note to self: treat police like you treat your ISP technical support.
"hi, a guy robbed my expensive device and i followed him to his home, here's the address. I clearly saw him by the window using it. And yes, it's running windows XP and I did reboot just now."
I'm wondering. I have to pay a fine if i break the contract earlier... Wouldn't not providing the offered services be a breach on their end, entitling me to the same fee?
If i let my dog take a crap on somebody's plants, and then sue them for not paying for my manure, and later pay audits to proove my dog shat on every plant in the block, how is this different?...besides the fact i lack monsanto's lobby and so people will actually sue ME for my dog's dung showing up all over the place.
If you think this will prevent the bank robbers from listening, you are naive beyond salvation.
The only thing this will do is prevent the public and media from listening to what your watchers are doing. ONLY THAT!
if now the robbers tune in with a $5 radio, tomorrow they will tune in with a $5000 radio or $5000 bribe, or a loot share for more people eying the police and reporting to them with $5 radios. anyway, they will get around it. because well, that's the minimal investment on their part. the big investment is they risking their lives or freedom behind bars. and that they are already committing.
not surprisingly, the first poster was a GNAA troll.
What kind of person would have such a blatantly one sided post ready to paste here in a few seconds of the submission, totally unrelated to the article (article: US was used to force a company to drop a law suit against another company, comment: the company was bad for some other reason so i will ignore the power play)
what is surprising is that the troll is getting moded up.
geez. we need a car analogy. what if a chinese car manufacturer that does not answer to the US standards for tire rubber, and does not sell on the US, sues BP for fixing price of gas via scare tactics on small gas stations that are trying to compete on price? we should only thank them, but right after the US gov demands the extradition of the CEO for the car company and arrests him for not adhering to the tire rubber standards.
always wondered. you can pretty much drive by some OBD-II ports... bmw can be started even by my old obd-I.
and lots of people buy those bluetooth dongles just so they can have an extra tachometer on their iphones on the dash.
may not be so usefull for stealing the car... as i doubt it has power when the car is off... but may very well be the case, i don't know. But imagine sending the acelerate signal on the highway to everyone around you that has such device
the issue is: there are 99% of phones with 2.3. you CAN'T EVEN USE THOSE GUIDELINES.
they are doing what google does. break backward compatibility, so they can scare everyone that wanted to take their platform serious. so the complaining stops.
they did that with opensocial. worked wonders. no one complains about the problems anymore, as they managed to break backward compatibility so many times, not even flies are around it anymore.
I worked for a pretty huge newspaper from 1999 to mid 2000's
Half of the guys called their contacts on the police PD, the other on the prefecture hall. And a few got cars and went to report on the occasional violent crime investigation.
But most of them just browsed the internet and watched TV news... and typed that rightly into the paper/online version.
Halfway of my time there, there was a new ombudsman (2yr as ombudsman criticizing the newspaper and listening to the public, 2yr back working regularly for the newspaper with no fear of being fired, then fired)
His first sunday op-ed column was a critic about exactly that. That the newsroom was always crowded. no one ever left it. there was no real journalism going on.
bonus history: one of the competing websites from another newspaper, outright copied our histories (which were type from TV most of the time anyway) and just time-stamped them a few minutes or hours earlier... sometimes creating timestamps of even before the reported event.
Slashdot Mirror
happen to have a comparisson with global tourism size?
what if for every other country it doubled instead of 12% a year?
what if it were ONLY via walmart? that's what's being discussed.
note to self: treat police like you treat your ISP technical support.
"hi, a guy robbed my expensive device and i followed him to his home, here's the address. I clearly saw him by the window using it. And yes, it's running windows XP and I did reboot just now."
I'm wondering. I have to pay a fine if i break the contract earlier... Wouldn't not providing the offered services be a breach on their end, entitling me to the same fee?
If i let my dog take a crap on somebody's plants, and then sue them for not paying for my manure, and later pay audits to proove my dog shat on every plant in the block, how is this different? ...besides the fact i lack monsanto's lobby and so people will actually sue ME for my dog's dung showing up all over the place.
If you think this will prevent the bank robbers from listening, you are naive beyond salvation.
The only thing this will do is prevent the public and media from listening to what your watchers are doing. ONLY THAT!
if now the robbers tune in with a $5 radio, tomorrow they will tune in with a $5000 radio or $5000 bribe, or a loot share for more people eying the police and reporting to them with $5 radios.
anyway, they will get around it. because well, that's the minimal investment on their part. the big investment is they risking their lives or freedom behind bars. and that they are already committing.
apps? nope. it's:
1. browser ability
2. browser performance
3. easiness to port open source software to platform
that's what will define the ONLY platform to survive in the next years. iphone and it's ease-the-problem app is just a phase.
it wasn't free. my phone cost me $600+ and it went directly to google as I bought via their nexus store.
