If we should get over sending humans into space and focus on telepresence, humans are so inadequately designed for space travel and low gravity living.
At least stay out of space until robots can build a viable environment that can be spun up for simulated gravity, properly shielded against micrometeorites and radiation with 90% self sustaining capabilities, those tin cans they have strung together in orbit and called a space station are pathetic.
We should get over the privacy aspect, if you truly want privacy there are ways to deal with it, and second I find it amusing that as often as IE gets raped on the Internet Microsoft chose this to get public about.
First off you won't be pressing charges because you can't trace a shotgun, second no one on the highway was in danger pellet size for hunting small birds is less than a BB in most case and the power drops dramatically with distance (I've actually been shot by a shotgun using birdshot at less than 50 meters no damage at all) and third I would have shot it down too, and you wouldn't get it back either. I suspect we will begin to see airspace arguments in court.
The bigger Apple gets, the more patents they control, the more influence they have, this printer issue is only one example. Apple might become the biggest threat to innovation and open computing, monopoly via litigation etc.
https://secure.dslreports.com/shownews/LightSquared-Lawyers-Up-For-FCC-Assault-118429 "LightSquared is apparently trying to convince the Defense Department to swap spectrum they're unlikely to give up for LightSquared spectrum nobody wants. Again, LightSquared lacks the cash to wage any sustained battle on this front, and Falcone faces two pending inquiries by the SEC for unrelated financial infractions. He's also now being sued by a group of investors in Harbinger Capital Partners who claim the effort "squandered billions of dollars."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/corbin-hiar/fcc-lightsquared-_b_1280076.html "The company has vowed to challenge the suspension, but how long it can stay financially solvent is in question. For example, one of its biggest contracts -- a $13 billion, 15-year deal with Sprint, the third largest U.S. wireless carrier -- required that LightSquared resolve the FCC concerns about GPS before March. The value of Harbinger, which is heavily invested in LightSquared, fell by half last year."
After Obama gets elected it could be a different story, and Soros is involved as well (whatever that means) but I think he's cooked as people are backing out of the deal and Harbinger is going to sue his arse. I've watched people like Falcone and groups like Harbinger work before, I found the process disturbing to say the least as it is all about money with no real thought or regard to what they are actually doing--other than the money.
"Alison Saunders, from the Crown Prosecution Service, described the case as "the most extensive and flagrant incidence of social media hacking to be brought before British courts"."
So News Corps phone hacking scandal paled in comparison? Oh I know what you're going to say News Corp isn't a social media site, then my answer is "It isn't news either"
I think the real issue here isn't the hack, I think it's that Goldman Sachs has plans for Facebooks IPO and wants to set an example for the shareholders to see. The hackers real crime was his terrible timing.
So Zuckerberg had to go to his wallet instead of pulling change from his pants pocket, maybe the hacker should have been less ethical and just sold the code.
Apple also generates the most income, you have links for your "greenpeace" comment and apparently some rant about kiddie porn but nothing linked to information showing as you claim "Apple has actually been cited as the most proactive when it comes to monitoring work conditions in the factories they contract with."
OS X isn't meant for enterprise environments, it requires Apple to release fixes for their buggy shite and quickly patch security flaws, this goes against Apple's ideology which is "We are right you are wrong"
Sure mod me down assholes, but she was found on a Saturday afternoon by her body guard, so ask yourself just how quick do you have to move to confirm the death then contact the people to raise the prices on her music?
30 minutes is pretty damn fast, in fact I would wager they have a "death watch" on drug riddled stars like Amy Winehouse and Whitney Houston so that they can implement pricing changes as quickly as possible, that is... if they didn't murder her outright. Every news corp has several preprepared death statements for politicians and stars so why a pricing model as well?
Next big star to die go to iTunes and refresh until you see it.
The invisible hand of the cud chewing market? I doubt it people are getting dumber by the second...like someone's sig here says "Idiocracy is a documentary"
Does Apple have in liquid assets, makes for a formidable lawyer army and I wager anyone that gets sued by Apple sh*ts their pants thinking of what it takes financially to fight back, which makes me wonder; Is there such a thing as lawyer insurance?
Not only can Apple create a new factory to make parts no one else has access to, but if they sue up all/most of the existing patents they will have such a strangle hold on the market no one else can compete because they either need the patent or they get sued out of existence.
Apple is beginning to look like more of a threat to innovation than congress.
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Truly a duh moment, and the only real question in my mind is "Who thought it was a good idea?"
If we should get over sending humans into space and focus on telepresence, humans are so inadequately designed for space travel and low gravity living.
At least stay out of space until robots can build a viable environment that can be spun up for simulated gravity, properly shielded against micrometeorites and radiation with 90% self sustaining capabilities, those tin cans they have strung together in orbit and called a space station are pathetic.
We are capable of so much more.
We should get over the privacy aspect, if you truly want privacy there are ways to deal with it, and second I find it amusing that as often as IE gets raped on the Internet Microsoft chose this to get public about.
Spyware sucks, look if "they" want to crack it it isn't going to make much difference what scheme you use including spyware.
