People don't want insane guest worker programs because that means you'd be forced to crack down on immigration and then suddenly illegals would be prevented from voting and companies would no longer have slaves.
It's pretty disgusting to see such prosecutorial misconduct in the US
Hate to tell you, but stuff like this goes on daily in the US. Yes, daily. Many times per day all over the US. It is not uncommon in the least. Seriously, spend some time on websites which center on police, courts, and protection of constitutional rights. On a daily basis you'll find judges looking the other way, DA's lying and even fabricating evidence, police murdering citizens without prosecution, illegal arrests, so on and so on. Seriously, the ACLU is completely useless. If you're donating to them, you are literally wasting your money. In case you don't know, the US courts have literally legalized bribery of politicians and now even protects the identify of those bribing.
If you're at all shocked to learn Amerika has arrived, honestly, you're not a good citizen. And that's one of the biggest problems which allows these abuses to take place. The simple truth is, no one wants to believe or hear the truth. That's completely why McCain lost the last election. He told the truth and was punished for it. Obama lied and did exactly what McCain said needed to be done. That's the facts. America is almost completely corrupt. Literally the only difference between totalitarian leaders and the US government and courts is in the US, they have legalized means to obscure it from public view. Add to the fact that most US citizens are dumb and even more absolutely do not want to know the truth means they get carte blanch to do almost anything they want.
I sincerely challenge all of you to start investigating. If you think you are disgusted now, you will likely vomit when you finish a half dozen hours of honest research into the state of government, courts, and police in the US. And that's no hyperbole or exaguration.
Before you troll moderators go to town, please read the whole thing. And if you think I'm still trolling, please visit the bug tracker and read the android developer blogs and groups. If you still moderate negatively, you absolutely are troll moderating.
Not really. He's actually a little right. The problem isn't the android store. The problem is the Android platform. The simple fact is, the platform makes it very easy for applications to completely destroy interactive performance. It has some very serious design flaws top to bottom. Its a serious headache for developers. That's why so many developers, when you report a problem, want a device log. They want to know the application mix you have installed because some applications absolutely destroy performance (Locale and Shop Savvy, for example). The memory management model, especially for services, frequently compounds the issue.
The problem has nothing to do with the store. The problem is that Google needs to properly design their framework. The fact Google provides no Q&A only further highlights the serious design flaws of their framework. Once you start digging into the framework, its very obvious the people who designed it had no experience doing this type of thing before. They've made many of the same mistakes (plus many more), which plagued Windows 3. Ya, some design decisions are that bad.
Which begs the question, why don't they all just get together and pound the shit out of these guys.
Personally, I can't get my brain around the fact something so obvious is patentable in the first place. But beyond that, seems like just about every big player would be waiting in line to kick these guys to the curb if they thought it was the least bit defensible.
Holy shit...try opening yours. From my comments AND YOURS its very obvious that not only am I the only one who knows what the fuck we're talking about, but that you're completely delusional - which is further reaffirmed by your idiotic post.
The problem with lookout is that is has every red flag permission under the sun. How many viruses do you think are in your contacts list?
Extremely caution should be used when any application requires read contacts and internet access. How sure are you, you didn't just give away the bank? You can see for yourself. Lookout requires the following list of permissions.
Your accounts
manage the accounts list
Allows an application to perform operations like adding, and removing accounts and deleting their password.
Hardware controls
change your audio settings
Allows application to modify global audio settings such as volume and routing.
Your location
coarse (network-based) location
Access coarse location sources such as the cellular network database to determine an approximate device location, where available. Malicious applications can use this to determine approximately where you are.
fine (GPS) location
Access fine location sources such as the Global Positioning System on the device, where available. Malicious applications can use this to determine where you are, and may consume additional battery power.
Your messages
read SMS or MMS
Allows application to read SMS messages stored on your device or SIM card. Malicious applications may read your confidential messages.
receive SMS
Allows application to receive and process SMS messages. Malicious applications may monitor your messages or delete them without showing them to you.
edit SMS or MMS
Allows application to write to SMS messages stored on your device or SIM card. Malicious applications may delete your messages.
Network communication
full Internet access
Allows an application to create network sockets.
