Actually, I myself floor it every time I see one of those things. It's like an uncontrollable instinct.... immediate shit-eating grin and my engine redlines before I can stop myself. They do not serve the intended purpose LOL I know a lot of other people who do the same thing. I'd never try hitting 107 like the retarded kid in TFA but still, those stupid things are a waste of tax dollars.
There's really not much other good use for that SnapChat feature.... who the hell cares if you drive by Touchdown Jesus at 55mph?
On the gun thing, guns have but one purpose.... to kill. They do exactly what they say on the tin. If someone passes a background check, it's not the manufacturer or dealer's fault if someone is illegally killed with one. It WOULD be their fault if a gun being used to stop a crime or defend yourself fails to go bang because of a defect.
Cars on the other hand are designed to travel roads and get you to a destination. If one is misused by an 18 yr old and that misuse is somehow even partially encouraged by SnapChat, then they have a case.
I doubt she has coverage that will cover $500,000 in medical bills. With head trauma and several broken bones, hospital stays can be measured in months and they'll happily charge you $20 for an aspirin and $2,500+ per day to sit in the ICU. Not to mention the multi-thousand dollar tests and bills from specialists. Then all the PT, psych therapy, medications and possibly home nurses if he's really bad off.
I don't know anyone with insurance quite that cool. Hell, I have the state minimum $25,000/$50,000 liability. The 18 yr old covering these expenses is unrealistic. It'd be nice, but the most they'll get is a judgement she'll never be able to pay and he'll still be screwed.
Unfortunately, the 18 year old very likely only had basic liability insurance that wouldn't cover 1/10th of this guy's current and future medical bills. Suing her would at most get you a court judgement she'll never be able to honor and she'll be back on the road soon enough once her suspension is up.
He was nearly killed because she wanted a "cool" picture to show her friends how badass she is... brain damage usually means part of him is dead and he'll never be the same. Snapchat offering an asinine feature that encourages people to be stupid makes them partially at fault. And they have the money to cover his medical bills which will likely be in the many hundreds of thousands of dollars. Along with the years of PT, psychological therapy and medications he'll need.
This guy is ruined for life and will probably never be able to work again. I don't blame them for going after SnapChat, it's likely the only way he'll be able to get medications and care after he leaves the hospital. The kid won't be able to pay for shit.
They might not "operate" them but they know full well what goes on there and purposely hunt down cheap companies in countries where workers are shamelessly abused to shave some pennies off their bottom line.
While not directly operating them, it shows that they don't give a shit which IMHO makes them complicit. And I'm willing to bet that Apple is Foxconn's biggest customer which means they could have influence to change the situation if they wanted to.
Pick up my old CZ52 or an old-school 1911 and compare it to how a plastic Glock 40 feels. Yeah, the Glock feels like a toy in comparison. The Glock is a decent gun but to a 4 yr old it seems pretty toy like. I've handled guns for over 20 years and probably know a hell of a lot more about ballistics than you do.
I also have kids and know a bit about keeping them disinterested in treating deadly weapons as toys. One has even survived to adulthood already.
3.x was rather crippled. You had a "desktop" but on it were "program groups" with shortcuts to applications. To browse the filesystem you had to open File Manager which was lame compared to the filesystem browser in built into the desktop on GEM or MacOS. It was also rather crashy, didn't support 32-bit apps without extensions (even long after 32-bit CPU's were common), and only supported "cooperative" multitasking. The competition was lightyears ahead.
3.x wasn't a real OS, it was basically a DOS shell with an API for craptastic GUI applications.
Install something like Trumpet WinSock and Netscape 2. Pretty easy really. I never had to deal with it on my machines because I had real machines and better fully 32-bit operating systems at the time. Some of my friends weren't so lucky.
Gun manufacturers license their branding and designs to toy manufacturers to make plastic airsoft and BB copies. And then they manufacture real ones that look and feel like toy guns.
Toy manufacturers don't do enough to make the toys distinguishable from the real deal.
Law enforcement shoots first and asks questions later even when the weapon is not pointing at anyone in a country where real guns are perfectly legal.
