Its convent that every change, regardless of what the change is, is banded about as 'proof' of global warming.
More rain: Global Warming! Less rain: Global Warming! Hotter: Global Warming! Colder Temps: Global Warming!
The Earth could turn into a solid ball of ice tomorrow and you'd come out and tell us it was Global Warming that did it.
Thats why large portions of the population don't care about the issue. You claim everything is caused by the your cause... even things that contradict your point of view. No matter what happens, you come up with some way that Global Warming is the reason.
Thats called confirmation bias. It doesn't make your theory true, it just means it was effected by confirmation bias and you're too ignorant to realize it.
The problem isn't that people don't believe in global warming.
The problem is people like yourself, go all ape shit about it screaming the end of the world.
Common sense in most peoples head stop them from listening to you due to one simple fact:
You have no fucking clue what global warming actually means for the planet.
That is an undeniable fact. You have no clue. None. Everything you're talking about is actually just repeating someone else's theory about a pathetically young field of science. Anyone with an actual clue understands that the complexity of the system is so utterly ridiculous that its not something we can really even think about modeling. We can't model the weather accurately an hour in advance and you want to act like you have some fucking clue about whats going to happen to the weather, on a global scale, years out?
Do you realize how idiotic you sound?
Do you realize that anyone with a clue knows the Earth has been both far hotter and far colder than it is now?
I could go on for days with reasons why global warming is no big deal... but I won't... because I DON'T FUCKING KNOW that it is or isn't... and neither do you.
So when you go off banding about interpretations of 'facts' that are interpreted some how magically... into meaning that humans are killing the planet... It just sounds fucking stupid.
Now I have no doubt we are effecting the planet. Thats because we're part of the system so we MUST impact it in various ways due to the laws of physics. What I don't know is whats going to happen. I don't argue that we need to keep our eyes out for problems... which we are doing... but we certainly don't need to freak out like a high school girl that just found out her boyfriend kissed omg-not-even-hot Betty last night.
The problem with AGW is that it has too many drama queen fanatics trying to tag along with it, cost it credibility. Everytime you can name something that suggests the doom and gloom, I can probably show you how its happened before and will happen again. OMG SEA LEVELS RISING!@$!@$ So, its been far far higher than the predictions for a hundred years in worst case. OMG HEAT. Been hotter than the next 100 years worth of predictions multiple times in the past. Everything you come up with the Earth has done before and we had nothing to do with it. We don't even really know why it did most of it, we only have theories since WE WEREN'T ACTUALLY THERE and our data is from paleontology. While you can learn a lot this way, its still barely different than guessing when you've never actually witnessed the processes you're claiming validate your hypothesis.
Stop crying wolf before you have any evidence there is actually a wolf and not just evidence that a wolf has been around sometime since time started.
I'm not happy about it, but let's not pretend that he's some sort of Hitler, seizing power and single-handedly changing the shape and function of our government. Hardly.
Why shouldn't we? Is that not exactly what Obama supporters did leading up to his election in reference to Bush? $10 says you were one of those very people.
What bothers me is that VMware can run 64 bit and 16 bit code side by side, why the frak can't Windows! Yes, VMware does much more than just context switch and VMware does actual binary translation and processor emulation, but FFS, Microsoft could have easily added a 16 bit interpreter to make it work.
Probably just run stock android on it, then there are any number of standard GUI toolkits you could use. Qt for example (though personally, I can't stand Qt/Trolltech/Nokia), as well as the standard UI toolkit built into android.
Remember, FirefoxOS is just a hacked android distro anyway. Think of it the same way you think of the Kindle Fire. They just through their own (shitty) special sauce on someone else's OS.
Some people have had problems with some of the sellers on eBay but eBay itself does not conduct credit card fraud
Ebay owns paypal. Paypal is well known and documented for committing illegal acts with credit cards and funds. They've been to court multiple times for ripping people off in obvious ways.
