I can agree with not filtering content in the library. Its there to make information of all kinds accessible, and that should be protected. This guy was just being a first class jerk though, moving to another machine where the display would be less visible to other patrons probably would have been adequate and really is the least he could do.
Just because you have the 'right' to do something does not mean should or your must. It only means others are not within their rights to stop you. Flagrant thoughtless abuse of 'our rights' like this when viewed by less evenhanded people than myself become reasons people decide we perhaps should not have so many rights. I think that is bad thing.
Free speech is very important, and I do think at time obscenity is required to make a point. I just hope anyone who decides to act in what the majority will consider obscene in public, has a point to make. Otherwise you are just making others uncomfortable for no reasons, which is wrong, and worse you are risking the rights of other one day being curtailed for nothing.
I don't think they need to filter the content but I think librarian should insist patrons respect one another. The request he move to a different machine perhaps one where the display faces away from a wall was entirely reasonable.
You are absolutely correct and its been working. The left has been using that strategy forever. The 'genius' if you will of the likes of Karl Rove during the Bush era and now as well as some of the new anti-Obama super PACs and similar is that Conservatives have started to do the same thing to and about liberals.
You can't have an intelligent debate when the other side is permitted to get away with name calling and baseless hyperbole that is not subject to challenge. The right finally figured out its not worth holding the moral high ground if it means losing the election. The result is the political discourse in this nation has been reduced to level children on playground exercise. Until the public demands better and everyone gets together and agrees to something better the right thing to do is whatever it takes to win.
If Romney wants to win this thing the moment the GOP primary ends he SHOULD go hard negative on Obama. He should adobt Newt's nonsense about the food stamp president, label the president an apologist who hates America, etc etc. He should set the PACs about going after Obama's family. Tell people how even Michelle is a totalitarian who hates your freedom to even decided what to eat or feed your children. Remind people how Obama told his daughter she'd make her first million before 18, and accuse the entire family of just having their hand in the cookie jar, of nepotism, of looting.
None of it needs to be true, fair, or reasonable. Newt's SC success is proof of this. The more vapid and empty the better, in fact. I'd make this the UGLIEST election this Nation has ever seen, first because its the way to win and second because maybe just maybe when the dust finally settles people would wake up and decide they are truly tired of it.
Its "news for nerds" transportation strikes happen all the time, unless there is something really unusual about yours in Halifax, its not news for nerds and outside of Halifax were people might be effected its not even news.
A tree catching fire would not be news either except this one is among the oldest in the world! That makes it pretty unusual and therefore news worthy. So it meets the news part of the criteria. Lets see how it does on the nerd part!
Well nerds/geeks are curious about the world around them sometimes to a fault. There are lots of uninteresting trees but this one is really really old, so anyone interested in botany would be fascinated, I am sure. Oh and there is both fire and possibly lightning evolved so there is something for your physics and chemistry folks. Seems like lots of room for nerd interest to me.
My recommendation is navigate away from Slashdot and check out Google news, they can probably link you to some articles about that that Bus strike in Halifax which might be more your speed.
Isn't actuarial value the amount that life insurance companies pay out?
No.
The actual value of a citizen to society is their economic contribution. This is the value tax dollars might reasonably be used to protect. Most of us are not insured to that amount because the beneficiary do not enjoy our total economic contribution.
Also I don't think it makes sense to break the economic value out by simply dividing by life span to get a per year figure. If anything 40+ year olds are worth MUCH LESS than 20 somethings. They have far fewer productive years remaining and many costly ones in most cases.
If the state is going to focus resources on security for any group of citizens it should be those in their late teens through perhaps mid 40s. Unlike children most of the investment in their development is sunk and unlike the middle aged and elderly the greatest amount taxable productivity is to be derived.
So yes the typical College bowl game should recieve this type of security treatment before the Superbowl does.
Your math is wrong. It would be worth spending 38M if and only if doing so eliminated that 0.1% risk. It only mitigates it however, its still possible someone could execute a successful attack.
You have to determine what the likelihood of success is after the steps you plan to take and use the difference of that and the 38M risk adjusted cost to calculate the most you should spend.
It sounds like they are putting in some pretty damn effective controls; but there is still a HUGE attack surface so its hard to say.
How bad does it have to get before Joe Sixpack wakes up and takes notice?
