So I'm guessing you have no clue what comedic exaggeration is?
It was a joke referencing the ridiculous amount of money it costs to keep a prisoner alive, not an actual 'we should do that because it makes sense' statement.
Marked as insightful as if these causes are different.
A soldier doing his/her job is very noble indeed, and stands to change the lives of many people, this is fact.
A person willing to give up their life to go to Mars and further humanity is noble as well, but theres not really anything to suggest that actually visiting Mars will net us anything. We just don't REALLY know yet.
We know what winning or loosing a war is, we know what the effects will be. The same can not be said about Mars.
I'm not saying Wars are noble, but I'm saying your political views are clouding your ability to make a statement based on logic rather than emotion.
I must, since I'm pretty much Ok with what Apple products I have and use.
Of course, I just buy something else the instant Apple's offering doesn't do what I want it to do, so I guess I'm not really living dangerously since I have enough of a clue to know Apple has no control over anything I do online what so ever.
And on that note, where the hell can I find a 10" capacitive touch display about the size of the ipad running some desktop windows variant? This is one of those times where Apple isn't an option.
Your driving record is public record, anyone in the world can get it with little effort.
Your efforts are futile because you think you get to determine what you want to keep private, which is true for somethings. However, pretty much anything you do in a public place has no protection.
Anything that relates to breaking the law is public record, including accidents.
ctually, where I live, the collection of personal information is regulated by law, and Google is/was in flagrant violation of that law.
Then to put it bluntly, where you live is retarded. Protecting morons who shout out their private information so the cars driving down the street can hear it are honestly too stupid too deserve protection.
Whats better is when you make it so rather than fixing the problem, you punish the poor bastard who was driving down the street with his Windows down and happened to hear it?
You can get someone in trouble by literally just standing in your front yard and reading off your own passwords over a bullhorn... because they happened to hear you?
So basically you're saying Java has no advantage what so ever over C++ since thats basically what anyone with any sort of real Java app has to do anyway.
Lets be realistic here, writing portable C/C++ isn't difficult, it just requires a clue, and the EXACT same thing applies to Java apps. My Hello World Java and C apps are pretty much entirely portable to just about any platform with terminal style IO, get much more complex and you're going to start running into cross platform issues.
The JVM ISN'T identical across platforms, even though thats the goal.
I fail to see how having to deal with standard Java dev team releases of the JVM is an improvement over the Apple sanatized JVM.
Apples version is more reliable and faster on the same hardware than either the Solaris or Windows JVM from Sun in my experience, I use them on my laptop daily (well, solaris one doesn't get used as much).
I'd much rather deal with Apples version which doesn't go out the door until it works mostly right rather than the typical OpenJDK/Sun process of pushing it out the door, ready or not.
You say now we have a proper apple JVM, I say you just lost the only 'proper' JVM in existence.
So basically what you're saying is that in the digital world, people are starting to take back their role of being the customer rather than the product for magazine publishers then?
Magazines are basically a collection of web journal article.
Being that I can now just get the RSS links to random people off the web that interest me and get the articles myself, for free, with the money actually going to the writer... I can not possibly see how magazines would be wanted.
Magazines historically only existed because the barrier to entry to publishing was so high, you had to work in groups to get noticed, printed and paid.
Too bad for the magazine industry that the Internet made publishing essentially 0 up front cost. Now everyone publishes for themselves, cuts out the retarded biased magazine middle man and writes on their blog. There are enough attention whores on the Internet that will write just to be seen that there is absolutely no point what so ever of 'buying' a magazine.
Its back to actually being about the content and people have realized they can find random tripe content anywhere on the Internet for free rather than paying some retarded publisher for the same tripe and a brand name.
The problem is, from a developer perspective, any game thats been in development as long as GT5 can not possibly be impressive to the developers at this point. If the developers don't find it impressive, users most certainly won't.
Gt5 is already too old for anyone (die hard fans/fanboys excluded) to find probably any part of it impressive.
Its just another Duke Nukem Forever, people have been waiting so long and have so much anticipation built up, there is no way it can be anything other than a let down, too much is expected of it since its been so long.
Mono my run CLR apps and may have compilers for it, but the Mono VM is absolutely shit and can't be used for any serious long running process.
It works fine for lightweight desktop apps, but until they learn what a compacting garbage collector is, its entirely worthless for anything thats intended to have any sort of up time associated with it.
Having to restart my webserver regularly due to Out of Memory errors, or worry about allocation order to prevent fragmentation are not something I want to deal with when I'm writing web apps or background services.
