Because every brand name you mentioned is the largest most well known brand who did it first. In most cases people use the brand name because the brand name they are referring to is the one that isn't a shitty cheap copy of the brand name. People actually want Kleenex, not shitty 'tissue' that hurts when you use it, as an example.
A crock pot is not a pressure cooker in any way. Its just a brand name for a large ceramic pot with its own built in heating for slow cooking stews and such. A pressure cooker is entirely different.
No one calls roller skates roller blades any more than they call a motorcycle a Chevy. You're mixing two different though related things. Rollerblades are in-line skates.
Realtor is a job description and was before the website existed.
Acrylic is not glass, thats why its plexiglas with ONE s, its not glass. Oh: And this happens everywhere in the world, but hey welcome to showing exactly how you don't know about the rest of the world.
These things happen because the brand name is the most popular and its what everyone uses or prefers to use.
Yea, because Apple doesn't like when people make fun of Surface and imply that they'd rather have an Apple device instead of the shitty Microsoft version.
I'd bet a years pay there isn't a quarterback on the field that isn't twice as smart as you are. Those are your commentators.
They're job... is to announce the game, not sell product. Selling product is secondary.
The Surface IS JUST A SHITTY IPAD KNOCK OFF, just like most of the others. Just because its Microsoft doesn't mean its not a knock off. Why you copy someone, poorly, thats what you get called, and Microsoft most certainly pulled a 'Me too!!!!' with the Surface.
You're just an ignorant prick that has no clue what he's talking about and thinks he's better than every one else. Hint: You're not. You're just a douche
Much like raising minimum wage, this is fucking stupid.
The end result is that every business in the country adjusts its prices to consume this free money, so all that really happens is that people who make more than the base level make less relatively in exchange for the perceived greater good... Which actually made no difference to the poor since the increase is entirely consumed by inflation it caused!
Most times the inflation PRECEEDS the raise/handout going into Effect as stores raise prices in anticipation (an excuse), so you really lose MORE!
We have programs for people who can't work, I've used them.
We don't need to add a new method for freeloaders to leech us dry. If people want assets, they need to earn them. It's like these people are totally clueless about human nature. Giving people a free ride doesn't help them get out of the hole. They just dig deeper and expect more hand outs, that's how they got there in the first place.
If people from other countries sneak in, take no benefits from our country other than doing the shitty work... And they can send massive amounts of money home to relatives... Then Americans can find a job too. People not working in this country are either disabled or not trying to work.
There is no job shortage, there is a shortage of workers that are willing to actually work the available jobs, and I really don't give a shit what degrees you have, your ass can work at McDonald's or picking peanuts in a field, or cutting grass or any number of jobs that immigrants do... Or you can starve, screw you if you think you deserve money just because your parents were too stupid to use birth control./rant
Stop wearing girl jeans with pockets that aren't deep enough for you to get your fingers into the knuckle and you won't have that problem with a regular iPhone, will you?
Considering that were talking about signed apps that don't have the security warning, it also means the app can be traced to a specific individual or organization... And that certificate can be blacklisted effectively stopping the attack vector on a global scale, instantly. While directly identifying who to prosecute and seize funds from. Apple gives out the signed certs, you don't just generate a very and poof it's no longer warning anyone, it has to be signed by Apple (the cert, not the app on OSX).
So while this is a concern... It requires that you disable MULTIPLE security features and do several stupid things to intentionally give everyone access to your devices.
Hope they fix it quickly in case this can be exploited in other actually scary ways, but this scares me less than Trojans on a jail broken phone... And my phone isn't jail broken!
... The NSA want to steal your data, not fill your drive up with software signed by Apple that can be traced directly back to a well documented person that apple has communicated with financially on more than one occasion.
However, these devices are typically on their own private networks that only has traffic on it from 'authenticated users' to start with. So the idea is that you don't run SSH on this device that has so little GP computing power that you'll watch and wait for your characters to echo back at you while they are encrypted/decrypted and instead just use a less secure layer 3 protocol because you already trust layer 2 implicitly
Most routers/switches have only the most rudimentary process for general purpose things like handling SSH or telnet console sessions. They are designed with massive ability to route packets, but not massive ability to use them for other purposes. Routers and switches are REALLY FREAKING FAST at looking up numbers in a table and picking a place to put the data based on that. Beyond that, most are pretty feeble.
