Apple has had it's share of security mistakes. Apple has ignored reported security flaws for months and in some cases for over a year. They just hide their shortcomings better.
Are you aware that you can actually push pages to your phone via Chrome Phone Extension? And of course sync bookmarks?
Did you know that with FireFox 4+ on your desktop and your phone that you can browse not just synced bookmarks, but also browse the currently open tabs one the other device and open those tabs? This feature is great for those days when you read half a/. story, realize you are late for client appointment, rush to get onsite (having to skip morning dump to save time). Finally once onsite, you not only get to take a billable dump, but you get to finish your web article where you left off.
Personally, the best part of being a consultant is billable dumps, but the best part of billable dumps is reading the Internet from the spot you last left it, while fighting a corn turtle.
it effects everyone else's textbooks, since Texas is such a big market.
The reason TX has so much power when it comes to textbooks is that TX isn't in debt. CA and NY are big markets, but since they are so broke, they cannot afford to pay to have textbooks written. So you make a strong case for why governments shouldn't carry large debts more than anything else. Finally the biggest thing pulling TX schools down is a huge percentage of students who's primary language is not English. A cost effect way to improve Texas schools is simply to allow states to not educate illegal aliens.
"Lemming" - as in those who are convinced it is fine to keep on running this way.
You obvious don't understand the key point about lemmings
Funny because I use the word lemming to describe people who blindly following what others say and do. For example people who follow without question, the hypothesis that global warming is man-made and CO2 is responsible tend to be lemmings.
Perhaps a better term would be CO2 Bigots, because despite the scientifically proven fact that H2O in the atmosphere is a more significant green house gas than C02, these Bio-blivious types continue to call for CO2 cuts, while making excuses for clouds (I suspect this is because clouds are white). Maybe the simplist thing for us to do is refer to them as GASists while pointing out all their flawed, faked and poorly done research in the area of GW; highlighting that nearly every conclusion derived requires people to give up their quality and way of life.
I look at everything GW parrots say, how they are in the process of attempting to re-brand it as "climate change", for which a reasonable person would say "Like the seasons dumbass?". Look at how GW lemmings ignore the fact that we could cover the entire planet with solar panels and not have enough energy, how public transportation buses with a driver and 2 passengers is less efficient than a Tahoe with 2 people, yet public transportation (which the GW elitist will never use) is the cliff they prefer to jump off of. Point out people should make one trip to Wal-Mart instead of seven trips to independent co-ops and GW fascists will flip their lid, because that isn't their master plan for humanity. Finally if you really want to have fun, ask GW robots something they are not programmed to answer (or comprehend), ask them what the correct temperature should be for the location and place you are in, explain how they should know the answer for two reasons, first so we can measure how close we are to their cliff (I mean goal) and second so we can ensure we don't go to far and cause man-made global cooling.
I'm surprised states haven't started trying to get at credit card statements to find unpaid sales tax or driving around looking for houses with Amazon boxes out front.
Yeah, that whole 4th amendment thing is just crazy at how it prevents the government from looking through my credit card statement and personal property without court issued search warrant. Along with that equally insane 5th amendment thing that prevents me from being required to disclose or testify against myself as to where I buy my PJs and comic books. Course I don't even need to say if I even have PJs or comic books.;)
For the federal government to collect VAT or sales taxes it would need to amend (or pervert) the Constitution, currently feds are limited to excise and income taxes only. Again Constitution and fact that I can assure state and individual uprisings if the federal government tried.
Personally I would be open to a sales tax (only at the retail level, not a VAT of any kind) provided the amendment that authorized a sales tax also nullified the 16th amendment and required a uniform percentage across all retail goods (not services) that was set by the majority of states, not the federal government.
FYI: The Constitution doesn't allow the Federal government to collect a value added tax of any kind. Also the law as you present it violates the 10th Amendment in various ways as well as many other provisions of Constitution. Just the fact they you put the Constitution in lower case speaks volumes.
"Why do things differ so much from State to State?" Because we are a Republic of independent states and that is how our Constitution was setup to promote a limited ans restricted federal government and to promote individual and state rights. Course many of out federally elected politicians don't seem to understand this, which, is why the Tea Party has been so effective at knocking those career politicians out of office.
They bring jack booted thugs to demand their surrender for burning.