Joe Sixpack has noticed, the petition got enough signatures and quickly didn't it? Joe knows how bad it is and he does not really like but the problem is not that he is complacent its that he is complicit.
Joe objects to much of the political favor trading that goes on among the oligarchs; which include not only those dubbed the "One Percent" but also Holly Wood interests, big unions like Teamsters, SEIU, NEA; its all little more than a complicated organized crime syndicate and Joe knows. Joe also knows he works for the syndicate and has a place it. His place might be footman, and his living might be the scraps which fall from the higher tables, but its better than starving.
Joe might occasionally speak up and ask a creep like Dodd to be dealt with but in the privacy of the ballot booth he will never act against his betters. He is never going to vote to raise his own taxes for the good of the community, or the nation; and no so called liberals won't either they're just the opposite side of the same coin, they want something, free after school daycare^H^H^H^H programs for their kids, money for an Art museum they intend to use and know 90% those vetoing against it would never visit, some big project to happen in their district which their own business can market product to the workers; etc.
That is how Joe really votes when nobody is looking because he knows his real choices are not the those guys or real freedom; rather whats good short term for him and his or them and theirs.
Joe is a collaborator, he just wants bread for himself and his family now, the future be damned, and that might make sense for Joe without bread today he may not have a future anyway.
For the rest of us who are a little less dependent or a little more cavalier toward our lives; we should remember Joe is actually the enemy. He may not be committed one and he may join our side when he finds himself without bread for the first time. So we should be careful how we treat him, but for now remember Joe Sixpack is NOT yet your friend.
I would argue it was a communications failure. I'd say its okay for an engineer to specify a deviation from common practice, with the proper reasons and research behind it. If you are going to do that though you better put lots of circles and bright red arrows in the documentation to draw someones attention to the fact that YES ASSEMBLY TECHNICIAN YOU REALLY DO NEED TO DO SOMETHING UNUSUAL HERE; AND ITS NOT SIMPLY A MISTAKE OR OVERSIGHT!
Right and we have all seen the damage done from the soccer riots. When the Brit's claim they are going to "destroy" something they might mean party, but odds something is really going to be destroyed.
Clearly these were in fact dangerous criminals, and I am thankful we have a vigilant homeland security force keeping our nation safe. We can hardly tolerate the sort of property damage an mayhem these "terrorist tourists" would have brought down upon us.
Hey DHS agent, will this post get me off your list?
There's the anti-immigrant movement, but I don't think most people who are in the anti-immigrant camp actually think that Mexican braseros picking crops is the source of our economic or international problems. Sure there's bound to be a few, but the sense I get is that what drives the thing is a feeling the world has got out of control
I think it should also be pointed out that the anti-immigrant camp largely isn't anti-immigrant at all. Its anti-illegal immigrant. That is very important distinction to make as well. Clearly there are very real security problems and perhaps not economic problems but social justice problems when we have people streaming in across the boarder with not documentation.
I for one think we should do alot more to secure our boarders against illegal crossing. I also think we should make our laws much more open about who is allowed to move here, and make it much easier and faster to become a full citizen. Then we can really say we don't want the sort of people here who won't follow our rules.
Right but originally it was argued that FISA courts would take to long and represent a significant impediment to investigation. This would seem to be false; as all to documentation indicates FISA courts almost always issue warrants when requested and do so quickly.
I am sure the intelligence agency do self select. Which means the system is working to an extent. The court being there is supposed to prevent baseless infringements on the rights of the people; to that extent its effective independent of its rejecting warrant applications or by virtue of the process simply being in place preventing intelligence agencies from bothering with that which they know the court would refuse.
Funny you should say, no FTL when for the first time sense the idea C was a universal speed limit was proposed there is some evidence that may point to the contrary.
humans can't survive on the moon long term, bone loss and muscle atrophy would kill them, and god help any fetus grown and born there.
Why?
My expectation (without real medical information) would be that bone, and muscle would be maintained by the body to a level adequate to support the excretion required. Would someone spending a long time on the moon be able to return to earth without major complications, I doubt it; but I can't see we they could not continue life on the moon or similar gravity environment.
Do you have links to information from anyone of greater expertise on the subject?
Yes you can increase tower density and directionality. That will give you smaller cells and less need for devices to share spectrum. There ARE limits though.
