battery life was absolutely terrible for me w/ linux. measured in minutes not hours. windows was at least 150% better on the same system (which still wasn't great).
it's not what is known about you, it's if and how it's used against you. if we aren't now, we will soon be in an age where it's *impossible* to retain your privacy. if you are still trying to retain your privacy, you've probably already lost. if you haven't lost, you're living an increasingly non-technological lifestyle.
i don't care what the gov't and corporations know about me. i do care if they can use that info to deny me home loans, insurance, health care, etc.
as for Mr. Moalin, i'd be outraged if he was hauled in and questioned simply because he was muslim. i'd be disgusted if he was arrested because he sent money to relatives back home. i'm not so worried about him being arrested for giving money and to, and interacting with known terrorists / murders.
why the heck is this modded up? she worked for a government that committed atrocities, so she's anti-korean, and the company she now works for is racist?
heads up... every country has committed atrocities that they don't admit to or apologize for. some of them are smoothed over by those that write the history, and some are completely hidden for the most part, but they do exist.
translations: everyone is dumb, but me. i see through the fog where no one else can.
it's used by professors because they like it. it continues to be used by students because they like it. it's used in industry because the people that work therein like it. it was chosen for android app dev because the powers that be at google liked it. i can assure you, most of those people are not fools. in fact, most of the people that made those decisions are above average.
clearly different by region. here in silicon valley, everywhere i've worked, what matters is getting things done not your attire... as it should be. i've worn shorts, a t-shirt, and sneakers to work pretty much every day for the last 15 years.
it's probably eliminated me from certain career paths, and rightly so. i'd be terrible at those jobs. i want to work with people that are there because they are competent not because they know how to dress.
It's my experience that for many people, excessive casualness at work leads to treating work as casually as one may treat one's free time.
that's just not true in high tech. if you are the type of person that needs to have formality to be productive, then you should look into a career in the armed forces.
Yeah, if you're going to do something like this, you need to give your developers something to believe in, a reason to work for the company. Otherwise your developers will see it and find another place to work.
if the only thing keeping you working for a company is that you get to "work" at home, then you're a drain on resources and the company is better off without you.
Generally speaking you can't run apps simultaneously and even when you can/do background apps it sucks the battery badly
no. there's typically one foreground app you are interacting with, but your app can be doing almost anything in the background (on android).
if you look at battery usage, it's always dominated by the screen. no background app even shows up in the my top 10 battery consumers (which means for me, it's consuming 1% of my battery).
you need to differentiate between simply having a belief, and taking actions supposedly supported by that belief that infringe up on the rights of, or harm, others. believing that all americans are infidels and should die is fine. it's an opinion. blowing them up for the same reason is not fine. if you are going to run around calling everyone that lacks the same opinion as you a nut job, you'd better get busy. it's going to be a life's work for you.
People have both a civic and moral duty to procreate.
you are right. the world is dangerously underpopulated.
but seriously, you are right that our current economic system depends on young people supporting the old... and we're in a cycle where we need more and more young people to support fewer old people. that's not sustainable either of course so let's not kid ourselves that if we keep having babies they'll all be able to take care of us when we are old.
we are already seeing that break down. kids living at home for longer and longer because they can't make it on their own. living off their parents in stead of the other way around.
Homosexuals reject procreation.
i don't want to speak for all gays, but i'm pretty sure that's wrong. i've met plenty of gays that love kids and some that adopt other people's unwanted children.
Do you really want IT reading / archiving all non-work related emails and texts on your phone? No, you don't. Even if they're the most benign messages ever.
you watch too many movies. that's not possible on any modern OS without getting in and modifying the OS itself. you can't, by installing an application, gain unmitigated access to arbitrary resources on the device. i'm not saying it's not theoretically possible with some incredibly sophisticated software exploiting some yet undiscovered earth-shattering bugs in the OS, but if your company has that sort of resources that they can bring to bear against you, and they have a *reason* to do so, then you have bigger problems.
Blackberry could come back as a semi successful phone manufacturer if they adopted an open platform for their hardware (i.e. Android)
the android market has fierce competition with many players. there's no way they could jump in now and compete with the likes of samsung, asus, motorola, acer, HTC, sony, LG, and all of the chinese knockoffs. it's a game of razor thin profit margins. BB is (was) better off trying to do something different (for the same reason, i thought nokia's decision to go WP was a good idea. of course hindsight is 20/20).
that, and there was a day when an enterprise phone would have sold, but no longer. everyone is BYOD, and people aren't going to pay (probably a premium) for an "enterprise-ready" phone. they will buy the latest, cheapest consumer device.
every government that has the means is spying on its citizens and other other countries. while the US is probably in the top 5 when it comes to means, it is also more likely to get outed, because whistle blowers are given a platform and do not fear being "disappeared" for their actions.
surprise, you don't see whistle blowers from china, russia, and the like.
