He's talking utter shit then. In his video, on more than one occasion he actively looks behind him at the marked police car with lights (and presumably siren) in pursuit. Said car is also visible many times in his rear mirror.
Is his honest claim that he thinks that someone decided to rob him or steal his bike while he was being pursued by a police vehicle in emergency mode? Excuse me if I'm not entirely sold on the argument, especially from someone who has just been caught doing 130mph wheelies on a public road.
Apropos of anything else, uh, no. The motorcyclist was going at 80 when pulled over. He was previously, and multiply sighted doing ONE THIRTY.
We can reasonably assume that the motorcyclist has had no training for such.
We can reasonably assume that the police officer has had advanced driving training. I know that when I was trained to drive an 11,000 lb top-heavy ambulance, and subsequently a 33,000 and 45,000lb fire engine at speed that there was substantial instruction and practical work and evaluation done, and I know who did it (state patrol).
I was also taught that operating an emergency vehicle in an emergency mode grants us free license to do anything on the road. But it also comes with it the responsibility that we will take substantial, if not exclusive, liability for any incidents that occur as a result of our actions beyond the regular rules of the road.
Police are taught to call off high speed pursuits, and in my area at least, regularly do. That is the very antithesis of 'reckless'.
Let's not go martyring the poor motorcyclist. To claim utter naivety when he was being pursued in excess of the speed limit by one marked police vehicle and one unmarked police vehicle (which had emergency lights activated) when pulled over is entirely disingenuous.
Or how about "school zones" that are in operation at 7pm on a Sunday evening? I've got a ticket for that, that was in a work zone, too. "School zone, x mph when children present" - cops claim was that I couldn't have known that children weren't present, ergo should have assumed they were. Net result was that by his reckoning, at 11mph over the "school zone" limit, 6mph over the regular limit (fair enough), he was claiming that with that, and the workzone (hah), he would be within his rights to take me in for reckless driving...
Nice speculation. Whilst I don't expect the article to be read, even the summary adds (albeit as an afterthought) that there is absolutely nothing to suggest it was a Windows BSOD.
Seriously, stop using Terry Childs as a posterboy for "Wronged Geek". He was an obstinate, self-serving asshole.
Protip for all you people saying "They could have reconfigured the routers, etc." (on Childs refusal to hand over passwords) - not so much.
Why? Because Childs had either disabled serial consoles, disabled password recovery, or configured devices to -never- save configuration, only to run in RAM.
Well, shit, you say, restore the config from backups. Guess what, SF owned no backups of the configuration files, or network maps. The only configuration files Childs kept were on his personal laptop, encrypted with a key known only to him, and configured such that his laptop was the only device capable of updating configs. Network maps? Same. Sitting on his personal laptop. Nowhere else.
The guy viewed SF's network as his personal playground, and believed no-one else worthy to take the reins of it - guess what, he had no authority to decide that, and when he got nicely obstinate about it, he crossed a fairly clear line in the sand.
Stop the martyred geek defending valiantly our security creed. It bares little resemblance to reality.
If your XP machine died, restoring your files on your new win 7 machine from backup is a PAIN. While migrating from one OSX to another was great./blockquote>
LMAO. Nice comparison. XP came out at about the same time as OS 9.
I'd love to see how you migrate/restore your MacOS 9 system to Snow Leopard, and if it's still 'great' and not a 'pain'.
iTunes is better than WMP from an organizational standpoint (though it is available for windows).
No its the morons fault who didnt know wtf he was doing.
whereby the definition for the above is "decided to do something the manufacturer of the device had placed an undocumented and artificial limitation upon that was not reversible once tripped". Okay...
Well, therein lies the rub. Skype's response states, in the same post, "they've been asked repeatedly to stop and we did something about it to ensure the high quality our customers expect" and "we didn't block them".
Apple is the primary source of development behind WebKit
After they forked KHTML, and hired several of the core developers, sure.
Clang, LLVM
has made substantial inroads to FreeBSD, a good thing
launchd
OS X is all that uses this. A quick search of mailing lists shows that almost all of the major Linux distros and others had considered, and rejected it
C blocks
Just what is needed, a non-standard extension to C, C++ and Obj-C developed by Apple and used only by Apple
libdispatch
Used only in Snow Leopard, and a non-supported port to FreeBSD
and the rest of Darwin. All of these things are open source, and most of them are being incorporated in other operating systems.
What other OSes are incorporating Darwin?
Not to rain on your parade, but to listen to your example, you'd think these components were seeing widespread adoption, when in reality, one or two have some small adoption (the altogether not particularly popular OmniWeb and iCab browsers and Webkit), and some have some niche, unsupported ports to FreeBSD.
