If a business doesn't cater to anyone handicapped (I guess it could happen), or just is ignorant enough to not do so and lose that business, that should be up to them. No one is holding a gun to the person accessing a site, nor should they be holding a gun to a private business to cater to any specific crowd.
Ding ding ding.
In my hometown, a hardware store couldn't afford to put in an ADA-compliant ramp for the one guy in town who used a wheelchair. When they said as much, he sued. The store, in the family for 2 generations, closed down because the owner couldn't carry the expense of the loan he needed for building the ramp- and the cost of the lawsuit. Result: he ended up working for nearly minimum wage at Walmart and couldn't afford to put his daughters through college. Another result: his two employees lost their jobs. The landlord lost a tenant (the store sat unoccupied for 2 years, in part because everyone knew that the first business to move in would get sued for not having an ADA-compliant ramp.)
Some people just seem to forget that the world doesn't owe them anything. If you're injured or born without the ability to walk, that's nobody's problem except your own. "How cruel", you say. But where do we stop in defining disabilities? If I have autism, does that mean I can sue a store for being too noisy and crowded? If I have a peanut allergy, does a Thai restaurant have to give you a hermetically sealed room and special food stored, prepared, and cooked away from everything else?
Move to a city where businesses can afford good handicapped access. Hire someone to spend an hour each week getting your groceries. There are hundreds of solutions other than forcing your problems onto others.
They refused to abide by the laws of war and we responded in kind.
I find that statement pretty funny given that I grew up about 15 minutes away from where a bunch of colonial farmers basically engaged in guerrilla warfare and pretty well obliterated almost a thousand British troops. What did those wild heathens do? Why, they didn't respect the proper rules of war by moving around in proper tidy columns and shooting in volleys (the procedure is truly hilarious to watch.) The bastards...they fired from spread out positions! And from behind rock walls! Cowards! And then, as the British retreated, they were picked off militia hiding in the woods all along the road back to Boston.
So. The standards of war are rewritten by whoever wins...and it's not like we went into Iraq and Afghanistan not knowing what we were getting ourselves into. The Soviets did a pretty good job of discovering that a decade or two prior.
'We've recently made an effort to simplify our offerings online, by focusing on our most popular bundles and configuration options, based on customer feedback for reduced complexity and a simple, easy purchase experience,'
Funny. I still see different websites based on whether I select "home", "small and medium business" (I love that- who says "I work for a medium-sized ____ company"?), or "large enterprise" or "public sector" (of which there are SIX subcategories!)
There are 11 laptops in the "home" section. There are 10 Lattitude "E" series laptops and 8 more in the "Specialty" section for enterprise users. 2 "precision" workstation laptops offered to higher education.
Hang on, I'll just quote from the side of the product selector when I selected "higher education":
Narrow Your Selection Product Category Latitude Laptops (18) Inspiron (4) Dell Precision Mobile Workstations (2) Studio Laptops (2) Vostro Laptops (7)
33 different laptops, ladies and gentlemen. 33.
How many does Apple sell? 3 Macbook Pros, 1 Macbook, 1 Macbook Air? Granted they come in a few flavors (different screen resolutions, for example)...but the basic laptop chassis itself is the same and a 15" macbook pro has always been a 15" macbook pro. Not a Macbook Pro 2310 and then a Macbook Pro 2340 etc.
Dell is like GM; you can buy the same car with 4 different hood emblems and slightly different trim/headlights/taillights.
And people wonder why Apple is raking in money hand over fist. Perhaps it's because they have a clear product lineup? Sometimes you have to stop trying to sell to every person on the planet.
They may be power-hungry (idle power usage is 120-160w depending on the model/year; the later models were more power-efficient) but the G5's had a very impressive memory architecture. That and the G5 processor itself were designed to shovel bucketloads of data, mostly for media.
Keep in mind that MacOS resumes from sleep mode very quickly, and power usage in sleep mode is nil. Not great for servers, but great for occasional work with media like photos or video.
