I'm having a hard day? Why, because I'm making a logical argument on slashdot, that you don't have the intellectual capacity to refute? I think you might be the one having a hard time, given how difficult it is for you to understand simple concepts and logic.
A task force specifically created to investigate crimes against large corporations?
No, it's specifically for tech-related crimes. It's not just for large corporations, it's also for individuals and small companies who might have been hacked or had computer-related fraud happen.
How is that NOT a "pet police force?"
You claimed "Apple seems to have pet police detectives at their beck and call." the REACT taskforce does not work for Apple. It is not how you describe it. You're just making shit up.
So, yeah, the cops exactly argue they shouldn't investigate theft until all violent crime has been solved.
No, some cops might argue that. Lazy cops, incompetent cops. In this case, probably made-up strawman cops. But certainly not all cops. If that were true, then thefts would never be investigated. But we know that's just not true, because thefts are investigated daily.
But what are you trying to say, anyway? That cops should ignore all crime, because you've claimed that they've ignored some crimes related to you and your friends?
So, what's your logic here? Because you got ignored and treated shittily by the police, the police should ignore every crime? That's a really great way to run the system! Shouldn't you be asking that police do more to respond to crime?
...how did anything Gizmodo did in any way cause him to be arrested?
Ummm, by publishing the fact that they had received a stolen prototype iPhone for the whole world to see? By paying for a stolen phone? Pretty obvious I would have thought.
They were very discrete about his name,
They were "consisting of or characterized by distinct or individual parts" about his name? Sorry, doesn't make grammatical sense.
it was his roommate who busted him.
But only after the publicity from Gizmodo. A long, long time after the roommate's actions (Gizmodo had it for three weeks before publishing).
As Apple is in perfect shape now, I would be questioning "Why on earth our own Quicktime, even with DRM since V5 not even considered as an option?"
Because Apple is supporting open web standards. Quicktime just isn't on the radar for adoption in that context. H.264 is.
Someone should really start asking these questions now, that great framework is really being wasted.
Being wasted? It's at the core of major Apple apps like Final Cut Pro, iMovie and iTunes. Apple even has its own excellent CODECs for professional video production (Apple Intermediate CODEC and ProRes).
how much would it really take to add a phone to a 3DS?
But why the hell would you want it? You'd look pretty silly talking into a DS, and it would just raise the cost and complexity of a device whose primary attractions are that it's cheap and cheerful.
My "sound blaster" was called Paula. She was a sexy sound chip, located inside my beautiful amiga, and produced near-CD quality sound in 1985 (when Macs and PCs just went beep).
Uhhh, no. The original Mac was frickin' launched with a demo of it introducing itself via speech synthesis. If I recall correctly, it was 4-voice, mono, 8-bit sound.
I loved my Amiga too, but don't go making stuff up, especially when your comment is disproved in one of the most famous moments in personal computer history.
Who knows what unit of measure the Futurama "atmosphere" is? Maybe it's based on the highest-pressure known planet!
Leela and the Professor gives us the answer when she says they're at 5,000 feet, and the Professor says that's over 150 atmospheres of pressure. Under salt water, approximately 33 feet of additional depth increases pressure by one atmosphere. (5000/33)-1=150.5 atmospheres. So it seems pretty clear they are using they same units we do.
I was a huge fan of the series, but those movies were pretty atrocious. I'm not sure if they went with different writers, or maybe they were just off their game, but I sure hope the new season gets the old groove back.
They weren't as good because they were feature-length movies. The 20-something minutes of a TV comedy series often doesn't translate well into a movie-length narrative. 20-something minutes is a good amount of time to explore a particular scenario, you end up just stretching it too thin over a couple of hours.
So, it shouldn't be a priority for the police to investigate the crime of theft? Rule of law should be suspended just because it's a "stupid fucking" phone?
and from the stories I read, there was an attempt to return it but Apple was too stupid to take it.
And yet, there is no evidence of any attempt to return it - and from the police documents that have been released, a ton of evidence that it was known to be stolen, and efforts made to cover the thieves' trail.
Before you can call it stolen property you need to confirm that it is actually something that was owned by the person claiming it was stolen. I don't care how over inflated Jobs's sense of self important is, if he were to call me and ask me to give him something I'd sure as hell want proof that it was his to begin with.
This had already been established. If you read the actual email, Gizmodo was asking for more information about the phone and their production of it:
Hey Steve, this email chain is off record on my side.
I understand the position you’re in, and I want to help, but it conflicts with my own responsibilities to give the phone back without any confirmation that its real, from apple, officially.
Something like that — from you or apple legal — is a big story, that would make up for giving the phone back right away. If the phone disappears without a story to explain why it went away, and the proof it went to apple, it hurts our business. And our reputation. People will say this is a coordinated leak, etc.