2. Verizon is a CDMA clusterfuck. This phone is GSM... it just works... everywhere and with everyone.
Except on half the networks in the USA. So not everywhere and not everyone. Verizon is the biggest provider in the US, how does not working with the largest provider magically include EVERYONE? When did Sprint become GSM? They are apparently claiming Sprint support...
First I've heard of Firefox being banned for not fixing bugs... do you ban Windows also?
Then you live in a very small and secluded box. Businesses don't NEED firefox. IE and Chrome can serve the purpose in many places, if not all. Firefox in and of itself is a minority alternative browser. Businesses on the other hand pretty much must run Windows to interact with other businesses who have apps that run on Windows. End result: Banning firefox, not really a problem, you just upset 3 people in a 2500 person company. Ban Windows... and the company closes up shop and goes home because they have software that runs on Windows but not any of the minority operating systems.
Right, because all the people that paid top dollar for high quality Apple and Samsung devices are suddenly going to jump ship and want to buy bottom of the line crap phones that aren't even worth will enough for telephone carriers to give them away for contract sign ups.
Yes, thats what this tells you. The carriers don't even want to give this phone away. Thats how shitty it is.
That shitty phone... is going to make people who pay $200-600 change their ways and go for the craptastic throwaway phone that its shittier quality/cheaper than the phones they GIVE AWAY with a contract?
Putting the phones on Ebay shows a lack of professionalism and quality. It shows no pride in their work. Might as well post it on craigslist.
In my experience, when a company has no pride, professionalism or quality to their sales team, they certainly have no pride, professionalism or quality going into their products themselves.
It shows a pattern. They aren't willing to put for the effort to sell it properly themselves, what the fuck makes you think they put effort into making a phone that wasn't a piece of shit?
No it isn't, its running some half assed Android-Firefox concoction. Mozilla has to be a shining example of how to take the worst from a company (netscape) and roll it into a new company. They don't know how to develop a user experience for shit.
Binary blobs are all over every computing device on the planet, except for a few non-functional (from a practical perspective) FPGA based OSH CPUs.
You live in some silly fantasy of ignorance where your Linux PC is 'free' (Which, btw, Free isn't the fucking word you mean to use as GPL is pretty much the definition of not-free contrary to what you zealots spew, the other incorrect word you should be using is libre) has no binary blobs... except the CPU microcode... and GPU microcode... and BIOS/EFI... and SM mode software from the BIOS, and of course none of the chips in your PC are in any way open.
Seriously, you guys get so retarded about 'free' and 'libre' when you don't even have the slightest clue how 'libre' you aren't in any way.
Its trivial to hide back doors in the hardware itself, which isn't 'open'.
You OSS fanboys really need to stop talking out your ass and realize its not the end all be all solution.
Unless I rebuild the binaries... with a trusted GCC compiler (prepackaged doesn't imply trusted since I didnt build those binaries either), and bios, and every other component in the device, than I am no more sure than I was before I used an OSS OS.
If you manually confirm the source is safe yourself, you build all binaries yourself without ever touching untrusted/unverified code, than you are no better off than owning an iPhone.
All OSS can do is PROVE that it is not secure. It can not prove that that it IS secure. Get your facts straight, OSS does nothing to help you be more secure, just another buzzword you don't understand being used in a way that you heard someone else use it.
Actually, it shows he does understand the word, as he would never plan a release time based on something silly like that, he would always do it based on quality and readiness... in which case, it would be a coincidence if it happened to be released today.
It didn't happen, and thats why its not a coincidence.
If its that important to you that you send it to them encrypted, and they aren't asking you to encrypt it, then you shouldn't send it to them because once they get it, they aren't going to be secure enough with it to make your sending it to them encrypted matter.
Heres a reality check: No one gives a flying fuck about encryption.
You might, but the instant the other organization get it, thats over with. Its going to probably end up, unencrypted on someones laptop in the public space within a few months.
If they don't have procedures in place to encrypt everything already... and you have to ask them about it, they don't have the rest of the procedures and support structure in place to make it worth the time to encrypt it in transit to them.
