There are numerous atheist / skeptic / non-religious groups that have all of the positive aspects of church and religion, minus the supernatural.
In Sacramento, our local groups have book clubs, pot lucks, volunteer highway cleanup and soup kitchen service, lectures and discussions, game nights, family-themed events and field trips, hikes, and even a knitting group. (www.SacFAN.org)
If you live in other areas, check out meetup.com for similar groups near you.
Many of the early posts seem to misunderstand the vulnerability issue here.
This is not about your phone getting infected with malware that allows it to detect your PC keyboard typing.
This is about me putting the vibration-detection app on my own phone, and then going to someone else's desk and recording them logging in.
So, imagine me going to my local AT&T store, bank, or my boss's computer, and casually setting my phone down while they log in to check my account or whatever.
Granted, some of those systems will require more than just a password (I might need their username, or the URL to log in, or perhaps their firewall only accepts certain IPs), but it's still a considerable weakness if this application is reliable and gets out in the open.
I can imagine keyboards that are "vibration silent" or special "vibration absorption" pads that will prevent this from happening. Either that, or customer service reps will start saying "Please remove your phone from my desk while I access your account."
I believe the person is referring to the hacker's own personal blog/story, not the post that the hacker made to Facebook -- which I presume is private.
Except that the iPad doesn't ship with a keyboard either. Granted, you can pick up iPad keyboards for about $50, but I don't think they're as slick as the Surface keyboards.
I was a huge proponent of Trillian (and a paying customer) for quite some time. I used it to connect my AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo accounts.
At about the time I ditched ICQ, it seemed that Trillian was getting bigger and more bloated with features I didn't care about, and had frequent connection problems. And so I tried Digsby and loved it.
Then I believe I got a new computer, and for about a week I forgot to install Disgby. Turned out that nearly everyone I wanted to chat with was either on Facebook or SMS, and so I gave up on Digsby.
It's been well over a near now, and all I use are Facebook and SMS, and occasionally Skype. I can't think of a single person I've lost contact with because of that change.
- Monsters Love Candy (Microsoft)
- Shuffle Party (Microsoft)
- Gunstringer Dead Man Running (Other Ocean)
- Fruit Ninja (Halfbrick Studios)
- Gravity Guy (Mini Clip)
- Samurais vs Zombies (Glu Games)
- Reckless Racing Ultimate Edition (Pixelbrite)
Only two were actually created by Microsoft.
And none of them have the combination of in-game ads, paid-for, and super buggy.
Micropurchases (what you call nickel-and-diming) is hardly the same thing as paying $5 for a game.
And FWIW, Shuffle Party has a 4.5 out of 5.0 in Marketplace.
If you're having such a problem with all of these apps with high ratings, perhaps there's an issue with your phone or carrier or some third-party unauthorized app that is screwing things up.
Please list one or two. I have never seen a single Microsoft app that has advertisements, are "buggy as shit", or even require payment. Let alone all three!
If you can tell me a few of the "extra steps" you're taking in Windows 8, I'll be happy to suggest keyboard or mouse shortcuts that will make you happy.
It amuses me to think that some low-level IT guy from Twitter might one day go to Paris for his honeymoon... only to get arrested at the airport until a $50 M fine is paid.
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There are numerous atheist / skeptic / non-religious groups that have all of the positive aspects of church and religion, minus the supernatural.
In Sacramento, our local groups have book clubs, pot lucks, volunteer highway cleanup and soup kitchen service, lectures and discussions, game nights, family-themed events and field trips, hikes, and even a knitting group. (www.SacFAN.org)
If you live in other areas, check out meetup.com for similar groups near you.
Asterisks.
It's always the "fourth Thursday of November".
And Black Friday (the day for crazy sales that people camp out overnight for) is the day after Thanksgiving.
If they can build the Surface RT and have it run all the Windows RT apps, then what's to stop them from allowing the X-Box One from doing the same?
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Many of the early posts seem to misunderstand the vulnerability issue here.
This is not about your phone getting infected with malware that allows it to detect your PC keyboard typing.
This is about me putting the vibration-detection app on my own phone, and then going to someone else's desk and recording them logging in.
So, imagine me going to my local AT&T store, bank, or my boss's computer, and casually setting my phone down while they log in to check my account or whatever.
Granted, some of those systems will require more than just a password (I might need their username, or the URL to log in, or perhaps their firewall only accepts certain IPs), but it's still a considerable weakness if this application is reliable and gets out in the open.