Now days its a little different than it used to be, even 'feeble' routers are to the point where theres enough CPU for SSH to work nicely.
Then there is simplicity. You want to be able to talk to your router when you need to, when it is the least functional that it can possibly be. Once connected, using telnet is hardly different than a serial connection. Using SSH is radically different due to the requirement for both symmetrical and asymmetrical encryption for various stages of the connection. You can do telnet in a small number of lines of assembly fairly easy if you have a TCP stack available. It can be done inside the PANIC kernel for crash diagnostics and run off a small, already reserved memory buffer with no dynamic allocations. Yea, you can do it with SSH, but its just not worth it to introduce all that complexity and bugs... when the device is only supposed to be listening on a 'secure' network.
Everything supports telnet. Fewer things support SSH. If you're building up from ground zero today, only using SSH is probably fairly easy. Not so much even just a few years ago, so theres going to be a LOT of legacy non-ssh capable devices out there.
Did you know that there are some blade servers (I just inherited some leftovers from work and discovered this) that have NO password on there management buses for telnet? You can just connect to that IP and poof, you're in and an admin. You can't even turn on authentication. Of course, its an internal bus, the machine uses itself to communicate between different devices in the blade chassis like switches, storage control modules and the blades themselves. And unless you're stupid or experimenting (like I was) that internal network is never exposed to the rest of the world, so passwords on it are pointless and actually more of a problem than anything. But it is possible for you to destroy that private network if you did down deep enough in the switch settings and setup some vlan trickery. This is not a bug or a exploit and it is not insecure unless you make it so.
So contrary to what you've heard from armchair security experts, using telnet isn't always a bad thing. Theres more to the system than just telnet that has to be considered.
Voting really hasn't changed in thousands of years, so I'm not really sure why the voting machines can be 'past their prime'.
What exactly do you upgrade on a voting machine? Its electronic or its not. If its electronic, you're already fucking stupid so I'm going to ignore you. If its not electronic, then just put a new sticker on the faceplate and move on because functionally theres no reason what so ever to upgrade, use it until it breaks, THEN upgrade.
If its electronic, and you need to update it, then you do, but you update it with another company that can make voting machines that don't suck ass instead of continuing to pay the company that sold you broken machines and can't be bothered to write software properly. You don't need a new voting machine because theres a new version of windows, you don't need a new version of windows, you don't need a new 'theme' for your voting machine.
There are pretty much zero reasons to upgrade a voting machine that isn't broken.
You don't have to upgrade just because there is a new version, and its really fucking stupid to do so if you do. When a machine is performing properly, use it until it doesn't.
If you have to 'upgrade' to get a functioning machine because the company refuses to fix its existing one, you just ban that company from doing any government business and you ban every single person above middle management from ever doing any business with the government or any business they work for from doing any business with the government. You make it impossible for those greedy manipulative pricks to ever be involved with tax payer money again. If that means they can't find a job and starve to death... well, its good to throw some chlorine in the gene pool regularly, maybe they type of person will become a little less common.
My radio controlled quad is fully autonymous. The two things are far from mutually exclusive. It is more than capable of following a pre-defined fly path all on its own after takeoff, including landing. Its actually capable of taking off as well, but thats software disabled for safety.
I'd be willing to bet that other than carrying missiles, you couldn't even figure out what differences there are in capabilities of the software.
I've flown R/C for 30 years almost.
It is a moron problem, and the problem is that these aircraft are no capable of self sustained flight, without people controlling them properly. It no longer takes skill and effort learning to keep one in the air, now anyone can do it. Without having to learn from the process of learning to fly and the dangers it brings.
You have a shitty GPS. Stop buying bargain basement stuff and it won't be such a noticable issue.
mine never goes more than about 20-30 meters when its got a link, inside. On most days, its pretty much rock solid.
I've never seen it react oddly when flying near over lines.
mine isn't special, its just not an $8 one. Survey grade GPSes won't move more than a meter in far worse conditions.
