iPhone and Android make money by spying on you [citation needed]. DOD wants to reprogram their OS [citation needed] to make that impossible [citation needed], and they said no [citation needed]. They won't even let the DOD have a secure version of their OS [citation needed], because their OS are inherently insecure [citation needed].
There is no "Bell" in the United States. There is AT&T, but it is not at all related to the old "Bell System" from which "Bell Canada" gets its pedigree. "Bell" in the United States went out of business, and its AT&T name was sold to SBC. In ancient history, SBC started out as Southwestern Bell, but is as far removed from being "Bell" today as Spam is from pork tenderloin.
Actually, Apple didn't say either of the things you state. Apple hasn't said a single word about this. You're just adding your spin to another person's conjecture based on a rumor.
Unlikely. People pay for other people's things all the time. A husband's iTunes account may be billed to his wife's credit card. A child's account may be paid for by a parent. A company may pay for its employees. The list goes on and on an on.
All Apple cares about is that the billing address and CVV are valid.
You can take your hatred for Apple and stuff it in your tinfoil hat.
Actually, it appears that you are the victim of revisionist history. Google deep enough past the deniers and you can find the original source.
I was in your camp for a long time until I was searching for something else and found a web site that actually had an MP3 of him making the statement. I saved it on one of my offline archive drives. Unfortunately, I'm not at home or I'd post it somewhere for you to hear.
Is 2+2 no longer 4? We're not talking about colleges here where the information updates and changes monthly or even weekly. We're talking about the basics.
you also can't sell art work, busque, or sell cookies to raise money. Oddly enough, sports haven't been cut.
Maybe because no one ever got a college scholarship for covering themselves in silver paint and playing robot. Or baking cookies.
I hate high school (and college) sports as much as the next geek, but I understand that for certain segments of the population (I'm talking about dumb-ass jocks, not race), it's the only way they even have a chance at higher education.
(And don't say they pay taxes. The majority of corporations in the U.S. pay no taxes AT ALL).
This is false. It's just something that politicians say to get under-thinking voters riled up. And then the under-thinkers latch on to this and repeat it as if it was fact. You obviously have never owned or run a company.
What you're saying is that China can choose to emulate the United States hundreds of years ago, but ingnore it's recent history? Why does it get to pick and choose the time periods it wants to copy? Why shouldn't a modern state in the modern era be held to modern standards?
Turkey invaded Europe hundreds of years ago. Does that mean China gets to invade Europe, too? The Irish eslaved the Scotish (or the other way around) hundreds of years ago. Does that mean that China gets to enslave Korea?
Civilization isn't each country waiting for its turn to make the same mistakes. It's countries learning from the mistakes of other countries.
Even third-graders know that "two wrongs don't make a right."
And comparing the bad actions of a group/country/person a hundred years ago with someone making the same bad choices in the modern age is just silly. That's like saying that China should be allowed to have slavery while it ramps up its industrial age because the United States did, too.
Hmm, Google announced it, eh? Kind of cancels the "secretly" part of the typically overhyped headline, doesn't it? I hate journalists about half as much as I hate lawyers. LOL
TFA doesn't have the word "secretly" in the headline -- that is the work of the Slashdot submitter. Your hatred is misplaced, unless you consider web sites that post summaries of actual journalism to be journalism.
I hate sanctimonious prats about twice as much as I hate lawyers. LOL
So what you are basically saying is that professional scientists can't homeschool?
I wrote nothing of the kind. I have no opinion of either scientists or homeschooling. You're just imagining boogeymen to feed your own paranoia.
No, we need less of them; and better ones.
I didn't say we need more. I said we need "lots." Again, you're making stuff up. I agree with you that the world needs better middle managers, but that doesn't also mean we need NO middle managers. Your statement that we need better ones means that you actually agree with my statement that they are needed, even though you chose to precede it with a hostile "NO."
You are my first exposure to homeschooling. Thus far it has not been a positive one. If you find people hostile to homeschooling in the future, blame the person you see in your mirror.
Only, instead of doing that in a school which forces you to take a variety of useless subjects that have nothing to do with your desired profession, do it while homeschooling
Your notion only works if you want to have a world filled with firemen, ballerinas, and astronauts. What kids want to be in fifth grade has zero relation to what they will eventually become. No fifth grader ever said, "I want to be a middle manager," but we need plenty of those.
And if we prep kids for their careers when they're in grade school, then new professions will never be invented. Fifth graders in the 1940's didn't dream of becoming COBOL programmers in the 1960's.
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I noticed that google.com browser sniffs for opera and disables many of the newer features for their products
That's a feature, not a bug.
Rupert Murdock's paywall thanks you for justifying its existence.
iPhone and Android make money by spying on you [citation needed]. DOD wants to reprogram their OS [citation needed] to make that impossible [citation needed], and they said no [citation needed]. They won't even let the DOD have a secure version of their OS [citation needed], because their OS are inherently insecure [citation needed].
