> Also it cites the PCI standard, but that applies only to a full credit card number that has > been transmitted already.
No it doesn't. PCI also relates to storage of information.
Although you're quite right about the harmlessness of storing the last 4 (and the first 6, come to that) digits in plaintext. That it could be argued that this faciliates 'social engineering' scams is neither a PCI compliance issue nor is it Google's fault/problem. You could just as well suggest that a phone number, surname etc be kept secret for that reason.
They're working quite closely with Russia on their nuclear program. They probably did this for a bit of fun. A jammer and some GPS spoofing is not very hard for another government.
You're speculating they're shady - you have no proof Google pays them. Besides, even assuming that they're accepting money from Google in the first place, offering a free add-on which users optionally install and run is hardly a problem, is it? Haven't Google been paying Mozilla to work on the browser this plug-on runs under? Is that shady too?
> To be fair - I agree that the Asus Transformer is about the only non-iPad tablet that > interests me.
Same here, but the sequel will be out in a few weeks. Sadly, it's going to cost £550 in the UK - a bit of a far cry from the rumours which suggested it'd be about the same price as the first one. £550 for a laptop with a touch screen instead of a keyboard is a bit steep.
> The facts we have so far suggest otherwise. Life could be elsewhere (and I think it > probably is), but to insist that life MUST exist elsewhere takes a huge leap of faith.
No it doesn't. One solar system, a handful of planets, and life exists on one of them. We know very little about the billions of billions of billions of planets which we must assume exist around other stars in the universe. Life MUST exist on at least one of them - the odds against it are ridiculous.
Interference is a non problem. I'm sure that a local device which needs a tiny burst of a message every few mins can handle interference. For one thing, the device (ie my phone) would be able to wait for an acknowledgement, so it could keep sending the message until it was received correctly. It could be checksummed etc.
Most stuff nowadays is cheap shit made in India or China or whatever? None of it is going to work in ten years time. You'll be lucky if you're still using it in 2 or 3 years. And that's if we've not moved onto another even better standard than Bluetooth, which doesn't seem to have taken off outside of headsets.
Out of interest, why exactly don't *all* TVs/DBD players etc use bluetooth? It would be quite handy to be able to use any phone made in the last 10 years to control them all using free, intuitive software, rather than a pile of ugly plastic crap, all of which need battery maintenance, all work in different ways etc?
----- This may look ridiculous *(2003 to 2022 is 19 years!), but itâ(TM)s worth considering how this compares to HTML4, DOM2 HTML, and XHTML1, the three specifications that HTML5 is intended to update and replace. -----
*Yep.
So plenty of time for writing the thousands of books required to master the placement of text and graphics within a webpage.
So what `absolute moral authority` should we use? What IS the correct answer to:
should the state kill people to punish them for doing wrong should gays be allowed to marry can i take drugs in my own home should be outlaw the termination of disabled embryos can i physically punish my children can i carry a gun should kosher/halal food be allowed
All that's happening is business using the cheapest source of labour. India was used because it was the shittiest, dirtiest, cheapest country for call centres and other menial work. As they make money from it they'll price themselves out of it and it'll move elsewhere, to the next cheapest. We've the rest of Asia then all of Africa to get through yet. Except that what with the `breed like rabbits` mentality of some of these third world countries combined with a bit of cash the end of oil and a massive increase in ecological damage we're probably going to kill each other first, which will probably not be such a bad thing in the long term.
He'd rather you 1) used software which is not inherently buggy, and 2) were able to provide a service with sensible uptime. If it takes you a week to fix an email problem then either you or the software needs to go. It's just email - nothing complicated.
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Perhaps, but so what? It's not relevant either.
> Also it cites the PCI standard, but that applies only to a full credit card number that has
> been transmitted already.
No it doesn't. PCI also relates to storage of information.
Although you're quite right about the harmlessness of storing the last 4 (and the first 6, come to that) digits in plaintext. That it could be argued that this faciliates 'social engineering' scams is neither a PCI compliance issue nor is it Google's fault/problem. You could just as well suggest that a phone number, surname etc be kept secret for that reason.
> Does this explain why, when you lay an iOS and an Android app side by side, the iPhone one
> almost always appears more polished?
Android is outselling iOs. Either what you say isn't true, or nobody cares.
They're working quite closely with Russia on their nuclear program. They probably did this for a bit of fun. A jammer and some GPS spoofing is not very hard for another government.
.... That NASA needs more tax payer's cash! Sounds like they have enough to me.
