Where is Al Gore? This is an apparent case of global cooling, er, I mean, global warming, er, ahem, I mean, uh, "global climate change" and is obviously due to the probes we have been sending to the planet!
I hear that the multi-terabyte RAIDs all these "pirates" are running on overclocked systems are the actual cause of Global Cooling, Global Warming, er, Global Climate Change. Quick, where is Al Gore when you need him? Tell him to quit hunting ManBearPig and that the actual cause is software piracy. HE will put an end to piracy on the Internet QUICK! I mean, after all, he is the inventor of the Internet!
Specifically, I'm referring to things like college kids downloading the full version of Photoshop. There's no way those kids are shelling out $500 (or whatever it is) for a full Photoshop license. If they steal it, they just wouldn't have it at all.
. . . which results in reduced future sales because they would either go with a less expensive package like Paint Shop Pro, or better yet, go with Gimp. Today's piracy leads to tomorrow's sales and business-wide deployments and that is very likely how a big factor in how today's big players got to where they are now.
So, go ahead and clamp down on piracy - those of us who don't "steal"[sic] and instead choose open source will win because open source will gain a larger foothold in the market, and the more poor, starving students who use open source today will be strongly encouraging their employers/businesses/etc. to choose open source as well.
I ask the Mozilla folks: why copy Chrome? If I wanted to run Chrome, I would run that instead. I run Firefox because it's firefox and has a GUI which provides a lot more functionality, and I install extensions to add to that functionality (firebug, web developer toolbar, adblock, tinyurl, colorzilla, cooliris, google toolbar, etc). I LIKE menu bars, and being able to turn features on and off, but having a basic toolbar, status bar, and menu bar enabled by default. I hate the current trend of dumbing down UIs and making them look like they were designed using Play-Doh (make that play-d'oh).
Want to know what you should work on instead? Sandboxing each tab, sandboxing plugins, decreasing memory utilization (with the realization that you can't do much about flash, quicktime, mplayer, etc. plugin memory utilization), fully multithreading the UI so one tab waiting for a message queue doesn't freeze the entire browser, and work on the javascript engine so it is on par with Chrome, etc.
Seriously. If all you do is reinvent Chrome, why bother? By offering a Chrome clone, any reason to run Firefox disappears.
HTML sucks, actually, considering we're using it for something it was never designed for in the first place.
And yet, it's functional and has gained widespread use. Flash got where it is by providing solutions for problems HTML could not solve, and only now with HTML5 can it achieve what Flash was designed for. The problem is, HTML5 just isn't in use yet at any widestream sites and services people want and need to use, so until then we need to have a flash plugin.
Google has a good chance to overtake Apple's share in the market if Apple doesn't handle this properly, and if Google+partners' marketing strategy is aggressive enough. In fact I hope Google does overtake Apple because it will force Apple to lighten up on their restrictions. Competition is nearly always good.
Frankly, the web services and web apps users use NOW are flash, not HTML5, so in the meantime, we need flash.
This is like "green" power. Treehuggers want us to stop using oil NOW. However since those same treehuggers block wind farms, natural gas depots, nuclear power, and even solar power with the NIMBY and BANANA arguments, and Mr. Fusion doesn't exist yet, we can't stop using oil for the forseeable future. That is, of course, unless we're willing to deal with horse shit-covered streets.
Until the sites people want to use offer HTML5, we need flash. If Google and partners market their Android-based phones well, they can very, very quickly top Apple's market share, then Apple will be forced to relax their anti-competitive policies .
It is advertised by the PRODUCERS, RECORD COMPANIES, etc - the "owners" of the content.
They are speaking with forked tongues; when selling it they KNOW you OWN it every bit as much as you OWN a book or OWN a vinyl record or OWN a calendar; it is a commodity good, not a work for hire, not a lease, not a rental. It is SOLD, not LICENSED and they KNOW this and that is how they ADVERTISE it. That is on their marketing side and they have to market it honestly else be accused of fraud.