Left 4 Dead still isn't available as a Mac title...and now this. Which is completely bizarre, because Alien Swarm was originally available for the Mac; it's based on UT2004...available for, oh, you know, 6 years?
The resolution passed the city council easily after a nearly four-hour debate that pitted small-scale "garden" growers against advocates of a bigger, industrial system
In short, big business wins again. They're playing the fear card (neighbors growing pot! In your neighborhood! OMG!) to make sure that only a few (already rich) people are protected from competition, and the county/city/state gets their tax revenue:
will issue up to four permits
Ain't that grand? The only purpose here is to commercialize something that is basically free for the cost of a piece of clay, some dirt, water, and sunshine.
And even then, if I want to hack it, I'd go for a Palm or software in an iPhone/ Android. The processor and raphics in these things runs circles around calculators.
Battery life in my HP 48GX runs circles around your Android. It sits in my desk, and any time I need it, it works; battery life is dependent on how long you actually use it- there's little standby drain. I cannot remember the last time I replaced the 3 alkaline AA's.
Also, I bet your Android doesn't get faster after you've charged the battery!:-P
So, being in that particular biz, would you like to comment on why, during the heat wave Boston suffered through much of the last few weeks, why Boston Fire Department spent most of its time responding to downed wires, transformer fires, manhole fires, etc?
Seems to me like the grid is pushed to the seams already if large numbers of pieces of it are catching fire on hot days when electrical demand is highest thanks to AC units.
The first thing the client did was try to connect to a webserver on port 80, probably a version check.
The second thing it did was try to connect to a an IRC network. Can you say, botnet?
one group in a shielded Faraday cage, another group in a cage wrapped in fiberglass that did not block radio waves and a third set was unprotected altogether.
So, she placed one group in a cage which only blocks a little bit of light via shade from the wire, versus another group that added a material which blocks some wavelengths, shields the plant from rain, and prevents air movement?
Big fucking surprise the "unshielded" plant didn't do as well. She wasn't testing for whether radio waves affect plant growth. She was testing whether a fiberglass shelter affects plant growth.
what's the likelihood that someone designing the experiment would have thought of the same problems you thought of in 30 seconds since reading the summary
Apparently, quite poor. You're also assuming she didn't intentionally design the test to give the results.
Personally, I think the shielding worked more as a cozy for the plant and gave it a more stable immediate environment upon which to grow. Perhaps even the faraday cage was diminishing the light around the geraniums, so they spent more energy growing their leaves bigger to compensate.
Yep. Or the area was simply too bright, and the plants shielded has more favorable conditions. Sunlight, humidity, temperature, and airflow were probably all affected by whatever was used to shield the plants. And all of which have an effect on plant growth.
If you have a 10 minute boot up, and people on the road visiting clients, several times a day, (and standby is disabled because of security concerns with disk encryption) then a 3 minute boot can pay for itself in a few months.
If your laptops take 10 minutes to boot, you've got much bigger problems...and how is standby a concern with disk encryption? If you wake the machine, you should have to enter a password.
What are you storing that requires this level of paranoia with so many client visits? Clearly not defense.
As soon as the oil started washing up on the shores, the US Coast Guard and local police have been enforcing a no-photography policy instituted by BP. http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6496749n
That's video shot by a national news outlet, of a US Coast Guard officer, threatening the news crew with arrest if they don't comply with a BP policy. Color of law, anyone?
. It wouldn't surprise me if installing the Mac OS at the factory caused every block on the SSD to be used at least once (e.g. a whole disk image was written), which would mean you'd already be at the worse possible performance degradation.
Disk images on the mac made by hdiutil (which is what Disk Utility is largely a front-end to) are almost always a copy based off files or just in-use blocks to a new image- the image is copied bit-by-bit back (for speed) and then the filesystem is expanded afterwards. This allows Apple to have one disk image, not one for each size hard drive shipped- and gives maximum speed (for magnetic drives.)
These guys have been using their proprietary software for decades, they're used to every single button.
