Not to keep repeating myself, but read this- the comparison I did was for a feature-for-feature equivalent model. While I don't know how or why they picked what they did for the study -- but the point remains valid even. My math was for used prices - it's much more pronounced for new.
Think of today's Hybrids as the equivalent of the first iPod. "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
It's the 3rd and 4th gen of these vehicles that will blow everything else out off the road, in a matter of speaking.
You're saying that the first generation has lasted for over 11 years? The Honday Insight (@62 mpg better than most of today's hybrids...) was released in the US in 1999. How many generations of ipods were there in that time?
There was a simple solution to this... Let the US government go through the documents redacting sensitive names and locations.
Unfortunately they refused putting those afghans in danger.
That's the same line of thinking that says "Well you didn't shovel your walk -- so it's YOUR fault I slipped and fell.". Nobody made Assange post the documents. His actions are his own responsibility; no matter what fingers are pointed or what excuses are given, he is the one that published them.
Except the names of those sources that are surly now on someone's "death list". In fact, nothing at all other than the possibility of these sources being murdered has come of the "leak" at all.
True, but at least it's somewhat limited here - first by the fact that a post can't go below -1 (and thus is more likely to be re-modded up); and second by the fact that modding has a "cost" -- you can only mod for a limited number of comments.
Indeed - further, nearly any comment that *hints* at being conservative will get buried. A free-for-all user modding without limits (such as number of points as here) doesn't lend itself to intelligent conversation - it lends itself to blind groupthink.
To the best of my knowledge, they can't push an OS update down without your consent -- or even a new app. The exception might be is if a provider had pre-installed something which would allow them to do this (more likely they would permit pushing down of new web-page shortcut icons); but even such an app could be removed through the desktop manager.
I don't want to seem like a total pessimist, but I don't care at all what happens to the human race. If every human dies because of a meteor or something, the universe won't even notice. I think it is a bit premature, since we have never publicly met any others, to believe that our species is worthy of being preserved and expanded beyond earth. Thanks for the books, Hawking, but there has to be higher priority things to do.
Your next self-haters anonymous meeting is Tuesday at 8, in the McDonald's parking lot.
True, but in the case of BIS, RIM's servers sees the content unencrypted after it's off the wire. (Note not the same as BIS-B -- I'm not as familiar with how that is/isn't encrypted)
Guess they don't have any backbone to just drop the country and let the end-users take action.
It's interesting how we keep seeing a conflation of two different issues.
BES (enterprise) cannot be monitored. All traffic is encrypted - while it travels through RIM servers, it is encrypted with a key owned by the companies running BES. This includes email and - if I recall correctly -- BlackBerry messenger messages. This means that only devices that have the appropriate keys can decrypt the traffic. No matter what deals are reached, this can't be changed by RIM.
BIS (consumer) is routed through BB servers, and is not encrypted (or in the case of BBM not unbreakably encrypted). This can be monitored and probably is in many places.
So in the past few days, we've seen RIM make an announcement over how BES is utterly secure. This has not changed at all - without the keys that companies own, BES traffic can't be decrypted -- RIM devices natively support TripleDES, AES128/192/256, and a host of other crypto algorithms. I don't think anyone's managed to break them so far, at least not in any practical sense...
Presumably what's happened is that RIM is providing access to monitor BIS (consumer) traffic -- which is something that they've done in other places as well and has prior precedent.
How many times have you had sex with a living female human being this week?
Thought so.
I find it curious that you felt it necessary to qualify that in three separate ways: "living", "female", and "human".
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Right, but my point is nothing in Wave gave the idea that you could use it in that way. That would be like writing C++ code and expecting Wave to manage the project files and produce executable images.
As to why it failed - nobody needed it. It solved a problem that nobody had.
