Israel has about the population of NYC and it will cost $140 Billion? We are talking $20,000 per person which seems incredibly high, especially when you consider the small amount of land. How can it possibly cost this much?
It doesn't, but why bother at all? Run the fiber to my house so I can hook it to my wireless router? Why not just stick with wireless to begin with? 4G is 100mbps, already faster than the 802.11g most people are using with their wifi router, why would anyone waste billions on fiber when they can just offer 4G? And 10 yrs from now we'll probably all have 5G or 6G, just five years ago in 2007 4G didn't even exist and now we all have 4G cellphones. Landlines are dead, stick with wireless.
Problem is the grandparents are not responsible. Soon as that child becomes a parent our welfare system kicks in and they're eligible for free cellphone, free money, free health insurance, free food and free housing forever. They can get a free house and move anyone they want into the house, even rent out rooms in the house to make extra income, or move in a new boyfriend that is working, and new boyfriend now has a free house and free food. But they can never marry, because once they do they'll lose benefits, they must remain a single mother forever. I know someone that did exactly that, she had a bachelors degree but refused to work because she was receiving more $ from the govt then what she could earn, but she could not marry the guy even though he was the father of 2 of her kids.
Why? Why fix their mistake? They were paid for it and decided not to do it. That's a poor excuse too "if we don't do out jobs right you should do our jobs for us!" Like a child throwing a temper tantrum, breaking dishes on purpose to get out of washing dishes.
If you don't want to do the job then don't, someone else will do the research and get the credit, but doing a job half-assed and bitching that it's google and apple's fault their website wasn't setup right is asinine
considering the iPhone 5 has a gigabyte of ram and the equivalent processing power of a 3ghz p4 I'm sure it'll be fine, people forget how powerful this little phones are
Apple took the smart approach and stuck with excellent software and hardware. Apple invented the modern smartphone and tablet market. Apple will sit back and watch everyone else destroy themselves while apple continues to integrate with whatever new service allows it. Google, Amazon or Facebook or all of them will eventually self implode, will Apple sits back and says WTF?
Smart move Apple, giving people what they want, instead of stuffing your own services down their face.
I tried to look at the map but it said android and ios is not supported? Ummm... I don't think these guys are very bright if they're creating new web content that doesn't support 500+ million devices out there, and putting a message asking users to ask Google and Apple to support some obscure webgl thing furthers my belief that these guys are morons. There's tons of options that work great on Google and Apple, there's no reason to create new content that you know doesn't support it and then tell users it's their fault. It's like creating new highways that are only 3 feet wide and posting signs saying please ask car manufactures to make smaller cars.
Because it's not really Apple or Samsung that are suffering. It's us. The consumers who are literally paying for the benefit of stagnation and lack of choice.
Apple and Samsung like the weather in Hell just fine.
Um, what? Apparently you don't remember what passed for a smartphone in 2006. Apple completely revolutionized phones and deserves all the credit, everyone else just copied what Apple did, and Apple got tired of them copying. We were suffering in 2006, now we are living great with technology straight from Star Trek.
So what's this "new economy" going to look like? I think we need look no further than Greece which has a thriving black market labor market. So here's how I see the future of US unskilled labor. Work will be done by robots, by part-time employees or whatever loophole status saves employers the most money, and by people working completely off the books. All which are already happening. I see this getting worse, unless we return to a saner employment policy.
Couldn't have said it better myself. US govt seems to doing all it can to make it more difficult for the middle class
How do you decide if someone did a "bad job" or not? That's like arguing over if a game or movie is bad or not, what you think is fine I might think is bad and I might even leave a negative review, would I be sued then for not liking something?
I read the lawsuit. They have no basis for the $750,000. Doesn't explain how they came to that number at all. Damn attorney for ripping off this developer because he just wasted a lot of money filing this and going to court.
No, she doesn't. The person bringing the suit (the construction company) has to prove that what she said is false.
You are mistaken as regards libel. If she made an allegation on a matter of fact, she has to be able to show it is true. It's not up to him to show it was false.