Decades? Quark Xpress, one of the more popular packages, fell out of favor after just over a decade and changed considerably with each release. Adobe CS (along with Quark's lethargy in going to Mac OS X, insane software license activation, and always-buggy releases) drove Quark virtually out of business; they've barely survived. CS's UI was completely different, but people still loved using it.
And you do realize that Adobe CS is updated almost yearly, right? The interface is *mostly* the same, but things do change- a lot of new technology is introduced.
Then they switch over to radicaly different software interface (hi Gimp!) for a single day
Wrong, actually. You think a bunch of professionals in a production environment did it with no preparation whatsoever? Wrong. If you read the original article, they did it first for ONE, WEEKLY publication. Then did it for ONE *daily*. Then they did it for all the papers at once.
Sorry, but I've used inDesign to public a monthly 30+ page newsletter, and tried to use Scribus because the organization couldn't really afford CS. There's no comparison whatsoever. Why? Well, it probably has something to do with Adobe spending quite a bit of effort working with their users and doing everything possible to make the software do what the users want.
Like it or not, the open-source community has proven to be relatively horrible at listening to its user base; half the time, you're told "if you don't like it, fix it yourself." Can you imagine getting that kind of response at a restaurant when your steak is undercooked? At your mechanic's when he says "that rattle, it's not harming anything"? You may like to tinker. Much of the world just wants something intuitive and that WORKS.
How about phones just print the dB signal loss and be done with it? A number should be far easier for someone to tell about signal strength than guessing by 0-5 bars.
Because 90% of the population has no fucking clue what decibels are? A logarithmic scale is a recipe for disaster in the consumer marketplace.
Let's hope that JAXA is not put off trying other missions of this type...they deserve our support.
Why? If it was one or two component failures or a bad situation, that would be one thing- but virtually every system malfunctioned or never worked in the first place.
There is little to account for that except gross incompetence, and people who are grossly incompetent deserve to be fired, not "supported"- or at the very least, not given the same job again.
And, to add, Obama ran into this PRECISE issue when he wanted to use his personal Blackberry after he was elected.
To be fair, I *think* one of the issues was that the device wasn't secure enough. I believe he got a secure PDA for guvmin't stuff, and still uses his personal blackberry for personal stuff?
It's not illegal for him to use personal email to tell his daughters to do their homework. And it's not illegal for him to email the Attorney General some smack talk about a soccer team in the world cup using personal email. It's illegal for him to use personal email to conduct any business that is government related.
I thought this was how every politician operated? Palin, The previous white house, etc, all used non-government assigned email addresses to avoid archiving and disclosure laws.
Running a light because the guy in front of you did it too, doesn't make it legal.
The allegations, first reported last week by the New York Times, would likely constitute a violation of federal law as well as an ethics pledge created by Obama upon taking office last year.
....aaaaaand the Obama administration has ZERO excuse for this, given that the Bush Administration and WH staffers were caught doing exactly the same thing (well, not exactly- in the Bush case, they were discussing firing US DA's for political advantage, and discussing CIA leaks...the list of illegal activity goes on and on.)
Aside from ignorance not being defense, Obama-ites were obviously not ignorant about it after the last administration were caught doing it!
Oh, and if you think this only happens in the White House, guess again. Mayor Thomas Menino in Boston had a lackey named Michael J. Kineavy who had his fingers in everything and was deleting emails before the City Hall backup server would get to them. And the City didn't have an email archiving system. And the city tried to claim that it'd cost a bazillion dollars to try and recover from the tapes they did have! More: http://www.google.com/search?q=menino+email
I fail to see how Android is at fault here. That is basically how voicemail is intended to work, and if you don't put a password on it, you're just as much to blame - same as with any computerized system. The fact that you're spoofing it using an Android app is irrelevant.
Yep, this is such old news it's not even funny. It is a years-old vulnerability that was covered years ago in slashdot, among other places- I couldn't find any articles with a lazy google search, but I did turn up a comment talking about this very problem from 2006. Carriers have known about the issue for half a decade or more.
