Why is Symantec acting like they fooled Anonymous? In the email it says "Say hi to FBI agents" and Symantec is like "We are not in contact with the FBI."
Symantec fail.
Title should be: Anonymous outsmarts Police, Symantec sting
Frightening if you're Big Brother. Seems Anonymous has been looking out for the little guy so far. I definitely wouldn't want to be a CEO of one of these evil megacorporations with Anonymous watching me.
I agree, safari crashes quite a bit, but it seems to be on particular websites. I'm on my iPhone now typing this, iPhone safari works great on/., but some ad heavy sites cause problems. From my experience it's usually smaller blogs and such, most of the Internet works fine. Besides there's several other browsers available for iPhone, opera probably the best IMHO
Because allowing him to watch it is an exercise in free speech or something, that can be argued to be protected (what the whole story is about).
Is it free speech?
"A driver in Schenectady, N.Y., was arrested last month after rolling past police with a DVD titled "Chocolate Foam" playing on the passenger-side sun visor in his Mercedes-Benz, authorities said. The movie also was rolling on screens set into the car's headrests."
Apparently New York has different free speech laws than Washington where this library was located.
I'm actually surprised the Washington Supreme Court ruled showing porn in public is covered under free speech. Guess I know where I'm vacationing this year, I hear Mount Rainier is very nice.
Article reminds me of all those articles about "home robots" from the 80s, saying robots were the future and we'd all have robots in our homes in 10-20 years. So what do we have 20-30 yrs later? Roombas
It will take a long time before we're taking out our nice, natural, perfectly working body parts and replacing them with circuit boards and servos. Sure, if you lose a limb and have a few hundred thousand dollars (probably tens of millions with inflation) you'll be able to buy a awesome arm or leg in 10-20 years, but don't expect the insurance companies to ever pay for it until they're cheaper than a metal claw.
Rather than strapping robotic parts to our bodies I think we're closer to building human-looking robots (androids, the other androids, not the phones) that go out and do tasks for us while we control them from the comfort of our home like in that movie Surrogates
Anonymous *may* have caused them to pause and take a second look. Just because they decided to ignore Anonymous and their citizens and do whatever they want anyway doesn't mean Anonymous's actions had zero impact.
Just the fact that they admitted they were reconsidering signing makes the DDoSing a huge success.
Further, the U.S. lacks the numbers of workers with the engineering skill that these factories tend to employ: somewhat higher than high school but not a full four-year B.S. degree. We therefore can't easily mobilize and structure a sufficient (in both numbers and skillsets) labor force on short notice. The article states that China could amass the required talent for a job in 15 days that would take 9 *months* in the U.S.
Then explain Toyota and Honda: Toyota has 6 factories in the US and Honda has 3. How are they able to build millions of some of the top-selling vehicles in the US and still remain profitable all while using American labor?
And how many years of school does it take to learn "glue solder board to base"? Machines create the circuit boards, humans just put it together, guessing that requires at least an Associates, right?
examiner.com is essentially a blog, was this the best source for this information? There's no links to a reliable news source, no links to a.gov site or the congressman's announcement, just "hey he blocked it hurray!"
Actually there's only about a dozen connectors that work with 99% of the phones available in the US the last ten years. If the cord doesn't work then the phone is likely too old to be of any use anyway.
But what prevents theft? Steal an iPhone, slip it in the machine and instant money! Currently you have to wait hours to find a craigslist buyer or pawn it fast but at least the phone is still there for recovery. I'm sure you can't open it to see if your stolen phone is in there so you'll never know.
^--this. You could even have contests to pick the next passphrase and publish the winners in the weekly bulletin. You don't even really need prizes, just the recognition that their bible quote was chosen is probably enough because people love to be recognized for accomplishing something: "yeah, my bible quote was the wifi password last week"
Considering I avoid touchscreens as much as possible (vastly preferring my wife's android phone with a real keyboard and trackball; also great if your touchscreen develops a deadspot), and get repetitive stress injuries easily (had to drive one-handed for 6 months once from lifting a beer keg into my car), I see no reason to dispute this article. Touchscreens absolutely put more wear and tear on parts of my body never accustomed to it.
Actually if you read the article you would have realized that it has nothing to do with touchscreens, the reasons given for the "stress" was eye strain and typing with thumbs which is required for any phone.
Here's the reasons listed in the article:
--Repeated motion injuries, like using your thumbs to type
--unnatural postures and forces, such as tilting their hands too far inward or outward while tapping or putting force on their wrists while typing.
--Eyestrain, either because the characters and images aren't clear or because the screen is obscured by glare or reflections
Although the article also contradicts itself: "tablets and smartphones almost guarantee such awkward use because they can be accessed almost anywhere and in any position -- most of which involve poor posture."