If both of you actually cared, and both of you had a clue (which clearly neither of you do, as you're asking on slashdot), then you'd just make sure both of your mail servers did proper SSL for transport and be done with the stupid crap you want to do.
PS: I develop and make my living writing personal encryption software and systems. Doing all this crap on your end is cute, but worthless when the other guy isn't going to do anything like it and is going to make it trivial for anyone to steal your data anyway.
Grabbing data as it flows across the Internet is really non-trivial as it requires you work at a few specific places. There just aren't that many jobs open for those positions, and most of the people in them are comfy enough that they aren't going to be running Wireshark to get banking info for your poor ass.
Its a waste of your time, you just don't realize it.
Top Gear can be said to be fucking morons then, were you watching the American version or something?
Having done both, I can say with 100% certainty that there is absolutely no comparison between 18 hours of being awake and drinking even a few ounces of whiskey. In every bottle I've seen, half would be far more than a few ounces wouldn't it?
Protip: EMS drivers generally run 24 to 48 hour shifts. Get some new facts, because this crap you have no isn't.
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Its convent that every change, regardless of what the change is, is banded about as 'proof' of global warming.
More rain: Global Warming!
Less rain: Global Warming!
Hotter: Global Warming!
Colder Temps: Global Warming!
The Earth could turn into a solid ball of ice tomorrow and you'd come out and tell us it was Global Warming that did it.
Thats why large portions of the population don't care about the issue. You claim everything is caused by the your cause ... even things that contradict your point of view. No matter what happens, you come up with some way that Global Warming is the reason.
Thats called confirmation bias. It doesn't make your theory true, it just means it was effected by confirmation bias and you're too ignorant to realize it.
Other then the sign where they said 'we manipulate the data'?
What the fuck do you need to believe it, they told you they do it, and you're still in denial.
...
So they're fucking with the data, skewing it as they see fit ... and then acting like its empirical evidence?
Seriously? We made the data look like we it should, so it must be accurate!?
The problem isn't that people don't believe in global warming.
The problem is people like yourself, go all ape shit about it screaming the end of the world.
Common sense in most peoples head stop them from listening to you due to one simple fact:
You have no fucking clue what global warming actually means for the planet.
That is an undeniable fact. You have no clue. None. Everything you're talking about is actually just repeating someone else's theory about a pathetically young field of science. Anyone with an actual clue understands that the complexity of the system is so utterly ridiculous that its not something we can really even think about modeling. We can't model the weather accurately an hour in advance and you want to act like you have some fucking clue about whats going to happen to the weather, on a global scale, years out?
Do you realize how idiotic you sound?
Do you realize that anyone with a clue knows the Earth has been both far hotter and far colder than it is now?
I could go on for days with reasons why global warming is no big deal ... but I won't ... because I DON'T FUCKING KNOW that it is or isn't ... and neither do you.
So when you go off banding about interpretations of 'facts' that are interpreted some how magically ... into meaning that humans are killing the planet ... It just sounds fucking stupid.
Now I have no doubt we are effecting the planet. Thats because we're part of the system so we MUST impact it in various ways due to the laws of physics. What I don't know is whats going to happen. I don't argue that we need to keep our eyes out for problems ... which we are doing ... but we certainly don't need to freak out like a high school girl that just found out her boyfriend kissed omg-not-even-hot Betty last night.
The problem with AGW is that it has too many drama queen fanatics trying to tag along with it, cost it credibility. Everytime you can name something that suggests the doom and gloom, I can probably show you how its happened before and will happen again. OMG SEA LEVELS RISING!@$!@$ So, its been far far higher than the predictions for a hundred years in worst case. OMG HEAT. Been hotter than the next 100 years worth of predictions multiple times in the past. Everything you come up with the Earth has done before and we had nothing to do with it. We don't even really know why it did most of it, we only have theories since WE WEREN'T ACTUALLY THERE and our data is from paleontology. While you can learn a lot this way, its still barely different than guessing when you've never actually witnessed the processes you're claiming validate your hypothesis.
