Why does Steve Jobs need an army of lawyers if he didn't do anything wrong?
Why should you object to us searching your car if you're not carrying any drugs in it? Why should you care if we listen to your phone conversations if you're not plotting terrorism? Why do you own a gun if you're not being attacked right now and don't plan on killing anyone?
Why are you using the psudonym "Orion Blaster" if you have the right to free speech?
Secondly, Steve Jobs hired an attorney, singular. Not "an army of lawyers". Thanks for playing the exaggeration game though.
What other documents were faked? Was the turn-a-round of Apple into a profitable company faked as well? Did Apple cook the books Enron style?
If some documents have been faked, there must be others. Just like if some music on your PC is pirated, you must have stolen all of it...
Yes, the backdating of stocks, the result of which gave MORE money to executives, caused Apple to be MORE profitable. [rolleyes]
Enron's issues were more than "cooking the books". The media portrays the entire Enron mess as a few guys changing a bunch of numbers in a ledger and a bunch of shredding of documents that proved their numbers were wrong. It goes further than that, into the realm of coercing power plant managers and tampering with the energy market itself. Remember those rolling blackout in California a few years ago? Those had nothing to do with an actual shortage of energy production ability verses demand in the summer months.
At least with Windows you *could* download and install a third-party browser. With eBay they are choking off a specific form of payment, and you know it's because it would clearly damage PayPal.
EBay isn't doing anything but hurting themselves. Ebay is just an enabler, they have no actual control over what form of payment you use. They neither hold the money in escrow or hold the merchandise. They can't stop you from using Google Payments to pay for an auction won, and they can't tell the seller he can't ship the item to you because you paid with an "unauthorized method of payment". All their stupid restriction means is, at worst, a seller cannot mention Google Payments as a payment method on the auction listing. But he could list a few forms of payment (like money order or personal check) and then note that you can email him to inquire about "other ways of paying" if either of those doesn't work well for you". (wink, wink)
Why would they suddenly build specially-crippled consoles now? It doesn't really make much sense fom any standpoint I can see.
Well, with the short supply of PS3's this holiday season, I'm sure more than one retailer received offers from customers to buy the demo units at a considerable markup. Making those units defective by design, rather than just having a separate power supply reseter on a normal one, would prevent that. Thus preserving the demo kiosk and selling more PS3's in the end for Sony.
"People sould not fear their governments, governments should fear their people."
I haven't memorized my copy of "V for Vendetta" (the book, not the watered-down movie), but I'm pretty sure V never actually said that line. It was more something they made him say in the film because it sounds real subversive, but doesn't have the same call-to-anarchy flavor as his actual character did, and is more likely to be received by a mass audience and tolerated by the people "on the Hill".
It should be remembered that not every iteration of the iPod sounds the same. The iPods internal components have been changed several times. There is a company (name escapes me) that sets up iPods for the audiophile. One of the first things they do is bypass the headphone amp for the headphone port and the listener is expected to hook up their own preferred personal amp. At the time I read about them they only accepted iPods from a given generation for their special modifications (I believe it was the fourth generation) because of superior sound processing chips it had compares to 5th generation.
Also, speaking of the iPods having lousy audio output, wasn't the first gen Shuffle championed by the audio community for having "straight line output" over the spectrum? Yeah, iPods are all crappy players...
I love the blatant hypocrisy shown in the replies to date. The Slashdot Hivemind is always getting all wound up about how parents are responsible for their children, etc... etc...
The idea to be more responsible in the raising of your children. Teaching them to make better decisions on their own, so you don't have to watch them continuously. What does having your children tracked all the time teach them? Behave because I'm watching, not because it's normal? Don't think about what you're getting involved in because I'll see it and be able to find you should you get in danger?
The problem with parents being irresponsible for their children isn't that they aren't paranoid enough, it's that they don't teach children self-reliance and nurture some sense of ethics in them, they instead let their kids run around like hooligans and do whatever they want.
I shortened it to just "g [search term]" and removed the search box from my toolbar. It's easy enough to set up Quick Searches for all the usual engines for the search box.
The submitter points out that Microsoft comes up first but it is also the default home page for IE.
But Google is preset as the home page on Firefox.