First off you won't be pressing charges because you can't trace a shotgun, second no one on the highway was in danger pellet size for hunting small birds is less than a BB in most case and the power drops dramatically with distance (I've actually been shot by a shotgun using birdshot at less than 50 meters no damage at all) and third I would have shot it down too, and you wouldn't get it back either.
I suspect we will begin to see airspace arguments in court.
The bigger Apple gets, the more patents they control, the more influence they have, this printer issue is only one example. Apple might become the biggest threat to innovation and open computing, monopoly via litigation etc.
Let the fanboi mod down begin!!!
Since there are only seven basic plots to stories the entertainment side would run out of steam quickly.
http://www.ipl.org/div/farq/plotFARQ.html
Imagine this applied to other patents as well, a World of lawyers.
All they will use that bandwidth for is farm porn and wrestling.
https://secure.dslreports.com/shownews/LightSquared-Lawyers-Up-For-FCC-Assault-118429
"LightSquared is apparently trying to convince the Defense Department to swap spectrum they're unlikely to give up for LightSquared spectrum nobody wants. Again, LightSquared lacks the cash to wage any sustained battle on this front, and Falcone faces two pending inquiries by the SEC for unrelated financial infractions. He's also now being sued by a group of investors in Harbinger Capital Partners who claim the effort "squandered billions of dollars."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/corbin-hiar/fcc-lightsquared-_b_1280076.html
"The company has vowed to challenge the suspension, but how long it can stay financially solvent is in question. For example, one of its biggest contracts -- a $13 billion, 15-year deal with Sprint, the third largest U.S. wireless carrier -- required that LightSquared resolve the FCC concerns about GPS before March. The value of Harbinger, which is heavily invested in LightSquared, fell by half last year."
After Obama gets elected it could be a different story, and Soros is involved as well (whatever that means) but I think he's cooked as people are backing out of the deal and Harbinger is going to sue his arse.
I've watched people like Falcone and groups like Harbinger work before, I found the process disturbing to say the least as it is all about money with no real thought or regard to what they are actually doing--other than the money.
"Alison Saunders, from the Crown Prosecution Service, described the case as "the most extensive and flagrant incidence of social media hacking to be brought before British courts"."
So News Corps phone hacking scandal paled in comparison? Oh I know what you're going to say News Corp isn't a social media site, then my answer is "It isn't news either"
I think the real issue here isn't the hack, I think it's that Goldman Sachs has plans for Facebooks IPO and wants to set an example for the shareholders to see.
The hackers real crime was his terrible timing.
So Zuckerberg had to go to his wallet instead of pulling change from his pants pocket, maybe the hacker should have been less ethical and just sold the code.
Drones are cheaper, drones stay up longer and you can run several drones at a time for the price of one helicopter crew.
I wager 5 quatloos the first drone related death or injury happens within 6 months from the date of this post.
Apple also generates the most income, you have links for your "greenpeace" comment and apparently some rant about kiddie porn but nothing linked to information showing as you claim
"Apple has actually been cited as the most proactive when it comes to monitoring work conditions in the factories they contract with."
So let me help you with that, Apple was the first to join the FLA
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-17/foxconn-auditor-finds-tons-of-issues-.html
That's nice right? Proves your point and all that had to happen was being "singled" out, several suicides and a TON OF BAD PRESS.
You're an apologist.
If you paid for an iPad then looks over function is what you care about.
"Admit it. You post strawman arguments as AC so you get modded Insightful for refuting them, rather than Troll"
I do it the other way around.
Such a beautiful high resolution screen, covered with greasy finger prints and glare.
If you need any evidence why privatizing government services is a bad idea this is it.
Shorts legit US customers and gives the Mexican cartels a better market because they get their precursors from foreign markets.
Surprised how post there were on this topic, ADD much /. readers?
OS X isn't meant for enterprise environments, it requires Apple to release fixes for their buggy shite and quickly patch security flaws, this goes against Apple's ideology which is "We are right you are wrong"
Seriously? This sounds like something the telco's would have lobbied for.
Sure mod me down assholes, but she was found on a Saturday afternoon by her body guard, so ask yourself just how quick do you have to move to confirm the death then contact the people to raise the prices on her music?
30 minutes is pretty damn fast, in fact I would wager they have a "death watch" on drug riddled stars like Amy Winehouse and Whitney Houston so that they can implement pricing changes as quickly as possible, that is... if they didn't murder her outright.
Every news corp has several preprepared death statements for politicians and stars so why a pricing model as well?
Next big star to die go to iTunes and refresh until you see it.
The invisible hand of the cud chewing market? I doubt it people are getting dumber by the second...like someone's sig here says "Idiocracy is a documentary"
They probably paid her bodyguard to hold her head underwater.
Does Apple have in liquid assets, makes for a formidable lawyer army and I wager anyone that gets sued by Apple sh*ts their pants thinking of what it takes financially to fight back, which makes me wonder; Is there such a thing as lawyer insurance?
Not only can Apple create a new factory to make parts no one else has access to, but if they sue up all/most of the existing patents they will have such a strangle hold on the market no one else can compete because they either need the patent or they get sued out of existence.
Apple is beginning to look like more of a threat to innovation than congress.