You're speculating they're shady - you have no proof Google pays them. Besides, even assuming that they're accepting money from Google in the first place, offering a free add-on which users optionally install and run is hardly a problem, is it? Haven't Google been paying Mozilla to work on the browser this plug-on runs under? Is that shady too?
And then I can sit around smoking weed and selling closed source versions of your software. You'd never know, because I'd obfuscate it.
Seriously, do it. It's the right thing to do. Moral, open, caring and sharing. All great stuff when you're trying to make a profit from people.
> It requires a lot of work with vendors to get them to fix buggy and still-unfinished code.
Google should be used to that. They could always lazily stick 'beta' next to the product name, I guess.
> To be fair - I agree that the Asus Transformer is about the only non-iPad tablet that
> interests me.
Same here, but the sequel will be out in a few weeks. Sadly, it's going to cost £550 in the UK - a bit of a far cry from the rumours which suggested it'd be about the same price as the first one. £550 for a laptop with a touch screen instead of a keyboard is a bit steep.
Or, more accurately, a car with an Android phone inside it, much like mine is now.
It's a gimmick, not the future of either cars or..uh..telephones.
> The facts we have so far suggest otherwise. Life could be elsewhere (and I think it
> probably is), but to insist that life MUST exist elsewhere takes a huge leap of faith.
No it doesn't. One solar system, a handful of planets, and life exists on one of them. We know very little about the billions of billions of billions of planets which we must assume exist around other stars in the universe. Life MUST exist on at least one of them - the odds against it are ridiculous.
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Interference is a non problem. I'm sure that a local device which needs a tiny burst of a message every few mins can handle interference. For one thing, the device (ie my phone) would be able to wait for an acknowledgement, so it could keep sending the message until it was received correctly. It could be checksummed etc.
Most stuff nowadays is cheap shit made in India or China or whatever? None of it is going to work in ten years time. You'll be lucky if you're still using it in 2 or 3 years. And that's if we've not moved onto another even better standard than Bluetooth, which doesn't seem to have taken off outside of headsets.
Out of interest, why exactly don't *all* TVs/DBD players etc use bluetooth? It would be quite handy to be able to use any phone made in the last 10 years to control them all using free, intuitive software, rather than a pile of ugly plastic crap, all of which need battery maintenance, all work in different ways etc?
> even as the standards â" and how browsers implement them â" are still in flux
HTML5 won't be done until 2022, apparently:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/programming-and-development/html-5-editor-ian-hickson-discusses-features-pain-points-adoption-rate-and-more/718
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This may look ridiculous *(2003 to 2022 is 19 years!), but itâ(TM)s worth considering how this compares to HTML4, DOM2 HTML, and XHTML1, the three specifications that HTML5 is intended to update and replace.
-----
*Yep.
So plenty of time for writing the thousands of books required to master the placement of text and graphics within a webpage.
So what `absolute moral authority` should we use? What IS the correct answer to:
should the state kill people to punish them for doing wrong
should gays be allowed to marry
can i take drugs in my own home
should be outlaw the termination of disabled embryos
can i physically punish my children
can i carry a gun
should kosher/halal food be allowed
etc etc
What do safety or IP protection have to do with the law?
> talk about what goes around comes around.
All that's happening is business using the cheapest source of labour. India was used because it was the shittiest, dirtiest, cheapest country for call centres and other menial work. As they make money from it they'll price themselves out of it and it'll move elsewhere, to the next cheapest. We've the rest of Asia then all of Africa to get through yet. Except that what with the `breed like rabbits` mentality of some of these third world countries combined with a bit of cash the end of oil and a massive increase in ecological damage we're probably going to kill each other first, which will probably not be such a bad thing in the long term.
He'd rather you 1) used software which is not inherently buggy, and 2) were able to provide a service with sensible uptime. If it takes you a week to fix an email problem then either you or the software needs to go. It's just email - nothing complicated.
At airport prices you will not safe very much.
I'm assuming all that's to go with a bootable Ubuntu (with no swap drive)? You can get a 16gig usb drive for around £14.
"video is a far bigger consumer of bandwidth these days."
Not on my phone it isn't.
Cheer up, fatty! This work was done in London. There's still plenty of doughnuts to go round.
Also, it'll never happen to them. And it doesn't make them any money.
> An oldie but goodie: The Ballmer Stagnation
LOL! I like the y axis.
"This gives a little bit of an exaggerated sense of how much Microsoft grew under Gates."
Uh..yeah, it does.