The problem is that giving that level of snooping capability to one app pretty much makes it available for other apps, and you can see how that would get out of hand pretty quickly with one app data mining another and sending back encrypted data later.
Perhaps a better method would be for Android/IOS to find a way to lock down access to specific items of data in the phone. If you want to deny an app from reading your phone number or IMEI you can just uncheck a box and it can't even call the APIs that do that. You might end up killing off app functionality, but at least you would know when some game decided ti email your addressbook to china or something.
This pretty well has to be solved at the system level rather than at the level of a watchdog app.
More to the point, SMTP hosts will be pretty much forced to do something more productive than blocking via IP, which amounts to group punishment. (Something apparently only tolerated on the internet).
Its sad that the most broken of protocols has this much sway over the net. SMTP needs a ground up re-write, and it will need it just as much (if not more) after IPV6 is deployed.
The surprise is that anyone noticed all these HIT requests.
Who, other than the utterly unemployable, has time to take on meaningless tasks dished out by machine for pennies. You can find more money laying on the ground in a parking lot.
A casual perusal didn't find one task I would do for fun or profit.
I am so sick of tossing in the tear jerk episode (usually lifted directly from some other series) simply because they don't have enough plot to carry a full season, or they have to give the female writers something to do. (Ok, I've said it, flames expected).
It was an end-of-budget dodge. The show was already known to be likely to be canceled when that was written. The wraith thing was played out due to several hours of makeup time needed for each appearance. It was simply too expensive.
They never said anything about no characters crossing over, you made that up. The whole premise was that dialing back to earth was not initially guaranteed. From earth to Atlantis was always part of the story line.
Simply because it was useful to tie the plot lines together does not make the series bad, in fact it proves you wrong.
Atlantis had more draw than the original, and Atlantis was used to prop up the original for the period that they both ran concurrently.
The original had run out of story.
Atlantis was fresh, and the Wraith were a godsend. Makeup budget overruns necessitated episodes back on earth and invention of other adversaries. But the story was solid.
SGU has nothing to sustain it other than a creepy old ship, and even they need the "Stones" to fill the story with fluff episodes.
Wow factor wears off quickly when functionality fails.
And it does fail. This thing can not do large blocks of text like Google Goggles.
I don't need the restaurant menu overlaid on the menu. I already have a menu in hand and know what it looks like. That is simply not important. I need the translation, and that's all. Seriously, I can't imagine even YOU believe this is a real world example that would justify the cost of this app.
Like I say, you buy this app, you will wow your friends a few times and move on to something that really works, and really works fast. It is at best, a technical exercise, with no real world raison d'etre.
Nothing in this story suggests that the burglar even knew what he was doing. It might have been something automatically set up by the computer owner to snap a shot each time the cover is opened. Heck, maybe the son's school put that software on there.
A wad of hundreds and a new computer. Bait!
I wonder if there had been prior break-ins, and this was a trap intentionally set up by someone in the household? Anyone bright enough to turn on the camera, take a picture and upload it, would be bright enough NOT to do so. It seems far more likely that a few bad password attempts tripped some security routine designed to recover stolen laptops.
My point exactly is that possession of prescription only dose sizes is illegal without a prescription.
Why is that so hard to understand?
Now admittedly the whole store was a huge troll, failing to even mention that 800mg dose is prescription only, but by the time you get to this part of the thread you should realize that there was a violation of law here, not just some school policy.
It also pretty much is the closest thing to a statement by the NSA that they can penetrate any network connected at will. Even their own.
After all, if they already have hacks for every thing they use to protect themselves, you can be fairly certain your firewall/router won't inconvenience them in the slightest.
There are many to choose from. None have the cutsy, but useless superimposition upon the original, but digging around in there will find page after page of ocr and translation apps.
Lets be perfectly frank. This is an app you will use three times then forget you even have it. It is simply not useful. By the time you run around shooting pictures of signs and finally find one that says "El baño" you will have already peed your pants in Mexico.
Far more useful is Google Translate, which uses voice recognition allowing you to speak your sentence, and will then speak it back in the language of choice. (You can use text input and copy and paste from dozens of free scanner apps as well).
