You have time to waste on it. I don't. 2.3 or 2.4 would be lovely. I have no reason for it. Nothing compels me because I don't want my phone to time-suck my life. I'm not a phone developer although I'm a reasonable coder.
My phone is a phone, not an entertainment system. I get mail through a web page. I get gmail links. There's a game. Otherwise, like most phones, the screen is too small and it's ugly. The keyboard is for elves or marmots. The sound quality is for people working on printing presses.
Sadly, cable installers fall under low-voltage code and don't need to be licensed anything in most jurisdictions. That there's an AC box out in the snow, however, crosses the line, likely. Take a phone pic of it and email it to press@qwest.com. A truck ought to roll on that one.
622 miles is one way. RT is 1244mi, presuming it's right above you. Add in the route to get to the uplink, if it's not your own dish. And as geography says that people mostly live in towns and cities, congestion of a specific sat is likely, and is unlikely to be able to effectively load balanced in any meaningful way. Depending on the freq, you may or may not have to have a clear sky path, and you may or may not need to align things to maximize speed.
Then there's launching a lot of sats because you have a lot of revenue stream, all ready to go. Seems a sat phone business could arise out of that.
The genie is out of the bottle; all the available data has likely been mined and is now sitting in various db caches, waiting for a script to become demographic spam. I would hope that some brave attorney general would decide that this is a privacy breech an spank 1) Zuckerberg et al 2) that silly Goldman Sachs that won't sell #1's stock, in the USA, and 3) each of the organizations that gleaned private data. But it's unlikely to happen, even in my dreams.
Even the hardcore are taking a hard look at what you can do with other phones. Three months after the iPhone came out, it was forbidden in the board room, but everyone was curious anyway. Six months later, it was the counter-culture thing to have there, along with your CrackBerry. Then the Crackberry was pulled out less and less. The carrier-captive stupidity stopped a few more.
When you look at Droid 2 from Moto, or any one of a hundred other models, it does a lot of work, with a fat community of apps and support. iOS made itself the one to beat, or at least look kewl up against. RIM has tried to remarket the BB in this direction, but so far, it hasn't captured the imagination necessary to reignite sales and get growth. Failing something truly amazing and a community re-think/re-do, the business types aren't going to look at RIM first, but they'll still look.
RIM might relinquish their market share more slowly, it's true. Palm has a fanclub, too. And they've been mightily eclipsed by wickedly powerful phones that are getting more talented seemingly every month. If you look at the actual counts of new smartphone purchasers, and there are plentiful numbers, Android and Apple are getting the lion's share of market growth and conversions. This is growth, not retention.
Rotary phones were cool, too. Then those touch-tone thingies arrived and the market moved. Palm, Nokia, RIM, and even Microsoft are getting dusted. Each of these four had their smartphone offerings, and each of these four is getting pounded, and mightily because they haven't evolved their communities and brand loyalty.
Big WebOS and Blackberry web stores with 100s of thousands of apps. Nope.
Cult status of the phone itself. Nope.
People across the world waiting up at stores for the next release, or waiting to upgrade their operating systems with glee. Nope.
Vast ecosystem of accessorizers, weird add-ons, and wicked strange looking cases. Nope.
I'll admit that WebOS is kind of kewl, and you can't deny the crack nature of Blackberries, but you can get that crack in droid and iOS. So, I don't think the poster is dreaming.
Your link says 'sources' say, which until it's an affidavit, is hearsay. "Public knowledge" is a pretty nebulous sort of term. If this was sworn evidence, then the government has probable cause, but a civilian doesn't-- they're not an agent of the government. Bound by the terms of a government agent?
Yes and no. As an example, if you believe I have drugs in my home and you take it upon yourself as a civilian to break into my home to find them, you may find unintended consequences. The police have the same problem, which is constantly brought before the SCOTUS to define what's actually probable cause.
Bounty hunters, private detectives, and other individuals who tried to crack Sarah Palin's account are likely still violating federal statues, and perhaps those in states as well. He tried to destroy the evidence of what he'd done, and that's what he was convicted for.
I don't believe the individual is granted transitive 'permission' of any kind to attempt to crack someone's mailbox without a warrant or probable cause that evidence might be in the process of being destroyed, just as a police officer does. Worse, individuals that make 'citizen's arrests' are way out on a limb legally. Getting evidence in such a manner is likely highly illegal, and at best, would jeopardize the admission of the evidence.