The whole "licensing" but comes from the lobbyist fork of their tongues; they are trying to brainwash consumers to get them to embrace the subscription model, something similar to the original Divx where you tied content to a specific device, then you cannot lend it out as you would a video tape, a book, etc. - and they are also trying to kill off DVD and Blu-Ray rentals as well as free libraries. This way, they never have to release anything to public domain; since it was never offered up for sale, it never has to revert to public domain as the Constitution requires. They haven't achieved it but they are working hard to plant the seeds in your head that you can only rent it and not have any ownership rights, whereas right of first sale DOES in reality apply, except with the restrictions provided by Copyright Law, which allows you to resell that copy when you are done with it (and any backups made from that copy made under Fair Use must be transferred with the original you purchased). Outside of the DISTRIBUTION restriction you absolutely do have your first sale doctrine rights as the law is currently written. They are working very hard to remove those rights and have been very successful so far, what with the broadcast flag, blocking HDMI-enabled DVRs, keeping high-def cable box DVRs ownership out of consumers' hands, and so forth.
It is not true yet that you do not own what you purchase. Don't let the lobbyists succeed!
Windows is perfectly capable of running on well on a touch interface - one company who got the tablet design right was Tatung. About six years ago I used a tablet with Windows XP and it worked great - they implemented the mouse driver well such that it was like Windows Mobile - clicking the screen would result in a left click, double click worked well, and click-and-hold gave you the secondary click, just like WinCE, er, Windows Mobile does. If you didn't want to use the handwriting recognition to log in you could pop up an on-screen soft keyboard. It worked very well and was a tablet that didn't suck. If it weren't for the underpowered CPU (a celeron) I would have bought one. It could also be run like a standard desktop by simply plugging in a keyboard and mouse, and even came with a dock to stand it up like a standard LCD monitor. I've tried other XP-based tablets since then and have never been as impressed. I'd like to try an XP-based one.
I wanted to try Ubuntu on that Tatung tablet, but because it wasn't mine I couldn't do it.:(
I agree about the slippery slope, and what others have posted about "zero tolerance" bullshit. However the part that is really monumentally moronic here is that those nutritional food guidelines are supposed to cover school-provided foods, NOT what lunches parents send their kids to school with, Public schools have absolutely no right to monitor such things providing the kids aren't consuming banned narcotics, etc.
The "zero tolerance" anti-drug rules are also idiotic. There is absofuckinglutely NOTHING wrong with parents giving their children tylenol, aspirin, or even insulin or cortisol where it's medically necessary. To suspend or expel children for "drugs" which anyone can legally purchase and consume is stupid. Yes, if someone takes too much of even a legal drug, one can die. However common sense needs to play a part here, and children on heart or hormone (insulin, cortisol, etc.) medications generally know how much they're supposed to take, when they're supposed to take it, and no void of a school official has any business second-guessing the child's medical needs.
The nanny state mentality needs to die already (there should be zero tolerance for that bullshit) and government at ALL levels needs to fucking butt out. My parents' generation didn't have a problem with shootings in schools, and yet kids brought guns to school for shooting competitions, etc. My generation didn't have that but we did have archery on occasion and not one child got hurt, plus we were able to buy french fries, coca-cola and even candy at school, and yet very few students were obese. The ones that were obese, either had health issues and were fat due to hormone ("glandular") issues or heart issues, and most of them were obese even in kindergarten. Oh, there were a few outright fat students who were fatties due to grazing all day, but they tended to bring eleventy-teen sandwiches for lunch.
Bullying? When it comes to zero tolerance for bullying, the bullies are protected. It is invariably the targets of the bullies who are singled out and punished. "zero tolerance" is stupid because it teaches kids to be wimps and take the bullshit that gets shoveled their way. Now, it leads to suicides (witness the currently-ongoing bullying case here in the reigning nanny state of Taxachusetts). My parents' generation and my generation duked it out. Someone hits you? Sure, try ignoring them, but after a few instances of that proving turning the other cheek doesn't work, turn around and beat the living crap out of your bully. That bullshit ends quick. The bully goes home with a broken nose or cheekbone and a suspension, and the bullying ends. The criminal reaped what he sowed, and the victim proved that violence DOES on occasion solve problems (you can't negotiate with a terrorist/assailant/etc). Justice reigned, and kids for the most part weren't wimps.
I don't know why my generation is bent on creating a nation of cowardly weaklings. I apologise to everyone on behalf of my peers for the moronic policies being erected by thirty-somethings, and for the ongoing erosion of personal responsibility. I use the power of my vote to choose personal responsibility and not for those who want to institute a nanny state, and I urge you all to do the same. The election of Scott Brown here in Taxachusetts was a great first step but it doesn't go far enough.
