This has been discussed in many places like toms hardware. Essentially they found the cards volting is determined in the bios and the fan speeds can be altered. change the bios which many have released and the undervolting which occurs at lower temps is solved. Sapphire already released a new bios for the card to make these changes to keep them consistent yet keeping them from going above 95 degrees.
I suspect it is about a cop who if he had seen someone charging a cell phone at the same outdoor outlet not have done a damn thing. In fact if he arrested someone for charging a cell phone he'd likely be laughed out of the court. But hey an electric car looks menacing and terrorist related. poor from on the guy charging his car there. but the cop was still being an asshat.
Sadly that is a repercussion of having liberties. Free speech means the right for people to say things you don't agree with. If free speech was easy, then everyone would have it.
Wait you are saying that people who have access to the internet can use Googles services and they benefit from it? Or are you saying that because Firefox saw an under served market sector of low end phone hardware that they could offer a stripped down OS that it was actually a secret ploy by Google to compete with their own Android offering. Could it be that low end hardware needs a stripped down OS because it is exactly that: underpowered. Nothing more, nothing less. Secondly if they were trying to do what you are suggesting they would have mandated search defaults to Google.
Firefox mobile uses Bing as the default search. Now tell me exactly how Google is the one benefiting from this? They do not benefit in any way shape or form differently than they would by any mobile device being able to access their services.
By your argument; They need a sample to learn what to do, and it is random then it justifiable.
This cuts to a central idea of liberty.They could make the same argument (and in some ways they are trying to) that they can enter any house, because those houses might harbor terrorists. Because it is entirely random therefor it cannot be construed as harassment.
It is still harassment irrespective of the randomness. There is no cause without a warrant gathered due to reasonable suspicion that police or government can search your affects or home. Randomness does nothing to give cause for suspicion whatsoever.
harassment hrasm()nt,harsm()nt/ aggressive pressure or intimidation
Being forced into a parking lot without the ability to say no, to be given a passive DWI test before consent, then being asked if you would consent to a DNA sample and blood test for the good of the government is harassment. At that point they are in the position of authority and it is illegal to deny their request. You being forced into the police engagement in the parking lot irrespective of any actions that that you had committed. It is a text book case of authoritarian harassment. Yet here you are arguing that the word means something else. Just because the police are doing it, does not make it less than harassment. In fact the position of authority makes it even more dubious and questionable.
Support the EFF, but you're missing some major points here. This is not a bipartisan issue. It's not Republican vs Democrat. It has divided parties and in many ways that is a good thing. It stomps out the party line and lets people find a common ground of interest not pandering to a lobby. There are plenty of Republicans up in arms about this. One quite visible has been Sensenbrenner who authored the Patriot Act and saying they are deliberately abusing the spirit of the Act, which was codified to directly avoid mass collection of data on citizens. If you missed that then you haven't paid a bit of attention. Secondly Rand Paul has been quite vocal about what is occurring, and even gone so far as to publicly state he assumes the NSA is spying on Obama.
What they are not up front about is the surveillance of all citizens of the US and how that data is used and shared among other acronym groups, who shouldn't have access to this data any more than the NSA should. If you are wondering what I am talking about watch Clapper's response to Wyden about phone data, and come back here and say the NSA is up front about what it is doing...
They aren't up front about shit, if they are lying to their own citizens about their activity.
Because in the US they have sanctioned many localized monopolies for Cable/Telcos/ISP's. If there was a true alternative for broadband and you were not beholden to the local monopoly then you could go elsewhere. For the most part in the US you cannot. Therefore there is no need for the cable co's or telco/isp to compete for your business. They can then make the internet a la carte. Oh you want the premium plus package if you want to be able to go to Google and ESPN.com. Wait you want Netflix? that'll cost you an extra ten to use that service. Of course you can always rent movies from comcastFlix and get your sports news on comcastSports and use ComcastSearch for only a little bit more per month. Look at the state of the cable box and the arcane dreadful interface experience. If you could go somewhere else do you think they wouldn't be improving them?
Sadly with the for the most part mini monopolies sanctioned around the US for Cable Co's and Verizon I think the ISP's would gladly have the blinking neon agreement there if they could get away with it. Where would you go? Deal with it! I'd rather they didn't tempt fate.
How quickly is the market sector for "simple phones" growing? Hint: it isn't. In fact the market for feature phones in all the emerging BRIC nations is shrinking which is where they were still successful. If you think that holding onto the collapsing market segment they were best in class in would have propped up Nokia, then I have to disagree. Going with Windows Phone was a poor choice. To have stuck with Symbian they'd be in worse shape than they are now with MS at the helm. Blackberry tried to stay its course with their semi-smart phone technology and that withered away during the same window.