The handsets have to have omnidirectional transmitters for obvious reasons. They also have use use enough power to transmit back to what ever tower they are paired with. So if you start to make your cells to narrow you will still have conflicts on the handset sending to tower with adjacent cells.
It also might not be possible to put towers in historic downtowns and places like that. Okay perhaps you don't need towers you can put the transmitters on building and such, but remember you still have to get the land based infrastructure to them that usually means T-carriers. It might not be feasible to pull enough fiber into certain places.
No I don't expect everyone to write some scripts. Like it said in my original post "and more importantly usable for lots of people", ftp + cron + shell scripts was not something Joe Average was going to use. I am not saying iCloud is not a GREAT thing for lots of users. I am simply saying is nothing to get excited about for us geeks anyway.
Here is your requisite car analogy. The first mass market automobile, was something to get really excited about! The first automatic transmission exciting but less so than the car was in the first place. That would be moving to your DropBox, iDrive, etc from cron and shell scripts. Going for from a 3 speed auto to a 4 or 5 speed auto kinda... well meh... it was going to happen. That is really what Apple has done here refined something that HAS EXISTED in many past forms. It might be really excellent product but it is not exciting!
Exciting to me is when something which was never possible before suddenly becomes so. Joe Average might be excited about iCloud. As to us Slashdot readers it means we can do something perhaps a bit more easily than before but we certainly could have made it happen; maybe some of us did not bother but it was always an option.
I'd argue though that its already to 'hard' for many consumers. Most of them really don't understand what is data intensive and what is just going to push a pull a few hundred KB.
Even technical people might not know. Siri is a perfect example. These devices are getting pretty fast and storage is not exactly 'limited' any more. If you did not know any better you might assume that Siri does is speech recognition locally and just sends search terms to the backed service in plain old boring ASCII. You'd be wrong; and would grossly underestimate the required bandwidth as a result.
Now take the average consumer and expect them to not only keep a general mental running tab of how much the use has been, and try and keep track of on off peak, its going to be a pretty crappy experience. You will have all you customers feeling like they better check the counters before the do anything on their phones ever.
I will grand that it *nice* useful and more importantly usable for lots of people but lets be really honest about what it is. Its nothing a few shell scripts + ftpd + ftp + cron have not been able to do for 30+ years. If you find iCloud *exciting* its because you don't really understand the technology.
No the real scandal is the carriers marketing these phones based on all these data intensive features and one or more of the following:
1) Not upgrading the infrastructure to support the offerings. Inadequate density of towers in metros, lack of coverage or obsolete network support in other areas
2) Not being realistic about the actual cost of the services with typical use cases They need to be clear that if you stream Netflix for an hour and half at the gym everyday in additon to other use it my run you a few grand in overages
3) Not being realistic about presentation of use cases. Stop showing people they can stream music and video constantly in the ads unless, they can (for an affordable price)
4) Not being able to actually support the products and features they are selling even if they did upgrade infrastructure and selling it anyway. Spectrum is limited, it might actually not be possible to put one of these handsets in every pocket.
I realize Cracked is not exactly a hard news source but the basic statement is true. The big-name video game developers have not really released any 'deliberately' HTPC friendly titles.
I would hazard that has allot to with the fact the HTPC comes with all the control limitations of a console -AND- the potential hardware compatibility, and performance problems of a PC. Sounds a recipe for an experience that is going to be at best slightly better than current generation consoles and a total headache at worst.
At some point the consoles are going to have the video hardware to provide a stereo photo real experience at 1080P, the P3 is already knocking on the door. At that point the idea of developing at HTPC title is truly dead. There were be near zero potential to gain anything but headaches.
1) This alone shows how fucking ignorant you are. Congress can override a veto
Sure with a 2/3'rds majority. When have you seen a budget get that sort of support? Hell how many times has Congress even managed to enact a budget in the last 6 years, hint its not 6. Getting Congress to pass a veto proof budget is not in the cards.
2) He could do that, be the results would be really, really, fucking bad. If the pull out isn't done in a way that leaves an established power, even more people will die under the following religious extremist the fill the power vacuum.
Not really our problem. This attitude that we are the worlds police force is what is bankrupting this nation. Others need to fight their own battles. If one American has to die to save 10,000 on the other side of the planet its was not worth it.
