I know Slashdot is mostly single guys, but I'd be curious to know if this feature supports multiple fingerprints for family situations. I unlock my phone, my wife will unlock it to look something up, my kids will unlock it to play a game or watch a video - How will this work in these scenarios? I'd also expect customization - I'm fine with my kid using a fingerprint to unlock the phone, but I don't want them to be able to make iTunes purchases at all. I own that right.
Can some fella convince me that the government here, is any different as compared to those other governments?
Yes. The ACLU filed lawsuits and the judge ruled against the government. Documents were then compelled to be released.
In those 'other' countries the ACLU would not exist (members dead or tortured and rotting in jail), the judge would not exist, or if he did and he ruled against the government he would have been shot and no documents would have been released. Oh yeah, and I would have been dragged away in the night for making this Slashdot post.
this corresponds to about twice as much influence in public policy.
First of all the Grandparent said "Western Counterparts." So sorry to hear you only have two parties to choose from, but that's you. My ballot has at least four...
...and leaving that aside, you've got hundreds of congress(people?) and senators to vote for as well. Why do you think the Tea Party took over the Republican party? Because Tea Partiers organize and vote. You want the 99%ers to take over policy? Get out of your tents, organize, and vote. Take over the primaries, do what you have to to do. Votes buy congress a lot more than cash does.
I've been using a Surface Pro for a few months and it works like a charm. It's a Core i5 running Metro + Win 8 pro. Runs full Office and has access to all network resources. At my desk it has its desktop extended to another monitor (try doing that with a f*cking iPad) with attached keyboard & mouse. Away from my desk it's got a detachable proper clicky keyboard and a nifty stylus.
If I'm "tableting" with it and I just want to check something I tap a metro tile's app and pull it up
If I need to do 'real' work I go to the Windows desktop.
All my colleagues carry two devices (iPad + Notebook) - I carry one. Every time I pull it out at a meeting or at the airport people say "oooh... what's *that*?" The RT noise is distracting people from what is otherwise a very cool machine.
Tanaka: I have much curiosity, Bond-san. What is Little Nellie?
OO7: Oh, she's a wonderful girl. Very small, quite fast. Can do anything. Just your type.
Tanaka: A toy helicopter?
Q: No, it's certainly not a toy! You'll see. We've made one or two improvements since you used her last. I'll give you the drill.
Tanaka: This can only be for children! Don't use it, Bond-san. Take my helicopter instead!
Q: Right. Now pay attention, OO7. Two machine guns, fixed.
OO7: Synchronized to what?
Q: 100 yards. We're using incendiaraies and high explosives. Two rocket launchers, forward-firing on either side.
OO7: Fine.
Q: Now, these fire heat-seeking air-to-air missiles. 60 a minute.
OO7: Good.
Q: Flame guns. Two of 'em. Firing astern.
OO7: What range?
Q: 80 yards. Two smoke ejectors next door to them. Aerial mines. Now remember, use them only when directly above target. That's about the lot, I think. You know the rest, don't you?
OO7: Yes.
Q: Cine camera.
OO7: Tanaka, listen in on 410 megacycles.
Tanaka: Good luck, Bond-san.
OO7: I'll contact you when I get over the island.
Tanaka: Okay.
Aki: Be careful, Bond-san!
What is Christianity in America. You can ask each sect and they will groups X,Y,Z are also Christians but U,V,W are not. But if you ask an other group they will say other groups are and are not. They cover a wide range of values. Some very Progressive other very Conservative, some take a more moderate approach.
This is a common misconception. A person is a "Christian" if they believe the Apostles' Creed. There are minor variations of the creed depending on your Christian denomination, but regardless of whether you are Lutheran, Catholic, Anglican or Baptist, if you believe the creed you are part of the club, and if you don't, you're not.
I believe in God,
the Father almighty,
Creator of heaven and earth,
and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died and was buried;
he descended into death;
on the third day he rose again from the dead;
he ascended into heaven,
and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty;
from there he will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy Christian Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and life everlasting. Amen
If you want to call yourself Christian, you need to believe everything outlined above. No more, no less.
Yes to this. I have worked in Sierra Leone at an aids-orphan home and one tablet like this will be sold for an entire years worth of pencil stubs, gardening tools, flip-flops, and rice.
But Google will be beaming poor people the internet from BALLOONS. Why do they need pencil stubs and flip-flops when they can watch Justin Bieber videos on YouTube?
The government has limited resources and it is literally impossible to enforce all of the federal laws to the full extent. Therefore the government must prioritize enforcement.
No, the government needs to axe the laws. Drives me bananas when governments pass law after law after law, with no mechanism for enforcement. It should be required that the government fund enforcement if a new law is passed, and that enforcement cannot be funded through borrowing.
I'm not a marine biologist (nor am I Art Vandelay), but I assume it would have to do with their incredibly good sense of smell. If they can 'smell' traces of blood I'm sure they can smell Bermuda.