The competition in different business silo's was fierce, and central to their design. That is why integration with things such as the xbox was so hobbled.
The larger issue is that Motorola's patents were largely relegated to FRAND/standards licensing. There is no litigation that they can do once it has become accepted as a standard.
I agree with you. Sadly federal judges and the Crystal Cox decision do not agree with us. According to precedent bloggers are not afforded the protection of journalists.
Not everyone is a journalist however. That is the dangerous part. Where a blogger is not granted the same protections under the law/constitution as a journalist there is no true civilian reporter. We need to be watchful of the courts and how they rule on bloggers rights, as the repercussions will be extremely important in the future.
This makes zero sense. The NSA wants you to say what you think so they can target you with it. Stifling speech makes it infinitely more difficult to connect the dots and create a narrative. Not a single person in the intelligence community can honestly think "hey our jobs would be easier if people hid their intents behind silence".
Then get a pure Google Experience device and not the bloated Samsung UI. There are plenty out there. If you're coming to Slashdot then surely you have heard of pure android versus the customized crap put out by OEM's
They failed precisely because they just used a website. The idea that content is king is a bit dated now. The gravity of NYT news alone was not enough to pull people to them. They needed to become the distributor of their content to keep it relevant in as many places as possible. While they were at it they should have used their gravity to help promote and engage others in conversation about the news, or allow others to provide news of their own. Just building a website throwing news on it and putting it behind a pay wall is exactly why they failed. The point is the goal is to reach an audience same as it ever was, and all that NYT did was play a stubborn gate keeper that ensured their irrelevance by forcing people to go to their site, or pay for a paywall.
I will say it once more: Content isn't the goal, an audience is. Building walls around your garden and making it harder to reach only made people find simpler routes of access to the news that was reaching/finding them not the other way around.
A digitizer and a stylus for a touchscreen/tablet are not even remotely similar in accuracy. The accuracy levels of a digitizer vs stylus on a touchscreen are roughly pen to sidewalk chalk or finger painting respectively.
Name a phone OS that you think is not being used to spy on you by the NSA? They are spying on everyone. At least you can use Cyanogenmod and use an open source version of the OS.
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This has been discussed in many places like toms hardware. Essentially they found the cards volting is determined in the bios and the fan speeds can be altered. change the bios which many have released and the undervolting which occurs at lower temps is solved. Sapphire already released a new bios for the card to make these changes to keep them consistent yet keeping them from going above 95 degrees.
I suspect it is about a cop who if he had seen someone charging a cell phone at the same outdoor outlet not have done a damn thing. In fact if he arrested someone for charging a cell phone he'd likely be laughed out of the court. But hey an electric car looks menacing and terrorist related. poor from on the guy charging his car there. but the cop was still being an asshat.
Sadly that is a repercussion of having liberties. Free speech means the right for people to say things you don't agree with. If free speech was easy, then everyone would have it.
Being critical of a government is considered devolution? This country was founded on distrust of government.
Wait you are saying that people who have access to the internet can use Googles services and they benefit from it? Or are you saying that because Firefox saw an under served market sector of low end phone hardware that they could offer a stripped down OS that it was actually a secret ploy by Google to compete with their own Android offering.
Could it be that low end hardware needs a stripped down OS because it is exactly that: underpowered. Nothing more, nothing less.
Secondly if they were trying to do what you are suggesting they would have mandated search defaults to Google.
Firefox mobile uses Bing as the default search. Now tell me exactly how Google is the one benefiting from this? They do not benefit in any way shape or form differently than they would by any mobile device being able to access their services.
By your argument; They need a sample to learn what to do, and it is random then it justifiable.
This cuts to a central idea of liberty.They could make the same argument (and in some ways they are trying to) that they can enter any house, because those houses might harbor terrorists. Because it is entirely random therefor it cannot be construed as harassment.
It is still harassment irrespective of the randomness. There is no cause without a warrant gathered due to reasonable suspicion that police or government can search your affects or home. Randomness does nothing to give cause for suspicion whatsoever.
harassment
hrasm()nt,harsm()nt/ aggressive pressure or intimidation
Being forced into a parking lot without the ability to say no, to be given a passive DWI test before consent, then being asked if you would consent to a DNA sample and blood test for the good of the government is harassment. At that point they are in the position of authority and it is illegal to deny their request. You being forced into the police engagement in the parking lot irrespective of any actions that that you had committed. It is a text book case of authoritarian harassment. Yet here you are arguing that the word means something else. Just because the police are doing it, does not make it less than harassment. In fact the position of authority makes it even more dubious and questionable.