Dude that is so old school. These days you don't need firemen to burn unwanted books/ideas. In a world of electric books on multi-media devices there are two far simpler options:
You run code to remove electronic copies/versions of unwanted ideas whenever they are found on the network
You produce large quantities of reality TV, trash novels and other "noise" to drown out unwanted ideas
Please explain how Author --> Publisher --> Apple --> Amazon --> Reader removed the middleman from what was Amazon's current models of either:
Author --> Publisher --> Amazon --> Reader
or
Author --> Amazon --> Author's mom.
and people save money
How exactly are book sales going to kick an additional percentage to Apple and be cheaper? Do you honestly believe that if Barnes and Noble and Amazon were not alternative shops for eBooks that Apple would have lower eBook prices, when it was Apple that allowed publishers to force Amazon and BN to raise their ebook prices several months back?
I view Socialism/Communism as the religions that progressives worship. Course, it is slightly different from religions like say Christianity, in the sense that Christians hold beliefs in principles that cannot be proven; whereas Socialists, Communists and Progressives hold onto a belief in things that have repeatedly failed, been disproven time and time again, actually reduce individual rights and freedoms, and yet remain the rage in universities funded by large capital endowments.
I think future Office innovations are likely to be around Office Sites instead of Office Suites. I use Google Docs on my Linux, Windows and Android devices, I use OWA, (not IMAP or POP or Outlook Anywhere) to read my e-mail remotely on both PCs and my phone. Office web apps are a great solution and they could be ported to a local version only version or a private LAN version if needed and designed with that in ming, whereas an Office Suite programming has a lot of OS dependencies that complicates developing for cross platforms.
For the record I was a huge Firefox fan because of their plugin add-ons, but, I switched to Chrome for two main reasons. 1). Chrome is much faster and 2). The real-time syncing of bookmarks, history, searches, etc. is awesome. I was searching for a 9mm AR-15 solution for my friend. As I learned more I found more options, eventually going through dozens and dozens of sites. But not remembering the search strings or links that located me there or their names in every case. I found a great solution for him from my home laptop using Chrome, later that day I ran into my friend and forgot the URL and site name, but it was in synced with my Android phone and available in my saved URLs, despite the fact that I had never closed Chrome or the page on my laptop. That is awesome. You can also push pages/sites to your phone and back very easily.
You are aware they added a method to go anywhere in the tree by clicking on that part of the path in the Window?
So if you are in explorer and your listed path is C:\users\corndog\Documents and you want to go to the corndog folder, you can just click on corndog. If you want to the users folder, you just click on users and if you want to change form Documents to maybe Downloads or Pictures, you can click between corndog and Documents and it will give you a dropdown list of the available folders wihtin corndog (same works between users and corndog if you wanted to switch to an different user's folder).
For the record this message was posted from my ubuntu 10.04 laptop, it could have easily been posted from my dual boot work laptop using either Windows 7 Professional or Fedora 12, my Vista 64bit workstation at home, my Windows 7 64bit workstation at work, or my Android phone.
I honestly love linux and Windows because I like the power to customize my environment and apps, which, is why I hate Apple computers and iDevices.
2) It's all taking place on privately owned physical property.
Yup, in most cases it is privately owned switches, routers, fiber, cables, servers, laptops, desktops, phones, etc. I go over Sprint wireless to get to the Internet, then I go over many backbone providers (sometimes TimeWarner, sometimes Comcast), I use privately owned search engines like Google and privately owned sites like slashdot. I read news on privately owned papers/TV websites. I watch videos on privately managed servers. Except when I go to whitehouse.gov or nasa.gov, nothing I use is publicly owned.
I guess that Sun were just too nice a company to prosper
Well that and they were way over priced...
Well that and the Open Source Community caught up with them...
Well that and they didn't have a long-term solution/strategy to ensure new entries into the tech field could gain experience/skills on their products so they would be comfortable recommending them. Sun relied on the old guard to recommend Sun, while newer entries onto the computer field were more comfortable recommending solutions they had experience with.
As a result apache replaced Sun's web server as the standard.
Red Hat (and others) took away Solaris server market share.
New startups began by running Oracle and other databases on Linux (or even Windows) servers in the initial low funding development stages and then when it came time to go into production, some of them didn't bother with moving to Sun hardware and Solaris, and instead remained with what worked and building it out to be "good-enough" for less money and less headaches.