If i wouldn't have bought it in this scenario, can i ask for a reimbursement now?
> exposure of Terahertz waves are still being researched upon
thanks for airport security and frequent flyers, i will know if tricoders are safe in a month or so.
Bot or not, it still counts as one pageview, hence one ad impression. ka-ching
Please, draw the line between bribery and campaigns donations the size of a whole country GDP
> If YouTube gives Universal the ability to delete videos at whim, so be it.
riiiigth. and the power play such draconian copyright laws have nothing in it i'm sure.
not surprisingly, the first poster was a GNAA troll.
What kind of person would have such a blatantly one sided post ready to paste here in a few seconds of the submission, totally unrelated to the article (article: US was used to force a company to drop a law suit against another company, comment: the company was bad for some other reason so i will ignore the power play)
what is surprising is that the troll is getting moded up.
geez. we need a car analogy. what if a chinese car manufacturer that does not answer to the US standards for tire rubber, and does not sell on the US, sues BP for fixing price of gas via scare tactics on small gas stations that are trying to compete on price? we should only thank them, but right after the US gov demands the extradition of the CEO for the car company and arrests him for not adhering to the tire rubber standards.
always wondered. you can pretty much drive by some OBD-II ports... bmw can be started even by my old obd-I.
and lots of people buy those bluetooth dongles just so they can have an extra tachometer on their iphones on the dash.
may not be so usefull for stealing the car... as i doubt it has power when the car is off... but may very well be the case, i don't know. But imagine sending the acelerate signal on the highway to everyone around you that has such device
the issue is: there are 99% of phones with 2.3. you CAN'T EVEN USE THOSE GUIDELINES.
they are doing what google does. break backward compatibility, so they can scare everyone that wanted to take their platform serious. so the complaining stops.
they did that with opensocial. worked wonders. no one complains about the problems anymore, as they managed to break backward compatibility so many times, not even flies are around it anymore.
Sounds pretty good to me
Why are you guys opposing it again?
If it's not like that, can't he be removed from office from lying?
no one cares about the bible. most people don't even realize the names are from the bible... they think it's the other way around...
the common source for names is simply to avoid you having to spell it everytime.
count how many times people have to spell the first, biblical or simply common, name, against the last, more broad one.
I worked for a pretty huge newspaper from 1999 to mid 2000's
Half of the guys called their contacts on the police PD, the other on the prefecture hall. And a few got cars and went to report on the occasional violent crime investigation.
But most of them just browsed the internet and watched TV news... and typed that rightly into the paper/online version.
Halfway of my time there, there was a new ombudsman (2yr as ombudsman criticizing the newspaper and listening to the public, 2yr back working regularly for the newspaper with no fear of being fired, then fired)
His first sunday op-ed column was a critic about exactly that. That the newsroom was always crowded. no one ever left it. there was no real journalism going on.
bonus history: one of the competing websites from another newspaper, outright copied our histories (which were type from TV most of the time anyway) and just time-stamped them a few minutes or hours earlier... sometimes creating timestamps of even before the reported event.
Lies and lies.
nexus one STILL have software issue (half users can't use touch screen if the battery is charging, unless you lock/unlock the phone at some point)
nexus is not better than the others.
what you are advertising is:
- spend $700 every YEAR on a phone
- plus another $90/mo for the contract.
yeah, i can see why you are very clever with your mountain of obsolete nexus phones.
tl;dr
hur dur i'm not affected by phones getting obsolete because i have the new nexus every year.
I will tell you after i'm done looking for one for my Nexus One.
nexus and G phones, even the ones bought from google, are not immune to this.
They are as good as any other unlocked phone. that is, you pay $700 for the privilege of installing CyanogenMod
i mean, if it was encrypted, how the hell would they index it for search?!?!
It baffles me that /. crowd would even suggest something like that, and not get +5 Funny.
this thing is made for 60yr olds that think they are high tech because they subscribe to magic jack and AOL!
Hi, i have over 9000 rolls of papyrus and i want something to sort them all without me having yto read it. And Sony papybox is not made anymore.
man, just rip it and file under a decent dir structure.
> implying the US has good environment regulations.
> implying the US has good labor laws.
wake up, please. US is on the bottom of both those areas. Not flat on the ground as china, but on the bottom.