Maybe from a financial standpoint, perhaps. But every Apple OS is based on Opensource software that traces its roots back to Unix, and they would have just as much to lose as IBM or Novel or any flavor Linux. They would not be funding their own demise.
After all, how long did it take for 9/11 to be known among the masses?
Longer than it took for the plane to hit the second tower. I'm sure there will be a Cydia app that will disable it, and if you're so concerned about this invading your rights and you STILL own an iphone, you will have certainly jailbroken it already.
Bull. I slept through the first impact, (west coast) but my phone blew up well before the second one.
What can/would the President send to every citizen on this other than a declaration of nation wide Martial Law? Storms and disasters are LOCAL issues.
Me "Honey, we just got an alert from the president that the entire country is going to be obliterated in 20 minutes!" She "Nice try, but I still have a headache.
People in Seattle got storm warnings about storms in the Caribbean, child abduction alerts for the midwest, etc.
It seems every custody battle is now escalated to an imminent danger of children being murdered simply so that there is an excuse to send an EAS broadcast to an entire state.
The lawyers for my company and every company I've ever worked for are already well versed in handling shake downs.
A final decision, even one fully in IBMs favor, will not stop these trolls from the behavior you hypothesize. They will simply move on to another minuscule loop-hole of doubt. Remember that the lawyers own what's left of SCO, they have nothing to lose.
And where is your company today with Linux? This will once and all end things if it goes to trial.
That has been claimed before.
If history is any guide this will NOT end things once and for all. Why would you even suggest such a thing in the absence of any facts indicating this?
If you follow the money to pay the lawyers, fund discovery, and pay the enormous incidental costs, you will almost surely find that SCO, which has already declared bankruptcy, is getting outside funds, (speculation is from Microsoft), and as long as that money flows there will never be an end to this issue.
Nice try. But there is no evidence that particular concrete in Rome was of the same composition as the harbor cement which was analyzed bythe researchers . When you consider the rather degraded state of much or the Roman construction in Rome itself when compared to the harbors that were analyzed it seems highly unlikely it was of the same composition.
The tendency to attribute great wisdom to the ancients, lost to modern man, and unknown to modern science, has a never ending allure.
This is just one more example of being in the right place at the right time, and being careful enough to remember what you did different when something falls down, and not do that again.
Sort of like your grand mother learned not to be rough with an angle food cake made from scratch because it would fall before it cooled. I'm not sure that counts either as science or great wisdom. Seems simply the school of hard knocks, if you ask me.
Our bridges and buildings do tend to last a long time, albeit with more maintenance. But then, we build differently these days. The Roman and Greek empires built always with stone and cement under compression, and virtually never under tension. Stone and un-reinforced concrete do well in this mode.
Actually, there is a school of thought that speculates that the US is in the position it finds itself in precisely because of the land we found ourselves living on. But the Russian Federation / USSR has more of just about everything in the way of natural resources than the north american continent. So its an interesting speculation, but still up for debate.
Its doubtful that they were transporting the ash very far because they didn't have the means to do so, nor the need. Much of the Mediterranean is of the same volcanic origin. Ash seems to be everywhere. And the harbors they checked weren't all that gat apart geographically.
Sure they knew ash worked better than gravel, but in that region ash is far easier to come by. And and trial and error led them to the proper quantities of lime (which was much harder to find).
So again, not science, not wisdom, simply geographic good luck.
Its just the composition of the particular variety of ash they had on hand. Volcanic ash differs in various volcanic regions. Further, seawater was also key. You don't find much of that in the middle of continents.
This wasn't ancient knowledge at work at all. It was simply an accident of geography.
The harder part may be finding enough suitable sources of volcanic ash that can be mined, and not all ash has the same mineral ratios and such. That would still limit its use unless there's some way to make a decent enough man-made equivalent that's better than the Portland formula.
And right there you've put your finger on both the source of the mystery and why this won't work everywhere.
In ancient Rome they didn't have the huge reduction furnaces used in the creation of Portland Cement. All they had was the raw materials found laying around or easily mined. Living in a volcanic region near the sea they had both in abundance.
In other areas conquered by Rome they never found the same mix of volcanic materials, lime, and seawater, and the structures they built there did not hold up as well. The aluminum-rich pozzolan ash isn't exactly something you find in the British isles or France. And away from the sea, any available water would be used. Its entirely possible the Romans had no no idea that sea water was essential to this mixture.
The whole thing was an accident of geography, and apparently one which no one cared to look into too closely, or those that did were unable to replicate due to raw material availability, because analysis of the composition of roman cement was well withing the scientific capabilities of even the 1800s and probably even the 1600s.