I was in college from 1995-1999. The guys who loved going to the lab became Solaris die-hards, because that was what the school at that time ran (it is now LINUX, LINUX and more LINUX). But I preferred working in my apartment, so when I had took C, LISP, and JAVA classes that were focused on the fundamentals of code, things like recursion or objects, my teachers didn't demand I used the Solaris workstation, just that I solved the problem and got a strong foundation. So I installed Red hat on a backup PC and worked by using the same languages, with the same libraries, with the same text editors only on LINUX as the labs used on Solaris. At the time, I was the minority, but with each new class the LINUX users increased and those willing to invest in learning Solaris decreased, not to mention a larger and larger percentage of Solaris guys knew both.
When I went to work for a startup in California, they couldn't afford the quotes for Sun, so I purchased three DELL servers and installed Linux on them to accomplish the same task. Now nobody asks for Solaris admins, they ask for Linux admins.
The main problem was that the Reid campaign was running a web site that gave people the impression it was his competitor's site. It had active forms, either collecting user information or dumping it but giving the impression they were signed up.
The key goal would be to stop this activity.
Because Reid's campaign used copyrighted material in this ruse, using a copyright legal argument to get the website down seems reasonable.
This in no way stops or prevents additional legal filings at a later point. If there is anyone who got an e-mail or anything that gave them the perception of being enrolled after using the site or worse the code shows Reid's campaign was collecting this information, it will sink him.
Americans are pissed off at corrupt incumbents who don't respect the will of the people. If Reid turns out to be playing an underhanded/illegal game, it will put him further in the hole then he already is, he is not going to get re-elected, yet he is so disconnected from reality and because he has so much money, he thinks he has a chance.
Besides what were the "wackie views" she is running away from anyway? Lower taxes, less spending, limited government? If you look at the polls, she is in the majority. What is so crazy about any of that? The department of energy was created in the 1970s, we did fine without it up until then, I think we could somehow survive without it in the future. Every state has an EPA and a Dept of Education, we don't need these at the federal level, they aren't part of the enumerated powers anyway.
Whether the forms collected the data for Reid's campaign or the forms just dumped the data giving users the impression they were signed up for information/activities, when they weren't, either way it is over the line.
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>> Why would someone write a virus that is targeted at 10% of the user base when they can target 90?
Because they are an asshole?
By they I assume you mean the elitist 10% using Apple.
How Google Chrome of them.
Apple has had it's share of security mistakes. Apple has ignored reported security flaws for months and in some cases for over a year. They just hide their shortcomings better.
Are you aware that you can actually push pages to your phone via Chrome Phone Extension? And of course sync bookmarks?
/. story, realize you are late for client appointment, rush to get onsite (having to skip morning dump to save time). Finally once onsite, you not only get to take a billable dump, but you get to finish your web article where you left off.
Did you know that with FireFox 4+ on your desktop and your phone that you can browse not just synced bookmarks, but also browse the currently open tabs one the other device and open those tabs? This feature is great for those days when you read half a
Personally, the best part of being a consultant is billable dumps, but the best part of billable dumps is reading the Internet from the spot you last left it, while fighting a corn turtle.
it effects everyone else's textbooks, since Texas is such a big market.
The reason TX has so much power when it comes to textbooks is that TX isn't in debt. CA and NY are big markets, but since they are so broke, they cannot afford to pay to have textbooks written. So you make a strong case for why governments shouldn't carry large debts more than anything else. Finally the biggest thing pulling TX schools down is a huge percentage of students who's primary language is not English. A cost effect way to improve Texas schools is simply to allow states to not educate illegal aliens.
"Lemming" - as in those who are convinced it is fine to keep on running this way.
You obvious don't understand the key point about lemmings
Funny because I use the word lemming to describe people who blindly following what others say and do. For example people who follow without question, the hypothesis that global warming is man-made and CO2 is responsible tend to be lemmings.
Perhaps a better term would be CO2 Bigots, because despite the scientifically proven fact that H2O in the atmosphere is a more significant green house gas than C02, these Bio-blivious types continue to call for CO2 cuts, while making excuses for clouds (I suspect this is because clouds are white). Maybe the simplist thing for us to do is refer to them as GASists while pointing out all their flawed, faked and poorly done research in the area of GW; highlighting that nearly every conclusion derived requires people to give up their quality and way of life.
