped. Chances are you already are, and you just don't realize it.
This guy does an incredible performance art piece based on that idea. He walks around with a really obvious camera taking videos of people's reactions to him recording them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Funny how with google glass - that'll be everyone.
Still no alternative gives virtual screen bigger than real screen (scroll when mouse hits edge). Or windows occupying more than one desktop (e.g. top left part in "1", bottom right in "4").
FVWM2 does both: your world consists of multiple disjoint virtual desktops (windows can be present in multiples of them) each of which is larger than the screen. In the latter case, you can also stick windows so that they pan around with you.
But in a way that feels broken compared to TVTWM.
With FVWM2 it seems you need to choose which corner of the window in that example you want to see. With TVTWM you can move the view so it's centered on that window spanning multiple desktops.
Well I guess on the bright side when Digg did that, their infrastructure costs could have gone way down as they lost most of their users and layed off 37% of their staff.
So are you saying that BSD gets less contributions because of its licence and that GPL'ed software gets more?
BSD historically got more total (including proprietary) contributions - but fewer contributions that were shared back.
Recall when every server vendor had their own proprietary fork of BSD (SunOS4, etc) and kept all. A lot of the top software talent was employed by those companies - making proprietary unshared contributions to BSD.
Worked fine for BSD for a while. But as the companies started keeping more and more to themselves, GPL'd alternatives (linux) passed the BSDs as the corporate sponsors died off or lost interest.
Their model seems to assume that Facebook accounts are something someone make one of, and when they're done with it, stop using it.
For a lot of people I think Facebook accounts really are transient ephemeral things more like colds.
Whenever when some damn website or game makes me have a Facebook account to sign up -- I make a new account with a throwaway username / password / email that I never care to remember -- and never use it again. That's why I think a lot of those "facebook has X users" or "Y% of users have abandoned facebook" are totally bogus. For just my accounts, sure I've abandoned 90% of them. But that doesn't make it fair to extrapolate that 90% of facebook accounts get abandoned. Just that some people don't want a permanent Facebook account.
TL/DR: I do get facebook accounts very much like I get mild colds. A get a new one a couple times a year; it doesn't last for more than a couple days; and they're merely mildly annoying.
Hasbro vs. Internet Entertainment Group "CANDYLAND Case"
1996 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 11626 (W.D.Wa. 1996)
HASBRO, INC., Plaintiff,
v.
INTERNET ENTERTAINMENT GROUP, LTD., et al., Defendants.
1996 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 11626 (W.D. Wa. 1996).... 6. Hasbro has shown that defendants' use of the CANDY LAND name and the domain name candyland.com in connection with their Internet site is causing irreparable injury to Hasbro.
90% of my online accounts are fake, even this one.
That's exactly what all parents should teach kids to do:
Don't talk to strangers (whether online or in the real world. And especially don't give them true real-life information. And remember - to your kids, Zuckerberg and the Google kids giving out "free" internet services are just as much strangers as a guy in an unmarked van handing out free candy to kids.
I thought that's just basic parenting skills; and one of the first rules anyone teaches kids.
It's not hypocracy if her position is consistantly that the elite and rich defense contractors (doesn't her husband own much of URS) are above the law, and everyone else must bow before them.
Her legislation could say "only senators, former senators, people with over $100 million, and defense contractors can use drones to spy on others" -- and it wouldn't be hypocracy. It'd just be evil.
One guy'll be making a computer vision system to recognize faces "to make it easier to log in to your cellphone".
Another guy'll be making a robot painting system that aims it's cars "so make a more profitable assembly line".
Yet another'll make a self-driving car "so you won't have to worry about drunk drivers anymore".
Once those pieces are all there (hint, today), it doesn't take much for the last guy to glue the 3 together; hand it a gun instead of spraypaint; and load it with a databases of faces you don't like.
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... you should be able to install whatever version of software you want on your phone.
The *only* think I want from a phone is a safe enough firmware bootloader that if someone installs something that doesn't work on a device, they can un-brick it and replace it with something that works.
That would handle the specific case of "rollbacks" this article want; as well as the more general case of deleting Windows Phone and putting Android on the otherwise nice hardware.
Considering how closely they partner with Lenovo, I'm not sure the US government are the backdoors in IBM people should be most worried about.
In Japan, MtGox is not liable because bitcoins aren't money (i.e. nothing real was lost).
Couldn't one say the same about most any fiat currency (backed by nothing but the whims of some private company (the Federal Reserve Bank) - not unlike how WoW gold is backed by nothing but the whims of Bilzzard)? And also the same about any currency with lenders that get to do fractional reserve banking (they essentially get to make money on whims by loaning out more than they have)?
Seems Bitcoins aren't that different than Zimbabwe Dollars.
black boxes are almost always recovered
Except when planes crash?
Seems the 9/11 planes' were lost too. http://911research.wtc7.net/pl...
they'd remove the blacklist completely --- and all the driver vendors would quickly fix the bugs (if there even are any).