We do not need nor do we want government (including schools) to institute zero tolerance rules, to prevent victims of bullying from fighting back, to tell parents what they can and cannot feed children, to tell parents whether or not the children can have facebook accounts, to use webcams to monitor students (in fact schools should NOT be providing laptops to children!). What we DO want schools to do is to put the smack down on the bullies rather than treat them as victims, to provide healthy and fun to eat options for food, and to teach academics in school, not "social" bullshit. We want you to teach math, hard sciences, IN ENGLISH (don't coddle illegals!), and American Hist
The iPhone is merely the detonator; refer to the lithium-ion batteries which have been known to overheat and catch fire under certain circumstances in the first generation iPhone. The timer, accelerometer, the CPU and stripped-down OS X are obviously used for a timer circuit, and the addition of the GPS in the 3G model is obviously not intended for user navigation, but the far more insidious purpose of igniting an incendiary device once an aircraft reaches altitude or crosses a border (after all, why else should such a device need GPS? No average consumer would ever use such military technology),
No coiled wires and ticking timers are needed. Apple saw a need in the market for bomb detonator technology where the detonator ought to be more covert and NOT beep loudly every second, and the ability for foolproof wireless ignition is provided via the substandard batteries. Unfortunately the Apple 3G Detonator Device (often referred to as "iPhone" but Muslim radicals know better per Apple's subtle graphical codes) provides an inferior battery which tends to fizzle, so users who actually put the Apple 3G unit to its intended purpose have to upgrade the battery to a more efficient model which doesn't fizzle into a dud.
Also, have you ever noticed the iPhone, while booting up displays a little circular icon which is vaguely reminiscent of an explosion? Is this coincidence? I think not. Apple is obviously communicating to Taliban terrorist cells through such subtle graphic imagery, and their anti-American stance is clear as you can tell by viewing the user interface; there is a distinct lack of American flags, and the background and case of the alleged "iPhone" (we now know better) product are black; the iPhone is dressed in almost all black. You know who else dressed in black? The Nazis, that's who!
Apple is clearly a threat which needs to be dealt with promptly. Homeland Security, please investigate Apple for your next act of Homeland Security Theater. I just can't way to see how this play concludes!
2. It is still spying and illegal to remotely turn on a recording device and then later recover the data from the device. You know like planting say a tape-recorder in a conference room.
That is true for recording audio (although for a stolen laptop probable cause would probably be sufficient to fulfill legal requirements) but not for video. There are laws prohobiting cameras where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy, but if you steal a laptop, camcorder, digital camera, cellphone, etc. you have no reasonable expectation of privacy.
Students at home have a reasonable expectation of privacy, especially when alone in their bedrooms, bathrooms, etc.
Why would you have to block flash, since as you claim you never use it, you shouldn't have installed the plugin? It eems you're violating the KISS principle with your solution.
My iPhone is jailbroken, and yet I do not have a single "pirated"[sic] app on it. All my apps are either freeware, open source, or paid for.
Why the jailbreak then?
* Backgrounder * Winterboard and the endless tweaking/skinning it allows * sbsettings * bash, crond, openssh * ability to use my iPhone as a mass storage device through sshfs (manage the phone via Linux) * extended context menus 5x4 springboard and 6 icon wide dock
I doubt most phones are broken for piracy; in fact you do not even need to jailbreak to "pirate" apps (I've taken free apps and installed them on friends' phones - NEVER copied paid apps though). I think most are jailbroken to free the phone from Steve Jobs' control, and to make the springboard look how the OWNER likes it, not how Steve Jobs likes it.
Maybe they can finally definitively answer the questions I know are on everyone's mind here:
Who really lives in a pineapple under the sea? Can they in fact all live in a yellow submarine? Is there really an octopus's garden in the shade, and would he let them in, and know where they've been?
I think I saw that on the cover of "weekly world news" at supermarket checkouts in the '90s. I imagine the "news" in that rag is every bit as reliable as either Fox or CNN.;)
STATE OF MICHIGAN Reply to: GRAND RAPIDS DISTRICT OFFICE STATE OFFICE BUILDING 6TH FLOOR 350 OTTAWA NW GRAND RAPIDS MI 49503-2341 JOHN ENGLER, Governor DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY HOLLISTER BUILDING, PO BOX 30473, LANSING MI 48909-7973 INTERNET: http://www.deq.state.mi/ RUSSELL J. HARDING, Director
December 17, 1997
CERTIFIED
Mr. Ryan DeVries 2088 Dagget Pierson, MI 49339
Dear Mr. DeVries:
SUBJECT: DEQ File No. 97-59-0023-1 T11N, R10W, Sec. 20, Montcalm County
It has come to the attention of the Department of Environmental Quality that there has been recent unauthorized activity on the above referenced parcel of property. You have been certified as the legal landowner and/or contractor who did the following unauthorized activity:
Construction and maintenance of two wood debris dams across the outlet stream of Spring Pond. A permit must be issued prior to the start of this type of activity. A review of the Department's files show that no permits have been issued.