It's possible that what this means is that Brazil's domestic email service will do the encryption. This would be no security at all, since it would mean that the email service has everyone's keys and can decrypt everyone's email.
right.
and honestly, i'd rather my data is owned by google than some government. google might mine data from my use of google services, but there's no upside in it for them to use the data against me. they just want me happily spending money. sure, apparently the NSA can get at that data by coercing google, but at least it's indirect access and i assume there's some sort of audited procedure that happens when the NSA demands access to something.
the windows apps are familiar to a lot of people. somewhat of a weak point i admit, since 8 flipped the OS on its head, and there's not many RT apps. but if you just look at say office, it's mostly the same between RT and intel.
The reason we don't speak out about it is that, comparatively, it is incredibly rare.
how about objectification of men? the fact that every action figure, and disney character portraying a young man has bulging muscles, a thin waist, broad shoulders, and a jutting chin... and the correlation between that and steroids running rampant in teen boys?
What happened in this presentation was insensitive objectification-- not sexism.
how does creating app that focuses on breasts mean that the developers / creators are making value judgements about women. you can like breasts and still view women as equals.
it's not sexism at all since no one is being discriminated against. unless someone is arguing that the team didn't produce a "penisshare" app as well thereby discriminating against het women and homo men.
By forcing Risen to answer these questions, we may find out he was actually a co-conspirator or an accomplice (or perhaps even the source of the leak itself). And thus forcing him to answer now has trampled his fifth amendment rights.
and we come full circle... if risen is asked questions that may incriminate him, then he should plead the 5th.
"To invoke the privilege, a witness need not be guilty of any offense; rather, the privilege is properly invoked whenever the witness's answers 'would furnish a link in the chain of evidence needed to prosecute' the witness for a criminal offense."
well first, these cases are *always* appealed. duh.
second, the OP said "hey it's just your opinion against mine". it isn't. a court of law already sided against apple. that holds a little more weight than the opinion of the random AC on/. duh.
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battery life was absolutely terrible for me w/ linux. measured in minutes not hours. windows was at least 150% better on the same system (which still wasn't great).
it's not what is known about you, it's if and how it's used against you. if we aren't now, we will soon be in an age where it's *impossible* to retain your privacy. if you are still trying to retain your privacy, you've probably already lost. if you haven't lost, you're living an increasingly non-technological lifestyle.
i don't care what the gov't and corporations know about me. i do care if they can use that info to deny me home loans, insurance, health care, etc.
as for Mr. Moalin, i'd be outraged if he was hauled in and questioned simply because he was muslim. i'd be disgusted if he was arrested because he sent money to relatives back home. i'm not so worried about him being arrested for giving money and to, and interacting with known terrorists / murders.
is that why it's modded interesting? why didn't any other post recognize it as "funny"? whoosh back at you bro.
why the heck is this modded up? she worked for a government that committed atrocities, so she's anti-korean, and the company she now works for is racist?
heads up ... every country has committed atrocities that they don't admit to or apologize for. some of them are smoothed over by those that write the history, and some are completely hidden for the most part, but they do exist.
translations: everyone is dumb, but me. i see through the fog where no one else can.
it's used by professors because they like it. it continues to be used by students because they like it. it's used in industry because the people that work therein like it. it was chosen for android app dev because the powers that be at google liked it. i can assure you, most of those people are not fools. in fact, most of the people that made those decisions are above average.
clearly different by region. here in silicon valley, everywhere i've worked, what matters is getting things done not your attire ... as it should be. i've worn shorts, a t-shirt, and sneakers to work pretty much every day for the last 15 years.
it's probably eliminated me from certain career paths, and rightly so. i'd be terrible at those jobs. i want to work with people that are there because they are competent not because they know how to dress.
It's my experience that for many people, excessive casualness at work leads to treating work as casually as one may treat one's free time.
that's just not true in high tech. if you are the type of person that needs to have formality to be productive, then you should look into a career in the armed forces.
Yeah, if you're going to do something like this, you need to give your developers something to believe in, a reason to work for the company. Otherwise your developers will see it and find another place to work.
if the only thing keeping you working for a company is that you get to "work" at home, then you're a drain on resources and the company is better off without you.
software can write the bits anyway it wants. it can write the bits such that "up" in the video corresponds to the current up direction of the camera.
tesla investor plays down the fact that his product burned to a crisp after experiencing a fairly minor impact.
Generally speaking you can't run apps simultaneously and even when you can/do background apps it sucks the battery badly
no. there's typically one foreground app you are interacting with, but your app can be doing almost anything in the background (on android).
if you look at battery usage, it's always dominated by the screen. no background app even shows up in the my top 10 battery consumers (which means for me, it's consuming 1% of my battery).
you need to differentiate between simply having a belief, and taking actions supposedly supported by that belief that infringe up on the rights of, or harm, others. believing that all americans are infidels and should die is fine. it's an opinion. blowing them up for the same reason is not fine. if you are going to run around calling everyone that lacks the same opinion as you a nut job, you'd better get busy. it's going to be a life's work for you.