You can put the GPS in my boat in a metal storage building and it will still pin point the boat to the storage building its in within 45 seconds.
Quad also fly... in the air... away from things that generally could get in between the gps and the sky.
Then we couple in the fact that it doesn't NEEd the GPS to fly, just to avoid drift errors in the accelerometers... which again, if you're not buying $5 accelerometers, isn't that much of a problem over any distance that matters to a quad
So while nothing you say is technically incorrect, its still pretty irrelevant for all meaningful purposes. Whatever your flying with that shitty GPS, its a safe bet geofencing is well outside of its range of capabilities. Sorry.
Japan's criminal justice system is terrible, just terrible.
Crime is very low to start with
Okay, one of us doesn't understand the point of the justice system. If crime is so low the cops rarely deal with serious crime I'd say that it's working EXACTLY as intended and that you have a silly idea of the purpose of any given criminal justice system.
I realize as an American you think the goal is for the cops to put everyone in jail, but that in fact is not the case. The justice system is intended to make crime unappealing so that it is rare. Meaning that they are probably better cops than you're use to.
Expecting a driver to take control in a failure scenario is not a solution.
Yes it is. Its just a solution that can't be used in America where no one feels any need what so ever to have any personal responsibility for the situation they are in. You're just demanding to be pampered and ignore the fact that in a failure situation THE CAR CAN'T BE TRUSTED. Thats what a failure means in this context. You'll die in a car accident even with Google's car because you'll be bitching about how its not working right when ti drives off a cliff instead of just putting your foot on the damn brake.
I'd argue however, that the same applies to pretty much every American driver I've ever met already. They are already incapable of paying attention longer than it takes to get out of their driveway, so letting them drive in any shape or form is a bad thing and very dangerous.
But hey, don't let being responsible for your own situation get in the way of sounding like an ignorant spoiled brat American.
What you've posted is EXACTLY why this country is in the position its in. Everyone expect someone or something else to take care of them and can't be bothered to do it themselves.
Ouya bombed because it was shit. They didn't DO anything, just rolled a bunch of half assed Android crap together and called it a console. No marketing. No Content. No developer push. Just a fucking kick starter and the idea that if you make something, shitty or not, magically people will follow your bandwagon because 'OMG Linux!@R!%@!@%!'
Then reality slapped them in the face. No one who buys the bottom of the barrel cheapest thing they can get... then proceeds to buy games for it, even at $1.
And thats the end of Ouya. Crap hardware, crap software, and no fucking clue how their target market behaved. Linux fanboys don't spend money on Linux software, they expect it for free. No one else gives a crap that it was Linux so then it was just a POS to the rest of the world with no particularly redeeming qualities.
Ouya failed because it was a piece of shit, thats all.
It was a shit console with shit games made by shit developers. Just because it made a bunch of Android and Linux fanboys wet doesn't mean its was ever a good idea.
Mobile ports work fine on a big screen in some cases, when its intentional, which is why you'll find iOS users that use AirPlay to display games on the big screen.
You've pretty much shown that outside of being an ignorant fanboy, you have no idea what Apple has already done or why they are different from all the other Me Too!'s out there.
Just take a look at where the most money in the world is spent on 'mobile games'... then tell me that Apple doesn't know what they're doing.
The problem with idiots like you is that you're too stupid to realize that the party on pretends to be a member of is irrelevant and that all politicians are effectively the same, ESPECIALLY the ones who tell you they aren't.
Once you get a fucking clue and stop thinking that your party is better (whatever your party is) then maybe, just MAYBE your vote won't be a detriment to our country. Until then, your vote is actually worse than not voting at all because you're too stupid to know who you're voting for.
Look at actions, not words, thats your clupon for the day.
If you could read you'd have noticed the use of the word recover, which does not imply retrieve. I can easily see how you would misunderstand it, but your making assumptions that are incorrect about what is actually requested. He also should have used the word account instead of password, but he's a newb (which is why he's asking) and you're just someone pretending to have done anything like this before, hence why you didn't see the subtlety in his words.
So instead of being helpful, you just threw out one tidbit of information, based on an assumption you had rather than facts about the request.