It's IBUPROFEN. Zero abuse potential, zero buzz. It can give you a bellyache but I don't know anyone who considers that recreational.
You seem to be suffering under the delusion that the only reason for making certain drugs prescription only, is their potential for abuse for recreational purposes.
It's IBUPROFEN. Zero abuse potential, zero buzz. It can give you a bellyache but I don't know anyone who considers that recreational. I know when I was 12, I was quite capable of following instructions for medication (prescription or otherwise).
Whatever bright light decided drug charges were needed for this should be horsewhipped and then denied any sort of analgesic. Now, go call your mom and ask her to tell you without looking at a bottle how many mg are in a regular Motrin. I had to look at a bottle in my desk, I certainly don't memorize that sort of thing.
The mother should be warned that those are prescription strength. The mother's friend should get a warning about dispensing any prescription drug (even motrin) without a prescription. That should be the end of the matter.
I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with the law and everything to do with the schools zero tolerance policy.
That being said, 800mg is a prescription level. And if the pills were 800mg, there is no way the kid could have taken less (unless she was instructed to bite them in half), so she would technically need a prescription to have tabs that big.
And equal dose in standard 200mg tabs would not require a prescription.
Note that you might be prescribed 800mg if you were on the wrong end of a knife fight, so maybe this kid had a reason for carrying them, even if she did ditch the knife.
Its not limited to proprietary firmware. (Although that may be the only bit that affects the kernel directly).
There are a lot of non-free portions in the sound system, video chipsets, and a few other interfaces that may work to some degree using open source drivers, but usually not well, and not right away.
You have to run vendor supplied drivers for ATI/Nvidia/Intel video, or suffer long waits for the open source versions to catch up.
Similar situations exist for audio chipsets, as well as mp3 support in some distros. Wanna play that DVD video? Not going to happen with ONLY free opensource software distributed by many Distros. Admittedly not all of this stuff is kernel country. But the point remains that a totally FOSS machine has some fairly large challenges.
Just don't buy anything really new and you may not notice the difference.
No, they are shipping a Linux system that doesn't run under any recent hardware.
Your assessment is spot on.
This makes it easier for them, but harder for the end user. Not a show stopper, but something of a wicked speed bump.
OpenSuse has been doing this for a while (perhaps to a lesser degree than is planned by Debian) but it has always been something of an issue getting the thing to work for new users until someone clues them that they have to go enable another repository, even several, usually not hosted by opensuse, in order to achieve a fully functional machine. Video drivers were bad enough, but sort of expected. Finding a semi functional sound system until you added off site repositories was always an irritant.
Much of the third party or non-free driver issues were blended by Ubuntu to the degree that the new user (or even seasoned ones) were not aware how much non-free stuff Ubuntu would seamlessly integrate.
Lots of new linux users would be in for a rude awakening if they tried to use their new high end hardware with a distro that does not handle this integration for them.
Playing with Arch Linux is like stepping back in time 10 years, not in terms of functionality, but in terms of chasing drivers.
Follow the link to the article where it states clearly:
Manufacturers that like to engage in price discrimination by selling goods overseas for prices below what they charge in more affluent markets now have a powerful tool to prevent retailers from importing those goods and selling them in the U.S.
By preventing the import they prevent the sale, or can impose conditions on the sale, because the only thing preventing them from imposing such conditions is the first sale doctrine.
It doesn't matter where you bought it, it matters where they made it.
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how the hell is "x86 compatible" an advantage?
Oh, come on, you can't be serious.
More software has been written for x86 compatible than all other platforms combined.
The potential for re-use of existing systems and software must be patently obvious even to the most bigoted of OS snobs.
This is actually a good Idea.
The problem is that giving that level of snooping capability to one app pretty much makes it available for other apps, and you can see how that would get out of hand pretty quickly with one app data mining another and sending back encrypted data later.
Perhaps a better method would be for Android/IOS to find a way to lock down access to specific items of data in the phone. If you want to deny an app from reading your phone number or IMEI you can just uncheck a box and it can't even call the APIs that do that. You might end up killing off app functionality, but at least you would know when some game decided ti email your addressbook to china or something.
This pretty well has to be solved at the system level rather than at the level of a watchdog app.