3) Yes, letting corporations run with even less regulation, that would be fucking genius. Everythign else about the party is just smoke and mirrors. Look at their record.
Corporations are abusive because of regulations. Nobody not even Ron is suggesting we should have no regulations, but they should be few, simple, and understandable. Corporations pay no taxes because the system is so complex their holes, the one percent gets bail outs you and I get the bill. That is what "progressive" really means; I feel really sorry for you if you have not figured that out yet.
Mitt Romney will be the GOP nominee. Obama will likely defeat him by a wider margin than he did McCain. Nobody really really likes Mitt, he is better looking than McCain but the policy is all the same. The base can't get behind it, they won't come out to vote, election over.
-1 or 2 years from now we will be at War with Iran, but not Russia we are to important a trade partner. The Russians will claim neutrality while making our lives hard. -You and I will sit here and tell people they should have voted for Ron Paul. -The Obama voters will are not already wondering what happened to Hope and Change will device, not get fooled again. Next election GOP will win with a Chris Christy or other popular governor. The DNC will take a drubbing.
Won't happen. The adults in the room will step in and say to hell with political correctness, to heck with what it looks like, I am doing whats good for people who look and talk like me.
Two things are true, the majority of the debt is held domestically. Those people have a doubly vested interest, one they don't want to live in Mad Max's world and two they want that money they are owed to be worth something. They will do anything they can to stop a collapse.
Those same people will want to get paid first, those same people are the 1% that run this place. If the Chinese or anyone else show up demanding to get paid the response will be WMDs.
the auto-answer feature that left those system vulnerable was an effort to strike the right balance between security and usability.
I used to work for an organization that sold a great deal of this equipment. I once asked a vendor if they thought "auto answer" was really a sane default; for devices often connected to displays which power separately, while the device (and its recording implements) remain on line all the time in common deployments.
I got pretty much the same line as in the quote. Which I also found a little astonishing, because I have never had a telephone that even featured "auto answer" let alone defaulted to it, and they do pretty much use the telephone as the analog for all their UI elements.
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Right because nobody was worried about that little guy from Corsica
Exactly!
I can agree with not filtering content in the library. Its there to make information of all kinds accessible, and that should be protected. This guy was just being a first class jerk though, moving to another machine where the display would be less visible to other patrons probably would have been adequate and really is the least he could do.
Just because you have the 'right' to do something does not mean should or your must. It only means others are not within their rights to stop you. Flagrant thoughtless abuse of 'our rights' like this when viewed by less evenhanded people than myself become reasons people decide we perhaps should not have so many rights. I think that is bad thing.
Free speech is very important, and I do think at time obscenity is required to make a point. I just hope anyone who decides to act in what the majority will consider obscene in public, has a point to make. Otherwise you are just making others uncomfortable for no reasons, which is wrong, and worse you are risking the rights of other one day being curtailed for nothing.
I don't think they need to filter the content but I think librarian should insist patrons respect one another. The request he move to a different machine perhaps one where the display faces away from a wall was entirely reasonable.
You are absolutely correct and its been working. The left has been using that strategy forever. The 'genius' if you will of the likes of Karl Rove during the Bush era and now as well as some of the new anti-Obama super PACs and similar is that Conservatives have started to do the same thing to and about liberals.
You can't have an intelligent debate when the other side is permitted to get away with name calling and baseless hyperbole that is not subject to challenge. The right finally figured out its not worth holding the moral high ground if it means losing the election. The result is the political discourse in this nation has been reduced to level children on playground exercise. Until the public demands better and everyone gets together and agrees to something better the right thing to do is whatever it takes to win.
If Romney wants to win this thing the moment the GOP primary ends he SHOULD go hard negative on Obama. He should adobt Newt's nonsense about the food stamp president, label the president an apologist who hates America, etc etc. He should set the PACs about going after Obama's family. Tell people how even Michelle is a totalitarian who hates your freedom to even decided what to eat or feed your children. Remind people how Obama told his daughter she'd make her first million before 18, and accuse the entire family of just having their hand in the cookie jar, of nepotism, of looting.
None of it needs to be true, fair, or reasonable. Newt's SC success is proof of this. The more vapid and empty the better, in fact. I'd make this the UGLIEST election this Nation has ever seen, first because its the way to win and second because maybe just maybe when the dust finally settles people would wake up and decide they are truly tired of it.