I look at everything GW parrots say, how they are in the process of attempting to re-brand it as "climate change", for which a reasonable person would say "Like the seasons dumbass?". Look at how GW lemmings ignore the fact that we could cover the entire planet with solar panels and not have enough energy, how public transportation buses with a driver and 2 passengers is less efficient than a Tahoe with 2 people, yet public transportation (which the GW elitist will never use) is the cliff they prefer to jump off of. Point out people should make one trip to Wal-Mart instead of seven trips to independent co-ops and GW fascists will flip their lid, because that isn't their master plan for humanity. Finally if you really want to have fun, ask GW robots something they are not programmed to answer (or comprehend), ask them what the correct temperature should be for the location and place you are in, explain how they should know the answer for two reasons, first so we can measure how close we are to their cliff (I mean goal) and second so we can ensure we don't go to far and cause man-made global cooling.
Furthermore, the 10th amendment prevents the Federal Government from being allowed to interfere with the state and local governments in this way.
I'm surprised states haven't started trying to get at credit card statements to find unpaid sales tax or driving around looking for houses with Amazon boxes out front.
Yeah, that whole 4th amendment thing is just crazy at how it prevents the government from looking through my credit card statement and personal property without court issued search warrant. Along with that equally insane 5th amendment thing that prevents me from being required to disclose or testify against myself as to where I buy my PJs and comic books. Course I don't even need to say if I even have PJs or comic books. ;)
For the federal government to collect VAT or sales taxes it would need to amend (or pervert) the Constitution, currently feds are limited to excise and income taxes only. Again Constitution and fact that I can assure state and individual uprisings if the federal government tried.
Personally I would be open to a sales tax (only at the retail level, not a VAT of any kind) provided the amendment that authorized a sales tax also nullified the 16th amendment and required a uniform percentage across all retail goods (not services) that was set by the majority of states, not the federal government.
FYI: The Constitution doesn't allow the Federal government to collect a value added tax of any kind. Also the law as you present it violates the 10th Amendment in various ways as well as many other provisions of Constitution. Just the fact they you put the Constitution in lower case speaks volumes.
"Why do things differ so much from State to State?" Because we are a Republic of independent states and that is how our Constitution was setup to promote a limited ans restricted federal government and to promote individual and state rights. Course many of out federally elected politicians don't seem to understand this, which, is why the Tea Party has been so effective at knocking those career politicians out of office.
All it takes is a simple law and this shit could stop next week.
From your comment I can assume that you have never actually spoken with the average state employee?
They bring jack booted thugs to demand their surrender for burning.
Dude that is so old school. These days you don't need firemen to burn unwanted books/ideas. In a world of electric books on multi-media devices there are two far simpler options:
Libraries should simply buy paper books instead of ebooks while this policy is in place.
So the middleman gets squeezed out ...
Please explain how Author --> Publisher --> Apple --> Amazon --> Reader removed the middleman from what was Amazon's current models of either:
Author --> Publisher --> Amazon --> Reader
or
Author --> Amazon --> Author's mom.
and people save money
How exactly are book sales going to kick an additional percentage to Apple and be cheaper? Do you honestly believe that if Barnes and Noble and Amazon were not alternative shops for eBooks that Apple would have lower eBook prices, when it was Apple that allowed publishers to force Amazon and BN to raise their ebook prices several months back?
I view Socialism/Communism as the religions that progressives worship. Course, it is slightly different from religions like say Christianity, in the sense that Christians hold beliefs in principles that cannot be proven; whereas Socialists, Communists and Progressives hold onto a belief in things that have repeatedly failed, been disproven time and time again, actually reduce individual rights and freedoms, and yet remain the rage in universities funded by large capital endowments.
Are we talking about junk science in general or global warming specifically?
You were using "free software". You're welcome.
The question I was answering was "where is open source silverlight git repo?"
http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight
https://github.com/mono/moon/tree/moon/moon-2-0
I think future Office innovations are likely to be around Office Sites instead of Office Suites. I use Google Docs on my Linux, Windows and Android devices, I use OWA, (not IMAP or POP or Outlook Anywhere) to read my e-mail remotely on both PCs and my phone. Office web apps are a great solution and they could be ported to a local version only version or a private LAN version if needed and designed with that in ming, whereas an Office Suite programming has a lot of OS dependencies that complicates developing for cross platforms.
For the record I was a huge Firefox fan because of their plugin add-ons, but, I switched to Chrome for two main reasons. 1). Chrome is much faster and 2). The real-time syncing of bookmarks, history, searches, etc. is awesome. I was searching for a 9mm AR-15 solution for my friend. As I learned more I found more options, eventually going through dozens and dozens of sites. But not remembering the search strings or links that located me there or their names in every case. I found a great solution for him from my home laptop using Chrome, later that day I ran into my friend and forgot the URL and site name, but it was in synced with my Android phone and available in my saved URLs, despite the fact that I had never closed Chrome or the page on my laptop. That is awesome. You can also push pages/sites to your phone and back very easily.