The only point I see TFA trying to make in a very roundabout way is that because the Android market is more open than Apple's, stuff like this "can happen", which is slightly true.
Mozilla corporation seems to be pretty badly run. They solicited donations for the NYT ad(some of my poor college friends scraped together money for it) while overpaying the CEO($500K per year)! The management was supposed to find different ways of getting funding but Mozilla is still dependent totally on Google(which competes with it's own rival browser). Mozilla made $66 million in revenue just in 2006 while development was largely done by unpaid volunteers.
So your friends scraped together money for a corporation that is netting $46M/year (2007)?
Also, for a company that made $46M, a CEO salary of $500K doesn't seem completely unreasonable. It does beg the question: how many people are getting paid to develop Mozilla products, vs. how many are still open source community members?
I also wonder where all that money is going- let's remember that is NET INCOME, not revenue. If they're saving it up to have an endowment and be free(er) from Google and company, wonderful.
Holzle said that competition from Chrome has made Internet Explorer and Firefox faster.
Bull. Back when IE and Firefox's last major releases came out, Chrome was a tiny drop in the bucket market-share-wise. January was the first time it passed Safari in marketshare. I think it's more accurate to say that competition in general has led to companies improving their browsers. I'd bet we could also attribute the performance improvements to better standards compliance by websites, since there are now so many mainstream browsers.
I'd say that Firefox vs IE competition (and Firefox vs Safari on the mac) have inspired the improvements...
Slashdot is a business. Always was (you never noticed the blatant product endorsements?), always will be.
SSL certs cost money, and SSL connections cost CPU cycles. Remember how fanatical they were about banning people who reloaded the feeds too often (in their opinion)?
Given that this site only just barely adopted CSS in the last year or two, I think you should wake up and smell the coffee: Slashdot is in Coast Mode. FSDN or whoever owns them right now is only interested in advertising revenue, and that's probably so low that any improvements (like implementing SSL) would be a major hit to that revenue stream.
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If a business doesn't cater to anyone handicapped (I guess it could happen), or just is ignorant enough to not do so and lose that business, that should be up to them. No one is holding a gun to the person accessing a site, nor should they be holding a gun to a private business to cater to any specific crowd.
Ding ding ding.
In my hometown, a hardware store couldn't afford to put in an ADA-compliant ramp for the one guy in town who used a wheelchair. When they said as much, he sued. The store, in the family for 2 generations, closed down because the owner couldn't carry the expense of the loan he needed for building the ramp- and the cost of the lawsuit. Result: he ended up working for nearly minimum wage at Walmart and couldn't afford to put his daughters through college. Another result: his two employees lost their jobs. The landlord lost a tenant (the store sat unoccupied for 2 years, in part because everyone knew that the first business to move in would get sued for not having an ADA-compliant ramp.)
He was not alone.
Some people just seem to forget that the world doesn't owe them anything. If you're injured or born without the ability to walk, that's nobody's problem except your own. "How cruel", you say. But where do we stop in defining disabilities? If I have autism, does that mean I can sue a store for being too noisy and crowded? If I have a peanut allergy, does a Thai restaurant have to give you a hermetically sealed room and special food stored, prepared, and cooked away from everything else?
Move to a city where businesses can afford good handicapped access. Hire someone to spend an hour each week getting your groceries. There are hundreds of solutions other than forcing your problems onto others.
They refused to abide by the laws of war and we responded in kind.
I find that statement pretty funny given that I grew up about 15 minutes away from where a bunch of colonial farmers basically engaged in guerrilla warfare and pretty well obliterated almost a thousand British troops. What did those wild heathens do? Why, they didn't respect the proper rules of war by moving around in proper tidy columns and shooting in volleys (the procedure is truly hilarious to watch.) The bastards...they fired from spread out positions! And from behind rock walls! Cowards! And then, as the British retreated, they were picked off militia hiding in the woods all along the road back to Boston.
