I've installed LBE Privacy control and it blocks unnecessary permissions for many apps. Why does a keyboard need internet access? The only thing I'm concerned about... What does LBE know, and what does it share?
When I beg my coworkers, friends and family to vote, I'm not telling them who to vote for nor do I want to know afterwards. I only ask them to inform themselves and hit the booths on November 6th. How is Google's tool any different than that?
It's the same, but on a larger scale. Though your coworkers, friends, and family may not vote the same way as you, because you share some part of your life with them, they are more likely to vote as you do than not to. So by encouraging them to vote when they might not have done so otherwise, you effectively increase your political power just a little.
The same applies on a larger scale for Google. By providing this information to potential voters, they hope to encourage more voting, and voting by more informed voters. Whether this actually helps Google is not clear to me, but can it influence the election? Certainly.
It could influence the election. I bet that they know for 99% sure whether someone is a Republican or Democrate voter. Plus they might know who is likely not to vote. With their ads they could serve non-voting Democrats and ignore Republicans with this information. I don't believe they're going to do something like this, and if they would and it comes out, they're in big trouble, much more trouble than with the wrong president in power.
12. Take photos of all the walls right before the drywall goes up. This is your x-ray vision in case you need to pound nails (or snake lines, or whatever) later on.
And keep a rule that electricity lines and water pipes only go up or down vertically to floor or ceiling from wall sockets.
Now that CEEFAX is dead, modern services like Twitter and Tumblr can help enrich our lives with more up to date, if slightly editorialized, news.
They can enrich YOUR life. Many old people only know how to use CEEFAX or TELETEXT and for them it's as basic and essential as internet is for us. What does it cost to keep it alive? Is it worth the money to shut off people who will never use internet, and push them out of current society a little more?
The only reason this deal ever went through is because.... well fuck it I'll be blunt.. look who Nokia hired to captain the ship..
Nokia only hired Elop because of the deal. I don't think he would have gotten the job before they decided to go with WP. So I disagree. The only reason this deal went through - no idea, but probably hoping for the better plus a bag of money and many nice promises from MS marketing because for them (!) it was a good deal to get Nokia on board.
Yaj! In the light of the new vinyl rage, I would definitely welcome CRT screens for The Next iPad. Pick-up on the back side, monitor on the front, it would be the gadget of the year.
I do not have a Facebook account, therefore your assertion that everyone has a Facebook account is false.
Do you browse the net and see those facebook like buttons now and then? Whenever you see such a button, facebook registers your IP-address and knows what website you were viewing. Only if you use addons like Ghostery you can avoid this, but many people don't know that.
You may not have a facebook account, but facebook is certainly trying to monitor what you do online. If you ever do register, they will soon enough be able to link you to that older data.
Instead of a supercomputer wouldn't it make more sense to use clouding computing to crowd-source the power? Then they just need to put a media consumer device on the moon.
The moon does not have an atmosphere, so clouds don't exist there. Ergo - no cloud computing! Sorry!
Air doesn't run ipad apps. now what they might do would be a hybrid with arm chip for ipad-apps mode.
Air does run ipad and iphone apps. You can run an iphone simulator on all macbooks, and it wouldn't be too difficult for them to make this a more accessible experience.
my dog hates bananas. she LOVES kitty krunchies from the litter box though.
Well apparently not all dogs like bananas. What I heard is that if dogs eat shit, they probably lack Kalium and they find it in the feces. If you find another replacement, it might keep them from eating the kitty krunchies or whatever.
Anyone with a dog has probably seen it eat, literally, crap.
Heck, honey is basically bees throwing up for you.
In the real world, animals are messy critters that eat a lot of stuff you would never eat yourself, some of which you would not survive eating.
In the end it's a good reason to wash and cook food properly before eating, but not necessarily something to panic over, even practices that sounds as odd as this.
What is manure? It's animal shit that we use to fertilize land on which we grow plants to eat. That has been done for ages.
Dogs that eat their own or other dog's shit probably lack Kalium. Feeding them bananas will compensate for this, and if you do this properly you can teach them not to eat shit by rewarding them with bananas. I've seen Cesar do this, and I know dogs like bananas.
According to Kurzweil, my brain filled up by 20, which means that at 47 I'm cannibalizing old skills in order to learn new ones. Last month I learned to memorize all of the Kings and Queens of England, all of the US Presidents and all of the British Prime Ministers. That must mean that in order to do that I must forget how to dress myself, how to stay continent, how to speak...
