It was never a feature, people access it using a third party application that calls an Activity that is not normally accessible from the OS UI. It is like when people found initial semi-working code of multiple user profiles on Android 4.1, again not accessible to the users, and later releases added the feature when the code was completed and tested. I think we will see this feature enabled on later Android versions when they get to finish it and find ways to make old applications not crash when permissions are removed.
Let it crash! Put this feature somewhere hidden with a warning that it only should be used by experienced users. I don't care if an app crashes because it cannot get to my contacts. Although it would be nice if you would get a notice about this.
I've seen plenty of Mythbusters episodes where they setup something like a string that pulls a lever that then releases a hammer or the like on a pendulum. No connection of any kind to the person that pulled the string. The thing on the pendulum then pushes a button or switch. Done. Doesn't need to be complicated and you can be quite a ways away. Add in some relays, an Arduino or Raspberry Pi and you can trigger it across the internet.
Shortcutting the internet - didn't Al Gore do that?
The ironic thing about statements like these is that they usually come from people with no scientific training in any field, nor any meaningful training in statistics, but only a "sciency" inclination and questionable, popular distillation-derived knowledge of some principles from what they consider "the hard sciences".
Could you please show me a reasonable experiment with proper statistics supporting this claim?
Well to be honest - we have to confess something to you. Slashdot was once setup as a psychological experiment.... Just take a look at the users and comments, no more proof needed!
Evidence-based medicine is valuable to the extent that the evidence base is complete and unbiased. Selective publication of clinical trials — and the outcomes within those trials — can lead to unrealistic estimates of drug effectiveness and alter the apparent risk–benefit ratio.
(**) Also, I have no meaningful training in science or statistics. If you want, you can win the argument by pointing this out in your response.
Read this book: Why zebras don't get ulcers. It explains how stress influences our life, and how complex the system works that tries to regulate this. It shows that it all works beautifully, for people living in the wild, but the system is not so good for us.
This book won't give you the solution to depression, but it will show that the body uses many methods to accomplish several things, like redirecting sources when in danger or in rest. There is not one solution - any solution will have side effects, and this goes for the solutions of the body as well.
Actually, it doesn't grow larger. If they had accepted the offer, then yes. Now it's just waiting and hopefully we'll see this specific bubble snap soon enough.
Facebook has made it easier. I hope they made the patent broad. Of course we don't want to end up in lawsuits, so we cannot use any of the technology - right? So in effect the rest of us has to make it harder!
With all this social networking shit, perception is key: once FB is no longer consider cool or the "in-thing", it's fucked. Like Myspace fucked.
Unless the "old" people (30-50) really don't care about what those kids do, as long as they have a means of keeping in touch with the rest of the family. And if they do, the kids will complain, but will stay as well, although not as active.
Last, but not least, I need to thank Edward Snowden for starting the ball rolling... If not for Mr. Snowden, we wouldn't have known so much --- NSA / PRISM / and the latest episode... Mark Zuckerberg
I had a friend in College from Australia. He found he always had digestive problems returning home for a visit after every semester. A semester was just long enough for his native flora to die off, and it took a day or three of cramps and trots (a bad case of the "dampass" as he called it) to get his gut primed again.
Same here when I go to France or Italy on holiday. The food is so different, and it takes about three to five days to adjust. I think it's mostly the bread that's much better, but I might be wrong.
Of course. I heard the CIA has done this before, so the experience is right there.
Another option would be prison by proxy. This is already happening, coincidentally with Sweden. Of of the US biggest thugs is now effectively under house arrest in London because of an extradition treaty with the US. The recepy is simple: threaten with the possibility of serving lifetime, and then let them escape to an embassy with only limited space.
Probably Vladimir downloaded some videos on his stick for the lonely hours. Staring at the stars makes you crave for other stars you know. The rest is history...
Many of the rank-and-file had little choice but to "serve".
You always have a choice. You never get considered to be more moral for being unwilling to die rather than kill people. You're just selfish. Understandably so, but that changes nothing, especially for the people you kill.
