He lost 11 months of freedom and overall two years of his life fighting bullshit charges. He had to move in with his parents, his girlfriend left him (she got arrested too), I presume he's no longer employed, and two years later he has nothing to show for it but a hollow victory in court. The government got what they wanted out of him: He's a warning to others of what they can do to you even if you've done nothing wrong.
Your comment made me think of the last time I used wired ethernet on my MacBook. It has been at least a month. Before that, probably six months. I'd like to have it, sure. But will I miss it? Probably not so much. I'll enjoy USB 3.0 (if that surprising rumor is true) much more than I'll miss Gig-E.
If you can't deploy nuclear weapons, you're not the most powerful organization on earth. Then again, if they have root at a Chinese missle silo, I may be wrong.
I'm guessing that his particular machine had a failure similar but not exactly what Apple had quantified as the video card failure. Maybe the video card and the motherboard both popped. Apple techs saw this, or at least a failure they weren't expecting, and said this is not the video card problem and therefore we won't repair it. I'm guessing Apple corporate sent lawyers and not techs to the court case and when he trotted out his evidence they were unprepared to rebut it.
That's not a stupid question. It looks like Seattle Rex has gone out of his way to keep his name out of his blog (I've skimmed, not really searched, so this may not be true). His whois record is almost anonymized, too. However.... if there's a court case, that means there are court records. Many districts put their court records online to some degree and Seattle looks to be one of them.
I searched for all court cases involving a company named Apple in King county, WA and I found one filed in small claims court. Case number 125-00818 was filed March 1, 2012 (which matches up with a blog entry he made). The details of cases aren't available online for free, they charge $0.25 per page here, and that's pretty much where I stopped. I'm not going to spend the cash to find out more.
They're very good marketers, for sure. The positive press that they got (they got coverage in PopSci, Engadget, and various other places) made it seem like a good bet. That they had a working prototype was a good selling point. That's where the good news ended. Their most recent update (#19) shows that they're still working on basic design problems such as cable durability, size of components, chip selection, etc.. I have the feeling that they're stringing us along and we'll never see the glasses.
It has turned me off Kickstarter, for sure. I'll be much more skeptical in the future and probably won't fund the more expensive ventures since I've already been dinged for $150. I hope that the publications that covered the glasses will be a little more wary when these guys show up with the next big thing.
The machines needing backup do so wirelessly to a Time Capsule whenver they're connected. I also do a full image to an external hard drive every once in a while (I lie to myself and say it's biweekly but it's really more like bi-whenever-I-remember-it).
Even with the recent increase in HD prices there's no real excuse to not have backups.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
-Epicurus
So a republican wishing to jab Obama does the right thing by posting a secret treaty online. And he's a California republican as well - land of the Entertainment Industry. Does this count as a good thing or a bad thing? I'm thinking it's both but it works out for the citizens so it's a net good despite potential partisan motivations.
Ya know what? I was wrong. FOX did cover this after all. Of course, they put their own spin on it. They didn't cover the documents, they covered the theft of the documents. The docs themselves get covered, but not after lavishing column-inches on the ethical lapse of an environmental scientist, and how dangerous this is to the donors of the Heartland Institute.
While I might agree under different circumstances, we did elect a gent named Barack Hussein Obama. Funny names aren't the hurdle they would have been in the '50s.
It's a cute idea but if you really want to do something like this, figure out a way for the hardware to sit inside (and draw power from) a desktop component like a monitor or a desktop switch. Better yet, a power strip or UPS. wifi would suffer but the power would never go out. If the UPS also handled phone/eth/coax surge protection, you've also got another way to get the data out.
I don't see how I have to put in everything else I hate (just getting through the As would take weeks; it would be a while until I typed CNN) in order to criticize FOX. That said, a wild-ass guess on what FOX news is or isn't going to cover isn't science and seeing you confuse the two says a hell of a lot more about your conclusions than my hypothesis.
Also, nice jumping to conclusions by guessing my "agenda" based on two lines. And you're guessing my politics, too? Get off your soapbox yourself, Captain Knowitall. I've claimed one fact, which as of 4:30pm ET is still accurate. FOX ain't said shit about it. They still might, in which case I'll be proven wrong and you, you my good sir or madam, will have been proven correct. That and $4 will get you a coffee at Starbucks. Yip de fucking doo. You win the internet.
Just to see if I was wrong already, I did a search of foxnews.com for "Heartland Institute" and found that they sure get a lot of mileage out of those fuckers, both the institute itself and articles by people who include the institute in their.sig. But no news on these documents (yet). I did the same search on CNN and saw fewer and older hits, but that might be because their search engine didn't respond well to the quotes and just searched for the individual terms (doing it on google with site:cnn.com showed that cnn relies on HI far less than FOX does). Props to FOX for having the better search engine.
I didn't search MSNBC - i have never watched them and quite frankly don't think of them at all.