When Apple was shipping Macs with Netscape Navigator preinstalled, they defaulted to an Apple-themed Netscape news page. People using AT&T DSL are getting routed to a Yahoo page quite often thanks to the SBC/Yahoo marketting partnership. Lots of people leave the homepage to whatever their ISP's software sets up. I've had people call me because they lost their homepage (it got hijacked, kids changed it, whatever) and they want assistance changing it back. When we gets to the point where it's time to type in the address, they ask me what they need to put in. I tell them whatever they want to come up and they don't have a clue, many think the homepage s part of their ISP settings so to have AOL coming up instead of ______ means they're now on AOL. Few of them seem to actually use their home page, it's just what comes up and then they go where they want to from there.
To really make these figures more accurate, we would need to sets everyone's homepage to (blank) and make them all reset it, but you would still have people setting it back to things they don't use because "that's how it was before".
I always thought this was bizarre. A 12 oz beer just does not look right in a pint glass. It's like hot dogs coming 6 to a pack and buns 8 to a pack. Madness.
No, hot dogs used to come 10 to a pack, and hot dog buns 8, but I they must have changed because I don't see it anymore.
Aren't the iSight and microphone supposed to be electronically wired to the LED? I.E. if the iSight and/or microphone are being accessed, the LED lights up?
That is true. But the LED is only active if the camera is in use, so you [i]could[/i] take occasional still pictures and the LED would only be on for a second each time the photo is taken, so you would be less likely to notice it, it also would reduce the chances of capturing an image of any use to the spy, but still...
well,... technically the version on the list is already shipped. This means they could put the consumer version on the list NEXT year...
Wow, wouldn't it suck if they released each separate version a year apart? You would have to put up with MS ass-kissing for an entire decade before you could get Vista Ultimate (happily, there would already be four service packs out to address the initial issues).
Without a Next-Next-Finish wizard, SOAP is a pain. With the tool it's mildly uncomfortable.
That's the point, it says lather, rinse, repeat right on the bottle. If you follow the directions, SOAP is gentle enough for baby's skin. Keep out of eyes, though.
Does Google own any patent/copyright on SOAP? If Google is dropping SOAP I don't want to get fucked if I pick it up.
No! Please don't let us run out of SOAP, Google! I feel so dirty using Microsoft's rival technology!
This is quite a slippery situation. I hope Google will come clean on my they are depreciating the APIs.
My reaction to this required me to use some SOAP - on my clothes.
When the developers heard this we had to get some SOAP - for their mouths.
I guess the "do no evil" bubble has finally burst...
There must be a better solution that will allow the technology to continue while satisfying Google's business reasons. No reason to throw out the baby with the bath water...
Why does Google have to play dirty like this?
This doesn't smell like an Irish Spring to me!
Hopefully they will introduce something even better for us to use, then the whole issue will be a wash.
Almost every room in my house has compact fluorescents bulbs in it. The light/fan in the bathroom uses the bulb as a fuse of some sort for the exhaust fan, it says specifically not to use fluorescent bulbs in it.
When I hear "chandelier" I think of something with open bases (no shades over the bulbs) and small decorative clear bulbs being used (not frosted ones). There is no compact fluorescent substitute for these bulbs, and even if there were, they would be frosted and spoil the appearance of the fixture.
I don't see how this will change anything; copyright holders still have to pay lawyers to go after infringing sites/servers so there is still a bottleneck.
Well, since the major media conglomerates have lawyers on salary, it wont effect their costs at all. They'll just send a letter to your ISP/host and the host, fearing legal costs of their own (since they DON'T have a lawyer always available), will bow down and pull your whatever from the servers.
Many don't seem to follow the proper procedure of like, you know, ASKING THE USER about the infringing content so they can show that they can defend themselves first, or even requiring the "copyright holder" to prove they do in fact own the content.
Even if you were using a snippet for fair use I don't think it would be done right. You would have to settle things with the holder before you can have the content posted again, which isn't the way it is supposed to work.
If the goal of disclosing to the whole world is to give users a chance to defend themselves (since it is assume that black hats may already know about these holes, and may already be expoiting them) then why delay until January?! And why dole out the information one bug, one day, at a time?
Because if they just gave out all the info now, in a couple weeks Apple will have issued a patch for most/all of them, which would spoil the effect for Vista's launch. If they release them one at a time, Apple wont be able to have patches ready for the last few at least before the big day. Plus, an event like this gives FUD-slingers the added bonus of these lines: "You know they've discovered a new big in OSX every day this month."