Get real man! Many of those people, whether serving as soldier or at home doing their normal stuff, didn't even realise they had a choice. Especially in Japan it's in their culture and in their blood. They're raised like that, from the first day of their life. You have to be pretty clever and independent to stand up to that and survive without being put in some kind of institution because you're ill or crazy or criminal.
No TV, no internet, facebook, phone, twitter or google. Even radio was sparse with limited stations. It's easy talking. Even with what I know now I am not sure I can withstand the pressure if it comes to it.
If you've been paying attention, you see what the real problem is.
The real problem here is that you're living in the USA. And another problem is your thinking.
Many of us don't live in the US. And even if we live in the EU, in a country who's secret service cooperates with the NSA, we still don't have a Patriot Act and I don't think that people here are abducted to the US or some stinking country without human rights for something like this.
Then your thinking. Most of us are just normal people, who want to protect documents for various reasons, and we want to use stronger encryption without backdoors if possible, because it will make it more difficult for anyone to break. And we want to store those truecrypt volumes in our dropboxes or iclouds or google drives or wherever. Having strong encryption without backdoors will guarantee that the NSA won't be able to scan those documents. They cannot read what's inside. And because they cannot force everybody to give their keys, 99.999% of us will have our documents safe from prying eyes. Those people who run into trouble with the NSA - valid or not - they will face your scenario. And they will not be safe, maybe even for EU citizens.
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It was never a feature, people access it using a third party application that calls an Activity that is not normally accessible from the OS UI. It is like when people found initial semi-working code of multiple user profiles on Android 4.1, again not accessible to the users, and later releases added the feature when the code was completed and tested. I think we will see this feature enabled on later Android versions when they get to finish it and find ways to make old applications not crash when permissions are removed.
Let it crash! Put this feature somewhere hidden with a warning that it only should be used by experienced users. I don't care if an app crashes because it cannot get to my contacts. Although it would be nice if you would get a notice about this.
Trust me. Millions of Australians, and billions from the rest of the world, are very fucking thankful they arent from the USA.
Americans are screaming fucking thankful. The rest of the world is just thankful.
I've seen plenty of Mythbusters episodes where they setup something like a string that pulls a lever that then releases a hammer or the like on a pendulum. No connection of any kind to the person that pulled the string. The thing on the pendulum then pushes a button or switch. Done. Doesn't need to be complicated and you can be quite a ways away. Add in some relays, an Arduino or Raspberry Pi and you can trigger it across the internet.
Shortcutting the internet - didn't Al Gore do that?
If you're seriously suggesting that California's government is better than Oregon's, then you need to get off the crack.
So he can stay on the crack if he's not serious? Wow, that's a relief! ;-)
Let's hope they get their right left foot replaced with a right foot in Windows 8.2.
You mean they should replace the right left foot with the left right foot?
If I remember correctly, Microsoft did this years ago, although.... It was the exact opposite: apps would install without launching them.
Paper bags.
Paper is bad for the environment as well. We should invent e-bags!
Could you please show me a reasonable experiment with proper statistics supporting this claim?
Well to be honest - we have to confess something to you. Slashdot was once setup as a psychological experiment.... Just take a look at the users and comments, no more proof needed!
One last question... just one*.
Is psychology evidence-driven, or belief-driven?
(*) This isn't just me asking. Here's a quote from the The New England Journal of Medicine article:
Evidence-based medicine is valuable to the extent that the evidence base is complete and unbiased. Selective publication of clinical trials — and the outcomes within those trials — can lead to unrealistic estimates of drug effectiveness and alter the apparent risk–benefit ratio.
(**) Also, I have no meaningful training in science or statistics. If you want, you can win the argument by pointing this out in your response.
Read this book: Why zebras don't get ulcers. It explains how stress influences our life, and how complex the system works that tries to regulate this. It shows that it all works beautifully, for people living in the wild, but the system is not so good for us.
This book won't give you the solution to depression, but it will show that the body uses many methods to accomplish several things, like redirecting sources when in danger or in rest. There is not one solution - any solution will have side effects, and this goes for the solutions of the body as well.
If I shake it real hard will a free car fall out?
Yeah shake that booty baby!
Steve Jobs saved Apple, not Bill Gates.
With the helping hand of Steve Ballmer...