Beyond that, do your own homework. Let me know when FOX covers it. Or don't. That's cool too. This is commentary, not science; unlike you (and FOX) I know which is which.
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If that counts as a "smear", turn your sensitivity dial down. It might go to 11 but it shouldn't really stay there.
He lost 11 months of freedom and overall two years of his life fighting bullshit charges. He had to move in with his parents, his girlfriend left him (she got arrested too), I presume he's no longer employed, and two years later he has nothing to show for it but a hollow victory in court. The government got what they wanted out of him: He's a warning to others of what they can do to you even if you've done nothing wrong.
Your comment made me think of the last time I used wired ethernet on my MacBook. It has been at least a month. Before that, probably six months. I'd like to have it, sure. But will I miss it? Probably not so much. I'll enjoy USB 3.0 (if that surprising rumor is true) much more than I'll miss Gig-E.
If you can't deploy nuclear weapons, you're not the most powerful organization on earth. Then again, if they have root at a Chinese missle silo, I may be wrong.
The Chinese will use what works. They do not care where it came from or how they got it.
I'm guessing that his particular machine had a failure similar but not exactly what Apple had quantified as the video card failure. Maybe the video card and the motherboard both popped. Apple techs saw this, or at least a failure they weren't expecting, and said this is not the video card problem and therefore we won't repair it. I'm guessing Apple corporate sent lawyers and not techs to the court case and when he trotted out his evidence they were unprepared to rebut it.
I searched for all court cases involving a company named Apple in King county, WA and I found one filed in small claims court. Case number 125-00818 was filed March 1, 2012 (which matches up with a blog entry he made). The details of cases aren't available online for free, they charge $0.25 per page here, and that's pretty much where I stopped. I'm not going to spend the cash to find out more.
Roughly half of Americans are have below average intelligence. Could they be.... the same half?
aimbots.
So "Never", then?
It has turned me off Kickstarter, for sure. I'll be much more skeptical in the future and probably won't fund the more expensive ventures since I've already been dinged for $150. I hope that the publications that covered the glasses will be a little more wary when these guys show up with the next big thing.
The machines needing backup do so wirelessly to a Time Capsule whenver they're connected. I also do a full image to an external hard drive every once in a while (I lie to myself and say it's biweekly but it's really more like bi-whenever-I-remember-it). Even with the recent increase in HD prices there's no real excuse to not have backups.
I've got other places to be.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? -Epicurus
If they get the patent they can charge so much for the license that none of the media companies will buy it.
Damn it, where are my mod points when I need them? Just the image of MJ on skates is worth a +1.
So a republican wishing to jab Obama does the right thing by posting a secret treaty online. And he's a California republican as well - land of the Entertainment Industry. Does this count as a good thing or a bad thing? I'm thinking it's both but it works out for the citizens so it's a net good despite potential partisan motivations.
I might as well look at the bright side and let someone else solve all the problems with the first run. Thanks, early adopters!
Really, guys? the N and R are not that close together unless you're using the Dvorak layout or something.
Ya know what? I was wrong. FOX did cover this after all. Of course, they put their own spin on it. They didn't cover the documents, they covered the theft of the documents. The docs themselves get covered, but not after lavishing column-inches on the ethical lapse of an environmental scientist, and how dangerous this is to the donors of the Heartland Institute.
While I might agree under different circumstances, we did elect a gent named Barack Hussein Obama. Funny names aren't the hurdle they would have been in the '50s.
It's a cute idea but if you really want to do something like this, figure out a way for the hardware to sit inside (and draw power from) a desktop component like a monitor or a desktop switch. Better yet, a power strip or UPS. wifi would suffer but the power would never go out. If the UPS also handled phone/eth/coax surge protection, you've also got another way to get the data out.
As far as what people will complain about.. some people will complain about anything.
Also, nice jumping to conclusions by guessing my "agenda" based on two lines. And you're guessing my politics, too? Get off your soapbox yourself, Captain Knowitall. I've claimed one fact, which as of 4:30pm ET is still accurate. FOX ain't said shit about it. They still might, in which case I'll be proven wrong and you, you my good sir or madam, will have been proven correct. That and $4 will get you a coffee at Starbucks. Yip de fucking doo. You win the internet.
Just to see if I was wrong already, I did a search of foxnews.com for "Heartland Institute" and found that they sure get a lot of mileage out of those fuckers, both the institute itself and articles by people who include the institute in their .sig. But no news on these documents (yet). I did the same search on CNN and saw fewer and older hits, but that might be because their search engine didn't respond well to the quotes and just searched for the individual terms (doing it on google with site:cnn.com showed that cnn relies on HI far less than FOX does). Props to FOX for having the better search engine.
I didn't search MSNBC - i have never watched them and quite frankly don't think of them at all.
Beyond that, do your own homework. Let me know when FOX covers it. Or don't. That's cool too. This is commentary, not science; unlike you (and FOX) I know which is which.
That's pretty much what FOX News will say.
Who am I kidding? FOX isn't going to run this at all.