Congratulations, you just showed why asking on slashdot is a stupid idea.
Twitters doesn't need fixed. Its the twits that use it that need fixing. And what you're really getting wrong is trying to change it. Let the twits who use twitter continue to do so and post all their crap there so we don't have to see it everywhere else.
A quad with any camera worth a shit on it is going to weigh in at 5-10 pounds minimum. A drop of even 10 feet, at 5 pounds, onto your head, with any sort of good sharp edge... your skull is going to be split open. This is a simple matter of physics. Gravity does all the work. The propellers aren't what you're afraid of, its one of the support arms or screws jabbing into your brain that you should be worried about.
There are many many many ways it can hurt you in that fall that don't involve a lethal injury that you wouldn't enjoy at all either.
You don't need explosives for a quad to be lethal, this idiot was more than enough to seriously wound or kill someone due to nothing more than shear ignorance.
Best part... he's a fucking science teacher who should understand the basic laws of physics well enough to not do something this stupid.
Douches like this prick are why we can't have nice things.
I fly all sorts of RC aircraft, Quads, fixed wing plane's, Helis, even a flying lawn mower (model, not actually a lawnmower) and I've been doing it for 25 years and never has there been an issue of people getting upset about it until recently.
You know why? Cheap electronics introducing artificial stability at a price that allows any fucking moron without the slightest clue to buy one and manage to fly it for more than 10 seconds. Before artificial stability (i.e. before there was any hope of an RC quadcopter), pricks like this would have bought one, flown it for 10 seconds, crashed it in his front yard and that would be the end of it because he wouldn't be willing to spend that money again for another 10 seconds of flight time until he learned to fly. He'd never learn to fly because he's not bothering to try, he's just throwing it in the air without understanding how/why/when its going to come down and what effects thats going to have on others.
When I see assholes like this, I tell them to get their fucking quad out of the air immediately or I'm calling the cops, and I've called them twice, the last for some asshole flying over a high school football game. Guy was a software dev at a large tech company, should fucking know better and understand that a 5 pound object falling on your head from even 10 feet above is WAY beyond potentially lethal.
So take this worthless fuck out back, string him up by his testicles and keep him the fuck out of RC * so he doesn't fuck it up for the rest of us.
This shit is why the FAA cares, and I'm 100% with them on it. I don't want additional laws, but this is a real problem in a new arena that previously had barriers to entry that kept idiots out. The modern flight controllers (which I use and love) are like exploit kits for script kiddies. They give ability to do something without the tempering that comes with learning how to do it 'the hard way', or understanding the consequences of what you're doing.
I don't have a good solution to this problem because the problem is caused by adults who haven't grown up yet or are too selfish/ignorant to care and those are problems we've been dealing with since the beginning of time without solving, but it does have to be addressed, which problem means I'm going to get screwed in the process.
I can not stress this statement enough: The guy flying that drone was an ignorant fucking asshole. 50 lashes wouldn't be enough.
My iPhone is paired with my Mac and the Messages applications on my iPhone and Mac are linked as well. When my phone is near my Mac I do indeed get SMS messages on my Mac, as iMessage and Gtalk, other people probably do the same.
Doesn't Android do that too with Hangouts or something?
which they very easily could do over the phone, skype or send a person to him to question him
Or he could go back to the country he fled and answer the fucking questions. Oh and by the way, they DID send someone to talk to him, just recently, he refused. Stop being an ignorant douche and open your eyes.
How your post got modded as insightful when it isn't is pretty insightful in itself as to how misinformed people can be.
Ironic considering I was thinking thing exact same thing.
And yes, they can agree not to extradite him to the US should they attempt to do so. Something they refused to do.
Sweden, BY LAW, does not extradite to countries that have the death penalty as an option. They can not legally agree to extradite him to the United States so there is no need to 'refuse'. They can't make the choice to refuse, its already made for them.
The reality of it is, he's a fuck who's trying not to get punished for breaking the law.
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Because every brand name you mentioned is the largest most well known brand who did it first. In most cases people use the brand name because the brand name they are referring to is the one that isn't a shitty cheap copy of the brand name. People actually want Kleenex, not shitty 'tissue' that hurts when you use it, as an example.