I get that it would hurt sales to say this is the next iphone. I have no interest in hurting sales. That does nothing to help Gizmodo or me.
Maybe Apple can say it’s a lost phone, but not one that you’ve confirmed for production — that it is merely a test unit of sorts. Otherwise, it just falls to apple legal, which serves the same purpose of confirmation. I don’t want that either.
This is not an innocent request from somebody who wants to honestly return the phone.
Now even the regular apple joe-sixpacks who aren't hardcore fanbois know about Gizmodo.
Right. But knowing about Gizmodo doesn't mean they'll visit. I know plenty of people who did read Gizmodo, but no longer will after this sordid publicity stunt. As for tipsters and potential leads, they are going to give Gizmodo a wide berth now. Lesson learned: deal with the Giz, you might be in the Shiz.
If the government was interested in a low recidivism rate, they would reward facilities for it. Look at averages for rates of return, and reward facilities that turn out better than that. As an example, if the average for a certain type of criminal is to have a 50% recidivism rate within 5 years, track the ex-prisoners, and give an actual cash award to the prison if they average 40% over 6 years. This opens the whole system back up to the private sector to resolve.
This has the same flaws as "No Child Left Behind." You end up defunding the prisons that are doing the worst, thus aggravating the problem, because they don't have the funds to fix problems. You end up with a downward spiral to total failure.
Seriously, we can search Wikipedia for words we don't understand. They should only be links if the term is specialized or specifically relates to the article.
Now that I've thought about this more, if Apple were really, REALLY, clever, they would plant fakes
That's not clever at all. It's fucking stupid, and a waste of time and resources. Why would they spend effort doing that, rather than concentrating on developing new products and marketing existing ones?
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I'm having a hard day? Why, because I'm making a logical argument on slashdot, that you don't have the intellectual capacity to refute? I think you might be the one having a hard time, given how difficult it is for you to understand simple concepts and logic.
A task force specifically created to investigate crimes against large corporations?
No, it's specifically for tech-related crimes. It's not just for large corporations, it's also for individuals and small companies who might have been hacked or had computer-related fraud happen.
How is that NOT a "pet police force?"
You claimed "Apple seems to have pet police detectives at their beck and call." the REACT taskforce does not work for Apple. It is not how you describe it. You're just making shit up.
Are you fucking retarded?
So, yeah, the cops exactly argue they shouldn't investigate theft until all violent crime has been solved.
No, some cops might argue that. Lazy cops, incompetent cops. In this case, probably made-up strawman cops. But certainly not all cops. If that were true, then thefts would never be investigated. But we know that's just not true, because thefts are investigated daily.
But what are you trying to say, anyway? That cops should ignore all crime, because you've claimed that they've ignored some crimes related to you and your friends?
So, what's your logic here? Because you got ignored and treated shittily by the police, the police should ignore every crime? That's a really great way to run the system! Shouldn't you be asking that police do more to respond to crime?
...how did anything Gizmodo did in any way cause him to be arrested?
Ummm, by publishing the fact that they had received a stolen prototype iPhone for the whole world to see? By paying for a stolen phone? Pretty obvious I would have thought.
They were very discrete about his name,
They were "consisting of or characterized by distinct or individual parts" about his name? Sorry, doesn't make grammatical sense.
it was his roommate who busted him.
But only after the publicity from Gizmodo. A long, long time after the roommate's actions (Gizmodo had it for three weeks before publishing).
Yeah, I remember Steve Jobs saying he wasn't sick, right before he went into the hospital.
You must have an extremely faulty memory, then. Dementia?
As Apple is in perfect shape now, I would be questioning "Why on earth our own Quicktime, even with DRM since V5 not even considered as an option?"
Because Apple is supporting open web standards. Quicktime just isn't on the radar for adoption in that context. H.264 is.
Someone should really start asking these questions now, that great framework is really being wasted.
Being wasted? It's at the core of major Apple apps like Final Cut Pro, iMovie and iTunes. Apple even has its own excellent CODECs for professional video production (Apple Intermediate CODEC and ProRes).
Ten sucky games are worth more than one that may or may not suck.
So, I'm guessing you're an Atari 2600 fan, then?
how much would it really take to add a phone to a 3DS?
But why the hell would you want it? You'd look pretty silly talking into a DS, and it would just raise the cost and complexity of a device whose primary attractions are that it's cheap and cheerful.
My "sound blaster" was called Paula. She was a sexy sound chip, located inside my beautiful amiga, and produced near-CD quality sound in 1985 (when Macs and PCs just went beep).
Uhhh, no. The original Mac was frickin' launched with a demo of it introducing itself via speech synthesis. If I recall correctly, it was 4-voice, mono, 8-bit sound.
