The sane majority also must refer to history books when dealing with statements made by activist groups and say that they're trying to look more important than they really are, and therefore also lying.
Hence my original point: I must assume everyone's lying. There is as much proof of invisible black Martian spy planes as there is of anyone's claims here.
I dunno. Apple and it's users seem entirely full of themselves. It's nice to put things into perspective and point out how Apple is occassionally a failure. It's not infallible. It has some rather spectacular failures to it's name and it yet may lose the current platform war. There's precedent for it.
Hyperbole, mass generalization, flamebait and logical fallacies do not prove a point, even if there's precedent for it.
I'm an Apple user -- I'm also a Linux user, a BSD user, an SVR5 user and a Windows user. While I'm not full of myself, I often play someone who is on Slashdot.
I'm sure the same thing goes for Apple and its employees, as well as Microsoft and its employees and Redhat and its employees (definitely goes for SCO and some of its employees).
But saying that Apple is a spectacular failure because its OS has the same marketshare as the failed Vista is as logical as saying the Chateau Briand is a spectacular failure because they don't have as many restaurants as McDonald's (yes, there's the full of themselves bit coming through): Calling Apple a failure for failing to do something they never set out to do is just silly. Am I an abject failure because I haven't bungee jumped in as many countries as you have?
And what does precedent have to do with anything? Precedent for what? What platform war? iOS vs WinMob? Apple isn't a platform company, they're a hardware company who binds it all together with custom software. That makes them an appliance company (which is what they've been since they ditched the AppleIIGS, with a brief blip when Motorola and Power Computing were allowed to use their OS).
I wonder how much of that DRM'd content is his own. That's an angle that I hoped would be explored someday: That a company's DRM might put a cryptographic lock between you and YOUR OWN creative work. What happens when you are forbidden by law to copy something that you actually own all rights to?
This is actually old territory... you may own the content, but you don't own the distribution channel. This comes under the same heading as "MGM execs have to actually pay to watch MGM movies on PayTV channels."
Since it's theirs, they can just ask the distributor for a copy if they've lost all of theirs. Asking the distributor to abuse the distribution channel to provide preferential treatment is a no-go, however.
You could just leave the SIM card at home and take the phone with you. The wi-fi capability is all you need to maintain communications with the outside world in most urban environments, and doing encrypted, TORed VOIP over a wifi connection shouldn't identify you like the SIM would.
TORed VoIP not only shouldn't identify you to the authorities triangulating tower signals, it also likely won't identify...ou...to...to...the...the...ecipien...call.
Unless you know some blazingly fast, low latency, UDP TOR exit nodes local to the area the person is attempting to connect to with their VoIP software.
It seems that this tactic has some interesting consequences. The DOJ can seize the website, take it offline and make it unavailable to users. Thus removing all revenue streams. In the mean time, they wait. After a significant amount of time passes they go and "unsieze" the websites which now have lost revenue and users.
Seems to me like a use of the courts as a tool that they were not intended. What sort of remediation can the site owners take on the DOJ?
It's worse than this actually... ICE doesn't take the site offline: it replaces it with an accusatory splash page, even though the site's hosts haven't been found guilty of anything yet.
The splash page reads
"This domain name has been ceized by ICE - Homeland Security Investigations, pursuant to a seizure warrant issued by a United States District Court under the authority of 18 U.S.C. SS 981 and 2323.
Willful copyright infringement is a federal crime that carries penalties for first time offenders of up to five years in federal prison, a $250,000 fine, forfeiture and restitution (17 U.S.C S 506, 18 U.S.C. S 2319). Intentionally and knowingly trafficking in counterfeit goods is a federal crime that carries penalties for first time offenders of up to ten years in federal prison, a $2,000,000 fine, forfeiture and restitution (18 U.S.C. S 2320).
While the announcement is very careful not to actually accuse anyone of anything, the implications are that the US government has seized the site due to copyright violations, and is logging your attempted connection, and is willing to put you in jail for ten years and demand 2 million dollars if it catches a hint that you're violating copyright too.
I'd say that's going to have a pretty negative effect on any site that deals in potentially copyrightable material.
>>>any pending orders would get upgraded to the new models automatically, which was pretty cool of them.
Unless you didn't want the new models, then it would suck. For example I wouldn't want the new 4S phone because it has a dualcore that drains the battery faster than the old 4 model. If I order the "4" then that's exactly what I want..... not Apple to upgrade me.
