I won't lose sleep over the bastard either-- what makes me lose sleep is the the president/executive branch can unilaterally decide to kill two American citizens, and then without and review or oversight on the part of either of the other branches of the US government, carry out the killing. There needs to be more in place to check presidential power than just "it's ok, trust us, we won't do anything out of line, our own lawyers agree it's ok."
The reason why is that tablet are not being used (for the most part) as productivity devices. The vast bulk of tablet use is for light, non-business email and web surfing, music and video playing, and light gaming. Apple definitely has a much larger mind share among the general population than Android does.
I had mixed results even getting people to try it. Most that I sent invites to just had no idea what it was, and even when explained didn't want to try it out. A few friends got and and where using it quite a lot, but then as they were unable to get most of their friends on, have pretty much stopped using it. Most don't want to "double post", so have moved back to facebook. We get together to hangout on google still, but that's about all.
Yeah, but it was something along the lines of blue-green algae that did the job-- organisms that aren't suited for the current martian environment. Mars has two big problems when it comes to oxygen producing earth life. It's too cold, and too dry. I think any terraforming plans thought up as of yet, call for dramatically increasing atmospheric pressure and available water before the introduction of photosynthetic earthlife would be viable. But I'm just speaking out of my ass here, not like I've studied this in any great detail.
Are there any extremophiles that produce oxygen? I can't remember any, but then again, I never studied them in depth. If not, it'd be rather pointless.
I think you have it a bit wrong-- Most Republicans don't cheer the economy tanking any more than Democrats cheered the war going badly in Iraq. Just because the party leadership cynically uses misfortune to their political advantage doesn't mean that they happy that it happened.
Oh come now, the likelyhood of being eaten by space herpes is minimal. In the mean time, you get to draw a paycheck for doing next to nothing. Call in to the secretary, "I'll be doing research on theoretical contact scenarios with aquatic extra-terrestrial intelligence, so I'll be in Hawaii for the next couple weeks. Call me if anything urgent comes up, and I'll submit my expense report when I get back."
It's not that Darwin didn't want to publish his ideas, he shared them with his friends readily enough. He just didn't want to deal with the religious and political shit storm that his work was going to cause. It wasn't until he was about to get scooped by Wallace that his friends convinced him to jointly present a paper with Wallace.
Actually, what whistle is being blown here? So far as I can tell, this is only the release of day to day operations material, and not something detailing corruption or war crimes. As such, this whole affair appears to be nothing more than to provide intelligence information to the enemies of the US and nothing more, and really, pretending that lives are not at risk from a massive leak of day to day tactical and operational information is disingenuous on your part.
It's something people don't seem to get-- mostly I think because our education system is full of little stories about how "stupid" people of the past were for believing something we see as foolish now, or because they didn't have electricity or some such (like knowing how to flip a light switch somehow makes you a genius). People genetically indistinguishable from us lived in the stone age, and their technological know how involved use of natural materials to create what we consider to be crude tools, yet, all in all, those people probably had a great deal more know-how then most people around today. They could make tools, hunt or gather their food, build a fire to cook it, and fashion a shelter to protect themselves from the elements. Most modern people only know how to use tools that others have created and haven't a clue how any of them work.
It could be that you want to ensure that people you care about won't be emotionally harmed by things you did and kept secret. In the military, if one is killed, they sanitize personal effects, destroy "little black books" and the like, just so that the wife or whomever back home doesn't find out about your time with the Thai hooker in Bangkok or the mistress you had while TDY in England. Frankly, it's a policy that keeps the "loved ones" from being harmed by things that it really doesn't do anyone any good to know about. Really, who is it going to help to know what a shit you were in private after you're gone?
More like, at some point in the investigation he realized that he was busted and couldn't cover up or plausibly deny things. He was probably feeling pretty untouchable up to that point after coming out unscathed from the other little upset they had a while back.
The way I see it, it's just a clarification of policy. Letting people that aren't familiar with security protocol that accessing still classified information on unsecured computers is illegal for people that come under the UCMJ. Without a doubt, the intelligence agencies of every enemy, friend, and ally are going through this stuff with a fine tooth comb. I think the guy that did this is going to be sharing a cell with John Walker for the rest of his days (the KGB agent, not the Taliban guy).
