I wasn't saying so much that it was "correct," more that it was the closest answer that says, "You're not allowed to go here."
The original poster was basically saying that the "censors" wouldn't use whatever codes were implemented and, instead, return something somewhat innocuous--a "Page Not Found" or some such. I'm stating that the people who implemented this actually took a moment to try to come up with the best answer possible and not just put up an innocuous error. I think 403 is probably the best response that is currently available--though I'm a big fan of the 451 error.
Keep in mind that while Americans are launched into space from Florida, most of the manned spaceflight program is run through the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
So I'd imagine that it's an occupational hazard. If you're a woman and you get your hair done in Texas, it's gonna be big.
Don't get me wrong--I've used Google Earth and entered bike rides that I've gone on. It was pretty cool to do the fly-along view and I can see where this would be really fun for the first few times.
The problem is that if I'm actually trying to navigate around a city, there will be two problems. Either the camera will be positioned so that I can't see where I'm supposed to turn because some building is in the way, or the camera is going to be sweeping around like crazy, causing a distraction when I'm driving.
So, cool? Definitely. Useful for navigation--which is what the vast majority of map users are doing? Not so much.
Like has been implied, about the only use I see for something like this is in games. Random driving game on the real streets of Los Angeles/New York/Miami/Cleveland? Very cool.
While I'm a supporter of big tinfoil, I think the fact that the people in question chose 403 -- Forbidden -- implies that they were trying to come up with something that would sort of make sense. Otherwise, they probably would have chosen a 404 or something to imply that, "Gosh, the URL must be wrong somehow."
One reason I can think of is that, as the summary mentioned, they want to show the world they can launch things into orbit safely and reliably. Sending up people is a good way to do that.
I suppose that's reasonable. But suppose I'm riding past your house on a really tall unicycle. Should we be banning those as well? Or should you have a taller fence?
Unfortunately, this started under the Bush Administration, so I'm pretty sure that screwing talented students and workers in the United States is one of the things that both parties can agree on.
Launches dont happen every day for one thing [...]
Well, I'm sure SpaceX would love it if they happened every day. Hell, I'm sure SpaceX would love it if they happened every hour, because they're getting paid for them.
Add a speaker on one end of the display, and some buttons on the other end, and it's going to be at least 5" (127mm) high, which is also pushing the limits for convenience.
Tell that to the millions who bought the Samsung Galaxy Note. And while that resolution may be a bit much for printed text, written text or images may come out much more accurately.
What isn't so great about OSM is that driving directions from yournavigation.org are not usable at all.
I gotta admit, this is one thing I've noticed in OSM--some paths do not connect to other paths. It looks great on the map, but it's useless when actually trying to use the data to navigate.
Around where I live, we have a wonderful person who has been adding various bicycle/pedestrian trails which extend off of a regional bike trail. They look great on the map. Unfortunately, since the nodes don't connect to the bike trail, nobody knows that you can actually exit the bike trail at Talbert. I've followed along behind and cleaned up them up.
Remember that HTC builds a lot of phones that don't have the name "HTC" on them. So if Facebook gives them a list of specs and HTC builds a phone to those specifications, one could say that Facebook "created" a smartphone.
Of course, if Facebook says, "Take the HTC One and stick a Facebook button on it which launches our app," then I agree with you wholeheartedly.
I remember watching "60 Minutes" years and years ago and they did a report on the cost of the Shuttle. One interesting thing was that since the Shuttle was a "cost plus" contract (ie, we'll pay you how much it cost plus some more money), any other project that was not a "cost plus" project (at the time, building F-16s for the Air Force) that had some kind of overrun was just transferred to the Shuttle contract.
Rockwell also assisted in the James Bond picture, Moonraker, which required a few trips to England on the Concorde, all of which got put on the Shuttle contract.
There are international salvage laws -- they generally apply to things found in the ocean, but as written they might apply to things in orbit or on the moon too.
It’s usually after someone like myself suggest that if other people are profiting from distributing an artist’s work (Kim Dotcom, Mediafire, Megavideo, Mp3tunes,) they should share some of their proceeds with the artists.
Maybe I'm not hep to the way you kids are getting music these days because I have to spend time keeping you all off of my lawn, but these services advertise a way for me to access the music that I bought from any device anywhere that I happen to be.
Is he implying that Mp3tunes should be paying him to store my music and make it accessible to me from wherever I am?
Let's see...I have a SanDisk MP3 player. I have a bunch of music on it. Should he be getting paid by SanDisk? After all, SanDisk made a profit selling me a device to listen to their music. Without that music, why would I buy a SanDisk MP3 player? Shouldn't some of that go to the musician? How about that CaseLogic case I have to hold CDs? They made a profit from that. Shouldn't some of that go to the people who make the music that I hold in that case?