"They've discovered __ bugs in OSX this month alone!"
Nintendo's failure to include a remote that is free from defects is in breach of Nintendo's own product warranty.
That doesn't make any sense. The purpose of the warranty is to protect the customer if the device should happen to have defects in materials or workmanship, not guarantee it will be free of any to start with. Nintendo cannot guarantee there will be no issues whatsoever in any part of the system (especially at the MSRP of the Wii and when they don't even make all the components to begin with). Now if there is an issue, and Nintendo does nothing about it despite the warranty, THEN you have grounds for a lawsuit.
"The researchers blindfolded college students who crawled through grass to sniff out a chocolate-scented trail." This just proves students will do anything for $10
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Why should you object to us searching your car if you're not carrying any drugs in it?
Why should you care if we listen to your phone conversations if you're not plotting terrorism?
Why do you own a gun if you're not being attacked right now and don't plan on killing anyone?
Why are you using the psudonym "Orion Blaster" if you have the right to free speech?
Secondly, Steve Jobs hired an attorney, singular. Not "an army of lawyers". Thanks for playing the exaggeration game though.
If some documents have been faked, there must be others. Just like if some music on your PC is pirated, you must have stolen all of it...
Yes, the backdating of stocks, the result of which gave MORE money to executives, caused Apple to be MORE profitable. [rolleyes]
Enron's issues were more than "cooking the books". The media portrays the entire Enron mess as a few guys changing a bunch of numbers in a ledger and a bunch of shredding of documents that proved their numbers were wrong. It goes further than that, into the realm of coercing power plant managers and tampering with the energy market itself. Remember those rolling blackout in California a few years ago? Those had nothing to do with an actual shortage of energy production ability verses demand in the summer months.
EBay isn't doing anything but hurting themselves. Ebay is just an enabler, they have no actual control over what form of payment you use. They neither hold the money in escrow or hold the merchandise. They can't stop you from using Google Payments to pay for an auction won, and they can't tell the seller he can't ship the item to you because you paid with an "unauthorized method of payment". All their stupid restriction means is, at worst, a seller cannot mention Google Payments as a payment method on the auction listing. But he could list a few forms of payment (like money order or personal check) and then note that you can email him to inquire about "other ways of paying" if either of those doesn't work well for you". (wink, wink)
Well, with the short supply of PS3's this holiday season, I'm sure more than one retailer received offers from customers to buy the demo units at a considerable markup. Making those units defective by design, rather than just having a separate power supply reseter on a normal one, would prevent that. Thus preserving the demo kiosk and selling more PS3's in the end for Sony.
Yup, corporations call it "innovation" or "new patent idea".
I haven't memorized my copy of "V for Vendetta" (the book, not the watered-down movie), but I'm pretty sure V never actually said that line. It was more something they made him say in the film because it sounds real subversive, but doesn't have the same call-to-anarchy flavor as his actual character did, and is more likely to be received by a mass audience and tolerated by the people "on the Hill".
It should be remembered that not every iteration of the iPod sounds the same. The iPods internal components have been changed several times. There is a company (name escapes me) that sets up iPods for the audiophile. One of the first things they do is bypass the headphone amp for the headphone port and the listener is expected to hook up their own preferred personal amp. At the time I read about them they only accepted iPods from a given generation for their special modifications (I believe it was the fourth generation) because of superior sound processing chips it had compares to 5th generation.
Also, speaking of the iPods having lousy audio output, wasn't the first gen Shuffle championed by the audio community for having "straight line output" over the spectrum? Yeah, iPods are all crappy players...
Wow, imagine the mêlée at the company picnics.
[unsure whether to tag this "biz" "automation" "slownewsday" or "slashertizement"]
The idea to be more responsible in the raising of your children. Teaching them to make better decisions on their own, so you don't have to watch them continuously. What does having your children tracked all the time teach them? Behave because I'm watching, not because it's normal? Don't think about what you're getting involved in because I'll see it and be able to find you should you get in danger?
The problem with parents being irresponsible for their children isn't that they aren't paranoid enough, it's that they don't teach children self-reliance and nurture some sense of ethics in them, they instead let their kids run around like hooligans and do whatever they want.