All and all, that'd be worse, because said military member is engaging in behavior that is, firstly, a violation of a clear order, and secondly, designed to conceal his activity from his superiors. The subterfuge would cause more severe charges to be brought should he be caught.
Whether or not it was, it was patently obvious that anything run by humans that has pictures of naked people on it would be abused by those running it, and the pictures shared with others. A few years ago when I was in school, I had a buddy that worked as an x-ray tech at a local hospital. They had a nice repository of x-ray films of people with unusual objects stuck up their ass. He told me that in most places that he had worked that it was standard practice to save such things and share them around with other techs and friends. So, even in an environment of trained professionals, where there are explicit legal protections for the patients, this kind of thing happens. How in the world could anyone say with a straight face that this would not happen with the full body scans at airports?
We'll see, but I'm of the opinion that Gizmodo and Apple are in cahoots on this one. Giz is such an Apple fanboy site (look at their non-stop love fest with the iPad) that they wouldn't risk getting into trouble with Apple over this. I think Apple decided to leak this to counter all the traction the new Android phones are getting, and picked a general tech blog that has been behaving the most fanboyish lately. It all seems too pat.
Because patching it kills the system and results in endless blue-screens and reboots. So yeah, it's not an optimal solution, but breaking the system to the point where it's unusable isn't a good idea either.
Censorship is the suppression or deletion of material for a reason. Any reason, and by anything from a single person to a large corporation or government body. It certainly is censorship that they suppress apps that satirize political figures, and it's not the first time they've done it. You see, Apple has direct control of what apps are allowed on their system, which means they control the content. And by controlling the content they can pick and choose what they let through. Last time I think it was funny pictures of Nancy Pelosi that they didn't allow, but I don't recall the exact details. This guy is extremely partisan, so I imagine they didn't want to risk the chance of getting into so political pissing contest about what content they allow and what they don't. Being seen as partisan is not a good business move for a big corporation.
Slashdot Mirror
Because this is slashdot and I didn't bother to read it. Not much of a traditionalist, are you?
It's fine if you just use 2 or 3 programs, so your average slashdotter finds it a bit limiting.
I won't lose sleep over the bastard either-- what makes me lose sleep is the the president/executive branch can unilaterally decide to kill two American citizens, and then without and review or oversight on the part of either of the other branches of the US government, carry out the killing. There needs to be more in place to check presidential power than just "it's ok, trust us, we won't do anything out of line, our own lawyers agree it's ok."
Holy crap! Your battery lasts long enough to get through a whole book?
Doesn't exist? Never heard of the Kindle DX?
The reason why is that tablet are not being used (for the most part) as productivity devices. The vast bulk of tablet use is for light, non-business email and web surfing, music and video playing, and light gaming. Apple definitely has a much larger mind share among the general population than Android does.
I had mixed results even getting people to try it. Most that I sent invites to just had no idea what it was, and even when explained didn't want to try it out. A few friends got and and where using it quite a lot, but then as they were unable to get most of their friends on, have pretty much stopped using it. Most don't want to "double post", so have moved back to facebook. We get together to hangout on google still, but that's about all.
Yeah, but it was something along the lines of blue-green algae that did the job-- organisms that aren't suited for the current martian environment. Mars has two big problems when it comes to oxygen producing earth life. It's too cold, and too dry. I think any terraforming plans thought up as of yet, call for dramatically increasing atmospheric pressure and available water before the introduction of photosynthetic earthlife would be viable. But I'm just speaking out of my ass here, not like I've studied this in any great detail.
Are there any extremophiles that produce oxygen? I can't remember any, but then again, I never studied them in depth. If not, it'd be rather pointless.
Heck, they were still using those CE point of sale things as late as last year.
I think you have it a bit wrong-- Most Republicans don't cheer the economy tanking any more than Democrats cheered the war going badly in Iraq. Just because the party leadership cynically uses misfortune to their political advantage doesn't mean that they happy that it happened.
Oh come now, the likelyhood of being eaten by space herpes is minimal. In the mean time, you get to draw a paycheck for doing next to nothing. Call in to the secretary, "I'll be doing research on theoretical contact scenarios with aquatic extra-terrestrial intelligence, so I'll be in Hawaii for the next couple weeks. Call me if anything urgent comes up, and I'll submit my expense report when I get back."
