What I don't get is that with this app there's actual evidence of the bullying that teachers can address.
Unless these messages are being sent during school hours from school property, I don't see how teachers have any responsibility in the matter. It's private messaging between people and they have their right to speech. If folks are feeling harassed or defamed, maybe the parents of the kids need to work this out or seek the appropriate legal action -- at which point I'm sure someone will bill them $50 to say "just uninstall the damn app".
The iPad is synced to an iTunes account and since it's locked and no one can open it we know it's the account of the owner of the device. The iTunes account is tied to a credit or debit card is it not? Otherwise the owner would not have been able to get any apps for the iPad. Even free apps require some way to legally verify the "purchaser" is in the location they say they are for licensing reasons.
The bank account/line of credit is legally tied to the deceased. Seems to me Apple is sitting on the very proof they are requiring of the family.
They've now asked for a court order to prove that mum was the owner of the iPad and the iTunes account.
The fact the iPad is synced to the iTunes account is evidence they are owned by one and the same person. The iTunes account has the full name, address, and credit card information of the owner on it (unless she never bought apps). That credit card account is legally tied to the deceased. Apple already holds the evidence in their own fucking billing system.
They probably think it's some sort of anti-virus or computer protection program.
I'm still waiting for someone to come out with a malware app named "Foxfire". Considering how often I hear people call Firefox that they would lock up a nice number of PCs before anyone had it figured out they were downloading the wrong application.
It's the equivalent of saying X model of car is absolutely horrible because you don't like the layout of the dash.
While tech-savvy people may be able to find their way around Windows 8's "quirks" for your lower home user who barely knows how to do most operations on a PC Windows 8's issues are a larger problem.
It doesn't matter if you have a great engine if the car is too difficult to drive.
Sounds like an opportunity for an XP to Linux Upgrade utility. One that moves the XP programs to Wine or perhaps an XP virtual machine in the process...
That sounds like a pretty tall order. They don't even consider maintaining the Wubi/Mint4Win installers a good cause.
The second notable thing, who is the "all others"? All sort of white-label chinese makers? Who is buying these?
Brands like Haier, Eviant, etc Yes. White label Chinese makers for the most part.
The people buying them a schmucks who still watch QVC/HSN and think they're getting a good deal when they could do better, with the same convenience, buy turning on their computer and shopping online.
They should adjust those numbers for the devices that are returned to the manufacture for hardware issues, because I can tell you from professional experience these "other" tablets are junk.
I don't know about most people, but if I'm driving more than an hour or two, I'm renting a car so as not to put the miles on my own cars. I would never drive my commuter long distances
Isn't a "commuter" a person who drives long distances on a regular basis every day to work? Also, you should know that highway driving is actually much better for your car than stop-and-go city driving. I would say you're doing a vehicle a disservice to only drive it to and from work in what I imagine to be rush hour traffic, and not on a longer trip on the highway were it can wind up and burn accumulated sludge and other internal dirt off from inside.
That's why I use masking tape and a Sharpie to make a label for the transformer itself (easier to identify when under a desk or behind a cabinet trying to unplug something) and a second tag that goes at the device plug end so if I unplug two or more things I'll make sure not to get them mixed up.
This has been covered 2-3 times in the last year already, and the answers aren't going to change. Corporate greed is the overwhelming reason. Lack of necessary infrastructure is the other. But then that's because there is no system upgrading being done because of -- corporate greed.
Instead of having the same discussions about the problem, a more productive discussion would be about how to solve the issue and steps people can take to actually realize those solutions.
This is Facebook we're talking about. They could have offered to charter a jet to take him where he needed to go if missing his flight was a possibility from long negotiations.
Alienating your users seems to be all the rage lately.
It's part of that whole "you're not the customer, you're the product" thing. I've never heard a meat-packing plant listen to the feedback from cows, either.
We — the taxpayers — chose to give those losers their foodstamps (by electing the foodstamp President — twice)
Are you aware a food stamp program of some sort has been operating in this country since 1939? Are you seriously going to hold a single man responsible for a program that has run for over 70 years?