So. The standards of war are rewritten by whoever wins...and it's not like we went into Iraq and Afghanistan not knowing what we were getting ourselves into. The Soviets did a pretty good job of discovering that a decade or two prior.
'We've recently made an effort to simplify our offerings online, by focusing on our most popular bundles and configuration options, based on customer feedback for reduced complexity and a simple, easy purchase experience,'
Funny. I still see different websites based on whether I select "home", "small and medium business" (I love that- who says "I work for a medium-sized ____ company"?), or "large enterprise" or "public sector" (of which there are SIX subcategories!)
There are 11 laptops in the "home" section. There are 10 Lattitude "E" series laptops and 8 more in the "Specialty" section for enterprise users. 2 "precision" workstation laptops offered to higher education.
Hang on, I'll just quote from the side of the product selector when I selected "higher education":
33 different laptops, ladies and gentlemen. 33.
How many does Apple sell? 3 Macbook Pros, 1 Macbook, 1 Macbook Air? Granted they come in a few flavors (different screen resolutions, for example)...but the basic laptop chassis itself is the same and a 15" macbook pro has always been a 15" macbook pro. Not a Macbook Pro 2310 and then a Macbook Pro 2340 etc.
Dell is like GM; you can buy the same car with 4 different hood emblems and slightly different trim/headlights/taillights.
And people wonder why Apple is raking in money hand over fist. Perhaps it's because they have a clear product lineup? Sometimes you have to stop trying to sell to every person on the planet.
They may be power-hungry (idle power usage is 120-160w depending on the model/year; the later models were more power-efficient) but the G5's had a very impressive memory architecture. That and the G5 processor itself were designed to shovel bucketloads of data, mostly for media. Keep in mind that MacOS resumes from sleep mode very quickly, and power usage in sleep mode is nil. Not great for servers, but great for occasional work with media like photos or video.
Left 4 Dead still isn't available as a Mac title...and now this. Which is completely bizarre, because Alien Swarm was originally available for the Mac; it's based on UT2004...available for, oh, you know, 6 years?
The resolution passed the city council easily after a nearly four-hour debate that pitted small-scale "garden" growers against advocates of a bigger, industrial system
In short, big business wins again. They're playing the fear card (neighbors growing pot! In your neighborhood! OMG!) to make sure that only a few (already rich) people are protected from competition, and the county/city/state gets their tax revenue:
will issue up to four permits
Ain't that grand? The only purpose here is to commercialize something that is basically free for the cost of a piece of clay, some dirt, water, and sunshine.
And even then, if I want to hack it, I'd go for a Palm or software in an iPhone/ Android. The processor and raphics in these things runs circles around calculators.
Battery life in my HP 48GX runs circles around your Android. It sits in my desk, and any time I need it, it works; battery life is dependent on how long you actually use it- there's little standby drain. I cannot remember the last time I replaced the 3 alkaline AA's.
Also, I bet your Android doesn't get faster after you've charged the battery! :-P
So, being in that particular biz, would you like to comment on why, during the heat wave Boston suffered through much of the last few weeks, why Boston Fire Department spent most of its time responding to downed wires, transformer fires, manhole fires, etc? Seems to me like the grid is pushed to the seams already if large numbers of pieces of it are catching fire on hot days when electrical demand is highest thanks to AC units.
The first thing the client did was try to connect to a webserver on port 80, probably a version check. The second thing it did was try to connect to a an IRC network. Can you say, botnet?
one group in a shielded Faraday cage, another group in a cage wrapped in fiberglass that did not block radio waves and a third set was unprotected altogether.
So, she placed one group in a cage which only blocks a little bit of light via shade from the wire, versus another group that added a material which blocks some wavelengths, shields the plant from rain, and prevents air movement?
Big fucking surprise the "unshielded" plant didn't do as well. She wasn't testing for whether radio waves affect plant growth. She was testing whether a fiberglass shelter affects plant growth.
what's the likelihood that someone designing the experiment would have thought of the same problems you thought of in 30 seconds since reading the summary
Apparently, quite poor. You're also assuming she didn't intentionally design the test to give the results.
