The AAP has always been extremely conservative when it comes to children and TV. No surprise about the new findings here. As always, you have to take these findings with a huge grain of salt. Apply common sense and your kids will be fine. I know that mine are even though they watched a boat-load of TV when they were still toddlers (what kid would not appreciate a bit of Sesame Street or The Wiggles?). Now they are in elementary school and way too busy to watch anything and they are a-okay with that.
No, I do not think they changed that part. As you quoted they talk about a LIST PRICE of $0.00. The $0 Amazon charges for the app of the day is a promotional price. IMHO, the more relevant piece that justifies $0 payment is the next sentence: "A Royalty is due only for sales for which we have received final payment from or on behalf of an end user." Since the end user is not charged anything there are no royalties to be paid. This language has been in the agreement since the beginning, I think.
I think the main point of the developer is to clear up a misconception about Amazon's app store (which I also had until I saw this story). Many people assumed that Amazon would still pay the devs 20% of list even if it the free app of the day. Now that I know the nitty-gritty how it actually works I understand why it's actually 0%. If Amazon reduced the price w/o the dev's agreement, he would get 20%. In this case, though, the dev was asked if he wanted to see his app as free app of the day, i.e. you had to opt in. 0% revenue for that is a fair price since in return you get a lot of free exposure, that you, as a dev, have to know and understand how to make the most of it.
This phone may still be able to make calls but would anybody in his/her right mind say the phone "survived" the fall? Look at it. Also, one snippet from the linked article: That's especially amazing since the iPhone 4 can suffer from cell reception issues. When the Apple smartphone debuted in 2010, a saga the tech media called Antennagate followed. Consumer watchdogs claimed a design flaw on the phone's antenna caused it to drop calls unexpectedly. Apple gave out free phone cases to address the issue. Whoever wrote this garbage did not know what he was writing about. Why is this on slashdot again?
This is not the first time that Netflix increases its prices and there is an outrage. And there have always been those predictions that this will be the beginning of the end. So much for that... I will stay a Netflix customer even though my 3 DVD out and streaming will go up by $5 (a 15% or so hike). It just makes good business sense to me to unbundle the mail-order and the streaming departments considering that the latter will go up in price a lot for Netflix.
I agree with the original poster that Google should offer a Kid search engine or a kid's version of YouTube. That would be awesome and I am very sure a lot of schools would love this concept as well. That said, there are plenty solutions available that can be implemented on the client side. I have absolutely no stake in any of the following companies but I am a father of three and love what they offer. My kids love Zoodles which is pretty much a collection of age appropriate content for kids of all ages. You can find a lot more in the educational arena, like Nick Boost or PBS Kids. Just pick your children's favorite TV channel and chances are they have a lot of online content for your child to play with. Getting age appropriate content is very easy. Even on the search engine side of things we have kid safe offerings. There is Kid Rex and plenty other Google based search engines. Last but not least you should make sure your child can only access child appropriate URLs. For that you can choose any of the web browsers and built-in OS mechanisms to restrict web access. My favorite child browsers are KidZui and the now defunct Kid's Browser.
It seems that the field of mathematics is cut throat. Just the tone alone from that blog post would make me reconsider even trying to break into mathematics as a researcher. I thought only computer geeks are like that on USENET.
Well, according to his own website (http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html) his plan is to finish volume 5 by 2020 and will then revisit volumes 1-3 to update them. And only then, and if he's still alive, will ge start on volumes 6 and 7, which he doesn't count as "central core of computer programming for sequential machines", though.
Yeah, that was weird. In some bullet point the author is missing the times when Linux was "hard" to install and in another he is missing tools like linuxconf. No UNIX admin needs configuration tools to do his/her job. All you need is vi.
Akibia. I didn't have the pleasure, yet, to open a service request with them but colleagues from a different company also using Akibia have only good words for them.
we did move our hardware support to a third party company. Oracle's pricing is ridiculous compared to what we were used to with Sun. In addition Oracle was just unable to get us renewal quotes for equipment we have installed overseas in time. We still have to keep some support contract with Oracle, though, in order to have software support for Solaris. If you do the math we probably still pay about the same for annual support but at least we don't have to deal with Oracle anymore to get a drive replaced.
But that would be phone manufacturer's doing and not Google's. Big difference, no? There will always be at least one choice of phones that allow you the full pure Android experience: the developer phones like Nexus 1 or the Nexus S.
Ditto. Fed up with Firefox causing the beach ball on my Mac too many times (I am very sure this was caused by Flash, though) and other weird things like Javascript stopped working until I restarted the browser and page print outs that were cut-off I tried out Chrome. Once I installed similar extensions like the ones I loved on Firefox I don't think I'll ever switch back.
