You could make the case that that's vaguely self serving
Every action a person takes is self serving.
For some, its because of greedy and what profit they'll make out of the deal or how it will benefit them later.
Others do things because it makes them feel good or it doesn't make them feel bad.
Either way, everything a person does is self serving.
I'm not trying to be cynical actually, I just think we need to call it like it is and not give him credit just because he's donating money, don't give him credit just because of his actions, but to give him credit for the reason behind his actions. He wants to help his sister, but he's contributing to the cause to help everyone. He appears to be a team player. That is whats important if you want to get right down to whats good for society as a whole. He's not being a Steve Jobs where he pays 50 million to HIS doctors IN SECRET so they can buy him a new liver from some poor kid in china who gives the $200 money to his family after he dies.
He gives money because he wants his sister to benefit which is entirely different than giving money because its good press and a tax right off.
I hope he donates the money that finds the solution to his sisters problems and that we all benefit from it, but I certainly wish him no ill will because he's trying to save his sister (AND willing to share that with everyone without expecting to profit). Good luck to his family.
He's still a douche bag in Bill&Ted and all of the Matrix movies though:)
Hard to believe as it may be, there is a perfectly valid 4th option that has no malice:
4) Stop wasting money on OpenOffice which generates no revenue for Oracle yet does have a cost.
The problem is, while it takes a massive amount of work to create an Office suite, especially one thats going to try to compete with the big boy, when you give it away for free in the way that Sun did, it doesn't generate enough good will or customer appreciation to justify it.
If Larry isn't benefiting from it, he ain't pay'n for it.
I'd say baffling is more appropriate...as huge as the website is
Its size makes it pretty clear why they don't do it.
For something like facebook, enabling SSL would be probably their single largest use of processing power in one chunk.
Limiting it to login only would obviously make it a much smaller load, but SSL would still likely be their largest use of CPU power (assuming you count crypto accelerators rather than ignore them)
SSL is expensive in terms of CPU power especially without dedicated crypto hardware.
That seems either incredibly counter-intuitive, or incredibly cynical ("no one will use it except people who know how to do it anyway, so why not get some good press").
Its not only good press and taking advantage of the fact that people are lazy and won't do it... It also gives them an easy bit of legal help.
If they make a bunch of tools available to protect your privacy then you don't have nearly as much room to bitch about the tracking since you do have a way to limit the tracking.
Second, if no one uses the tools and someone starts trying to push legislation through to make tracking more legally difficult, google and other online advertisers can jump in and scream 'we gave them tools and no one used them, the people don't want this!'... and it'll be REALLY hard to argue their point when they have proof that the general population doesn't care enough to use the tools.
I won't call you cynical, just realistic and wise.
Passwords don't know the difference between a day, a week, one use or 100 million uses.
You're confusing the word password with security.
You also don't understand the concept of security either. It isn't an absolute value, and most people for most things really don't have any reason to log out ever when its a machine in a secure location used only by trusted persons (the owner in their own home).
While it is considered a 'best practice' to keep your console locked, taking context and practicality into account helps you.
One might think that entering your password everytime you take any action would be more secure, however the reality of it is that it would be completely impractical to have to enter your password for each click or scroll of the page... and frame a security perspective it would be utterly ignorant since you'd just make the number of times someone could look over your shoulder and see your password ridiculously high... it would almost be impossible for anyone watching you to NOT get your password. While 'the console is always locked' seems more secure, it is only more secure when you apply it properly. Not when you apply it with blanket statements and a sledgehammer.
Don't spew like you know security just cause someone on the internet told you to always lock your console to be secure.
Biographies do not have to be 'authorized' nor is there any retarded law that says I have to pay you to tell the story of your life.
Assange has no recourse, he made himself a public figure, he's fair game to everyone. He isn't entitled to shit.
All an 'official' or 'authorized' biography is, is one that the person or persons family (after death) agreed too... maybe... that isn't even a real requirement since its just a title and there aren't laws governing what a book can be called (other than trademark and copyright).
Nothing they are doing is illegal in any way, nor is there any reason they should need to pay anyone for doing so.
Options awarded in this way are a very different topic than hiding income as Sub S profit.
Yea, like the basic fact that you have to pay taxes on stocks, so he'll have to pay the taxes on the difference between the option price and the sales price. Any options he buys and doesn't sell immediately would also be taxed on the difference between option price and current valuation at the time the options were exercised and again when sold based on his gains between exercise price and final sales price.
