Why is it that in every story about this, someone feels the need to question why/. isn't shutting down?
Unplugging the server is a bit drastic, yes. It's a numbers game however and any way to show support or solidarity is what increases the "head count" on the evening news. It's a crappy cat and mouse game but whether it's lobbyist money, participating websites, or informed public, the numbers are all that matter in politics.
Pleased to see/. decided to do something in the end.
The functionality was lke a boxee box with a tv tuner. The booth dude said you could get to a linux shell and that there were plans in the works to make it a DVR as well. Even though a lot of us could build that functionality ourselves, I think there is a market if you can get tv+boxee+dvr all in one. Ultimately the price will determine if the project lives or dies though.
NAFTA opened up a lot of doorways to cheap labor in other countries. The manufacturing and tech sectors followed the cheap labor by off-shoring jobs and facilities. NAFTA basically sterilized the manufacturing and tech sector jobs in the US but it was *sick* profit for the corporations who were now setting up shop in every 2-bit town south of the border. The situation we're in now isn't a surprise to anyone who was in those sectors back in the 90s. "America's Tech Future" was decided on a long time ago.
Just look at this chart of the completely broken upgrade cycle
Although I agree that things are much easier to maintain in the black-and-white-world of one hardware platform, one software stack and one source of development, Google is allowing manufacturers to have the ability to innovate and experiment without being locked-in to doing everything "one way". That kind of trickles down to the consumer by allowing them to have a platform where they can experiment and innovate also.
Yeah it's easier to support one single platform but I think the freedom to innovate is more important.
There are plenty of people who will pay the.99 cents to not have to compile the source but being able to take the source and compile your own is about as close as we can get to trusted applications.
I don't see the point of "complaining" to anyone. If PRC is oblivious to Facebook and Google's privacy schisms or NSA/AT&T wiretapping lawsuits, or cell carriers snoopware (carrierIQ) just how effective do we expect them to be? Do they not use google or read the news? Seems like an organization that's been around for that long should have enough experience to be more proactive than "send us an email to report privacy concerns".
> I certainly won't buy any paranoid claims that they're going to be locked up as terrorists.
Would you buy the paranoid claim that any common person in the US can be singled out in public for no apparent reason and fondled or cavity searched? Sound too paranoid? Maybe you haven't flown anywhere in awhile.
Furthermore I don't care if someone is a long haired hippie complaining about the legalities of marijuana. Anyone should have the right to occupy a public place unless they are breaking the law. And, incidentally, pepper-spraying someone while they are sitting in a park is not justifiable use of force. It's tyranny. Oh, but wait I guess that's just paranoid of me to think cops would actually abuse power like that.
- Exciting features delivered with disappointment - Revolutionary change followed by a miserable user experience - Energetic marketing strategy followed up with monotonous patching and bugfixes - missed boats and opportunities - stale product model - lotta' MEH
-At&t and the gov. Wiretapping us citizens. -Corporate interests overrule constitutilnal rights -corruption at every level of government -systematic and direct attacks on basic civil rights -unchecked law enforcement -censorship of the media
"corrupt" means different things depending which side of the law you work for. The US is in the midst of a legal system which makes and enforces it's own interpretation of right and wrong.
Users don't want protection, they want simplicity. As soon as you try to secure something it makes things "hard" and they go back to doing insecure things for the sake of simplicity, or, they just don't use it at all.
The simple login/pass texfield on a webpage is a great example. It used to be easy and simple but now every one of them has some form of a super-secure captcha that is so secure the human eye cannot even discern it. A simple thing has been bastardized to the point it's to frustrating to use.
Maybe QR codes have simply had their day. Let's not "extend" them.
GM foods are mainly litigation tools to further the market dominance of corporate controlled food stocks. Even if insects/bacteria begin affecting them, I doubt Monsanto will stop suing family farms out of existence, and that's the worse than insects. If you think patents and copyrights are absurd now, wait until there are only two or three companies growing the entire world's food supply. Support your local farms if you are lucky enough to have some. The GM food thing needs to stop.
Not sure how feasible this would be to crowdsource. Wouldn't you need some reasonably trained eyeballs to avoid the cost and time of researching the "ooo I see a footprint" dead-ends?
At the core of the religious and science differences is a very humanistic (and fallible) trait of 'we' vs. 'them'. It's what drives the whole diatribe of debate on both sides of the fence and what makes the problem irrational and unsolvable.