Actually, she didn't. There still needs to be probable cause, and just being Sarah Palin doesn't fit the definition. If someone knew that she was doing it, and then told someone, the information would become probable cause; than an affidavit is filed, and a warrant obtained. That's how due process works. It's blackhat to simply crack an account without a court order based on 'gut' feelings and in lieu of a warrant. This protects her, you, and I.
Your "full stop" is a product of your imagination, and has no basis within the legal system, only your mind.
This person has no legal basis to hack the account of Sarah Palin. Information garnered under such circumstances had at most, dubious value as evidence. He is bound to follow the tenets of the law, as we all are. Moral sway means nothing as the constitution is based on the rule of law. Illegally obtained evidence is usually thrown out. There are several federal guidelines that are rules of the federal courts that must be followed. About six of them could be successfully argued, although IANAL.
It is NOT the moral imperative of individuals to do illegal actions in the hopes of catching a criminal. It is the civil mandate of an individual to respect the civil right of others, even if they're the rights of Sarah Palin.
The judge was likely able to suspend most or all of the sentence, or make it all probation, but half-way house was chosen, thus dictating the USBoP decision. So it goes.
Not even close. I'm not, you're not, and he's not a government employee. He was not an investigator. He had no warrant. He had no probable cause. This is about him, not her. Do you want everything you write scrutinized in emails? You have a right to privacy, so does she. That she was doing evil stuff is not the issue here-- the ends don't justify the means.
I don't care for Palin at all, but her email is private, and so are the rest of emails save for the employee relationship mentioned upthread, which can't be applied here.
This is one of the charges that stuck, as the others didn't. If he's becoming a poster boy, my comments still stand. Probation for obstruction doesn't fit the crime, it seems to me. I don't think that Palin has any control whatsoever over the DoJ's recommendation. Heaven help us if she ever does.
CIting exceptions doesn't make what he did legal or ethical at all, did it? Was Palin his employer? No. I'm self-employed. I own my own emails. Your circumstances may be different.
If governments are looking into my email, it's without legal standing. Peon or not, it's still not legal or ethical.
You may or may not be pattern sniffed; I operate within the construct that my actions are legal, and protected constitutionally. Ethics are real, and sadly absent. Reviving them is a way back to civility and the common good.
It's even questionable whether MacOS is BSD-Darwin at this point. Strange how the company with the second largest market cap on the planet did so on the shoulders of arguable open source microkernels.
Reason: The more you keep politicians away from software, the better. Look at how they're doing with a fairly simple concept like net neutrality.
Another reason: you go out on a limb with support issues of when upgrades brick a phone, causes application problems, and so on. For those reasons, a grace period is reasonable. If the phone's OS version is locked down, then once we know that, we choose the path of self-support, third-party support, or something that the vendor becomes removed from. Samsung isn't obligated to support Android thru version N, only the one that they sold it with or otherwise give tacit support to. If they get a bad rep (are you listening Microsoft?) about putting out OS releases that stiffs a long generation of phones, so be it. If we know in advance, fine, let us make choices. If you foist this on us, you'll be unhappy with your sales and reputation.
There's that, and your ability to spin up thousands of disposable Linux licenses (and even Windows licenses) from cloud providers at hardly any cost at all. Cloud is cheap. Vendor lock-in isn't so much non-existent as a different value system entirely.
Microsoft's grip on its clientele has been systems, end to end ones where you have to make only one convenient phone call, rather than face several vendors pointing fingers at each other. IBM and Oracle know this value, too.
Yet it's like Henry Ford's Model T. You can buy it in any color you want as long as it's black. In the same way, Azure is Microsoft, and third parties, who once richly sold Microsoft's systems, are shying away from Azure because Microsoft's business models don't make financial sense for them-- in the same way you describe.
Which is probably one of the reasons that Muglia works someplace else now. Microsoft's 'cloud strategy' is an oxymoron. Once again, they were playing golf while the market changed.
>>They're outsourcing the actual editing to low-wage Americans. That... that explains so much. English as a second non-native language and all of that.
There, fixed that for you, and cured your xenophobia.