When I get to the point that I'm thinking about memory allocation/deallocation and fragmentation, I'm just going to use C.
With that said... The only way you could get me to use C for a web app is by torturing me or showing me the web app that actually NEEDED to be written in C for performance reasons.
I've yet to run into a web app that needed to be written in C and I work for a company that sells web based software as a service, we've seen a bit of load here and there.
I'm still more than happy to use Java for web apps since that means its just a web app. Its not a Linux/FreeBSD/Windows web app, its a freaking web app.
There is a legal definition for just this sort of thing, which stems from the constitution.
Privacy is about reasonable expectation. If you can (or the general public, not you specifically cause you may be a nutjob:) generally expect privacy and someone does something extra to break your privacy, then they did wrong.
If someone standing on the street just doing his own thing without any special equipment can get your information, it is not private.
Again, there are real legal definitions for this, so you don't have to take my word for it, and I'm pretty sure your line is a lot different than the legal one.
The spirit of the law here is to protect peoples privacy, which is not the case when you broadcast the data into the street. Just saying 'but the law says so' doesn't mean shit to me honestly, how the law is interpreted in court is what actually matters, whats written is less important (for bad or good), and most certainly what some random slashdotter whos grumpy because Google exists means very little to anyone.
As for claiming that people can't claim ignorance about Wi-Fi technology
I really don't care that people are in general completely ignorant of the way the world works, I don't care that it hurts them when it does. I don't care when some idiot shoots himself with a loaded gun because he was screwing around and thought it was empty. I don't care that ignorant people get hurt for their own ignorance so you're going to have to try something else there.
People with unencrypted networks are not intentionally
And thats where your argument falls apart. People with wireless networks ARE broadcasting intentionally. Thats the way wireless works, you can't just say its not true and suddenly it becomes not true. WiFi requires broadcasting information, thats simply the way it works. Again, ignorance is no excuse, certainly not one thats acceptable in court. If it was Apple, Microsoft, or Redhat, my response would be the same.
You're spewing data into the public airwaves in every direction. Your ignorance does not make me wrong for listening it. If you had half a clue you'd know that every wifi card out there on the same channel that can get a signal from your wifi WAP is doing the same thing right now! It is in fact, just one of those 'how radios work' things. The only difference is google didn't throw it out as early as it normally would have. Its not like google used special evesdropping equipment here to listen to a signal that normally would only be useful INSIDE your home. There were using basically off the shelf equipment at normal settings DRIVING DOWN THE STREET AT 25-45 MPH meaning they were only near a home for a second or two in range. Thats a really shitty way to collect enough packets to reassembly the data into something meaningful.
I get that this is Slashdot which means defending everything Google does, but they deserve to be punished as a deterrent
You're an idiot, and I pray to god you don't have children.
You don't punish JUST because they did wrong. You punish to make a point, that its either unacceptable to do it or that there are consequences. They didn't ACTUALLY do anything WRONG here. There is no point to be made. You just want to hurt them because you're upset at Google for whatever reason.
I can collect 600GB of unencrypted data in probably 2 weeks in my own home, its not a lot anymore. Doing it over 3 years, across the nation... if they were logging intentionally they must of had some pretty strict filters to limit what they logged... or they weren't trying very hard... OR THEY WERE ONLY IN RANGE FOR A SECOND OR TWO SO IT WAS WORTHLESS DATA.
Slashdot doesn't 'defend google'. Slashdot in general points out how retarded most Google attackers are since to date, Google really hasn't done anything to make me not trust them. Yes, they learn everything about me they can so they can target text based ads at me. The alternative is sites could be throwing flash based tampon ads at me instead, I'll take Google's alternative. I use specific email addresses for just about every company I deal with. Dell, MS, Yahoo, hell, even my fucking bank have sold these email addresses to others after which I've been spammed. None of the email addresses for Google have been spammed. That alone means I cut them some slack. Google isn't selling your information, th
Why is it illegal for Google to listen as it drives down the street to something you're broadcasting into the street?
Make it illegal to broadcast it into the street in such a way that a normal consumer device won't hear it, THEN you can go after Google if they used something to cheat and listen in on people.
Right now they're being investigated because they drove down the street with a microphone and recorded all the idiots shouting out their private info to anyone willing to listen... without special listening equipment!
I understand making it illegal for someone to use a laser mic to listen to my private in home conversations. I expect anything that normally would not be heard outside my home to be private.