From my perspective, the "little bit of extra cash" is not the biggest attraction, and the job itself is the big draw.
The best programmers find it fun, challenging and quite rewarding to develop software. Getting paid just kept the wolf from their door, and getting paid well was gravy. The worst programmers I've worked with were in it only for the money, watched the clock, and were out the door promptly at the end of the day.
Further, this trend was not gender specific. At least not in the programming shops I've worked in. Still I'd say programming and systems design was at least 85% male.
All you need do is fire up Google image search and look for E3 show floor images and you will find it looks surprisingly like a Muslim street scene, with hardly any women in sight.
And just as safe for a woman to step into without a guard.
Right because with all the scantily clad booth babes running around, the adolescent boys are going to jump on the random, fully dressed, gamer girl.
If the industry's most prominent trade show looks like it was organized by teenage boys, it's not going to do much to dispel the stereotype that games are just something for teenage boys.
Lets face it, teen age boys don't have the attention span to organize much of anything.
Contrary to the rantings in the summary above (as well as yours), it is the demographics of the attendees that determine the character of the show. When there start to be 45% females in the attendance the situation will change.
All you need do is fire up Google image search and look for E3 show floor images and you will find it looks surprisingly like a Muslim street scene, with hardly any women in sight.
I'd say the show knows its audience very well.
Besides, the whole rant is based on the assumption that most women disapprove of having scantily clad women running around, and there is almost no place other than a church service where there is any evidence of this.
Why do I have to waste precious moderation points to downmod this crap? Why can't this be blocked automatically? It's not like it's something completely new and out of the blue.
Slashdot editors themselves have unlimited mod points and use them to control this type of crap. Set your sliders to zero and you never see this because they mod them to oblivion instantly.
Hey slashdot: How bout some sliders that actually work on Android!!
vantage of kill switches, as it doesn't devalue the device in the eyes of the bad guys.
Well, jumping to the other side of the argument from my prior post, I have to say that the above is simply not true. (And I suspect you know its not true).
Of course it devalues the device. Anything that diminishes what the thief can get for the resale of the device, or increases the number of hoops through which they must jump, by the very definition devalues the device.
If a thief can get 500 bucks for a stolen phone in perfect working order, but only 50 bucks, or maybe 5 bucks for parts, sooner or later its going to dawn on the dimmest bulb in the string that the risk is not worth the reward. There simply isn't that big of a parts market.
Microsoft has always supported the effort. They were the ones who called law enforcement to work about stolen phones. They really cared for customers, imo.
They may have always supported the effort, but they were far from the first in calling for fixes to stolen phones.
The universal IMEI/MEID blocking, long in effect in most of the world has been fought tooth and nail by the carriers.
Because they they earn additional revenue when you come in and buy a new phone after you get mugged, they had no interest in setting up and maintaining such a database. It was less than a year ago that they finally agreed to build such a blacklist. This plan could work for existing phones, even dumb phones.
Rather than give that time to work, they now contrive to call it a failure, and they now want to launch a whole new requirement, and get everyone to buy a new phone in order to be included in the "protected group".
There are those that insist that you can simply and easily flash a new IMEI on a phone, but it is not as simple as some would have you believe, that the guy in the hoodie who knocks you down and grabs your phone doesn't have the skill set to do so.
With a blocked IMEI you can unblock it if it is recovered if you can prove to the carrier that you are the rightful owner. With a kill switch, you are screwed. There is little incentive to report a lost or stolen phone, since it ruins any chance of recovery. It will still require replacement once you report it, even if you find it at your friends house where you left it after the party.
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Maybe from a financial standpoint, perhaps.
But every Apple OS is based on Opensource software that traces its roots back to Unix, and they would
have just as much to lose as IBM or Novel or any flavor Linux. They would not be funding their own demise.
Exactly. And another ruling ruling won't stop them.
Anyone that doubts this needs to google prenda law.
After all, how long did it take for 9/11 to be known among the masses?
Longer than it took for the plane to hit the second tower. I'm sure there will be a Cydia app that will disable it, and if you're so concerned about this invading your rights and you STILL own an iphone, you will have certainly jailbroken it already.
Bull. I slept through the first impact, (west coast) but my phone blew up well before the second one.
What can/would the President send to every citizen on this other than a declaration of nation wide Martial Law?
Storms and disasters are LOCAL issues.
Me "Honey, we just got an alert from the president that the entire country is going to be obliterated in 20 minutes!"