FTFY.
I envy the amount of free time you have to accomplish all of this. Sometimes I wish I didn't have friends, family, a job, or a life, too.
There is no "Bell" in the United States. There is AT&T, but it is not at all related to the old "Bell System" from which "Bell Canada" gets its pedigree. "Bell" in the United States went out of business, and its AT&T name was sold to SBC. In ancient history, SBC started out as Southwestern Bell, but is as far removed from being "Bell" today as Spam is from pork tenderloin.
If you believe all of the world's content worth reading is also contained on the internet, then you live in a very very small world.
Actually, Apple didn't say either of the things you state. Apple hasn't said a single word about this. You're just adding your spin to another person's conjecture based on a rumor.
Unlikely. People pay for other people's things all the time. A husband's iTunes account may be billed to his wife's credit card. A child's account may be paid for by a parent. A company may pay for its employees. The list goes on and on an on.
All Apple cares about is that the billing address and CVV are valid.
You can take your hatred for Apple and stuff it in your tinfoil hat.
MMORPG Player != Friend. If you think so, the people you actualy know in real life must be terribly insulted.
Actually, it appears that you are the victim of revisionist history. Google deep enough past the deniers and you can find the original source.
I was in your camp for a long time until I was searching for something else and found a web site that actually had an MP3 of him making the statement. I saved it on one of my offline archive drives. Unfortunately, I'm not at home or I'd post it somewhere for you to hear.
"In what can only be described as a fit of insanity"
Holy crap. Get some perspective. It's not that big a deal. Go outside and get some fresh air and sunshine.
No amount of civics or geography classes can describe the difference between a rip saw or crosscut blade, or how each affect hardwoods vs pines.
And no amount of wood shop can teach the difference between different parts of government. What's your point?
Is 2+2 no longer 4? We're not talking about colleges here where the information updates and changes monthly or even weekly. We're talking about the basics.
Maybe because no one ever got a college scholarship for covering themselves in silver paint and playing robot. Or baking cookies.
I hate high school (and college) sports as much as the next geek, but I understand that for certain segments of the population (I'm talking about dumb-ass jocks, not race), it's the only way they even have a chance at higher education.
Doesn't sound sad to me at all. Now the loss of geography and civics courses, THOSE are sad. Shop? Let the motorheads pound nails on their own time.
He's a shaaaaaark!
Or is that too Fark for this crowd?
Then Roger should get better hookers.
This is false. It's just something that politicians say to get under-thinking voters riled up. And then the under-thinkers latch on to this and repeat it as if it was fact. You obviously have never owned or run a company.
China's going to defend our shipping lanes, arrange a trans-Atlantic flotilla of supplies, and save our butts from the Germans?
Irrelevant.
What you're saying is that China can choose to emulate the United States hundreds of years ago, but ingnore it's recent history? Why does it get to pick and choose the time periods it wants to copy? Why shouldn't a modern state in the modern era be held to modern standards?
Turkey invaded Europe hundreds of years ago. Does that mean China gets to invade Europe, too?
The Irish eslaved the Scotish (or the other way around) hundreds of years ago. Does that mean that China gets to enslave Korea?
Civilization isn't each country waiting for its turn to make the same mistakes. It's countries learning from the mistakes of other countries.
Even third-graders know that "two wrongs don't make a right."
And comparing the bad actions of a group/country/person a hundred years ago with someone making the same bad choices in the modern age is just silly. That's like saying that China should be allowed to have slavery while it ramps up its industrial age because the United States did, too.
The basics of social engineering. Pulled off many a caper with those tactics back in the days of Phrack.
And if you don't know what Phrack is, then turn in your geek card and get off my lawn.
TFA doesn't have the word "secretly" in the headline -- that is the work of the Slashdot submitter. Your hatred is misplaced, unless you consider web sites that post summaries of actual journalism to be journalism.
I hate sanctimonious prats about twice as much as I hate lawyers. LOL
I wrote nothing of the kind. I have no opinion of either scientists or homeschooling. You're just imagining boogeymen to feed your own paranoia.
I didn't say we need more. I said we need "lots." Again, you're making stuff up. I agree with you that the world needs better middle managers, but that doesn't also mean we need NO middle managers. Your statement that we need better ones means that you actually agree with my statement that they are needed, even though you chose to precede it with a hostile "NO."
You are my first exposure to homeschooling. Thus far it has not been a positive one. If you find people hostile to homeschooling in the future, blame the person you see in your mirror.
Your notion only works if you want to have a world filled with firemen, ballerinas, and astronauts. What kids want to be in fifth grade has zero relation to what they will eventually become. No fifth grader ever said, "I want to be a middle manager," but we need plenty of those.
And if we prep kids for their careers when they're in grade school, then new professions will never be invented. Fifth graders in the 1940's didn't dream of becoming COBOL programmers in the 1960's.