Personally, I think the shielding worked more as a cozy for the plant and gave it a more stable immediate environment upon which to grow. Perhaps even the faraday cage was diminishing the light around the geraniums, so they spent more energy growing their leaves bigger to compensate.
Yep. Or the area was simply too bright, and the plants shielded has more favorable conditions. Sunlight, humidity, temperature, and airflow were probably all affected by whatever was used to shield the plants. And all of which have an effect on plant growth.
Whoeever came up with this "study" is a moron.
If you have a 10 minute boot up, and people on the road visiting clients, several times a day, (and standby is disabled because of security concerns with disk encryption) then a 3 minute boot can pay for itself in a few months.
If your laptops take 10 minutes to boot, you've got much bigger problems...and how is standby a concern with disk encryption? If you wake the machine, you should have to enter a password.
What are you storing that requires this level of paranoia with so many client visits? Clearly not defense.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6496749n
That's video shot by a national news outlet, of a US Coast Guard officer, threatening the news crew with arrest if they don't comply with a BP policy. Color of law, anyone?
More: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=bp+photographers+blockade
Search youtube, too. A lot of people with video recorders are getting harassed by local cops and sheriff departments.
. It wouldn't surprise me if installing the Mac OS at the factory caused every block on the SSD to be used at least once (e.g. a whole disk image was written), which would mean you'd already be at the worse possible performance degradation.
Disk images on the mac made by hdiutil (which is what Disk Utility is largely a front-end to) are almost always a copy based off files or just in-use blocks to a new image- the image is copied bit-by-bit back (for speed) and then the filesystem is expanded afterwards. This allows Apple to have one disk image, not one for each size hard drive shipped- and gives maximum speed (for magnetic drives.)
These guys have been using their proprietary software for decades, they're used to every single button.
Decades? Quark Xpress, one of the more popular packages, fell out of favor after just over a decade and changed considerably with each release. Adobe CS (along with Quark's lethargy in going to Mac OS X, insane software license activation, and always-buggy releases) drove Quark virtually out of business; they've barely survived. CS's UI was completely different, but people still loved using it.
And you do realize that Adobe CS is updated almost yearly, right? The interface is *mostly* the same, but things do change- a lot of new technology is introduced.
Then they switch over to radicaly different software interface (hi Gimp!) for a single day
Wrong, actually. You think a bunch of professionals in a production environment did it with no preparation whatsoever? Wrong. If you read the original article, they did it first for ONE, WEEKLY publication. Then did it for ONE *daily*. Then they did it for all the papers at once.
Sorry, but I've used inDesign to public a monthly 30+ page newsletter, and tried to use Scribus because the organization couldn't really afford CS. There's no comparison whatsoever. Why? Well, it probably has something to do with Adobe spending quite a bit of effort working with their users and doing everything possible to make the software do what the users want.
Like it or not, the open-source community has proven to be relatively horrible at listening to its user base; half the time, you're told "if you don't like it, fix it yourself." Can you imagine getting that kind of response at a restaurant when your steak is undercooked? At your mechanic's when he says "that rattle, it's not harming anything"? You may like to tinker. Much of the world just wants something intuitive and that WORKS.
How about phones just print the dB signal loss and be done with it? A number should be far easier for someone to tell about signal strength than guessing by 0-5 bars.
Because 90% of the population has no fucking clue what decibels are? A logarithmic scale is a recipe for disaster in the consumer marketplace.
Actually, I think the unit in question is decibel milliwatts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBm
Let's hope that JAXA is not put off trying other missions of this type...they deserve our support.
Why? If it was one or two component failures or a bad situation, that would be one thing- but virtually every system malfunctioned or never worked in the first place.
There is little to account for that except gross incompetence, and people who are grossly incompetent deserve to be fired, not "supported"- or at the very least, not given the same job again.
And, to add, Obama ran into this PRECISE issue when he wanted to use his personal Blackberry after he was elected.
