If you look into the story of the Brazilian iPhone, you'll see that the original one was nothing more than an unlicensed knockoff of a Nokia, including a ripped-off Nokia ROM.
Hey submitter. I looked at the Python spreadsheet and it's feature complete. I'm sure you know now that you can't tell how far along free software is by the version number...
I will use absolutes when necessary, and in this case there is nothing useful that revolving door industry flacks will accomplish in their tenures in government.
It would be better to use rank amateurs and observation of the sleaze tactics, along with abilities to enforce and odify regulations to keep up with side stepping, than it would be to put experienced industry flacks and shills in charge of these ever more laughable agencies. The current policies are fraudulent bordering upon treasonous.
You would not want to be exposed to vapors of any of the "dispersants" used during the gulf spill, let alone get them on your skin, mucous membranes, or for fuck's sake ingest them. Aconite is more poisonous than belladonna, but you don't want to eat either one. Same thing here.
I know the FanDroid sentiment is high here on SlashDice, but this story is stupid, the idea is stupid, and the company is stupid. Plus, what the hell is up with selling a phone that has an OS that's quite a few years out of date? This isn't good for Android in any way, and does little to rehabilitate the world view of Brazil as a haven for the theft of intellectual property either.
I mean, they're better than China in this respect, but sheesh.
Non-cooperation, animosity, gridlock, whatever you wish to call it, is the ideal state for congress and the president to reside in. After all, there is literally nothing that a politician does these days that benefits the average Joe. Every bill and resolution is designed from the ground-up by lobbyists and foreign PACs in order to enrich the people sponsoring the bill (and sponsoring the people who introduce it).
Just because Obama doesn't like being cock-blocked, this does not give him the right to assume dictatorial powers in order to push his agenda forward. Be careful what you wish for, for YOUR party (it's pretty clear you're a Democrat or well wisher / fellow traveler) because next time a Republican sits in the throne and issues these royal decrees, you'll be tasting bile.
Yes, the oil being on top blocks the sunlight directly under it. However, the density of oil makes it possible to collect it from the top of the ocean without extremely complicated measures.
Another factor to remember is that most of the area where the oil leaked was shallower than 200m anyway.
The use of dispersants (really, the term should be "submergants") just caused the oil to sink to the sea floor. This in no way mitigates the actual problem, and may in fact compound it over time. However, it did allow the EPA, the Obama administration, and BP to rehabilitate their severely tarnished images, because this was a problem that you couldn't see easily.
Gulf seafood is off the menu for millions of people now, and into the foreseeable future, because these "dispersants" just happen to be extremely toxic to humans.
Unfortunately, we appear to have learned nothing and will probably use this kind of sweeping under the rug tactic when future spills happen.
I think this is another one of those cases where we can safely say that it was probably the fine people who brought us Smalltalk. ST80 had a tabbed interface in the system browser, which while not a web browser was very similar in style and scope.
It's not really a catch 22. People from the industry are in a revolving door system, where they go work in these agencies for a while and then get bonuses and better positions based upon how much work they did for the company while in government.
I could see hiring from industry, if you then banned subsequent participation or investment in that industry. Including spouses. As it stands now, hiring from industry ensures that nothing useful gets done, except those things useful for the industry itself. This applies to agriculture, big pharma, manufacturing, etc.
I would like to take this opportunity to remind die-hard statists that almost all of these agencies end up serving the interests of those companies that they are supposed to be regulating, eventually. Proposing that the very people (congress) who are paid off by large agribusinesses make laws that hurt their employers is the height of statist delirium.
I mean, sure, it sounds good to have non-flacks heading these agencies, but it just can not be done without a very complete reform of the election process.
In any event, a vindication of the libertarian philosophy could be seen in organic labeling standards. USDA Organic has been diluted into complete worthlessness as a standard, but there are independent companies that still certify organic foods in a more reliable and honest manner. This model works, unlike the statist model where the government becomes teacher, mother, secret lover.
The EPA's function is more to give the common fool the idea that the government cares about the environment, than it is to defend the environment. It is quite similar to the FDA in this regard. Both agencies have been headed by flacks from the industries they are supposed to be regulating, which is a clear conflict of interest.