People have both a civic and moral duty to procreate.
you are right. the world is dangerously underpopulated.
but seriously, you are right that our current economic system depends on young people supporting the old ... and we're in a cycle where we need more and more young people to support fewer old people. that's not sustainable either of course so let's not kid ourselves that if we keep having babies they'll all be able to take care of us when we are old.
we are already seeing that break down. kids living at home for longer and longer because they can't make it on their own. living off their parents in stead of the other way around.
Homosexuals reject procreation.
i don't want to speak for all gays, but i'm pretty sure that's wrong. i've met plenty of gays that love kids and some that adopt other people's unwanted children.
i'll bet if you asked the homophobes, they'd have a whole slew of arguments that are pretty darn rational to them.
Do you really want IT reading / archiving all non-work related emails and texts on your phone? No, you don't. Even if they're the most benign messages ever.
you watch too many movies. that's not possible on any modern OS without getting in and modifying the OS itself. you can't, by installing an application, gain unmitigated access to arbitrary resources on the device. i'm not saying it's not theoretically possible with some incredibly sophisticated software exploiting some yet undiscovered earth-shattering bugs in the OS, but if your company has that sort of resources that they can bring to bear against you, and they have a *reason* to do so, then you have bigger problems.
Blackberry could come back as a semi successful phone manufacturer if they adopted an open platform for their hardware (i.e. Android)
the android market has fierce competition with many players. there's no way they could jump in now and compete with the likes of samsung, asus, motorola, acer, HTC, sony, LG, and all of the chinese knockoffs. it's a game of razor thin profit margins. BB is (was) better off trying to do something different (for the same reason, i thought nokia's decision to go WP was a good idea. of course hindsight is 20/20).
that, and there was a day when an enterprise phone would have sold, but no longer. everyone is BYOD, and people aren't going to pay (probably a premium) for an "enterprise-ready" phone. they will buy the latest, cheapest consumer device.
every government that has the means is spying on its citizens and other other countries. while the US is probably in the top 5 when it comes to means, it is also more likely to get outed, because whistle blowers are given a platform and do not fear being "disappeared" for their actions.
surprise, you don't see whistle blowers from china, russia, and the like.
It's possible that what this means is that Brazil's domestic email service will do the encryption. This would be no security at all, since it would mean that the email service has everyone's keys and can decrypt everyone's email.
right.
and honestly, i'd rather my data is owned by google than some government. google might mine data from my use of google services, but there's no upside in it for them to use the data against me. they just want me happily spending money. sure, apparently the NSA can get at that data by coercing google, but at least it's indirect access and i assume there's some sort of audited procedure that happens when the NSA demands access to something.
What's MS's advantage here?
the windows apps are familiar to a lot of people. somewhat of a weak point i admit, since 8 flipped the OS on its head, and there's not many RT apps. but if you just look at say office, it's mostly the same between RT and intel.
The reason we don't speak out about it is that, comparatively, it is incredibly rare.
how about objectification of men? the fact that every action figure, and disney character portraying a young man has bulging muscles, a thin waist, broad shoulders, and a jutting chin ... and the correlation between that and steroids running rampant in teen boys?
What happened in this presentation was insensitive objectification-- not sexism.
how does creating app that focuses on breasts mean that the developers / creators are making value judgements about women. you can like breasts and still view women as equals.
Objectification by members of the opposite sex is considered sexism by the PC crowd.
exactly. it's not sexism at all because sexism means discrimination. tacky, poor taste, and sexual harassment maybe, but not sexism.
it's not sexism at all since no one is being discriminated against. unless someone is arguing that the team didn't produce a "penisshare" app as well thereby discriminating against het women and homo men.
By forcing Risen to answer these questions, we may find out he was actually a co-conspirator or an accomplice (or perhaps even the source of the leak itself). And thus forcing him to answer now has trampled his fifth amendment rights.
and we come full circle ... if risen is asked questions that may incriminate him, then he should plead the 5th.
"To invoke the privilege, a witness need not be guilty of any offense; rather, the privilege is properly invoked whenever the witness's answers 'would furnish a link in the chain of evidence needed to prosecute' the witness for a criminal offense."
http://www.avvo.com/legal-guides/ugc/california-law-when-can-a-witness-invoke-the-fifth-amendment-privilege-not-to-testify-1
well first, these cases are *always* appealed. duh.
second, the OP said "hey it's just your opinion against mine". it isn't. a court of law already sided against apple. that holds a little more weight than the opinion of the random AC on /. duh.