Yes it is; you're innocent until proven guilty, regardless of how much prosecutors, police, and the government don't want to believe it sometimes. If the government can't be burdened to prove that he's guilty, he's innocent.
IANAL, but AFAIK 'innocent' is never used in the US Justice System. So, if the government fails to prove he's guilty, then he is not guilty.
it is also a stupid article (not that I read it or anything) because from Apple's perspective, its not a bad idea to make friends with US Senators. Apple would have been ill advised to ignore the request. Why? Because a pissed off US Senator is far more of a pain in the ass than a very specialized phone app developer. How many developers and apps are we talking about? Because those 4 Senators know 96 other Senators personally, not to mention a lot of other VIPs. How many Senators do the developers and those that want the app know? idk, think maybe they could stir up trouble for Apple? Like give Apple a bunch of free press?
Granted, I would prefer to see as much variety as we can get in the types of apps that are available, yet I completely understand Apple's position, and I can't blame them. I put the blame squarely where it belongs: with the voters.
No.. its true, I am a fanboi. I am the anti-Windows fanboi (not anti-MS, btw, just anti-Windows). Anyone that isn't a mere user that chooses Windows is a moron, imho. Why? Because they invariably spend more than half their time fixing it. Whether its futzhing with drivers, or AV, or just trying to get their system in the state it was before they installed some software... messing with Windows is a monumental waste of time. Give me Slackware, Gentoo, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, AIX, Mac OS X, or hell... give me Plan 9... But Windows is a waste of time. Sure, it works sometimes... its a nice swiss army knife for an office, before the rot sets in, and it ALWAYS does. But at home? Honestly... every Windows user I know is constantly fucking with it because something isn't right. And, yeah... I've been around the Windows world for 15 years, and now, and for the recent past, anything and everything that one might need Windows for works BETTER and LESS EXPENSIVELY somewhere else. Except hardcore PC gaming (and a nod to them for doing what they love). Windows is the absolute worst thing to ever come out of Microsoft.
For years Microsoft's game was only allowing whatever it is to work only on Windows (this, btw, is the entire reason for the existence of Linux... or at least it used to be). Third party developers know all too well that if they add some functionality, with an update Microsoft will soon break it. Now, everything works somewhere else, and you need not be forced to have a Windows machine any longer. You may still use Windows, but if you're very smart, you will avoid using it on the bare iron. BTW, Mac OS X, being BSD, always ran far more software than Windows. Now that Mac OS X and Linux are mature, there are more than enough dedicated and specialized software packages to cover every need without having to use Windows unless you just really really want to, even if everyone you do business with uses Microsoft. These days, Microsoft doesn't seem as hell-bent on breaking compatibility between platforms. Perhaps they relized the futility of it... they break it, and the OSS community fixes it.
I mentioned this once to a Mac salesman at Best Buy, and he told me that running Windows in a virtual machine on any current Mac would be far faster than running it on the bare hardware of a nettop.
Absolutely true. And windows in a vm is far less annoying, especially if fresh installs are zipped up, so when anything breaks you can simply unzip a fresh windows install in a minute. Most of the problems in Windows are mitigated nicely in a virtual machine. (No need to run AV, for instance... go ahead and get infected, much faster to blow it away and restore a zipped file than it is to spend hours and untold proc cycles combing the installation for malware).
With iCloud and iOS5, Grannie can buy an iPad and toss the PC she never learned how to use or manage. iOS5 will use iCloud instead of depending on an iTunes client running on a Mac or Windows PC.
I recognized this as a good idea for Apple the day I first used an iPad about a year ago. The vast majority of computer users use their computer for one thing, surfing. Adding email, light word processing, cute games, pictures and video... and you've damn near covered the needs of well over 90% of typical home computer users. Macs won't kill the home Windows market... iPads will. And hardcore gamers who haven't switched to dedicated gaming consoles (the only reason left to have a Windows machine for home use is if you have insatiable lust for PC games) will be relegated to obscurity.
I'm with you brother. I'd much rather deal with infuriating nags, system instability and boot time doubling with every AV software upgrade, and rot on a PC system every 3-5 months than risk having an app I've never heard of and never used being banned from my cell phone. I mean, my cell phone and my PC are the same thing, and I can't conceive of continuing to use a Mac when Apple is pulling this shit with their phone platform. Oh, did you catch my sarcasm? You must be a fucking genius or something.
Remember that the only reason Homeland Security exists is because the CIA was unable to be a centre to co-ordinate all of those other intelligence agencies - you know, the job the CIA was set up to do in the first place.
Whatever. I've been running my Siemann's centrifuge at home for years without AV or patches... I go online every day, and my system is still tight. Only idiots get viruses.