Ah, fair enough. I actually (having had some relatives who survived it) hadn't heard of most of the above. "skin lampshades" I heard of through school, but nothing more direct (and at the time, I recall thinking that it wouldn't make sense - we don't see many animal skin lampshades either;)
First, this guy is arrogant to the point of funny:
Second, the use to which this will be put is... interesting:
The LEMV will hover above Afghanistan at 20,000ft, equipped with the sort of super-powerful cameras that can read a signature on a letter from four miles away. It will be, Taylor says, ‘an unblinking eye’, recording every move made on the ground. In theory, no one will be able to plant a roadside bomb – a device which has claimed the lives of so many British soldiers – without the cameras seeing who did it and, more importantly, where they came from. And, if the LEMV is a success, it could prove to be a tipping point, ushering in a new age of airships.
Talk about big brother... Still, I suppose nobody has considered the possibility that it may just getshot out of the sky by those with a grudge?
Considering that this entire "article" is nothing but an attempt to get attention to his blog... the floating banner is probably not such a good thing to greet potential new users with. (Not to mention writing a blog post that's nothing more than a quick blurb saying "oh, bad marketing" and calling it news isn't likely to retain a lot of/. eyes.)
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Just recently, I was trying to write code (Matlab code, and the resulting academic paper in LaTeX) with someone on the other end of the continent, so we gave Wave a try. Within minutes I realised that it's useless even for this, the task it was seemingly built for.
The reason: It's a sandbox. If you write code, you like to be able to save it, and compile it. To do either of the two you have to, literally, select, copy and paste your code from the wave into your IDE / text editor / local file system. That of course breaks the whole "keep everything in sync in one place in the cloud" idea.
Well - I agree with your premise but your specific example isn't a good one. Collaborative document editing != collaborative code editing and compilation. For that, you'd need an IDE and appropriate plugin/add on... wave never advertised anything that would lead you to think it could help with this.
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Not to keep repeating myself, but read this- the comparison I did was for a feature-for-feature equivalent model. While I don't know how or why they picked what they did for the study -- but the point remains valid even. My math was for used prices - it's much more pronounced for new.
They expect people to drive the average amount of driving that most people do at 20kkm. Obviously there are exceptions -- but they *are* exceptions.
Think of today's Hybrids as the equivalent of the first iPod. "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." It's the 3rd and 4th gen of these vehicles that will blow everything else out off the road, in a matter of speaking.
You're saying that the first generation has lasted for over 11 years? The Honday Insight (@62 mpg better than most of today's hybrids...) was released in the US in 1999. How many generations of ipods were there in that time?
Actually even if you buy a used hybrid, as I detailed in this post .
There was a simple solution to this... Let the US government go through the documents redacting sensitive names and locations.
Unfortunately they refused putting those afghans in danger.
That's the same line of thinking that says "Well you didn't shovel your walk -- so it's YOUR fault I slipped and fell.". Nobody made Assange post the documents. His actions are his own responsibility; no matter what fingers are pointed or what excuses are given, he is the one that published them.
t's time that people understand that information wants to be free. And we the people should want information to be free. O
Great - go ahead and start by posting your SSN, home address, and full medical history. Then we'll talk about how much information "wants to be free"
Except the names of those sources that are surly now on someone's "death list". In fact, nothing at all other than the possibility of these sources being murdered has come of the "leak" at all.
And hey, that's really nothing at all, right?
Heck with that - let's first wait until the paper is peer-reviewed.
Both sides were doing it, the right was just more organized about it. Which seems like a fairly common scenario
I'll say - the left often has trouble getting organized, what with the left hand doing one thing and the other left hand doing another...
True, but at least it's somewhat limited here - first by the fact that a post can't go below -1 (and thus is more likely to be re-modded up); and second by the fact that modding has a "cost" -- you can only mod for a limited number of comments.
have been yelping for about a year
Have you seen a doctor? If something is causing pain or discomfort for that long, you should get it looked it.
Indeed - further, nearly any comment that *hints* at being conservative will get buried. A free-for-all user modding without limits (such as number of points as here) doesn't lend itself to intelligent conversation - it lends itself to blind groupthink.
To the best of my knowledge, they can't push an OS update down without your consent -- or even a new app. The exception might be is if a provider had pre-installed something which would allow them to do this (more likely they would permit pushing down of new web-page shortcut icons); but even such an app could be removed through the desktop manager.