Stocks (and/or stock options) don't get you out of any taxes in any way I've seen unless you get options you never exercise... in which case you didn't get any payment either so it doesn't really matter does it?
While I won't argue that we live far better than the majority of the world.
$2.50 to me isn't the same as $2.50 to a native Australian in the outback. $2.50 relates to some amount of work that I can use to purchase something less than a pack of smokes. Probably not even a full meal.
$2.50 to the native Australian may have absolutely 0 value as they have absolutely no way to spend it, regardless of how you physically hand it to them or give them credit.
Just because you can find some exchange rates that eventually give you some numbers to compare that let you generate some silly statistics like you've posted doesn't mean the statistics are a realistic representation of what you think they represent.
Wealth in America is a completely different concept than it is to a native Australian, Eithiopian someone from the jungles of South America or the East.
As a general rule, we seem to value money and possessions where as they seem to value living. There are many places where you could come in and tell them you're going to give them everything they need to live the rest of their lives without ever working again, and you'll get asked to leave because they wouldn't understand why anyone would ever WANT to live that way.
You can't compare wealth around globe because wealth is a completely different concept depending on where you live.
Stop trying to make the world an 'equal' place, no one wants 'equal', most just want to be left the fuck alone. I'm not saying we shouldn't help the starving or in times of emergancy, just that we need to stop thinking our way of life is the right way of life and stop pushing our view of what people want on people who don't actually want it...
The reason it doesn't go after $1 CEOs is because the IRS realized a long time ago that CEOs are really only worth a few bucks anyway.
The only problem the IRS has now is they can't for the life of them figure out why the hell anyone gives CEOs any money at all considering they aren't accountable for anything either.
Sadly, everyone who viewed the links to the android source tree which showed the files as listed in the tree (see links from post by original author above) then they have distributed the code.
The reality of it is, it doesn't matter where they distributed it or how, doesn't have to be on a phone, it can simply be sending it to someone via email. Its still distribution once it leaves the organization (like when I clicked the link above).
Take it out of the royalties you get off over CDR I buy that I never use to burn music on since I have no devices other than my car that play CDs anymore (and it hasn't had a CD in it since I drove it off the lot!).
The way I see it, you owe me a fairly large chunk of change.
Repeatedly my iPhone has been wiped when connecting to iTunes. I've lost save data on games, photos, videos, contact information, etc.
Stop deleting files or your entire iTunes profile directory then completely ignoring the warnings that iTunes gives you before it wipes your device. Or read the message when you're doing a software upgrade that warns you about whats going to happen. Problem solved. I've been using iTunes and an iPhone since about a month after the first one was released and yet have I found my phone wiped unexpectedly. I've jail broke them, restored them, downgraded basebands, done god knows how many restores and software upgrades... still, nothing.
Reminds me of the guy at work who, when installing some software I wrote continually complains that it 'reboots his machine without asking when he installs it' So I explain why it does it and that he should have gotten a warning popup... he swears he doesn't and he's going to show me what happens... so I go to his office watch him run through the installer and blindly click Ok on the dialog that pops up in ALL CAPS warning him that his machine is about to be rebooted. Before I could get any words out of my mouth he had already clicked Yes to reboot, and he promptly follows up with a 'see, its rebooting!' I suspect you do the same sort of thing.
I could in theory have contacts in groups, but there is no way in the interfact to add a contact to a group. I have to pay for a third party app to handle this for me.
And you'll rant and rave if/when Apple adds the feature because they didn't do it they way YOU wanted so now you'll be pissed off that you have to use a 3rd party app... again.
I tried importing contacts from a Yahoo account, a Gmail account, and Exchange. All failed. I can't edit my address book by typing at a computer. I have to very slowly type entries in via the phone.
I've had my phone synced with Gmail for contacts, cals and of course email since the 3.0 software came out. Works fine, syncs my contacts between my phone, gmail and my laptop. Did you google for how to do it? Its pretty well documented considering its been available and working for millions of people for years now.
iTunes is one of the worst pieces of software I've ever used. I see UI problems galore.
Citation needed. And no, 'it doesn't work like XXX app' is not a valid reason. Its slow, its not really pretty, and its annoying that I HAVE to use it to sync my phone, but there isn't any flaming defect in the UI really. It works perfectly well for what it does.
And the few times I've sat at a Mac to try and fix them for friends, Finder has driven me up a wall.