Wifi most certainly is expected to be heard outside the home. Its not something that someone can claim ignorance on, people understand that television broadcasts and radio broadcasts travel many miles, so anyone claiming ignorance just doesn't count as they are too stupid to matter.
I really can't see how you can call google wrong in these case, if you broadcast it over the airwaves, and someone hears it, too damn bad. Encrypt it, or hell at least use WEP, where it might not be actually secure, but at least you can say you made it clear it was not intended for unauthorized parties.
If you think what they've done to airflight has any effectiveness what so ever you are severely confused.
There are enough chemicals on most aircraft for the stewards use that you could surely come up with a way to get in the cockpit or blow the plane out of the air.
I was on a flight a couple of weeks ago, sitting on the tarmac due to weather and I came up with at least 4 different ways I could destroy the aircraft with things I could pick up WHILE ON THE AIRCRAFT. Excluding the bag full of explosives I had (Certain battery types can be rather effective with nothing more than a screw driver and the battery and they go RIGHT through screening.) and the various things I could come up with from seeing things other passengers had.
All it takes is a half way determined, well educated engineer and the plane is coming down, period. It take some more effort to take the plane and fly it to your own destination at this stage, I'll admit that, but its because the passengers aren't going to give anyone an opportunity to take over the plane, and has nothing to do with the 'security improvements' jokes the TSA makes up.
I'm beginning to wonder if the TSA isn't made up of the real terrorists considering how fucking uncomfortable they've turned the airport experience into.
This could easily have been implemented as an extension to existing browsers.
Or as a web page. Doesn't seem to be anything offered that couldn't be done on a web portal. You could probably write a few iGoogle plugins and do it in any browser already out there via some neat scriptfu.
They don't have to do anything with MySQL. The fear of them pulling the rug out from under it at any point in time is enough to slow or reverse its adoption by larger companies.
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So I'm guessing you have no clue what comedic exaggeration is?
It was a joke referencing the ridiculous amount of money it costs to keep a prisoner alive, not an actual 'we should do that because it makes sense' statement.
Marked as insightful as if these causes are different.
A soldier doing his/her job is very noble indeed, and stands to change the lives of many people, this is fact.
A person willing to give up their life to go to Mars and further humanity is noble as well, but theres not really anything to suggest that actually visiting Mars will net us anything. We just don't REALLY know yet.
We know what winning or loosing a war is, we know what the effects will be. The same can not be said about Mars.
I'm not saying Wars are noble, but I'm saying your political views are clouding your ability to make a statement based on logic rather than emotion.
Then you're using the wrong revision control system. Thats about the only thing you need the Internet for when working on a file system driver.
I know I know, its a joke, but its not a good one :(
I must, since I'm pretty much Ok with what Apple products I have and use.
Of course, I just buy something else the instant Apple's offering doesn't do what I want it to do, so I guess I'm not really living dangerously since I have enough of a clue to know Apple has no control over anything I do online what so ever.
And on that note, where the hell can I find a 10" capacitive touch display about the size of the ipad running some desktop windows variant? This is one of those times where Apple isn't an option.
Was around long before Linux kids, its not the Linux printer daemon, its the line printer daemon.
you want, you want, you want.
Good for you.
Now the rest of us who think for more than two seconds about the practical implementation of what YOU WANT will sit back and laugh.
You're being ridiculous, which means no one that matters will bother to listen.
Your driving record is public record, anyone in the world can get it with little effort.
Your efforts are futile because you think you get to determine what you want to keep private, which is true for somethings. However, pretty much anything you do in a public place has no protection.
Anything that relates to breaking the law is public record, including accidents.
Then to put it bluntly, where you live is retarded. Protecting morons who shout out their private information so the cars driving down the street can hear it are honestly too stupid too deserve protection.
Whats better is when you make it so rather than fixing the problem, you punish the poor bastard who was driving down the street with his Windows down and happened to hear it?
You can get someone in trouble by literally just standing in your front yard and reading off your own passwords over a bullhorn ... because they happened to hear you?
Idiots.
Its a fucked up world we live in when you care more about your 'sexual privacy', whatever that is, than your medical records.
Although, the intelligent solution doesn't require an law.
STOP FUCKING GIVING PEOPLE WHO AREN'T TRUST WORTHING YOUR IMPORTANT INFORMATION.
If people stop using sites like Facebook, the problem will literally go away.
So basically you're saying Java has no advantage what so ever over C++ since thats basically what anyone with any sort of real Java app has to do anyway.
