Just like the state DMV, FDA, BATF, FBI, CIA i'm sure it'd be perfect and be up with the latest technology and be nimble to act to new threats. I think this a great idea in theory, but the government does not have competition, it doesn't need to make a profit, so there will be no motivation to make the product the absolute best without the project turning into a money sinkhole.
To take your idea and twist it so the laws of macroeconomics favor it, perhaps a government run competition (X-Prize or DARPA like) every year for the national antivirus standard...Kinda like how AES was established. Thoughts?
Parent post says it right. The answer to Wallstreet's problems is more rules and regulation. Obviously, if they broke the first set of rules, those rules weren't good enough, we just need MORE rules and regulations. These weaslsly scumbags on wallstreet with their fancy ivy league edumuacations are no match for Congress. Every time they find a way to slip through the cracks of the law, we just need the professionals in Congress to step in and make even more regulations.
Is there porn on the itunes store? Or are you using an illegal method to transfer licensed content to a playback medium not covered by the origanal license?
If you really think they're serving evil overlords for oil, you are just as delusional as the people trying to cover this up.
Get a grip on reality please; this isn't and wasn't the case. I'm certainly not excusing the actions in this video, but it would be helpful if you could contribute some rational thought rather than ingesting and spewing ridiculous propaganda.
Sorry, but no. Lets review all the reasons android has 'failed' (and by fail, I mean gain a large market share):
No one will use a Java based, open source operating system that removes carrier control and so will crash and burn
The word 'Android' doesn't carry the Google brand and so will crash and burn
Android won't possibly break into the corporate space and so will crash and burn
Google is undermining it's vendors by releasing the Nexus one and so will crash and burn
Android is suffering from a hysterically massive 'platform fragmentation' and so will crash and burn
If the writer of the article would maybe stop and search the android market for 'android app discovery' he would find a bunch of apps that do what he thinks is missing. Appaware is probably my favorite. Perhaps sometimes it's better to let competition to breed excellence in this matter, rather than have a 'standard' dictated by an authority.
What android really needs is people to quit suggesting it be ran like the status quo. Or perhaps the author is past his time and doesn't understand why kids won't get off his lawn. We the people do not want the carriers to be in charge of phone appplications. Carriers need to focus on improving their crap networks rather than throwing money at ridiculous loss generating activities like the author suggests. Soon everyone will associate their phone with a manufacturer, rather than a network... similar to they way you run say 'I run Windows', not 'I have a dell... yep'.
Another thought, since everyone is perfectly happy with Apple's app review process, why don't we bring that over too?
I learned that bootleggers were trying to put more 'kick' into their corn juice, so they added things like acetone, methyl, etc, and this was widespread because society barely understood certain chemicals were hazardous. In the same time period, smoking was considered healthy...
Just saying, I'd take this article as a good propaganda piece until facts are double checked.
If I remember right, pundits were predicting the death of android because google was releasing the Nexus One.
Next, Android was going to flail and explode because evil Google wasn't bothering to spend time pushing irrelavent patches all the main Kernel tree (yes, because I want a phone's security model on my desktop linux please).
Now, horors of horors, a _very very very small_ percentage of applications don't work everywhere. I predict complete failure as a platform. No operating system platform in the world has experienced this and managed to suceeed.
I couldn't stand to RTFA; does the author of the article own an Android device? I do, and it's a v1.5 (Samsung Moment). In a few months, it'll be upgraded to v2.1. Till then, I've downloaded exactly _one_ application that isn't compatibile with 1.5. Time to sing about tradgedy, strife and whatever analyst wrote this getting fired.
here has been no evidence that lithium ion, nickel metal hydrid, nor aklaline batteries present any kind of danger to air travel. Regulstions such as these are reactionary knee jerk responses to problems that do not exist. Please consider the times in which we live, humans are connected 24-7 by devices powered by these batteries. Money spent of these regulations would be better invested in foreign intelligence, even though the public already has such an extremely low chance of dying on a terrorist act anyway.