You made your money selling me the music. Now go away.
Siri and I have different opinions over what constitutes "Next Tuesday," so I don't use it that much, either.
That said, I did find a use for it: When I go biking, I like to know when the sun will set so I have an idea of when I have to be home. So if I ask Siri, "What time is sunset?" Siri will respond with "Sunset is at 7:17PM" or whenever sunset time is. Very handy.
That said, Siri is getting this information from the weather report. So you cannot ask, "What time was sunrise?" or "When will the sun set in Seattle next Thursday?" You'll get some response about the weather. Which is silly because (a) sunrise and sunset are not meteorological, they're astronomical and (b) sunrise and sunset can be calculated by knowing the date and the latitude and longitude, information which Siri has.
Now, are Apple doing evil with what Siri sends them? Probably not.
Especially when you're dealing with human beings.
Suppose there's some hiccup in Siri's speech analysis. As a developer, I will probably try to reproduce the problem. So if I get the audio from the customer that causes the problem and the audio happens to be, "IBM Announces Breakthrough in Quantum Computing" or something like that. Presto! There's the leak right there! Even if the information is "anonymized," such that you can't tell who it came from, the content makes it very clear.
Also, consider this bit of the EULA:
By using Siri, you agree and consent to Apple’s and its subsidiaries’ and agents’ transmission, collection, maintenance, processing, and use of this information, including your voice input [...]
Imagine what happens when, someday, Apple creates APIs so that third-party developers can get this information?
It is interesting to read about some of this stuff, though.
For example, the US Military declined to assist the film Apocalypse Now , the Philippine government did and they had plenty of old helicopters. The US Air Force did not provide assistance for the film Iron Eagle because the characters hack into Air Force computers. However, the Israeli Air Force had no problem helping out and they had plenty of F-16s. The US Military would not assist in Independence Dayunless they removed all references to Area 51. And the US Military was glad to help out with the movie Stripes, much to Ivan Reitman's surprise, because while some characters are buffoons, the lead characters all become successes after joining the Army.
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I wasn't saying so much that it was "correct," more that it was the closest answer that says, "You're not allowed to go here."
The original poster was basically saying that the "censors" wouldn't use whatever codes were implemented and, instead, return something somewhat innocuous--a "Page Not Found" or some such. I'm stating that the people who implemented this actually took a moment to try to come up with the best answer possible and not just put up an innocuous error. I think 403 is probably the best response that is currently available--though I'm a big fan of the 451 error.
Keep in mind that while Americans are launched into space from Florida, most of the manned spaceflight program is run through the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
So I'd imagine that it's an occupational hazard. If you're a woman and you get your hair done in Texas, it's gonna be big.
I gotta admit, this is one thing I wonder about.
Don't get me wrong--I've used Google Earth and entered bike rides that I've gone on. It was pretty cool to do the fly-along view and I can see where this would be really fun for the first few times.
The problem is that if I'm actually trying to navigate around a city, there will be two problems. Either the camera will be positioned so that I can't see where I'm supposed to turn because some building is in the way, or the camera is going to be sweeping around like crazy, causing a distraction when I'm driving.
So, cool? Definitely. Useful for navigation--which is what the vast majority of map users are doing? Not so much.
Like has been implied, about the only use I see for something like this is in games. Random driving game on the real streets of Los Angeles/New York/Miami/Cleveland? Very cool.
While I'm a supporter of big tinfoil, I think the fact that the people in question chose 403 -- Forbidden -- implies that they were trying to come up with something that would sort of make sense. Otherwise, they probably would have chosen a 404 or something to imply that, "Gosh, the URL must be wrong somehow."
Well, with Apple's WWDC approaching, maybe they're taking a page from Apple's playbook and keeping things under wraps. Try to get some buzz going...
Meh.
One reason I can think of is that, as the summary mentioned, they want to show the world they can launch things into orbit safely and reliably. Sending up people is a good way to do that.
I suppose that's reasonable. But suppose I'm riding past your house on a really tall unicycle. Should we be banning those as well? Or should you have a taller fence?
Unfortunately, this started under the Bush Administration, so I'm pretty sure that screwing talented students and workers in the United States is one of the things that both parties can agree on.
"potential for significant contamination of very senstive resources in the event of a catastrophic event (i.e., hurricane)"
And launching rockets into space causes hurricanes. Hey, look at all the hurricanes that hit Florida and they launch rockets from Florida.
Launches dont happen every day for one thing [...]
Well, I'm sure SpaceX would love it if they happened every day. Hell, I'm sure SpaceX would love it if they happened every hour, because they're getting paid for them.
I'm an old Unix admin who does not resemble a terrorist in the slightest.
I dunno...
That's what big tinfoil wants you to believe.
Add a speaker on one end of the display, and some buttons on the other end, and it's going to be at least 5" (127mm) high, which is also pushing the limits for convenience.