At least he died doing what he loved!
I'd rather die at 73 mowing the lawn than at 37 while skydiving or having hot sex.
Control by the business or by Amazon?
Control by the IT department. Or control by business by downsizing the IT department by moving to Amazon Desktop.
Actually, it doesn't grow larger. If they had accepted the offer, then yes. Now it's just waiting and hopefully we'll see this specific bubble snap soon enough.
Facebook has made it easier. I hope they made the patent broad. Of course we don't want to end up in lawsuits, so we cannot use any of the technology - right? So in effect the rest of us has to make it harder!
As go the teenagers, so goes the industry.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/10/teenagers-messenger-apps-facebook-exodus
With all this social networking shit, perception is key: once FB is no longer consider cool or the "in-thing", it's fucked. Like Myspace fucked.
Unless the "old" people (30-50) really don't care about what those kids do, as long as they have a means of keeping in touch with the rest of the family. And if they do, the kids will complain, but will stay as well, although not as active.
Last, but not least, I need to thank Edward Snowden for starting the ball rolling ... If not for Mr. Snowden, we wouldn't have known so much --- NSA / PRISM / and the latest episode ... Mark Zuckerberg
Yeah this!
I had a friend in College from Australia. He found he always had digestive problems returning home for a visit after every semester. A semester was just long enough for his native flora to die off, and it took a day or three of cramps and trots (a bad case of the "dampass" as he called it) to get his gut primed again.
Same here when I go to France or Italy on holiday. The food is so different, and it takes about three to five days to adjust. I think it's mostly the bread that's much better, but I might be wrong.
It took me a while to figure that out.
Good.
be outsourced? This is EXACTLY what USA need.
Of course. I heard the CIA has done this before, so the experience is right there.
Another option would be prison by proxy. This is already happening, coincidentally with Sweden. Of of the US biggest thugs is now effectively under house arrest in London because of an extradition treaty with the US. The recepy is simple: threaten with the possibility of serving lifetime, and then let them escape to an embassy with only limited space.
How the fuck does that even happen?
Probably Vladimir downloaded some videos on his stick for the lonely hours. Staring at the stars makes you crave for other stars you know. The rest is history...
Many of the rank-and-file had little choice but to "serve".
You always have a choice. You never get considered to be more moral for being unwilling to die rather than kill people. You're just selfish. Understandably so, but that changes nothing, especially for the people you kill.
Get real man! Many of those people, whether serving as soldier or at home doing their normal stuff, didn't even realise they had a choice. Especially in Japan it's in their culture and in their blood. They're raised like that, from the first day of their life. You have to be pretty clever and independent to stand up to that and survive without being put in some kind of institution because you're ill or crazy or criminal.
No TV, no internet, facebook, phone, twitter or google. Even radio was sparse with limited stations. It's easy talking. Even with what I know now I am not sure I can withstand the pressure if it comes to it.
Nobody has a clue what it's for.
Perhaps it is a woman-thing.
If it's curved and can vibrate, women will find the clue sometime, if only for the geeks around here asking stupid questions when on a date.
If you've been paying attention, you see what the real problem is.
The real problem here is that you're living in the USA. And another problem is your thinking.
Many of us don't live in the US. And even if we live in the EU, in a country who's secret service cooperates with the NSA, we still don't have a Patriot Act and I don't think that people here are abducted to the US or some stinking country without human rights for something like this.
Then your thinking. Most of us are just normal people, who want to protect documents for various reasons, and we want to use stronger encryption without backdoors if possible, because it will make it more difficult for anyone to break. And we want to store those truecrypt volumes in our dropboxes or iclouds or google drives or wherever. Having strong encryption without backdoors will guarantee that the NSA won't be able to scan those documents. They cannot read what's inside. And because they cannot force everybody to give their keys, 99.999% of us will have our documents safe from prying eyes. Those people who run into trouble with the NSA - valid or not - they will face your scenario. And they will not be safe, maybe even for EU citizens.
It's better! He Rule 34'd the Godwin of the Streisand effect! (or something like that).
In Soviet Russia, Godwin would have ruled him with effectively 34 Streisands. Can you imagine that?