Yes, if you aren't used to it, its freaking annoying as all hell. If you're used to Explorer, it makes your brain throb... right up till you get used to it. Then using Explorer will have the exact same effect. Thats what happens when you're trying to accomplish tasks you do on a daily basis with a tool that works differently. Its you thats the problem, and its a problem that goes away through daily usage. I know this because I had the exact same problem, finder did nothing but piss me off until I finally got used to it and got it laid out the way I wanted... which for reference, I have to do on every Windows machine I use too.
Can we instead say that Apple provides an alternative for those who prefer it? I don't buy how Apple is perfect and a superior user experience.
We do say that.
No sane person thinks Apple is perfect, thats just dumb and fanboyish.
I do think the Interface is in most ways superior to others. That is my preference. I co
Except this has been done time and time again, and Sony has already been on the bandwagon, and Apple has certainly done the same thing in the past for opening Mac products.
How quick we forget.
Got a Wii? Custom screw heads. Guess what, when you but any 'repair kit' most will have the option to bundle the special 3 blade funky looking screw head with the kit. Thats just the first popular thing that comes to my head that slashdotters will know of for sure. I have a Hitachi Plasma TV, want to replace the bulbs? Its got some funky screw I've never seen before... looks actually like its just begging to have the head stripped out due to its design. Ever worked on a car? There are thousands of places that require special tools to do the work properly in your car, some of them for engineering reasons, many of them because it limits what the owner can do without any experience.
Lots of products do this, it takes exactly 0 seconds from the time the product is released to the time you can buy a screwdriver to unscrew it. Seriously, I'll even do the work for you:
You'll find that its rather crowded with stupid crap relating directly to apple at the moment due to the silly buzz about this, but once that dies back down you'll find a nice list of places to buy the screw drivers. If you bother to wade through the results now, you'll already have found a place to buy it by the time you reach the third link as I write this.
'special tools required' for disassembly is not a new practice, Apple didn't invent this, Sony has done it as well.
Nor did they invent a 'new screw head'. They took advantage of something that was already there, just rare, made so intentionally for this VERY purpose by the manufactures of said screws. Rare, but not so rare as to be unavailable or to have no tools source.
I can remember the same thing 25 years ago with Torx head screws and bolts. Torx drivers were hard to find in the US so the end result was the same, it made it so Joe the Plumber couldn't just go take apart the device, unless he happen to have a set of Torx drivers or bits... which certain people had... and you could buy from Montgomery Wards if you just bothered to open the catalog and order it.
Could we please stop submitting stories that treat standard operating procedures as new and wholely evil things just because they happen to occur at a popular company? ITS NOT EVEN NEW FOR THE FREAKING COMPANY THE ARTICLE IS ABOUT.
Just because you found some new reason to rage against the machine today, doesn't mean its actually new or news to anyone else. This particular bit of asshatery on Apples part is common practice and knowledge. If we're going to have news for nerds can we please not bring up something that every geek that qualifies for a geek card has known for most of her/his life as it was new... especially when its been going on longer than we've all been alive. Yes, even the original Ford assembly line used rare tools to slow down casual tinkering and IP theft.
Motorola's eFuse, on the other hand, seem nothing more than a way for them to control your phone; I don't see how it protects you.
Simply because no one can install software at a lower level than motorolas boot loader other than motorola.
No one can install a hypervisor that will maintain control over the phone while still appearing to be running factory firmware for all intents and purposes.
Okay, so it may be possible because Motorola (or someone in the chain) made a mistake, but the idea is that you can't possibly get a boot virus UNLESS it comes from motorola themselves.
One could argue that motorola is just selling you a phone thats already infected with their crapware, but thats another debate entirely.
From a technical standpoint, what they are doing does result in better security unless/until someone finds a way around it. Their argument is sound until a flaw is found in the implementation. The argument will still be sound, but that particular implementation will be flawed.
The side effect to the increased security is... you don't get to run any random software you choose.
To me, this is no different than raising the securelevel in *BSD. It grants you some security in exchange for some loss of functionality, for most people the exchange is a welcome one. Geeks on the other hand would prefer to be able to futs with all the code on the device, so they probably won't want a motorola device, as moto said, buy something else.
Ignoring the fact that the exterior 'looks the same', a 747 in the sky today is almost nothing like one of the originals.
The use of new alloys, carbon composites, modern avionics, about 50 different new engines have been placed on them over the years.
Basically you're saying that a ford mustang from 1969 is the same as one from 2010 with just minor upgrades, which is just silly.
747 is a model number, not a design.