Another example of this is where I ordered a stick-shift Beetle and the dealer "helpfully" upgraded me to the Automated Shift because "it gets +2 more MPG". Yeah. True. But I wanted to shift the car myself.
He lost a sale that day. Then he begged me to keep the business. So I told him to knock $1000 off the price. His foolish behavior cost him some cash. A customer wants Exactly what they what, not a a car dealer's or Apple's switcheroo.
This is why I always purchase refurbs -- I know I'm getting exactly what I want, and I know the device has been fully tested and has reliable parts. It has the added bonus that refurbs are discounted:)
Most of my attacks have come from zombies in India and Korea. I'd have to break into those compromised computers to see where the next step up in the chain is... which would make me one of the bad guys. I'm also not about to phone their ISPs (useful for places on the same continent as me though, especially if they have small netblock reservations (small company).
And which protocol/port does your VPN listen on? Because that's just asking for abuse...
Captcha: insults
I get the best of both worlds: my ssh tunnel listens on port 1723:) It requires a key-based login and doesn't announce.
My firewall still logs connection attempts on port 22 however; they just don't get anywhere (I redirect port 22 to an internal computer on a port that isn't listening, so the router gets all the information, but the attacker gets zilch -- this allows me to easily set up a honeypot from time to time when I'm curious what the script kiddies/bots are really after).
(everyone has a very slanted take on this, so I thought I'd post a cross-section)
I haven't heard anything about "wiping the Jewish world off the map" either; The Iranian government wants the Israeli government gone as it is unabashadly anti-Islam; the Israeli government wants to nuke Iran because it sees the Iranian government as an anti-Zion threat.
Both sides are high on rhetoric, and have been for hundreds of years. The US supports both sides, but is interested in keeping Jewish-controlled Israel in control of Jerusalem and Gaza. Tehran wants the state of Israel, as erected by the west, removed from the map. Literally. They're not talking about nuking Israel, they're talking about changing the political makeup and boundaries of the physical area. This is the politics of the situation, and has nothing to do with individual intolerance or hate -- those are a completely separate issue.
Put a different way: Iran wants Israel off the map the same way that Yugoslavia is now off the map, and the same way that the colony of Hong Kong is now off the map (or the USSR for that matter).
Of course, Iran dreams of being Persia again as well....
I agree on the editing right now but what if Nik decides to start developing Silver Efex for droid or Photomatix puts HDRPro on there. Right now the editing tools suck because they are put there by Nikon or Canon. With an Android OS you have a world of top notch developers adding new functionality.
The editing tools suck because you're editing in variable light on a tiny screen. Having powerful software isn't going to fix this.
Although I guess it would be neat to create a few intelligent post-process templates on your computer and upload them to your camera to selectively apply.
Now... if the Nikon and Canon devices started running Android with a high-definition touch screen and had a viewing hood, third-party lightroom software might start to look desirable, as well as support for the other features I suggested. For editing though, it's still going to be a pain with the small screen and a finger or stylus.
The camera comes equipped with WiFi, and 3G or 4G cellular optional. Nice. An app that allows direct uploading from the camera to flickr or dropbox will be a great feature, especially against those authority figures who would wish to delete your photos when they don't like you taking pictures in public areas.
Yes, but automatic upload means that your credentials are stored on the camera... so if instead of destroying it they grab the credentials and use them to access and wipe/close your account, including all the stuff that has nothing to do with the current event, well, it seems to me that'd be even worse.
What I'd like on my cameras is a low-level slave mode: it could still work with cameras if one was set as the master and others became the slaves -- you could use all their sensors for 3-D lighting analysis and distance/depth analysis, as well as true HDR, panoramics, and time-synching video. with spatial awareness.
I don't want my camera to become the editing and publishing tool (really... those features in prosumer models are just more junk I have to wade through to adjust my settings and take my shot; I'd rather not have it), as a computer is much better at editing and publishing.
But imagine a fleet of cameras at a public event, all with GPS, tethered together. You could even do a live feed, switching between views in real-time, as well as stitching together really innovative stills.
For both operating systems, secure boot is a straw man -- people are going to run them in a VM, as that's the only way you can have any guarantee that your "hardware" will be supported.