Its "news for nerds" transportation strikes happen all the time, unless there is something really unusual about yours in Halifax, its not news for nerds and outside of Halifax were people might be effected its not even news.
A tree catching fire would not be news either except this one is among the oldest in the world! That makes it pretty unusual and therefore news worthy. So it meets the news part of the criteria. Lets see how it does on the nerd part!
Well nerds/geeks are curious about the world around them sometimes to a fault. There are lots of uninteresting trees but this one is really really old, so anyone interested in botany would be fascinated, I am sure. Oh and there is both fire and possibly lightning evolved so there is something for your physics and chemistry folks. Seems like lots of room for nerd interest to me.
My recommendation is navigate away from Slashdot and check out Google news, they can probably link you to some articles about that that Bus strike in Halifax which might be more your speed.
Isn't actuarial value the amount that life insurance companies pay out?
No.
The actual value of a citizen to society is their economic contribution. This is the value tax dollars might reasonably be used to protect. Most of us are not insured to that amount because the beneficiary do not enjoy our total economic contribution.
Also I don't think it makes sense to break the economic value out by simply dividing by life span to get a per year figure. If anything 40+ year olds are worth MUCH LESS than 20 somethings. They have far fewer productive years remaining and many costly ones in most cases.
If the state is going to focus resources on security for any group of citizens it should be those in their late teens through perhaps mid 40s. Unlike children most of the investment in their development is sunk and unlike the middle aged and elderly the greatest amount taxable productivity is to be derived.
So yes the typical College bowl game should recieve this type of security treatment before the Superbowl does.
Your math is wrong. It would be worth spending 38M if and only if doing so eliminated that 0.1% risk. It only mitigates it however, its still possible someone could execute a successful attack.
You have to determine what the likelihood of success is after the steps you plan to take and use the difference of that and the 38M risk adjusted cost to calculate the most you should spend.
It sounds like they are putting in some pretty damn effective controls; but there is still a HUGE attack surface so its hard to say.
Does Red Hat qualify as Linux exclusive?
How bad does it have to get before Joe Sixpack wakes up and takes notice?
Joe Sixpack has noticed, the petition got enough signatures and quickly didn't it? Joe knows how bad it is and he does not really like but the problem is not that he is complacent its that he is complicit.
Joe objects to much of the political favor trading that goes on among the oligarchs; which include not only those dubbed the "One Percent" but also Holly Wood interests, big unions like Teamsters, SEIU, NEA; its all little more than a complicated organized crime syndicate and Joe knows. Joe also knows he works for the syndicate and has a place it. His place might be footman, and his living might be the scraps which fall from the higher tables, but its better than starving.
Joe might occasionally speak up and ask a creep like Dodd to be dealt with but in the privacy of the ballot booth he will never act against his betters. He is never going to vote to raise his own taxes for the good of the community, or the nation; and no so called liberals won't either they're just the opposite side of the same coin, they want something, free after school daycare^H^H^H^H programs for their kids, money for an Art museum they intend to use and know 90% those vetoing against it would never visit, some big project to happen in their district which their own business can market product to the workers; etc.
That is how Joe really votes when nobody is looking because he knows his real choices are not the those guys or real freedom; rather whats good short term for him and his or them and theirs.
Joe is a collaborator, he just wants bread for himself and his family now, the future be damned, and that might make sense for Joe without bread today he may not have a future anyway.
For the rest of us who are a little less dependent or a little more cavalier toward our lives; we should remember Joe is actually the enemy. He may not be committed one and he may join our side when he finds himself without bread for the first time. So we should be careful how we treat him, but for now remember Joe Sixpack is NOT yet your friend.
I would argue it was a communications failure. I'd say its okay for an engineer to specify a deviation from common practice, with the proper reasons and research behind it. If you are going to do that though you better put lots of circles and bright red arrows in the documentation to draw someones attention to the fact that YES ASSEMBLY TECHNICIAN YOU REALLY DO NEED TO DO SOMETHING UNUSUAL HERE; AND ITS NOT SIMPLY A MISTAKE OR OVERSIGHT!
Right and we have all seen the damage done from the soccer riots. When the Brit's claim they are going to "destroy" something they might mean party, but odds something is really going to be destroyed.