Support the EFF, but you're missing some major points here. This is not a bipartisan issue. It's not Republican vs Democrat. It has divided parties and in many ways that is a good thing. It stomps out the party line and lets people find a common ground of interest not pandering to a lobby.
There are plenty of Republicans up in arms about this. One quite visible has been Sensenbrenner who authored the Patriot Act and saying they are deliberately abusing the spirit of the Act, which was codified to directly avoid mass collection of data on citizens. If you missed that then you haven't paid a bit of attention. Secondly Rand Paul has been quite vocal about what is occurring, and even gone so far as to publicly state he assumes the NSA is spying on Obama.
What they are not up front about is the surveillance of all citizens of the US and how that data is used and shared among other acronym groups, who shouldn't have access to this data any more than the NSA should. If you are wondering what I am talking about watch Clapper's response to Wyden about phone data, and come back here and say the NSA is up front about what it is doing...
They aren't up front about shit, if they are lying to their own citizens about their activity.
Actually, the 4th Amendment spells out the fact that generalized warrants are not legal.
So Chrome is going to languish for 6 years without a hint of improvement and be the core source of all malware and drive by infections on the web?
Because in the US they have sanctioned many localized monopolies for Cable/Telcos/ISP's. If there was a true alternative for broadband and you were not beholden to the local monopoly then you could go elsewhere. For the most part in the US you cannot. Therefore there is no need for the cable co's or telco/isp to compete for your business. They can then make the internet a la carte. Oh you want the premium plus package if you want to be able to go to Google and ESPN.com. Wait you want Netflix? that'll cost you an extra ten to use that service. Of course you can always rent movies from comcastFlix and get your sports news on comcastSports and use ComcastSearch for only a little bit more per month.
Look at the state of the cable box and the arcane dreadful interface experience. If you could go somewhere else do you think they wouldn't be improving them?
Sadly with the for the most part mini monopolies sanctioned around the US for Cable Co's and Verizon I think the ISP's would gladly have the blinking neon agreement there if they could get away with it. Where would you go?
Deal with it!
I'd rather they didn't tempt fate.
How quickly is the market sector for "simple phones" growing? Hint: it isn't. In fact the market for feature phones in all the emerging BRIC nations is shrinking which is where they were still successful. If you think that holding onto the collapsing market segment they were best in class in would have propped up Nokia, then I have to disagree. Going with Windows Phone was a poor choice. To have stuck with Symbian they'd be in worse shape than they are now with MS at the helm. Blackberry tried to stay its course with their semi-smart phone technology and that withered away during the same window.
The competition in different business silo's was fierce, and central to their design. That is why integration with things such as the xbox was so hobbled.
The larger issue is that Motorola's patents were largely relegated to FRAND/standards licensing. There is no litigation that they can do once it has become accepted as a standard.
I agree with you. Sadly federal judges and the Crystal Cox decision do not agree with us. According to precedent bloggers are not afforded the protection of journalists.
Not everyone is a journalist however. That is the dangerous part. Where a blogger is not granted the same protections under the law/constitution as a journalist there is no true civilian reporter. We need to be watchful of the courts and how they rule on bloggers rights, as the repercussions will be extremely important in the future.
This makes zero sense. The NSA wants you to say what you think so they can target you with it. Stifling speech makes it infinitely more difficult to connect the dots and create a narrative. Not a single person in the intelligence community can honestly think "hey our jobs would be easier if people hid their intents behind silence".
Then get a pure Google Experience device and not the bloated Samsung UI. There are plenty out there. If you're coming to Slashdot then surely you have heard of pure android versus the customized crap put out by OEM's
They failed precisely because they just used a website. The idea that content is king is a bit dated now. The gravity of NYT news alone was not enough to pull people to them. They needed to become the distributor of their content to keep it relevant in as many places as possible. While they were at it they should have used their gravity to help promote and engage others in conversation about the news, or allow others to provide news of their own. Just building a website throwing news on it and putting it behind a pay wall is exactly why they failed.
The point is the goal is to reach an audience same as it ever was, and all that NYT did was play a stubborn gate keeper that ensured their irrelevance by forcing people to go to their site, or pay for a paywall.
I will say it once more: Content isn't the goal, an audience is. Building walls around your garden and making it harder to reach only made people find simpler routes of access to the news that was reaching/finding them not the other way around.
A digitizer and a stylus for a touchscreen/tablet are not even remotely similar in accuracy. The accuracy levels of a digitizer vs stylus on a touchscreen are roughly pen to sidewalk chalk or finger painting respectively.
Stupid comment is stupid, and nobody laughed.
Name a phone OS that you think is not being used to spy on you by the NSA? They are spying on everyone. At least you can use Cyanogenmod and use an open source version of the OS.