Also most lawsuits brought by common folk are not frivolous at all. Go to a local small claims court for the day for proof.
Last, thank god for at least the promise of legal recourse. Many good things about the US have come about due to lawsuits. Without it, we would have to resort to violence instead, right?
Please someone tell me, given the very long record of police corruption at every level, how you can give them the benefit of the doubt?
How many of you are sending your young boys off to Catholic-run overnight camps staffed by helpful priests? Nah, they probably don't even have those anymore...in this country.
So, yes, any reasonably intelligent person should shit all over the cops, given the overwhelming record of abuse of power, corruption, and cover-ups. And nothing done to prevent or discourage it, in fact just the opposite.
Sorry to the "good" cops, but if you let your 20-year partner get away with bad shit, what does that make you? What does that make your whole department? Your profession?
I've seen cops get awards in public ceremonies for shooting unarmed civilians after an address mix-up. And nobody is surprised or shocked. Not like when some rich guy cheats on his wife, or some cute little white kid goes missing.
Finally, here's a little quiz for those playing at home:
1) Compare all the personal anecdotes you can, keeping a tally of the times the police were helpful to you versus when the cops screwed you over for no good reason.
2) If you find the cops pretty darn helpful, then you are probably some combination of white, wealthy, or lucky. Congrats.
3) If every run-in with the cops fill you with fear and dread, well, maybe you do not deserve to be treated with any respect, ever think of that? Let the cops decide who gets civil rights, it's their job!
All this talk of intelligent species...I'll be impressed when they can plan and work together as one to achieve important goals. Like form an army to fight back against the humans!
The only species we care about is the one that can best us on the battleground. You gotta have a lot of extra time on your hands to ponder the equality of humans and animals. Usually we are too busy to give a fuck about animals, much less each other.
Then how do we know that mold that keeps coming back no matter what I try is not an advanced intelligent species trying to tell me all the universes secrets?
It's only a matter of time until I can understand it/them. Of course, today I got some new muriatic acid shit that will kill that fucker dead.
As one of the fools who stood in line for an shiny new iphone 3g, I would trade it in for a google phone in a heartbeat for just a few changes.
I don't need sleek and minimalist as features for my phone. I need software! And control!
For example:
Wondering why there are no call recorders for the iphone like there are with Palm, I wrote a couple developers.
One said they can't even get the SDK as there is a huge waiting list just for the honor of being a iphone dev.
The other has the SDK but says that Apple will not allow call recording.
I can't record calls with my children and grandparents because why? Because Apple says so. Jailbroken phones are not much better, as they still can't get the SDK to do what they want it to. (so far...best of luck y'all!)
Sounds like the iphone's biggest problem is Apple and their legal dept. (and their dev crew which is hobbled by management)
I expect the google phone to not have these issues. Google will either break it wide open or it will not be competitive and will fail to thrive.
Privacy concerns? Like the vast majority of us, I tend to value convenience more than privacy, all else equal. We could pay for things via money order I guess, but we all would usually rather pay via credit card and be tracked than suffer the hassle.
I would accept the "minority report" lifestyle if I got the benefits: track where I go in return for valuable location-based services.
Just let me opt-out, and never allow it to be forced on us by the state. Go live in a shack in the woods if you don't like progress.
But can't we use this tech to eliminate those little produce bags?
Why do I need my apples to be separate from my oranges?
At home they go into the same fruit bowl. Sometimes the bags are useful and are re-used. Most of the time I have a couple hundred saved up to throw away (no local recycling).
The bags are mostly for the checkout process. If we can weigh and pay for produce properly, we can cut back on stupid bags.
The only reason we partition our fruit and veggies before we put them in the final bag to go home is to make it easier for the cashier to handle. A little tech might allow us to try to change such a wasteful and silly cultural shopping habit.
Of course money can buy love. Real, honest-to-god, life-long LOVE. It just depends on how you use money.
If you were starving and desolate, and some kind wealthy soul came across and paid for your food and housing and medical care, and your kids, too, would you hate that rich person?
What if a rich person used their money to change the course of someone's life for the better, without using their influence for selfish or evil purposes? What kind of cold-blooded monster would not LOVE a kind rich person, even coming to their rescue if possible?
Time equals money. Money equals power. If you use your power for good, like my parents did raising me, I acknowledge that by professing my love and respect for them. And by passing on the tradition to my own children.
A better question is: can you gain love without spending money?
Can you love someone who doesn't show you kindness? Can you show kindness to others without access to money?
Who loves penniless, useless people? Can you love a person who can't afford to show you kindness due to a lack of time and/or money?
Wealth is an integral part of love in our society. It cannot be separated.