Just another classic case of corruption in the government.
Come on now, you can't deflate that canard so easily. How else can the fanny-pack geeky fucks casually dismiss the iPad, if you poke a hole that big in what amounts to their only objection to it?
Of course, they know as well as anybody that their objections lack any substantive basis, which is why the iPad sells more than all the other tablets on the market put together, times 2. However, again, they would have us all believe that this is due mainly to some magic mind-control waves that emanate from 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino.
Maybe the best course of action when dealing with these types of law firms is to actually kill the principles of the firm. This will send a clear message to the legal profession: watch it or you might be next.
The world did no such thing. Major PC manufacturers who target the Windows market did.
There are plenty of options without this secure boot garbage, Apple foremost among them. If you choose some whore of a company that values MS over their customers it's y fault for being dumb.
"The real protection is the ballet box, not bullets, and has been ever since modern armies came into being."
Plenty of modern armies have failed to stop an insurgency or revolution. The problem we are facing in America is that the ballot box is increasingly a choice between this tyranny or that tyranny. This is not an acceptable choice, and it appears the whole system is nearly broken.
Soap box, ballot box, bullet box. America's the most heavily armed nation on earth, I don't think people here are as helpless to resist tyranny as you seem to think. And, the day they enact a sweeping gun ban, that's the signal for Civil War II.
No, you've had all the objections clearly explained to you. People object to putting hardware produced by a foreign military contractor into their critical communications infrastructure, and that there has been no spyware found on the devices doesn't prove it's not there.
The idea that this is somehow racism or bigotry doesn't fly, and advancing this argument makes one look rather suspicious.
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That's fucking bullshit. He a look at the MSDS for Corexit. The shit is not only carcinogenic but causes red blood cells to fall apart.
Yes, soap is a "dispersant" but not all dispersants are soap.
What do you suppose the real function government is?
I'm going with wealth transfer and resource extraction.
If you look into the story of the Brazilian iPhone, you'll see that the original one was nothing more than an unlicensed knockoff of a Nokia, including a ripped-off Nokia ROM.
Hey submitter. I looked at the Python spreadsheet and it's feature complete. I'm sure you know now that you can't tell how far along free software is by the version number...
I will use absolutes when necessary, and in this case there is nothing useful that revolving door industry flacks will accomplish in their tenures in government.
It would be better to use rank amateurs and observation of the sleaze tactics, along with abilities to enforce and odify regulations to keep up with side stepping, than it would be to put experienced industry flacks and shills in charge of these ever more laughable agencies. The current policies are fraudulent bordering upon treasonous.
You would not want to be exposed to vapors of any of the "dispersants" used during the gulf spill, let alone get them on your skin, mucous membranes, or for fuck's sake ingest them. Aconite is more poisonous than belladonna, but you don't want to eat either one. Same thing here.
I know the FanDroid sentiment is high here on SlashDice, but this story is stupid, the idea is stupid, and the company is stupid. Plus, what the hell is up with selling a phone that has an OS that's quite a few years out of date? This isn't good for Android in any way, and does little to rehabilitate the world view of Brazil as a haven for the theft of intellectual property either.
I mean, they're better than China in this respect, but sheesh.
Non-cooperation, animosity, gridlock, whatever you wish to call it, is the ideal state for congress and the president to reside in. After all, there is literally nothing that a politician does these days that benefits the average Joe. Every bill and resolution is designed from the ground-up by lobbyists and foreign PACs in order to enrich the people sponsoring the bill (and sponsoring the people who introduce it).
Just because Obama doesn't like being cock-blocked, this does not give him the right to assume dictatorial powers in order to push his agenda forward. Be careful what you wish for, for YOUR party (it's pretty clear you're a Democrat or well wisher / fellow traveler) because next time a Republican sits in the throne and issues these royal decrees, you'll be tasting bile.
Yes, the oil being on top blocks the sunlight directly under it. However, the density of oil makes it possible to collect it from the top of the ocean without extremely complicated measures.
Another factor to remember is that most of the area where the oil leaked was shallower than 200m anyway.
What, is Dice going to spam Slashdot every single day with Dice propaganda?
I am really starting to hate the new Slashdot.