Clearly these were in fact dangerous criminals, and I am thankful we have a vigilant homeland security force keeping our nation safe. We can hardly tolerate the sort of property damage an mayhem these "terrorist tourists" would have brought down upon us.
Hey DHS agent, will this post get me off your list?
There's the anti-immigrant movement, but I don't think most people who are in the anti-immigrant camp actually think that Mexican braseros picking crops is the source of our economic or international problems. Sure there's bound to be a few, but the sense I get is that what drives the thing is a feeling the world has got out of control
I think it should also be pointed out that the anti-immigrant camp largely isn't anti-immigrant at all. Its anti-illegal immigrant. That is very important distinction to make as well. Clearly there are very real security problems and perhaps not economic problems but social justice problems when we have people streaming in across the boarder with not documentation.
I for one think we should do alot more to secure our boarders against illegal crossing. I also think we should make our laws much more open about who is allowed to move here, and make it much easier and faster to become a full citizen. Then we can really say we don't want the sort of people here who won't follow our rules.
Right but originally it was argued that FISA courts would take to long and represent a significant impediment to investigation. This would seem to be false; as all to documentation indicates FISA courts almost always issue warrants when requested and do so quickly.
I am sure the intelligence agency do self select. Which means the system is working to an extent. The court being there is supposed to prevent baseless infringements on the rights of the people; to that extent its effective independent of its rejecting warrant applications or by virtue of the process simply being in place preventing intelligence agencies from bothering with that which they know the court would refuse.
Funny you should say, no FTL when for the first time sense the idea C was a universal speed limit was proposed there is some evidence that may point to the contrary.
humans can't survive on the moon long term, bone loss and muscle atrophy would kill them, and god help any fetus grown and born there.
Why?
My expectation (without real medical information) would be that bone, and muscle would be maintained by the body to a level adequate to support the excretion required. Would someone spending a long time on the moon be able to return to earth without major complications, I doubt it; but I can't see we they could not continue life on the moon or similar gravity environment.
Do you have links to information from anyone of greater expertise on the subject?
Yes you can increase tower density and directionality. That will give you smaller cells and less need for devices to share spectrum. There ARE limits though.
The handsets have to have omnidirectional transmitters for obvious reasons. They also have use use enough power to transmit back to what ever tower they are paired with. So if you start to make your cells to narrow you will still have conflicts on the handset sending to tower with adjacent cells.
It also might not be possible to put towers in historic downtowns and places like that. Okay perhaps you don't need towers you can put the transmitters on building and such, but remember you still have to get the land based infrastructure to them that usually means T-carriers. It might not be feasible to pull enough fiber into certain places.
No I don't expect everyone to write some scripts. Like it said in my original post "and more importantly usable for lots of people", ftp + cron + shell scripts was not something Joe Average was going to use. I am not saying iCloud is not a GREAT thing for lots of users. I am simply saying is nothing to get excited about for us geeks anyway.
Here is your requisite car analogy. The first mass market automobile, was something to get really excited about! The first automatic transmission exciting but less so than the car was in the first place. That would be moving to your DropBox, iDrive, etc from cron and shell scripts. Going for from a 3 speed auto to a 4 or 5 speed auto kinda ... well meh... it was going to happen. That is really what Apple has done here refined something that HAS EXISTED in many past forms. It might be really excellent product but it is not exciting!
Exciting to me is when something which was never possible before suddenly becomes so. Joe Average might be excited about iCloud. As to us Slashdot readers it means we can do something perhaps a bit more easily than before but we certainly could have made it happen; maybe some of us did not bother but it was always an option.
I'd argue though that its already to 'hard' for many consumers. Most of them really don't understand what is data intensive and what is just going to push a pull a few hundred KB.
Even technical people might not know. Siri is a perfect example. These devices are getting pretty fast and storage is not exactly 'limited' any more. If you did not know any better you might assume that Siri does is speech recognition locally and just sends search terms to the backed service in plain old boring ASCII. You'd be wrong; and would grossly underestimate the required bandwidth as a result.
Now take the average consumer and expect them to not only keep a general mental running tab of how much the use has been, and try and keep track of on off peak, its going to be a pretty crappy experience. You will have all you customers feeling like they better check the counters before the do anything on their phones ever.