Yes but it's so wide open it would be very difficult to prove she's lying. She says they damaged her house, he says they didn't. Good luck proving they did zero damage. Unless they have a signed affidavit from her stating everything was perfect and there was no damage then she can say there was damage. Only way they could possibly win against her is if they've never heard of her and they never did work on her house at all.
if this lawsuit worked then car manufactures could sue eveytime someone wrote a review saying a car interior felt "cheap". And how are they going to prove $750,000 in loss sales are directly because of her review? If she counter-sues they're screwed because she'll likely win
It's so refreshing having a Secretary of Energy that actually knows something about energy and physics, rather than somebody who just knows how to dig carbon out of the ground.
Why is this sarcastic comment marked insightful?? Chu setup the impossible goals of 5x more energy AND 5x cheaper in 5 years! Clearly has no clue how batteries work and thinks by requesting magic to happen it will! That's +1 Funny! What's next, 5x more efficient cars for 5x cheaper in 5 years? ROFLMAO
5x more energy is possible. 5x cheaper is possible. 5x more energy AND 5x cheaper in only 5 years is so impossible that it is funny, but damn politicians like to make statements that rhyme or sound good together and idiots believe them: "it's my 555 plan!! 5x more for 5x less in 5 years!! VOTE ME!!"
Because in 2012 the truth doesn't matter, only what can be proven. So first they had to figure out what evidence there was.
Then you'll be happy to know that Seagate bought Samsungs hard drive division in 2011, not the other way around, so I don't see how he could be biased AGAINST Samsung when Samsung lost their hard drive division to Seagate. If he hates Seagate, then he should feel sorry for Samsung for losing their hard drive division to Seagate, right? Maybe Apple should sue because the foreman was biased for Samsung and a billion isn't enough LOL.
Also isn't it the job of Samsungs lawyers to ask the jury members questions during jury selection to make sure they're not biased? Samsung should be suing their lawyers for missing this, it's not apple's fault.
So how did this get posted? Obvious fake is obvious, but whoever created the site could now change it to some spammy malware site and nothing can be done, it's already been linked to by/. and probably dozens of other sites, the fake site is probably top ranked on google now for dozens of search terms. This is not good/., things like this is why after 15 years I don't visit/. as much as I use to, and it's sad a site like reddit has better editors than/.
That's the first thing I thought too, that if we just discovered this in Samsung printers is there a hardcoded backdoor in Samsung galaxy s3 phones too?
Isn't that what school is? Conform to what we want you to know?
In theory, the purpose of a public school system is to benefit the public and to break aristocracies (whose power is often maintained by a continued and exclusive access to quality education). In practice, the purpose of school is to babysit children while their parents are out working, because in today's world it is too dangerous for children to run wild in the streets (according to some). Brainwashing and teaching conformity are just unintended consequences of poorly thought out policies by the sort of bureaucrats who think scantron forms are a way to measure student aptitude (don't kid yourself: the people who are paid to educate children are not clever enough to develop a grand strategy for brainwashing them, and neither are the major party politicians who control school budgets; metal detectors, surveillance cameras, bars over the windows, etc. are just easy and lawyer-friendly ways to address the symptoms of broader problems).
And someone please explain what expectation of privacy a child should have on public property
How about the right to go to the bathroom without being watched?
Does she complain about security cameras too?
I would have. Considering that at my high school, holding a blank postboard in front of a security camera resulted in the guards running to the camera to see what was happening, while an actual fistfight (a rarity at my high school) didn't result in guards coming at all, it is pretty clear that the cameras have nothing to do with student safety (and neither do the guards).
Unless she plans on flipping burgers she better get use to badges and logins.
Or, people could learn to stand up for themselves and fight back against these sorts of things. I am a graduate student, and when my department was moved into a new building where our student ID cards were used as keys to our offices, and our doors could not be propped open without horribly loud alarms going off, we fought back. Eventually we got a compromise -- we could prop open our doors 9-5 on weekdays, so only the first person to come to the office would have to swipe in.
There is a broader problem here, and your response is a symptom of it: people have no desire to stand up for themselves, and they just let themselves get trampled by this sort of thing. This is where we come full circle, of course, since school is where people learn to be trampled -- unless they are wealthy and go to a school that teaches them how to trample others. So really, our public education system is failing to meet the goals it was originally created for (but we are too busy complaining about the UFT and about test scores to even notice that).
No one is watching them use the bathroom, you're being ridiculous. They know if a student is in a bathroom or not, which is no different than if a teacher watched a student enter the bathroom.