I think poster meant that you should give consent. Not any physical fight. Just maintain your right to a legal fight. And hopefully the ACLU and the EFF and their blessed ilk will back your case all the way to the end.
Makes sense. You don't have to be rude or angry. Keep track of all the details and prepare for (legal) war.
Pay my rent for awhile and maybe I'll have the time to care about something other than coming up with next month's rent.
Oops, I meant the next bag of groceries. Or tank of gas.
Joe Public is plenty smart and curious and altruistic. Too bad 'he' spends all day stressed out over losing the rat race, and all night poisoning 'himself' to counter the stress.
Luckily, some of us still can give a damn about shit that has zero effect on our lives. Most don't care how many angels are on your fancy pin.
Personally, I'm amazed that we can go to mars but Apple can't get my iPhone to stop crashing, after dedicating obscene amounts of time and money to the effort.
How many cameras are set up to watch the people watching the cameras?
I want to see footage of the folks who are in charge of storing and archiving and turning the video over for prosecution.
I want direct chain of evidence kept for the video, with serious teeth, so that when the cops "oops, we lost that possibly incriminating video, gosh how unlucky" they get the fucking book thrown at them. What would happen if a judge told you turn over evidence that you are expected to have but somehow lost?
How many videos of police criminality need to come out in a given year before we assume that they are all corrupt? After 500 each year every year, will you need a video to convince a jury that the cops are guilty?
At what point will the morale of the police drop, to the point where good men and women stop joining the force, and stop fighting to root out the bad apples? Leaving us with only sociopath bullies?
When will we all pass laws requiring properly funded locally elected civilian review boards, with the power to effect change? As a child could explain to you why it is important to not allow people to police themselves...duh, that's why we even have police!
After all the rhetoric, far too often police policies conflict with good common sense. But we are too chickenshit to force them to change. (how they use tasers, how they use swat, how they confiscate money and get to keep it, how they testify, how they collect evidence, how they are screened for fitness of duty, how they obey the same laws they are supposed to uphold, etc etc etc)
But like the IRS, there's just too much money and power at stake for them to give up anything.
The more you write, the more I disagree with you. Funny thing is, you seem to making my point for me.
You don't even own an iphone! There's goes your personal anecdotal credibility! I'm still frothing around in mine!
Are the numbers of jailbroken/liberated original iphones trying to tell us something? Care to guess just how popular it will be to free iphones from their slavemasters?
Sure, it depends on how easy and reliable it is, and if Apple/AT&T will battle back with threats of destroying our private property to discourage open rebellion.
Does the "steal your music back" from Apple industry tell us something? All iPod owners, sooner or later, find themselves up against the same bullshit as they would with the iphone...and they ALL hate it, to a person. Some are resourceful enough to follow through to a certain extent. Other suffer through it. ALL WOULD PREFER BETTER. Just a matter of time.
Are there people who never notice the limitation since it never became an obstacle to them? Sure, of course. BUT ITS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME.
Everyone notices that they are enslaved at some point. You say they don't mind. I say they do. Don't believe me. Ask them. They will tell you. Nobody turns down freedom.
Nobody says they like their music locked down.
Nobody says they don't want the option to send more than one pic at a time.
Nobody will tell you that they will hate having the option to use the iphone as a way to store and transfer their own files, like a flash drive.
Who will tell you, "No, I'm GLAD that I have no option to turn off auto-complete!"?
Can you find somebody who NEVER cared to copy a phone number from a web page to copy into their contacts? Sure, but that's missing the point.
Sometimes folks don't realize they are in jail until they try to leave. But they will all try to leave, eventually.
Hopefully, by the time they do, the hackers have saved them again. Saved us again.
Hrm, maybe I'll look it up on Alta Vista. No, that would be a waste of time, as I pay per-minute for AOL dialup access. Grr, if Granny would just get off the phone first!
Maybe post a embarrassingly lazy question on the newsgroups! I'll make other people do all this searching for me! There's an endless supply of well-intentioned fools willing to coddle me! There's no downside!
Yeah, fantastic. Once again, most people don't care.
It really should not be this difficult to understand that the iPhone does pretty well for most people. Despite the wet dreams of Slashdot users, it isn't flying off the shelves merely because of a massive advertising campaign and hype.
Pretty funny, because that is exactly what is happening!
The exact opposite of what you said is true. Who are you and where do you come from?
Are you trying to argue that most people have no interest in emailing/storing/transferring/viewing/editing files, be they pdf/doc/xls/mp3/txt/etc?
Yes, NOBODY wants to email more than one jpg at a time!
See, Coward, most people are SHOCKED to learn just how crippled this device is. All happy iphone users I've met, and read, which is plenty, have not gotten around to realizing that this device doesn't do any of the stuff they THOUGHT it COULD do. The look on their faces when I tell them APPLE forbade them is classic! Folks trust Apple for some reason to take care of them, to be a place where they can drop lots of money but have a better experience than everyone else.