Therefore, the Department has determined that this activity is in violation of Part 301, Inland Lakes and Streams, of the Natural Resource and Environmental Protection Act, Act 451 of the Public Acts of 1994, being sections 324.30101 to 324.30113 of the Michigan Compiled Laws annotated. The Department has been informed that one or both of the dams partially failed during a recent rain event, causing debris dams and flooding at downstream locations. We find that dams of this nature are inherently hazardous and cannot be permitted. The Department therefore orders you to cease and desist all unauthorized activities at this location, and to restore the stream to a free-flow condition by removing all wood and brush forming the dams from the strewn channel. All restoration work shall be completed no later than January 31, 1998. Please notify this office when the restoration has been completed so that a follow-up site inspection may be scheduled by our staff. Failure to comply with this request, or any further unauthorized activity on the site, may result in this case being referred for elevated enforcement action. We anticipate and would appreciate your full cooperation in this matter.
Please feel free to contact me at this office if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
David L. Price District Representative Land and Water Management Division
Dear Mr. Price: Re: DEQ File No. 97-59-0023; T11N, R10W, Sec 20; Montcalm County
Your certified letter dated 12/17/97 has been handed to me to respond to. You sent out a great deal of carbon copies to a lot of people, but you neglected to include their addresses. You will, therefore, have to send them a copy of my response.
First of all, Mr. Ryan DeVries is not the legal landowner and/or contractor at 2088 Dagget, Pierson, Michigan -- I am the legal owner and a couple of beavers are in the (State unauthorized) process of constructing and maintaining two wood "debris" dams across the outlet stream of my Spring Pond. While I did not pay for, nor authorize, their dam project, I think they would be highly offended you call their skillful use of natural building materials "debris." I would like to challenge you to attempt to emulate their dam project any dam time and/or any dam place you choose. I believe I can safely state there is no dam way you could ever match their dam skills, their dam resourcefulness, their dam ingenuity, their dam persistence, their dam determination and/or their dam work ethic.
As to your dam request the beavers first must fill out a dam permit prior to the start of this type of dam activity, my first dam question to you is: are you trying to discriminate against my Spring Pond Beavers or do you require all dam beavers throughout this State to conform to said dam request? If you are not discriminating against these particular beavers, please send me completed copies of all those other applicable beaver dam permits. Perhaps we will
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Where is Al Gore? This is an apparent case of global cooling, er, I mean, global warming, er, ahem, I mean, uh, "global climate change" and is obviously due to the probes we have been sending to the planet!
Comedy Central? NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! How am I going to watch Futurama's return?!
I hear that the multi-terabyte RAIDs all these "pirates" are running on overclocked systems are the actual cause of Global Cooling, Global Warming, er, Global Climate Change. Quick, where is Al Gore when you need him? Tell him to quit hunting ManBearPig and that the actual cause is software piracy. HE will put an end to piracy on the Internet QUICK! I mean, after all, he is the inventor of the Internet!
. . . not as long as open source exists, and not as long as the Internet (or "cloud") can go down.
. . . which results in reduced future sales because they would either go with a less expensive package like Paint Shop Pro, or better yet, go with Gimp. Today's piracy leads to tomorrow's sales and business-wide deployments and that is very likely how a big factor in how today's big players got to where they are now.
So, go ahead and clamp down on piracy - those of us who don't "steal"[sic] and instead choose open source will win because open source will gain a larger foothold in the market, and the more poor, starving students who use open source today will be strongly encouraging their employers/businesses/etc. to choose open source as well.
I ask the Mozilla folks: why copy Chrome? If I wanted to run Chrome, I would run that instead. I run Firefox because it's firefox and has a GUI which provides a lot more functionality, and I install extensions to add to that functionality (firebug, web developer toolbar, adblock, tinyurl, colorzilla, cooliris, google toolbar, etc). I LIKE menu bars, and being able to turn features on and off, but having a basic toolbar, status bar, and menu bar enabled by default. I hate the current trend of dumbing down UIs and making them look like they were designed using Play-Doh (make that play-d'oh).