More to the point, SMTP hosts will be pretty much forced to do something more productive than blocking via IP, which amounts to group punishment. (Something apparently only tolerated on the internet).
Its sad that the most broken of protocols has this much sway over the net. SMTP needs a ground up re-write, and it will need it just as much (if not more) after IPV6 is deployed.
The surprise is that anyone noticed all these HIT requests.
Who, other than the utterly unemployable, has time to take on meaningless tasks dished out by machine for pennies. You can find more money laying on the ground in a parking lot.
A casual perusal didn't find one task I would do for fun or profit.
I definitely agree with your number 3.
I am so sick of tossing in the tear jerk episode (usually lifted directly from some other series) simply because they don't have enough plot to carry a full season, or they have to give the female writers something to do. (Ok, I've said it, flames expected).
It was an end-of-budget dodge. The show was already known to be likely to be canceled when that was written. The wraith thing was played out due to several hours of makeup time needed for each appearance. It was simply too expensive.
They never said anything about no characters crossing over, you made that up. The whole premise was that dialing back to earth was not initially guaranteed. From earth to Atlantis was always part of the story line.
Simply because it was useful to tie the plot lines together does not make the series bad, in fact it proves you wrong.
Atlantis had more draw than the original, and Atlantis was used to prop up the original for the period that they both ran concurrently.
The original had run out of story.
Atlantis was fresh, and the Wraith were a godsend. Makeup budget overruns necessitated episodes back on earth and invention of other adversaries. But the story was solid.
SGU has nothing to sustain it other than a creepy old ship, and even they need the "Stones" to fill the story with fluff episodes.
Not obvious at all that he is posing.
He's waiting for the computer to respond and wondering what that little blue light means.
If he were posing, he'd be flashing the finger or his ass.
Wow factor wears off quickly when functionality fails.
And it does fail. This thing can not do large blocks of text like Google Goggles.
I don't need the restaurant menu overlaid on the menu. I already have a menu in hand and know what it looks like. That is simply not important. I need the translation, and that's all. Seriously, I can't imagine even YOU believe this is a real world example that would justify the cost of this app.
Like I say, you buy this app, you will wow your friends a few times and move on to something that really works, and really works fast. It is at best, a technical exercise, with no real world raison d'etre.
Nothing in this story suggests that the burglar even knew what he was doing. It might have been something automatically set up by the computer owner to snap a shot each time the cover is opened. Heck, maybe the son's school put that software on there.
A wad of hundreds and a new computer. Bait!
I wonder if there had been prior break-ins, and this was a trap intentionally set up by someone in the household? Anyone bright enough to turn on the camera, take a picture and upload it, would be bright enough NOT to do so. It seems far more likely that a few bad password attempts tripped some security routine designed to recover stolen laptops.
My point exactly is that possession of prescription only dose sizes is illegal without a prescription.
Why is that so hard to understand?
Now admittedly the whole store was a huge troll, failing to even mention that 800mg dose is prescription only, but by the time you get to this part of the thread you should realize that there was a violation of law here, not just some school policy.
Except that your OS (even Windows if properly locked down) is likely to be more up to date than your firewall/router software.
Routers rarely get updated software loads, even when significant bugs are detected in the kernel the are built with.
In many cases, the redundancy provided by an ancient linksys is a false one, and the router may already be owned by the hackers.
It also pretty much is the closest thing to a statement by the NSA that they can penetrate any network connected at will. Even their own.
After all, if they already have hacks for every thing they use to protect themselves, you can be fairly certain your firewall/router won't inconvenience them in the slightest.
Here, try this: http://www.appbrain.com/search?q=translation
There are many to choose from. None have the cutsy, but useless superimposition upon the original, but digging around in there will find page after page of ocr and translation apps.
Lets be perfectly frank. This is an app you will use three times then forget you even have it. It is simply not useful. By the time you run around shooting pictures of signs and finally find one that says "El baño" you will have already peed your pants in Mexico.
Far more useful is Google Translate, which uses voice recognition allowing you to speak your sentence, and will then speak it back in the language of choice. (You can use text input and copy and paste from dozens of free scanner apps as well).
So the AC (above) was correct : as long as you avoid recent hardware and just do email and Slashdot a completely FOSS machine works fine.