Once American disappears from Kayak or Orbitz, they're off my radar. The market differentiation among the carriers is really small, despite what their MBAs and marketing professionals think. I buy for price/destination and least hassle, and do so frequently. I fly domestically, and internationally. Southwest is a last resort, because they aren't the cheapest, aren't the most convenient, and have a lot of second-best airport slots. That they are profitable is somehow holy, and I'm glad for them, and not a stockholder, I'm a CUSTOMER.
I plan most of my own itineraries. I prefer Star Alliance, only to bank miles with one carrier. American Airlines isn't a member. Their prices, except where they have heavy gate ownership, uniformly stink. Same goes for Delta/Northwest. Like Detroit/Minneapolis/Atlanta? Or Dallas/LAX? It's the hub-and-spoke nightmare for all of them. They all went Chapter 11 (save for Continental/AA/SW) after Sept 11th. They merge, they consolidate, they code-share, and I don't care. They're faceless, nameless, living a customer service nightmare by having to charge for everything down to the very air you breathe in a pensionless vacuum. I feel for their employees. But there is no honor, nothing to love, just land me safely and don't empty my wallet. Otherwise, the distinctions are minimal, and their marketing wasted. They remind me of telcos-- no soul, nothing to love.
The post asks an 'or' question which is plainly stupid and demonstrates a lack of knowledge on the part of the poster. Analytics are but one part of organizational asset deployments. In and of themselves, analystics initiatives don't really change storage. There are occasions where outputs are transient, but audit/compliance necessitate storing enough that whatever needs to be constructed can, and what can be legally/ethically discarded will be.
So data center storage needs don't really change-- they're growing like crazy 24/7. Cool analytics are just another production method.
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You have time to waste on it. I don't. 2.3 or 2.4 would be lovely. I have no reason for it. Nothing compels me because I don't want my phone to time-suck my life. I'm not a phone developer although I'm a reasonable coder.
My phone is a phone, not an entertainment system. I get mail through a web page. I get gmail links. There's a game. Otherwise, like most phones, the screen is too small and it's ugly. The keyboard is for elves or marmots. The sound quality is for people working on printing presses.
I have a Moto Droid 2. I rooted it. It works FINE. Not bricked. It's using at most, a nice tethering app. Does all I want.
If I wanted a playground, I would have bought a park.
This is my experience. Yours will vary.
Sadly, cable installers fall under low-voltage code and don't need to be licensed anything in most jurisdictions. That there's an AC box out in the snow, however, crosses the line, likely. Take a phone pic of it and email it to press@qwest.com. A truck ought to roll on that one.
622 miles is one way. RT is 1244mi, presuming it's right above you. Add in the route to get to the uplink, if it's not your own dish. And as geography says that people mostly live in towns and cities, congestion of a specific sat is likely, and is unlikely to be able to effectively load balanced in any meaningful way. Depending on the freq, you may or may not have to have a clear sky path, and you may or may not need to align things to maximize speed.
Then there's launching a lot of sats because you have a lot of revenue stream, all ready to go. Seems a sat phone business could arise out of that.
Oh, wait....
The genie is out of the bottle; all the available data has likely been mined and is now sitting in various db caches, waiting for a script to become demographic spam. I would hope that some brave attorney general would decide that this is a privacy breech an spank 1) Zuckerberg et al 2) that silly Goldman Sachs that won't sell #1's stock, in the USA, and 3) each of the organizations that gleaned private data. But it's unlikely to happen, even in my dreams.
Even the hardcore are taking a hard look at what you can do with other phones. Three months after the iPhone came out, it was forbidden in the board room, but everyone was curious anyway. Six months later, it was the counter-culture thing to have there, along with your CrackBerry. Then the Crackberry was pulled out less and less. The carrier-captive stupidity stopped a few more.
When you look at Droid 2 from Moto, or any one of a hundred other models, it does a lot of work, with a fat community of apps and support. iOS made itself the one to beat, or at least look kewl up against. RIM has tried to remarket the BB in this direction, but so far, it hasn't captured the imagination necessary to reignite sales and get growth. Failing something truly amazing and a community re-think/re-do, the business types aren't going to look at RIM first, but they'll still look.