She "Nice try, but I still have a headache.
People in Seattle got storm warnings about storms in the Caribbean, child abduction alerts for the midwest, etc.
It seems every custody battle is now escalated to an imminent danger of children being murdered simply so that
there is an excuse to send an EAS broadcast to an entire state.
The lawyers for my company and every company I've ever worked for are already well versed in handling shake downs.
A final decision, even one fully in IBMs favor, will not stop these trolls from the behavior you hypothesize.
They will simply move on to another minuscule loop-hole of doubt. Remember that the lawyers own what's left
of SCO, they have nothing to lose.
More likely the funding comes from Microsoft, as they are the only entity that benefits by the destruction of all things 'nix.
And where is your company today with Linux? This will once and all end things if it goes to trial.
That has been claimed before.
If history is any guide this will NOT end things once and for all. Why would you even suggest such a thing in the absence of any facts indicating this?
If you follow the money to pay the lawyers, fund discovery, and pay the enormous incidental costs, you will almost surely find that SCO, which has already declared bankruptcy, is getting outside funds, (speculation is from Microsoft), and as long as that money flows there will never be an end to this issue.
Nice try.
But there is no evidence that particular concrete in Rome was of the same composition as the harbor cement which was analyzed bythe researchers . When you consider the rather degraded state of much or the Roman construction in Rome itself when compared to the harbors that were analyzed it seems highly unlikely it was of the same composition.
The tendency to attribute great wisdom to the ancients, lost to modern man, and unknown to modern science, has a never ending allure.
This is just one more example of being in the right place at the right time, and being careful enough to remember what you did different when something falls down, and not do that again.
Sort of like your grand mother learned not to be rough with an angle food cake made from scratch because it would fall before it cooled. I'm not sure that counts either as science or great wisdom. Seems simply the school of hard knocks, if you ask me.
Our bridges and buildings do tend to last a long time, albeit with more maintenance. But then, we build differently these days. The Roman and Greek empires built always with stone and cement under compression, and virtually never under tension. Stone and un-reinforced concrete do well in this mode.
Actually, there is a school of thought that speculates that the US is in the position it finds itself in precisely because of the land we found ourselves living on. But the Russian Federation / USSR has more of just about everything in the way of natural resources than the north american continent. So its an interesting speculation, but still up for debate.
Its doubtful that they were transporting the ash very far because they didn't have the means to do so, nor the need. Much of the Mediterranean is of the same volcanic origin. Ash seems to be everywhere. And the harbors they checked weren't all that gat apart geographically.
Sure they knew ash worked better than gravel, but in that region ash is far easier to come by. And and trial and error led them to the proper quantities of lime (which was much harder to find).
So again, not science, not wisdom, simply geographic good luck.
The law should just ban the manufacture, import, sale, rental, or lease of any cable box equipment with cameras and microphone built in.
Why? So only "The Law" can do those things?
Um, there seems to be a problem of understanding here.
You buy your set top cable box from Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, Dish, etc. Not from the police.
Sorry I was speaking above your level of understanding. Next time I'll try speaking in early american knee jerk.
Turns out its not the ash that mattered.
Its just the composition of the particular variety of ash they had on hand. Volcanic ash differs in various volcanic regions. Further, seawater was also key. You don't find much of that in the middle of continents.
This wasn't ancient knowledge at work at all. It was simply an accident of geography.
The harder part may be finding enough suitable sources of volcanic ash that can be mined, and not all ash has the same mineral ratios and such. That would still limit its use unless there's some way to make a decent enough man-made equivalent that's better than the Portland formula.
And right there you've put your finger on both the source of the mystery and why this won't work everywhere.
In ancient Rome they didn't have the huge reduction furnaces used in the creation of Portland Cement. All they had was the raw materials found laying around or easily mined. Living in a volcanic region near the sea they had both in abundance.
In other areas conquered by Rome they never found the same mix of volcanic materials, lime, and seawater, and the structures they built there did not hold up as well. The aluminum-rich pozzolan ash isn't exactly something you find in the British isles or France. And away from the sea, any available water would be used. Its entirely possible the Romans had no no idea that sea water was essential to this mixture.
The whole thing was an accident of geography, and apparently one which no one cared to look into too closely, or those that did were unable to replicate due to raw material availability, because analysis of the composition of roman cement was well withing the scientific capabilities of even the 1800s and probably even the 1600s.
From my perspective, the "little bit of extra cash" is not the biggest attraction, and the job itself is the big draw.