Your personal information
read contact data
Allows an application to read all of the contact (address) data stored on your device. Malicious applications can use this to send your data to other people.
read sensitive log data
Allows an application to read from the system's various log files. This allows it to discover general information about what you are doing with the device, potentially including personal or private information.
add or modify calendar events and send email to guests
Allows an application to add or change the events on your calendar, which may send email to guests. Malicious applications can use this to erase or modify your calendar events or to send email to guests.
write contact data
Allows an application to modify the contact (address) data stored on your device. Malicious applications can use this to erase or modify your contact data.
read Browser's history and bookmarks
Allows the application to read all the URLs that the Browser has visited, and all of the Browser's bookmarks.
write Browser's history and bookmarks
Allows an application to modify the Browser's history or bookmarks stored on your device. Malicious applications can use this to erase or modify your Browser's data.
Again, you're confusing existence with practical. The fact you keep pushing the work practical on technology which has not yet been proven practical validates you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
If it was practical and existed for over a decade, there would be a hell of a lot more than 3 or 4 - don't ya think? Basically you're argument is that you, knowing absolutely nothing, know more than everyone else in the world. Delusion is the best, most polite word, to describe your position.
How do you come to that idea? We (mankind) have various kinds of solar thermal plants running for decades now.
I dunno. Maybe being well read and not an idiot. Back on planet Earth, the list of thermal solar plants is extremely short. Next, list the number of thermal solar plants which continue to produce electricity after the sun goes down. Its nearly universally agreed and understood, the later is a requirement for solar thermal to become a viable energy source and an absolute mandate for it to become base load. Furthermore, you're also confusing existence with practical application.
There are lots of excellent alternatives to fossil fuels coming down the pike: solar, wind, nuclear, geothermal, fuel cells.
Hmmmm....not so much.
Solar thermal looks like the only viable option and that's still unproven. Solar voltaic has a long, long, long way to go yet. Wind is improving nicely, but is limited in many areas. Nuclear, by far, is still are best, strongest option. Geothermal is applicable to a tiny number of locations. Those that have tried it in other, non-classical geothermal areas tend to create earthquakes and general geological instabilities. Fuel cells are still extremely expensive and nowhere near cost effective. I've not read anything about fuel cells which hint that's likely to change any time soon.
In a nut shell, in order of promise, both immediate and the next two decades we have, nuclear, wind, solar-thermal, and maybe...possibly, iffy, solar-voltaic.
jamie points out a recent report that the cost of solar cells has dropped about 21 percent this year, leading to predictions that solar power may become cheaper than nuclear and fossil power within five years.
Which in turn says:
If we can get solar at 15 cents a kilowatt-hour or lower, which Iâ(TM)m hopeful that we will do, youâ(TM)re going to have a lot of people that are going to want to have solar at home,
Basically, they are hoping to be competitive with consumer rates and are decades away, at best, and if ever, from being competitive with base load rates. That's an idiotic statement of someone trying to drive stock prices which have absolute no connection with reality.
For solar, it would literally be a major break through to provide peak load competitive prices and they are no where near being close to being competitive with base load generation. Even moreso, voltaic requires HALF the price of base load to be competitive with base load as it can only generate power half the time. Only solar-thermal looks to be able to ever be price competitive with base load pricing and even that is just now coming out of the gate.
Well, that's the point of a mesh network. Its decentralized. It can be combated, but its much harder to do so. And if you have traffic off of their network, they don't know it exists without feet on the ground. So it can provide for alternative communication channels outside of totalitarian control.
Actually there is. When they own the entire network, they have absolute control. That's the point which you seem to be missing. They don't have absolute control now. A mesh network would make their control even more illusive.
Sure seems like the technological savvy of Iran would be pushing private, wireless, encrypted, mesh networking as a means to counter these efforts. For Iranians, censorship is but one of their their problems. Communication and control is the leadership's real desire. Censorship is just a means to an end - control.
This raises the question, why wasn't this thought of before when the whole space race was on?
It was. The technical limitation is very well know. Most of the comments to my post seem to be under the impression they are somehow correcting me, when in fact they are not. Not even close. They are simply adding more detail, much of which is eluded to and understood in my original post, if you know anything of the subject.