Badges like these have huge benefits: access to computer labs or other secure areas, instant login to computers, evening and weekend access to school property, reduce theft, vandalism and bullying, etc. These badges are so full of win i wish i had them when i was in high school. She's very fortunate to be going to a school that offers such nice stuff and her parents want to fight it on religious grounds?? What's next, sue the school for offering free wifi?
She have chosen to fight the problem directly instead of playing a cat and mouse game with the school first. Our society is currently built in a way that makes this preferable so I can see why she decided to do that.
Judge is probably just doing it to clear the air, so a legal ruling can come out saying "Yes, the school has the right to know where every student is at all times while they are on school property." That seems so obvious I don't know how anyone can argue against it. Who wants the school to say "We don't know where your child is. They are not in class and we called over the intercom and they didn't come. Sorry"
Badges like these could have huge benefits: Access to computer labs or other secure areas, instant login to computers, evening and weekend access to school property, reduce theft, vandalism and bullying, etc. These badges are so full of win i wish i had them when i was in high school
She's very fortunate to be going to a school that offers such nice stuff and her parents want to fight it on religious grounds?? What's next, sue the school for offering free wifi?
And get expelled for destruction of school property, great idea.
yeah because no one has ever accidentally left their badge in their pocket and washed the clothes.
but she might want to hang on to that badge, if they actually use the badges for security they could have certain rooms that might require the badge to gain access like computer labs, etc.
it's funny to watch people fight the progression of technology though, 20 yrs from now we'll look back and think "wtf how did schools function without smart security badges?"
The minute you find yourself telling others how to live or what to believe in you should realise that you're wrong.
Like political parties? Or.... pretty much any organized group, tries to tell other people how to live? Every group has an agenda, and encourages their members to follow that agenda
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Did they really need a study for this? Why would someone use their 52" TV for twitter or Facebook when they have a tablet or laptop already?
Israel has about the population of NYC and it will cost $140 Billion? We are talking $20,000 per person which seems incredibly high, especially when you consider the small amount of land. How can it possibly cost this much?
It doesn't, but why bother at all? Run the fiber to my house so I can hook it to my wireless router? Why not just stick with wireless to begin with? 4G is 100mbps, already faster than the 802.11g most people are using with their wifi router, why would anyone waste billions on fiber when they can just offer 4G? And 10 yrs from now we'll probably all have 5G or 6G, just five years ago in 2007 4G didn't even exist and now we all have 4G cellphones. Landlines are dead, stick with wireless.
Problem is the grandparents are not responsible. Soon as that child becomes a parent our welfare system kicks in and they're eligible for free cellphone, free money, free health insurance, free food and free housing forever. They can get a free house and move anyone they want into the house, even rent out rooms in the house to make extra income, or move in a new boyfriend that is working, and new boyfriend now has a free house and free food. But they can never marry, because once they do they'll lose benefits, they must remain a single mother forever. I know someone that did exactly that, she had a bachelors degree but refused to work because she was receiving more $ from the govt then what she could earn, but she could not marry the guy even though he was the father of 2 of her kids.
OK genius, let's see YOU do it.
Why? Why fix their mistake? They were paid for it and decided not to do it. That's a poor excuse too "if we don't do out jobs right you should do our jobs for us!" Like a child throwing a temper tantrum, breaking dishes on purpose to get out of washing dishes.
If you don't want to do the job then don't, someone else will do the research and get the credit, but doing a job half-assed and bitching that it's google and apple's fault their website wasn't setup right is asinine
"I don't get paid enough to do the job right" is the worse excuse ever
If you can't do the job I'm sure there's a programmer in India that would be happy to do your job for less pay
Outsourcing sucks, but it's your attitude that has made it so popular
Read the actual post. The flame is clearly aimed at the developers of the visualization software, not at google or apple.
Correct, I'm flaming the developers for being so short sighted and naive
considering the iPhone 5 has a gigabyte of ram and the equivalent processing power of a 3ghz p4 I'm sure it'll be fine, people forget how powerful this little phones are
Apple took the smart approach and stuck with excellent software and hardware. Apple invented the modern smartphone and tablet market. Apple will sit back and watch everyone else destroy themselves while apple continues to integrate with whatever new service allows it. Google, Amazon or Facebook or all of them will eventually self implode, will Apple sits back and says WTF?
Smart move Apple, giving people what they want, instead of stuffing your own services down their face.