But doesn't that also mean people can hold the devices in more natural positions, making them far safer than PCs or laptops? Also the same argument could be made that books are dangerous because they can be accessed almost anywhere and in any position.
And that's pretty much the entire article. Nothing to see here, move along.
flickr is a horrible source to do a study like this, it is going to bias towards 'real' cameras because it's more of a photography sharing site then it is a "drunken pics at the bar last night" site. mobile phones can upload photos straight to facebook and twitter
Exactly. Do you know how many photos I've taken in the past year? Thousands. Do you know how many ended up on flickr? 0. Facebook? Several hundred.
Same with everyone I know. Actually I don't know anyone that uses flickr except a few professional photographers, everyone else uploads their photos to facebook.
Honestly the article is stupid. I regularly charge an iphone and an IPAD in 2 hours with a solar panel, in fact I also run a laptop off of it while they charge.
Yes, it's a larger 3 panel fold out array I have for camping, but I'm still charging on solar.
They need to clarify, you CANT charge a cellphone in a reasonable amount of time with a $1.99 garbage cell glued to the back of a cellphone. Their design was no better than taking a couple of solar panels from yard lights and thinking they were innovative.
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"5 mill on virtual pet cloths?"
averages out to less than a dollar per person.
what's the big deal?
Haven't you seen Superman III, Hackers or Office Space?
Turn in your geek card.... and everyone that modded this Insightful, shame on you!
Why is Symantec acting like they fooled Anonymous? In the email it says "Say hi to FBI agents" and Symantec is like "We are not in contact with the FBI."
Symantec fail.
Title should be: Anonymous outsmarts Police, Symantec sting
Frightening if you're Big Brother. Seems Anonymous has been looking out for the little guy so far. I definitely wouldn't want to be a CEO of one of these evil megacorporations with Anonymous watching me.
You guys should date. ;)
And have a snowchild
0.75 percent point. The relative difference is quite large.
Can't be that bad, otherwise why would 94% of iPhone users buy another iPhone but only 47% of android users would buy another android? Honestly I don't care if apps on one phone crash 0.75% more than on the other, the real question is would you buy another model of that phone? If the answer is yes then obviously the crashes aren't bad enough to want to switch.
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I agree, safari crashes quite a bit, but it seems to be on particular websites. I'm on my iPhone now typing this, iPhone safari works great on /., but some ad heavy sites cause problems. From my experience it's usually smaller blogs and such, most of the Internet works fine. Besides there's several other browsers available for iPhone, opera probably the best IMHO
+1, informative
Because allowing him to watch it is an exercise in free speech or something, that can be argued to be protected (what the whole story is about).
Is it free speech?
"A driver in Schenectady, N.Y., was arrested last month after rolling past police with a DVD titled "Chocolate Foam" playing on the passenger-side sun visor in his Mercedes-Benz, authorities said. The movie also was rolling on screens set into the car's headrests."
Apparently New York has different free speech laws than Washington where this library was located.
I'm actually surprised the Washington Supreme Court ruled showing porn in public is covered under free speech. Guess I know where I'm vacationing this year, I hear Mount Rainier is very nice.
Pft... knives are only like a D6 damage. Not much of a threat.
Thats a big knife! I think you're thinking of a short sword.
No, short sword is 3 or better. With knife you have to roll a 4 or better.
Article reminds me of all those articles about "home robots" from the 80s, saying robots were the future and we'd all have robots in our homes in 10-20 years. So what do we have 20-30 yrs later? Roombas
It will take a long time before we're taking out our nice, natural, perfectly working body parts and replacing them with circuit boards and servos. Sure, if you lose a limb and have a few hundred thousand dollars (probably tens of millions with inflation) you'll be able to buy a awesome arm or leg in 10-20 years, but don't expect the insurance companies to ever pay for it until they're cheaper than a metal claw.
And technically we've had the bionic man ever since the artificial heart in the 80s.
Rather than strapping robotic parts to our bodies I think we're closer to building human-looking robots (androids, the other androids, not the phones) that go out and do tasks for us while we control them from the comfort of our home like in that movie Surrogates
So, nope, Anonymous didn't really do anything.
Anonymous *may* have caused them to pause and take a second look. Just because they decided to ignore Anonymous and their citizens and do whatever they want anyway doesn't mean Anonymous's actions had zero impact.
Just the fact that they admitted they were reconsidering signing makes the DDoSing a huge success.
And now they have every justification for doing so in the eyes of most of their citizens.
Great job, anonymous! /sarcasm
Actually, as of yesterday the Polish government is reconsidering signing the treaty.
/nosarcasm
Great job, anonymous!