Want to know what you should work on instead? Sandboxing each tab, sandboxing plugins, decreasing memory utilization (with the realization that you can't do much about flash, quicktime, mplayer, etc. plugin memory utilization), fully multithreading the UI so one tab waiting for a message queue doesn't freeze the entire browser, and work on the javascript engine so it is on par with Chrome, etc.
Seriously. If all you do is reinvent Chrome, why bother? By offering a Chrome clone, any reason to run Firefox disappears.
True, and you're technically correct - the best kind of correct! I'll bet you're a level 5 bureaucrat! ;)
HTML sucks, actually, considering we're using it for something it was never designed for in the first place.
And yet, it's functional and has gained widespread use. Flash got where it is by providing solutions for problems HTML could not solve, and only now with HTML5 can it achieve what Flash was designed for. The problem is, HTML5 just isn't in use yet at any widestream sites and services people want and need to use, so until then we need to have a flash plugin.
Google has a good chance to overtake Apple's share in the market if Apple doesn't handle this properly, and if Google+partners' marketing strategy is aggressive enough. In fact I hope Google does overtake Apple because it will force Apple to lighten up on their restrictions. Competition is nearly always good.
Frankly, the web services and web apps users use NOW are flash, not HTML5, so in the meantime, we need flash.
This is like "green" power. Treehuggers want us to stop using oil NOW. However since those same treehuggers block wind farms, natural gas depots, nuclear power, and even solar power with the NIMBY and BANANA arguments, and Mr. Fusion doesn't exist yet, we can't stop using oil for the forseeable future. That is, of course, unless we're willing to deal with horse shit-covered streets.
Until the sites people want to use offer HTML5, we need flash. If Google and partners market their Android-based phones well, they can very, very quickly top Apple's market share, then Apple will be forced to relax their anti-competitive policies .
It is advertised by the PRODUCERS, RECORD COMPANIES, etc - the "owners" of the content.
They are speaking with forked tongues; when selling it they KNOW you OWN it every bit as much as you OWN a book or OWN a vinyl record or OWN a calendar; it is a commodity good, not a work for hire, not a lease, not a rental. It is SOLD, not LICENSED and they KNOW this and that is how they ADVERTISE it. That is on their marketing side and they have to market it honestly else be accused of fraud.
The whole "licensing" but comes from the lobbyist fork of their tongues; they are trying to brainwash consumers to get them to embrace the subscription model, something similar to the original Divx where you tied content to a specific device, then you cannot lend it out as you would a video tape, a book, etc. - and they are also trying to kill off DVD and Blu-Ray rentals as well as free libraries. This way, they never have to release anything to public domain; since it was never offered up for sale, it never has to revert to public domain as the Constitution requires. They haven't achieved it but they are working hard to plant the seeds in your head that you can only rent it and not have any ownership rights, whereas right of first sale DOES in reality apply, except with the restrictions provided by Copyright Law, which allows you to resell that copy when you are done with it (and any backups made from that copy made under Fair Use must be transferred with the original you purchased). Outside of the DISTRIBUTION restriction you absolutely do have your first sale doctrine rights as the law is currently written. They are working very hard to remove those rights and have been very successful so far, what with the broadcast flag, blocking HDMI-enabled DVRs, keeping high-def cable box DVRs ownership out of consumers' hands, and so forth.
It is not true yet that you do not own what you purchase. Don't let the lobbyists succeed!
Windows is perfectly capable of running on well on a touch interface - one company who got the tablet design right was Tatung. About six years ago I used a tablet with Windows XP and it worked great - they implemented the mouse driver well such that it was like Windows Mobile - clicking the screen would result in a left click, double click worked well, and click-and-hold gave you the secondary click, just like WinCE, er, Windows Mobile does. If you didn't want to use the handwriting recognition to log in you could pop up an on-screen soft keyboard. It worked very well and was a tablet that didn't suck. If it weren't for the underpowered CPU (a celeron) I would have bought one. It could also be run like a standard desktop by simply plugging in a keyboard and mouse, and even came with a dock to stand it up like a standard LCD monitor. I've tried other XP-based tablets since then and have never been as impressed. I'd like to try an XP-based one.