It's actually pretty zippy. Android x86 runs really nicely on Bay Trail. Win8.1 on my Asus VivoTab 8 with similar Bay Trail hardware seems absolutely sluggish by comparison but is still very usable for the most part.
The newer Atoms support virtualization as well. I can run Android x86 in a VM on my Win tablet for a couple "gotta have it" Android apps like Worms Armageddon and a couple GPS Nav apps I like.
Yeah, there's a lot of ARM gear that's faster now but Bay Trail is faster than most of the low-end to mid-range ARM stuff. Definitely not a performance leader but far from the bottom.
I agree. I have an old CZ-52 in 7.62x25 with ridiculously heavy trigger pull and an 18.5lb recoil spring in the slide. A 4 yr old chambering a round in that thing would be an impressive feat of strength and I'd have to wonder what I did to piss that kid off because doing it by accident ain't happenin'.
The other thing is that most plastic modern firearms feel and look like toys. When law enforcement can't tell a toy from the real thing, gun manufacturers are being kinda dumb.
Actually, there's a few Android x86 Bay Trail Atom Tablets. My wife has a 2in1 with such hardware. Identical to Win tablet from same manufacturer. They sell them at Walmart dirt cheap.
What does finite resource mean to you? There is already a far, far greater demand for slots than there are available slots. Without regulation every slot becomes unusable.
Maybe where YOU live but where I live there's only 3 stations and they all suck. There's LOTS of unused spectrum here but micropower pirate radio wouldn't give you more than 3 listeners since your coverage area would be mostly trees.
Generally pirates do their best to NOT interfere with licensed stations and EAS systems. Stomping on licensed broadcasts is how you get unwanted attention. It's in their best interest to not be a dick. In places like NYC this can be tough though as the spectrum is crowded there. Using a 100W transmitter to cover a small town in the middle of nowhere however, it's pretty easy to play nice with others. The only way you'll get busted that way is if you violate decency laws or manage to steal listeners (or even worse, advertisers) from legit stations.
This isn't about protecting the spectrum, this is about protecting advertising dollars for ClearChannel. Local community radio is DEAD. Pirate radio is about the only way to avoid listening to canned satellite-fed syndicated bullshit. Large broadcasters fought against LPFM so hard that they effectively killed it.
No one I can think of, was just stating that my biggest issue with FOSS software right now is crappy support for hardware that is very commonplace now.
On the other hand, EDA software on a hi-rez large screen tablet with an active stylus, a real CPU and 8GB+ RAM might actually be a pretty interesting tool in some situations.
It is NOW but Eudora used to be a real awesome mail client with no relation to Netscape Mail. I used the hell out of it on my 68K Macs back in the old days. Was great, even on a 25MHz 68030 with 32MB of RAM.
Anything specialized, like CAD tools, EDA tools, specialized vertical market applications, etc. and you're back to keeping track of licenses.
Keeping track of licenses is dead easy anyway. Any organization that can't keep track of its software licenses is probably not competent enough to keep track of its customer invoicing, tax obligations, or payroll either.
EDA tools? Last I checked gEDA was free and actually nice and functional. And those tools will likely not be used by most office drones.
Even if you can't get rid of all the proprietary crap from vendors that have your organization by the short and curlies, you can minimize the problem and make audits much less lengthy and confusing. ALL organizations that depend on 100% proprietary software have something somewhere they slipped up on. Reduce the dependence, reduce the risk of being exploited and screwed over.
The biggest issue now for me with FOSS is xorg, Linux and BSD support for tablet hardware blows, so Windows is the only realistic option if you want to run desktop-class software on a lightweight tiny x86 tablet PC. VNC X11 kludge and chroot debian on Android doesn't count.
Exactly.... got my devices mixed up, they've been issued a couple over the last few years. Initially they got netbooks a few years back I noticed occasional cam LED blinking on. Now they have iPad minis and straight admit on the forms we had to sign that keystroke loggers and tracking software are installed on them. Wouldn't be surprised if they still can take quick cam stills whenever they want though. Most iOS spyware packages support it.