Take this one for instance "Help social entrepreneurs drive change". What the heck is that supposed to be? What is a "social entrepreneur"? Anyone who knows what an entrepreneur is knows there isn't any such thing.
All I read when I saw that was "Let self-important blogosphere blowhards blow harder without having to worry about a source of income." Just what the world needs, more bloggers circle jerking...
It's the price you pay for faster response times than a volunteer department that has to rush to the fire house before heading out to the fire.
Just as an aside, I know our district is somewhat rare in that we are largely volunteer (8 paid staff), but yet have shift allocations where our volunteers reside at the firehouse for 12 hour shifts and 24s on the weekend. Part of the volunteer induction program here is that there are shifts, your attendance is expected, it's not "respond from home if you feel like it for the cool calls".
fire department really shouldn't be watching TV at work anyway
What should we be doing? Lighting fires in the community so we have more calls to respond to (yes, I know the fire service has had issues in the past with arson)? Maybe we can booby trap your Grandma's home so we have more BLS trauma calls?
Seriously, though - when not on calls, we're writing reports. We're training. Reviewing. Washing (most fire apparatus in our district get washed top to bottom 4+ times a week). Drilling. Community service.
But if I'm on a 12 or 24 hour shift, then yes, there's a TV there and if there's nothing else that needs doing, then we watch it. Or we snooze, so when it's 3.47am and we get a call to your grandmother for a cardiac issue, we're as rested and recharged as can be.
Yeah, I for one know that reception isn't an important issue for my smartphone, and the proximity sensor that tells my phone that my face is nearby during calls and to deactivate the screen, why that's just a bonus thrown in by Apple, it's not like I paid for it... oh, wait...
In fact, though I'm not suggesting they'd be the only ones to do so, I would not be surprised if said returns were then re-sold, in fact counting as 2 sales, rather than one product in the field.
That guy is an assclown. I am no fan of police brutality, or stomping on rights, but that guy was outright trying to provoke an encounter.
So the video starts with a traffic stop that he is videoing. As as emergency responder (EMT) and a driver, I have little sympathy for those using their cellphone while driving. So he pissed me off with his "Santa Fe 'bureaucrats' have deemed cellphone use while driving 'illegal'." (air quotes his).
So what does he do? With a video camera and an openly displayed handgun, he walks right up to the car beside the cop, and loudly proclaims that he is going to "videotape this to keep you accountable". Note that there's no perceived problem on camera, officer is just writing a ticket.
Officer asks him to step back out of the scene, "I'm keeping you accountable!", but he steps back, officer writes ticket, and without even a glance, gets in his car and finishes his paperwork. Evil mean nasty policeman.
A few minutes later, guy is still recording, police officer pulls up, "What was that back there?" "I'm keeping you accountable!" "I told you to step back because you had a handgun at my traffic stop", "It's not illegal to open carry in New Mexico!" "No, it's not. What's your name?" "I don't have to tell you my name! I'm not under arrest! I'm not being detained!" (note at this point that the officer was still in his car, arm dangling out the window, while he was on the sidewalk. "No, you're not." Cop drives off.
Fascist pigs! Kill cops!
This guy needs a slap. It's one thing to hold officers of the law to account when they're abusing their authority. It's another to pretend you're doing everyone a public service by running around, actively seeking out situations in which you can interfere with lawful activities, and antagonize and provoke police into responding to you just so you can say "HA! I TOLD YOU SO!".
Wow, really? "If company lies, in the face of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, that their product is defective, prevaricates, stalls, delays, deceives, even willingly and knowingly charges owners of said defective product money to fix a problem, then, when caught out, they should be told to be good boys, and do what they should have all along, and not punished further, after all, being made to do what they should have but didn't is already punishment enough...."
but AT&T and Apple have confirmed if you demonstrate the issue, there will be no restocking fee.
Where? As late as yesterday, memos were being leaked directing customer service employees that this was not a defect, but an inherent issue of any phone, that no problem admission was to be made, no bumpers were to be offered free as a solution, but could be recommended (?!? recommend a solution to a problem that doesn't exist?)...
But I'll bet the 'retina display' makes the phone look great when iphone 4 owners are staring at their handsets, wondering where that last call went to.
Ahh yes, the retina display, a piece of misleading deceptive BS that has no basis in reality, unless Steve "Don't Hold It That Way" Jobs also thinks that you should hold the phone at extreme arm's length (and then some) to use it...
Which unnamed University would this be? Does it have a name? Does it have any intention of publishing findings, or is just an unreviewed distraction by a couple of EE students?
"Because I've heard numerous reports that in Apple's eyes, it is not a defect, and that employees in Apple at AT&T stores, and customer service have been instructed not to treat this reason as valid for return."
You sound anti-Apple to me. "They always act so holier than thou"? I think it may be your hypersensitivity that is the issue rather than Apple.
