The messaging system is apparently smart. If you send a message to your wife who's got an iPhone too, it uses Apple's service/network. If you send it to your dad who's got some other kind of phone, it sends it SMS.
I'm really looking forward to this feature, since the majority of people I text with use iPhones.Right now I'm in the "use more than 25 texts a month, so the $5/200 plan is worth it" club, but that'll change once ios5 comes out.
Cops have the ability to ruin your life legally and as part of their job. When they're corrupt, they can do much, much worse than you or I can, and they need to be treated as such. The more power someone has given to them by the state, the harsher we need to be on them if they're found to be in violation.
While at the same time stiffing investigative journalism forever. Perhaps not with mugshots, but it's a slippery slope to eliminating FOIA and the related state open records acts.
I'm surprised this isn't more common. Arrest records are public in many states, and it takes just one enterprising person to expose all that information for the masses, and/or charge to get your data out of the system. Florida must make it easier to get mugshots than other places, though - typically police here in California only release those when there's a public issue of some sort.
For those interested, all sorts of information is public like this, but not always easy to get a hold of, depending on where you live. Such data includes mortgage records, liens, voter registration data, Social Security death records, civil and criminal case filings (and most other court-related information), some utility records, professional licenses, and other tidbits. It's good to know what's out there and who can easily access it - better than hiding and pretending it's not there, at least.
By "just added several thousand more videos", they actually mean "added about 2,000 episodes from fewer than 20 television shows, most of which Netflix also has".
Amazon Prime is nice, but it's basically a subset of Netflix.
It's more than that, though. Television news typically can't report severe racist or swear words due to the FCC regulations. It's not worth potential fines for them.
My passcode set to get me past the lock screen quickly - entering a complex code every time I wanted to do/check something on my phone would be absurd. But I've also got it set to wipe after 10 tries, so anyone who finds it is very unlikely to guess the code before getting in and seeing my stuff. Even if they did, Find My iPhone lets me do a remote lock/wipe. No big deal.
There are thousands of reporters and millions of readers, all interested in and doing different things. Further, some people are able to keep multiple thoughts in their head at the same time, so it's okay to focus on more than one thing.
Studios have put up with streaming because it's generally NOT able to be saved in the embedded and proprietary systems it's used in. Anything that saved locally wouldn't adhere to current copyright agreements, so it's not gonna happen.
Except for OTA with antenna, everything I watch on television is streaming, mostly from Netflix. Between me, my wife, and my 4-year-old, we watch 4-6 hours a day, and about half of that is in HD. It really doesn't take much.
My extreme likelihood of going over AT&T's 150GB cap caused me to move back to Time Warner's cable internet service, which for now, at least, doesn't have caps. I hate Time Warner, but since those are my only two broadband choices, it wasn't a tough choice.
It's not always a greed issue, sometimes it's a "the original copyright holder can't easily be contacted" or "is now part of a large company that doesn't offer piecemeal licensing". Sometimes there are exclusive agreements from years ago that have long lives. There's greed, too, but streaming often involves getting permission from multiple parties, and that complicates things.
Blame license agreements. Some shows are only allowed to be streamed for a short amount of time, and sometimes an episode of a show is missing (especially 80s and 90s shows) because Netflix can't get the rights to use all the music used in the show.
I was shocked to find that, apparently because of their business model, the Roku will not play the free Hulu content, even if you buy a Hulu Plus subscription (and there is a lot on regular Hulu that is unavailable on Hulu Plus).
This has absolutely nothing to do with Roku, and everything to do with Hulu's licensing agreements. Hulu has the rights to show their non-plus shows on the internet, but NOT on set-top boxes or via streaming (to Roku, Internet-enabled TVs, game systems, or anything else). Agree or disagree with the pay model that Hulu+ is using, but the "+" refers to the ability to watch it on your television via these devices. They can't show the non-plus material because they don't have the rights to do that.
I dunno about that. Roku's super simple to set up and use (it "just works"), but has an open SDK and a fantastic (open) private channel system for those interested in doing more. It's the best of both worlds (plus very inexpensive as well).
I've seen some of that, and mostly those folks have found their way into my "hide" category.
The people whose updates I see aren't congruent with the people who see my updates - I have pretty selective filtering for my updates. But with very few exceptions, I keep the people on as friends even if I don't see their stuff (and they don't see mine) in case of real-world get-togethers, occasional private messages, etc. The only people I've defriended are those old school people from my past who turned out to be complete assholes, and it took Facebook to show me that.
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The messaging system is apparently smart. If you send a message to your wife who's got an iPhone too, it uses Apple's service/network. If you send it to your dad who's got some other kind of phone, it sends it SMS.
I'm really looking forward to this feature, since the majority of people I text with use iPhones.Right now I'm in the "use more than 25 texts a month, so the $5/200 plan is worth it" club, but that'll change once ios5 comes out.