I wanted to try Ubuntu on that Tatung tablet, but because it wasn't mine I couldn't do it. :(
I agree about the slippery slope, and what others have posted about "zero tolerance" bullshit. However the part that is really monumentally moronic here is that those nutritional food guidelines are supposed to cover school-provided foods, NOT what lunches parents send their kids to school with, Public schools have absolutely no right to monitor such things providing the kids aren't consuming banned narcotics, etc.
The "zero tolerance" anti-drug rules are also idiotic. There is absofuckinglutely NOTHING wrong with parents giving their children tylenol, aspirin, or even insulin or cortisol where it's medically necessary. To suspend or expel children for "drugs" which anyone can legally purchase and consume is stupid. Yes, if someone takes too much of even a legal drug, one can die. However common sense needs to play a part here, and children on heart or hormone (insulin, cortisol, etc.) medications generally know how much they're supposed to take, when they're supposed to take it, and no void of a school official has any business second-guessing the child's medical needs.
The nanny state mentality needs to die already (there should be zero tolerance for that bullshit) and government at ALL levels needs to fucking butt out. My parents' generation didn't have a problem with shootings in schools, and yet kids brought guns to school for shooting competitions, etc. My generation didn't have that but we did have archery on occasion and not one child got hurt, plus we were able to buy french fries, coca-cola and even candy at school, and yet very few students were obese. The ones that were obese, either had health issues and were fat due to hormone ("glandular") issues or heart issues, and most of them were obese even in kindergarten. Oh, there were a few outright fat students who were fatties due to grazing all day, but they tended to bring eleventy-teen sandwiches for lunch.
Bullying? When it comes to zero tolerance for bullying, the bullies are protected. It is invariably the targets of the bullies who are singled out and punished. "zero tolerance" is stupid because it teaches kids to be wimps and take the bullshit that gets shoveled their way. Now, it leads to suicides (witness the currently-ongoing bullying case here in the reigning nanny state of Taxachusetts). My parents' generation and my generation duked it out. Someone hits you? Sure, try ignoring them, but after a few instances of that proving turning the other cheek doesn't work, turn around and beat the living crap out of your bully. That bullshit ends quick. The bully goes home with a broken nose or cheekbone and a suspension, and the bullying ends. The criminal reaped what he sowed, and the victim proved that violence DOES on occasion solve problems (you can't negotiate with a terrorist/assailant/etc). Justice reigned, and kids for the most part weren't wimps.
I don't know why my generation is bent on creating a nation of cowardly weaklings. I apologise to everyone on behalf of my peers for the moronic policies being erected by thirty-somethings, and for the ongoing erosion of personal responsibility. I use the power of my vote to choose personal responsibility and not for those who want to institute a nanny state, and I urge you all to do the same. The election of Scott Brown here in Taxachusetts was a great first step but it doesn't go far enough.
We do not need nor do we want government (including schools) to institute zero tolerance rules, to prevent victims of bullying from fighting back, to tell parents what they can and cannot feed children, to tell parents whether or not the children can have facebook accounts, to use webcams to monitor students (in fact schools should NOT be providing laptops to children!). What we DO want schools to do is to put the smack down on the bullies rather than treat them as victims, to provide healthy and fun to eat options for food, and to teach academics in school, not "social" bullshit. We want you to teach math, hard sciences, IN ENGLISH (don't coddle illegals!), and American Hist
No? Google "light mill" or "light-mill" or "crookes radiometer"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crookes_radiometer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf0aKxxogSs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS4BKBMjd6U&feature=related
The problem is Futurama is returning in a month and a half. We cannot possibly advocate losing broadcast satellites!
The iPhone is merely the detonator; refer to the lithium-ion batteries which have been known to overheat and catch fire under certain circumstances in the first generation iPhone. The timer, accelerometer, the CPU and stripped-down OS X are obviously used for a timer circuit, and the addition of the GPS in the 3G model is obviously not intended for user navigation, but the far more insidious purpose of igniting an incendiary device once an aircraft reaches altitude or crosses a border (after all, why else should such a device need GPS? No average consumer would ever use such military technology),
No coiled wires and ticking timers are needed. Apple saw a need in the market for bomb detonator technology where the detonator ought to be more covert and NOT beep loudly every second, and the ability for foolproof wireless ignition is provided via the substandard batteries. Unfortunately the Apple 3G Detonator Device (often referred to as "iPhone" but Muslim radicals know better per Apple's subtle graphical codes) provides an inferior battery which tends to fizzle, so users who actually put the Apple 3G unit to its intended purpose have to upgrade the battery to a more efficient model which doesn't fizzle into a dud.