As it is, no-one fixes the drivers because there aren't that many test cases showing the hypothetical bugs. And a good way to get those test cases would be with a frequently used app like Chromium.
By keeping the blacklist, it means those bugs they think are there will likely never be found and fixed.
But if you're in public, assume you're taped. Chances are you already are, and you just don't realize it.
This guy does an incredible performance art piece based on that idea. He walks around with a really obvious camera taking videos of people's reactions to him recording them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... Funny how with google glass - that'll be everyone.
Try to get the attention of the guys running the simulation (through prayer, sacrifice, whatever).
If it works - and they enter their debuggers to communicate back - then yup - probably a simulation.
It probably just works for a while, though, since their management will probably enact policies not to flood the worlds too often.
Why'd someone mod this as troll?
I use it; and it works great.
Still no alternative gives virtual screen bigger than real screen (scroll when mouse hits edge). Or windows occupying more than one desktop (e.g. top left part in "1", bottom right in "4").
FVWM2 does both: your world consists of multiple disjoint virtual desktops (windows can be present in multiples of them) each of which is larger than the screen. In the latter case, you can also stick windows so that they pan around with you.
But in a way that feels broken compared to TVTWM. With FVWM2 it seems you need to choose which corner of the window in that example you want to see. With TVTWM you can move the view so it's centered on that window spanning multiple desktops.
"Still no alternative gives virtual screen bigger than real screen (scroll when mouse hits edge)." ... X itself does that!
Kinda. tvtwm had it integrated nicely and cleanly so it was easy to scroll to where you want. Using X itself I get too many unintentional scrolls.
My guess is no, afterall, it's Wayland! If a feature isn't used by a majority of gamers and movie watchers it shouldn't be there. Right?
Not sure if I want to laugh or cry.
Nope - this one: http://freecode.com/projects/t... Still exists; but last time I tried I had trouble getting it working.
Guess I'm getting old; but I remember tweaking that til it was perfect for my workflow. Haven't seen a modern desktop that works as well for me.
A quick google search can find dozens or hundreds of people pointing lasers at helicopters. https://www.google.com/search?...
Well I guess on the bright side when Digg did that, their infrastructure costs could have gone way down as they lost most of their users and layed off 37% of their staff.
I wonder what the fines or penalties will be for NON-functioning car responders?
Probably similar to any other missing safety feature - like a broken break light, or a torn seat belt.
So are you saying that BSD gets less contributions because of its licence and that GPL'ed software gets more?
BSD historically got more total (including proprietary) contributions - but fewer contributions that were shared back.
Recall when every server vendor had their own proprietary fork of BSD (SunOS4, etc) and kept all. A lot of the top software talent was employed by those companies - making proprietary unshared contributions to BSD.
Worked fine for BSD for a while. But as the companies started keeping more and more to themselves, GPL'd alternatives (linux) passed the BSDs as the corporate sponsors died off or lost interest.
For a lot of people I think Facebook accounts really are transient ephemeral things more like colds.
Whenever when some damn website or game makes me have a Facebook account to sign up -- I make a new account with a throwaway username / password / email that I never care to remember -- and never use it again. That's why I think a lot of those "facebook has X users" or "Y% of users have abandoned facebook" are totally bogus. For just my accounts, sure I've abandoned 90% of them. But that doesn't make it fair to extrapolate that 90% of facebook accounts get abandoned. Just that some people don't want a permanent Facebook account.
TL/DR: I do get facebook accounts very much like I get mild colds. A get a new one a couple times a year; it doesn't last for more than a couple days; and they're merely mildly annoying.
90% of my online accounts are fake, even this one.
That's exactly what all parents should teach kids to do: Don't talk to strangers (whether online or in the real world. And especially don't give them true real-life information. And remember - to your kids, Zuckerberg and the Google kids giving out "free" internet services are just as much strangers as a guy in an unmarked van handing out free candy to kids. I thought that's just basic parenting skills; and one of the first rules anyone teaches kids.
And wonder if it makes sense to use as a firewall in front of a US-friendly one.
Seems a pair of firewalls ought to be configurable so unless *both* have a back door you're safe.
It's not hypocracy if her position is consistantly that the elite and rich defense contractors (doesn't her husband own much of URS) are above the law, and everyone else must bow before them.
Her legislation could say "only senators, former senators, people with over $100 million, and defense contractors can use drones to spy on others" -- and it wouldn't be hypocracy. It'd just be evil.
If only you had patented it....
Perhaps he's a Linux Desktop Advocate, or Apple Shareholder.
Another guy'll be making a robot painting system that aims it's cars "so make a more profitable assembly line".
Yet another'll make a self-driving car "so you won't have to worry about drunk drivers anymore".
Once those pieces are all there (hint, today), it doesn't take much for the last guy to glue the 3 together; hand it a gun instead of spraypaint; and load it with a databases of faces you don't like.
This video he made on how to uninstall McAfee software http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg in case anyone missed it before.