The workers work voluntarily and can choose their employer, or even choose not to work. This is not slavery.
that explains why they're choosing suicide rather than quitting
Further, the U.S. lacks the numbers of workers with the engineering skill that these factories tend to employ: somewhat higher than high school but not a full four-year B.S. degree. We therefore can't easily mobilize and structure a sufficient (in both numbers and skillsets) labor force on short notice. The article states that China could amass the required talent for a job in 15 days that would take 9 *months* in the U.S.
Then explain Toyota and Honda: Toyota has 6 factories in the US and Honda has 3. How are they able to build millions of some of the top-selling vehicles in the US and still remain profitable all while using American labor?
And how many years of school does it take to learn "glue solder board to base"? Machines create the circuit boards, humans just put it together, guessing that requires at least an Associates, right?
examiner.com is essentially a blog, was this the best source for this information? There's no links to a reliable news source, no links to a .gov site or the congressman's announcement, just "hey he blocked it hurray!"
Is anyone else reporting that SOPA is dead?
Actually there's only about a dozen connectors that work with 99% of the phones available in the US the last ten years. If the cord doesn't work then the phone is likely too old to be of any use anyway.
But what prevents theft? Steal an iPhone, slip it in the machine and instant money! Currently you have to wait hours to find a craigslist buyer or pawn it fast but at least the phone is still there for recovery. I'm sure you can't open it to see if your stolen phone is in there so you'll never know.
^--this. You could even have contests to pick the next passphrase and publish the winners in the weekly bulletin. You don't even really need prizes, just the recognition that their bible quote was chosen is probably enough because people love to be recognized for accomplishing something: "yeah, my bible quote was the wifi password last week"
Are you talking about religion or a certain politic party?
^--- this. If only I had mod points.
Considering I avoid touchscreens as much as possible (vastly preferring my wife's android phone with a real keyboard and trackball; also great if your touchscreen develops a deadspot), and get repetitive stress injuries easily (had to drive one-handed for 6 months once from lifting a beer keg into my car), I see no reason to dispute this article. Touchscreens absolutely put more wear and tear on parts of my body never accustomed to it.
Actually if you read the article you would have realized that it has nothing to do with touchscreens, the reasons given for the "stress" was eye strain and typing with thumbs which is required for any phone.
More hype to sell the same tripe.
Here's the reasons listed in the article:
--Repeated motion injuries, like using your thumbs to type
--unnatural postures and forces, such as tilting their hands too far inward or outward while tapping or putting force on their wrists while typing.
--Eyestrain, either because the characters and images aren't clear or because the screen is obscured by glare or reflections
Although the article also contradicts itself: "tablets and smartphones almost guarantee such awkward use because they can be accessed almost anywhere and in any position -- most of which involve poor posture."
But doesn't that also mean people can hold the devices in more natural positions, making them far safer than PCs or laptops? Also the same argument could be made that books are dangerous because they can be accessed almost anywhere and in any position.
And that's pretty much the entire article. Nothing to see here, move along.
flickr is a horrible source to do a study like this, it is going to bias towards 'real' cameras because it's more of a photography sharing site then it is a "drunken pics at the bar last night" site. mobile phones can upload photos straight to facebook and twitter
Exactly. Do you know how many photos I've taken in the past year? Thousands. Do you know how many ended up on flickr? 0. Facebook? Several hundred.
Same with everyone I know. Actually I don't know anyone that uses flickr except a few professional photographers, everyone else uploads their photos to facebook.
Why do ACs still even exist? What insight can I glean from a Anonymous Coward that I can't from a registered user?
So, I guess the choices are as thus (since keeping an old TV and buying a new Roku isn't an option):
1. Keep old TV, buy old Roku.
2. Buy new TV, keep old Roku.
3. Buy new super-nifty TV, don't bother with super-nifty Roku because the super-nifty is already built into the TV.
(4. Oh, yeah: At no point is there any functional merit to a new super-nifty Roku. Neat!)
Agreed, why limit the device to a port that was introduced only 6 months ago and still isn't finalized? My first thought was: "Why don't they use standard HDMI and draw power from a USB port?"
Many HDTVs have a USB port so that makes sense, but I thought maybe the Mobile High definition Link (MHL) port must put out more power than USB but it doesn't, MHL puts out 500mA @ 5V just like USB.
So again I wonder, why not use power from a unused USB port and go with standard HDMI and be compatible with millions more TVs already on the market?
Honestly the article is stupid. I regularly charge an iphone and an IPAD in 2 hours with a solar panel, in fact I also run a laptop off of it while they charge.
Yes, it's a larger 3 panel fold out array I have for camping, but I'm still charging on solar.
They need to clarify, you CANT charge a cellphone in a reasonable amount of time with a $1.99 garbage cell glued to the back of a cellphone. Their design was no better than taking a couple of solar panels from yard lights and thinking they were innovative.
Doubly stupid because solar chargers for smartphones already exist. I can read the customer reviews and tell you it doesn't work.
Good thing this study wasn't government funded.