Come on... at this point, Assad's regime has zero credibility. Just like Putin's oligarchy.
I find it convenient to just assume that both sides are lying sacks of shit. This is true whether it be international politics or a bunfight at the local schoolboard level.
I'm rarely wrong, or disappointed, although sometimes I'll admit to being surprised about the kinds of things people are able to say with a straight face.
This probably has less to do with managing e-mail, and the associated equipment, and more about shifting costs.
Of course.
The way I see it, my (personal) e-mail address is an endorsement and advertisement of my e-mail providers services. If my ISP outsources those services, keeping their domain in my address amounts to false advertising. And keeping their domain in my address when they outsource the services to someone I wouldn't rely on separately is just stupid.
My rule of thumb is that if you call yourself an ISP and can't manage e-mail without outside help, you don't get to have your domain name in my e-mail address.
Given what's happened so far, this will probably make the judge MORE angry than he already is
At this point, they may be stuck with the choice between getting one judge more pissed at them or getting more judges pissed at them. Taking their lumps from one pissed of judge in one courtroom in one jurisdiction is probably one of the smarter decisions they've made so far.
Without video proof, we can't be sure they didn't strolled, strutted or even rambled away.
And those are just the "legs" options. We have to consider wheelchairs and crutches (or even "limping away"), or rolling down the hall in a conference room chair shouting "weeeeee!" the whole way. If there was alcohol involved, crawling is certainly an option. If it was a crack team of negotiators, there may have been rappelling...
Apple doesn't have a monopoly, or at least has never been convicted of abusing one. Microsoft had a monopoly, abused it, got nailed for it, failed to comply with the terms of their punishment, and got punished further.
What Apple is or isn't doing with their non-monopoly isn't relevant. Yes, Apple is doing bad things with iOS and OSX, and far worse things through their lawsuits, but it hasn't risen to the point of attracting anti-trust scrutiny. I doubt it will; the kinds of control they obsess about aren't really conducive to building the monopolies that Microsoft had (and, in some areas, still has).
The worst US citizens are coming to believe -- and being quite up front about it -- that they have a right not to see and hear things they don't like in the public space.
Sounds like a perfect market opportunity for "Fuck Free Speech" bumper stickers...
Furthermore, Apple is doing far more egrarious violations. What about the fact that Apple refused to convert to microUSB with the new iPhone 5. Where is there fine.
Apple isn't a monopoly, and except possibly for a brief period where the iPod, iTunes, iPhone and iPad dominated their specific markets until everyone else caught up, Apple has never really been a monopoly.
True, the Apple store is highly restrictive. But there are alternatives (a fuckton of Android devices, stores, etc, Blackberry. Windows Phone, I guess, if you're desperate enough).
When Microsoft was fucking over the browser market, they were leveraging a PC monopoly that they had tied up with a vast network of contacts and they were doing it with the intent to explicitly kill competition. At the time, most people were probably building PC's from scratch than were buying non-Microsoft systems. That's a monopoly.
I started out on slackware back in 1995 and moved to the mac because I can afford the money but don't want to spend the TIME fucking around just to make shit work.
I started out on... heck, I can't even remember. Yggdrasil, maybe. Whatever was shipping in late 1993.
Anyhow, back to the point, dicking with the O/S is just background noise to me these days. I don't even think about it. I still run Linux because after 20 years, everything else just feels weird... like borrowing someone else's clothes or car.
Yeah, sometimes I have to blacklist a module or hunt down a newer firmware, but it's something I know how to do, and quite frankly it pales in comparison to shit used to do like writing my own drivers. Trying to fix a problem with a Windows or Mac box just frustrates the hell out of me.
What, you are all seriously so naive as to think Microsoft is not doing the very same thing?
I wouldn't discount the possibility that they tried it and it worked out so poorly that in the end it's just worth more to them to sabotage Google's efforts and try to reap some PR advantage.
Personally, though, I'm with you. I'm betting on hypocrisy.
I'm sure that goes for other breeds as well. They see the world in ways we can't begin to understand, as we're visual creatures. They are scent creatures.
Actually, a lot of breeds are very visual. Sighthounds, obviously, but herding dogs tend to be, not to mention pointing breeds, feists (squirrel hunters), etc. Not that these breeds can't use their nose, but movement is wired pretty deeply into the sensory suite.