Neither science nor religion are based on 100% total fact. A scientific theory, (as is much religion), is based on what appears to be known about something from a given set of data. Can you explain Dark Matter with 100% certainty? No. Can you explain Intelligent Design with 100% certainty? No. You can make a lot of guesses but in the end those guesses are subjective.
Seems to me one set of weakly glued hypothesis and conjecture should not be insisted upon over another set of weakly glued hypothesis and conjecture. We are on one planet of zillions of galaxies. We have not seen all there is to see and cannot explain much of what we have.
Why is this a problem all of a sudden? Monopolies do this all the time and it seems to be right in-line with Copyright trolling, Patent lawsuits and the RIAA/MPAA. It's the American way. Why bother with a 15% player when there are much bigger fish to go after?
I'm not an Apple fan, but If you're going to cry foul with Apple on this, then you ought to hold every other egregious bastardization of the legal system to the same principle.
Seems to me if everyone raises their hands on camera, it would be much more trustworthy than "lol.. whoops - we just found 7000 votes on *insert_media_here* that got misplaced. We'll be sure to add those to the recount"*
Sure, pics can be doctored up too but it's a bit harder to do when there are multiple copies. Especially if anyone/everyone observing is able to take a picture.
FTFA: "iPad and iPhone shoppers account for 90% of all mobile purchases; " Quite a bit different than the summary, eh?
All this means, dear summarizer, is that 90% of all mobile purchases are done by people with iphones. It's no indication that the iphone is dominating anything, except maybe people with money to burn.
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They're not talking about scanning random people on the street and taking their guns.
Meh.. give it a couple years.
A few countries already have anti-satellite weaponry:
"Currently, only the United States, the former Soviet Union, and the People's Republic of China are known to have developed these weapons." *
Besides, an agreement like that really means none of the people signing it will actually adhere to it until they get caught.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-satellite_weapon
Why is it that in every story about this, someone feels the need to question why /. isn't shutting down?
Unplugging the server is a bit drastic, yes. It's a numbers game however and any way to show support or solidarity is what increases the "head count" on the evening news. It's a crappy cat and mouse game but whether it's lobbyist money, participating websites, or informed public, the numbers are all that matter in politics.
Pleased to see /. decided to do something in the end.
I would have expected the tech-savvy slashdot to do something similar to what google and reddit have done in protest. Why not?
The functionality was lke a boxee box with a tv tuner. The booth dude said you could get to a linux shell and that there were plans in the works to make it a DVR as well. Even though a lot of us could build that functionality ourselves, I think there is a market if you can get tv+boxee+dvr all in one. Ultimately the price will determine if the project lives or dies though.
i cant think of a better example of how corporations are castrating consumer alternatives. this needs to end.
NAFTA opened up a lot of doorways to cheap labor in other countries. The manufacturing and tech sectors followed the cheap labor by off-shoring jobs and facilities. NAFTA basically sterilized the manufacturing and tech sector jobs in the US but it was *sick* profit for the corporations who were now setting up shop in every 2-bit town south of the border. The situation we're in now isn't a surprise to anyone who was in those sectors back in the 90s. "America's Tech Future" was decided on a long time ago.
Just look at this chart of the completely broken upgrade cycle
Although I agree that things are much easier to maintain in the black-and-white-world of one hardware platform, one software stack and one source of development, Google is allowing manufacturers to have the ability to innovate and experiment without being locked-in to doing everything "one way". That kind of trickles down to the consumer by allowing them to have a platform where they can experiment and innovate also.
Yeah it's easier to support one single platform but I think the freedom to innovate is more important.
There are plenty of people who will pay the .99 cents to not have to compile the source but being able to take the source and compile your own is about as close as we can get to trusted applications.
It's open source, can port forward, can use pubkey auth (shared key auth) and doesn't require you to "modify" kernels or root the device.
http://code.google.com/p/connectbot/
1) All my games work (for the most part) and I don't have to beg for a port to Linux of said game or driver.
2) I don't necessarily want to pay the Apple premium for their rendition of problems.
3) I don't necessarily want to pay Microsoft more money for their rendition of Upgrade problems.
4) I'm familar with XP and all of it's quirks. Yeah I gotta reinstall every 6 months to keep it sane again, but imaging takes care of the worst of it.
4/5 of the groups surveyed want their next device to be running Android instead of Windows, IOS or RIM.