Getting back to the point, this measure only serves to harass airline passengers, increase spiralling costs of air safety and further send a troubled nation into panic while buying us absolutely no 'real' safety. Myself and every other reasonable person in the united states are apposed to this measure.
The media fell in love with Obama during his election campaign. Don't think they won't come asking for favors later, and don't be surprised at the response.
My new voting strategy: Find out who Tom Cruise is voting for. Vote for the other guy.
I may be off my base here, but I believe one of the big drawbacks from AVI (I didn't RTFA) is synching audio with video. You'll be watching a movie and suddenly it's dubbed worse than "Most Extreme Elimination Challenge."
I am extremely impressed with AAC + h.264. Mp3 has left me very disappointed in movies so far. (probably the extreme dynamic range compression)
The consensus of Slashdot's editor opinions on religious subject matter has been made painstakingly clear for as long as I can remember. Combine that with the increased popularity of liberal viewpoints in the last 6ish years, the summary makes an excellent breeding ground for flamebait: The summary implies anyone with conservative religious views is likely to be weak minded enough to accept the murderous agenda of religious extremism.
What is interesting is none of these views are perpetrated in the linked article. So to pick apart the summary:
1. Religions condone killing for evangelical purposes: A broken, squeaky wheel called the 'overall majority' of Islamic clerics denounce terrorist activities.
2. All religious persona are conservative: There is something called the 'religious right': Katherine Sebelious is Catholic.
3. All terrorists are religiously motivated: Yes, but also (and more importantly) problem-motivated. Engineers solve problems: Getting bombs through airport security is an engineering challenge.
I could go on... I'll let more commentors contribute if they wish.
I think the most important point is #3, which was completely missed in the summary. Yes, the religious extremism has to be sown, but that can be accompblished via brainwashing. You cannot however, brainwash someone to be an engineer.
This is a cool feature, i'll be waiting to see it come out. I think things like consumer safety issues, un-warranted wiretapping, dirty dealings should all be exposed without mercy. Wikileaks provides that forum. People that do dirty deeds, or put consumers at risk need their reputations destroyed.
I wish they would use discretion however, I remember a leak last year where they leaked the frequencies from an IED jammer. NATO troops from all countries were put in danger because of this...
It also reminds me of the kidnapping Jimmy Whales kept from going public and generating media attention. If it had gone public, the insurgents would have demanded ransom and possibly put the man's life in further danger.
I guess the bill shows the fundamental lack of understanding of who makes these programs... But since we're making a wishlist, I think they should consider amending the bill to also:
Outlaw neighbor's kids on your lawn
Calling of mean names during recess
Impose regulations on which kids may be beat up on the bus, replacing the current "smallest kid" freemarket system.
Legalize marijuana and outlaw Light Beer.
Outlaw poverty, unhappiness, debt, bad driving and excessively loud cheering at football games.
I think it's worthy to note the second author's topics of what he calls "science". I haven't read these books, but I was intrigued (I didn't realize there was a war going on), so I found wikipedia's summary of the the 'science' topics: "
climate change, the evolution/creation, bioethics, alternative medicine, pollution, separation of church and state."
I'm sorry, but when I read "science" in the headline, I was thinking High Energy Physics, Biomedical Research, Psychology, ect. You know things that still use something called the "Scientific Method" or that involve men in lab coats, toiling away at actual experiments.
While the topics of his book are most certainly relevant _Political_ topics in this day and age, passing *any* of them off as Science is laughable.
This seems like the same train of thought as "responsible disclosure" for security issues in software. Yes, it was censored information, but they came forward with it eventually and humankind (or a human in this case) was better off.
Hmm, now we walk a fine line. Who do we trust to censor something in order to preserve human life and yet won't misuse their power to instill their own will?
Nulcear YES
Wind YES
Oil YES
Solar YES
Coal YES
Natural Gas YES
Tidal YES
There is no one size fits all people! You 'open minded' people need to open your minds to the real problems and solutions we already have available!
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You and me might be the only two that actually RTFA.
