It strikes me that one potential way to solve this is through religious based charity.
Yes, if you look back to the UK in Victorian times, that worked splendidly if you were one of the "deserving poor". Tough luck if you weren't.
When it comes to basic human needs, charity is not the answer. Everyone should have equal access to, and pay their share of, things like education, health, unemployment benefits, and pensions. It's called socialism (or humanism depending on your point of view). It should not depend on believing in God and the Bible.
The drones don't 'bomb villages' (that statement shows how ignorant you are) they fire hellfire missiles into 'compounds' that the various special forces have usually reconoitered. Those compounds have jihadis and their families. Occasionally the missiles do miss and do kill villagers - this is indeed a tragedy, but is unintentional and less frequent than you would think
Ah, I see, you count the families of the "jihadis" as combatants and not civilians. Why not just say that anyone in the whole village is giving support to a terrorist, and so isn't a civilian either?
Eventually, you'll be able to show that no more than a handful of real civilians have ever been killed in Afghanistan or Iraq.
And I'm sure you'd approve if terrorists started shooting soldiers' wives and kids back home and claiming them as legitimate military targets.
Haha what a scrub, my wife and I each have our own houses! I mean seriously, if you're a grown-ass adult that can't afford two houses in the hills I don't know what to tell you.
Jesus, only one house each, are you on welfare or something? My kids have more than one house each.
If it applies to innocents as well as the guilty, taking a deal is completely irrelevant and unrelated to actual guiltiness. Thus, you can't use the number of deals as measure to estimate that a majority is guilty.
If you take a deal, you are admitting you are guilty (of a lesser offence) and thus you are not innocent. Therefore, 100% of people taking deals are guilty, by definition.
If you're innocent, you don't plead guilty. No one is going to believe otherwise, unless you can prove you were actually tortured, or something.
Yeah, the fact that he published the resulting information rather than trying to do anything about closing the security hole has nothing to do with it.
While I am no fan of Fox News, I gave up browsing news.google.com and started reading more Fox News. The reason... gun control. None of the other networks reported on anything reasonably in favor of the 2nd amendment. Every article they reported about gun control they immediately tied to the recent Newtown tragedy. There was such a libreal anti-gun and anti-2nd amendment bias that it just sickened me.
Did it not occur to you that perhaps the majority of people are actually in favour of gun control and it's not some "libreal" conspiracy?
Ugh, you used the word "agility". The ability to flit between viewpoints and arguments without believing in any of them is one of the problems with the younger generation(s). They don't truly believe in anything except their entitlement to free entertainment and a shiny new phone every year..
Isn't that exactly what he said? It doesn't matter how many charges it takes, facing a harsher sentence for this compared to manslaughter or rape is abhorrent.
It is the barbaric US concept of consecutive sentences that is the problem. If, say, copyright infringement has a maximum sentence of one year, but you've been found guilty of two hundred counts so you're going to jail for 200 years, that is simply obscene.
But I doubt that many people here would complain if it was for old-fashioned burglary or something. Then everyone would be in full "lock 'em up and throw away the key" mode.
Probably on a planet where he'd be arrested for hate speech.
I know, it's funny how in the US there's no problem with the most obnoxious racist, sexist, homophobic, or whatever speech, but as soon as you question your corporate overlords, you're toast.
Another feature I'd like to see, is some temporary power storage outside of the phone (maybe an extra cap or something) that could provide a few seconds of battery-less power to swap batteries without restarting the phone.
That is a good point. Phones don't take that long to restart, but it's still annoying if you're in the middle of something important.
If you get so little return on your time as that, you might want to find a job that pays a bit better than graveyard shift at the Quik-E Mart.
Translation: I am a stupid rich fuck who can't work out how to open a slashdot account. My daddy got me a job in his bank, and aren't you little people funny?
Skip breakfast, and stick to carbs like potatos. Your body won't shift in to physical mode so takes all that energy and has it available for your brain which will then overclock itself seeing the body isn't being used.
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It strikes me that one potential way to solve this is through religious based charity.
Yes, if you look back to the UK in Victorian times, that worked splendidly if you were one of the "deserving poor". Tough luck if you weren't.
When it comes to basic human needs, charity is not the answer. Everyone should have equal access to, and pay their share of, things like education, health, unemployment benefits, and pensions. It's called socialism (or humanism depending on your point of view). It should not depend on believing in God and the Bible.
The drones don't 'bomb villages' (that statement shows how ignorant you are) they fire hellfire missiles into 'compounds' that the various special forces have usually reconoitered. Those compounds have jihadis and their families. Occasionally the missiles do miss and do kill villagers - this is indeed a tragedy, but is unintentional and less frequent than you would think
Ah, I see, you count the families of the "jihadis" as combatants and not civilians. Why not just say that anyone in the whole village is giving support to a terrorist, and so isn't a civilian either?
Eventually, you'll be able to show that no more than a handful of real civilians have ever been killed in Afghanistan or Iraq.
And I'm sure you'd approve if terrorists started shooting soldiers' wives and kids back home and claiming them as legitimate military targets.
