Exactly. If anyone's goign to attempt to down an aircraft from the ground then they're going to be doing it within a mile or two of the airstrip, from behind, with a SAm pointed at a low altititude, low speed red hot engine, then bail.
The problem here is you still have teh same issue - an app may need access to a function, so it could prompt the user on first launch, but the user isnt' going to be any more clueful at that point and any other, but it's going to be more confusing. A clueless user gets a summary on install which they can agree to or not already, and I think that's fine. A clueful user can click the security menu option for more details. Seems fine, not broken, doesn't need fixing
andriod market pops up a detailed list of exactly what the app you're proposign to install has access to. I can't really see how they can go further than this.
So we don't have a problem then, apart from with the disinformation spread by the idiot or malicious authors of the article, who have managed to spread FUD about Android which bears no relation to reality.
logical extreme: fire a thermonuclear weapon at a country to get rid of insurgents. If you're not concerned abotu collatoral damage (i.e. murdering huge numbers of people so long as your country isn't hurt) then this is the position you end up. That's sociopathic.
It's all disinformation. Some ISPs hand data over without a court order, such as Sky and others. Other ISPs, such as Talk Talk and Virgin, took a stand and refused to do so without a court order.
My immediate reaction was "they've been leant on". I'd imagine the US government has been putting pressure directly on any individual involved in the hope of a) weakening Wikileaks and b) causing dissent and reducing their credibility.
No, I've seen this. I work for a top 5 supermarket chain in the UK and our CEO switched to an iPhone. It's probably not as functional as the Blackberry it replaced - no task support, for one, much worse battery life for another - but the consumer handsets are getting good enough now so that a combination of "ooh, shiny" and similar functionality drives a switch.
Plus you don't need a BES.
I agree that they make very good business communication devices. The problem is that their model of everythign going through a BES doesn't make as much sense as it did in the days of slow connection speeds, expensive data and not-quite-as-smart-phones. There are obvious advantages, like the secure remote wipe (which can be bypassed on exchange server devices) but eventually that market is going to go away and be replaced with cheap, commodity smartphones that run a normal mail client and don't require purchase and support of a BES. For example, MS wouldn't have to make that many improvements to Exchange Server Activesync to just remove a lot of the objections people have, and just clean up...That way a company can just go out and get any shiny new handset that the PHB wants and not worry about configuration. At our place the senior management are all using iPhone 4's now, primarily because they're sexier..
I bought a dirt-cheap MD80 video camera off eBay which arrived yesterday. To change the timestamp it puts on the video, you need to include a text file on the root of the SD card, but the instructions are in Chinglish and don't make sense. I googled the answer and eventually found a 5 minute Youtube video that gave me the answer, which boiled down to "save a file called TAG.TXT on root, that contains the lines:
[date]
2010:09:24
09:00:00
That was it. Five minutes of watching some fool click around his desktop, for this information. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but sometimes a Youtube video is worth about 20...
So someone's on your property. You think most people would just unload a weapon at them, without even noticing such details as police uniform? *This* is why private gun ownership is a problem. It could be a guy who's lost, it could be kids doing a prank: I think it's scary that someone's immediate reaction would be shoot first, think later.
Some good points.
The OP's line of "your utter submission to your governments, preference for the safety of lawbreakers over personal self-defense, and general sheeple tendencies aren't admirable either. You've traded freedom for (the perception of) security as is your right, but that only works in certain situations and assumes benign government." si crying out for analysis, too. I don't see how owning a gun and being a core part of the American rightwing (i.e. a cog in the military-industrial complex) marks you out as being free from the government's influence, either.
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Exactly. If anyone's goign to attempt to down an aircraft from the ground then they're going to be doing it within a mile or two of the airstrip, from behind, with a SAm pointed at a low altititude, low speed red hot engine, then bail.
also the publisher of such cutting edge journalism such as this,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1317066/Katy-Perrys-skin-tight-silver-dress-clings-wrong-places.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
It's the current UK incarnation of the Five Minute Hate
Candlejack, candlejack, can....