For every anti-Semitic statement Ahmadinejad has made, we can probably find an equivalent statement coming from a politician in the US. Not to mention the anti-Arab statements coming out if the Israeli and US governments....
It's called political rhetoric. Of course, Ahmadinejad may be anti-Semitic; it's a free-ish world, and he has a right to his own views, however misguided.
This is the same argument I've heard against Islam based on Jihad, and the same argument I've heard against playing D&D. Focus on the outliers and a perfectly acceptable (if twisted) interpretation of what's going on, introduce the "slippery slope" rhetoric, and then appeal to public opinion on killing kittens/babies/etc.
Personally, I'd be a lot happier with Iran having nuclear weapons than Pakistan and India having them... Iran is at least fairly self-sufficient and has a record of being able to defend itself from external and internal instability.
I suggest you read this. I take it you didn't read as far as my argument about depiliation to reduce cysts;) Of course, that's tangental to both the supposed point AND the real point I was trying to make with my post.
At least someone got the point of part of my troll here:) The argument for the foreskin is that it can play a role in sexual gratification. I'm hoping the people who moderated me +5 Insightful also got that, as pretty much all replies other than this one completely missed the point of my tongue in cheek post -- the point being that it's not so simple as "let's remove that we don't really need it" vs "don't touch my bodily fluids!"
Ditto -- one of our kids had a UTI. The prescription? Drink more water and pee more often. Cleared it up in less than a week. Compare that to trying to stick a foreskin back on.
Making a choice to improve our bodies' abilities to defend themselves definitely makes much more sense than an elective surgery that can be accomplished (albeit more painfully) at any point in the future.
The only problem with vaccination is that it really only works well if everyone does it. Otherwise, the unvaccinated behave like mutators, and you end up with a mix that nobody's immune to.
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They didn't find malware, they found a filename or a hash value that matched something in their library, and issued a takedown notice.
The sane majority also must refer to history books when dealing with statements made by activist groups and say that they're trying to look more important than they really are, and therefore also lying.
Hence my original point: I must assume everyone's lying. There is as much proof of invisible black Martian spy planes as there is of anyone's claims here.
Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
Good thing I've built up an immunity....
I wonder what Schrodinger would have thought about LOLCats?
The meme's only dead if we don't mention it....
I dunno. Apple and it's users seem entirely full of themselves. It's nice to put things into perspective and point out how Apple is occassionally a failure. It's not infallible. It has some rather spectacular failures to it's name and it yet may lose the current platform war. There's precedent for it.
Hyperbole, mass generalization, flamebait and logical fallacies do not prove a point, even if there's precedent for it.
I'm an Apple user -- I'm also a Linux user, a BSD user, an SVR5 user and a Windows user. While I'm not full of myself, I often play someone who is on Slashdot.
I'm sure the same thing goes for Apple and its employees, as well as Microsoft and its employees and Redhat and its employees (definitely goes for SCO and some of its employees).
But saying that Apple is a spectacular failure because its OS has the same marketshare as the failed Vista is as logical as saying the Chateau Briand is a spectacular failure because they don't have as many restaurants as McDonald's (yes, there's the full of themselves bit coming through): Calling Apple a failure for failing to do something they never set out to do is just silly. Am I an abject failure because I haven't bungee jumped in as many countries as you have?
And what does precedent have to do with anything? Precedent for what? What platform war? iOS vs WinMob? Apple isn't a platform company, they're a hardware company who binds it all together with custom software. That makes them an appliance company (which is what they've been since they ditched the AppleIIGS, with a brief blip when Motorola and Power Computing were allowed to use their OS).
I wonder how much of that DRM'd content is his own. That's an angle that I hoped would be explored someday: That a company's DRM might put a cryptographic lock between you and YOUR OWN creative work. What happens when you are forbidden by law to copy something that you actually own all rights to?
This is actually old territory... you may own the content, but you don't own the distribution channel. This comes under the same heading as "MGM execs have to actually pay to watch MGM movies on PayTV channels."
Since it's theirs, they can just ask the distributor for a copy if they've lost all of theirs. Asking the distributor to abuse the distribution channel to provide preferential treatment is a no-go, however.
You could just leave the SIM card at home and take the phone with you. The wi-fi capability is all you need to maintain communications with the outside world in most urban environments, and doing encrypted, TORed VOIP over a wifi connection shouldn't identify you like the SIM would.