Lamo is a drama queen. If he sufferred rendition, that's all he'd be talking about. If you saw the PBS special last week, you would have seen him interviewed inexplicably wearing a trench coat indoors... like he was Deep Throat or something, which is some fantastic internal irony for him, because he dropped the dime on today's Deep Throat (Manning).
Fair enough... there was a time all the usenet binaries could have fit on a thumb drive, when binaries were small. I should have said feature length pornographic video.
ah, that's not what happened. Lamo was not being pressured by the FBI nor tortured by the CIA. He was not being solicited by anyone. He took it upon himself to decide that someone like Manning, who like himself exhibited signs of mental illness, should not have access to state secrets. He believes he's a repatriated hero.
the FBI didn't "turn" Lamo. His hypocritical moral superiority turned him into a rat. Lamo is lucky he has no friends like himself. I have trouble believing he as any friends.
No, the idiots work for the construct matrix. In the last 50 years, what Republican president wasn't a simpleton? Republicans don't care who they elect so long as they are Republican. On the other hand, how many brilliant presidents were effective?
Based on reductionism, A prize in biology (and physiology or medicine) is redundant, as we already have a prize for chemistry. The chemistry prize... is also redundant, as there already exists a prize in physics...
I imagine if Columbus or Edison had your wisdom, we'd be sitting in the dark unaware of the western hemisphere. I think the success of a solar laptop design really depends what you define a laptop as. Considering my cell phone is much more powerful than any consumer computer, laptop or desktop, from the early 90's, and uses far, far less power, I think your expertise in the field of solar laptops became irrelevant roughly 20 years ago minus a few months. Welcome to the future. Please keep your old and busted rain off the new hotness technology parades.
Yes, PV cells have gotten a little better since 1990, and there are some mobile CPUs that are better on current consumption than what was available at that time, too
Ya think? Its a good thing you looked into this 20 years ago. You may have just saved this company from wasting their time.
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Yes it is; you're innocent until proven guilty, regardless of how much prosecutors, police, and the government don't want to believe it sometimes. If the government can't be burdened to prove that he's guilty, he's innocent.
IANAL, but AFAIK 'innocent' is never used in the US Justice System. So, if the government fails to prove he's guilty, then he is not guilty.
it is also a stupid article (not that I read it or anything) because from Apple's perspective, its not a bad idea to make friends with US Senators. Apple would have been ill advised to ignore the request. Why? Because a pissed off US Senator is far more of a pain in the ass than a very specialized phone app developer. How many developers and apps are we talking about? Because those 4 Senators know 96 other Senators personally, not to mention a lot of other VIPs. How many Senators do the developers and those that want the app know? idk, think maybe they could stir up trouble for Apple? Like give Apple a bunch of free press?
Granted, I would prefer to see as much variety as we can get in the types of apps that are available, yet I completely understand Apple's position, and I can't blame them. I put the blame squarely where it belongs: with the voters.
No.. its true, I am a fanboi. I am the anti-Windows fanboi (not anti-MS, btw, just anti-Windows). Anyone that isn't a mere user that chooses Windows is a moron, imho. Why? Because they invariably spend more than half their time fixing it. Whether its futzhing with drivers, or AV, or just trying to get their system in the state it was before they installed some software... messing with Windows is a monumental waste of time. Give me Slackware, Gentoo, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, AIX, Mac OS X, or hell... give me Plan 9... But Windows is a waste of time. Sure, it works sometimes... its a nice swiss army knife for an office, before the rot sets in, and it ALWAYS does. But at home? Honestly... every Windows user I know is constantly fucking with it because something isn't right. And, yeah... I've been around the Windows world for 15 years, and now, and for the recent past, anything and everything that one might need Windows for works BETTER and LESS EXPENSIVELY somewhere else. Except hardcore PC gaming (and a nod to them for doing what they love). Windows is the absolute worst thing to ever come out of Microsoft.
For years Microsoft's game was only allowing whatever it is to work only on Windows (this, btw, is the entire reason for the existence of Linux... or at least it used to be). Third party developers know all too well that if they add some functionality, with an update Microsoft will soon break it. Now, everything works somewhere else, and you need not be forced to have a Windows machine any longer. You may still use Windows, but if you're very smart, you will avoid using it on the bare iron. BTW, Mac OS X, being BSD, always ran far more software than Windows. Now that Mac OS X and Linux are mature, there are more than enough dedicated and specialized software packages to cover every need without having to use Windows unless you just really really want to, even if everyone you do business with uses Microsoft. These days, Microsoft doesn't seem as hell-bent on breaking compatibility between platforms. Perhaps they relized the futility of it... they break it, and the OSS community fixes it.