The problem here is you still have teh same issue - an app may need access to a function, so it could prompt the user on first launch, but the user isnt' going to be any more clueful at that point and any other, but it's going to be more confusing. A clueless user gets a summary on install which they can agree to or not already, and I think that's fine. A clueful user can click the security menu option for more details. Seems fine, not broken, doesn't need fixing
andriod market pops up a detailed list of exactly what the app you're proposign to install has access to. I can't really see how they can go further than this.
So we don't have a problem then, apart from with the disinformation spread by the idiot or malicious authors of the article, who have managed to spread FUD about Android which bears no relation to reality.
is there something wrong with Shark and SHark Reader on Android? I've got them and whilst I'm a sniffin' noob, they appear to do the job.
logical extreme: fire a thermonuclear weapon at a country to get rid of insurgents. If you're not concerned abotu collatoral damage (i.e. murdering huge numbers of people so long as your country isn't hurt) then this is the position you end up. That's sociopathic.
It's all disinformation. Some ISPs hand data over without a court order, such as Sky and others. Other ISPs, such as Talk Talk and Virgin, took a stand and refused to do so without a court order.
...depends if someone tells /b/
My immediate reaction was "they've been leant on". I'd imagine the US government has been putting pressure directly on any individual involved in the hope of a) weakening Wikileaks and b) causing dissent and reducing their credibility.
No, I've seen this. I work for a top 5 supermarket chain in the UK and our CEO switched to an iPhone. It's probably not as functional as the Blackberry it replaced - no task support, for one, much worse battery life for another - but the consumer handsets are getting good enough now so that a combination of "ooh, shiny" and similar functionality drives a switch. Plus you don't need a BES.
I agree that they make very good business communication devices. The problem is that their model of everythign going through a BES doesn't make as much sense as it did in the days of slow connection speeds, expensive data and not-quite-as-smart-phones. There are obvious advantages, like the secure remote wipe (which can be bypassed on exchange server devices) but eventually that market is going to go away and be replaced with cheap, commodity smartphones that run a normal mail client and don't require purchase and support of a BES. For example, MS wouldn't have to make that many improvements to Exchange Server Activesync to just remove a lot of the objections people have, and just clean up...That way a company can just go out and get any shiny new handset that the PHB wants and not worry about configuration. At our place the senior management are all using iPhone 4's now, primarily because they're sexier..
the QNX demo floppy was the coolest thing ever. I remember freaking someone out that I'd wiped their PC when I booted one of those up. Good times.
I bought a dirt-cheap MD80 video camera off eBay which arrived yesterday. To change the timestamp it puts on the video, you need to include a text file on the root of the SD card, but the instructions are in Chinglish and don't make sense. I googled the answer and eventually found a 5 minute Youtube video that gave me the answer, which boiled down to "save a file called TAG.TXT on root, that contains the lines:
[date]
2010:09:24
09:00:00
That was it. Five minutes of watching some fool click around his desktop, for this information. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but sometimes a Youtube video is worth about 20...
Have you come across the Soviet "Dead Hand" system?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand_(nuclear_war)
You're posting from a yacht in Tonga? A million basement-dwellers salute you.
I can't imagine reading long textbooks on a laptop screen. Ugh.
I hunt fibre optic lines, you insensitive clod!
So someone's on your property. You think most people would just unload a weapon at them, without even noticing such details as police uniform? *This* is why private gun ownership is a problem. It could be a guy who's lost, it could be kids doing a prank: I think it's scary that someone's immediate reaction would be shoot first, think later.
Why? Did any of those countries have a successful armed uprising against their government?
What, so a single bomb planted by the Provisional IRA shuld mean that we're still performing security theatre 15 years later?
what, and become a victim of US foreign policy? (with apologies to Bill Hicks)
Some good points.
The OP's line of "your utter submission to your governments, preference for the safety of lawbreakers over personal self-defense, and general sheeple tendencies aren't admirable either. You've traded freedom for (the perception of) security as is your right, but that only works in certain situations and assumes benign government." si crying out for analysis, too. I don't see how owning a gun and being a core part of the American rightwing (i.e. a cog in the military-industrial complex) marks you out as being free from the government's influence, either.
as a parent of two small children, this argument makes me feel sick. That is all