Tell that to the millions who bought the Samsung Galaxy Note. And while that resolution may be a bit much for printed text, written text or images may come out much more accurately.
What isn't so great about OSM is that driving directions from yournavigation.org are not usable at all.
I gotta admit, this is one thing I've noticed in OSM--some paths do not connect to other paths. It looks great on the map, but it's useless when actually trying to use the data to navigate.
Around where I live, we have a wonderful person who has been adding various bicycle/pedestrian trails which extend off of a regional bike trail. They look great on the map. Unfortunately, since the nodes don't connect to the bike trail, nobody knows that you can actually exit the bike trail at Talbert. I've followed along behind and cleaned up them up.
Well, it depends on what they eventually come up.
Remember that HTC builds a lot of phones that don't have the name "HTC" on them. So if Facebook gives them a list of specs and HTC builds a phone to those specifications, one could say that Facebook "created" a smartphone.
Of course, if Facebook says, "Take the HTC One and stick a Facebook button on it which launches our app," then I agree with you wholeheartedly.
Actually, I think it was Rockwell...
I remember watching "60 Minutes" years and years ago and they did a report on the cost of the Shuttle. One interesting thing was that since the Shuttle was a "cost plus" contract (ie, we'll pay you how much it cost plus some more money), any other project that was not a "cost plus" project (at the time, building F-16s for the Air Force) that had some kind of overrun was just transferred to the Shuttle contract.
Rockwell also assisted in the James Bond picture, Moonraker, which required a few trips to England on the Concorde, all of which got put on the Shuttle contract.
There are international salvage laws -- they generally apply to things found in the ocean, but as written they might apply to things in orbit or on the moon too.
They definitely do. My Tee Vee says so! And it would never lie to me...
It’s usually after someone like myself suggest that if other people are profiting from distributing an artist’s work (Kim Dotcom, Mediafire, Megavideo, Mp3tunes,) they should share some of their proceeds with the artists.
Maybe I'm not hep to the way you kids are getting music these days because I have to spend time keeping you all off of my lawn, but these services advertise a way for me to access the music that I bought from any device anywhere that I happen to be.
Is he implying that Mp3tunes should be paying him to store my music and make it accessible to me from wherever I am?
Let's see...I have a SanDisk MP3 player. I have a bunch of music on it. Should he be getting paid by SanDisk? After all, SanDisk made a profit selling me a device to listen to their music. Without that music, why would I buy a SanDisk MP3 player? Shouldn't some of that go to the musician? How about that CaseLogic case I have to hold CDs? They made a profit from that. Shouldn't some of that go to the people who make the music that I hold in that case?
You made your money selling me the music. Now go away.
...or they could have removed the SIM card and turned off the phone.
Presto. Problem solved.
One dollar. That's usually the case when you're right but it doesn't matter.
One of the Jurors was dismissed for being late because of car problems. The other was dismissed for being sick.
Oh yeah, and Google couldn't have possibly caused someone to have car problems or get sick.
Wake up! Google controls everything...
Siri and I have different opinions over what constitutes "Next Tuesday," so I don't use it that much, either.
That said, I did find a use for it: When I go biking, I like to know when the sun will set so I have an idea of when I have to be home. So if I ask Siri, "What time is sunset?" Siri will respond with "Sunset is at 7:17PM" or whenever sunset time is. Very handy.
That said, Siri is getting this information from the weather report. So you cannot ask, "What time was sunrise?" or "When will the sun set in Seattle next Thursday?" You'll get some response about the weather. Which is silly because (a) sunrise and sunset are not meteorological, they're astronomical and (b) sunrise and sunset can be calculated by knowing the date and the latitude and longitude, information which Siri has.
Especially when you're dealing with human beings.
Suppose there's some hiccup in Siri's speech analysis. As a developer, I will probably try to reproduce the problem. So if I get the audio from the customer that causes the problem and the audio happens to be, "IBM Announces Breakthrough in Quantum Computing" or something like that. Presto! There's the leak right there! Even if the information is "anonymized," such that you can't tell who it came from, the content makes it very clear.
Also, consider this bit of the EULA:
Imagine what happens when, someday, Apple creates APIs so that third-party developers can get this information?
It is interesting to read about some of this stuff, though.
For example, the US Military declined to assist the film Apocalypse Now , the Philippine government did and they had plenty of old helicopters. The US Air Force did not provide assistance for the film Iron Eagle because the characters hack into Air Force computers. However, the Israeli Air Force had no problem helping out and they had plenty of F-16s. The US Military would not assist in Independence Day unless they removed all references to Area 51. And the US Military was glad to help out with the movie Stripes, much to Ivan Reitman's surprise, because while some characters are buffoons, the lead characters all become successes after joining the Army.