Just like the state DMV, FDA, BATF, FBI, CIA i'm sure it'd be perfect and be up with the latest technology and be nimble to act to new threats. I think this a great idea in theory, but the government does not have competition, it doesn't need to make a profit, so there will be no motivation to make the product the absolute best without the project turning into a money sinkhole.
To take your idea and twist it so the laws of macroeconomics favor it, perhaps a government run competition (X-Prize or DARPA like) every year for the national antivirus standard...Kinda like how AES was established. Thoughts?
Parent post says it right. The answer to Wallstreet's problems is more rules and regulation. Obviously, if they broke the first set of rules, those rules weren't good enough, we just need MORE rules and regulations. These weaslsly scumbags on wallstreet with their fancy ivy league edumuacations are no match for Congress. Every time they find a way to slip through the cracks of the law, we just need the professionals in Congress to step in and make even more regulations.
Is there porn on the itunes store? Or are you using an illegal method to transfer licensed content to a playback medium not covered by the origanal license?
Clearly, this is the correct solution and will whip those wrascally criminals into shape. There isn't anything this congress can't do!
Using Windows machines to hold Top Secret documents.
If you really think they're serving evil overlords for oil, you are just as delusional as the people trying to cover this up.
Get a grip on reality please; this isn't and wasn't the case. I'm certainly not excusing the actions in this video, but it would be helpful if you could contribute some rational thought rather than ingesting and spewing ridiculous propaganda.
If the writer of the article would maybe stop and search the android market for 'android app discovery' he would find a bunch of apps that do what he thinks is missing. Appaware is probably my favorite. Perhaps sometimes it's better to let competition to breed excellence in this matter, rather than have a 'standard' dictated by an authority.
What android really needs is people to quit suggesting it be ran like the status quo. Or perhaps the author is past his time and doesn't understand why kids won't get off his lawn. We the people do not want the carriers to be in charge of phone appplications. Carriers need to focus on improving their crap networks rather than throwing money at ridiculous loss generating activities like the author suggests. Soon everyone will associate their phone with a manufacturer, rather than a network... similar to they way you run say 'I run Windows', not 'I have a dell... yep'.
Another thought, since everyone is perfectly happy with Apple's app review process, why don't we bring that over too?
Funny, I learned it the other way around...
I learned that bootleggers were trying to put more 'kick' into their corn juice, so they added things like acetone, methyl, etc, and this was widespread because society barely understood certain chemicals were hazardous. In the same time period, smoking was considered healthy...
Just saying, I'd take this article as a good propaganda piece until facts are double checked.
"Galen also provides a variety of editorial services, including research, idea generation"
Clearly an aspiring congressional lobbyist
OH ANDROID IS A COUNTRY SONG.
If I remember right, pundits were predicting the death of android because google was releasing the Nexus One.
Next, Android was going to flail and explode because evil Google wasn't bothering to spend time pushing irrelavent patches all the main Kernel tree (yes, because I want a phone's security model on my desktop linux please).
Now, horors of horors, a _very very very small_ percentage of applications don't work everywhere. I predict complete failure as a platform. No operating system platform in the world has experienced this and managed to suceeed.
I couldn't stand to RTFA; does the author of the article own an Android device? I do, and it's a v1.5 (Samsung Moment). In a few months, it'll be upgraded to v2.1. Till then, I've downloaded exactly _one_ application that isn't compatibile with 1.5. Time to sing about tradgedy, strife and whatever analyst wrote this getting fired.
Is this a new scientific journal?
here has been no evidence that lithium ion, nickel metal hydrid, nor aklaline batteries present any kind of danger to air travel. Regulstions such as these are reactionary knee jerk responses to problems that do not exist. Please consider the times in which we live, humans are connected 24-7 by devices powered by these batteries. Money spent of these regulations would be better invested in foreign intelligence, even though the public already has such an extremely low chance of dying on a terrorist act anyway. Getting back to the point, this measure only serves to harass airline passengers, increase spiralling costs of air safety and further send a troubled nation into panic while buying us absolutely no 'real' safety. Myself and every other reasonable person in the united states are apposed to this measure.