RIM might relinquish their market share more slowly, it's true. Palm has a fanclub, too. And they've been mightily eclipsed by wickedly powerful phones that are getting more talented seemingly every month. If you look at the actual counts of new smartphone purchasers, and there are plentiful numbers, Android and Apple are getting the lion's share of market growth and conversions. This is growth, not retention.
Rotary phones were cool, too. Then those touch-tone thingies arrived and the market moved. Palm, Nokia, RIM, and even Microsoft are getting dusted. Each of these four had their smartphone offerings, and each of these four is getting pounded, and mightily because they haven't evolved their communities and brand loyalty.
Let's see.
Big WebOS and Blackberry web stores with 100s of thousands of apps. Nope.
Cult status of the phone itself. Nope.
People across the world waiting up at stores for the next release, or waiting to upgrade their operating systems with glee. Nope.
Vast ecosystem of accessorizers, weird add-ons, and wicked strange looking cases. Nope.
I'll admit that WebOS is kind of kewl, and you can't deny the crack nature of Blackberries, but you can get that crack in droid and iOS. So, I don't think the poster is dreaming.
Your link says 'sources' say, which until it's an affidavit, is hearsay. "Public knowledge" is a pretty nebulous sort of term. If this was sworn evidence, then the government has probable cause, but a civilian doesn't-- they're not an agent of the government. Bound by the terms of a government agent?
Yes and no. As an example, if you believe I have drugs in my home and you take it upon yourself as a civilian to break into my home to find them, you may find unintended consequences. The police have the same problem, which is constantly brought before the SCOTUS to define what's actually probable cause.
Bounty hunters, private detectives, and other individuals who tried to crack Sarah Palin's account are likely still violating federal statues, and perhaps those in states as well. He tried to destroy the evidence of what he'd done, and that's what he was convicted for.
I don't believe the individual is granted transitive 'permission' of any kind to attempt to crack someone's mailbox without a warrant or probable cause that evidence might be in the process of being destroyed, just as a police officer does. Worse, individuals that make 'citizen's arrests' are way out on a limb legally. Getting evidence in such a manner is likely highly illegal, and at best, would jeopardize the admission of the evidence.
Actually, she didn't. There still needs to be probable cause, and just being Sarah Palin doesn't fit the definition. If someone knew that she was doing it, and then told someone, the information would become probable cause; than an affidavit is filed, and a warrant obtained. That's how due process works. It's blackhat to simply crack an account without a court order based on 'gut' feelings and in lieu of a warrant. This protects her, you, and I.
It might have been a nice way to disappear, leave bizarre and perplexing and sincerely misleading trail crumbs.
Or he might be dead.
Apparently somebody cares. Nice to know.
Your "full stop" is a product of your imagination, and has no basis within the legal system, only your mind.
This person has no legal basis to hack the account of Sarah Palin. Information garnered under such circumstances had at most, dubious value as evidence. He is bound to follow the tenets of the law, as we all are. Moral sway means nothing as the constitution is based on the rule of law. Illegally obtained evidence is usually thrown out. There are several federal guidelines that are rules of the federal courts that must be followed. About six of them could be successfully argued, although IANAL.
It is NOT the moral imperative of individuals to do illegal actions in the hopes of catching a criminal. It is the civil mandate of an individual to respect the civil right of others, even if they're the rights of Sarah Palin.
The judge was likely able to suspend most or all of the sentence, or make it all probation, but half-way house was chosen, thus dictating the USBoP decision. So it goes.
Not even close. I'm not, you're not, and he's not a government employee. He was not an investigator. He had no warrant. He had no probable cause. This is about him, not her. Do you want everything you write scrutinized in emails? You have a right to privacy, so does she. That she was doing evil stuff is not the issue here-- the ends don't justify the means.
I don't care for Palin at all, but her email is private, and so are the rest of emails save for the employee relationship mentioned upthread, which can't be applied here.
This is one of the charges that stuck, as the others didn't. If he's becoming a poster boy, my comments still stand. Probation for obstruction doesn't fit the crime, it seems to me. I don't think that Palin has any control whatsoever over the DoJ's recommendation. Heaven help us if she ever does.
CIting exceptions doesn't make what he did legal or ethical at all, did it? Was Palin his employer? No. I'm self-employed. I own my own emails. Your circumstances may be different.
If governments are looking into my email, it's without legal standing. Peon or not, it's still not legal or ethical.