You may have stopped learning a long time ago Ray, but I'm not even peaking.
You probably forgot what you remembered once. And yes, I mean in the sense that you forgot something in the first place, and - besides that - you probably don't know anymore that you once knew it or you just don't realise that you don't know it. Looking at myself, I was good in math in highschool. But don't ask me to do the exams again at this point. I simply forgot how to solve those problems. I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't take long to pick it up again, but right now at this moment - I simply don't know much of it anymore.
By contrast, how are Intel, Cisco, Oracle, Apple, RedHat, Samsung, IBM, Google, VMWare/EMC, NetApp, Canonical, and about 100 other tech companies doing?
IBM... Remember how that went? They created the basis that MS used to build its empire, and they almost went out of business. They completely changed their business. We don't hear about them that much. They don't make PC's anymore. They sell "services", and they are big, solid, profitable, stable. Like Apple, they started with nothing, realised that they had to start over. Like Apple, with a good vision on the future, they grew bigger than they were before.
Now Microsoft... I see MS fall as deep as Apple and IBM did, and then they split up, with Windows Phone, XBox, Bing and all their failing online services in the consumer part, and Windows (Server and Client), SQL Server and related software, and Office in the business part. From there on the business part can start to focus on making good products and earning money instead of spending it on stupid adventures that fail because of lack of vision. The consumer part will struggle, sell more divisions like they once bought those companies, and maybe some part will survive.
So let me get this straight. The US is only against NONDEMOCRATIC countries that officially and openly spy on their citizens. If you give your citizens what appears to be a choice every four years, then it's OK to spy on them.
The US is democratic and still has institutionalised the use of torture, has indefnite detention based on "made up" charges, shits all over the law of the land. Despises its own constitution AND spies on its citizens. Oh yeah, all the american telecom companies that aid in that spying business, well they are intouchable, courtesy of the US government. Shall we talk about the end aroud the court system known as National Security Letters ? My dear friend, the freedom you have in the US is a false kind of freedom. Pure Illusion. Go peacefully against the government, using the rights granted by your constitution and see what happens to you.
You're absolutely right. And still I prefer the US over China or Saudi Arabia or Russia. I don't know if the UN could handle this better.
It may not affect the prices directly. However it might affect the prices indirectly, by influencing the decision making of others (especially other algorithms).
And although slight, it might slow down the system. Maybe 4% will not result in a noticable change, but could it slow the system down enough to give someone an advantage? Just thinking out loud here! This effect might however be a lot bigger for the broker that made these trades. And in that case it could mean that someone on the inside of that tradehouse would have had an advantage if that happened. Yeah I know, that's pure speculation.
If the guard force had responded properly, there would be dead bodies. The people approaching the facility had cut through three fences and had backpacks which could have contained explosives. Shooting them was authorized. But the IG report doesn't admit that.
Yeah, let's shoot them! That would have been the proper solution. [/sarcasm] If the guard is authorized to shoot them, it doesn't mean he has to. The guard did the proper thing here.
um... if security is so lax, why aren't all those terrorists out there taking advantage of these security lapses? something doesn't add up here.
Maybe because they are stupid enough not to have thought of this. Maybe because they are smart enough to realise that walking into a nuclear facility is not enough to do some real damage. If you walk in there, you need a good plan, like the one they had in New York. And probably "they" aren't either smart or stupid, but we have stupid terrorists, the ones that are probably caught before doing real damage, and the smart ones... who knows...
I personally think RIM's future should be on Android. Dump QNX and Playbook OS. Produce a Playbook / BB 10 OS runtime for Android and then move house over to it. Make money by selling security hardened Android devices and value added apps that sit on top.
And they should offer phones with hardware keyboards. I bet there is a market for it. Keep offering services like ping - kids here love it. All kids in high school here (Netherlands) have blackberries. Once they have money or go to university, they buy an iphone or android phone. BB should find a way to keep them instead.
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I've installed LBE Privacy control and it blocks unnecessary permissions for many apps. Why does a keyboard need internet access? The only thing I'm concerned about... What does LBE know, and what does it share?
When I beg my coworkers, friends and family to vote, I'm not telling them who to vote for nor do I want to know afterwards. I only ask them to inform themselves and hit the booths on November 6th. How is Google's tool any different than that?