Either way, it's creepy to spy on other people's kids outside of the school hours they are responsible for them. The schools authority does not extend to my network or my living room.
Interestingly, they are are considering chromebooks to save cash which actually kinda makes sense since most of the resources they make the kids use are web based and very little if anything is done with actual iOS apps. Will be interesting to see what methods they use to manage and monitor them.
Our public school district here simply sends the kids home with iPads with pre-installed spyware. I've even seen the camera light turn on out of the blue. The new rule is when my little girl isn't doing homework, the hard cover is put on it and it gets stuffed in the bookbag. And she's not to do any web browsing on it that isn't school related.
For her personal stuff she has a desktop PC and an Asus Transformer. This is actually an interesting life lesson. It's good to treat work-issued devices as spy hardware and not put personal things on them when she grows up as well.
I'd just tell the school where to shove their iPad but if she doesn't use it they issue twice as much written homework and make it harder for her to participate in class. What I'd like to know is why the school system thinks they have a right to spy on my child after school hours.
I live in SC, many sysadmins are paid $40,000-$50,000/yr in this area. Especially those working for low-budget school systems or smaller organizations.
I don't ever remember being presented and agreeing with a EULA for a car or a tractor so they can go screw themselves, I'll do whatever the hell I want with it.
It gets its rap fro several reasons, being one of the last released games that Atari released.
Are you smoking crack? Atari had the 7800 after that, the XE Game System, the Lynx and the Jaguar. Atari also had 2 relatively successful lines of computers as well that sold until the early 90's.
Atari was bought by Tramiel in '84 and some aspects of quality declined but they were still alive and kickin'.
Atari also had the 400/800 computers and the 5200 in that timeframe which were much better than the 2600. The Atari 400/800/XL/XE was nearly twice as fast as the C64 with a much larger color palette and better I/O. C64 had better hardware sprites though.
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Actually, I myself floor it every time I see one of those things. It's like an uncontrollable instinct.... immediate shit-eating grin and my engine redlines before I can stop myself. They do not serve the intended purpose LOL I know a lot of other people who do the same thing. I'd never try hitting 107 like the retarded kid in TFA but still, those stupid things are a waste of tax dollars.
There's really not much other good use for that SnapChat feature.... who the hell cares if you drive by Touchdown Jesus at 55mph?
Which helps but still doesn't cover the whole balance generally.
Once you get torn up bad enough, the insurance softens the blow some but you're still going to be bankrupt.
On the gun thing, guns have but one purpose.... to kill. They do exactly what they say on the tin. If someone passes a background check, it's not the manufacturer or dealer's fault if someone is illegally killed with one. It WOULD be their fault if a gun being used to stop a crime or defend yourself fails to go bang because of a defect.
Cars on the other hand are designed to travel roads and get you to a destination. If one is misused by an 18 yr old and that misuse is somehow even partially encouraged by SnapChat, then they have a case.
I doubt she has coverage that will cover $500,000 in medical bills. With head trauma and several broken bones, hospital stays can be measured in months and they'll happily charge you $20 for an aspirin and $2,500+ per day to sit in the ICU. Not to mention the multi-thousand dollar tests and bills from specialists. Then all the PT, psych therapy, medications and possibly home nurses if he's really bad off.
I don't know anyone with insurance quite that cool. Hell, I have the state minimum $25,000/$50,000 liability. The 18 yr old covering these expenses is unrealistic. It'd be nice, but the most they'll get is a judgement she'll never be able to pay and he'll still be screwed.
Unfortunately, the 18 year old very likely only had basic liability insurance that wouldn't cover 1/10th of this guy's current and future medical bills. Suing her would at most get you a court judgement she'll never be able to honor and she'll be back on the road soon enough once her suspension is up.
He was nearly killed because she wanted a "cool" picture to show her friends how badass she is... brain damage usually means part of him is dead and he'll never be the same. Snapchat offering an asinine feature that encourages people to be stupid makes them partially at fault. And they have the money to cover his medical bills which will likely be in the many hundreds of thousands of dollars. Along with the years of PT, psychological therapy and medications he'll need.