Forget Google Earth, Compositing, and don't even think about doing anything so pedestrian as gaming on your free linux machine.
I've used the opensource ATI drivers. They don't come close.
Your definition of "reasonably well" is wide of the mark by a country mile.
It's IBUPROFEN. Zero abuse potential, zero buzz. It can give you a bellyache but I don't know anyone who considers that recreational.
You seem to be suffering under the delusion that the only reason for making certain drugs prescription only, is their potential for abuse for recreational purposes.
It's IBUPROFEN. Zero abuse potential, zero buzz. It can give you a bellyache but I don't know anyone who considers that recreational. I know when I was 12, I was quite capable of following instructions for medication (prescription or otherwise).
Whatever bright light decided drug charges were needed for this should be horsewhipped and then denied any sort of analgesic. Now, go call your mom and ask her to tell you without looking at a bottle how many mg are in a regular Motrin. I had to look at a bottle in my desk, I certainly don't memorize that sort of thing.
The mother should be warned that those are prescription strength. The mother's friend should get a warning about dispensing any prescription drug (even motrin) without a prescription. That should be the end of the matter.
I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with the law and everything to do with the schools zero tolerance policy.
That being said, 800mg is a prescription level. And if the pills were 800mg, there is no way the kid could have taken less (unless she was instructed to bite them in half), so she would technically need a prescription to have tabs that big.
And equal dose in standard 200mg tabs would not require a prescription.
Note that you might be prescribed 800mg if you were on the wrong end of a knife fight, so maybe this kid had a reason for carrying them, even if she did ditch the knife.
IIRC 800mg is considered a prescription dose.
800mg is the standard prescription for broken bones, torn ligaments, etc.
Its not limited to proprietary firmware. (Although that may be the only bit that affects the kernel directly).
There are a lot of non-free portions in the sound system, video chipsets, and a few other interfaces that may work to some degree using open source drivers, but usually not well, and not right away.
You have to run vendor supplied drivers for ATI/Nvidia/Intel video, or suffer long waits for the open source versions to catch up.
Similar situations exist for audio chipsets, as well as mp3 support in some distros. Wanna play that DVD video? Not going to happen with ONLY free opensource software distributed by many Distros. Admittedly not all of this stuff is kernel country. But the point remains that a totally FOSS machine has some fairly large challenges.
Just don't buy anything really new and you may not notice the difference.
So they are switching to BSD, I take it?
No, they are shipping a Linux system that doesn't run under any recent hardware.
Your assessment is spot on.
This makes it easier for them, but harder for the end user. Not a show stopper, but something of a wicked speed bump.
OpenSuse has been doing this for a while (perhaps to a lesser degree than is planned by Debian) but it has always been something of an issue getting the thing to work for new users until someone clues them that they have to go enable another repository, even several, usually not hosted by opensuse, in order to achieve a fully functional machine. Video drivers were bad enough, but sort of expected. Finding a semi functional sound system until you added off site repositories was always an irritant.
Much of the third party or non-free driver issues were blended by Ubuntu to the degree that the new user (or even seasoned ones) were not aware how much non-free stuff Ubuntu would seamlessly integrate.
Lots of new linux users would be in for a rude awakening if they tried to use their new high end hardware with a distro that does not handle this integration for them.
Playing with Arch Linux is like stepping back in time 10 years, not in terms of functionality, but in terms of chasing drivers.
Because he is comparing Chrome, a browser that runs on PCs, to IOS devices.
I'm not sure why.
No, he's comparing running Flash on any other platform vs not running flash at all on IOS.
But I suspect you knew that and were just trolling.
Follow the link to the article where it states clearly:
Manufacturers that like to engage in price discrimination by selling goods overseas for prices below what they charge in more affluent markets now have a powerful tool to prevent retailers from importing those goods and selling them in the U.S.
By preventing the import they prevent the sale, or can impose conditions on the sale, because the only thing preventing them from imposing such conditions is the first sale doctrine.
It doesn't matter where you bought it, it matters where they made it.
It may be proof enough for Turkey.
Mod parent LOL...
And being silly enough to do it with software that attaches your credentials is an even dumber idea.