I will grand that it *nice* useful and more importantly usable for lots of people but lets be really honest about what it is. Its nothing a few shell scripts + ftpd + ftp + cron have not been able to do for 30+ years. If you find iCloud *exciting* its because you don't really understand the technology.
No the real scandal is the carriers marketing these phones based on all these data intensive features and one or more of the following:
1) Not upgrading the infrastructure to support the offerings.
Inadequate density of towers in metros, lack of coverage or obsolete network support in other areas
2) Not being realistic about the actual cost of the services with typical use cases
They need to be clear that if you stream Netflix for an hour and half at the gym everyday in additon to other use it my run you a few grand in overages
3) Not being realistic about presentation of use cases.
Stop showing people they can stream music and video constantly in the ads unless, they can (for an affordable price)
4) Not being able to actually support the products and features they are selling even if they did upgrade infrastructure and selling it anyway.
Spectrum is limited, it might actually not be possible to put one of these handsets in every pocket.
I realize Cracked is not exactly a hard news source but the basic statement is true. The big-name video game developers have not really released any 'deliberately' HTPC friendly titles.
I would hazard that has allot to with the fact the HTPC comes with all the control limitations of a console -AND- the potential hardware compatibility, and performance problems of a PC. Sounds a recipe for an experience that is going to be at best slightly better than current generation consoles and a total headache at worst.
At some point the consoles are going to have the video hardware to provide a stereo photo real experience at 1080P, the P3 is already knocking on the door. At that point the idea of developing at HTPC title is truly dead. There were be near zero potential to gain anything but headaches.
1) This alone shows how fucking ignorant you are. Congress can override a veto
Sure with a 2/3'rds majority. When have you seen a budget get that sort of support? Hell how many times has Congress even managed to enact a budget in the last 6 years, hint its not 6. Getting Congress to pass a veto proof budget is not in the cards.
2) He could do that, be the results would be really, really, fucking bad. If the pull out isn't done in a way that leaves an established power, even more people will die under the following religious extremist the fill the power vacuum.
Not really our problem. This attitude that we are the worlds police force is what is bankrupting this nation. Others need to fight their own battles. If one American has to die to save 10,000 on the other side of the planet its was not worth it.
3) Yes, letting corporations run with even less regulation, that would be fucking genius. Everythign else about the party is just smoke and mirrors. Look at their record.
Corporations are abusive because of regulations. Nobody not even Ron is suggesting we should have no regulations, but they should be few, simple, and understandable. Corporations pay no taxes because the system is so complex their holes, the one percent gets bail outs you and I get the bill. That is what "progressive" really means; I feel really sorry for you if you have not figured that out yet.
My prediction:
Mitt Romney will be the GOP nominee. Obama will likely defeat him by a wider margin than he did McCain. Nobody really really likes Mitt, he is better looking than McCain but the policy is all the same. The base can't get behind it, they won't come out to vote, election over.
-1 or 2 years from now we will be at War with Iran, but not Russia we are to important a trade partner. The Russians will claim neutrality while making our lives hard.
-You and I will sit here and tell people they should have voted for Ron Paul.
-The Obama voters will are not already wondering what happened to Hope and Change will device, not get fooled again. Next election GOP will win with a Chris Christy or other popular governor. The DNC will take a drubbing.
Won't happen. The adults in the room will step in and say to hell with political correctness, to heck with what it looks like, I am doing whats good for people who look and talk like me.
Two things are true, the majority of the debt is held domestically. Those people have a doubly vested interest, one they don't want to live in Mad Max's world and two they want that money they are owed to be worth something. They will do anything they can to stop a collapse.
Those same people will want to get paid first, those same people are the 1% that run this place. If the Chinese or anyone else show up demanding to get paid the response will be WMDs.
the auto-answer feature that left those system vulnerable was an effort to strike the right balance between security and usability.
I used to work for an organization that sold a great deal of this equipment. I once asked a vendor if they thought "auto answer" was really a sane default; for devices often connected to displays which power separately, while the device (and its recording implements) remain on line all the time in common deployments.
I got pretty much the same line as in the quote. Which I also found a little astonishing, because I have never had a telephone that even featured "auto answer" let alone defaulted to it, and they do pretty much use the telephone as the analog for all their UI elements.