Really, the hype is real. NOBODY KNOWS just how crippled this thing is. It took me a few days to realize it!
"wait, are you telling me that I can't even go to the full html version of gmail and send an attachment? What kind of browser is this?!?"
"ok, i heard that there was no cut n paste, but does that mean I can't even [DO THE MOST SIMPLEST OF TASKS]? WTF?!?"
"hey, this dictionary/autocorrect is amazing! Wait, how do add to it? Oops, how do I correct it? Fine, ok, so how do I turn it off? What do you mean there's no way to turn it off?!?"
"Such sleek design! OOOO, a camera! Damn, I pushed the wrong button again! Argh, there's only one button, and I CAN"T USE THAT FOR THE CAMERA!?!"
"AAARRRRGGGHHHH ALL I WANT TO DO IS HANG UP ON THIS CALL! THE SCREEN IS DARK, NONE OF THE TOO FEW BUTTONS DO ANYTHING AND ALL I WANT TO DO IS HANG UP ON THIS ONE GODDAMN PHONE CALL!!!"
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, ALL MY IPOD CHARGERS DON'T WORK WITH THE IPHONE?!"
"WHAT, NO INSURANCE FOR THIS FANCY PHONE? WHAT, IS THAT LIKE THE ONLY PHONE ON THE MARKET WITH NO INSURANCE AVAILABLE?"
"oh, let me just add your birthday to my google calendar...OH NOEZ WE CANT EVEN ACCESS GOOGLE CALENDAR!!!"
My point is, Coward, that you don't know shit. I'm not even harping on all the OBVIOUS flaws...no video, terrible soft keyboard, no hard keyboard, no tethering, poor battery, etc etc etc etc. Further, I'm not even attacking Apple for releasing such a horribly BUGGY product, so bad that you can barely do what little Apple allows you to do! Nope, the truth is even worse.
Most people don't care about much! You put this phone in ANYONE'S hands and for a while they are AMAZED! Leave it with them long enough that they actually TRY TO DO SOMETHING/ANYTHING and they will be pissed.
(well, they might just be disappointed, until they learn ALL the other phones can do what they expect, just not this one. Maybe one day, but not now, and either they become an apologist like you, Coward, or they get pissed. Most seem to get pissed.)
Seriously, did Apple just set us back 15 years in data entry? Did we learn NOTHING in the last decade or so about how people need/want to electronically manipulate text? They could AT LEAST given us the sideways soft keyboard for mail and sms.
If you are not horribly disappointed, you are either clueless or a proxy. Luckily, I am also patient.
Free the iphone from its slavemasters! Or wait for a competitor! Then come back to Apple to check if they have any sense! Repeat as needed!
Incredibly, extraordinarily, outrageously handicapped and restricted.
In just about every way.
Really, my shiny new iPhone is like starting all over again, back before any f/oss, competition, or common sense.
It's as if Apple decided that we are not ready for what we all know we want, so bolt on the training wheels and put along the sidewalk at a snail's pace.
For example:
How can I send an attachment via email? I know I can send a SINGLE photo, and it's really easy and simple to do. Yay. WHAT ABOUT ANY OTHER TYPE OF FILE?!?
Can I do anything with any of the other common files out there? NO OFFICE FILES, NO IWORK FILES, NO PDF'S...... Please explain to me what I'm supposed to do with this device again?
I know I'm yelling, and I know I'm being rude. But for every time the iPhone does something good, and it does do that, it does a bunch of things that are INEXCUSABLY BAD.
I'm talking about restrictions that screw up the user interface so bad it's almost useless.
Sure, I'm reminded, just be patient, Apple will work things out in time, plus the hackers will offer alternatives....right? So what, Steve/Apple/AT&T just released an appallingly crippled product.
Somebody asks me about the iPhone? I tell them it's just a technology demo, of what cell tech might be like in a year or so. Until then, fight the hype.
(my old ass Treo from Sprint shits all over my shiny new iphone...I can count the ways, and it's always because of retarded arbitrary restrictions on the iphone.)
Sort of off-topic, but why is the burden on the consumer to protect the banks from getting robbed?
Thieves don't steal anything from consumers in this scam. All they do is trick the banks into giving them money, and the banks somehow blame the consumer for their flawed security systems.
Why not? Sure, the stakes seemed to be high...but now Obama shows once again that OUR VOTES DONT MATTER.
Once again, we can vote for a fox or a wolf. Either way we're screwed.
And Obama is not even Prez yet! I'm not sure HOW Obama can honestly justify this, so wtf is this guy gonna do AFTER the election?