The best programmers find it fun, challenging and quite rewarding to develop software. Getting paid just kept the wolf from their door, and getting paid well was gravy.
The worst programmers I've worked with were in it only for the money, watched the clock, and were out the door promptly at the end of the day.
Further, this trend was not gender specific. At least not in the programming shops I've worked in. Still I'd say programming and systems design was at least 85% male.
Users of software are a different story
All you need do is fire up Google image search and look for E3 show floor images and you will find it looks surprisingly
like a Muslim street scene, with hardly any women in sight.
And just as safe for a woman to step into without a guard.
Right because with all the scantily clad booth babes running around, the adolescent boys are going to jump on
the random, fully dressed, gamer girl.
Give me a break.
If the industry's most prominent trade show looks like it was organized by teenage boys, it's not going to do much to dispel the stereotype that games are just something for teenage boys.
Lets face it, teen age boys don't have the attention span to organize much of anything.
Contrary to the rantings in the summary above (as well as yours), it is the demographics of the attendees that determine the character of the show.
When there start to be 45% females in the attendance the situation will change.
All you need do is fire up Google image search and look for E3 show floor images and you will find it looks surprisingly
like a Muslim street scene, with hardly any women in sight.
I'd say the show knows its audience very well.
Besides, the whole rant is based on the assumption that most women disapprove of having scantily clad women
running around, and there is almost no place other than a church service where there is any evidence
of this.
As if the law is going to stop people from spying...
The law should just ban the manufacture, import, sale, rental, or lease of any cable box equipment with cameras and microphone built in.
Game consoles should have bright red camera housing with LEDs indicating camera on, and a manual slider door that disables
the cam and micrpohone.
Why do I have to waste precious moderation points to downmod this crap? Why can't this be blocked automatically? It's not like it's something completely new and out of the blue.
Slashdot editors themselves have unlimited mod points and use them to control this type of crap.
Set your sliders to zero and you never see this because they mod them to oblivion instantly.
Hey slashdot: How bout some sliders that actually work on Android!!
Unfortunately that doesn't really work in the modern polarized world.
Especially when it is posted br ACs.
We've seen years worth of facts and figures and reasonable presentation be marginalized and ignored.
vantage of kill switches, as it doesn't devalue the device in the eyes of the bad guys.
Well, jumping to the other side of the argument from my prior post, I have to say that the above is simply not true. (And I suspect you know its not true).
Of course it devalues the device. Anything that diminishes what the thief can get for the resale of the device, or increases the number of hoops through which they must jump, by the very definition devalues the device.
If a thief can get 500 bucks for a stolen phone in perfect working order, but only 50 bucks, or maybe 5 bucks for parts, sooner or later its going to dawn on the dimmest bulb in the string that the risk is not worth the reward. There simply isn't that big of a parts market.
He will be given a fair trial, after which he will be shot.
not necessarily in that order.
Microsoft has always supported the effort. They were the ones who called law enforcement to work about stolen phones. They really cared for customers, imo.
They may have always supported the effort, but they were far from the first in calling for fixes to stolen phones.
The universal IMEI/MEID blocking, long in effect in most of the world has been fought tooth and nail by the carriers.
Because they they earn additional revenue when you come in and buy a new phone after you get mugged, they had no
interest in setting up and maintaining such a database. It was less than a year ago that they finally agreed to build such a blacklist. This plan could work for existing phones, even dumb phones.
Rather than give that time to work, they now contrive to call it a failure, and they now want to launch a whole new requirement, and get everyone to buy a new phone in order to be included in the "protected group".
There are those that insist that you can simply and easily flash a new IMEI on a phone, but it is not as simple as some would have you believe, that the guy in the hoodie who knocks you down and grabs your phone doesn't have the skill set to do so.
With a blocked IMEI you can unblock it if it is recovered if you can prove to the carrier that you are the rightful owner. With a kill switch, you are screwed. There is little incentive to report a lost or stolen phone, since it ruins any chance of recovery. It will still require replacement once you report it, even if you find it at your friends house where you left it after the party.
These are clearly "highly classified state secrets", unrelated to the domestic spying scandals. He had no reason to reveal that to the press
Other than putting the lie to the claims he was a lowly minion with no capability to access super secret data.
He preemptively shot down the vary arguments put forth by the House Intelligence committee.
But hey, thanks for reminding us all of what the government would just as soon sweep under the rug.
The risk of a trial outweighs any possible lesson teaching.
This is why I suggest it will all end quickly with a "leap" from a tall building, or a stumble into the path of an oncoming train.