It's the same, but on a larger scale. Though your coworkers, friends, and family may not vote the same way as you, because you share some part of your life with them, they are more likely to vote as you do than not to. So by encouraging them to vote when they might not have done so otherwise, you effectively increase your political power just a little.
The same applies on a larger scale for Google. By providing this information to potential voters, they hope to encourage more voting, and voting by more informed voters. Whether this actually helps Google is not clear to me, but can it influence the election? Certainly.
It could influence the election. I bet that they know for 99% sure whether someone is a Republican or Democrate voter. Plus they might know who is likely not to vote. With their ads they could serve non-voting Democrats and ignore Republicans with this information. I don't believe they're going to do something like this, and if they would and it comes out, they're in big trouble, much more trouble than with the wrong president in power.
Another thing:
12. Take photos of all the walls right before the drywall goes up. This is your x-ray vision in case you need to pound nails (or snake lines, or whatever) later on.
And keep a rule that electricity lines and water pipes only go up or down vertically to floor or ceiling from wall sockets.
Every rooms needs a big red button!
Can I reinstall 7 or does upgrading invalidate my Windows 7 key?
If 8 fails, you get Windows , and that is an endless loop. Be warned!
So pay 40$ for a downgrade ?
Who the fuck comes up with these crazy ideas ?
If you run XP and want to upgrade, it's not so bad. Is it possible to legally downgrade after that to 7 (not paying extra of course)?
Now that CEEFAX is dead, modern services like Twitter and Tumblr can help enrich our lives with more up to date, if slightly editorialized, news.
They can enrich YOUR life. Many old people only know how to use CEEFAX or TELETEXT and for them it's as basic and essential as internet is for us. What does it cost to keep it alive? Is it worth the money to shut off people who will never use internet, and push them out of current society a little more?
The only reason this deal ever went through is because.... well fuck it I'll be blunt.. look who Nokia hired to captain the ship..
Nokia only hired Elop because of the deal. I don't think he would have gotten the job before they decided to go with WP. So I disagree. The only reason this deal went through - no idea, but probably hoping for the better plus a bag of money and many nice promises from MS marketing because for them (!) it was a good deal to get Nokia on board.
Here's a link you can use:
http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/crt-monitor-manufacturers.html
Yaj! In the light of the new vinyl rage, I would definitely welcome CRT screens for The Next iPad. Pick-up on the back side, monitor on the front, it would be the gadget of the year.
Follow-up: what do you suppose are some of the best ways to defend against tyranny?
Moat. Can't go wrong with a moat.
Yes you can!
Remind me what Iran took, and from whom?
They took US dignity with that embassy thing back in the 80s.
I do not have a Facebook account, therefore your assertion that everyone has a Facebook account is false.
Do you browse the net and see those facebook like buttons now and then? Whenever you see such a button, facebook registers your IP-address and knows what website you were viewing. Only if you use addons like Ghostery you can avoid this, but many people don't know that.
You may not have a facebook account, but facebook is certainly trying to monitor what you do online. If you ever do register, they will soon enough be able to link you to that older data.
Instead of a supercomputer wouldn't it make more sense to use clouding computing to crowd-source the power? Then they just need to put a media consumer device on the moon.
The moon does not have an atmosphere, so clouds don't exist there. Ergo - no cloud computing! Sorry!
Air doesn't run ipad apps.
now what they might do would be a hybrid with arm chip for ipad-apps mode.
Air does run ipad and iphone apps. You can run an iphone simulator on all macbooks, and it wouldn't be too difficult for them to make this a more accessible experience.
my dog hates bananas. she LOVES kitty krunchies from the litter box though.
Well apparently not all dogs like bananas. What I heard is that if dogs eat shit, they probably lack Kalium and they find it in the feces. If you find another replacement, it might keep them from eating the kitty krunchies or whatever.
Anyone with a dog has probably seen it eat, literally, crap.
Heck, honey is basically bees throwing up for you.
In the real world, animals are messy critters that eat a lot of stuff you would never eat yourself, some of which you would not survive eating.
In the end it's a good reason to wash and cook food properly before eating, but not necessarily something to panic over, even practices that sounds as odd as this.
What is manure? It's animal shit that we use to fertilize land on which we grow plants to eat. That has been done for ages.
Dogs that eat their own or other dog's shit probably lack Kalium. Feeding them bananas will compensate for this, and if you do this properly you can teach them not to eat shit by rewarding them with bananas. I've seen Cesar do this, and I know dogs like bananas.