Are you kidding? Case in point, "I'm a Mac, and I'm a PC"... interesting campaign. Started off genuinely funny, innovative, pointed out differences, etc. Since then, it has gone downhill, getting progressively snarkier, nasty, but most importantly, more and more misleading. It is by this that the company chooses to be known, so I'd agree.
No, you suck, because you have close to no idea what you're on about.
As someone who spends a large amount of time working in an ER, here's a hint, for one: what happens when you spill blood or vomit on your shiny iPad? Or how's that keyboard going to be for lots of writing of records (don't say Bluetooth keyboard - medical equipment doesn't get certified to use Bluetooth)?
Wow. "OMG, my shiny iPad can zoom in and out of a picture easily! It MUST be perfect for in-ward use in electronic medical records and management! Anyone who says it isn't just writes shitty software!"
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In Canon parlance, ultrasonic or USM has nothing to do with image stabilization, but refers to the motor function that drives autofocus.
Image stabilization is marked by a logo that says "Image Stabilization", or "IS".
Is his honest claim that he thinks that someone decided to rob him or steal his bike while he was being pursued by a police vehicle in emergency mode? Excuse me if I'm not entirely sold on the argument, especially from someone who has just been caught doing 130mph wheelies on a public road.
We can reasonably assume that the motorcyclist has had no training for such.
We can reasonably assume that the police officer has had advanced driving training. I know that when I was trained to drive an 11,000 lb top-heavy ambulance, and subsequently a 33,000 and 45,000lb fire engine at speed that there was substantial instruction and practical work and evaluation done, and I know who did it (state patrol).
I was also taught that operating an emergency vehicle in an emergency mode grants us free license to do anything on the road. But it also comes with it the responsibility that we will take substantial, if not exclusive, liability for any incidents that occur as a result of our actions beyond the regular rules of the road.
Police are taught to call off high speed pursuits, and in my area at least, regularly do. That is the very antithesis of 'reckless'.
Let's not go martyring the poor motorcyclist. To claim utter naivety when he was being pursued in excess of the speed limit by one marked police vehicle and one unmarked police vehicle (which had emergency lights activated) when pulled over is entirely disingenuous.
Or how about "school zones" that are in operation at 7pm on a Sunday evening? I've got a ticket for that, that was in a work zone, too. "School zone, x mph when children present" - cops claim was that I couldn't have known that children weren't present, ergo should have assumed they were. Net result was that by his reckoning, at 11mph over the "school zone" limit, 6mph over the regular limit (fair enough), he was claiming that with that, and the workzone (hah), he would be within his rights to take me in for reckless driving...
Nice speculation. Whilst I don't expect the article to be read, even the summary adds (albeit as an afterthought) that there is absolutely nothing to suggest it was a Windows BSOD.
Protip for all you people saying "They could have reconfigured the routers, etc." (on Childs refusal to hand over passwords) - not so much.
Why? Because Childs had either disabled serial consoles, disabled password recovery, or configured devices to -never- save configuration, only to run in RAM.
Well, shit, you say, restore the config from backups. Guess what, SF owned no backups of the configuration files, or network maps. The only configuration files Childs kept were on his personal laptop, encrypted with a key known only to him, and configured such that his laptop was the only device capable of updating configs. Network maps? Same. Sitting on his personal laptop. Nowhere else.
The guy viewed SF's network as his personal playground, and believed no-one else worthy to take the reins of it - guess what, he had no authority to decide that, and when he got nicely obstinate about it, he crossed a fairly clear line in the sand.
Stop the martyred geek defending valiantly our security creed. It bares little resemblance to reality.
iTunes, especially on Windows, is an atrocity.
Actually, after they took the findings to the police, the police arrested one of them again and kept her in custody for a few more days.
whereby the definition for the above is "decided to do something the manufacturer of the device had placed an undocumented and artificial limitation upon that was not reversible once tripped". Okay...
Not sure which it is.
After they forked KHTML, and hired several of the core developers, sure.
has made substantial inroads to FreeBSD, a good thing
OS X is all that uses this. A quick search of mailing lists shows that almost all of the major Linux distros and others had considered, and rejected it
Just what is needed, a non-standard extension to C, C++ and Obj-C developed by Apple and used only by Apple
Used only in Snow Leopard, and a non-supported port to FreeBSD
What other OSes are incorporating Darwin?
Not to rain on your parade, but to listen to your example, you'd think these components were seeing widespread adoption, when in reality, one or two have some small adoption (the altogether not particularly popular OmniWeb and iCab browsers and Webkit), and some have some niche, unsupported ports to FreeBSD.
All I read when I saw that was "Let self-important blogosphere blowhards blow harder without having to worry about a source of income." Just what the world needs, more bloggers circle jerking...