This guy is ruined for life and will probably never be able to work again. I don't blame them for going after SnapChat, it's likely the only way he'll be able to get medications and care after he leaves the hospital. The kid won't be able to pay for shit.
They might not "operate" them but they know full well what goes on there and purposely hunt down cheap companies in countries where workers are shamelessly abused to shave some pennies off their bottom line.
While not directly operating them, it shows that they don't give a shit which IMHO makes them complicit. And I'm willing to bet that Apple is Foxconn's biggest customer which means they could have influence to change the situation if they wanted to.
Pick up my old CZ52 or an old-school 1911 and compare it to how a plastic Glock 40 feels. Yeah, the Glock feels like a toy in comparison. The Glock is a decent gun but to a 4 yr old it seems pretty toy like. I've handled guns for over 20 years and probably know a hell of a lot more about ballistics than you do.
I also have kids and know a bit about keeping them disinterested in treating deadly weapons as toys. One has even survived to adulthood already.
Oh yeah.... get off my lawn.
3.x was rather crippled. You had a "desktop" but on it were "program groups" with shortcuts to applications. To browse the filesystem you had to open File Manager which was lame compared to the filesystem browser in built into the desktop on GEM or MacOS. It was also rather crashy, didn't support 32-bit apps without extensions (even long after 32-bit CPU's were common), and only supported "cooperative" multitasking. The competition was lightyears ahead.
3.x wasn't a real OS, it was basically a DOS shell with an API for craptastic GUI applications.
Install something like Trumpet WinSock and Netscape 2. Pretty easy really. I never had to deal with it on my machines because I had real machines and better fully 32-bit operating systems at the time. Some of my friends weren't so lucky.
Windows 3.x didn't have a start menu. If you're too young to remember, don't talk out of your ass.
They all share the blame to a degree.
Gun manufacturers license their branding and designs to toy manufacturers to make plastic airsoft and BB copies. And then they manufacture real ones that look and feel like toy guns.
Toy manufacturers don't do enough to make the toys distinguishable from the real deal.
Law enforcement shoots first and asks questions later even when the weapon is not pointing at anyone in a country where real guns are perfectly legal.
It's actually pretty zippy. Android x86 runs really nicely on Bay Trail. Win8.1 on my Asus VivoTab 8 with similar Bay Trail hardware seems absolutely sluggish by comparison but is still very usable for the most part.
The newer Atoms support virtualization as well. I can run Android x86 in a VM on my Win tablet for a couple "gotta have it" Android apps like Worms Armageddon and a couple GPS Nav apps I like.
Yeah, there's a lot of ARM gear that's faster now but Bay Trail is faster than most of the low-end to mid-range ARM stuff. Definitely not a performance leader but far from the bottom.
I agree. I have an old CZ-52 in 7.62x25 with ridiculously heavy trigger pull and an 18.5lb recoil spring in the slide. A 4 yr old chambering a round in that thing would be an impressive feat of strength and I'd have to wonder what I did to piss that kid off because doing it by accident ain't happenin'.
The other thing is that most plastic modern firearms feel and look like toys. When law enforcement can't tell a toy from the real thing, gun manufacturers are being kinda dumb.
Actually, there's a few Android x86 Bay Trail Atom Tablets. My wife has a 2in1 with such hardware. Identical to Win tablet from same manufacturer. They sell them at Walmart dirt cheap.
What does finite resource mean to you? There is already a far, far greater demand for slots than there are available slots. Without regulation every slot becomes unusable.
Maybe where YOU live but where I live there's only 3 stations and they all suck. There's LOTS of unused spectrum here but micropower pirate radio wouldn't give you more than 3 listeners since your coverage area would be mostly trees.
Generally pirates do their best to NOT interfere with licensed stations and EAS systems. Stomping on licensed broadcasts is how you get unwanted attention. It's in their best interest to not be a dick. In places like NYC this can be tough though as the spectrum is crowded there. Using a 100W transmitter to cover a small town in the middle of nowhere however, it's pretty easy to play nice with others. The only way you'll get busted that way is if you violate decency laws or manage to steal listeners (or even worse, advertisers) from legit stations.