It's lucky the enlightened Saudis know that copyright infringement!=theft isn't it?
I get the impression that a hundred and odd years ago, you'd have been queueing up to buy the Brooklyn Bridge.
Haha what a scrub, my wife and I each have our own houses! I mean seriously, if you're a grown-ass adult that can't afford two houses in the hills I don't know what to tell you.
Jesus, only one house each, are you on welfare or something? My kids have more than one house each.
Wow, you're a cock.
What's with all the comments about watching without a laugh track?
Most shows on tv have a laugh track..what's the big deal?
Any TV show with a laugh track isn't funny. I would forgive 1970s or earlier shows, but that's it.
No, I'm not American.
If it applies to innocents as well as the guilty, taking a deal is completely irrelevant and unrelated to actual guiltiness. Thus, you can't use the number of deals as measure to estimate that a majority is guilty.
If you take a deal, you are admitting you are guilty (of a lesser offence) and thus you are not innocent. Therefore, 100% of people taking deals are guilty, by definition.
If you're innocent, you don't plead guilty. No one is going to believe otherwise, unless you can prove you were actually tortured, or something.
if you find an exploit, maka a metasploit plugin and publish anonymously via TOR
But then you don't get all the publicity and boost to your self esteem of being a cool "hacker".
Clearly, he's not an attention-seeking troll.
Libreal retard.
While I am no fan of Fox News, I gave up browsing news.google.com and started reading more Fox News. The reason... gun control. None of the other networks reported on anything reasonably in favor of the 2nd amendment. Every article they reported about gun control they immediately tied to the recent Newtown tragedy. There was such a libreal anti-gun and anti-2nd amendment bias that it just sickened me.
Did it not occur to you that perhaps the majority of people are actually in favour of gun control and it's not some "libreal" conspiracy?
Ugh, you used the word "agility". The ability to flit between viewpoints and arguments without believing in any of them is one of the problems with the younger generation(s). They don't truly believe in anything except their entitlement to free entertainment and a shiny new phone every year..
Isn't that exactly what he said? It doesn't matter how many charges it takes, facing a harsher sentence for this compared to manslaughter or rape is abhorrent.
It is the barbaric US concept of consecutive sentences that is the problem. If, say, copyright infringement has a maximum sentence of one year, but you've been found guilty of two hundred counts so you're going to jail for 200 years, that is simply obscene.
But I doubt that many people here would complain if it was for old-fashioned burglary or something. Then everyone would be in full "lock 'em up and throw away the key" mode.
a prosecutor pushing for conviction on charges which carry a higher sentence than rape or murder
Since murder carries the death penalty in the US, I find this very, very, very hard to believe.
Probably on a planet where he'd be arrested for hate speech.
I know, it's funny how in the US there's no problem with the most obnoxious racist, sexist, homophobic, or whatever speech, but as soon as you question your corporate overlords, you're toast.
You've really got the best of both worlds there.
No fucking clue.
Even in 2013, people just don't like buying a fridge over the internet. they very much prefer going down to a big box store and get it there
Similarly, I buy cars and motorbikes fromreal shops rather than over the internet. Is there something odd about that?
A guy in a CS class I took had one. Everyone made fun of him, though he tried to defend it.
There is nothing so pathetic as a bully, except a group of bullies.
You'll all do well in the corporate world I'm sure. Don't forget to laugh hysterically at every joke your boss makes.
I did rather like the Zune, but not enough to pay smartphone prices for one.
The 30 gig model was $249.95
And how much was a 30gig iPod at the time?
you people are idiots... millions of phones sold each quarter and growing but FUCK YOU IM BITTER I REFUSE TO BELEIVE IT
Windows ME sold millions
Windows Vista sold millions
Windows 8 will sell millions
Millions of Zunes were sold
Would you consider any of them successes?
I think you're confusing "being good" with "being profitable".Whether Windows ME sold one or billion copies is irrelevant to how crap it was.
Another feature I'd like to see, is some temporary power storage outside of the phone (maybe an extra cap or something) that could provide a few seconds of battery-less power to swap batteries without restarting the phone.
That is a good point. Phones don't take that long to restart, but it's still annoying if you're in the middle of something important.
With a $20 screen protector (U.S. Army developed it to protect their helicopter rotor blades)
I misread that as "U.S. Army developed to protect from helicopter rotor blades" which would be pretty awesome.
If you get so little return on your time as that, you might want to find a job that pays a bit better than graveyard shift at the Quik-E Mart.
Translation: I am a stupid rich fuck who can't work out how to open a slashdot account. My daddy got me a job in his bank, and aren't you little people funny?
Only if you eat breakfast.
Skip breakfast, and stick to carbs like potatos. Your body won't shift in to physical mode so takes all that energy and has it available for your brain which will then overclock itself seeing the body isn't being used.
Eat breakfast and you become a dumb jock.
Let me take a wild guess: you're not a doctor.
What do you guys do on tablets?
It begins with "mast" and rhymes with "conurbation".