All bets are off; he's a dirty, lying snake. Just like all of his opponents have accused him of.
I'm not sure why he would prove them all right. This should have been a easy, painless choice, that he announced a long time ago...on the record.
Nope, I'm gone, never to return. I hope he loses...worse, I hope he suffers personally for this betrayal. He's really wasted an incredible amount of time and resources tricking us into supporting him. If only he had been honest from the start!
If you still like him, you ought to hope his campaign crashes and burns very soon. Only then might he wake up and try to regain his integrity.
"Ignore for a second how you feel about any particular politician and consider this example. Obama is being hammered for changing his views. Bush is hammered for NOT changing his views. They are damned if the do and damned if they don't."
Well, that's a silly point to make. It all depends on if their position is based on corruption.
Bush refuses to change his corrupt position. (morally, economically, politically) Then Obama changes his righteous position to Bush's corrupt position.
The math is not hard: They are damned for doing evil and corrupt things. All that BS you spouted makes no sense.
I would suggest Ender's Game as a exercise in critical thinking.
As in, just how many huge glaring plot holes can you find? Just how badly did Card screw up the whole idea? If Ender is so smart, why is he so incredibly stupid, far stupider than any kid I know? Any punk gamer I know can pull better, more innovative military strategy out of his ass.
To say nothing of how stupid the adults are! The smarter Card tries to make them, the stupider the choices they make!
Sorry, after y'all hyped this book so much, I found it was laughably bad. Worse, as it had so much potential! And to read Card's intro...he is certainly full of himself, isn't he?
Yes, leave your kids to be exposed to the real world (sex) by other kids, tv, movies, other adults.....and the fucking internet, no less.
God forbid they read some story that happens to have the sense to create a fantastic alternative reality that is realistic enough to include how species reproduce. Since, you know, sheltering kids have always worked out for the best...it did with you, right? RIGHT?
The world does not need more stupid kids. We need the best and the brightest, exposed to constant, realistic problems to solve.
Give them over to us, you crazy, selfish, lying-ass, hypocritical parents. Mankind needs more fuel.
Say what you will, but this day and age, no photos or other supporting media?
Bullshit. I'm tired of people trying to pop up news stories without any multimedia. Like the so-called garbage island fiasco. Or that stupid komodo dragon crap from a few days ago.
Sure, it sounds silly, "pics or it didn't happen". But I counter with "pics or I don't really care".
It just shows terrible journalism, and an odd disconnect with what your audience---any audience---wants. What would you think of a news story of an Alien Landing but oh golly nobody thought to take a pic, or if they did, it's oddly omitted?
I know, it shouldn't preclude a good story from getting out. But it should keep a stupid, unimportant story from ever reaching daylight! (more space for good stories?)
Finally, if this story does have pics....well fuck you slashdot tagging system!
The market potential for proprietary mobile processor designs from chip makers like Samsung Electronics and Intel Corp. were dealt a considerable blow earlier this week when Apple chief executive Steve Jobs revealed that his company will start designing its own breed of chips to power the next-generation of Multi-Touch devices that won't be available to rivals.
South Korea-based Samsung has long been central to Apple's handheld efforts (1, 2, 3), supplying the primary SoCs -- or system-on-chips -- for everything from the iPod nano to the iPhone. Meanwhile, Intel has been in the running to assert its Atom processors at heart of a larger iPhone-like Multi-Touch internet tablet that's also under development at the Cupertino-based electronics maker, and was at one time believed to have sealed the deal.
Unfortunately for the two industry heavyweights, Apple appears to have other plans to further innovation around its Multi-Touch platform that will reduce its reliance on chip designs conceived largely by third parties. In an interview following his keynote address at the Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, Jobs told the New York Times' John Markoff that his firm's recent $278 million acquisition of a small fabless semiconductor company called P.A. Semi was an investment in the future of its handheld products.
"PA Semi is going to do system-on-chips for iPhones and iPods," he said, ending speculation as to the precise motives behind the April buyout. The initial uncertainty stemmed from the fact that PA Semi was best know for chips based on IBM's Power technology, an architecture that Apple abandoned two years ago when it moved its Mac line of personal computers to Intel's architecture.
But as Jobs explained to the Wall Street Journal two months ago, Apple has always been integral in the design of chips used in iPhones and iPods even though they were developed by third parties like Samsung. It was to this end that the value in PA Semi emerged, not for its existing technologies but for its expertise in designing embedded processors to do almost anything the iPhone maker wants them to do.
For Apple, the advantages of bringing PA Semi in-house are many. In particular, it will afford the company to innovate in a way going forward that will differentiate its handheld products from a growing array of competitive devices that will be left to rely on technologies available to the broader industry. It will also allow the company, which is synonymous with secrecy, to keep a tighter lid on its intellectual property and future product plans.