You have any idea how much shit has happened since then? We've had so many congressional changing-of-the-hands back and forth between the Democrats and the Republicans there is ZERO way either of them can point at the other and say "it's their fault." They have BOTH had plenty of opportunities to change/end the Food Stamp program if it's really the blight you make it out to be.
"Maybe the bigger question is why is CEO pay so entirely disconnected from company performance?"
The even bigger question is, why is this any of our business? As long as it is not the taxpayers footing the bill, count your own money...
Taxpayers are footing the bill. Or did you miss the recent media attention about all the people who work at Wal-Mart, McDonald's etc and have to get food stamps and other government assistance to make ends meet. This isn't the rhetorical lazy bum leeching off welfare or unemployment benefits, there are people being good citizens and actually working.
I motion could be raised that with enough initial support could be put to a vote from the entire shareholder group, allowing your to combine your voices.
Apparently to fix your Linksys, I hear all you need to do is disable: Remote Administration
IMHO, that's a feature that should have never been turned on by default to start with. When I bought my last router (a Linksys WRT54G) eight or nine years ago, you could only administer it over wired connections by default. You had to turn on the ability to use wireless devices to make changes.
Nowadays router makers seem to all allow wireless admin access by default, even when most people never bother to change the admin password. So all you need is to not secure your wifi (or have a compromised password) and any wardriver can have free reign to change stuff.
These routers don't have a hard drive included. They have a USB port, to which the user can connect an external hard drive, which will then be made accessible on the router's LAN.
For network accessible storage that doesn't require someone to leave a computer up 24/7 to run? The Internet accessibility is so you can get stuff from home when you're away from home.
It's all part of giving Joe Sixpack the abilities of a techie with a FreeNAS server, without making him learn anything about computers or networking -- or security for that matter.
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What I don't get is that with this app there's actual evidence of the bullying that teachers can address.
Unless these messages are being sent during school hours from school property, I don't see how teachers have any responsibility in the matter. It's private messaging between people and they have their right to speech. If folks are feeling harassed or defamed, maybe the parents of the kids need to work this out or seek the appropriate legal action -- at which point I'm sure someone will bill them $50 to say "just uninstall the damn app".
The iPad is synced to an iTunes account and since it's locked and no one can open it we know it's the account of the owner of the device. The iTunes account is tied to a credit or debit card is it not? Otherwise the owner would not have been able to get any apps for the iPad. Even free apps require some way to legally verify the "purchaser" is in the location they say they are for licensing reasons.
The bank account/line of credit is legally tied to the deceased. Seems to me Apple is sitting on the very proof they are requiring of the family.
They've now asked for a court order to prove that mum was the owner of the iPad and the iTunes account.
The fact the iPad is synced to the iTunes account is evidence they are owned by one and the same person.
The iTunes account has the full name, address, and credit card information of the owner on it (unless she never bought apps). That credit card account is legally tied to the deceased. Apple already holds the evidence in their own fucking billing system.
They probably think it's some sort of anti-virus or computer protection program.
I'm still waiting for someone to come out with a malware app named "Foxfire". Considering how often I hear people call Firefox that they would lock up a nice number of PCs before anyone had it figured out they were downloading the wrong application.
It's the equivalent of saying X model of car is absolutely horrible because you don't like the layout of the dash.
While tech-savvy people may be able to find their way around Windows 8's "quirks" for your lower home user who barely knows how to do most operations on a PC Windows 8's issues are a larger problem.
It doesn't matter if you have a great engine if the car is too difficult to drive.
Sounds like an opportunity for an XP to Linux Upgrade utility. One that moves the XP programs to Wine or perhaps an XP virtual machine in the process...
That sounds like a pretty tall order. They don't even consider maintaining the Wubi/Mint4Win installers a good cause.
That, folks, is why you never use an ISP provided router. Of course at some point you'll be forced to "upgrade" to a modem with integrated wifi.
I can just build a nice little Faraday cage for it to live in.
Jeez, I made a lot of stupid typos on that post. That's what happens when you type by muscle memory and are distracted.
The second notable thing, who is the "all others"? All sort of white-label chinese makers? Who is buying these?
Brands like Haier, Eviant, etc Yes. White label Chinese makers for the most part.
