It really makes you wonder just how dumb some people are. Who throws money at a company making outrageous claims like that with out doing some homework to see if they even have a shred of proof to stand on?
I would be really interested to see how many people, besides people that work for SCO, invested more that $10,000 in their stock. If you're dumb enough to invest in SCO how did you make money in the first place?
"Using the iPhone as an example, the PopSci site walks through the process of making imitation technology"
How long before Apple hits Popular Science with a DMCA takedown notice?
Apple has a patent on the process of making imitation technology? Surely you have mistaken Micro$osft for Apple.
All kidding aside they don't tell you the specifics of how to clone an iPhone. The do cover the general process used to clone electronics, so unless Apple owns the IP for cloning electronics I think Popsci is safe.
We should introduce an artificial selection pressure. How about a mechanical sphynx that targets pre-pubescent with random algebra, English, and social questions and if you fail ti eats you.
Parents would love you. They could honestly tell their kids that a sphynx would eat them if they don't do their homework!
Clark's research shows that between 1200 and 1800, the rich had more surviving children than the poor and that he postulates that this caused constant downward social mobility as the poor failed to reproduce themselves and the progeny of the rich took over their occupations. 'The modern population of the English is largely descended from the economic upper classes of the Middle Ages,'
If he is correct in his hypothesis then we're in trouble. If the article post last week about Smart Teens having less sex can be extrapolated to adults then we should see the opposite happen in the US. It already felt like the general populace of the USA is getting dumber this just seems to confirm my suspicions.
I guess they'll be adding "spot the undercover journalist" game to go along with the traditional "spot the fed" game.
Seriously, how do they expect to blend in with nerds, we can smell non-nerds a mile away. Sexual predators are dumb compulsion driven. Nerds are for the most part smarter and more aware, you may get one or two to say something stupid but that's a long way from catching a room full of 'hackers' plotting to bring down the Pentagon.
First of all let me preface my comment on your position by say that I wish everyone would work for peace.
That said there will always be someone who is greedy, power hungry and evil. Someone will always work to take freedom from others. If you do not come up with ways to deal with those people then you will find yourself in a great deal of trouble. We, as the American people, must make sure that those who we elect try to resolve things peacefully but will fight when backed into a corner. Perhaps we have not done that as well as we should have but we can change that.
A smart man once said that "when the time for action has arrived, the time for preparation is over." If we do not arm ourselves with new and advanced weaponry then we put ourselves in a state of unpreparedness. When the next global threat is unleashed we would be powerless to stop it. Is that what you want?
You can argue idealogical utopias of the way it should be all day long but in the real world they do not exist. Nothing is ever perfect. Should we stop working towards perfection, no. Should we bury our heads in the sand and hope the other countries do the right thing, no. Should we work for peace but be prepared for war, yes.
1) The case is supposed to be arguing that it WAS difficult to know that the battery was hard wired. No argument needs be made about the present day, the content of Google's current search engine, etc. I for one had no idea. Several technical publications (including/.) thought the fact was headline worthy - aka 'news'. So trying to say that it is impossible that it was news to a zero-day owner is just f'king goofy.
If you do not do your research on a product i.e. reading reviews, product literature then I have little sympathy for you.
2) Both cell phones and laptops are supposed to have batteries that can be replaced by the end user. There is a reason for this. To suggest that the bastard child of a lappy and a phone is immune from those same reasons is just plain dense.
Are you implying that there is a defined standard or law out there? If so please provide a link. I think the only reason that most do have them is convince. From what I have read apple went with the non-user replaceable batteries because they saved some space and Jobs liked the look better(not extra parts that come off the iPod for iPhone).
It was not a design flaw like the screens that scratched to easily it was a design choice.
3) I think the responsibility of proving (to a judge, at least) that this isn't merely another means of vendor lock-in is rests with Apple. They departed from the standard. The 'why' of the matter is crucial. Where are the prototypes that had normal batteries?
There are 3rd parties that can replace the battery. There is no vendor lock-in.
How much do you want to bet that nearly every person upset by the GP is either fat or fucking someone fat?
I would substitute unmotivated for fat. If all the people that have a problem with Bush would get off their asses and do something to impeach him, he'd have been out a long time ago.
Mod parent up. You've just summed up everything that is wrong with this country. Everyone wants to blame someone else for their problems.
Gun control advocates want to blame guns but not the people that use them irresponsibly.
We blame companies for low paying jobs(i.e. Walmart) but we keep buying stuff from them.
We eat cheap junk food and sit around watching TV all day, drive places we could have walked and then wonder why we're fat.
The people I admire the most are those who take responsibility for their own life. I know a guy that use to be 60 lbs over weight. He decided to take care of himself and now rides his bicyle to work for a round trip of 40 miles a day. Guess what, he lost all that extra weight.
Until we hold ourselves accountable for how we contribute to society things will not get better. So pick one thing and work on it until you accomplish it and then move on to something else. You'll be amazed how much you can make a difference.
I can't tell if you're joking or serious but I'll got with serious.
They're not talking about a dust storm that lasted for a few hours and left dust that settled on the rover. We're talking about a storm that has lasted for a month blocking out the sun to everything on the ground.
I'm disappointed with/. editors. They have become desperate to find controversial topics. Desperate to the point of tossing common sense logic out the window.
I fail to see how this would be useful in anything but a few specialized applications. Most of the time if you need that kind of speed you're not moving around all that much.
Unless there is going to be a huge increase in available bandwidth in the home ISP market I can't see how having that kind of speed for the average user would be useful. Even the fastest connection that could be considered widely available is Verizon's FIOS and that's only 50 Mbps.