TORed VoIP not only shouldn't identify you to the authorities triangulating tower signals, it also likely won't identify...ou...to...to...the...the...ecipien...call.
Unless you know some blazingly fast, low latency, UDP TOR exit nodes local to the area the person is attempting to connect to with their VoIP software.
? you think I'd have a link to something hosted on my personal system?
AFAIK, that one IS only phpmyadmin....
It seems that this tactic has some interesting consequences. The DOJ can seize the website, take it offline and make it unavailable to users. Thus removing all revenue streams. In the mean time, they wait. After a significant amount of time passes they go and "unsieze" the websites which now have lost revenue and users.
Seems to me like a use of the courts as a tool that they were not intended. What sort of remediation can the site owners take on the DOJ?
It's worse than this actually... ICE doesn't take the site offline: it replaces it with an accusatory splash page, even though the site's hosts haven't been found guilty of anything yet.
The splash page reads
"This domain name has been ceized by ICE - Homeland Security Investigations, pursuant to a seizure warrant issued by a United States District Court under the authority of 18 U.S.C. SS 981 and 2323.
Willful copyright infringement is a federal crime that carries penalties for first time offenders of up to five years in federal prison, a $250,000 fine, forfeiture and restitution (17 U.S.C S 506, 18 U.S.C. S 2319). Intentionally and knowingly trafficking in counterfeit goods is a federal crime that carries penalties for first time offenders of up to ten years in federal prison, a $2,000,000 fine, forfeiture and restitution (18 U.S.C. S 2320).
While the announcement is very careful not to actually accuse anyone of anything, the implications are that the US government has seized the site due to copyright violations, and is logging your attempted connection, and is willing to put you in jail for ten years and demand 2 million dollars if it catches a hint that you're violating copyright too.
I'd say that's going to have a pretty negative effect on any site that deals in potentially copyrightable material.
>>>any pending orders would get upgraded to the new models automatically, which was pretty cool of them.
Unless you didn't want the new models, then it would suck. For example I wouldn't want the new 4S phone because it has a dualcore that drains the battery faster than the old 4 model. If I order the "4" then that's exactly what I want..... not Apple to upgrade me.
Another example of this is where I ordered a stick-shift Beetle and the dealer "helpfully" upgraded me to the Automated Shift because "it gets +2 more MPG". Yeah. True. But I wanted to shift the car myself.
He lost a sale that day.
Then he begged me to keep the business.
So I told him to knock $1000 off the price. His foolish behavior cost him some cash. A customer wants Exactly what they what, not a a car dealer's or Apple's switcheroo.
This is why I always purchase refurbs -- I know I'm getting exactly what I want, and I know the device has been fully tested and has reliable parts. It has the added bonus that refurbs are discounted :)
It becomes even more complicated when the IP connecting to you belongs to a honeynet hosted by some investigatory body.
Most of my attacks have come from zombies in India and Korea. I'd have to break into those compromised computers to see where the next step up in the chain is... which would make me one of the bad guys. I'm also not about to phone their ISPs (useful for places on the same continent as me though, especially if they have small netblock reservations (small company).
And which protocol/port does your VPN listen on?
Because that's just asking for abuse...
Captcha: insults
I get the best of both worlds: my ssh tunnel listens on port 1723 :) It requires a key-based login and doesn't announce.
My firewall still logs connection attempts on port 22 however; they just don't get anywhere (I redirect port 22 to an internal computer on a port that isn't listening, so the router gets all the information, but the attacker gets zilch -- this allows me to easily set up a honeypot from time to time when I'm curious what the script kiddies/bots are really after).
www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/07/benjamin-netanyahu-on-israel-mitt-romney
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25003
http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/islamophobia_no_longer_even_questioned
(everyone has a very slanted take on this, so I thought I'd post a cross-section)
I haven't heard anything about "wiping the Jewish world off the map" either; The Iranian government wants the Israeli government gone as it is unabashadly anti-Islam; the Israeli government wants to nuke Iran because it sees the Iranian government as an anti-Zion threat.
Both sides are high on rhetoric, and have been for hundreds of years. The US supports both sides, but is interested in keeping Jewish-controlled Israel in control of Jerusalem and Gaza. Tehran wants the state of Israel, as erected by the west, removed from the map. Literally. They're not talking about nuking Israel, they're talking about changing the political makeup and boundaries of the physical area. This is the politics of the situation, and has nothing to do with individual intolerance or hate -- those are a completely separate issue.