This problem is the primary reason launch sites exist where they do (maximum velocity while minimizing time in lower atomosphere). This problem is why rockets are always filled when vertical and never horizontal. A rocket can not support its own weight when horizontal and filled. In fact, last I read, most of these rockets can't tilt but a couple of degrees without being under thrust. Doing so otherwise requires much more structural support which kicks off that whole nasty cycle to which I originally spoke. This orientation more or less forces lift by thrust.
The creation of the skylon is only possible with the advent of dramatic improvements in material sciences, super/hyper sonic aerodynamics, and computer simulations. As you can see, even with massive improvements in these areas, its still very much a difficult problem. With a slide rule, its all but impossible. So its not that they didn't understand the problem. They absolutely did. Its that they understood the significance of the problem so well, they purposely went out of their way to avoid it entirely.
Again, I believe he's confused. Most people will only ever own two homes in their lifetime. You will live in many more. Chances are, even if he wasn't leasing, he simply traded in on a vehicle he was making payments on. I doubt he "owned" them outright.
Perhaps this is splitting hairs on the definition of owning. Meaning, owning outright verses making payments. Technically, you don't own until you hold that title.
Your account is by far, very abnormal. BTW, by any chance, as so many do, are you confusing ownership with leasing? Many people completely confuse the two, which of course, completely changes the perception of actual ownership. If you have been leasing, which is likely, then your actual ownership is probably zero.
For ten years and six cars, that's basically a new vehicle every two years which falls on a typical lease schedule. I seriously suspect you've deluded yourself into believing you've owned six cars when in fact you've owned zero.
Perhaps you should learn some history of Dubai. The city largely exists as is specifically because they understand the oil money won't last forever. That city specifically exists as is knowing full well the money will run out. Dubai is their answer, not the question.
Whoever moderated this down is literally a complete fucking idiot. Sadly, that's the norm on slashdot these days. Really miss the days when smart people could come here without being surrounded by complete fucktards who are not qualified to pick their nose then moderate based on their own closed-world stupidity rather than actual knowledge and facts.
Not in this case. Far too often,the truth is far, far, far, far, far, far closer to what physicist and the industry has to say on the subject. Sadly, public knowledge seems to be closer to the middle or completely on the other side.
All too often, people ignorantly forget there are two sides to the equation and only ever go out of their way to hold one accountable. You have the network, which everyone always blames, and then you have the device which is accessing the network. Very frequently I've found when people blame the network its actually their device and/or location at fault. For whatever reason, people want to believe their choice of device is always perfect and the problem can only, ever, be the network.
That's not to say networks never have problems. Of course they do. Some obviously have more than others. But people never seem willing to blame what should always be the first suspect - their own device and/or location.
I remember well a coworker who would daily lament his network. He constantly bitched about dropped calls. One day, after him noticing the successful completion and yet another phone call he turns to me and asks which carrier I have. Before I could answer he then proceeded to tell me how lucky I was to have such a good carrier who never dropped calls and provided such good service for the area. He was embarrassed to learn we had the same carrier. The only difference was the device in question. He was pretty pissed when he found out his device cost roughly four times what I paid for my own.
Simply put, devices makes a HUGE difference. Even differences in DSP firmware on the exact same hardware can make huge, night and day differences in quality and performance. Paying more for a device frequently means paying for a brand name and/or features. The price may have little bearing on the quality of performance. If you spend time looking at device performance and do nothing to evaluate a device's primary function, by far, YOU are to blame moreso than any device and/or network. Sadly, this is the defacto standard. Sadly, few people do any research into a phone's primary function but will research the hell out of battery life and tetris playing capability.
I wish I could care about start up time. I start my browser a couple times per month - at most. The extra couple of seconds one way or the other is absolutely meaningless, even accumulated over the span of a year.
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People don't want insane guest worker programs because that means you'd be forced to crack down on immigration and then suddenly illegals would be prevented from voting and companies would no longer have slaves.