I can imagine keyboards that are "vibration silent" or special "vibration absorption" pads that will prevent this from happening. Either that, or customer service reps will start saying "Please remove your phone from my desk while I access your account."
And there are 91,440,000 micrometers in a football (US) field.
Glad that's cleared up.
I don't know, but all of the other updates to Windows were deployed through Windows Update. I don't know why this would be any different.
It also means they are telling you that they didn't make any real changes and are charging you for the service pack they refuse to create for 8.0.
8.1, or SP1 if you prefer, is a free download.
I believe the person is referring to the hacker's own personal blog/story, not the post that the hacker made to Facebook -- which I presume is private.
Except that the iPad doesn't ship with a keyboard either. Granted, you can pick up iPad keyboards for about $50, but I don't think they're as slick as the Surface keyboards.
The current Surface Pro does come with Windows 8 (the full version) and a Intel Core i5 Processor.
I was a huge proponent of Trillian (and a paying customer) for quite some time. I used it to connect my AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo accounts.
At about the time I ditched ICQ, it seemed that Trillian was getting bigger and more bloated with features I didn't care about, and had frequent connection problems. And so I tried Digsby and loved it.
Then I believe I got a new computer, and for about a week I forgot to install Disgby. Turned out that nearly everyone I wanted to chat with was either on Facebook or SMS, and so I gave up on Digsby.
It's been well over a near now, and all I use are Facebook and SMS, and occasionally Skype. I can't think of a single person I've lost contact with because of that change.
Yes, but those are free apps and are quite stable.
Hardly the accusation in the post that I replied to.
Of the games you listed:
- Monsters Love Candy (Microsoft)
- Shuffle Party (Microsoft)
- Gunstringer Dead Man Running (Other Ocean)
- Fruit Ninja (Halfbrick Studios)
- Gravity Guy (Mini Clip)
- Samurais vs Zombies (Glu Games)
- Reckless Racing Ultimate Edition (Pixelbrite)
Only two were actually created by Microsoft.
And none of them have the combination of in-game ads, paid-for, and super buggy.
Micropurchases (what you call nickel-and-diming) is hardly the same thing as paying $5 for a game.
And FWIW, Shuffle Party has a 4.5 out of 5.0 in Marketplace.
If you're having such a problem with all of these apps with high ratings, perhaps there's an issue with your phone or carrier or some third-party unauthorized app that is screwing things up.
Please list one or two. I have never seen a single Microsoft app that has advertisements, are "buggy as shit", or even require payment. Let alone all three!
There is also a documentary on this called something like Dr. Strangelove that has been on the military channel.
Fixed that for you.
Obviously there are differences and RT isn't for everyone.
Does that justify spreading lies about it on Slashdot? Come on. I realize it's cool to bash Microsoft here, but this is a bit much.
Last year our local atheist group had a booth at the city festival which attracts about 100,000 people over a three-day weekend.
The neighboring booth, a city initiative to increase corporate recycling, was manned by what was obviously a Christian.
I had allergies (it's an outdoors event), and EVERY time I sneezed (or anyone else nearby) the man would shout:
GOD BLESS YOU
as loud as he could. And, whenever he recognized friends from church walking by, he would go out of his way to yell to them in a similar manner.
He never once even spoke to us directly, other than the passive-aggressive sneeze blessings.
Another similar survey did just that. Instead of asking people based just on religion, they added "rapist".
http://atheism.about.com/od/atheistbigotryprejudice/a/Atheists-Trusted-Less-Than-Rapists.htm
The URL spoils it, but yeah, atheists were trusted LESS THAN RAPISTS.
If you can tell me a few of the "extra steps" you're taking in Windows 8, I'll be happy to suggest keyboard or mouse shortcuts that will make you happy.
Windows RT indeed has a desktop.
It has Windows Explorer.
It has Internet Explorer.
It has Control Panel.
It has Microsoft Office 2013.
And they're all so close to the Windows 8 versions that if I showed them to you, you'd think I was using a Windows 8 (non-RT) device.
Quit spreading lies.
It amuses me to think that some low-level IT guy from Twitter might one day go to Paris for his honeymoon ... only to get arrested at the airport until a $50 M fine is paid.
Except that students often get the full version (including Access and developer tools) for $49.
Home users get it for $149, for up to three PCs.
And anyone who uses Office at work with site licenses often gets to take it home for $20 or $0.
And if you want to restrict yourself to just the web client, Office on SkyDrive is free.
Because I've used it at friends' homes who have an X-Box and a Windows Phone.
Can't I love something that I don't have?