You are comparing iPhones to Android. You should be comparing iPhones (and other iOS devices) to Android phones and other Android devices. That an iPhone costs $199 and $299, but the Android OS is free is meaningless. iOS is free on iPhones too.
I'm saddened that Apple has led you to forget the difference between "free as in speech" and "free as in beer". The previous poster was talking about speech, not beer. You are free to put Android OS on other devices, including an iPhone. You are not free to put iOS on other devices. Dollars aren't the issue, your freedom in using software and hardware is.
When we use media, we capture the voter intent perfectly. There is a chain of trust between the voter intent, and the record of the vote, because that record only passes through the voter.
Making a mark on a piece of paper, voting by mail like we do in Oregon, is cost effective, and verifiable, and trustworthy. Recounts are possible too.
So your chain of trust includes the United States Postal Service? That's quite a leap of faith.
That key will be much easier to get access to than people think, and once you do, you've compromised the secrecy of the entire election. Walk into your local election clerk's office and see if they're the type of person who could safely store and maintain a vital electronic key.
If its implemented anything like existing systems, the key will be hardcoded into the application as a static data value.
Does it run Windows and save its votes in an Access database? Ideas are great, but even the best ideas are defeated by typical commercial implementations. Nobody in government cares enough about voting processes to allocate the money needed for anything better than lowest-bid development.
Subby's a moron. His blog starts out: "Suppose for a moment that I had been CEO of NBC Universal at the time Caprica was picked up in 2008. If I had been CEO at that time, then Caprica would not have been canceled during its first season two years later because it would have been one of the many thriving, profitable properties owned by NBC Universal."
You personally would have managed NBC better than NBC itself? According to your blog, you're a web programmer at Paypal. Maybe you need to check that ego and realize that you don't have a clue what you're talking about. Why does Slashdot link to this crap?
So they really expect to take over the market share that RIM/Apple/Android have over the cellphone industry?
It's interesting that you think RIM, Apple, or Google have the meaningful market share. The real market share is with Nokia (worldwide). Maybe they're slowly losing it, but at the moment, they're still well ahead of any of the three product lines you mentioned.
For an extreme example see Formular 1 cars, those drive at extremely high speed and crash frequently into walls or other cars, yet they managed to have zero-fatalities for the last 15 years and most of the time the driver can just walk away from a crash.
Clearly, we need to be driving faster to save lives. I'll do my part on I-20 this weekend.
How on earth is this considered "going dark"? Google will no longer automatically redirect to.hk, but they're doing that specifically so they stay up in China. What's happening is the opposite of going dark.
It's plagiarized from the Amazon product description (which is probably taken from the back of the book or something), as pointed out by dalerb in a comment below.
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The headline is truthful: the Mac was the first to fall. Had the headline said "only to fall", then it would have been a lie.
The fact that IE also fell doesn't make the Mac's failure OK.
make it something cheap that noone will hesitate to pay for, and A LOT of people will buy it
Capital letters are free, but I see you're still not buying.
You are comparing iPhones to Android. You should be comparing iPhones (and other iOS devices) to Android phones and other Android devices. That an iPhone costs $199 and $299, but the Android OS is free is meaningless. iOS is free on iPhones too.
I'm saddened that Apple has led you to forget the difference between "free as in speech" and "free as in beer". The previous poster was talking about speech, not beer. You are free to put Android OS on other devices, including an iPhone. You are not free to put iOS on other devices. Dollars aren't the issue, your freedom in using software and hardware is.
Your post is nonsense.
And it keeps CBS News from embarrassing themselves with video clips of airplane contrails.
Do it yourself then, rather than complaining that nobody's done it for you.
All they have to do is block all edits made by Zsfgseg.
What, no good?
No good. Sockpuppets (additional accounts created by the same user).
just ban that /64.
Are you a DeVry grad?
When we use media, we capture the voter intent perfectly. There is a chain of trust between the voter intent, and the record of the vote, because that record only passes through the voter.
Making a mark on a piece of paper, voting by mail like we do in Oregon, is cost effective, and verifiable, and trustworthy. Recounts are possible too.
So your chain of trust includes the United States Postal Service? That's quite a leap of faith.
That key will be much easier to get access to than people think, and once you do, you've compromised the secrecy of the entire election. Walk into your local election clerk's office and see if they're the type of person who could safely store and maintain a vital electronic key.
If its implemented anything like existing systems, the key will be hardcoded into the application as a static data value.
Does it run Windows and save its votes in an Access database? Ideas are great, but even the best ideas are defeated by typical commercial implementations. Nobody in government cares enough about voting processes to allocate the money needed for anything better than lowest-bid development.
It's something everybody should do at least once in their life so they understand the process.
I'm a little confused. What aspect of the process requires understanding?
Compiling a kernel is: /boot /boot/grub/grub.conf
- make menuconfig
- make && make modules_install
- mv bzImage
- emacs
Maybe I'm just jaded, but I'm missing how this is enlightening and/or instructive. Why is it useful for people to know these steps?
You're missing a category: People who were enthusiasts for a lot of years and got burned out trying to keep their computers running. I run Ubuntu now.
Subby's a moron. His blog starts out: "Suppose for a moment that I had been CEO of NBC Universal at the time Caprica was picked up in 2008. If I had been CEO at that time, then Caprica would not have been canceled during its first season two years later because it would have been one of the many thriving, profitable properties owned by NBC Universal."
You personally would have managed NBC better than NBC itself? According to your blog, you're a web programmer at Paypal. Maybe you need to check that ego and realize that you don't have a clue what you're talking about. Why does Slashdot link to this crap?
Windows 7
The punchline is that Windows 7 is just Vista rebranded to get past the Vista hate (at least according to MSFT employees).
So they really expect to take over the market share that RIM/Apple/Android have over the cellphone industry?
It's interesting that you think RIM, Apple, or Google have the meaningful market share. The real market share is with Nokia (worldwide). Maybe they're slowly losing it, but at the moment, they're still well ahead of any of the three product lines you mentioned.
We need to learn to live on other planets
Why?
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Thank you for trying to make laid-off people feel better through platitudes.
I bet if you want to buy a house in Melbourne FL you can get a great deal now as well.
Well sure, but that has nothing to do with NASA. Good deals all over the country.
If you're willing to relocate 60 miles to the west, Mission:SPACE might be hiring over at Epcot.
I read these patents as:
* Patenting text summarization.
* Patenting rating systems.
The idea that either of those is a patentable invention is absurd. Specific algorithms to do either one, sure, but you can't patent general concepts.
For an extreme example see Formular 1 cars, those drive at extremely high speed and crash frequently into walls or other cars, yet they managed to have zero-fatalities for the last 15 years and most of the time the driver can just walk away from a crash.
Clearly, we need to be driving faster to save lives. I'll do my part on I-20 this weekend.
How on earth is this considered "going dark"? Google will no longer automatically redirect to .hk, but they're doing that specifically so they stay up in China. What's happening is the opposite of going dark.
I don't think this caused her any pain; she was purring during the whole procedure.
FYI, domestic cats purr when in pain or in distress.
It's plagiarized from the Amazon product description (which is probably taken from the back of the book or something), as pointed out by dalerb in a comment below.