Still, there's hope for chip makers like Samsung and Intel in that that Apple will still need to rely on a third party to manufacture the chips it develops on its own, given that PA Semi doesn't own a fabrication facility. It's also possible that the PA Semi team could build onto chip designs initially conceived by one of the semiconductor giants. That's of course assuming Jobs and Co. don't have an even bigger plan brewing to somehow serve as its own SoC manufacturer.
Seems like a good idea, to be able to separate from the herd. I think Apple has the resources to do it, too, what with their latest, greatest marketshare-gobbling product.
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Plus most americans have never sued anyone, ever.
Also most lawsuits brought by common folk are not frivolous at all. Go to a local small claims court for the day for proof.
Last, thank god for at least the promise of legal recourse. Many good things about the US have come about due to lawsuits. Without it, we would have to resort to violence instead, right?
No faith in humanity?
heh, and yet folks are still trying to ride that god train based on far less than your fellow humans offers up every day.
Logic dictates you forsake gods and worship humans?
HAHA, just now are we getting to that point?
Please someone tell me, given the very long record of police corruption at every level, how you can give them the benefit of the doubt?
How many of you are sending your young boys off to Catholic-run overnight camps staffed by helpful priests? Nah, they probably don't even have those anymore...in this country.
So, yes, any reasonably intelligent person should shit all over the cops, given the overwhelming record of abuse of power, corruption, and cover-ups. And nothing done to prevent or discourage it, in fact just the opposite.
Sorry to the "good" cops, but if you let your 20-year partner get away with bad shit, what does that make you? What does that make your whole department? Your profession?
I've seen cops get awards in public ceremonies for shooting unarmed civilians after an address mix-up. And nobody is surprised or shocked. Not like when some rich guy cheats on his wife, or some cute little white kid goes missing.
Finally, here's a little quiz for those playing at home:
1) Compare all the personal anecdotes you can, keeping a tally of the times the police were helpful to you versus when the cops screwed you over for no good reason.
2) If you find the cops pretty darn helpful, then you are probably some combination of white, wealthy, or lucky. Congrats.
3) If every run-in with the cops fill you with fear and dread, well, maybe you do not deserve to be treated with any respect, ever think of that? Let the cops decide who gets civil rights, it's their job!
All this talk of intelligent species...I'll be impressed when they can plan and work together as one to achieve important goals. Like form an army to fight back against the humans!
The only species we care about is the one that can best us on the battleground. You gotta have a lot of extra time on your hands to ponder the equality of humans and animals. Usually we are too busy to give a fuck about animals, much less each other.
Then how do we know that mold that keeps coming back no matter what I try is not an advanced intelligent species trying to tell me all the universes secrets?
It's only a matter of time until I can understand it/them. Of course, today I got some new muriatic acid shit that will kill that fucker dead.
Not smart enough?
As one of the fools who stood in line for an shiny new iphone 3g, I would trade it in for a google phone in a heartbeat for just a few changes.
I don't need sleek and minimalist as features for my phone. I need software! And control!
For example:
Wondering why there are no call recorders for the iphone like there are with Palm, I wrote a couple developers.
One said they can't even get the SDK as there is a huge waiting list just for the honor of being a iphone dev.
The other has the SDK but says that Apple will not allow call recording.
I can't record calls with my children and grandparents because why? Because Apple says so. Jailbroken phones are not much better, as they still can't get the SDK to do what they want it to. (so far...best of luck y'all!)
Sounds like the iphone's biggest problem is Apple and their legal dept. (and their dev crew which is hobbled by management)
I expect the google phone to not have these issues. Google will either break it wide open or it will not be competitive and will fail to thrive.
Privacy concerns? Like the vast majority of us, I tend to value convenience more than privacy, all else equal. We could pay for things via money order I guess, but we all would usually rather pay via credit card and be tracked than suffer the hassle.
I would accept the "minority report" lifestyle if I got the benefits: track where I go in return for valuable location-based services.
Just let me opt-out, and never allow it to be forced on us by the state. Go live in a shack in the woods if you don't like progress.
Devilish details notwithstanding...
But can't we use this tech to eliminate those little produce bags?
Why do I need my apples to be separate from my oranges?
At home they go into the same fruit bowl. Sometimes the bags are useful and are re-used. Most of the time I have a couple hundred saved up to throw away (no local recycling).
The bags are mostly for the checkout process. If we can weigh and pay for produce properly, we can cut back on stupid bags.
The only reason we partition our fruit and veggies before we put them in the final bag to go home is to make it easier for the cashier to handle. A little tech might allow us to try to change such a wasteful and silly cultural shopping habit.