Hounds are in a class of their own when it comes to scenting. My hound can outscent the rest of my crew put together. Unfortunately, getting him to do anything else is a struggle.
At one time I had my collie able to find the "red ball" among the blue, red, and yellow ones... Dogs are colorblind, BTW.
There's a great article on this which recently showed up in the dog Agility world... They don't see the spectrum the same way, but they can usually differentiate between them if they're primary colours. Fortunately, most dog toys are pretty bright. And I've read that this spectrum isn't universal, either, just like humans have different kinds of colour blindness; dogs tend to show a preference for specific colours, and it's likely that those are "popping" in their personal spectrum.
If your dog was able to find an arbitrary red ball (i.e. one never encountered before), it might have been targeting that particular hue. If your dog was trained to find a specific red ball (esp if it could find it in the dark), it might have just been finding it by scent. And I wouldn't ignore the possibility that the "red" colour dyes typically found in toys might be distinctive enough that "red" actually is a scent. You were using the cue "red ball", but cues are completely arbitrary anyways.
Scent is a crazy powerful thing for a dog. I can pick up a pine cone, wing it into a yard full of pine cones, and my dogs will come back with that specific cone. Just the scent from my hand touching it for a few seconds, plus the disturbed ground where it landed, is enough to differentiate that specific random object.
The majority of people who have bought Android tablets did so because they do not like Apple rather than because they wanted something with a smaller screen.
Or one of many other features Apple won't offer. Smaller screen, lower price, ports (SD slot, USB without a dongle, etc), form factors (Transformer-style keyboard dock), stylus support, etc. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if some people bought the Thrive just for the replaceable battery...
Some people will even have bought Android tablets purely because that's what their smartphones use. Not *that* many, though, because I don't think people are thinking as much about cross-device integration as they could be.
You do know that Surface is not a phone and runs different operating system from Windows Phone devices right?
This is the same "Surface" they used to slap on an interactive coffee table, right? Don't even get me started on Microsoft's fucked up branding and marketing strategies...
In any case, the comparison is legit. The parent was about Android. The same Android which runs on my phone, tablet, and periodically my netbook. It's in the same function space as Surface, particularly if you're looking at Surface RT.
For example look at what HTC and the carriers install on Android and which cannot be uninstalled and then cause serious security issues which are never fixed.
You can't uninstall them, true. But you can disable them, which is effectively equivalent except they still take up disk. And those extra Android apps aren't burning that much disk compared to, say, a default Surface install.
Sorry, but covering the ears and mouths of others to suppress information YOU DON'T LIKE is against feminism...
It's also against history and plain common sense.
First, they're trying to censor something in the hacker community. Mere words can't explain how much "fail" is involved in that concept.
Second, history is pretty clear that if you want to solve social behavioural problems (which, I'm assuming, is the fundamental reason behind the Ada Initiative), anything less than honest and open communications, even about things which are uncomfortable to some, is going to backfire. Suppression gives you stupid shit like abstinence-only sex education, and appealing to reason and/or authority without using reason or having authority is just denying reality. Particularly if your subject population is resistant to overt propaganda and manipulation, which this one certainly is.
So, I guess the Ada Initiative can probably manage to get tech conferences to completely shun sex topics... as long as they don't mind that it's not going to do anything to actually reduce these "negative effects on women at a technical conference".
This is actually a pretty moderate approach compared to just suing single mothers for millions of dollars for downloading an MP3 once.
True, but keep in mind that this is likely just in addition to suing single mothers for millions of dollars for downloading an MP3 once. I don't expect they're going to call off their political lobbying, either.
3. Ha! The mattress tags have been removed! Another victory for law enforcement!
I was going to point out that it's perfectly legal for the consumer to remove the tags from their own mattresses.
But it occurs to me that the validity of the charge doesn't really matter that much after said consumer has been punched, tasered, kicked, cuffed, slammed into the police car, cavity searched, held in a jail cell with the finest local thugs, and charged with resisting arrest and removing mattress tags.
So you take away the option of others to choose whatever they want as text editor?