A crock pot is not a pressure cooker in any way. Its just a brand name for a large ceramic pot with its own built in heating for slow cooking stews and such. A pressure cooker is entirely different.
No one calls roller skates roller blades any more than they call a motorcycle a Chevy. You're mixing two different though related things. Rollerblades are in-line skates.
Realtor is a job description and was before the website existed.
Acrylic is not glass, thats why its plexiglas with ONE s, its not glass.
Oh: And this happens everywhere in the world, but hey welcome to showing exactly how you don't know about the rest of the world.
These things happen because the brand name is the most popular and its what everyone uses or prefers to use.
JUST LIKE THE IPAD.
Yea, because Apple doesn't like when people make fun of Surface and imply that they'd rather have an Apple device instead of the shitty Microsoft version.
Apple LOVE it.
I'd bet a years pay there isn't a quarterback on the field that isn't twice as smart as you are. Those are your commentators.
They're job ... is to announce the game, not sell product. Selling product is secondary.
The Surface IS JUST A SHITTY IPAD KNOCK OFF, just like most of the others. Just because its Microsoft doesn't mean its not a knock off. Why you copy someone, poorly, thats what you get called, and Microsoft most certainly pulled a 'Me too!!!!' with the Surface.
You're just an ignorant prick that has no clue what he's talking about and thinks he's better than every one else. Hint: You're not. You're just a douche
Much like raising minimum wage, this is fucking stupid.
The end result is that every business in the country adjusts its prices to consume this free money, so all that really happens is that people who make more than the base level make less relatively in exchange for the perceived greater good ... Which actually made no difference to the poor since the increase is entirely consumed by inflation it caused!
Most times the inflation PRECEEDS the raise/handout going into
Effect as stores raise prices in anticipation (an excuse), so you really lose MORE!
We have programs for people who can't work, I've used them.
We don't need to add a new method for freeloaders to leech us dry. If people want assets, they need to earn them. It's like these people are totally clueless about human nature. Giving people a free ride doesn't help them get out of the hole. They just dig deeper and expect more hand outs, that's how they got there in the first place.
If people from other countries sneak in, take no benefits from our country other than doing the shitty work ... And they can send massive amounts of money home to relatives ... Then Americans can find a job too. People not working in this country are either disabled or not trying to work.
There is no job shortage, there is a shortage of workers that are willing to actually work the available jobs, and I really don't give a shit what degrees you have, your ass can work at McDonald's or picking peanuts in a field, or cutting grass or any number of jobs that immigrants do ... Or you can starve, screw you if you think you deserve money just because your parents were too stupid to use birth control. /rant
Stop wearing girl jeans with pockets that aren't deep enough for you to get your fingers into the knuckle and you won't have that problem with a regular iPhone, will you?
Nice try fanboy, you just look stupid.
Considering that were talking about signed apps that don't have the security warning, it also means the app can be traced to a specific individual or organization ... And that certificate can be blacklisted effectively stopping the attack vector on a global scale, instantly. While directly identifying who to prosecute and seize funds from. Apple gives out the signed certs, you don't just generate a very and poof it's no longer warning anyone, it has to be signed by Apple (the cert, not the app on OSX).
So while this is a concern ... It requires that you disable MULTIPLE security features and do several stupid things to intentionally give everyone access to your devices.
Hope they fix it quickly in case this can be exploited in other actually scary ways, but this scares me less than Trojans on a jail broken phone ... And my phone isn't jail broken!
... The NSA want to steal your data, not fill your drive up with software signed by Apple that can be traced directly back to a well documented person that apple has communicated with financially on more than one occasion.
You don't even know what this does, so just STFU
The price argument is a bad one, it turns into just the excuse they use for not making a proper product.
True.
However, these devices are typically on their own private networks that only has traffic on it from 'authenticated users' to start with. So the idea is that you don't run SSH on this device that has so little GP computing power that you'll watch and wait for your characters to echo back at you while they are encrypted/decrypted and instead just use a less secure layer 3 protocol because you already trust layer 2 implicitly
Most routers/switches have only the most rudimentary process for general purpose things like handling SSH or telnet console sessions. They are designed with massive ability to route packets, but not massive ability to use them for other purposes. Routers and switches are REALLY FREAKING FAST at looking up numbers in a table and picking a place to put the data based on that. Beyond that, most are pretty feeble.