The use of dispersants (really, the term should be "submergants") just caused the oil to sink to the sea floor. This in no way mitigates the actual problem, and may in fact compound it over time. However, it did allow the EPA, the Obama administration, and BP to rehabilitate their severely tarnished images, because this was a problem that you couldn't see easily.
Gulf seafood is off the menu for millions of people now, and into the foreseeable future, because these "dispersants" just happen to be extremely toxic to humans.
Unfortunately, we appear to have learned nothing and will probably use this kind of sweeping under the rug tactic when future spills happen.
I think this is another one of those cases where we can safely say that it was probably the fine people who brought us Smalltalk. ST80 had a tabbed interface in the system browser, which while not a web browser was very similar in style and scope.
It's not really a catch 22. People from the industry are in a revolving door system, where they go work in these agencies for a while and then get bonuses and better positions based upon how much work they did for the company while in government.
I could see hiring from industry, if you then banned subsequent participation or investment in that industry. Including spouses. As it stands now, hiring from industry ensures that nothing useful gets done, except those things useful for the industry itself. This applies to agriculture, big pharma, manufacturing, etc.
I would like to take this opportunity to remind die-hard statists that almost all of these agencies end up serving the interests of those companies that they are supposed to be regulating, eventually. Proposing that the very people (congress) who are paid off by large agribusinesses make laws that hurt their employers is the height of statist delirium.
I mean, sure, it sounds good to have non-flacks heading these agencies, but it just can not be done without a very complete reform of the election process.
In any event, a vindication of the libertarian philosophy could be seen in organic labeling standards. USDA Organic has been diluted into complete worthlessness as a standard, but there are independent companies that still certify organic foods in a more reliable and honest manner. This model works, unlike the statist model where the government becomes teacher, mother, secret lover.
I was using tabbed browsing in OmniWeb before Opera ever came out.
The EPA's function is more to give the common fool the idea that the government cares about the environment, than it is to defend the environment. It is quite similar to the FDA in this regard. Both agencies have been headed by flacks from the industries they are supposed to be regulating, which is a clear conflict of interest.
Just another classic case of corruption in the government.
You're putting nails in the coffin that was Slashdot one article at a time.
Come on now, you can't deflate that canard so easily. How else can the fanny-pack geeky fucks casually dismiss the iPad, if you poke a hole that big in what amounts to their only objection to it?
Of course, they know as well as anybody that their objections lack any substantive basis, which is why the iPad sells more than all the other tablets on the market put together, times 2. However, again, they would have us all believe that this is due mainly to some magic mind-control waves that emanate from 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino.
Maybe the best course of action when dealing with these types of law firms is to actually kill the principles of the firm. This will send a clear message to the legal profession: watch it or you might be next.
This article is almost 100% weasel words. Of course, just like optical computers and 3d storage cubes, it's 5-10 years away, right?
Jeez.
The world did no such thing. Major PC manufacturers who target the Windows market did.
There are plenty of options without this secure boot garbage, Apple foremost among them. If you choose some whore of a company that values MS over their customers it's y fault for being dumb.
"The real protection is the ballet box, not bullets, and has been ever since modern armies came into being."
Plenty of modern armies have failed to stop an insurgency or revolution. The problem we are facing in America is that the ballot box is increasingly a choice between this tyranny or that tyranny. This is not an acceptable choice, and it appears the whole system is nearly broken.
Soap box, ballot box, bullet box. America's the most heavily armed nation on earth, I don't think people here are as helpless to resist tyranny as you seem to think. And, the day they enact a sweeping gun ban, that's the signal for Civil War II.
Pretty much every South Korean is heavily invested in Samsung through their retirement plans. They are like Brits with BP stock in this respect.
No, you've had all the objections clearly explained to you. People object to putting hardware produced by a foreign military contractor into their critical communications infrastructure, and that there has been no spyware found on the devices doesn't prove it's not there.
The idea that this is somehow racism or bigotry doesn't fly, and advancing this argument makes one look rather suspicious.
I wonder how much Samsung stock her family has. Probably some to lots, especially if she has relatives inside Korea itself.
For her to determine that Samsung didn't willfully infringe indicates that she is not paying close attention!