They have been extended, wide-body'd, reconfigured, repurposed under different names, merged in years of safety upgrades (which are public knowledge anyway thank god) and millions of other things. Things like wiring and hydrolics in modern aircraft aren't even placed in the same places because we've learned that some of the original routing lent itself to completely destorying critical wires or hoses in situations where the aircraft otherwise would have been able to land.
Todays 747 just 'looks' the same as an older one, but the looks are only the same for someone who doesn't know the aircraft well, even the exterior is considerably different.
Its far far cheaper to buy a new 747 than to retrofit one from the 70s or 80s to meet modern FAA requirements, which is why no one in the US does that, they sell their planes to people who can't afford new aircraft in countries that don't have the time or economy to mandate safe aircraft.
it doesn't work out well for the ones on the bottom.
Yes, except the one on the bottom isn't going anywhere. Without the one on the bottom, there is no top. Those of us on the bottom are actually in complete control as our lives will experience little change if the ones on top cease to exist or go bankrupt or whatever.
All it will take to flip the coin is the ones on the bottom realizing they have the power and banding together to do something about it. This is a pretty natural and recurring cycle throughout history.
Of course, whine, moan and bitch as I will about the things going on right now, we really are NO WHERE NEAR the point that anything is going to change.
We're basically slaves at this point. The only difference is, the slaves of America actually had shitty lives, our modern day life... not so much. Working long hours to pay off the debt for the things we bought when we never should have may suck, but its absolutely nothing like working long hours because if you don't your owner will beat you to a pulp, sell you or your family members to someone else, or simply kill you and be done with it. When we start thinking of rape as a better alternative to how we are being treated, THEN something will change. Until then we'll just keep playing our Xboxes and bitching on the Internet about how people are evil.
so casually expects a great deal of privacy for themselves.
They don't expect it. They are fully aware of how easy it is to steal information from people who don't want it stolen. This gives them the unique insight into knowing the tricks to actually keep things private.
Facebook is simply smarter than your average America who is too stupid to leave the abusive spouse and continues to get abused. Facebook on the other hand IS the abusive spouse and is unable to rip people off as well in America so its peddling its wares elsewhere, to more stupid people who don't like to be abused because they are too stupid to realize what Facebook actually is.
Don't confuse me, I agree with everything in your post except the last line. Owning Facebook stock isn't a 'right'. No one is entitled to it, to think otherwise is retarded, just like anyone who thinks letting Facebook do whatever they want is good for the 'free market'
You may want to look at what those acronyms mean, what they do, and why they exist.
SOX already covers Facebook and every other company in the USA.
HIPPA is more appropriate to what you mean, but the meat of it probably does things that you had no clue, I'll give you a hint, privacy is a tiny portion of it really.
And you also forget that gamma ray bursts are only harmful to life as we know it and may in fact be beneficial even required by some other form of life.
Stop thinking of life as only what you see on planet Earth.
Its retarded to think that life on Earth has a monopoly on the only possible way life could ever exist, especially when you open your eyes and take into account that we are almost daily discovering life in places that were only yesterday thought to be completely devoid of live since it couldn't possibly form in those conditions based on what we've seen.
People who talk about these sort of things should be real scientists, not arm chair or pseudo scientists who don't understand that science involves proof, not assumptions. Stop assuming you have any clue what life 'needs' to survive. You don't. At best you have a clue as to what life on Earth that way have discovered already needs to survive.
You (nor I or anyone else) have note the slightest fucking idea what life else where needs to survive. Even saying 'it needs energy and mass' is dangerous considering how little we actually understand about the universe.
No, he paid the kids that were raped off better than the Catholic church did.
The amount of pedophiles in the Catholic Church was statistically in line with the amount of pedo's in society as a whole.
While a coverup is certainly wrong and the church should be chastised for it, you're retarded to think Microsoft doesn't have its own set of pedophiles who just happen to get by with it because it hasn't been front page news and on every TV show every day that MS employees were getting caught being pedos.
Because your view of the world isn't the only one, and some people do admire the things you clearly don't about the Pope.
Is it so hard to understand that people have different view points of the world? What you think is right and just is not the same as what I think is right and just.
I'm certainly not advocating raping little boys or gay bashing, but I am against abortion in principal and see abstinence as a valid form of birth control for people who can actually keep their dicks in their pants/legs closed, which clearly isn't everyone.
I'm not alone, nor does the entire world share my point of view. I neither like nor dislike him, I simply don't care about him.