It's pretty disgusting to see such prosecutorial misconduct in the US
Hate to tell you, but stuff like this goes on daily in the US. Yes, daily. Many times per day all over the US. It is not uncommon in the least. Seriously, spend some time on websites which center on police, courts, and protection of constitutional rights. On a daily basis you'll find judges looking the other way, DA's lying and even fabricating evidence, police murdering citizens without prosecution, illegal arrests, so on and so on. Seriously, the ACLU is completely useless. If you're donating to them, you are literally wasting your money. In case you don't know, the US courts have literally legalized bribery of politicians and now even protects the identify of those bribing.
If you're at all shocked to learn Amerika has arrived, honestly, you're not a good citizen. And that's one of the biggest problems which allows these abuses to take place. The simple truth is, no one wants to believe or hear the truth. That's completely why McCain lost the last election. He told the truth and was punished for it. Obama lied and did exactly what McCain said needed to be done. That's the facts. America is almost completely corrupt. Literally the only difference between totalitarian leaders and the US government and courts is in the US, they have legalized means to obscure it from public view. Add to the fact that most US citizens are dumb and even more absolutely do not want to know the truth means they get carte blanch to do almost anything they want.
I sincerely challenge all of you to start investigating. If you think you are disgusted now, you will likely vomit when you finish a half dozen hours of honest research into the state of government, courts, and police in the US. And that's no hyperbole or exaguration.
Before you troll moderators go to town, please read the whole thing. And if you think I'm still trolling, please visit the bug tracker and read the android developer blogs and groups. If you still moderate negatively, you absolutely are troll moderating.
Not really. He's actually a little right. The problem isn't the android store. The problem is the Android platform. The simple fact is, the platform makes it very easy for applications to completely destroy interactive performance. It has some very serious design flaws top to bottom. Its a serious headache for developers. That's why so many developers, when you report a problem, want a device log. They want to know the application mix you have installed because some applications absolutely destroy performance (Locale and Shop Savvy, for example). The memory management model, especially for services, frequently compounds the issue.
The problem has nothing to do with the store. The problem is that Google needs to properly design their framework. The fact Google provides no Q&A only further highlights the serious design flaws of their framework. Once you start digging into the framework, its very obvious the people who designed it had no experience doing this type of thing before. They've made many of the same mistakes (plus many more), which plagued Windows 3. Ya, some design decisions are that bad.
Which begs the question, why don't they all just get together and pound the shit out of these guys.
Personally, I can't get my brain around the fact something so obvious is patentable in the first place. But beyond that, seems like just about every big player would be waiting in line to kick these guys to the curb if they thought it was the least bit defensible.
Holy shit...try opening yours. From my comments AND YOURS its very obvious that not only am I the only one who knows what the fuck we're talking about, but that you're completely delusional - which is further reaffirmed by your idiotic post.
Holy shit you stupid.
The problem with lookout is that is has every red flag permission under the sun. How many viruses do you think are in your contacts list?
Extremely caution should be used when any application requires read contacts and internet access. How sure are you, you didn't just give away the bank? You can see for yourself. Lookout requires the following list of permissions.
Your accounts
manage the accounts list
Allows an application to perform operations like adding, and removing accounts and deleting their password.
Hardware controls
change your audio settings
Allows application to modify global audio settings such as volume and routing.
Your location
coarse (network-based) location
Access coarse location sources such as the cellular network database to determine an approximate device location, where available. Malicious applications can use this to determine approximately where you are.
fine (GPS) location
Access fine location sources such as the Global Positioning System on the device, where available. Malicious applications can use this to determine where you are, and may consume additional battery power.
Your messages
read SMS or MMS
Allows application to read SMS messages stored on your device or SIM card. Malicious applications may read your confidential messages.
receive SMS
Allows application to receive and process SMS messages. Malicious applications may monitor your messages or delete them without showing them to you.
edit SMS or MMS
Allows application to write to SMS messages stored on your device or SIM card. Malicious applications may delete your messages.
Network communication
full Internet access
Allows an application to create network sockets.
Your personal information
read contact data
Allows an application to read all of the contact (address) data stored on your device. Malicious applications can use this to send your data to other people.
read sensitive log data
Allows an application to read from the system's various log files. This allows it to discover general information about what you are doing with the device, potentially including personal or private information.
add or modify calendar events and send email to guests
Allows an application to add or change the events on your calendar, which may send email to guests. Malicious applications can use this to erase or modify your calendar events or to send email to guests.
write contact data
Allows an application to modify the contact (address) data stored on your device. Malicious applications can use this to erase or modify your contact data.
read Browser's history and bookmarks
Allows the application to read all the URLs that the Browser has visited, and all of the Browser's bookmarks.
write Browser's history and bookmarks
Allows an application to modify the Browser's history or bookmarks stored on your device. Malicious applications can use this to erase or modify your Browser's data.