Just as an aside, I know our district is somewhat rare in that we are largely volunteer (8 paid staff), but yet have shift allocations where our volunteers reside at the firehouse for 12 hour shifts and 24s on the weekend. Part of the volunteer induction program here is that there are shifts, your attendance is expected, it's not "respond from home if you feel like it for the cool calls".
What should we be doing? Lighting fires in the community so we have more calls to respond to (yes, I know the fire service has had issues in the past with arson)? Maybe we can booby trap your Grandma's home so we have more BLS trauma calls?
Seriously, though - when not on calls, we're writing reports. We're training. Reviewing. Washing (most fire apparatus in our district get washed top to bottom 4+ times a week). Drilling. Community service.
But if I'm on a 12 or 24 hour shift, then yes, there's a TV there and if there's nothing else that needs doing, then we watch it. Or we snooze, so when it's 3.47am and we get a call to your grandmother for a cardiac issue, we're as rested and recharged as can be.
Yeah, I for one know that reception isn't an important issue for my smartphone, and the proximity sensor that tells my phone that my face is nearby during calls and to deactivate the screen, why that's just a bonus thrown in by Apple, it's not like I paid for it... oh, wait...
In fact, though I'm not suggesting they'd be the only ones to do so, I would not be surprised if said returns were then re-sold, in fact counting as 2 sales, rather than one product in the field.
So the video starts with a traffic stop that he is videoing. As as emergency responder (EMT) and a driver, I have little sympathy for those using their cellphone while driving. So he pissed me off with his "Santa Fe 'bureaucrats' have deemed cellphone use while driving 'illegal'." (air quotes his).
So what does he do? With a video camera and an openly displayed handgun, he walks right up to the car beside the cop, and loudly proclaims that he is going to "videotape this to keep you accountable". Note that there's no perceived problem on camera, officer is just writing a ticket.
Officer asks him to step back out of the scene, "I'm keeping you accountable!", but he steps back, officer writes ticket, and without even a glance, gets in his car and finishes his paperwork. Evil mean nasty policeman.
A few minutes later, guy is still recording, police officer pulls up, "What was that back there?" "I'm keeping you accountable!" "I told you to step back because you had a handgun at my traffic stop", "It's not illegal to open carry in New Mexico!" "No, it's not. What's your name?" "I don't have to tell you my name! I'm not under arrest! I'm not being detained!" (note at this point that the officer was still in his car, arm dangling out the window, while he was on the sidewalk. "No, you're not." Cop drives off.
Fascist pigs! Kill cops!
This guy needs a slap. It's one thing to hold officers of the law to account when they're abusing their authority. It's another to pretend you're doing everyone a public service by running around, actively seeking out situations in which you can interfere with lawful activities, and antagonize and provoke police into responding to you just so you can say "HA! I TOLD YOU SO!".
Color me unimpressed.
Wow, really? "If company lies, in the face of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, that their product is defective, prevaricates, stalls, delays, deceives, even willingly and knowingly charges owners of said defective product money to fix a problem, then, when caught out, they should be told to be good boys, and do what they should have all along, and not punished further, after all, being made to do what they should have but didn't is already punishment enough...."
What planet are you from?
Where? As late as yesterday, memos were being leaked directing customer service employees that this was not a defect, but an inherent issue of any phone, that no problem admission was to be made, no bumpers were to be offered free as a solution, but could be recommended (?!? recommend a solution to a problem that doesn't exist?)...
Ahh yes, the retina display, a piece of misleading deceptive BS that has no basis in reality, unless Steve "Don't Hold It That Way" Jobs also thinks that you should hold the phone at extreme arm's length (and then some) to use it...
Which unnamed University would this be? Does it have a name? Does it have any intention of publishing findings, or is just an unreviewed distraction by a couple of EE students?
"Because I've heard numerous reports that in Apple's eyes, it is not a defect, and that employees in Apple at AT&T stores, and customer service have been instructed not to treat this reason as valid for return."
Are you kidding? Case in point, "I'm a Mac, and I'm a PC"... interesting campaign. Started off genuinely funny, innovative, pointed out differences, etc. Since then, it has gone downhill, getting progressively snarkier, nasty, but most importantly, more and more misleading. It is by this that the company chooses to be known, so I'd agree.
As someone who spends a large amount of time working in an ER, here's a hint, for one: what happens when you spill blood or vomit on your shiny iPad? Or how's that keyboard going to be for lots of writing of records (don't say Bluetooth keyboard - medical equipment doesn't get certified to use Bluetooth)?
Wow. "OMG, my shiny iPad can zoom in and out of a picture easily! It MUST be perfect for in-ward use in electronic medical records and management! Anyone who says it isn't just writes shitty software!"
This is why people hate fanbois.