May I remember everybody that there are countries out there (Germany is one of them) that require Google to blur out buildings if the property owner puts in a request to do so? That's because privacy laws and understanding of personal privacy is completely different from here. I don't know much about Japan but maybe that woman actually has a case here. Just saying.
I have no clue how the poster came to the conclusion that milk, a slaughtered rabbit, or the uranium ore are fake. Are they unusual for online ordering? Not really. Milk can be ordered online, rabbit can be had from online delicatessen stores, etc. Sure, the reviews are silly but so what?
I don't think you read the whole thing. This is about the risk of an attack compared to the freedom and personal privacy you have to give up. The article states that this scale is tipped way too far towards the giving up your rights and that balance needs to be readjusted. Nobody can argue with that, can you?
Yup. At the end the writer cited the two sources where he got his info from: Jamey Pittman and Don Hodge. I have no idea what the purpose of that write-up is because the writer did not add any new or original information. A link or two would have been sufficient.
I am confused about the FTC requiring opt-out tools. They already exist. You can go to the Network Advertising Initiative's website and opt-out. Sure, only members of this organization will recognize the opt-out cookie but most advertising and tracking services are members of the NAI. Then there are tools as OP mentioned. I'd like to add Bynamite as well.
That's exactly the problem. Getting root is simple. Getting custom "ROM"s and bootloaders on the DROID X and Milestone is an entirely different thing. The latter two are digitally signed. The Milestone has been out for quite a bit now, has been rooted, but so far custom OSs are still not running on that thing. The most promising approach at this moment is using kexec. Somebody will be able to get this all to work eventually but it is not very elegant.
Reading comprehension is not your strength is it? 1) p3droid admitted right from the start that it was all guess work but somehow everybody ran with it and concluded that there should be "shame on Motorola" etc, 2) Motorola admitted to locking down the bootloader but not to bricking the phone in case an attempt to replace the bootloader was made. Btw, reports came in that the Droid X does not get bricked when trying to fiddle with the bootloader.
The Milestone has been rooted, i.e. you can get superuser access to the system. What the Milestone cannot do (as of yet) is booting a different bootloader which allows booting a custom system image (aka ROM).
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The AAP has always been extremely conservative when it comes to children and TV. No surprise about the new findings here. As always, you have to take these findings with a huge grain of salt. Apply common sense and your kids will be fine. I know that mine are even though they watched a boat-load of TV when they were still toddlers (what kid would not appreciate a bit of Sesame Street or The Wiggles?). Now they are in elementary school and way too busy to watch anything and they are a-okay with that.
No, I do not think they changed that part. As you quoted they talk about a LIST PRICE of $0.00. The $0 Amazon charges for the app of the day is a promotional price. IMHO, the more relevant piece that justifies $0 payment is the next sentence: "A Royalty is due only for sales for which we have received final payment from or on behalf of an end user." Since the end user is not charged anything there are no royalties to be paid. This language has been in the agreement since the beginning, I think.
I think the main point of the developer is to clear up a misconception about Amazon's app store (which I also had until I saw this story). Many people assumed that Amazon would still pay the devs 20% of list even if it the free app of the day. Now that I know the nitty-gritty how it actually works I understand why it's actually 0%. If Amazon reduced the price w/o the dev's agreement, he would get 20%. In this case, though, the dev was asked if he wanted to see his app as free app of the day, i.e. you had to opt in. 0% revenue for that is a fair price since in return you get a lot of free exposure, that you, as a dev, have to know and understand how to make the most of it.
This phone may still be able to make calls but would anybody in his/her right mind say the phone "survived" the fall? Look at it. Also, one snippet from the linked article: That's especially amazing since the iPhone 4 can suffer from cell reception issues. When the Apple smartphone debuted in 2010, a saga the tech media called Antennagate followed. Consumer watchdogs claimed a design flaw on the phone's antenna caused it to drop calls unexpectedly. Apple gave out free phone cases to address the issue. Whoever wrote this garbage did not know what he was writing about. Why is this on slashdot again?
Anybody else remember the Green Card Lottery Spam all over USENET. Good times. Canter & Siegel...
This is not the first time that Netflix increases its prices and there is an outrage. And there have always been those predictions that this will be the beginning of the end. So much for that... I will stay a Netflix customer even though my 3 DVD out and streaming will go up by $5 (a 15% or so hike). It just makes good business sense to me to unbundle the mail-order and the streaming departments considering that the latter will go up in price a lot for Netflix.