I loved my Amiga too, but don't go making stuff up, especially when your comment is disproved in one of the most famous moments in personal computer history.
Whoops, that should be (5000/33)+1=151.5 atmospheres.
Who knows what unit of measure the Futurama "atmosphere" is? Maybe it's based on the highest-pressure known planet!
Leela and the Professor gives us the answer when she says they're at 5,000 feet, and the Professor says that's over 150 atmospheres of pressure. Under salt water, approximately 33 feet of additional depth increases pressure by one atmosphere. (5000/33)-1=150.5 atmospheres. So it seems pretty clear they are using they same units we do.
Haven't watched Futurama
Inconceivable!
I'll send slashdot an invoice for the credit hours I end up re-taking because I was busy watching cartoons instead of studying.
You should be sending slashdot a bill for all that time you've been reading slashdot, when you could have been watching Futurama.
Oh well, maybe you've at least absorbed some subliminally. For a long time, slashdot had Futurama quotes in its HTML headers.
The bolded part is the proof!
Yeah, because we all know that Computer Science majors are the funniest guys on earth. Cohen's the exception, not the rule.
I was a huge fan of the series, but those movies were pretty atrocious. I'm not sure if they went with different writers, or maybe they were just off their game, but I sure hope the new season gets the old groove back.
They weren't as good because they were feature-length movies. The 20-something minutes of a TV comedy series often doesn't translate well into a movie-length narrative. 20-something minutes is a good amount of time to explore a particular scenario, you end up just stretching it too thin over a couple of hours.
Huh? What evidence do you have that Skyhook was inspecting packets that travel over those access points?
So, it shouldn't be a priority for the police to investigate the crime of theft? Rule of law should be suspended just because it's a "stupid fucking" phone?
No one stole anything.
Yes, a phone was stolen.
and from the stories I read, there was an attempt to return it but Apple was too stupid to take it.
And yet, there is no evidence of any attempt to return it - and from the police documents that have been released, a ton of evidence that it was known to be stolen, and efforts made to cover the thieves' trail.
Before you can call it stolen property you need to confirm that it is actually something that was owned by the person claiming it was stolen. I don't care how over inflated Jobs's sense of self important is, if he were to call me and ask me to give him something I'd sure as hell want proof that it was his to begin with.
This had already been established. If you read the actual email, Gizmodo was asking for more information about the phone and their production of it:
Hey Steve, this email chain is off record on my side.
I understand the position you’re in, and I want to help, but it conflicts with my own responsibilities to give the phone back without any confirmation that its real, from apple, officially.
Something like that — from you or apple legal — is a big story, that would make up for giving the phone back right away. If the phone disappears without a story to explain why it went away, and the proof it went to apple, it hurts our business. And our reputation. People will say this is a coordinated leak, etc.
I get that it would hurt sales to say this is the next iphone. I have no interest in hurting sales. That does nothing to help Gizmodo or me.
Maybe Apple can say it’s a lost phone, but not one that you’ve confirmed for production — that it is merely a test unit of sorts. Otherwise, it just falls to apple legal, which serves the same purpose of confirmation. I don’t want that either.
This is not an innocent request from somebody who wants to honestly return the phone.
Now even the regular apple joe-sixpacks who aren't hardcore fanbois know about Gizmodo.
Right. But knowing about Gizmodo doesn't mean they'll visit. I know plenty of people who did read Gizmodo, but no longer will after this sordid publicity stunt. As for tipsters and potential leads, they are going to give Gizmodo a wide berth now. Lesson learned: deal with the Giz, you might be in the Shiz.
If the government was interested in a low recidivism rate, they would reward facilities for it. Look at averages for rates of return, and reward facilities that turn out better than that. As an example, if the average for a certain type of criminal is to have a 50% recidivism rate within 5 years, track the ex-prisoners, and give an actual cash award to the prison if they average 40% over 6 years. This opens the whole system back up to the private sector to resolve.
This has the same flaws as "No Child Left Behind." You end up defunding the prisons that are doing the worst, thus aggravating the problem, because they don't have the funds to fix problems. You end up with a downward spiral to total failure.
Have you seen those pages vandalized with dozens of [citation please]?
What really shits me is those articles that have nearly every fucking common word linked to another Wikipedia article.
Seriously, we can search Wikipedia for words we don't understand. They should only be links if the term is specialized or specifically relates to the article.
Do you know how many pages of rules (and whatnot ) there are on notability?
No, I don't. Can't I just look that up on Wikipedia if I want to know?
$5,000 dollars isn't cheap for a phone.
Now that I've thought about this more, if Apple were really, REALLY, clever, they would plant fakes
That's not clever at all. It's fucking stupid, and a waste of time and resources. Why would they spend effort doing that, rather than concentrating on developing new products and marketing existing ones?