Cops have the ability to ruin your life legally and as part of their job. When they're corrupt, they can do much, much worse than you or I can, and they need to be treated as such. The more power someone has given to them by the state, the harsher we need to be on them if they're found to be in violation.
Yes, every time. But the cops, while doing their jobs, shouldn't have any expectation of privacy.
Typically "copyright" is non-government. Public records are public, and we have a right to see them because technically they belong to the people.
While at the same time stiffing investigative journalism forever. Perhaps not with mugshots, but it's a slippery slope to eliminating FOIA and the related state open records acts.
I'm surprised this isn't more common. Arrest records are public in many states, and it takes just one enterprising person to expose all that information for the masses, and/or charge to get your data out of the system. Florida must make it easier to get mugshots than other places, though - typically police here in California only release those when there's a public issue of some sort.
For those interested, all sorts of information is public like this, but not always easy to get a hold of, depending on where you live. Such data includes mortgage records, liens, voter registration data, Social Security death records, civil and criminal case filings (and most other court-related information), some utility records, professional licenses, and other tidbits. It's good to know what's out there and who can easily access it - better than hiding and pretending it's not there, at least.
By "just added several thousand more videos", they actually mean "added about 2,000 episodes from fewer than 20 television shows, most of which Netflix also has".
Amazon Prime is nice, but it's basically a subset of Netflix.
It's more than that, though. Television news typically can't report severe racist or swear words due to the FCC regulations. It's not worth potential fines for them.
Our weather and fertile farmland takes issue with that - it would have developed just as much, but perhaps just not as quickly.
My passcode set to get me past the lock screen quickly - entering a complex code every time I wanted to do/check something on my phone would be absurd. But I've also got it set to wipe after 10 tries, so anyone who finds it is very unlikely to guess the code before getting in and seeing my stuff. Even if they did, Find My iPhone lets me do a remote lock/wipe. No big deal.
The iPhone has had the choice of 4-digit PIN-style codes or longer alpha-numeric codes for quite a while now.
There are thousands of reporters and millions of readers, all interested in and doing different things. Further, some people are able to keep multiple thoughts in their head at the same time, so it's okay to focus on more than one thing.
Studios have put up with streaming because it's generally NOT able to be saved in the embedded and proprietary systems it's used in. Anything that saved locally wouldn't adhere to current copyright agreements, so it's not gonna happen.
Except for OTA with antenna, everything I watch on television is streaming, mostly from Netflix. Between me, my wife, and my 4-year-old, we watch 4-6 hours a day, and about half of that is in HD. It really doesn't take much.
My extreme likelihood of going over AT&T's 150GB cap caused me to move back to Time Warner's cable internet service, which for now, at least, doesn't have caps. I hate Time Warner, but since those are my only two broadband choices, it wasn't a tough choice.
The deal isn't final, and the FCC will be involved heavily. I still think it'll go through, but at least there will be a review, of sorts.
Well, then obviously you did plan on using it again. Maybe FB is just psychic...
It's not always a greed issue, sometimes it's a "the original copyright holder can't easily be contacted" or "is now part of a large company that doesn't offer piecemeal licensing". Sometimes there are exclusive agreements from years ago that have long lives. There's greed, too, but streaming often involves getting permission from multiple parties, and that complicates things.
Blame license agreements. Some shows are only allowed to be streamed for a short amount of time, and sometimes an episode of a show is missing (especially 80s and 90s shows) because Netflix can't get the rights to use all the music used in the show.
Welcome to 1989, when that version was replaced with the "You get the cash you won" style we still have today.
That depends entire on the post office they're sent to, actually. Plenty of American letters to Santa have the same treatment as those in Canada.
I was shocked to find that, apparently because of their business model, the Roku will not play the free Hulu content, even if you buy a Hulu Plus subscription (and there is a lot on regular Hulu that is unavailable on Hulu Plus).
This has absolutely nothing to do with Roku, and everything to do with Hulu's licensing agreements. Hulu has the rights to show their non-plus shows on the internet, but NOT on set-top boxes or via streaming (to Roku, Internet-enabled TVs, game systems, or anything else). Agree or disagree with the pay model that Hulu+ is using, but the "+" refers to the ability to watch it on your television via these devices. They can't show the non-plus material because they don't have the rights to do that.
I dunno about that. Roku's super simple to set up and use (it "just works"), but has an open SDK and a fantastic (open) private channel system for those interested in doing more. It's the best of both worlds (plus very inexpensive as well).
I've seen some of that, and mostly those folks have found their way into my "hide" category.
The people whose updates I see aren't congruent with the people who see my updates - I have pretty selective filtering for my updates. But with very few exceptions, I keep the people on as friends even if I don't see their stuff (and they don't see mine) in case of real-world get-togethers, occasional private messages, etc. The only people I've defriended are those old school people from my past who turned out to be complete assholes, and it took Facebook to show me that.
Whoops, saw that you mentioned "Hide". But why would you unfriend someone for their apps if you don't see them at all?
You know you can selectively hide all updates from any give app, don't you?