What I can't understand is why people such as yourself don't realize your viewpoint isn't the only viewpoint in existence. The world does not revolve around you. No two people share the exact same set of values.
Your lack of understanding that other people have their own minds and opinions is just amazing. The fact that so many people are so ignorant is far more frightening than anything Benedict has done.
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Every action a person takes is self serving.
For some, its because of greedy and what profit they'll make out of the deal or how it will benefit them later.
Others do things because it makes them feel good or it doesn't make them feel bad.
Either way, everything a person does is self serving.
I'm not trying to be cynical actually, I just think we need to call it like it is and not give him credit just because he's donating money, don't give him credit just because of his actions, but to give him credit for the reason behind his actions. He wants to help his sister, but he's contributing to the cause to help everyone. He appears to be a team player. That is whats important if you want to get right down to whats good for society as a whole. He's not being a Steve Jobs where he pays 50 million to HIS doctors IN SECRET so they can buy him a new liver from some poor kid in china who gives the $200 money to his family after he dies.
He gives money because he wants his sister to benefit which is entirely different than giving money because its good press and a tax right off.
I hope he donates the money that finds the solution to his sisters problems and that we all benefit from it, but I certainly wish him no ill will because he's trying to save his sister (AND willing to share that with everyone without expecting to profit). Good luck to his family.
He's still a douche bag in Bill&Ted and all of the Matrix movies though :)
Hard to believe as it may be, there is a perfectly valid 4th option that has no malice:
4) Stop wasting money on OpenOffice which generates no revenue for Oracle yet does have a cost.
The problem is, while it takes a massive amount of work to create an Office suite, especially one thats going to try to compete with the big boy, when you give it away for free in the way that Sun did, it doesn't generate enough good will or customer appreciation to justify it.
If Larry isn't benefiting from it, he ain't pay'n for it.
Its size makes it pretty clear why they don't do it.
For something like facebook, enabling SSL would be probably their single largest use of processing power in one chunk.
Limiting it to login only would obviously make it a much smaller load, but SSL would still likely be their largest use of CPU power (assuming you count crypto accelerators rather than ignore them)
SSL is expensive in terms of CPU power especially without dedicated crypto hardware.
Its not only good press and taking advantage of the fact that people are lazy and won't do it ... It also gives them an easy bit of legal help.
If they make a bunch of tools available to protect your privacy then you don't have nearly as much room to bitch about the tracking since you do have a way to limit the tracking.
Second, if no one uses the tools and someone starts trying to push legislation through to make tracking more legally difficult, google and other online advertisers can jump in and scream 'we gave them tools and no one used them, the people don't want this!' ... and it'll be REALLY hard to argue their point when they have proof that the general population doesn't care enough to use the tools.
I won't call you cynical, just realistic and wise.
Passwords don't know the difference between a day, a week, one use or 100 million uses.
You're confusing the word password with security.
You also don't understand the concept of security either. It isn't an absolute value, and most people for most things really don't have any reason to log out ever when its a machine in a secure location used only by trusted persons (the owner in their own home).
While it is considered a 'best practice' to keep your console locked, taking context and practicality into account helps you.
One might think that entering your password everytime you take any action would be more secure, however the reality of it is that it would be completely impractical to have to enter your password for each click or scroll of the page ... and frame a security perspective it would be utterly ignorant since you'd just make the number of times someone could look over your shoulder and see your password ridiculously high ... it would almost be impossible for anyone watching you to NOT get your password. While 'the console is always locked' seems more secure, it is only more secure when you apply it properly. Not when you apply it with blanket statements and a sledgehammer.
Don't spew like you know security just cause someone on the internet told you to always lock your console to be secure.
Assange has made himself a public figure.
Biographies do not have to be 'authorized' nor is there any retarded law that says I have to pay you to tell the story of your life.
Assange has no recourse, he made himself a public figure, he's fair game to everyone. He isn't entitled to shit.
All an 'official' or 'authorized' biography is, is one that the person or persons family (after death) agreed too ... maybe ... that isn't even a real requirement since its just a title and there aren't laws governing what a book can be called (other than trademark and copyright).
Nothing they are doing is illegal in any way, nor is there any reason they should need to pay anyone for doing so.
Its important to note that the 'collateral murder' video wasn't leaked.
It was created.
You can say that the video was created from a leak, but what the world saw was not a leak. It was a video created to push an agenda.
Agree with the agenda or not, you're completely wrong with saying it was leaked.
That video was 'leaked' only slightly more than Saving Private Ryan was a WWII 'leak'.