You are aware they added a method to go anywhere in the tree by clicking on that part of the path in the Window?
So if you are in explorer and your listed path is C:\users\corndog\Documents and you want to go to the corndog folder, you can just click on corndog. If you want to the users folder, you just click on users and if you want to change form Documents to maybe Downloads or Pictures, you can click between corndog and Documents and it will give you a dropdown list of the available folders wihtin corndog (same works between users and corndog if you wanted to switch to an different user's folder).
For the record this message was posted from my ubuntu 10.04 laptop, it could have easily been posted from my dual boot work laptop using either Windows 7 Professional or Fedora 12, my Vista 64bit workstation at home, my Windows 7 64bit workstation at work, or my Android phone.
I honestly love linux and Windows because I like the power to customize my environment and apps, which, is why I hate Apple computers and iDevices.
2) It's all taking place on privately owned physical property.
Yup, in most cases it is privately owned switches, routers, fiber, cables, servers, laptops, desktops, phones, etc. I go over Sprint wireless to get to the Internet, then I go over many backbone providers (sometimes TimeWarner, sometimes Comcast), I use privately owned search engines like Google and privately owned sites like slashdot. I read news on privately owned papers/TV websites. I watch videos on privately managed servers. Except when I go to whitehouse.gov or nasa.gov, nothing I use is publicly owned.
I guess that Sun were just too nice a company to prosper
Well that and they were way over priced ...
...
Well that and the Open Source Community caught up with them
Well that and they didn't have a long-term solution/strategy to ensure new entries into the tech field could gain experience/skills on their products so they would be comfortable recommending them. Sun relied on the old guard to recommend Sun, while newer entries onto the computer field were more comfortable recommending solutions they had experience with.
As a result apache replaced Sun's web server as the standard.
Red Hat (and others) took away Solaris server market share.
New startups began by running Oracle and other databases on Linux (or even Windows) servers in the initial low funding development stages and then when it came time to go into production, some of them didn't bother with moving to Sun hardware and Solaris, and instead remained with what worked and building it out to be "good-enough" for less money and less headaches.
I was in college from 1995-1999. The guys who loved going to the lab became Solaris die-hards, because that was what the school at that time ran (it is now LINUX, LINUX and more LINUX). But I preferred working in my apartment, so when I had took C, LISP, and JAVA classes that were focused on the fundamentals of code, things like recursion or objects, my teachers didn't demand I used the Solaris workstation, just that I solved the problem and got a strong foundation. So I installed Red hat on a backup PC and worked by using the same languages, with the same libraries, with the same text editors only on LINUX as the labs used on Solaris. At the time, I was the minority, but with each new class the LINUX users increased and those willing to invest in learning Solaris decreased, not to mention a larger and larger percentage of Solaris guys knew both.
When I went to work for a startup in California, they couldn't afford the quotes for Sun, so I purchased three DELL servers and installed Linux on them to accomplish the same task. Now nobody asks for Solaris admins, they ask for Linux admins.
They are one and the same.
The main problem was that the Reid campaign was running a web site that gave people the impression it was his competitor's site. It had active forms, either collecting user information or dumping it but giving the impression they were signed up.
The key goal would be to stop this activity.
Because Reid's campaign used copyrighted material in this ruse, using a copyright legal argument to get the website down seems reasonable.
This in no way stops or prevents additional legal filings at a later point. If there is anyone who got an e-mail or anything that gave them the perception of being enrolled after using the site or worse the code shows Reid's campaign was collecting this information, it will sink him.
Americans are pissed off at corrupt incumbents who don't respect the will of the people. If Reid turns out to be playing an underhanded/illegal game, it will put him further in the hole then he already is, he is not going to get re-elected, yet he is so disconnected from reality and because he has so much money, he thinks he has a chance.
Besides what were the "wackie views" she is running away from anyway? Lower taxes, less spending, limited government? If you look at the polls, she is in the majority. What is so crazy about any of that? The department of energy was created in the 1970s, we did fine without it up until then, I think we could somehow survive without it in the future. Every state has an EPA and a Dept of Education, we don't need these at the federal level, they aren't part of the enumerated powers anyway.
Whether the forms collected the data for Reid's campaign or the forms just dumped the data giving users the impression they were signed up for information/activities, when they weren't, either way it is over the line.