Now days its a little different than it used to be, even 'feeble' routers are to the point where theres enough CPU for SSH to work nicely.
Then there is simplicity. You want to be able to talk to your router when you need to, when it is the least functional that it can possibly be. Once connected, using telnet is hardly different than a serial connection. Using SSH is radically different due to the requirement for both symmetrical and asymmetrical encryption for various stages of the connection. You can do telnet in a small number of lines of assembly fairly easy if you have a TCP stack available. It can be done inside the PANIC kernel for crash diagnostics and run off a small, already reserved memory buffer with no dynamic allocations. Yea, you can do it with SSH, but its just not worth it to introduce all that complexity and bugs ... when the device is only supposed to be listening on a 'secure' network.
Everything supports telnet. Fewer things support SSH. If you're building up from ground zero today, only using SSH is probably fairly easy. Not so much even just a few years ago, so theres going to be a LOT of legacy non-ssh capable devices out there.
Did you know that there are some blade servers (I just inherited some leftovers from work and discovered this) that have NO password on there management buses for telnet? You can just connect to that IP and poof, you're in and an admin. You can't even turn on authentication. Of course, its an internal bus, the machine uses itself to communicate between different devices in the blade chassis like switches, storage control modules and the blades themselves. And unless you're stupid or experimenting (like I was) that internal network is never exposed to the rest of the world, so passwords on it are pointless and actually more of a problem than anything. But it is possible for you to destroy that private network if you did down deep enough in the switch settings and setup some vlan trickery. This is not a bug or a exploit and it is not insecure unless you make it so.
So contrary to what you've heard from armchair security experts, using telnet isn't always a bad thing. Theres more to the system than just telnet that has to be considered.
Voting really hasn't changed in thousands of years, so I'm not really sure why the voting machines can be 'past their prime'.
What exactly do you upgrade on a voting machine? Its electronic or its not. If its electronic, you're already fucking stupid so I'm going to ignore you. If its not electronic, then just put a new sticker on the faceplate and move on because functionally theres no reason what so ever to upgrade, use it until it breaks, THEN upgrade.
If its electronic, and you need to update it, then you do, but you update it with another company that can make voting machines that don't suck ass instead of continuing to pay the company that sold you broken machines and can't be bothered to write software properly. You don't need a new voting machine because theres a new version of windows, you don't need a new version of windows, you don't need a new 'theme' for your voting machine.
There are pretty much zero reasons to upgrade a voting machine that isn't broken.
You don't have to upgrade just because there is a new version, and its really fucking stupid to do so if you do. When a machine is performing properly, use it until it doesn't.
If you have to 'upgrade' to get a functioning machine because the company refuses to fix its existing one, you just ban that company from doing any government business and you ban every single person above middle management from ever doing any business with the government or any business they work for from doing any business with the government. You make it impossible for those greedy manipulative pricks to ever be involved with tax payer money again. If that means they can't find a job and starve to death ... well, its good to throw some chlorine in the gene pool regularly, maybe they type of person will become a little less common.
My radio controlled quad is fully autonymous. The two things are far from mutually exclusive. It is more than capable of following a pre-defined fly path all on its own after takeoff, including landing. Its actually capable of taking off as well, but thats software disabled for safety.
I'd be willing to bet that other than carrying missiles, you couldn't even figure out what differences there are in capabilities of the software.
I've flown R/C for 30 years almost.
It is a moron problem, and the problem is that these aircraft are no capable of self sustained flight, without people controlling them properly. It no longer takes skill and effort learning to keep one in the air, now anyone can do it. Without having to learn from the process of learning to fly and the dangers it brings.
You have a shitty GPS. Stop buying bargain basement stuff and it won't be such a noticable issue.
mine never goes more than about 20-30 meters when its got a link, inside. On most days, its pretty much rock solid.
I've never seen it react oddly when flying near over lines.
mine isn't special, its just not an $8 one. Survey grade GPSes won't move more than a meter in far worse conditions.