This has been an accepted fact for years. Care to name any other reason Windows is necessary at home?
I mentioned this once to a Mac salesman at Best Buy, and he told me that running Windows in a virtual machine on any current Mac would be far faster than running it on the bare hardware of a nettop.
Absolutely true. And windows in a vm is far less annoying, especially if fresh installs are zipped up, so when anything breaks you can simply unzip a fresh windows install in a minute. Most of the problems in Windows are mitigated nicely in a virtual machine. (No need to run AV, for instance... go ahead and get infected, much faster to blow it away and restore a zipped file than it is to spend hours and untold proc cycles combing the installation for malware).
With iCloud and iOS5, Grannie can buy an iPad and toss the PC she never learned how to use or manage. iOS5 will use iCloud instead of depending on an iTunes client running on a Mac or Windows PC.
I recognized this as a good idea for Apple the day I first used an iPad about a year ago. The vast majority of computer users use their computer for one thing, surfing. Adding email, light word processing, cute games, pictures and video... and you've damn near covered the needs of well over 90% of typical home computer users. Macs won't kill the home Windows market... iPads will. And hardcore gamers who haven't switched to dedicated gaming consoles (the only reason left to have a Windows machine for home use is if you have insatiable lust for PC games) will be relegated to obscurity.
Windows 7 ... has a strong adoption rate.
Yeah, but that's only because Microsoft has such a solid reputation for providing such a stable and secure operating system.
I'm with you brother. I'd much rather deal with infuriating nags, system instability and boot time doubling with every AV software upgrade, and rot on a PC system every 3-5 months than risk having an app I've never heard of and never used being banned from my cell phone. I mean, my cell phone and my PC are the same thing, and I can't conceive of continuing to use a Mac when Apple is pulling this shit with their phone platform. Oh, did you catch my sarcasm? You must be a fucking genius or something.
Remember that the only reason Homeland Security exists is because the CIA was unable to be a centre to co-ordinate all of those other intelligence agencies - you know, the job the CIA was set up to do in the first place.
CIA didn't cause the DHS... it was NSA.
Must see Nova - The Spy Factory:
part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4
part 5
part 6
part 7
Whatever. I've been running my Siemann's centrifuge at home for years without AV or patches... I go online every day, and my system is still tight. Only idiots get viruses.
Actually, many in emotional pain do seek the relief that a bottle of Tylenol can bring... and liver death quite stops emotional pain in its tracks.
all turned around.... I meant usenet up until porno movies exploded there can fit on a thumb drive (now).
Lamo is a drama queen. If he sufferred rendition, that's all he'd be talking about. If you saw the PBS special last week, you would have seen him interviewed inexplicably wearing a trench coat indoors... like he was Deep Throat or something, which is some fantastic internal irony for him, because he dropped the dime on today's Deep Throat (Manning).
Fair enough... there was a time all the usenet binaries could have fit on a thumb drive, when binaries were small. I should have said feature length pornographic video.
ah, that's not what happened. Lamo was not being pressured by the FBI nor tortured by the CIA. He was not being solicited by anyone. He took it upon himself to decide that someone like Manning, who like himself exhibited signs of mental illness, should not have access to state secrets. He believes he's a repatriated hero.
the FBI didn't "turn" Lamo. His hypocritical moral superiority turned him into a rat. Lamo is lucky he has no friends like himself. I have trouble believing he as any friends.
5gb for $20 is not better than the current deal
plz pay attention, the 5GB is free.
No, the idiots work for the construct matrix. In the last 50 years, what Republican president wasn't a simpleton? Republicans don't care who they elect so long as they are Republican. On the other hand, how many brilliant presidents were effective?
Right... and I suppose you could run all of usenet off a single thumb drive... until binaries started to appear.
Well, it was a rather bodacious and shapely mathematician that broke his tender little heart. This is why he invented dynamite in the first place.
Based on reductionism, A prize in biology (and physiology or medicine) is redundant, as we already have a prize for chemistry. The chemistry prize... is also redundant, as there already exists a prize in physics...
I'd nominate John Carmack.
I imagine if Columbus or Edison had your wisdom, we'd be sitting in the dark unaware of the western hemisphere. I think the success of a solar laptop design really depends what you define a laptop as. Considering my cell phone is much more powerful than any consumer computer, laptop or desktop, from the early 90's, and uses far, far less power, I think your expertise in the field of solar laptops became irrelevant roughly 20 years ago minus a few months. Welcome to the future. Please keep your old and busted rain off the new hotness technology parades.
Yes, PV cells have gotten a little better since 1990, and there are some mobile CPUs that are better on current consumption than what was available at that time, too
Ya think? Its a good thing you looked into this 20 years ago. You may have just saved this company from wasting their time.