To be fair, I *think* one of the issues was that the device wasn't secure enough. I believe he got a secure PDA for guvmin't stuff, and still uses his personal blackberry for personal stuff?
It's not illegal for him to use personal email to tell his daughters to do their homework. And it's not illegal for him to email the Attorney General some smack talk about a soccer team in the world cup using personal email. It's illegal for him to use personal email to conduct any business that is government related.
I thought this was how every politician operated? Palin, The previous white house, etc, all used non-government assigned email addresses to avoid archiving and disclosure laws.
Running a light because the guy in front of you did it too, doesn't make it legal.
Also, for the President and his staff (and the ex-president and his staff), the issue is more that they violated this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Records_Act
The allegations, first reported last week by the New York Times, would likely constitute a violation of federal law as well as an ethics pledge created by Obama upon taking office last year.
....aaaaaand the Obama administration has ZERO excuse for this, given that the Bush Administration and WH staffers were caught doing exactly the same thing (well, not exactly- in the Bush case, they were discussing firing US DA's for political advantage, and discussing CIA leaks...the list of illegal activity goes on and on.)
Aside from ignorance not being defense, Obama-ites were obviously not ignorant about it after the last administration were caught doing it!
Oh, and if you think this only happens in the White House, guess again. Mayor Thomas Menino in Boston had a lackey named Michael J. Kineavy who had his fingers in everything and was deleting emails before the City Hall backup server would get to them. And the City didn't have an email archiving system. And the city tried to claim that it'd cost a bazillion dollars to try and recover from the tapes they did have! More: http://www.google.com/search?q=menino+email
I fail to see how Android is at fault here. That is basically how voicemail is intended to work, and if you don't put a password on it, you're just as much to blame - same as with any computerized system. The fact that you're spoofing it using an Android app is irrelevant.
Yep, this is such old news it's not even funny. It is a years-old vulnerability that was covered years ago in slashdot, among other places- I couldn't find any articles with a lazy google search, but I did turn up a comment talking about this very problem from 2006. Carriers have known about the issue for half a decade or more.
The only point I see TFA trying to make in a very roundabout way is that because the Android market is more open than Apple's, stuff like this "can happen", which is slightly true.
Mozilla corporation seems to be pretty badly run. They solicited donations for the NYT ad(some of my poor college friends scraped together money for it) while overpaying the CEO($500K per year)! The management was supposed to find different ways of getting funding but Mozilla is still dependent totally on Google(which competes with it's own rival browser). Mozilla made $66 million in revenue just in 2006 while development was largely done by unpaid volunteers.
So your friends scraped together money for a corporation that is netting $46M/year (2007)?
Also, for a company that made $46M, a CEO salary of $500K doesn't seem completely unreasonable. It does beg the question: how many people are getting paid to develop Mozilla products, vs. how many are still open source community members?
I also wonder where all that money is going- let's remember that is NET INCOME, not revenue. If they're saving it up to have an endowment and be free(er) from Google and company, wonderful.
Holzle said that competition from Chrome has made Internet Explorer and Firefox faster.
Bull. Back when IE and Firefox's last major releases came out, Chrome was a tiny drop in the bucket market-share-wise. January was the first time it passed Safari in marketshare. I think it's more accurate to say that competition in general has led to companies improving their browsers. I'd bet we could also attribute the performance improvements to better standards compliance by websites, since there are now so many mainstream browsers.
I'd say that Firefox vs IE competition (and Firefox vs Safari on the mac) have inspired the improvements...
why not Slashdot?
Slashdot is a business. Always was (you never noticed the blatant product endorsements?), always will be.
SSL certs cost money, and SSL connections cost CPU cycles. Remember how fanatical they were about banning people who reloaded the feeds too often (in their opinion)?
Given that this site only just barely adopted CSS in the last year or two, I think you should wake up and smell the coffee: Slashdot is in Coast Mode. FSDN or whoever owns them right now is only interested in advertising revenue, and that's probably so low that any improvements (like implementing SSL) would be a major hit to that revenue stream.