You can put the GPS in my boat in a metal storage building and it will still pin point the boat to the storage building its in within 45 seconds.
Quad also fly ... in the air ... away from things that generally could get in between the gps and the sky.
Then we couple in the fact that it doesn't NEEd the GPS to fly, just to avoid drift errors in the accelerometers ... which again, if you're not buying $5 accelerometers, isn't that much of a problem over any distance that matters to a quad
So while nothing you say is technically incorrect, its still pretty irrelevant for all meaningful purposes. Whatever your flying with that shitty GPS, its a safe bet geofencing is well outside of its range of capabilities. Sorry.
Japan's criminal justice system is terrible, just terrible.
Crime is very low to start with
Okay, one of us doesn't understand the point of the justice system. If crime is so low the cops rarely deal with serious crime I'd say that it's working EXACTLY as intended and that you have a silly idea of the purpose of any given criminal justice system.
I realize as an American you think the goal is for the cops to put everyone in jail, but that in fact is not the case. The justice system is intended to make crime unappealing so that it is rare. Meaning that they are probably better cops than you're use to.
Expecting a driver to take control in a failure scenario is not a solution.
Yes it is. Its just a solution that can't be used in America where no one feels any need what so ever to have any personal responsibility for the situation they are in. You're just demanding to be pampered and ignore the fact that in a failure situation THE CAR CAN'T BE TRUSTED. Thats what a failure means in this context. You'll die in a car accident even with Google's car because you'll be bitching about how its not working right when ti drives off a cliff instead of just putting your foot on the damn brake.
I'd argue however, that the same applies to pretty much every American driver I've ever met already. They are already incapable of paying attention longer than it takes to get out of their driveway, so letting them drive in any shape or form is a bad thing and very dangerous.
But hey, don't let being responsible for your own situation get in the way of sounding like an ignorant spoiled brat American.
What you've posted is EXACTLY why this country is in the position its in. Everyone expect someone or something else to take care of them and can't be bothered to do it themselves.
Ouya bombed because it was shit. They didn't DO anything, just rolled a bunch of half assed Android crap together and called it a console. No marketing. No Content. No developer push. Just a fucking kick starter and the idea that if you make something, shitty or not, magically people will follow your bandwagon because 'OMG Linux!@R!%@!@%!'
Then reality slapped them in the face. No one who buys the bottom of the barrel cheapest thing they can get ... then proceeds to buy games for it, even at $1.
And thats the end of Ouya. Crap hardware, crap software, and no fucking clue how their target market behaved. Linux fanboys don't spend money on Linux software, they expect it for free. No one else gives a crap that it was Linux so then it was just a POS to the rest of the world with no particularly redeeming qualities.
Ouya failed because it was a piece of shit, thats all.
Ouya was a joke.
It was a shit console with shit games made by shit developers. Just because it made a bunch of Android and Linux fanboys wet doesn't mean its was ever a good idea.
Mobile ports work fine on a big screen in some cases, when its intentional, which is why you'll find iOS users that use AirPlay to display games on the big screen.
You've pretty much shown that outside of being an ignorant fanboy, you have no idea what Apple has already done or why they are different from all the other Me Too!'s out there.
Just take a look at where the most money in the world is spent on 'mobile games' ... then tell me that Apple doesn't know what they're doing.
The problem with idiots like you is that you're too stupid to realize that the party on pretends to be a member of is irrelevant and that all politicians are effectively the same, ESPECIALLY the ones who tell you they aren't.
Once you get a fucking clue and stop thinking that your party is better (whatever your party is) then maybe, just MAYBE your vote won't be a detriment to our country. Until then, your vote is actually worse than not voting at all because you're too stupid to know who you're voting for.
Look at actions, not words, thats your clupon for the day.
If you could read you'd have noticed the use of the word recover, which does not imply retrieve. I can easily see how you would misunderstand it, but your making assumptions that are incorrect about what is actually requested. He also should have used the word account instead of password, but he's a newb (which is why he's asking) and you're just someone pretending to have done anything like this before, hence why you didn't see the subtlety in his words.