Yea, like the basic fact that you have to pay taxes on stocks, so he'll have to pay the taxes on the difference between the option price and the sales price. Any options he buys and doesn't sell immediately would also be taxed on the difference between option price and current valuation at the time the options were exercised and again when sold based on his gains between exercise price and final sales price.
Stocks (and/or stock options) don't get you out of any taxes in any way I've seen unless you get options you never exercise ... in which case you didn't get any payment either so it doesn't really matter does it?
While I won't argue that we live far better than the majority of the world.
$2.50 to me isn't the same as $2.50 to a native Australian in the outback. $2.50 relates to some amount of work that I can use to purchase something less than a pack of smokes. Probably not even a full meal.
$2.50 to the native Australian may have absolutely 0 value as they have absolutely no way to spend it, regardless of how you physically hand it to them or give them credit.
Just because you can find some exchange rates that eventually give you some numbers to compare that let you generate some silly statistics like you've posted doesn't mean the statistics are a realistic representation of what you think they represent.
Wealth in America is a completely different concept than it is to a native Australian, Eithiopian someone from the jungles of South America or the East.
As a general rule, we seem to value money and possessions where as they seem to value living. There are many places where you could come in and tell them you're going to give them everything they need to live the rest of their lives without ever working again, and you'll get asked to leave because they wouldn't understand why anyone would ever WANT to live that way.
You can't compare wealth around globe because wealth is a completely different concept depending on where you live.
Stop trying to make the world an 'equal' place, no one wants 'equal', most just want to be left the fuck alone. I'm not saying we shouldn't help the starving or in times of emergancy, just that we need to stop thinking our way of life is the right way of life and stop pushing our view of what people want on people who don't actually want it ...
The reason it doesn't go after $1 CEOs is because the IRS realized a long time ago that CEOs are really only worth a few bucks anyway.
The only problem the IRS has now is they can't for the life of them figure out why the hell anyone gives CEOs any money at all considering they aren't accountable for anything either.
True, but when you point that out it kinda ruins the FUD factor :/
Sadly, everyone who viewed the links to the android source tree which showed the files as listed in the tree (see links from post by original author above) then they have distributed the code.
The reality of it is, it doesn't matter where they distributed it or how, doesn't have to be on a phone, it can simply be sending it to someone via email. Its still distribution once it leaves the organization (like when I clicked the link above).
Silly as it sounds, legally valid it is.
Take it out of the royalties you get off over CDR I buy that I never use to burn music on since I have no devices other than my car that play CDs anymore (and it hasn't had a CD in it since I drove it off the lot!).
The way I see it, you owe me a fairly large chunk of change.
I'm sick of my iPhone as well, but ...
Stop deleting files or your entire iTunes profile directory then completely ignoring the warnings that iTunes gives you before it wipes your device. Or read the message when you're doing a software upgrade that warns you about whats going to happen. Problem solved. I've been using iTunes and an iPhone since about a month after the first one was released and yet have I found my phone wiped unexpectedly. I've jail broke them, restored them, downgraded basebands, done god knows how many restores and software upgrades ... still, nothing.
Reminds me of the guy at work who, when installing some software I wrote continually complains that it 'reboots his machine without asking when he installs it' So I explain why it does it and that he should have gotten a warning popup ... he swears he doesn't and he's going to show me what happens ... so I go to his office watch him run through the installer and blindly click Ok on the dialog that pops up in ALL CAPS warning him that his machine is about to be rebooted. Before I could get any words out of my mouth he had already clicked Yes to reboot, and he promptly follows up with a 'see, its rebooting!' I suspect you do the same sort of thing.
And you'll rant and rave if/when Apple adds the feature because they didn't do it they way YOU wanted so now you'll be pissed off that you have to use a 3rd party app ... again.
I've had my phone synced with Gmail for contacts, cals and of course email since the 3.0 software came out. Works fine, syncs my contacts between my phone, gmail and my laptop. Did you google for how to do it? Its pretty well documented considering its been available and working for millions of people for years now.
Citation needed. And no, 'it doesn't work like XXX app' is not a valid reason. Its slow, its not really pretty, and its annoying that I HAVE to use it to sync my phone, but there isn't any flaming defect in the UI really. It works perfectly well for what it does.