Again, you're confusing existence with practical. The fact you keep pushing the work practical on technology which has not yet been proven practical validates you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
If it was practical and existed for over a decade, there would be a hell of a lot more than 3 or 4 - don't ya think? Basically you're argument is that you, knowing absolutely nothing, know more than everyone else in the world. Delusion is the best, most polite word, to describe your position.
How do you come to that idea? We (mankind) have various kinds of solar thermal plants running for decades now.
I dunno. Maybe being well read and not an idiot. Back on planet Earth, the list of thermal solar plants is extremely short. Next, list the number of thermal solar plants which continue to produce electricity after the sun goes down. Its nearly universally agreed and understood, the later is a requirement for solar thermal to become a viable energy source and an absolute mandate for it to become base load. Furthermore, you're also confusing existence with practical application.
There are lots of excellent alternatives to fossil fuels coming down the pike: solar, wind, nuclear, geothermal, fuel cells.
Hmmmm....not so much.
Solar thermal looks like the only viable option and that's still unproven. Solar voltaic has a long, long, long way to go yet. Wind is improving nicely, but is limited in many areas. Nuclear, by far, is still are best, strongest option. Geothermal is applicable to a tiny number of locations. Those that have tried it in other, non-classical geothermal areas tend to create earthquakes and general geological instabilities. Fuel cells are still extremely expensive and nowhere near cost effective. I've not read anything about fuel cells which hint that's likely to change any time soon.
In a nut shell, in order of promise, both immediate and the next two decades we have, nuclear, wind, solar-thermal, and maybe...possibly, iffy, solar-voltaic.
jamie points out a recent report that the cost of solar cells has dropped about 21 percent this year, leading to predictions that solar power may become cheaper than nuclear and fossil power within five years.
Which in turn says:
If we can get solar at 15 cents a kilowatt-hour or lower, which Iâ(TM)m hopeful that we will do, youâ(TM)re going to have a lot of people that are going to want to have solar at home,
Basically, they are hoping to be competitive with consumer rates and are decades away, at best, and if ever, from being competitive with base load rates. That's an idiotic statement of someone trying to drive stock prices which have absolute no connection with reality.
For solar, it would literally be a major break through to provide peak load competitive prices and they are no where near being close to being competitive with base load generation. Even moreso, voltaic requires HALF the price of base load to be competitive with base load as it can only generate power half the time. Only solar-thermal looks to be able to ever be price competitive with base load pricing and even that is just now coming out of the gate.
Reality says the commentary is full of shit.
Well, that's the point of a mesh network. Its decentralized. It can be combated, but its much harder to do so. And if you have traffic off of their network, they don't know it exists without feet on the ground. So it can provide for alternative communication channels outside of totalitarian control.
Actually there is. When they own the entire network, they have absolute control. That's the point which you seem to be missing. They don't have absolute control now. A mesh network would make their control even more illusive.
Sure seems like the technological savvy of Iran would be pushing private, wireless, encrypted, mesh networking as a means to counter these efforts. For Iranians, censorship is but one of their their problems. Communication and control is the leadership's real desire. Censorship is just a means to an end - control.
This raises the question, why wasn't this thought of before when the whole space race was on?
It was. The technical limitation is very well know. Most of the comments to my post seem to be under the impression they are somehow correcting me, when in fact they are not. Not even close. They are simply adding more detail, much of which is eluded to and understood in my original post, if you know anything of the subject.
This problem is the primary reason launch sites exist where they do (maximum velocity while minimizing time in lower atomosphere). This problem is why rockets are always filled when vertical and never horizontal. A rocket can not support its own weight when horizontal and filled. In fact, last I read, most of these rockets can't tilt but a couple of degrees without being under thrust. Doing so otherwise requires much more structural support which kicks off that whole nasty cycle to which I originally spoke. This orientation more or less forces lift by thrust.