So instead of being helpful, you just threw out one tidbit of information, based on an assumption you had rather than facts about the request.
Congratulations, you just showed why asking on slashdot is a stupid idea.
And its cute that you think they use polygraphs, which means you haven't either.
Twitters doesn't need fixed. Its the twits that use it that need fixing. And what you're really getting wrong is trying to change it. Let the twits who use twitter continue to do so and post all their crap there so we don't have to see it everywhere else.
12, those were last years discounted models.
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It wasn't harmless.
A quad with any camera worth a shit on it is going to weigh in at 5-10 pounds minimum. A drop of even 10 feet, at 5 pounds, onto your head, with any sort of good sharp edge ... your skull is going to be split open. This is a simple matter of physics. Gravity does all the work. The propellers aren't what you're afraid of, its one of the support arms or screws jabbing into your brain that you should be worried about.
There are many many many ways it can hurt you in that fall that don't involve a lethal injury that you wouldn't enjoy at all either.
You don't need explosives for a quad to be lethal, this idiot was more than enough to seriously wound or kill someone due to nothing more than shear ignorance.
Best part ... he's a fucking science teacher who should understand the basic laws of physics well enough to not do something this stupid.
Douches like this prick are why we can't have nice things.
I fly all sorts of RC aircraft, Quads, fixed wing plane's, Helis, even a flying lawn mower (model, not actually a lawnmower) and I've been doing it for 25 years and never has there been an issue of people getting upset about it until recently.
You know why? Cheap electronics introducing artificial stability at a price that allows any fucking moron without the slightest clue to buy one and manage to fly it for more than 10 seconds. Before artificial stability (i.e. before there was any hope of an RC quadcopter), pricks like this would have bought one, flown it for 10 seconds, crashed it in his front yard and that would be the end of it because he wouldn't be willing to spend that money again for another 10 seconds of flight time until he learned to fly. He'd never learn to fly because he's not bothering to try, he's just throwing it in the air without understanding how/why/when its going to come down and what effects thats going to have on others.
When I see assholes like this, I tell them to get their fucking quad out of the air immediately or I'm calling the cops, and I've called them twice, the last for some asshole flying over a high school football game. Guy was a software dev at a large tech company, should fucking know better and understand that a 5 pound object falling on your head from even 10 feet above is WAY beyond potentially lethal.
So take this worthless fuck out back, string him up by his testicles and keep him the fuck out of RC * so he doesn't fuck it up for the rest of us.
This shit is why the FAA cares, and I'm 100% with them on it. I don't want additional laws, but this is a real problem in a new arena that previously had barriers to entry that kept idiots out. The modern flight controllers (which I use and love) are like exploit kits for script kiddies. They give ability to do something without the tempering that comes with learning how to do it 'the hard way', or understanding the consequences of what you're doing.
I don't have a good solution to this problem because the problem is caused by adults who haven't grown up yet or are too selfish/ignorant to care and those are problems we've been dealing with since the beginning of time without solving, but it does have to be addressed, which problem means I'm going to get screwed in the process.
I can not stress this statement enough: The guy flying that drone was an ignorant fucking asshole. 50 lashes wouldn't be enough.
My iPhone is paired with my Mac and the Messages applications on my iPhone and Mac are linked as well. When my phone is near my Mac I do indeed get SMS messages on my Mac, as iMessage and Gtalk, other people probably do the same.
Doesn't Android do that too with Hangouts or something?
which they very easily could do over the phone, skype or send a person to him to question him
Or he could go back to the country he fled and answer the fucking questions. Oh and by the way, they DID send someone to talk to him, just recently, he refused. Stop being an ignorant douche and open your eyes.
How your post got modded as insightful when it isn't is pretty insightful in itself as to how misinformed people can be.
Ironic considering I was thinking thing exact same thing.
And yes, they can agree not to extradite him to the US should they attempt to do so. Something they refused to do.
Sweden, BY LAW, does not extradite to countries that have the death penalty as an option. They can not legally agree to extradite him to the United States so there is no need to 'refuse'. They can't make the choice to refuse, its already made for them.
The reality of it is, he's a fuck who's trying not to get punished for breaking the law.