All of the other developers that normally touch these systems are vi users. All zero of them. I don't give a shit what people use on their own systems, though, as long as it doesn't fuck up the indentation on the source tree, and I don't mess around much with the default on systems other people are supposed to manage.
Distributions (like Redhat) that install pico as the default editor make me punch someone. Maybe the guy who thought pico should be considered in any way an acceptable UNIX editor. I always have to swear, abort back to the command line, and export VISUAL=vi.
My instructions for installing a new Debian(-like) build system at work include "apt-get purge nano" as the first thing you do once you're able to login. After (over? Yes. Fuuuuccckkkk....) 20 years, I just can't use an editor where "hjkl" aren't cursor movement keys.
I don't care which vi implementation, just give me something close enough and I'll survive.
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I find it convenient to just assume that both sides are lying sacks of shit. This is true whether it be international politics or a bunfight at the local schoolboard level.
I'm rarely wrong, or disappointed, although sometimes I'll admit to being surprised about the kinds of things people are able to say with a straight face.
Of course.
The way I see it, my (personal) e-mail address is an endorsement and advertisement of my e-mail providers services. If my ISP outsources those services, keeping their domain in my address amounts to false advertising. And keeping their domain in my address when they outsource the services to someone I wouldn't rely on separately is just stupid.
My rule of thumb is that if you call yourself an ISP and can't manage e-mail without outside help, you don't get to have your domain name in my e-mail address.
What we really need is an app that generates a *plonk* sound, hangs up, and dumps the caller into a block list.
At this point, they may be stuck with the choice between getting one judge more pissed at them or getting more judges pissed at them. Taking their lumps from one pissed of judge in one courtroom in one jurisdiction is probably one of the smarter decisions they've made so far.
And those are just the "legs" options. We have to consider wheelchairs and crutches (or even "limping away"), or rolling down the hall in a conference room chair shouting "weeeeee!" the whole way. If there was alcohol involved, crawling is certainly an option. If it was a crack team of negotiators, there may have been rappelling...
Yes, we need video.
Yes, but that's not the point.
Apple doesn't have a monopoly, or at least has never been convicted of abusing one. Microsoft had a monopoly, abused it, got nailed for it, failed to comply with the terms of their punishment, and got punished further.
What Apple is or isn't doing with their non-monopoly isn't relevant. Yes, Apple is doing bad things with iOS and OSX, and far worse things through their lawsuits, but it hasn't risen to the point of attracting anti-trust scrutiny. I doubt it will; the kinds of control they obsess about aren't really conducive to building the monopolies that Microsoft had (and, in some areas, still has).
Sounds like a perfect market opportunity for "Fuck Free Speech" bumper stickers...
Apple isn't a monopoly, and except possibly for a brief period where the iPod, iTunes, iPhone and iPad dominated their specific markets until everyone else caught up, Apple has never really been a monopoly.
True, the Apple store is highly restrictive. But there are alternatives (a fuckton of Android devices, stores, etc, Blackberry. Windows Phone, I guess, if you're desperate enough).
When Microsoft was fucking over the browser market, they were leveraging a PC monopoly that they had tied up with a vast network of contacts and they were doing it with the intent to explicitly kill competition. At the time, most people were probably building PC's from scratch than were buying non-Microsoft systems. That's a monopoly.
I started out on... heck, I can't even remember. Yggdrasil, maybe. Whatever was shipping in late 1993.
Anyhow, back to the point, dicking with the O/S is just background noise to me these days. I don't even think about it. I still run Linux because after 20 years, everything else just feels weird... like borrowing someone else's clothes or car.
Yeah, sometimes I have to blacklist a module or hunt down a newer firmware, but it's something I know how to do, and quite frankly it pales in comparison to shit used to do like writing my own drivers. Trying to fix a problem with a Windows or Mac box just frustrates the hell out of me.
She was at Google for a long time. Probably has a heck of a lot of pent up Evil she needs to burn off...
I wouldn't discount the possibility that they tried it and it worked out so poorly that in the end it's just worth more to them to sabotage Google's efforts and try to reap some PR advantage.
Personally, though, I'm with you. I'm betting on hypocrisy.