The creation of the skylon is only possible with the advent of dramatic improvements in material sciences, super/hyper sonic aerodynamics, and computer simulations. As you can see, even with massive improvements in these areas, its still very much a difficult problem. With a slide rule, its all but impossible. So its not that they didn't understand the problem. They absolutely did. Its that they understood the significance of the problem so well, they purposely went out of their way to avoid it entirely.
Again, I believe he's confused. Most people will only ever own two homes in their lifetime. You will live in many more. Chances are, even if he wasn't leasing, he simply traded in on a vehicle he was making payments on. I doubt he "owned" them outright.
Perhaps this is splitting hairs on the definition of owning. Meaning, owning outright verses making payments. Technically, you don't own until you hold that title.
Your account is by far, very abnormal. BTW, by any chance, as so many do, are you confusing ownership with leasing? Many people completely confuse the two, which of course, completely changes the perception of actual ownership. If you have been leasing, which is likely, then your actual ownership is probably zero.
For ten years and six cars, that's basically a new vehicle every two years which falls on a typical lease schedule. I seriously suspect you've deluded yourself into believing you've owned six cars when in fact you've owned zero.
He can sell his packaging and related services.
Perhaps you should learn some history of Dubai. The city largely exists as is specifically because they understand the oil money won't last forever. That city specifically exists as is knowing full well the money will run out. Dubai is their answer, not the question.
Bzzzzz.
ACH's require authorization. That's exactly why there exists ACH authorization forms. Wow, that was tough.
An ACH transfer without authorization puts the banks liable.
Whoever moderated this down is literally a complete fucking idiot. Sadly, that's the norm on slashdot these days. Really miss the days when smart people could come here without being surrounded by complete fucktards who are not qualified to pick their nose then moderate based on their own closed-world stupidity rather than actual knowledge and facts.
Holy shit you are fucking stupid moderator.
The story is beyond stupid. The well established history of the advancement in aerodynamics in the US completely disproves the story.
Frankly, aliens are more likely that this bullshit story...and that's saying a lot!
You people are completely missing the point.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS OFFICIALLY STATED THEY HAVE ABSOLUTE CONTROL WHERE YOU CAN AND CAN NOT TRAVEL - EVEN WITH PRIVATE TRANSPORTATION.
Legally, the federal government has ZERO say here. Their position is flatly unconstitutional and for Texas, a violation of state and federal law.
And the truth lies in the middle.
Not in this case. Far too often,the truth is far, far, far, far, far, far closer to what physicist and the industry has to say on the subject. Sadly, public knowledge seems to be closer to the middle or completely on the other side.
All too often, people ignorantly forget there are two sides to the equation and only ever go out of their way to hold one accountable. You have the network, which everyone always blames, and then you have the device which is accessing the network. Very frequently I've found when people blame the network its actually their device and/or location at fault. For whatever reason, people want to believe their choice of device is always perfect and the problem can only, ever, be the network.
That's not to say networks never have problems. Of course they do. Some obviously have more than others. But people never seem willing to blame what should always be the first suspect - their own device and/or location.
I remember well a coworker who would daily lament his network. He constantly bitched about dropped calls. One day, after him noticing the successful completion and yet another phone call he turns to me and asks which carrier I have. Before I could answer he then proceeded to tell me how lucky I was to have such a good carrier who never dropped calls and provided such good service for the area. He was embarrassed to learn we had the same carrier. The only difference was the device in question. He was pretty pissed when he found out his device cost roughly four times what I paid for my own.
Simply put, devices makes a HUGE difference. Even differences in DSP firmware on the exact same hardware can make huge, night and day differences in quality and performance. Paying more for a device frequently means paying for a brand name and/or features. The price may have little bearing on the quality of performance. If you spend time looking at device performance and do nothing to evaluate a device's primary function, by far, YOU are to blame moreso than any device and/or network. Sadly, this is the defacto standard. Sadly, few people do any research into a phone's primary function but will research the hell out of battery life and tetris playing capability.
I wish I could care about start up time. I start my browser a couple times per month - at most. The extra couple of seconds one way or the other is absolutely meaningless, even accumulated over the span of a year.
You need a hobby.