Stop crying wolf before you have any evidence there is actually a wolf and not just evidence that a wolf has been around sometime since time started.
I'm not happy about it, but let's not pretend that he's some sort of Hitler, seizing power and single-handedly changing the shape and function of our government. Hardly.
Why shouldn't we? Is that not exactly what Obama supporters did leading up to his election in reference to Bush? $10 says you were one of those very people.
Statistics are often always skewed to suit the speaker at hand.
There are plenty of ways to adjust the cost of something the government provides to make it higher or lower or whatever you want.
'Health Care' is FAR to broad to quantify.
Congratulations, you've bought into the bullshit because they've talked you into a circle of misunderstanding.
Because that would piss off the insurance companies ... you know, the ones actually pushing for the bill in the first place?
What bothers me is that VMware can run 64 bit and 16 bit code side by side, why the frak can't Windows! Yes, VMware does much more than just context switch and VMware does actual binary translation and processor emulation, but FFS, Microsoft could have easily added a 16 bit interpreter to make it work.
Yes, but 30GB of it will be taken up by Firefox browser swap file, and another 1.9 by the OS.
More != Better in every case ;)
Probably just run stock android on it, then there are any number of standard GUI toolkits you could use. Qt for example (though personally, I can't stand Qt/Trolltech/Nokia), as well as the standard UI toolkit built into android.
Remember, FirefoxOS is just a hacked android distro anyway. Think of it the same way you think of the Kindle Fire. They just through their own (shitty) special sauce on someone else's OS.
Some people have had problems with some of the sellers on eBay but eBay itself does not conduct credit card fraud
Ebay owns paypal. Paypal is well known and documented for committing illegal acts with credit cards and funds. They've been to court multiple times for ripping people off in obvious ways.
2. Verizon is a CDMA clusterfuck. This phone is GSM... it just works... everywhere and with everyone.
Except on half the networks in the USA. So not everywhere and not everyone. Verizon is the biggest provider in the US, how does not working with the largest provider magically include EVERYONE? When did Sprint become GSM? They are apparently claiming Sprint support ...
http://www.ebay.com/gds/List-of-GSM-and-CDMA-Networks-and-Carriers-in-the-US/10000000009189079/g.html
First I've heard of Firefox being banned for not fixing bugs... do you ban Windows also?
Then you live in a very small and secluded box. Businesses don't NEED firefox. IE and Chrome can serve the purpose in many places, if not all. Firefox in and of itself is a minority alternative browser. Businesses on the other hand pretty much must run Windows to interact with other businesses who have apps that run on Windows. End result: Banning firefox, not really a problem, you just upset 3 people in a 2500 person company. Ban Windows ... and the company closes up shop and goes home because they have software that runs on Windows but not any of the minority operating systems.
I suggest you buy a cluepon or 3.
Right, because all the people that paid top dollar for high quality Apple and Samsung devices are suddenly going to jump ship and want to buy bottom of the line crap phones that aren't even worth will enough for telephone carriers to give them away for contract sign ups.
Yes, thats what this tells you. The carriers don't even want to give this phone away. Thats how shitty it is.
That shitty phone ... is going to make people who pay $200-600 change their ways and go for the craptastic throwaway phone that its shittier quality/cheaper than the phones they GIVE AWAY with a contract?
Are you really that stupid?
Heh, well we'll all be sure to take advice from the Linux newbie.
Putting the phones on Ebay shows a lack of professionalism and quality. It shows no pride in their work. Might as well post it on craigslist.
In my experience, when a company has no pride, professionalism or quality to their sales team, they certainly have no pride, professionalism or quality going into their products themselves.
It shows a pattern. They aren't willing to put for the effort to sell it properly themselves, what the fuck makes you think they put effort into making a phone that wasn't a piece of shit?
No it isn't, its running some half assed Android-Firefox concoction. Mozilla has to be a shining example of how to take the worst from a company (netscape) and roll it into a new company. They don't know how to develop a user experience for shit.