The only thing I can think of that would make this useful is a direction antenna setup to link two sites together.
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They may even want to hire you depending on what you've done.
Thank you, that's very informative. If I could use my mod points you'd have some karma coming your way.
In response to the bill being struck down Arnold replied with his trade mark line, made popular by the bloody Terminator Trilogy, "I'll be back".
If my parents used retirement funds to invest in SCO I would cry inside. I raised them better than that.
It really makes you wonder just how dumb some people are. Who throws money at a company making outrageous claims like that with out doing some homework to see if they even have a shred of proof to stand on?
I would be really interested to see how many people, besides people that work for SCO, invested more that $10,000 in their stock. If you're dumb enough to invest in SCO how did you make money in the first place?
From the article summary is sounds like the software equivalent of winning world war one.
China plans to make cheap, high end moon knockoffs to sell to neighboring planets.
All kidding aside they don't tell you the specifics of how to clone an iPhone. The do cover the general process used to clone electronics, so unless Apple owns the IP for cloning electronics I think Popsci is safe.
Parents would love you. They could honestly tell their kids that a sphynx would eat them if they don't do their homework!
If he is correct in his hypothesis then we're in trouble. If the article post last week about Smart Teens having less sex can be extrapolated to adults then we should see the opposite happen in the US. It already felt like the general populace of the USA is getting dumber this just seems to confirm my suspicions.
Mod parent up.
Insurance should be there to protect against genetic diseases, infectious diseases, accidents. Not smoking, lack of exercise, poor diet, drug abuse.
So when I go to get rid of it 10 years later, do I take it to the electronics recycling facility or the motor oil recycling facility?
I guess they'll be adding "spot the undercover journalist" game to go along with the traditional "spot the fed" game.
Seriously, how do they expect to blend in with nerds, we can smell non-nerds a mile away. Sexual predators are dumb compulsion driven. Nerds are for the most part smarter and more aware, you may get one or two to say something stupid but that's a long way from catching a room full of 'hackers' plotting to bring down the Pentagon.
First of all let me preface my comment on your position by say that I wish everyone would work for peace.
That said there will always be someone who is greedy, power hungry and evil. Someone will always work to take freedom from others. If you do not come up with ways to deal with those people then you will find yourself in a great deal of trouble. We, as the American people, must make sure that those who we elect try to resolve things peacefully but will fight when backed into a corner. Perhaps we have not done that as well as we should have but we can change that.
A smart man once said that "when the time for action has arrived, the time for preparation is over." If we do not arm ourselves with new and advanced weaponry then we put ourselves in a state of unpreparedness. When the next global threat is unleashed we would be powerless to stop it. Is that what you want?
You can argue idealogical utopias of the way it should be all day long but in the real world they do not exist. Nothing is ever perfect. Should we stop working towards perfection, no. Should we bury our heads in the sand and hope the other countries do the right thing, no. Should we work for peace but be prepared for war, yes.
If you do not do your research on a product i.e. reading reviews, product literature then I have little sympathy for you.
Are you implying that there is a defined standard or law out there? If so please provide a link. I think the only reason that most do have them is convince. From what I have read apple went with the non-user replaceable batteries because they saved some space and Jobs liked the look better(not extra parts that come off the iPod for iPhone).
It was not a design flaw like the screens that scratched to easily it was a design choice.
There are 3rd parties that can replace the battery. There is no vendor lock-in.
105 button mouse? Steve Jobs would have a conniption fit.
I would substitute unmotivated for fat. If all the people that have a problem with Bush would get off their asses and do something to impeach him, he'd have been out a long time ago.
Mod parent up. You've just summed up everything that is wrong with this country. Everyone wants to blame someone else for their problems.
Gun control advocates want to blame guns but not the people that use them irresponsibly.
We blame companies for low paying jobs(i.e. Walmart) but we keep buying stuff from them.
We eat cheap junk food and sit around watching TV all day, drive places we could have walked and then wonder why we're fat.
The people I admire the most are those who take responsibility for their own life. I know a guy that use to be 60 lbs over weight. He decided to take care of himself and now rides his bicyle to work for a round trip of 40 miles a day. Guess what, he lost all that extra weight.
Until we hold ourselves accountable for how we contribute to society things will not get better. So pick one thing and work on it until you accomplish it and then move on to something else. You'll be amazed how much you can make a difference.
Boeing is mostly from western Washington. I would think it would be ill tempered seagulls or salmon.
I can't tell if you're joking or serious but I'll got with serious.
They're not talking about a dust storm that lasted for a few hours and left dust that settled on the rover. We're talking about a storm that has lasted for a month blocking out the sun to everything on the ground.
I'm disappointed with /. editors. They have become desperate to find controversial topics. Desperate to the point of tossing common sense logic out the window.
I believe, sir, you are incorrect.
Some women are just lucky like that...and use the right fertility drugs.
I fail to see how this would be useful in anything but a few specialized applications. Most of the time if you need that kind of speed you're not moving around all that much.
Unless there is going to be a huge increase in available bandwidth in the home ISP market I can't see how having that kind of speed for the average user would be useful. Even the fastest connection that could be considered widely available is Verizon's FIOS and that's only 50 Mbps.
The only thing I can think of that would make this useful is a direction antenna setup to link two sites together.
It was called TCP/IP/OFC. It's Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol/ On Flying Chairs.
Which brings up a great point. How do you fix the situation we're in when there are no good politicians left to vote for?