This isn't about protecting the spectrum, this is about protecting advertising dollars for ClearChannel. Local community radio is DEAD. Pirate radio is about the only way to avoid listening to canned satellite-fed syndicated bullshit. Large broadcasters fought against LPFM so hard that they effectively killed it.
No one I can think of, was just stating that my biggest issue with FOSS software right now is crappy support for hardware that is very commonplace now.
On the other hand, EDA software on a hi-rez large screen tablet with an active stylus, a real CPU and 8GB+ RAM might actually be a pretty interesting tool in some situations.
It is NOW but Eudora used to be a real awesome mail client with no relation to Netscape Mail. I used the hell out of it on my 68K Macs back in the old days. Was great, even on a 25MHz 68030 with 32MB of RAM.
Anything specialized, like CAD tools, EDA tools, specialized vertical market applications, etc. and you're back to keeping track of licenses.
Keeping track of licenses is dead easy anyway. Any organization that can't keep track of its software licenses is probably not competent enough to keep track of its customer invoicing, tax obligations, or payroll either.
EDA tools? Last I checked gEDA was free and actually nice and functional. And those tools will likely not be used by most office drones.
Even if you can't get rid of all the proprietary crap from vendors that have your organization by the short and curlies, you can minimize the problem and make audits much less lengthy and confusing. ALL organizations that depend on 100% proprietary software have something somewhere they slipped up on. Reduce the dependence, reduce the risk of being exploited and screwed over.
The biggest issue now for me with FOSS is xorg, Linux and BSD support for tablet hardware blows, so Windows is the only realistic option if you want to run desktop-class software on a lightweight tiny x86 tablet PC. VNC X11 kludge and chroot debian on Android doesn't count.
Exactly.... got my devices mixed up, they've been issued a couple over the last few years. Initially they got netbooks a few years back I noticed occasional cam LED blinking on. Now they have iPad minis and straight admit on the forms we had to sign that keystroke loggers and tracking software are installed on them. Wouldn't be surprised if they still can take quick cam stills whenever they want though. Most iOS spyware packages support it.
Either way, it's creepy to spy on other people's kids outside of the school hours they are responsible for them. The schools authority does not extend to my network or my living room.
Interestingly, they are are considering chromebooks to save cash which actually kinda makes sense since most of the resources they make the kids use are web based and very little if anything is done with actual iOS apps. Will be interesting to see what methods they use to manage and monitor them.
Our public school district here simply sends the kids home with iPads with pre-installed spyware. I've even seen the camera light turn on out of the blue. The new rule is when my little girl isn't doing homework, the hard cover is put on it and it gets stuffed in the bookbag. And she's not to do any web browsing on it that isn't school related.
For her personal stuff she has a desktop PC and an Asus Transformer. This is actually an interesting life lesson. It's good to treat work-issued devices as spy hardware and not put personal things on them when she grows up as well.
I'd just tell the school where to shove their iPad but if she doesn't use it they issue twice as much written homework and make it harder for her to participate in class. What I'd like to know is why the school system thinks they have a right to spy on my child after school hours.
I live in SC, many sysadmins are paid $40,000-$50,000/yr in this area. Especially those working for low-budget school systems or smaller organizations.
The Jaguar was not really a 64-bit machine. Main CPU was a 68000.
I don't ever remember being presented and agreeing with a EULA for a car or a tractor so they can go screw themselves, I'll do whatever the hell I want with it.
It gets its rap fro several reasons, being one of the last released games that Atari released.
Are you smoking crack? Atari had the 7800 after that, the XE Game System, the Lynx and the Jaguar. Atari also had 2 relatively successful lines of computers as well that sold until the early 90's.
Atari was bought by Tramiel in '84 and some aspects of quality declined but they were still alive and kickin'.
Atari also had the 400/800 computers and the 5200 in that timeframe which were much better than the 2600. The Atari 400/800/XL/XE was nearly twice as fast as the C64 with a much larger color palette and better I/O. C64 had better hardware sprites though.