Sort of off-topic, and pendantic at that, but:
Of course money can buy love. Real, honest-to-god, life-long LOVE. It just depends on how you use money.
If you were starving and desolate, and some kind wealthy soul came across and paid for your food and housing and medical care, and your kids, too, would you hate that rich person?
What if a rich person used their money to change the course of someone's life for the better, without using their influence for selfish or evil purposes? What kind of cold-blooded monster would not LOVE a kind rich person, even coming to their rescue if possible?
Time equals money. Money equals power. If you use your power for good, like my parents did raising me, I acknowledge that by professing my love and respect for them. And by passing on the tradition to my own children.
A better question is: can you gain love without spending money?
Can you love someone who doesn't show you kindness? Can you show kindness to others without access to money?
Who loves penniless, useless people? Can you love a person who can't afford to show you kindness due to a lack of time and/or money?
Wealth is an integral part of love in our society. It cannot be separated.
I think poster meant that you should give consent. Not any physical fight. Just maintain your right to a legal fight. And hopefully the ACLU and the EFF and their blessed ilk will back your case all the way to the end.
Makes sense. You don't have to be rude or angry. Keep track of all the details and prepare for (legal) war.
Pay my rent for awhile and maybe I'll have the time to care about something other than coming up with next month's rent.
Oops, I meant the next bag of groceries. Or tank of gas.
Joe Public is plenty smart and curious and altruistic. Too bad 'he' spends all day stressed out over losing the rat race, and all night poisoning 'himself' to counter the stress.
Luckily, some of us still can give a damn about shit that has zero effect on our lives. Most don't care how many angels are on your fancy pin.
Personally, I'm amazed that we can go to mars but Apple can't get my iPhone to stop crashing, after dedicating obscene amounts of time and money to the effort.
All these cameras set up to watch the public.
How many cameras are set up to watch the people watching the cameras?
I want to see footage of the folks who are in charge of storing and archiving and turning the video over for prosecution.
I want direct chain of evidence kept for the video, with serious teeth, so that when the cops "oops, we lost that possibly incriminating video, gosh how unlucky" they get the fucking book thrown at them. What would happen if a judge told you turn over evidence that you are expected to have but somehow lost?
How many videos of police criminality need to come out in a given year before we assume that they are all corrupt? After 500 each year every year, will you need a video to convince a jury that the cops are guilty?
At what point will the morale of the police drop, to the point where good men and women stop joining the force, and stop fighting to root out the bad apples? Leaving us with only sociopath bullies?
When will we all pass laws requiring properly funded locally elected civilian review boards, with the power to effect change? As a child could explain to you why it is important to not allow people to police themselves...duh, that's why we even have police!
After all the rhetoric, far too often police policies conflict with good common sense. But we are too chickenshit to force them to change. (how they use tasers, how they use swat, how they confiscate money and get to keep it, how they testify, how they collect evidence, how they are screened for fitness of duty, how they obey the same laws they are supposed to uphold, etc etc etc)
But like the IRS, there's just too much money and power at stake for them to give up anything.
But this so-called Location Bar sucks ass.
Please allow us to turn it off or change its behavior.
I said I bought one myself, right? (for others, too?)
I hope I don't have to be too patient, AT&T is just terrible so far. Worse. Than. Sprint.
Haha, ok, I'll calm down.
But to finish up here:
The more you write, the more I disagree with you. Funny thing is, you seem to making my point for me.
You don't even own an iphone! There's goes your personal anecdotal credibility! I'm still frothing around in mine!
Are the numbers of jailbroken/liberated original iphones trying to tell us something? Care to guess just how popular it will be to free iphones from their slavemasters?
Sure, it depends on how easy and reliable it is, and if Apple/AT&T will battle back with threats of destroying our private property to discourage open rebellion.
Does the "steal your music back" from Apple industry tell us something? All iPod owners, sooner or later, find themselves up against the same bullshit as they would with the iphone...and they ALL hate it, to a person. Some are resourceful enough to follow through to a certain extent. Other suffer through it. ALL WOULD PREFER BETTER. Just a matter of time.
Are there people who never notice the limitation since it never became an obstacle to them? Sure, of course. BUT ITS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME.
Everyone notices that they are enslaved at some point. You say they don't mind. I say they do. Don't believe me. Ask them. They will tell you. Nobody turns down freedom.
Nobody says they like their music locked down.
Nobody says they don't want the option to send more than one pic at a time.
Nobody will tell you that they will hate having the option to use the iphone as a way to store and transfer their own files, like a flash drive.
Who will tell you, "No, I'm GLAD that I have no option to turn off auto-complete!"?
Can you find somebody who NEVER cared to copy a phone number from a web page to copy into their contacts? Sure, but that's missing the point.