I tried to look at the map but it said android and ios is not supported? Ummm... I don't think these guys are very bright if they're creating new web content that doesn't support 500+ million devices out there, and putting a message asking users to ask Google and Apple to support some obscure webgl thing furthers my belief that these guys are morons. There's tons of options that work great on Google and Apple, there's no reason to create new content that you know doesn't support it and then tell users it's their fault. It's like creating new highways that are only 3 feet wide and posting signs saying please ask car manufactures to make smaller cars.
I play video games. Now I eat flowers and throw fireballs.
Because it's not really Apple or Samsung that are suffering. It's us. The consumers who are literally paying for the benefit of stagnation and lack of choice.
Apple and Samsung like the weather in Hell just fine.
Um, what? Apparently you don't remember what passed for a smartphone in 2006. Apple completely revolutionized phones and deserves all the credit, everyone else just copied what Apple did, and Apple got tired of them copying. We were suffering in 2006, now we are living great with technology straight from Star Trek.
So what's this "new economy" going to look like? I think we need look no further than Greece which has a thriving black market labor market. So here's how I see the future of US unskilled labor. Work will be done by robots, by part-time employees or whatever loophole status saves employers the most money, and by people working completely off the books. All which are already happening. I see this getting worse, unless we return to a saner employment policy.
Couldn't have said it better myself. US govt seems to doing all it can to make it more difficult for the middle class
How do you decide if someone did a "bad job" or not? That's like arguing over if a game or movie is bad or not, what you think is fine I might think is bad and I might even leave a negative review, would I be sued then for not liking something?
I read the lawsuit. They have no basis for the $750,000. Doesn't explain how they came to that number at all. Damn attorney for ripping off this developer because he just wasted a lot of money filing this and going to court.
No, she doesn't. The person bringing the suit (the construction company) has to prove that what she said is false.
You are mistaken as regards libel. If she made an allegation on a matter of fact, she has to be able to show it is true. It's not up to him to show it was false.
Yes but it's so wide open it would be very difficult to prove she's lying. She says they damaged her house, he says they didn't. Good luck proving they did zero damage. Unless they have a signed affidavit from her stating everything was perfect and there was no damage then she can say there was damage. Only way they could possibly win against her is if they've never heard of her and they never did work on her house at all.
if this lawsuit worked then car manufactures could sue eveytime someone wrote a review saying a car interior felt "cheap". And how are they going to prove $750,000 in loss sales are directly because of her review? If she counter-sues they're screwed because she'll likely win
It's so refreshing having a Secretary of Energy that actually knows something about energy and physics, rather than somebody who just knows how to dig carbon out of the ground.
Why is this sarcastic comment marked insightful?? Chu setup the impossible goals of 5x more energy AND 5x cheaper in 5 years! Clearly has no clue how batteries work and thinks by requesting magic to happen it will! That's +1 Funny! What's next, 5x more efficient cars for 5x cheaper in 5 years? ROFLMAO
5x more energy is possible. 5x cheaper is possible. 5x more energy AND 5x cheaper in only 5 years is so impossible that it is funny, but damn politicians like to make statements that rhyme or sound good together and idiots believe them: "it's my 555 plan!! 5x more for 5x less in 5 years!! VOTE ME!!"
Because in 2012 the truth doesn't matter, only what can be proven. So first they had to figure out what evidence there was.
Then you'll be happy to know that Seagate bought Samsungs hard drive division in 2011, not the other way around, so I don't see how he could be biased AGAINST Samsung when Samsung lost their hard drive division to Seagate. If he hates Seagate, then he should feel sorry for Samsung for losing their hard drive division to Seagate, right? Maybe Apple should sue because the foreman was biased for Samsung and a billion isn't enough LOL.
Also isn't it the job of Samsungs lawyers to ask the jury members questions during jury selection to make sure they're not biased? Samsung should be suing their lawyers for missing this, it's not apple's fault.
Yeah, I have to say. This is absurd. I've been here since '98, '99. This is the worst I've seen it. Come on, some basic checking would be a start.
Maybe it's time to auction off my userid.. Though I don't know why anyone would want it. There's just no prestige anymore.