According to Kurzweil, my brain filled up by 20, which means that at 47 I'm cannibalizing old skills in order to learn new ones. Last month I learned to memorize all of the Kings and Queens of England, all of the US Presidents and all of the British Prime Ministers. That must mean that in order to do that I must forget how to dress myself, how to stay continent, how to speak...
You may have stopped learning a long time ago Ray, but I'm not even peaking.
You probably forgot what you remembered once. And yes, I mean in the sense that you forgot something in the first place, and - besides that - you probably don't know anymore that you once knew it or you just don't realise that you don't know it. Looking at myself, I was good in math in highschool. But don't ask me to do the exams again at this point. I simply forgot how to solve those problems. I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't take long to pick it up again, but right now at this moment - I simply don't know much of it anymore.
By contrast, how are Intel, Cisco, Oracle, Apple, RedHat, Samsung, IBM, Google, VMWare/EMC, NetApp, Canonical, and about 100 other tech companies doing?
IBM... Remember how that went? They created the basis that MS used to build its empire, and they almost went out of business. They completely changed their business. We don't hear about them that much. They don't make PC's anymore. They sell "services", and they are big, solid, profitable, stable. Like Apple, they started with nothing, realised that they had to start over. Like Apple, with a good vision on the future, they grew bigger than they were before.
Now Microsoft... I see MS fall as deep as Apple and IBM did, and then they split up, with Windows Phone, XBox, Bing and all their failing online services in the consumer part, and Windows (Server and Client), SQL Server and related software, and Office in the business part. From there on the business part can start to focus on making good products and earning money instead of spending it on stupid adventures that fail because of lack of vision. The consumer part will struggle, sell more divisions like they once bought those companies, and maybe some part will survive.
So let me get this straight. The US is only against NONDEMOCRATIC countries that officially and openly spy on their citizens. If you give your citizens what appears to be a choice every four years, then it's OK to spy on them.
The US is democratic and still has institutionalised the use of torture, has indefnite detention based on "made up" charges, shits all over the law of the land. Despises its own constitution AND spies on its citizens. Oh yeah, all the american telecom companies that aid in that spying business, well they are intouchable, courtesy of the US government. Shall we talk about the end aroud the court system known as National Security Letters ?
My dear friend, the freedom you have in the US is a false kind of freedom. Pure Illusion. Go peacefully against the government, using the rights granted by your constitution and see what happens to you.
You're absolutely right. And still I prefer the US over China or Saudi Arabia or Russia. I don't know if the UN could handle this better.
Also a lab coat, some burnt corks for face-blacking and plenty of hair gel.
A good set of glasses!
It may not affect the prices directly. However it might affect the prices indirectly, by influencing the decision making of others (especially other algorithms).
And although slight, it might slow down the system. Maybe 4% will not result in a noticable change, but could it slow the system down enough to give someone an advantage? Just thinking out loud here! This effect might however be a lot bigger for the broker that made these trades. And in that case it could mean that someone on the inside of that tradehouse would have had an advantage if that happened. Yeah I know, that's pure speculation.
If the guard force had responded properly, there would be dead bodies. The people approaching the facility had cut through three fences and had backpacks which could have contained explosives. Shooting them was authorized.
But the IG report doesn't admit that.
Yeah, let's shoot them! That would have been the proper solution. [/sarcasm] If the guard is authorized to shoot them, it doesn't mean he has to. The guard did the proper thing here.
um... if security is so lax, why aren't all those terrorists out there taking advantage of these security lapses? something doesn't add up here.
Maybe because they are stupid enough not to have thought of this. Maybe because they are smart enough to realise that walking into a nuclear facility is not enough to do some real damage. If you walk in there, you need a good plan, like the one they had in New York. And probably "they" aren't either smart or stupid, but we have stupid terrorists, the ones that are probably caught before doing real damage, and the smart ones... who knows...
If an emulated webOS phone rings in a crowd full of Android devices, does it make a sound?
Do Androids dream of WebOS when they go to sleep?
I personally think RIM's future should be on Android. Dump QNX and Playbook OS. Produce a Playbook / BB 10 OS runtime for Android and then move house over to it. Make money by selling security hardened Android devices and value added apps that sit on top.
And they should offer phones with hardware keyboards. I bet there is a market for it. Keep offering services like ping - kids here love it. All kids in high school here (Netherlands) have blackberries. Once they have money or go to university, they buy an iphone or android phone. BB should find a way to keep them instead.