Yes, if you aren't used to it, its freaking annoying as all hell. If you're used to Explorer, it makes your brain throb ... right up till you get used to it. Then using Explorer will have the exact same effect. Thats what happens when you're trying to accomplish tasks you do on a daily basis with a tool that works differently. Its you thats the problem, and its a problem that goes away through daily usage. I know this because I had the exact same problem, finder did nothing but piss me off until I finally got used to it and got it laid out the way I wanted ... which for reference, I have to do on every Windows machine I use too.
We do say that.
No sane person thinks Apple is perfect, thats just dumb and fanboyish.
I do think the Interface is in most ways superior to others. That is my preference. I co
Except this has been done time and time again, and Sony has already been on the bandwagon, and Apple has certainly done the same thing in the past for opening Mac products.
How quick we forget.
Got a Wii? Custom screw heads. Guess what, when you but any 'repair kit' most will have the option to bundle the special 3 blade funky looking screw head with the kit. Thats just the first popular thing that comes to my head that slashdotters will know of for sure. I have a Hitachi Plasma TV, want to replace the bulbs? Its got some funky screw I've never seen before ... looks actually like its just begging to have the head stripped out due to its design. Ever worked on a car? There are thousands of places that require special tools to do the work properly in your car, some of them for engineering reasons, many of them because it limits what the owner can do without any experience.
Lots of products do this, it takes exactly 0 seconds from the time the product is released to the time you can buy a screwdriver to unscrew it. Seriously, I'll even do the work for you:
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=pentabular+screwdriver
You'll find that its rather crowded with stupid crap relating directly to apple at the moment due to the silly buzz about this, but once that dies back down you'll find a nice list of places to buy the screw drivers. If you bother to wade through the results now, you'll already have found a place to buy it by the time you reach the third link as I write this.
'special tools required' for disassembly is not a new practice, Apple didn't invent this, Sony has done it as well.
Nor did they invent a 'new screw head'. They took advantage of something that was already there, just rare, made so intentionally for this VERY purpose by the manufactures of said screws. Rare, but not so rare as to be unavailable or to have no tools source.
I can remember the same thing 25 years ago with Torx head screws and bolts. Torx drivers were hard to find in the US so the end result was the same, it made it so Joe the Plumber couldn't just go take apart the device, unless he happen to have a set of Torx drivers or bits ... which certain people had ... and you could buy from Montgomery Wards if you just bothered to open the catalog and order it.
Could we please stop submitting stories that treat standard operating procedures as new and wholely evil things just because they happen to occur at a popular company? ITS NOT EVEN NEW FOR THE FREAKING COMPANY THE ARTICLE IS ABOUT.
Just because you found some new reason to rage against the machine today, doesn't mean its actually new or news to anyone else. This particular bit of asshatery on Apples part is common practice and knowledge. If we're going to have news for nerds can we please not bring up something that every geek that qualifies for a geek card has known for most of her/his life as it was new ... especially when its been going on longer than we've all been alive. Yes, even the original Ford assembly line used rare tools to slow down casual tinkering and IP theft.
Simply because no one can install software at a lower level than motorolas boot loader other than motorola.
No one can install a hypervisor that will maintain control over the phone while still appearing to be running factory firmware for all intents and purposes.
Okay, so it may be possible because Motorola (or someone in the chain) made a mistake, but the idea is that you can't possibly get a boot virus UNLESS it comes from motorola themselves.
One could argue that motorola is just selling you a phone thats already infected with their crapware, but thats another debate entirely.
From a technical standpoint, what they are doing does result in better security unless/until someone finds a way around it. Their argument is sound until a flaw is found in the implementation. The argument will still be sound, but that particular implementation will be flawed.
The side effect to the increased security is ... you don't get to run any random software you choose.
To me, this is no different than raising the securelevel in *BSD. It grants you some security in exchange for some loss of functionality, for most people the exchange is a welcome one. Geeks on the other hand would prefer to be able to futs with all the code on the device, so they probably won't want a motorola device, as moto said, buy something else.
Yes, its just like pretty much every other job in the world, way to be observant not totally not self centered.
Ignoring the fact that the exterior 'looks the same', a 747 in the sky today is almost nothing like one of the originals.
The use of new alloys, carbon composites, modern avionics, about 50 different new engines have been placed on them over the years.
Basically you're saying that a ford mustang from 1969 is the same as one from 2010 with just minor upgrades, which is just silly.
747 is a model number, not a design.
They have been extended, wide-body'd, reconfigured, repurposed under different names, merged in years of safety upgrades (which are public knowledge anyway thank god) and millions of other things. Things like wiring and hydrolics in modern aircraft aren't even placed in the same places because we've learned that some of the original routing lent itself to completely destorying critical wires or hoses in situations where the aircraft otherwise would have been able to land.
