What bugs me is that with the size and shape of the Kinect, why doesn't it use stereo cameras? A lot of design work may have gone into the thing, but it seems like a large amount of the things in it are just redundant. Extra wide wingtips. A robotic arm with only 1 degree of freedom. No mount points. I didn't take mine apart, but I'm guessing there is a lot of open air inside that casing.
When you put it that way, it is hard to see why Apple and Google simply can't get along. Their goals are different, their markets are different, they adopt different strategies and hire different types of people. Since they don't get along, or rather, don't get along anymore, I guess there must be something missing from the picture here.
The thing about automated backups is, they work. For a while. And when they start to fail over and over again, you've already forgotten about them. I guess notifications are in order (for backup success, don't rely on notifications working only on failures), but in time you blank them out from your mind as well. And even if the system believes the backup to have succeeded, you never really know what exactly have you backed up, until you try a restore. So periodic restores. That's not something your average Joe is going to be able to do.
I'm inclined to believe them too. As it turns out, by giving root signing keys to Windows to despotic organizations (http://twitter.com/#!/marshray/status/29637858365022208) there is hardly a need to disable HTTPS anyway. As long as you are on a Windows computer, any SSL traffic you send can be intercepted.
The upside is, writing on an iPad would be too troublesome to fill the documents with legalese, making for a constitution that might actually be readable.
Look at it from another perspective - would it be easier to coordinate the changing of working and operating hours twice a year, every year, or easier to change the definition of time altogether, and force compliance from everyone?
I don't know about whether this is representative about what is wrong about IP law in general, what it really shows is what is wrong in what people perceive IP law to be. Remember this premise was never tried in a court of law, so far all that have been passing around are a bunch of dubious threats.
Why does he still have the support of the army? The Tiananmen Square incident was mainly clashes between city people and army personnel pulled from far-off rural regions, as the government could not trust their own troops to stand by them. Why is it not happening in this case?
If you have a wireless token why not use it to better effect - locking and unlocking the terminal display as and when you are in or out of range. Saves a bit of hassle logging in all the time.
Anyone could claim they spoke for anonymous. How do you verify it? Thing is, someone threw out the idea of targeting WBC, and a lot of people agreed that they were being enough of a dick to warrant becoming their next target. Anonymous must have some trouble filtering the real messages from random spam out there.
Requiring you to license h264 is not about taking your money, I don't think it ever was, as I don't think they will ever require licensing fees to use it. Instead, it is a bid at telling you what you can or cannot do with the technology.
We know what we want changed, but what do you think Obama will say? The cynic in me says he's probably going to blame it on the Chinese or something. "We have great ideas, but they keep stealing them away. So we don't have ideas anymore. Bad Dog!" Any competent lobbyist can turn this drive for innovation into a tool to push their agenda.
Hate to reply to myself, but this http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2011/02/08/breaking-up-the-romance-between-malware-and-autorun.aspx needs a read too. It plots the relationship between autorun and malware. Interesting how Microsoft still considers this a "non-security related update", as autorun has been an easy vector with which to poison your windows installation. Important to note that autorun will still work as expected on CD and DVD media, meaning Sony Rootkits are still going to be installed on your computer.
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What bugs me is that with the size and shape of the Kinect, why doesn't it use stereo cameras? A lot of design work may have gone into the thing, but it seems like a large amount of the things in it are just redundant. Extra wide wingtips. A robotic arm with only 1 degree of freedom. No mount points. I didn't take mine apart, but I'm guessing there is a lot of open air inside that casing.
When you put it that way, it is hard to see why Apple and Google simply can't get along. Their goals are different, their markets are different, they adopt different strategies and hire different types of people. Since they don't get along, or rather, don't get along anymore, I guess there must be something missing from the picture here.
The thing about automated backups is, they work. For a while. And when they start to fail over and over again, you've already forgotten about them. I guess notifications are in order (for backup success, don't rely on notifications working only on failures), but in time you blank them out from your mind as well. And even if the system believes the backup to have succeeded, you never really know what exactly have you backed up, until you try a restore. So periodic restores. That's not something your average Joe is going to be able to do.