Actually, a lot of breeds are very visual. Sighthounds, obviously, but herding dogs tend to be, not to mention pointing breeds, feists (squirrel hunters), etc. Not that these breeds can't use their nose, but movement is wired pretty deeply into the sensory suite.
Hounds are in a class of their own when it comes to scenting. My hound can outscent the rest of my crew put together. Unfortunately, getting him to do anything else is a struggle.
Hopefully.
There's a great article on this which recently showed up in the dog Agility world... They don't see the spectrum the same way, but they can usually differentiate between them if they're primary colours. Fortunately, most dog toys are pretty bright. And I've read that this spectrum isn't universal, either, just like humans have different kinds of colour blindness; dogs tend to show a preference for specific colours, and it's likely that those are "popping" in their personal spectrum.
If your dog was able to find an arbitrary red ball (i.e. one never encountered before), it might have been targeting that particular hue. If your dog was trained to find a specific red ball (esp if it could find it in the dark), it might have just been finding it by scent. And I wouldn't ignore the possibility that the "red" colour dyes typically found in toys might be distinctive enough that "red" actually is a scent. You were using the cue "red ball", but cues are completely arbitrary anyways.
Scent is a crazy powerful thing for a dog. I can pick up a pine cone, wing it into a yard full of pine cones, and my dogs will come back with that specific cone. Just the scent from my hand touching it for a few seconds, plus the disturbed ground where it landed, is enough to differentiate that specific random object.
Or one of many other features Apple won't offer. Smaller screen, lower price, ports (SD slot, USB without a dongle, etc), form factors (Transformer-style keyboard dock), stylus support, etc. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if some people bought the Thrive just for the replaceable battery...
Some people will even have bought Android tablets purely because that's what their smartphones use. Not *that* many, though, because I don't think people are thinking as much about cross-device integration as they could be.
This is the same "Surface" they used to slap on an interactive coffee table, right? Don't even get me started on Microsoft's fucked up branding and marketing strategies...
In any case, the comparison is legit. The parent was about Android. The same Android which runs on my phone, tablet, and periodically my netbook. It's in the same function space as Surface, particularly if you're looking at Surface RT.
You can't uninstall them, true. But you can disable them, which is effectively equivalent except they still take up disk. And those extra Android apps aren't burning that much disk compared to, say, a default Surface install.
Sir... that information is classified.
I'm going to have to ask how you knew about these complaint forms, and I expect some answers...
Not a single drone-strike victim has filed a formal complaint that they weren't a valid target.
It's also against history and plain common sense.
First, they're trying to censor something in the hacker community. Mere words can't explain how much "fail" is involved in that concept.
Second, history is pretty clear that if you want to solve social behavioural problems (which, I'm assuming, is the fundamental reason behind the Ada Initiative), anything less than honest and open communications, even about things which are uncomfortable to some, is going to backfire. Suppression gives you stupid shit like abstinence-only sex education, and appealing to reason and/or authority without using reason or having authority is just denying reality. Particularly if your subject population is resistant to overt propaganda and manipulation, which this one certainly is.
So, I guess the Ada Initiative can probably manage to get tech conferences to completely shun sex topics... as long as they don't mind that it's not going to do anything to actually reduce these "negative effects on women at a technical conference".
True, but keep in mind that this is likely just in addition to suing single mothers for millions of dollars for downloading an MP3 once. I don't expect they're going to call off their political lobbying, either.
I was going to point out that it's perfectly legal for the consumer to remove the tags from their own mattresses.
But it occurs to me that the validity of the charge doesn't really matter that much after said consumer has been punched, tasered, kicked, cuffed, slammed into the police car, cavity searched, held in a jail cell with the finest local thugs, and charged with resisting arrest and removing mattress tags.
All of the other developers that normally touch these systems are vi users. All zero of them. I don't give a shit what people use on their own systems, though, as long as it doesn't fuck up the indentation on the source tree, and I don't mess around much with the default on systems other people are supposed to manage.
My instructions for installing a new Debian(-like) build system at work include "apt-get purge nano" as the first thing you do once you're able to login. After (over? Yes. Fuuuuccckkkk....) 20 years, I just can't use an editor where "hjkl" aren't cursor movement keys.
I don't care which vi implementation, just give me something close enough and I'll survive.