Sometimes folks don't realize they are in jail until they try to leave. But they will all try to leave, eventually.
Hopefully, by the time they do, the hackers have saved them again. Saved us again.
I've never heard of this Google.com
Is it some sort of startup web directory?
Hrm, maybe I'll look it up on Alta Vista. No, that would be a waste of time, as I pay per-minute for AOL dialup access. Grr, if Granny would just get off the phone first!
Maybe post a embarrassingly lazy question on the newsgroups! I'll make other people do all this searching for me! There's an endless supply of well-intentioned fools willing to coddle me! There's no downside!
Yeah, fantastic. Once again, most people don't care.
It really should not be this difficult to understand that the iPhone does pretty well for most people. Despite the wet dreams of Slashdot users, it isn't flying off the shelves merely because of a massive advertising campaign and hype.
Pretty funny, because that is exactly what is happening!
The exact opposite of what you said is true. Who are you and where do you come from?
Are you trying to argue that most people have no interest in emailing/storing/transferring/viewing/editing files, be they pdf/doc/xls/mp3/txt/etc?
Yes, NOBODY wants to email more than one jpg at a time!
See, Coward, most people are SHOCKED to learn just how crippled this device is. All happy iphone users I've met, and read, which is plenty, have not gotten around to realizing that this device doesn't do any of the stuff they THOUGHT it COULD do. The look on their faces when I tell them APPLE forbade them is classic! Folks trust Apple for some reason to take care of them, to be a place where they can drop lots of money but have a better experience than everyone else.
Really, the hype is real. NOBODY KNOWS just how crippled this thing is. It took me a few days to realize it!
"wait, are you telling me that I can't even go to the full html version of gmail and send an attachment? What kind of browser is this?!?"
"ok, i heard that there was no cut n paste, but does that mean I can't even [DO THE MOST SIMPLEST OF TASKS]? WTF?!?"
"hey, this dictionary/autocorrect is amazing! Wait, how do add to it? Oops, how do I correct it? Fine, ok, so how do I turn it off? What do you mean there's no way to turn it off?!?"
"Such sleek design! OOOO, a camera! Damn, I pushed the wrong button again! Argh, there's only one button, and I CAN"T USE THAT FOR THE CAMERA!?!"
"AAARRRRGGGHHHH ALL I WANT TO DO IS HANG UP ON THIS CALL! THE SCREEN IS DARK, NONE OF THE TOO FEW BUTTONS DO ANYTHING AND ALL I WANT TO DO IS HANG UP ON THIS ONE GODDAMN PHONE CALL!!!"
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, ALL MY IPOD CHARGERS DON'T WORK WITH THE IPHONE?!"
"WHAT, NO INSURANCE FOR THIS FANCY PHONE? WHAT, IS THAT LIKE THE ONLY PHONE ON THE MARKET WITH NO INSURANCE AVAILABLE?"
"oh, let me just add your birthday to my google calendar...OH NOEZ WE CANT EVEN ACCESS GOOGLE CALENDAR!!!"
My point is, Coward, that you don't know shit. I'm not even harping on all the OBVIOUS flaws...no video, terrible soft keyboard, no hard keyboard, no tethering, poor battery, etc etc etc etc. Further, I'm not even attacking Apple for releasing such a horribly BUGGY product, so bad that you can barely do what little Apple allows you to do! Nope, the truth is even worse.
Most people don't care about much! You put this phone in ANYONE'S hands and for a while they are AMAZED! Leave it with them long enough that they actually TRY TO DO SOMETHING/ANYTHING and they will be pissed.
(well, they might just be disappointed, until they learn ALL the other phones can do what they expect, just not this one. Maybe one day, but not now, and either they become an apologist like you, Coward, or they get pissed. Most seem to get pissed.)
Seriously, did Apple just set us back 15 years in data entry? Did we learn NOTHING in the last decade or so about how people need/want to electronically manipulate text? They could AT LEAST given us the sideways soft keyboard for mail and sms.
If you are not horribly disappointed, you are either clueless or a proxy. Luckily, I am also patient.
Free the iphone from its slavemasters! Or wait for a competitor! Then come back to Apple to check if they have any sense! Repeat as needed!
Ouch. I'll give it a try:
Incredibly, extraordinarily, outrageously handicapped and restricted.
In just about every way.
Really, my shiny new iPhone is like starting all over again, back before any f/oss, competition, or common sense.
It's as if Apple decided that we are not ready for what we all know we want, so bolt on the training wheels and put along the sidewalk at a snail's pace.
For example:
How can I send an attachment via email? I know I can send a SINGLE photo, and it's really easy and simple to do. Yay. WHAT ABOUT ANY OTHER TYPE OF FILE?!?