Put a different way: Iran wants Israel off the map the same way that Yugoslavia is now off the map, and the same way that the colony of Hong Kong is now off the map (or the USSR for that matter).
Of course, Iran dreams of being Persia again as well....
No, we'd nuke it from the cloud.
I agree on the editing right now but what if Nik decides to start developing Silver Efex for droid or Photomatix puts HDRPro on there. Right now the editing tools suck because they are put there by Nikon or Canon. With an Android OS you have a world of top notch developers adding new functionality.
The editing tools suck because you're editing in variable light on a tiny screen. Having powerful software isn't going to fix this.
Although I guess it would be neat to create a few intelligent post-process templates on your computer and upload them to your camera to selectively apply.
Now... if the Nikon and Canon devices started running Android with a high-definition touch screen and had a viewing hood, third-party lightroom software might start to look desirable, as well as support for the other features I suggested. For editing though, it's still going to be a pain with the small screen and a finger or stylus.
The camera comes equipped with WiFi, and 3G or 4G cellular optional. Nice. An app that allows direct uploading from the camera to flickr or dropbox will be a great feature, especially against those authority figures who would wish to delete your photos when they don't like you taking pictures in public areas.
Yes, but automatic upload means that your credentials are stored on the camera... so if instead of destroying it they grab the credentials and use them to access and wipe/close your account, including all the stuff that has nothing to do with the current event, well, it seems to me that'd be even worse.
What I'd like on my cameras is a low-level slave mode: it could still work with cameras if one was set as the master and others became the slaves -- you could use all their sensors for 3-D lighting analysis and distance/depth analysis, as well as true HDR, panoramics, and time-synching video. with spatial awareness.
I don't want my camera to become the editing and publishing tool (really... those features in prosumer models are just more junk I have to wade through to adjust my settings and take my shot; I'd rather not have it), as a computer is much better at editing and publishing.
But imagine a fleet of cameras at a public event, all with GPS, tethered together. You could even do a live feed, switching between views in real-time, as well as stitching together really innovative stills.
For both operating systems, secure boot is a straw man -- people are going to run them in a VM, as that's the only way you can have any guarantee that your "hardware" will be supported.
For every anti-Semitic statement Ahmadinejad has made, we can probably find an equivalent statement coming from a politician in the US. Not to mention the anti-Arab statements coming out if the Israeli and US governments....
It's called political rhetoric. Of course, Ahmadinejad may be anti-Semitic; it's a free-ish world, and he has a right to his own views, however misguided.
This is the same argument I've heard against Islam based on Jihad, and the same argument I've heard against playing D&D. Focus on the outliers and a perfectly acceptable (if twisted) interpretation of what's going on, introduce the "slippery slope" rhetoric, and then appeal to public opinion on killing kittens/babies/etc.
Personally, I'd be a lot happier with Iran having nuclear weapons than Pakistan and India having them... Iran is at least fairly self-sufficient and has a record of being able to defend itself from external and internal instability.
Nah; flying cars are unnecessary too. Nobody needs more than their BrainVat after all.... unless they've gone virtual.
I suggest you read this. I take it you didn't read as far as my argument about depiliation to reduce cysts ;)
Of course, that's tangental to both the supposed point AND the real point I was trying to make with my post.
As far as I know, there's no deal with hair and cysts... that was supposed to raise your BS-meter and make you think.
At least someone got the point of part of my troll here :)
The argument for the foreskin is that it can play a role in sexual gratification. I'm hoping the people who moderated me +5 Insightful also got that, as pretty much all replies other than this one completely missed the point of my tongue in cheek post -- the point being that it's not so simple as "let's remove that we don't really need it" vs "don't touch my bodily fluids!"
Ditto -- one of our kids had a UTI. The prescription? Drink more water and pee more often. Cleared it up in less than a week. Compare that to trying to stick a foreskin back on.
Making a choice to improve our bodies' abilities to defend themselves definitely makes much more sense than an elective surgery that can be accomplished (albeit more painfully) at any point in the future.
The only problem with vaccination is that it really only works well if everyone does it. Otherwise, the unvaccinated behave like mutators, and you end up with a mix that nobody's immune to.