Todays 747 just 'looks' the same as an older one, but the looks are only the same for someone who doesn't know the aircraft well, even the exterior is considerably different.
Its far far cheaper to buy a new 747 than to retrofit one from the 70s or 80s to meet modern FAA requirements, which is why no one in the US does that, they sell their planes to people who can't afford new aircraft in countries that don't have the time or economy to mandate safe aircraft.
Yes, except the one on the bottom isn't going anywhere. Without the one on the bottom, there is no top. Those of us on the bottom are actually in complete control as our lives will experience little change if the ones on top cease to exist or go bankrupt or whatever.
All it will take to flip the coin is the ones on the bottom realizing they have the power and banding together to do something about it. This is a pretty natural and recurring cycle throughout history.
Of course, whine, moan and bitch as I will about the things going on right now, we really are NO WHERE NEAR the point that anything is going to change.
We're basically slaves at this point. The only difference is, the slaves of America actually had shitty lives, our modern day life ... not so much. Working long hours to pay off the debt for the things we bought when we never should have may suck, but its absolutely nothing like working long hours because if you don't your owner will beat you to a pulp, sell you or your family members to someone else, or simply kill you and be done with it. When we start thinking of rape as a better alternative to how we are being treated, THEN something will change. Until then we'll just keep playing our Xboxes and bitching on the Internet about how people are evil.
They don't expect it. They are fully aware of how easy it is to steal information from people who don't want it stolen. This gives them the unique insight into knowing the tricks to actually keep things private.
Facebook is simply smarter than your average America who is too stupid to leave the abusive spouse and continues to get abused. Facebook on the other hand IS the abusive spouse and is unable to rip people off as well in America so its peddling its wares elsewhere, to more stupid people who don't like to be abused because they are too stupid to realize what Facebook actually is.
Don't confuse me, I agree with everything in your post except the last line. Owning Facebook stock isn't a 'right'. No one is entitled to it, to think otherwise is retarded, just like anyone who thinks letting Facebook do whatever they want is good for the 'free market'
You may want to look at what those acronyms mean, what they do, and why they exist.
SOX already covers Facebook and every other company in the USA.
HIPPA is more appropriate to what you mean, but the meat of it probably does things that you had no clue, I'll give you a hint, privacy is a tiny portion of it really.
Or it has a sick sense of humor.
And you also forget that gamma ray bursts are only harmful to life as we know it and may in fact be beneficial even required by some other form of life.
Stop thinking of life as only what you see on planet Earth.
Its retarded to think that life on Earth has a monopoly on the only possible way life could ever exist, especially when you open your eyes and take into account that we are almost daily discovering life in places that were only yesterday thought to be completely devoid of live since it couldn't possibly form in those conditions based on what we've seen.
People who talk about these sort of things should be real scientists, not arm chair or pseudo scientists who don't understand that science involves proof, not assumptions. Stop assuming you have any clue what life 'needs' to survive. You don't. At best you have a clue as to what life on Earth that way have discovered already needs to survive.
You (nor I or anyone else) have note the slightest fucking idea what life else where needs to survive. Even saying 'it needs energy and mass' is dangerous considering how little we actually understand about the universe.
No, he paid the kids that were raped off better than the Catholic church did.
The amount of pedophiles in the Catholic Church was statistically in line with the amount of pedo's in society as a whole.
While a coverup is certainly wrong and the church should be chastised for it, you're retarded to think Microsoft doesn't have its own set of pedophiles who just happen to get by with it because it hasn't been front page news and on every TV show every day that MS employees were getting caught being pedos.
Because your view of the world isn't the only one, and some people do admire the things you clearly don't about the Pope.
Is it so hard to understand that people have different view points of the world? What you think is right and just is not the same as what I think is right and just.
I'm certainly not advocating raping little boys or gay bashing, but I am against abortion in principal and see abstinence as a valid form of birth control for people who can actually keep their dicks in their pants/legs closed, which clearly isn't everyone.
I'm not alone, nor does the entire world share my point of view. I neither like nor dislike him, I simply don't care about him.
What I can't understand is why people such as yourself don't realize your viewpoint isn't the only viewpoint in existence. The world does not revolve around you. No two people share the exact same set of values.
Your lack of understanding that other people have their own minds and opinions is just amazing. The fact that so many people are so ignorant is far more frightening than anything Benedict has done.