I struggle with this when it means that, for natural selection to occur, children have to suffer. I look over at my healthy (fully vaccinated) 3-year-old boy and I try to imagine if he was sick. Breaks my heart.
What's the end-game here? Are you moving where she is? Is she moving back? When? If you don't have concrete plans as to how you're going to be back in the same place (e.g. "She's gone home for the summer, she'll be back in September") then just end it, cause it's doomed anyway.
I wouldn't think that this Wikipedia algorithm would have worked on a movie like "Jobs", where it probably had a ton of Wikipedia page views and edits but not that much box office revenue.
Had wikipedia been as prevalent in 2005 I bet the same thing would have happened with the Firefly movie ('Serenity'). Looks of geek interest, but tanked at the box office.
don't think it would take long for people to get used to grocery delivery
My brother lives on an island of 3500 which is in effect a suburb of Vancouver. Over there, the grocery delivery from the mainland happens once a week, and if you're not home the grocery guy will just go into your (unlocked) house, put the delivery on the counter and put the perishables in the fridge.
Of course this is Canada, so he isn't at risk of being shot while he does this. He might, however, encounter seniors doing nude yoga, so being shot might be preferable.
I don't know what the laws are in Britain, but whenever an incident like this occurs in Canada, the response from The Man is always the same: "We cannot comment on this specific incident in order to protect the privacy of the individual in question" - Even though the "individual in question" is happily waiving their privacy in order to the story out there.
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I know Slashdot is mostly single guys, but I'd be curious to know if this feature supports multiple fingerprints for family situations. I unlock my phone, my wife will unlock it to look something up, my kids will unlock it to play a game or watch a video - How will this work in these scenarios? I'd also expect customization - I'm fine with my kid using a fingerprint to unlock the phone, but I don't want them to be able to make iTunes purchases at all. I own that right.
Why replace perfectly fine 1080p HDTV?
Because Joe Consumer just discovered his neighbour has a fifty-inch TV, and his is only forty-inches.
Sadly, I now MUST upgrade, as our cable provider is switching to all digital. NO analog signals
I'd be VERY surprised if your cable box didn't have a composite 480i video & audio out - So no upgrade necessary.
It's possible your CRT TV doesn't have video-in, but if that's the case you can get an RF modulator for twenty buck.
Can some fella convince me that the government here, is any different as compared to those other governments?
Yes. The ACLU filed lawsuits and the judge ruled against the government. Documents were then compelled to be released.
In those 'other' countries the ACLU would not exist (members dead or tortured and rotting in jail), the judge would not exist, or if he did and he ruled against the government he would have been shot and no documents would have been released. Oh yeah, and I would have been dragged away in the night for making this Slashdot post.
what does it do for the rest of us?
- Allows the Khan Academy to share videos which educate the world for free.
...to name but two. I know ads drive the Slashdot batshit bananas crazy, but f*ck, get over it. How does a 10 second ad for a Chevy ruin your life?
- Allows Grandma to watch videos of her grandkids from hundreds of miles away without effort, and allows me to upload those videos without effort.
The web used to work fine before it was full of ads everywhere
So in your model how does a site like YouTube work? Is the tremendous bandwidth and storage funded exclusively by subscriptions?
this corresponds to about twice as much influence in public policy.
First of all the Grandparent said "Western Counterparts." So sorry to hear you only have two parties to choose from, but that's you. My ballot has at least four...
...and leaving that aside, you've got hundreds of congress(people?) and senators to vote for as well. Why do you think the Tea Party took over the Republican party? Because Tea Partiers organize and vote. You want the 99%ers to take over policy? Get out of your tents, organize, and vote. Take over the primaries, do what you have to to do. Votes buy congress a lot more than cash does.
Why must everything be constantly monetized?
...or, to put it another way, people 'monetize it.'
I would love to see a social gathering site whereby people pay a small annual fee
So in essence the censorship apparatus of the Chinese is exactly the same as their Western counterparts.
No, because in the West people can 'mobilize' at the ballot box, an option not available in China.
I've been using a Surface Pro for a few months and it works like a charm. It's a Core i5 running Metro + Win 8 pro. Runs full Office and has access to all network resources. At my desk it has its desktop extended to another monitor (try doing that with a f*cking iPad) with attached keyboard & mouse. Away from my desk it's got a detachable proper clicky keyboard and a nifty stylus.
If I'm "tableting" with it and I just want to check something I tap a metro tile's app and pull it up
If I need to do 'real' work I go to the Windows desktop.
All my colleagues carry two devices (iPad + Notebook) - I carry one. Every time I pull it out at a meeting or at the airport people say "oooh... what's *that*?" The RT noise is distracting people from what is otherwise a very cool machine.
Tanaka: I have much curiosity, Bond-san. What is Little Nellie?
OO7: Oh, she's a wonderful girl. Very small, quite fast. Can do anything. Just your type.
Tanaka: A toy helicopter?