Can I do anything with any of the other common files out there? NO OFFICE FILES, NO IWORK FILES, NO PDF'S...... Please explain to me what I'm supposed to do with this device again?
I know I'm yelling, and I know I'm being rude. But for every time the iPhone does something good, and it does do that, it does a bunch of things that are INEXCUSABLY BAD.
I'm talking about restrictions that screw up the user interface so bad it's almost useless.
Sure, I'm reminded, just be patient, Apple will work things out in time, plus the hackers will offer alternatives....right? So what, Steve/Apple/AT&T just released an appallingly crippled product.
Somebody asks me about the iPhone? I tell them it's just a technology demo, of what cell tech might be like in a year or so. Until then, fight the hype.
(my old ass Treo from Sprint shits all over my shiny new iphone...I can count the ways, and it's always because of retarded arbitrary restrictions on the iphone.)
((I love, fear, and respect hackers))
Sort of off-topic, but why is the burden on the consumer to protect the banks from getting robbed?
Thieves don't steal anything from consumers in this scam. All they do is trick the banks into giving them money, and the banks somehow blame the consumer for their flawed security systems.
Just reminding folks...
Why not? Sure, the stakes seemed to be high...but now Obama shows once again that OUR VOTES DONT MATTER.
Once again, we can vote for a fox or a wolf. Either way we're screwed.
And Obama is not even Prez yet! I'm not sure HOW Obama can honestly justify this, so wtf is this guy gonna do AFTER the election?
All bets are off; he's a dirty, lying snake. Just like all of his opponents have accused him of.
I'm not sure why he would prove them all right. This should have been a easy, painless choice, that he announced a long time ago...on the record.
Nope, I'm gone, never to return. I hope he loses...worse, I hope he suffers personally for this betrayal. He's really wasted an incredible amount of time and resources tricking us into supporting him. If only he had been honest from the start!
If you still like him, you ought to hope his campaign crashes and burns very soon. Only then might he wake up and try to regain his integrity.
"Ignore for a second how you feel about any particular politician and consider this example. Obama is being hammered for changing his views. Bush is hammered for NOT changing his views. They are damned if the do and damned if they don't."
Well, that's a silly point to make. It all depends on if their position is based on corruption.
Bush refuses to change his corrupt position. (morally, economically, politically) Then Obama changes his righteous position to Bush's corrupt position.
The math is not hard: They are damned for doing evil and corrupt things. All that BS you spouted makes no sense.
I would suggest Ender's Game as a exercise in critical thinking.
As in, just how many huge glaring plot holes can you find? Just how badly did Card screw up the whole idea? If Ender is so smart, why is he so incredibly stupid, far stupider than any kid I know? Any punk gamer I know can pull better, more innovative military strategy out of his ass.
To say nothing of how stupid the adults are! The smarter Card tries to make them, the stupider the choices they make!
Sorry, after y'all hyped this book so much, I found it was laughably bad. Worse, as it had so much potential! And to read Card's intro...he is certainly full of himself, isn't he?
Yes, leave your kids to be exposed to the real world (sex) by other kids, tv, movies, other adults.....and the fucking internet, no less.
God forbid they read some story that happens to have the sense to create a fantastic alternative reality that is realistic enough to include how species reproduce. Since, you know, sheltering kids have always worked out for the best...it did with you, right? RIGHT?
The world does not need more stupid kids. We need the best and the brightest, exposed to constant, realistic problems to solve.
Give them over to us, you crazy, selfish, lying-ass, hypocritical parents. Mankind needs more fuel.
No Photos.
Say what you will, but this day and age, no photos or other supporting media?
Bullshit. I'm tired of people trying to pop up news stories without any multimedia. Like the so-called garbage island fiasco. Or that stupid komodo dragon crap from a few days ago.
Sure, it sounds silly, "pics or it didn't happen". But I counter with "pics or I don't really care".
It just shows terrible journalism, and an odd disconnect with what your audience---any audience---wants. What would you think of a news story of an Alien Landing but oh golly nobody thought to take a pic, or if they did, it's oddly omitted?
I know, it shouldn't preclude a good story from getting out. But it should keep a stupid, unimportant story from ever reaching daylight! (more space for good stories?)
Finally, if this story does have pics....well fuck you slashdot tagging system!
http://www.appleinsider.com/print.php?id=4190
Seems like a good idea, to be able to separate from the herd. I think Apple has the resources to do it, too, what with their latest, greatest marketshare-gobbling product.
No, my friend, it's the best slashdot intro EVAR!
Seriously. If only other articles intro'd by telling you this is all crap, intended only for people who who nothing about anything.
Of course, um, that's what a good blog is for, to ONLY put up the best of the best. So what does that make slashdot?