I agree with the original poster that Google should offer a Kid search engine or a kid's version of YouTube. That would be awesome and I am very sure a lot of schools would love this concept as well. That said, there are plenty solutions available that can be implemented on the client side. I have absolutely no stake in any of the following companies but I am a father of three and love what they offer. My kids love Zoodles which is pretty much a collection of age appropriate content for kids of all ages. You can find a lot more in the educational arena, like Nick Boost or PBS Kids. Just pick your children's favorite TV channel and chances are they have a lot of online content for your child to play with. Getting age appropriate content is very easy. Even on the search engine side of things we have kid safe offerings. There is Kid Rex and plenty other Google based search engines. Last but not least you should make sure your child can only access child appropriate URLs. For that you can choose any of the web browsers and built-in OS mechanisms to restrict web access. My favorite child browsers are KidZui and the now defunct Kid's Browser.
It seems that the field of mathematics is cut throat. Just the tone alone from that blog post would make me reconsider even trying to break into mathematics as a researcher. I thought only computer geeks are like that on USENET.
Well, according to his own website (http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html) his plan is to finish volume 5 by 2020 and will then revisit volumes 1-3 to update them. And only then, and if he's still alive, will ge start on volumes 6 and 7, which he doesn't count as "central core of computer programming for sequential machines", though.
Does this really come as a surprise?
Yeah, that was weird. In some bullet point the author is missing the times when Linux was "hard" to install and in another he is missing tools like linuxconf. No UNIX admin needs configuration tools to do his/her job. All you need is vi.
... they don't seem to go out of business anytime soon.
I don't know why the article does not link to the original advisory but the ISC qualified this vulnerability with a severity level high.
Akibia. I didn't have the pleasure, yet, to open a service request with them but colleagues from a different company also using Akibia have only good words for them.
we did move our hardware support to a third party company. Oracle's pricing is ridiculous compared to what we were used to with Sun. In addition Oracle was just unable to get us renewal quotes for equipment we have installed overseas in time. We still have to keep some support contract with Oracle, though, in order to have software support for Solaris. If you do the math we probably still pay about the same for annual support but at least we don't have to deal with Oracle anymore to get a drive replaced.
But that would be phone manufacturer's doing and not Google's. Big difference, no? There will always be at least one choice of phones that allow you the full pure Android experience: the developer phones like Nexus 1 or the Nexus S.
Ditto. Fed up with Firefox causing the beach ball on my Mac too many times (I am very sure this was caused by Flash, though) and other weird things like Javascript stopped working until I restarted the browser and page print outs that were cut-off I tried out Chrome. Once I installed similar extensions like the ones I loved on Firefox I don't think I'll ever switch back.
May I remember everybody that there are countries out there (Germany is one of them) that require Google to blur out buildings if the property owner puts in a request to do so? That's because privacy laws and understanding of personal privacy is completely different from here. I don't know much about Japan but maybe that woman actually has a case here. Just saying.
I have no clue how the poster came to the conclusion that milk, a slaughtered rabbit, or the uranium ore are fake. Are they unusual for online ordering? Not really. Milk can be ordered online, rabbit can be had from online delicatessen stores, etc. Sure, the reviews are silly but so what?
I don't think you read the whole thing. This is about the risk of an attack compared to the freedom and personal privacy you have to give up. The article states that this scale is tipped way too far towards the giving up your rights and that balance needs to be readjusted. Nobody can argue with that, can you?
Yup. At the end the writer cited the two sources where he got his info from: Jamey Pittman and Don Hodge. I have no idea what the purpose of that write-up is because the writer did not add any new or original information. A link or two would have been sufficient.
I am confused about the FTC requiring opt-out tools. They already exist. You can go to the Network Advertising Initiative's website and opt-out. Sure, only members of this organization will recognize the opt-out cookie but most advertising and tracking services are members of the NAI. Then there are tools as OP mentioned. I'd like to add Bynamite as well.
That's exactly the problem. Getting root is simple. Getting custom "ROM"s and bootloaders on the DROID X and Milestone is an entirely different thing. The latter two are digitally signed. The Milestone has been out for quite a bit now, has been rooted, but so far custom OSs are still not running on that thing. The most promising approach at this moment is using kexec. Somebody will be able to get this all to work eventually but it is not very elegant.
Reading comprehension is not your strength is it? 1) p3droid admitted right from the start that it was all guess work but somehow everybody ran with it and concluded that there should be "shame on Motorola" etc, 2) Motorola admitted to locking down the bootloader but not to bricking the phone in case an attempt to replace the bootloader was made. Btw, reports came in that the Droid X does not get bricked when trying to fiddle with the bootloader.
The Milestone has been rooted, i.e. you can get superuser access to the system. What the Milestone cannot do (as of yet) is booting a different bootloader which allows booting a custom system image (aka ROM).