The people buying them a schmucks who still watch QVC/HSN and think they're getting a good deal when they could do better, with the same convenience, buy turning on their computer and shopping online.
They should adjust those numbers for the devices that are returned to the manufacture for hardware issues, because I can tell you from professional experience these "other" tablets are junk.
I don't know about most people, but if I'm driving more than an hour or two, I'm renting a car so as not to put the miles on my own cars. I would never drive my commuter long distances
Isn't a "commuter" a person who drives long distances on a regular basis every day to work?
Also, you should know that highway driving is actually much better for your car than stop-and-go city driving. I would say you're doing a vehicle a disservice to only drive it to and from work in what I imagine to be rush hour traffic, and not on a longer trip on the highway were it can wind up and burn accumulated sludge and other internal dirt off from inside.
I always heard it as:
"God is dead."
- Friedrich Nietzsche, 1882
"Nietzsche is dead."
- God, 1900
...as little as possible. What's up with this obsession to play with every second of every day anyway?
Maybe to make up for the lack of human contact we have in today's increasingly "connected" world.
That's why I use masking tape and a Sharpie to make a label for the transformer itself (easier to identify when under a desk or behind a cabinet trying to unplug something) and a second tag that goes at the device plug end so if I unplug two or more things I'll make sure not to get them mixed up.
This has been covered 2-3 times in the last year already, and the answers aren't going to change.
Corporate greed is the overwhelming reason.
Lack of necessary infrastructure is the other. But then that's because there is no system upgrading being done because of -- corporate greed.
Instead of having the same discussions about the problem, a more productive discussion would be about how to solve the issue and steps people can take to actually realize those solutions.
This is Facebook we're talking about. They could have offered to charter a jet to take him where he needed to go if missing his flight was a possibility from long negotiations.
Yeah, Facebook caved over an airline ticket cost.
Alienating your users seems to be all the rage lately.
It's part of that whole "you're not the customer, you're the product" thing.
I've never heard a meat-packing plant listen to the feedback from cows, either.
We — the taxpayers — chose to give those losers their foodstamps (by electing the foodstamp President — twice)
Are you aware a food stamp program of some sort has been operating in this country since 1939?
Are you seriously going to hold a single man responsible for a program that has run for over 70 years?
You have any idea how much shit has happened since then? We've had so many congressional changing-of-the-hands back and forth between the Democrats and the Republicans there is ZERO way either of them can point at the other and say "it's their fault." They have BOTH had plenty of opportunities to change/end the Food Stamp program if it's really the blight you make it out to be.
The even bigger question is, why is this any of our business? As long as it is not the taxpayers footing the bill, count your own money...
Taxpayers are footing the bill. Or did you miss the recent media attention about all the people who work at Wal-Mart, McDonald's etc and have to get food stamps and other government assistance to make ends meet. This isn't the rhetorical lazy bum leeching off welfare or unemployment benefits, there are people being good citizens and actually working.
I motion could be raised that with enough initial support could be put to a vote from the entire shareholder group, allowing your to combine your voices.
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Okay, everyone. Put down your pitchforks.
Apparently to fix your Linksys, I hear all you need to do is disable: Remote Administration
IMHO, that's a feature that should have never been turned on by default to start with. When I bought my last router (a Linksys WRT54G) eight or nine years ago, you could only administer it over wired connections by default. You had to turn on the ability to use wireless devices to make changes.
Nowadays router makers seem to all allow wireless admin access by default, even when most people never bother to change the admin password. So all you need is to not secure your wifi (or have a compromised password) and any wardriver can have free reign to change stuff.
These routers don't have a hard drive included. They have a USB port, to which the user can connect an external hard drive, which will then be made accessible on the router's LAN.
There's a Netgear that goes one step further.
For network accessible storage that doesn't require someone to leave a computer up 24/7 to run? The Internet accessibility is so you can get stuff from home when you're away from home.
It's all part of giving Joe Sixpack the abilities of a techie with a FreeNAS server, without making him learn anything about computers or networking -- or security for that matter.
for Valentine's Day three years from now.
...rarely demonstrate morality, or apathy for the condition of...
Oops. I meant empathy there.