Binary blobs are all over every computing device on the planet, except for a few non-functional (from a practical perspective) FPGA based OSH CPUs.
You live in some silly fantasy of ignorance where your Linux PC is 'free' (Which, btw, Free isn't the fucking word you mean to use as GPL is pretty much the definition of not-free contrary to what you zealots spew, the other incorrect word you should be using is libre) has no binary blobs ... except the CPU microcode ... and GPU microcode ... and BIOS/EFI ... and SM mode software from the BIOS, and of course none of the chips in your PC are in any way open.
Seriously, you guys get so retarded about 'free' and 'libre' when you don't even have the slightest clue how 'libre' you aren't in any way.
Why is it so smart? So a few geeks can buy it on EBay?
No one knows its there besides some slashdotters. That makes this a pretty stupid idea. They'll get 9 million times more exposure in a store.
Whats next? Craigslist advertising?
Idiots.
Its trivial to hide back doors in the hardware itself, which isn't 'open'.
You OSS fanboys really need to stop talking out your ass and realize its not the end all be all solution.
Unless I rebuild the binaries ... with a trusted GCC compiler (prepackaged doesn't imply trusted since I didnt build those binaries either), and bios, and every other component in the device, than I am no more sure than I was before I used an OSS OS.
If you manually confirm the source is safe yourself, you build all binaries yourself without ever touching untrusted/unverified code, than you are no better off than owning an iPhone.
All OSS can do is PROVE that it is not secure. It can not prove that that it IS secure. Get your facts straight, OSS does nothing to help you be more secure, just another buzzword you don't understand being used in a way that you heard someone else use it.
Its from ZTE ... it will not be NSA ready, unless China also calls their spy organization the NSA as well.
Actually, it shows he does understand the word, as he would never plan a release time based on something silly like that, he would always do it based on quality and readiness ... in which case, it would be a coincidence if it happened to be released today.
It didn't happen, and thats why its not a coincidence.
If its that important to you that you send it to them encrypted, and they aren't asking you to encrypt it, then you shouldn't send it to them because once they get it, they aren't going to be secure enough with it to make your sending it to them encrypted matter.
Heres a reality check: No one gives a flying fuck about encryption.
You might, but the instant the other organization get it, thats over with. Its going to probably end up, unencrypted on someones laptop in the public space within a few months.
If they don't have procedures in place to encrypt everything already ... and you have to ask them about it, they don't have the rest of the procedures and support structure in place to make it worth the time to encrypt it in transit to them.
If both of you actually cared, and both of you had a clue (which clearly neither of you do, as you're asking on slashdot), then you'd just make sure both of your mail servers did proper SSL for transport and be done with the stupid crap you want to do.
PS: I develop and make my living writing personal encryption software and systems. Doing all this crap on your end is cute, but worthless when the other guy isn't going to do anything like it and is going to make it trivial for anyone to steal your data anyway.
Grabbing data as it flows across the Internet is really non-trivial as it requires you work at a few specific places. There just aren't that many jobs open for those positions, and most of the people in them are comfy enough that they aren't going to be running Wireshark to get banking info for your poor ass.
Its a waste of your time, you just don't realize it.
Or you don't have a drivers license yet.
I'm betting on the latter rather than the former.
Top Gear can be said to be fucking morons then, were you watching the American version or something?
Having done both, I can say with 100% certainty that there is absolutely no comparison between 18 hours of being awake and drinking even a few ounces of whiskey. In every bottle I've seen, half would be far more than a few ounces wouldn't it?
Protip: EMS drivers generally run 24 to 48 hour shifts. Get some new facts, because this crap you have no isn't.
I'm supposed to find it impressive that a website can take my username and password, and present it to another website and confirm its validity?
So I don't tell Google what I'm logging in to, but I instead give you my authentication information for Google?
I don't think so Tim.
Color me unimpressed with Mozilla rehashing something from 40 years ago ... and doing it wrong in the process.
It's pretty much the bog standard open source stereotype.
You really should stop using saying that you utterly fail to understand the meaning of, it just makes you look ignorant.