I started 98 or 99, you must have started early 98 since according to Wikipedia slashdot started sept 97
So how did this get posted? Obvious fake is obvious, but whoever created the site could now change it to some spammy malware site and nothing can be done, it's already been linked to by /. and probably dozens of other sites, the fake site is probably top ranked on google now for dozens of search terms. This is not good /., things like this is why after 15 years I don't visit /. as much as I use to, and it's sad a site like reddit has better editors than /.
What about the Samsung backdoor into your phones?
That's the first thing I thought too, that if we just discovered this in Samsung printers is there a hardcoded backdoor in Samsung galaxy s3 phones too?
Isn't that what school is? Conform to what we want you to know?
In theory, the purpose of a public school system is to benefit the public and to break aristocracies (whose power is often maintained by a continued and exclusive access to quality education). In practice, the purpose of school is to babysit children while their parents are out working, because in today's world it is too dangerous for children to run wild in the streets (according to some). Brainwashing and teaching conformity are just unintended consequences of poorly thought out policies by the sort of bureaucrats who think scantron forms are a way to measure student aptitude (don't kid yourself: the people who are paid to educate children are not clever enough to develop a grand strategy for brainwashing them, and neither are the major party politicians who control school budgets; metal detectors, surveillance cameras, bars over the windows, etc. are just easy and lawyer-friendly ways to address the symptoms of broader problems).
And someone please explain what expectation of privacy a child should have on public property
How about the right to go to the bathroom without being watched?
Does she complain about security cameras too?
I would have. Considering that at my high school, holding a blank postboard in front of a security camera resulted in the guards running to the camera to see what was happening, while an actual fistfight (a rarity at my high school) didn't result in guards coming at all, it is pretty clear that the cameras have nothing to do with student safety (and neither do the guards).
Unless she plans on flipping burgers she better get use to badges and logins.
Or, people could learn to stand up for themselves and fight back against these sorts of things. I am a graduate student, and when my department was moved into a new building where our student ID cards were used as keys to our offices, and our doors could not be propped open without horribly loud alarms going off, we fought back. Eventually we got a compromise -- we could prop open our doors 9-5 on weekdays, so only the first person to come to the office would have to swipe in. There is a broader problem here, and your response is a symptom of it: people have no desire to stand up for themselves, and they just let themselves get trampled by this sort of thing. This is where we come full circle, of course, since school is where people learn to be trampled -- unless they are wealthy and go to a school that teaches them how to trample others. So really, our public education system is failing to meet the goals it was originally created for (but we are too busy complaining about the UFT and about test scores to even notice that).
No one is watching them use the bathroom, you're being ridiculous. They know if a student is in a bathroom or not, which is no different than if a teacher watched a student enter the bathroom.
Badges like these have huge benefits: access to computer labs or other secure areas, instant login to computers, evening and weekend access to school property, reduce theft, vandalism and bullying, etc. These badges are so full of win i wish i had them when i was in high school. She's very fortunate to be going to a school that offers such nice stuff and her parents want to fight it on religious grounds?? What's next, sue the school for offering free wifi?
She have chosen to fight the problem directly instead of playing a cat and mouse game with the school first. Our society is currently built in a way that makes this preferable so I can see why she decided to do that.
Judge is probably just doing it to clear the air, so a legal ruling can come out saying "Yes, the school has the right to know where every student is at all times while they are on school property." That seems so obvious I don't know how anyone can argue against it. Who wants the school to say "We don't know where your child is. They are not in class and we called over the intercom and they didn't come. Sorry"
Badges like these could have huge benefits: Access to computer labs or other secure areas, instant login to computers, evening and weekend access to school property, reduce theft, vandalism and bullying, etc. These badges are so full of win i wish i had them when i was in high school
She's very fortunate to be going to a school that offers such nice stuff and her parents want to fight it on religious grounds?? What's next, sue the school for offering free wifi?
And get expelled for destruction of school property, great idea.
yeah because no one has ever accidentally left their badge in their pocket and washed the clothes.
but she might want to hang on to that badge, if they actually use the badges for security they could have certain rooms that might require the badge to gain access like computer labs, etc.
it's funny to watch people fight the progression of technology though, 20 yrs from now we'll look back and think "wtf how did schools function without smart security badges?"
The minute you find yourself telling others how to live or what to believe in you should realise that you're wrong.
Like political parties? Or.... pretty much any organized group, tries to tell other people how to live? Every group has an agenda, and encourages their members to follow that agenda