Q: No, it's certainly not a toy! You'll see. We've made one or two improvements since you used her last. I'll give you the drill.
Tanaka: This can only be for children! Don't use it, Bond-san. Take my helicopter instead!
Q: Right. Now pay attention, OO7. Two machine guns, fixed.
OO7: Synchronized to what?
Q: 100 yards. We're using incendiaraies and high explosives. Two rocket launchers, forward-firing on either side.
OO7: Fine.
Q: Now, these fire heat-seeking air-to-air missiles. 60 a minute.
OO7: Good.
Q: Flame guns. Two of 'em. Firing astern.
OO7: What range?
Q: 80 yards. Two smoke ejectors next door to them. Aerial mines. Now remember, use them only when directly above target. That's about the lot, I think. You know the rest, don't you?
OO7: Yes.
Q: Cine camera.
OO7: Tanaka, listen in on 410 megacycles.
Tanaka: Good luck, Bond-san.
OO7: I'll contact you when I get over the island.
Tanaka: Okay.
Aki: Be careful, Bond-san!
So who else remembers the uber cool Casio smart watches of the 80s?
I certainly remember them, but "uber cool" would not be a term I would have used to describe them then, nor now.
What is Christianity in America. You can ask each sect and they will groups X,Y,Z are also Christians but U,V,W are not. But if you ask an other group they will say other groups are and are not. They cover a wide range of values. Some very Progressive other very Conservative, some take a more moderate approach.
This is a common misconception. A person is a "Christian" if they believe the Apostles' Creed. There are minor variations of the creed depending on your Christian denomination, but regardless of whether you are Lutheran, Catholic, Anglican or Baptist, if you believe the creed you are part of the club, and if you don't, you're not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostles'_Creed
I believe in God,
the Father almighty,
Creator of heaven and earth,
and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died and was buried;
he descended into death;
on the third day he rose again from the dead;
he ascended into heaven,
and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty;
from there he will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy Christian Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and life everlasting. Amen
If you want to call yourself Christian, you need to believe everything outlined above. No more, no less.
You're totally wrong, and here's why: I was once [insert anecdote] and [anecdote] happened. I'm [never] [always] doing that again, let me tell you!
Yes to this. I have worked in Sierra Leone at an aids-orphan home and one tablet like this will be sold for an entire years worth of pencil stubs, gardening tools, flip-flops, and rice.
But Google will be beaming poor people the internet from BALLOONS. Why do they need pencil stubs and flip-flops when they can watch Justin Bieber videos on YouTube?
The government has limited resources and it is literally impossible to enforce all of the federal laws to the full extent. Therefore the government must prioritize enforcement.
No, the government needs to axe the laws. Drives me bananas when governments pass law after law after law, with no mechanism for enforcement. It should be required that the government fund enforcement if a new law is passed, and that enforcement cannot be funded through borrowing.
How did it navigate to the island?
I'm not a marine biologist (nor am I Art Vandelay), but I assume it would have to do with their incredibly good sense of smell. If they can 'smell' traces of blood I'm sure they can smell Bermuda.
I took him to mean that US customs or border enforcement or some such should have been keeping an eye out
No, they should be keeping an eye out for ebola - Not for diseases that citizens of no 'western' nation should ever get in the first place.
Think of it as evolution in action.
I struggle with this when it means that, for natural selection to occur, children have to suffer. I look over at my healthy (fully vaccinated) 3-year-old boy and I try to imagine if he was sick. Breaks my heart.
Why would you even do that?
Bingo.
What's the end-game here? Are you moving where she is? Is she moving back? When? If you don't have concrete plans as to how you're going to be back in the same place (e.g. "She's gone home for the summer, she'll be back in September") then just end it, cause it's doomed anyway.
I wouldn't think that this Wikipedia algorithm would have worked on a movie like "Jobs", where it probably had a ton of Wikipedia page views and edits but not that much box office revenue.
Had wikipedia been as prevalent in 2005 I bet the same thing would have happened with the Firefly movie ('Serenity'). Looks of geek interest, but tanked at the box office.
http://xkcd.com/202/
don't think it would take long for people to get used to grocery delivery
My brother lives on an island of 3500 which is in effect a suburb of Vancouver. Over there, the grocery delivery from the mainland happens once a week, and if you're not home the grocery guy will just go into your (unlocked) house, put the delivery on the counter and put the perishables in the fridge.
Of course this is Canada, so he isn't at risk of being shot while he does this. He might, however, encounter seniors doing nude yoga, so being shot might be preferable.
Effing sick and tired of the word 'drone' being used to describe everything these days. This is a remote-controlled helicopter, not an effing 'drone.'
I don't know what the laws are in Britain, but whenever an incident like this occurs in Canada, the response from The Man is always the same: "We cannot comment on this specific incident in order to protect the privacy of the individual in question" - Even though the "individual in question" is happily waiving their privacy in order to the story out there.