I don't want to seem like a total pessimist, but I don't care at all what happens to the human race. If every human dies because of a meteor or something, the universe won't even notice. I think it is a bit premature, since we have never publicly met any others, to believe that our species is worthy of being preserved and expanded beyond earth. Thanks for the books, Hawking, but there has to be higher priority things to do.
Your next self-haters anonymous meeting is Tuesday at 8, in the McDonald's parking lot.
True, but in the case of BIS, RIM's servers sees the content unencrypted after it's off the wire. (Note not the same as BIS-B -- I'm not as familiar with how that is/isn't encrypted)
You're right - BES can't be intercepted/decrypted. BIS/consumer-grade is a completely different matter. (Unless, as you say, S/MIME is used....)
Guess they don't have any backbone to just drop the country and let the end-users take action.
It's interesting how we keep seeing a conflation of two different issues.
BES (enterprise) cannot be monitored. All traffic is encrypted - while it travels through RIM servers, it is encrypted with a key owned by the companies running BES. This includes email and - if I recall correctly -- BlackBerry messenger messages. This means that only devices that have the appropriate keys can decrypt the traffic. No matter what deals are reached, this can't be changed by RIM.
BIS (consumer) is routed through BB servers, and is not encrypted (or in the case of BBM not unbreakably encrypted). This can be monitored and probably is in many places.
So in the past few days, we've seen RIM make an announcement over how BES is utterly secure. This has not changed at all - without the keys that companies own, BES traffic can't be decrypted -- RIM devices natively support TripleDES, AES128/192/256, and a host of other crypto algorithms. I don't think anyone's managed to break them so far, at least not in any practical sense...
Presumably what's happened is that RIM is providing access to monitor BIS (consumer) traffic -- which is something that they've done in other places as well and has prior precedent.
Untrue.
How many times have you had sex with a living female human being this week?
Thought so.
I find it curious that you felt it necessary to qualify that in three separate ways: "living", "female", and "human".
As to why it failed - nobody needed it. It solved a problem that nobody had.
Ah, fair enough. I actually (having had some relatives who survived it) hadn't heard of most of the above. "skin lampshades" I heard of through school, but nothing more direct (and at the time, I recall thinking that it wouldn't make sense - we don't see many animal skin lampshades either ;)
The LEMV will hover above Afghanistan at 20,000ft, equipped with the sort of super-powerful cameras that can read a signature on a letter from four miles away. It will be, Taylor says, ‘an unblinking eye’, recording every move made on the ground. In theory, no one will be able to plant a roadside bomb – a device which has claimed the lives of so many British soldiers – without the cameras seeing who did it and, more importantly, where they came from. And, if the LEMV is a success, it could prove to be a tipping point, ushering in a new age of airships.
Talk about big brother... Still, I suppose nobody has considered the possibility that it may just get shot out of the sky by those with a grudge?
The same is true about Holocaust stories -- many have been proven false and they are still repeated today.
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Wait -
Oh, shit.
Considering that this entire "article" is nothing but an attempt to get attention to his blog... the floating banner is probably not such a good thing to greet potential new users with. (Not to mention writing a blog post that's nothing more than a quick blurb saying "oh, bad marketing" and calling it news isn't likely to retain a lot of /. eyes.)
Just recently, I was trying to write code (Matlab code, and the resulting academic paper in LaTeX) with someone on the other end of the continent, so we gave Wave a try. Within minutes I realised that it's useless even for this, the task it was seemingly built for. The reason: It's a sandbox. If you write code, you like to be able to save it, and compile it. To do either of the two you have to, literally, select, copy and paste your code from the wave into your IDE / text editor / local file system. That of course breaks the whole "keep everything in sync in one place in the cloud" idea.
Well - I agree with your premise but your specific example isn't a good one. Collaborative document editing != collaborative code editing and compilation. For that, you'd need an IDE and appropriate plugin/add on... wave never advertised anything that would lead you to think it could help with this.