Lets be realistic here, writing portable C/C++ isn't difficult, it just requires a clue, and the EXACT same thing applies to Java apps. My Hello World Java and C apps are pretty much entirely portable to just about any platform with terminal style IO, get much more complex and you're going to start running into cross platform issues.
The JVM ISN'T identical across platforms, even though thats the goal.
Write once, debug everywhere.
You mean a shitty JVM for OS X.
I fail to see how having to deal with standard Java dev team releases of the JVM is an improvement over the Apple sanatized JVM.
Apples version is more reliable and faster on the same hardware than either the Solaris or Windows JVM from Sun in my experience, I use them on my laptop daily (well, solaris one doesn't get used as much).
I'd much rather deal with Apples version which doesn't go out the door until it works mostly right rather than the typical OpenJDK/Sun process of pushing it out the door, ready or not.
You say now we have a proper apple JVM, I say you just lost the only 'proper' JVM in existence.
So basically what you're saying is that in the digital world, people are starting to take back their role of being the customer rather than the product for magazine publishers then?
like that.
Magazines are basically a collection of web journal article.
Being that I can now just get the RSS links to random people off the web that interest me and get the articles myself, for free, with the money actually going to the writer ... I can not possibly see how magazines would be wanted.
Magazines historically only existed because the barrier to entry to publishing was so high, you had to work in groups to get noticed, printed and paid.
Too bad for the magazine industry that the Internet made publishing essentially 0 up front cost. Now everyone publishes for themselves, cuts out the retarded biased magazine middle man and writes on their blog. There are enough attention whores on the Internet that will write just to be seen that there is absolutely no point what so ever of 'buying' a magazine.
Its back to actually being about the content and people have realized they can find random tripe content anywhere on the Internet for free rather than paying some retarded publisher for the same tripe and a brand name.
The problem is, from a developer perspective, any game thats been in development as long as GT5 can not possibly be impressive to the developers at this point. If the developers don't find it impressive, users most certainly won't.
Gt5 is already too old for anyone (die hard fans/fanboys excluded) to find probably any part of it impressive.
Its just another Duke Nukem Forever, people have been waiting so long and have so much anticipation built up, there is no way it can be anything other than a let down, too much is expected of it since its been so long.
I don't use Eclipse, but NetBeans you think is better than VisualStudio?
Thats like saying Duplo blocks are better than Legos.
C# is only worth mentioning on Windows.
Mono my run CLR apps and may have compilers for it, but the Mono VM is absolutely shit and can't be used for any serious long running process.
It works fine for lightweight desktop apps, but until they learn what a compacting garbage collector is, its entirely worthless for anything thats intended to have any sort of up time associated with it.
Having to restart my webserver regularly due to Out of Memory errors, or worry about allocation order to prevent fragmentation are not something I want to deal with when I'm writing web apps or background services.
When I get to the point that I'm thinking about memory allocation/deallocation and fragmentation, I'm just going to use C.
I prefer C, it is my language of choice.
Not C++, pure C.
With that said ...
The only way you could get me to use C for a web app is by torturing me or showing me the web app that actually NEEDED to be written in C for performance reasons.
I've yet to run into a web app that needed to be written in C and I work for a company that sells web based software as a service, we've seen a bit of load here and there.
I'm still more than happy to use Java for web apps since that means its just a web app. Its not a Linux/FreeBSD/Windows web app, its a freaking web app.
There is a legal definition for just this sort of thing, which stems from the constitution.
Privacy is about reasonable expectation. If you can (or the general public, not you specifically cause you may be a nutjob :) generally expect privacy and someone does something extra to break your privacy, then they did wrong.
If someone standing on the street just doing his own thing without any special equipment can get your information, it is not private.
Again, there are real legal definitions for this, so you don't have to take my word for it, and I'm pretty sure your line is a lot different than the legal one.
The spirit of the law here is to protect peoples privacy, which is not the case when you broadcast the data into the street. Just saying 'but the law says so' doesn't mean shit to me honestly, how the law is interpreted in court is what actually matters, whats written is less important (for bad or good), and most certainly what some random slashdotter whos grumpy because Google exists means very little to anyone.
I really don't care that people are in general completely ignorant of the way the world works, I don't care that it hurts them when it does. I don't care when some idiot shoots himself with a loaded gun because he was screwing around and thought it was empty. I don't care that ignorant people get hurt for their own ignorance so you're going to have to try something else there.
And thats where your argument falls apart. People with wireless networks ARE broadcasting intentionally. Thats the way wireless works, you can't just say its not true and suddenly it becomes not true. WiFi requires broadcasting information, thats simply the way it works. Again, ignorance is no excuse, certainly not one thats acceptable in court. If it was Apple, Microsoft, or Redhat, my response would be the same.