I'm inclined to believe them too. As it turns out, by giving root signing keys to Windows to despotic organizations (http://twitter.com/#!/marshray/status/29637858365022208) there is hardly a need to disable HTTPS anyway. As long as you are on a Windows computer, any SSL traffic you send can be intercepted.
What you are listing is exactly the kind of environment that will cause developers to start porting their apps to run natively on Macs.
If people are setting off fireworks to distract you from the source of gunfire, you should probably shoot them anyway.
http://appldnld.apple.com/iPhone4/041-0328.20110311.Lkhy6/iPhone2,1_4.3_8F190_Restore.ipsw 3GS
http://appldnld.apple.com/iPhone4/041-0330.20110311.Cswe3/iPhone3,1_4.3_8F190_Restore.ipsw 4
http://appldnld.apple.com/iPhone4/061-8366.20110311.Fr45t/iPod3,1_4.3_8F190_Restore.ipsw ipod touch 3
http://appldnld.apple.com/iPhone4/061-9588.20110311.GtP7y/iPod4,1_4.3_8F190_Restore.ipsw ipod touch 4
http://appldnld.apple.com/iPhone4/041-0329.20110311.Cvfre/iPad1,1_4.3_8F190_Restore.ipsw ipad
http://appldnld.apple.com/AppleTV/061-9584.20110308.Cxdew/AppleTV2,1_4.3_8F191m_Restore.ipsw apple tv 2
kudos:
http://techie-buzz.com/mobile-news/ios-4-3-ipsw-direct-download-links.html
The upside is, writing on an iPad would be too troublesome to fill the documents with legalese, making for a constitution that might actually be readable.
Look at it from another perspective - would it be easier to coordinate the changing of working and operating hours twice a year, every year, or easier to change the definition of time altogether, and force compliance from everyone?
We don't talk about the furries here damn you
I don't know about whether this is representative about what is wrong about IP law in general, what it really shows is what is wrong in what people perceive IP law to be. Remember this premise was never tried in a court of law, so far all that have been passing around are a bunch of dubious threats.
Oh please, it's not only the government that is being defrauded all the time. Chances are you've been a target before too: http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/02/ink_cartridges.html
Why does he still have the support of the army? The Tiananmen Square incident was mainly clashes between city people and army personnel pulled from far-off rural regions, as the government could not trust their own troops to stand by them. Why is it not happening in this case?
Who knows what bondage goes with metal eyes?
If you have a wireless token why not use it to better effect - locking and unlocking the terminal display as and when you are in or out of range. Saves a bit of hassle logging in all the time.
Here we are... http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/dec/11/wikileaks-amazon-denial-democracy-lieberman
This is the same Amazon that caved to big brother. Why do business with them?
Anyone could claim they spoke for anonymous. How do you verify it? Thing is, someone threw out the idea of targeting WBC, and a lot of people agreed that they were being enough of a dick to warrant becoming their next target. Anonymous must have some trouble filtering the real messages from random spam out there.
Afaik the BSA does not chase after and reward whistleblowers of GPL violations. No money to be earned there, no siree.
Requiring you to license h264 is not about taking your money, I don't think it ever was, as I don't think they will ever require licensing fees to use it. Instead, it is a bid at telling you what you can or cannot do with the technology.
We know what we want changed, but what do you think Obama will say? The cynic in me says he's probably going to blame it on the Chinese or something. "We have great ideas, but they keep stealing them away. So we don't have ideas anymore. Bad Dog!" Any competent lobbyist can turn this drive for innovation into a tool to push their agenda.
Hate to reply to myself, but this http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2011/02/08/breaking-up-the-romance-between-malware-and-autorun.aspx needs a read too. It plots the relationship between autorun and malware. Interesting how Microsoft still considers this a "non-security related update", as autorun has been an easy vector with which to poison your windows installation. Important to note that autorun will still work as expected on CD and DVD media, meaning Sony Rootkits are still going to be installed on your computer.
Someone needs to mod this up. Anyway another interesting link: http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2011/02/08/deeper-insight-into-the-security-advisory-967940-update.aspx
prefer this though:http://xkcd.com/591/
Omg reading this is like buzzword bingo for furries or something. GG anonymous coward, we are in the process of decoding your message now.