Well, thanks for the tip chas@evilnet.net. I'll be sure to keep that in mind.
In Soviet Amerika displays are seen through by YOU.
I shortened it to just "g [search term]" and removed the search box from my toolbar. It's easy enough to set up Quick Searches for all the usual engines for the search box.
No, I'm not. I don't even have the search bar on my toolbar, as I use quicksearches for everything.
If you do a new install of Firefox and don't import anything, the default start page is:
http://www.google.com/firefox
I'm not even sure if importing an other browser's settings would effect the home page setting.
The submitter points out that Microsoft comes up first but it is also the default home page for IE.
But Google is preset as the home page on Firefox.
When Apple was shipping Macs with Netscape Navigator preinstalled, they defaulted to an Apple-themed Netscape news page. People using AT&T DSL are getting routed to a Yahoo page quite often thanks to the SBC/Yahoo marketting partnership. Lots of people leave the homepage to whatever their ISP's software sets up. I've had people call me because they lost their homepage (it got hijacked, kids changed it, whatever) and they want assistance changing it back. When we gets to the point where it's time to type in the address, they ask me what they need to put in. I tell them whatever they want to come up and they don't have a clue, many think the homepage s part of their ISP settings so to have AOL coming up instead of ______ means they're now on AOL. Few of them seem to actually use their home page, it's just what comes up and then they go where they want to from there.
To really make these figures more accurate, we would need to sets everyone's homepage to (blank) and make them all reset it, but you would still have people setting it back to things they don't use because "that's how it was before".
OJSystem
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(for Open Journaled System, of course)
No, hot dogs used to come 10 to a pack, and hot dog buns 8, but I they must have changed because I don't see it anymore.
That is true. But the LED is only active if the camera is in use, so you [i]could[/i] take occasional still pictures and the LED would only be on for a second each time the photo is taken, so you would be less likely to notice it, it also would reduce the chances of capturing an image of any use to the spy, but still...
and the bartender said "Whoa, whoa, whoa. You gotta show some id to prove you're 21, and you can't all use the same one!"
Wow, wouldn't it suck if they released each separate version a year apart? You would have to put up with MS ass-kissing for an entire decade before you could get Vista Ultimate (happily, there would already be four service packs out to address the initial issues).
That's the point, it says lather, rinse, repeat right on the bottle. If you follow the directions, SOAP is gentle enough for baby's skin. Keep out of eyes, though.
LOL
Almost every room in my house has compact fluorescents bulbs in it. The light/fan in the bathroom uses the bulb as a fuse of some sort for the exhaust fan, it says specifically not to use fluorescent bulbs in it.
When I hear "chandelier" I think of something with open bases (no shades over the bulbs) and small decorative clear bulbs being used (not frosted ones). There is no compact fluorescent substitute for these bulbs, and even if there were, they would be frosted and spoil the appearance of the fixture.
Well, since the major media conglomerates have lawyers on salary, it wont effect their costs at all. They'll just send a letter to your ISP/host and the host, fearing legal costs of their own (since they DON'T have a lawyer always available), will bow down and pull your whatever from the servers.
Many don't seem to follow the proper procedure of like, you know, ASKING THE USER about the infringing content so they can show that they can defend themselves first, or even requiring the "copyright holder" to prove they do in fact own the content.
Even if you were using a snippet for fair use I don't think it would be done right. You would have to settle things with the holder before you can have the content posted again, which isn't the way it is supposed to work.
Because if they just gave out all the info now, in a couple weeks Apple will have issued a patch for most/all of them, which would spoil the effect for Vista's launch. If they release them one at a time, Apple wont be able to have patches ready for the last few at least before the big day. Plus, an event like this gives FUD-slingers the added bonus of these lines:
"You know they've discovered a new big in OSX every day this month."
"They've discovered __ bugs in OSX this month alone!"
"There are __ unpatched bugs on OSX right now."
That doesn't make any sense. The purpose of the warranty is to protect the customer if the device should happen to have defects in materials or workmanship, not guarantee it will be free of any to start with. Nintendo cannot guarantee there will be no issues whatsoever in any part of the system (especially at the MSRP of the Wii and when they don't even make all the components to begin with). Now if there is an issue, and Nintendo does nothing about it despite the warranty, THEN you have grounds for a lawsuit.
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