You're spewing data into the public airwaves in every direction. Your ignorance does not make me wrong for listening it. If you had half a clue you'd know that every wifi card out there on the same channel that can get a signal from your wifi WAP is doing the same thing right now! It is in fact, just one of those 'how radios work' things. The only difference is google didn't throw it out as early as it normally would have. Its not like google used special evesdropping equipment here to listen to a signal that normally would only be useful INSIDE your home. There were using basically off the shelf equipment at normal settings DRIVING DOWN THE STREET AT 25-45 MPH meaning they were only near a home for a second or two in range. Thats a really shitty way to collect enough packets to reassembly the data into something meaningful.
You're an idiot, and I pray to god you don't have children.
You don't punish JUST because they did wrong. You punish to make a point, that its either unacceptable to do it or that there are consequences. They didn't ACTUALLY do anything WRONG here. There is no point to be made. You just want to hurt them because you're upset at Google for whatever reason.
I can collect 600GB of unencrypted data in probably 2 weeks in my own home, its not a lot anymore. Doing it over 3 years, across the nation ... if they were logging intentionally they must of had some pretty strict filters to limit what they logged ... or they weren't trying very hard ... OR THEY WERE ONLY IN RANGE FOR A SECOND OR TWO SO IT WAS WORTHLESS DATA.
Slashdot doesn't 'defend google'. Slashdot in general points out how retarded most Google attackers are since to date, Google really hasn't done anything to make me not trust them. Yes, they learn everything about me they can so they can target text based ads at me. The alternative is sites could be throwing flash based tampon ads at me instead, I'll take Google's alternative. I use specific email addresses for just about every company I deal with. Dell, MS, Yahoo, hell, even my fucking bank have sold these email addresses to others after which I've been spammed. None of the email addresses for Google have been spammed. That alone means I cut them some slack. Google isn't selling your information, th
Why is it illegal for Google to listen as it drives down the street to something you're broadcasting into the street?
Make it illegal to broadcast it into the street in such a way that a normal consumer device won't hear it, THEN you can go after Google if they used something to cheat and listen in on people.
Right now they're being investigated because they drove down the street with a microphone and recorded all the idiots shouting out their private info to anyone willing to listen ... without special listening equipment!
I understand making it illegal for someone to use a laser mic to listen to my private in home conversations. I expect anything that normally would not be heard outside my home to be private.
Wifi most certainly is expected to be heard outside the home. Its not something that someone can claim ignorance on, people understand that television broadcasts and radio broadcasts travel many miles, so anyone claiming ignorance just doesn't count as they are too stupid to matter.
I really can't see how you can call google wrong in these case, if you broadcast it over the airwaves, and someone hears it, too damn bad. Encrypt it, or hell at least use WEP, where it might not be actually secure, but at least you can say you made it clear it was not intended for unauthorized parties.
The exact same thing applies to Java as well then.
If you think what they've done to airflight has any effectiveness what so ever you are severely confused.
There are enough chemicals on most aircraft for the stewards use that you could surely come up with a way to get in the cockpit or blow the plane out of the air.
I was on a flight a couple of weeks ago, sitting on the tarmac due to weather and I came up with at least 4 different ways I could destroy the aircraft with things I could pick up WHILE ON THE AIRCRAFT. Excluding the bag full of explosives I had (Certain battery types can be rather effective with nothing more than a screw driver and the battery and they go RIGHT through screening.) and the various things I could come up with from seeing things other passengers had.
All it takes is a half way determined, well educated engineer and the plane is coming down, period. It take some more effort to take the plane and fly it to your own destination at this stage, I'll admit that, but its because the passengers aren't going to give anyone an opportunity to take over the plane, and has nothing to do with the 'security improvements' jokes the TSA makes up.
I'm beginning to wonder if the TSA isn't made up of the real terrorists considering how fucking uncomfortable they've turned the airport experience into.
Or as a web page. Doesn't seem to be anything offered that couldn't be done on a web portal. You could probably write a few iGoogle plugins and do it in any browser already out there via some neat scriptfu.
They don't have to do anything with MySQL. The fear of them pulling the rug out from under it at any point in time is enough to slow or reverse its adoption by larger companies.
Considering Mono is still missing 2.0 methods, which it STARTS implementing a framework version is really irrelevant isn't it?
Framework support isn't exactly Mono's only issue either.