A better choice, for a myriad of reasons, is to not vote for an incumbent this November.
I can dream.
The media fell in love with Obama during his election campaign. Don't think they won't come asking for favors later, and don't be surprised at the response. My new voting strategy: Find out who Tom Cruise is voting for. Vote for the other guy.
I may be off my base here, but I believe one of the big drawbacks from AVI (I didn't RTFA) is synching audio with video. You'll be watching a movie and suddenly it's dubbed worse than "Most Extreme Elimination Challenge." I am extremely impressed with AAC + h.264. Mp3 has left me very disappointed in movies so far. (probably the extreme dynamic range compression)
The consensus of Slashdot's editor opinions on religious subject matter has been made painstakingly clear for as long as I can remember. Combine that with the increased popularity of liberal viewpoints in the last 6ish years, the summary makes an excellent breeding ground for flamebait: The summary implies anyone with conservative religious views is likely to be weak minded enough to accept the murderous agenda of religious extremism.
What is interesting is none of these views are perpetrated in the linked article. So to pick apart the summary:
1. Religions condone killing for evangelical purposes: A broken, squeaky wheel called the 'overall majority' of Islamic clerics denounce terrorist activities.
2. All religious persona are conservative: There is something called the 'religious right': Katherine Sebelious is Catholic.
3. All terrorists are religiously motivated: Yes, but also (and more importantly) problem-motivated. Engineers solve problems: Getting bombs through airport security is an engineering challenge.
I could go on... I'll let more commentors contribute if they wish.
I think the most important point is #3, which was completely missed in the summary. Yes, the religious extremism has to be sown, but that can be accompblished via brainwashing. You cannot however, brainwash someone to be an engineer.
You must be new here, welcome!
This is a cool feature, i'll be waiting to see it come out. I think things like consumer safety issues, un-warranted wiretapping, dirty dealings should all be exposed without mercy. Wikileaks provides that forum. People that do dirty deeds, or put consumers at risk need their reputations destroyed.
I wish they would use discretion however, I remember a leak last year where they leaked the frequencies from an IED jammer. NATO troops from all countries were put in danger because of this...
It also reminds me of the kidnapping Jimmy Whales kept from going public and generating media attention. If it had gone public, the insurgents would have demanded ransom and possibly put the man's life in further danger.
I guess the bill shows the fundamental lack of understanding of who makes these programs... But since we're making a wishlist, I think they should consider amending the bill to also:
Outlaw neighbor's kids on your lawn
Calling of mean names during recess
Impose regulations on which kids may be beat up on the bus, replacing the current "smallest kid" freemarket system.
Legalize marijuana and outlaw Light Beer.
Outlaw poverty, unhappiness, debt, bad driving and excessively loud cheering at football games.
did I miss anything?
I think it's worthy to note the second author's topics of what he calls "science". I haven't read these books, but I was intrigued (I didn't realize there was a war going on), so I found wikipedia's summary of the the 'science' topics: " climate change, the evolution/creation, bioethics, alternative medicine, pollution, separation of church and state."
I'm sorry, but when I read "science" in the headline, I was thinking High Energy Physics, Biomedical Research, Psychology, ect. You know things that still use something called the "Scientific Method" or that involve men in lab coats, toiling away at actual experiments.
While the topics of his book are most certainly relevant _Political_ topics in this day and age, passing *any* of them off as Science is laughable.
This seems like the same train of thought as "responsible disclosure" for security issues in software. Yes, it was censored information, but they came forward with it eventually and humankind (or a human in this case) was better off.
Hmm, now we walk a fine line. Who do we trust to censor something in order to preserve human life and yet won't misuse their power to instill their own will?
Nulcear YES Wind YES Oil YES Solar YES Coal YES Natural Gas YES Tidal YES There is no one size fits all people! You 'open minded' people need to open your minds to the real problems and solutions we already have available!
I'm looking for to Engadget's or TheRegister's Remix contest
The only thing degrading will be T-mobiles profit on .50cents/text message.