I don't see the point of "complaining" to anyone. If PRC is oblivious to Facebook and Google's privacy schisms or NSA/AT&T wiretapping lawsuits, or cell carriers snoopware (carrierIQ) just how effective do we expect them to be? Do they not use google or read the news? Seems like an organization that's been around for that long should have enough experience to be more proactive than "send us an email to report privacy concerns".
> I certainly won't buy any paranoid claims that they're going to be locked up as terrorists.
Would you buy the paranoid claim that any common person in the US can be singled out in public for no apparent reason and fondled or cavity searched? Sound too paranoid? Maybe you haven't flown anywhere in awhile.
Furthermore I don't care if someone is a long haired hippie complaining about the legalities of marijuana. Anyone should have the right to occupy a public place unless they are breaking the law. And, incidentally, pepper-spraying someone while they are sitting in a park is not justifiable use of force. It's tyranny. Oh, but wait I guess that's just paranoid of me to think cops would actually abuse power like that.
- Exciting features delivered with disappointment
- Revolutionary change followed by a miserable user experience
- Energetic marketing strategy followed up with monotonous patching and bugfixes
- missed boats and opportunities
- stale product model
- lotta' MEH
-At&t and the gov. Wiretapping us citizens.
-Corporate interests overrule constitutilnal rights
-corruption at every level of government
-systematic and direct attacks on basic civil rights
-unchecked law enforcement
-censorship of the media
Id say itr has already started.
"corrupt" means different things depending which side of the law you work for. The US is in the midst of a legal system which makes and enforces it's own interpretation of right and wrong.
Users don't want protection, they want simplicity. As soon as you try to secure something it makes things "hard" and they go back to doing insecure things for the sake of simplicity, or, they just don't use it at all.
The simple login/pass texfield on a webpage is a great example. It used to be easy and simple but now every one of them has some form of a super-secure captcha that is so secure the human eye cannot even discern it. A simple thing has been bastardized to the point it's to frustrating to use.
Maybe QR codes have simply had their day. Let's not "extend" them.
GM foods are mainly litigation tools to further the market dominance of corporate controlled food stocks. Even if insects/bacteria begin affecting them, I doubt Monsanto will stop suing family farms out of existence, and that's the worse than insects. If you think patents and copyrights are absurd now, wait until there are only two or three companies growing the entire world's food supply. Support your local farms if you are lucky enough to have some. The GM food thing needs to stop.
* - http://www.raw-wisdom.com/organicsvsgmo
I've not found the same return policy on software.
Not sure how feasible this would be to crowdsource. Wouldn't you need some reasonably trained eyeballs to avoid the cost and time of researching the "ooo I see a footprint" dead-ends?
At the core of the religious and science differences is a very humanistic (and fallible) trait of 'we' vs. 'them'. It's what drives the whole diatribe of debate on both sides of the fence and what makes the problem irrational and unsolvable.
Neither science nor religion are based on 100% total fact. A scientific theory, (as is much religion), is based on what appears to be known about something from a given set of data. Can you explain Dark Matter with 100% certainty? No. Can you explain Intelligent Design with 100% certainty? No. You can make a lot of guesses but in the end those guesses are subjective.
Seems to me one set of weakly glued hypothesis and conjecture should not be insisted upon over another set of weakly glued hypothesis and conjecture. We are on one planet of zillions of galaxies. We have not seen all there is to see and cannot explain much of what we have.
Why is this a problem all of a sudden? Monopolies do this all the time and it seems to be right in-line with Copyright trolling, Patent lawsuits and the RIAA/MPAA. It's the American way. Why bother with a 15% player when there are much bigger fish to go after?
I'm not an Apple fan, but If you're going to cry foul with Apple on this, then you ought to hold every other egregious bastardization of the legal system to the same principle.
Seems to me if everyone raises their hands on camera, it would be much more trustworthy than "lol.. whoops - we just found 7000 votes on *insert_media_here* that got misplaced. We'll be sure to add those to the recount"*
Sure, pics can be doctored up too but it's a bit harder to do when there are multiple copies. Especially if anyone/everyone observing is able to take a picture.
[*] - http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/04/07/whoa_prosser_gains_7,381_votes_after_computer_error_is_fixed
FTFA: "iPad and iPhone shoppers account for 90% of all mobile purchases; " Quite a bit different than the summary, eh?
All this means, dear summarizer, is that 90% of all mobile purchases are done by people with iphones. It's no indication that the iphone is dominating anything, except maybe people with money to burn.
[0] - http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-11-15/tech/30400455_1_ios-iphone-smartphone-market