It's not that Darwin didn't want to publish his ideas, he shared them with his friends readily enough. He just didn't want to deal with the religious and political shit storm that his work was going to cause. It wasn't until he was about to get scooped by Wallace that his friends convinced him to jointly present a paper with Wallace.
You forgot Duke Nukem Forever! It's going to use the Doom 3 engine!
Actually, what whistle is being blown here? So far as I can tell, this is only the release of day to day operations material, and not something detailing corruption or war crimes. As such, this whole affair appears to be nothing more than to provide intelligence information to the enemies of the US and nothing more, and really, pretending that lives are not at risk from a massive leak of day to day tactical and operational information is disingenuous on your part.
It's something people don't seem to get-- mostly I think because our education system is full of little stories about how "stupid" people of the past were for believing something we see as foolish now, or because they didn't have electricity or some such (like knowing how to flip a light switch somehow makes you a genius). People genetically indistinguishable from us lived in the stone age, and their technological know how involved use of natural materials to create what we consider to be crude tools, yet, all in all, those people probably had a great deal more know-how then most people around today. They could make tools, hunt or gather their food, build a fire to cook it, and fashion a shelter to protect themselves from the elements. Most modern people only know how to use tools that others have created and haven't a clue how any of them work.
It could be that you want to ensure that people you care about won't be emotionally harmed by things you did and kept secret. In the military, if one is killed, they sanitize personal effects, destroy "little black books" and the like, just so that the wife or whomever back home doesn't find out about your time with the Thai hooker in Bangkok or the mistress you had while TDY in England. Frankly, it's a policy that keeps the "loved ones" from being harmed by things that it really doesn't do anyone any good to know about. Really, who is it going to help to know what a shit you were in private after you're gone?
More like, at some point in the investigation he realized that he was busted and couldn't cover up or plausibly deny things. He was probably feeling pretty untouchable up to that point after coming out unscathed from the other little upset they had a while back.
The way I see it, it's just a clarification of policy. Letting people that aren't familiar with security protocol that accessing still classified information on unsecured computers is illegal for people that come under the UCMJ. Without a doubt, the intelligence agencies of every enemy, friend, and ally are going through this stuff with a fine tooth comb. I think the guy that did this is going to be sharing a cell with John Walker for the rest of his days (the KGB agent, not the Taliban guy).
All and all, that'd be worse, because said military member is engaging in behavior that is, firstly, a violation of a clear order, and secondly, designed to conceal his activity from his superiors. The subterfuge would cause more severe charges to be brought should he be caught.
Whether or not it was, it was patently obvious that anything run by humans that has pictures of naked people on it would be abused by those running it, and the pictures shared with others. A few years ago when I was in school, I had a buddy that worked as an x-ray tech at a local hospital. They had a nice repository of x-ray films of people with unusual objects stuck up their ass. He told me that in most places that he had worked that it was standard practice to save such things and share them around with other techs and friends. So, even in an environment of trained professionals, where there are explicit legal protections for the patients, this kind of thing happens. How in the world could anyone say with a straight face that this would not happen with the full body scans at airports?
We'll see, but I'm of the opinion that Gizmodo and Apple are in cahoots on this one. Giz is such an Apple fanboy site (look at their non-stop love fest with the iPad) that they wouldn't risk getting into trouble with Apple over this. I think Apple decided to leak this to counter all the traction the new Android phones are getting, and picked a general tech blog that has been behaving the most fanboyish lately. It all seems too pat.
It was found in Redwood City, just between San Fransisco and Cupertino, not Redmond Washington.
Because patching it kills the system and results in endless blue-screens and reboots. So yeah, it's not an optimal solution, but breaking the system to the point where it's unusable isn't a good idea either.
Censorship is the suppression or deletion of material for a reason. Any reason, and by anything from a single person to a large corporation or government body. It certainly is censorship that they suppress apps that satirize political figures, and it's not the first time they've done it. You see, Apple has direct control of what apps are allowed on their system, which means they control the content. And by controlling the content they can pick and choose what they let through. Last time I think it was funny pictures of Nancy Pelosi that they didn't allow, but I don't recall the exact details. This guy is extremely partisan, so I imagine they didn't want to risk the chance of getting into so political pissing contest about what content they allow and what they don't. Being seen as partisan is not a good business move for a big corporation.