You may or may not be pattern sniffed; I operate within the construct that my actions are legal, and protected constitutionally. Ethics are real, and sadly absent. Reviving them is a way back to civility and the common good.
And hacking into someone's email box, whether Palin's or a Slashdot Slouch like mine's, is a federal offense.
He shouldn't have been doing "this kind of stuff". This isn't white-hat/grey-hat stuff, this is cracking an account with bad intentions and result.
I'm amazed that he got a low security prison. Would someone whose father was not a Democratic party functionary have received the same treatment?
It's even questionable whether MacOS is BSD-Darwin at this point. Strange how the company with the second largest market cap on the planet did so on the shoulders of arguable open source microkernels.
Just spreading the word ought to do it.
Reason: The more you keep politicians away from software, the better. Look at how they're doing with a fairly simple concept like net neutrality.
Another reason: you go out on a limb with support issues of when upgrades brick a phone, causes application problems, and so on. For those reasons, a grace period is reasonable. If the phone's OS version is locked down, then once we know that, we choose the path of self-support, third-party support, or something that the vendor becomes removed from. Samsung isn't obligated to support Android thru version N, only the one that they sold it with or otherwise give tacit support to. If they get a bad rep (are you listening Microsoft?) about putting out OS releases that stiffs a long generation of phones, so be it. If we know in advance, fine, let us make choices. If you foist this on us, you'll be unhappy with your sales and reputation.
There's that, and your ability to spin up thousands of disposable Linux licenses (and even Windows licenses) from cloud providers at hardly any cost at all. Cloud is cheap. Vendor lock-in isn't so much non-existent as a different value system entirely.
Microsoft's grip on its clientele has been systems, end to end ones where you have to make only one convenient phone call, rather than face several vendors pointing fingers at each other. IBM and Oracle know this value, too.
Yet it's like Henry Ford's Model T. You can buy it in any color you want as long as it's black. In the same way, Azure is Microsoft, and third parties, who once richly sold Microsoft's systems, are shying away from Azure because Microsoft's business models don't make financial sense for them-- in the same way you describe.
Which is probably one of the reasons that Muglia works someplace else now. Microsoft's 'cloud strategy' is an oxymoron. Once again, they were playing golf while the market changed.
>>They're outsourcing the actual editing to low-wage Americans. That ... that explains so much. English as a second non-native language and all of that.
There, fixed that for you, and cured your xenophobia.
Once American disappears from Kayak or Orbitz, they're off my radar. The market differentiation among the carriers is really small, despite what their MBAs and marketing professionals think. I buy for price/destination and least hassle, and do so frequently. I fly domestically, and internationally. Southwest is a last resort, because they aren't the cheapest, aren't the most convenient, and have a lot of second-best airport slots. That they are profitable is somehow holy, and I'm glad for them, and not a stockholder, I'm a CUSTOMER.
I plan most of my own itineraries. I prefer Star Alliance, only to bank miles with one carrier. American Airlines isn't a member. Their prices, except where they have heavy gate ownership, uniformly stink. Same goes for Delta/Northwest. Like Detroit/Minneapolis/Atlanta? Or Dallas/LAX? It's the hub-and-spoke nightmare for all of them. They all went Chapter 11 (save for Continental/AA/SW) after Sept 11th. They merge, they consolidate, they code-share, and I don't care. They're faceless, nameless, living a customer service nightmare by having to charge for everything down to the very air you breathe in a pensionless vacuum. I feel for their employees. But there is no honor, nothing to love, just land me safely and don't empty my wallet. Otherwise, the distinctions are minimal, and their marketing wasted. They remind me of telcos-- no soul, nothing to love.
Mod parent up.
The post asks an 'or' question which is plainly stupid and demonstrates a lack of knowledge on the part of the poster. Analytics are but one part of organizational asset deployments. In and of themselves, analystics initiatives don't really change storage. There are occasions where outputs are transient, but audit/compliance necessitate storing enough that whatever needs to be constructed can, and what can be legally/ethically discarded will be.
So data center storage needs don't really change-- they're growing like crazy 24/7. Cool analytics are just another production method.
Not a disaster. Just decent hacks.
Like the PS3 pseudorandom number. Like rooting various iStuff, or Android. You lock, we unlock. Simple as that.
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