Also, have you ever noticed the iPhone, while booting up displays a little circular icon which is vaguely reminiscent of an explosion? Is this coincidence? I think not. Apple is obviously communicating to Taliban terrorist cells through such subtle graphic imagery, and their anti-American stance is clear as you can tell by viewing the user interface; there is a distinct lack of American flags, and the background and case of the alleged "iPhone" (we now know better) product are black; the iPhone is dressed in almost all black. You know who else dressed in black? The Nazis, that's who!
Apple is clearly a threat which needs to be dealt with promptly. Homeland Security, please investigate Apple for your next act of Homeland Security Theater. I just can't way to see how this play concludes!
That is true for recording audio (although for a stolen laptop probable cause would probably be sufficient to fulfill legal requirements) but not for video. There are laws prohobiting cameras where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy, but if you steal a laptop, camcorder, digital camera, cellphone, etc. you have no reasonable expectation of privacy.
Students at home have a reasonable expectation of privacy, especially when alone in their bedrooms, bathrooms, etc.
Why would you have to block flash, since as you claim you never use it, you shouldn't have installed the plugin? It eems you're violating the KISS principle with your solution.
My iPhone is jailbroken, and yet I do not have a single "pirated"[sic] app on it. All my apps are either freeware, open source, or paid for.
Why the jailbreak then?
* Backgrounder
* Winterboard and the endless tweaking/skinning it allows
* sbsettings
* bash, crond, openssh
* ability to use my iPhone as a mass storage device through sshfs (manage the phone via Linux)
* extended context menus
5x4 springboard and 6 icon wide dock
I doubt most phones are broken for piracy; in fact you do not even need to jailbreak to "pirate" apps (I've taken free apps and installed them on friends' phones - NEVER copied paid apps though). I think most are jailbroken to free the phone from Steve Jobs' control, and to make the springboard look how the OWNER likes it, not how Steve Jobs likes it.
Yeah but the problem is they can't activate it any more. The zero point module died.
Maybe they can finally definitively answer the questions I know are on everyone's mind here:
Who really lives in a pineapple under the sea?
Can they in fact all live in a yellow submarine?
Is there really an octopus's garden in the shade, and would he let them in, and know where they've been?
I think I saw that on the cover of "weekly world news" at supermarket checkouts in the '90s. I imagine the "news" in that rag is every bit as reliable as either Fox or CNN. ;)
The answer to that is "no" since Obama killed off the shuttle and the potential replacement spacecraft.
I'm not whining. I am happily using a jailbroken phone. That doesn't mean I can't state that I dislike Jobs' megalomania.
obligatory
STATE OF MICHIGAN
Reply to: GRAND RAPIDS DISTRICT OFFICE STATE OFFICE BUILDING 6TH FLOOR
350 OTTAWA NW GRAND RAPIDS MI 49503-2341
JOHN ENGLER, Governor
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
HOLLISTER BUILDING, PO BOX 30473, LANSING MI 48909-7973
INTERNET: http://www.deq.state.mi/
RUSSELL J. HARDING, Director
December 17, 1997
CERTIFIED
Mr. Ryan DeVries 2088 Dagget Pierson, MI 49339
Dear Mr. DeVries:
SUBJECT: DEQ File No. 97-59-0023-1 T11N, R10W, Sec. 20, Montcalm County
It has come to the attention of the Department of Environmental Quality that there has been recent unauthorized activity on the above referenced parcel of property. You have been certified as the legal landowner and/or contractor who did the following unauthorized activity:
Construction and maintenance of two wood debris dams across the outlet stream of Spring Pond. A permit must be issued prior to the start of this type of activity. A review of the Department's files show that no permits have been issued.
Therefore, the Department has determined that this activity is in violation of Part 301, Inland Lakes and Streams, of the Natural Resource and Environmental Protection Act, Act 451 of the Public Acts of 1994, being sections 324.30101 to 324.30113 of the Michigan Compiled Laws annotated. The Department has been informed that one or both of the dams partially failed during a recent rain event, causing debris dams and flooding at downstream locations. We find that dams of this nature are inherently hazardous and cannot be permitted. The Department therefore orders you to cease and desist all unauthorized activities at this location, and to restore the stream to a free-flow condition by removing all wood and brush forming the dams from the strewn channel. All restoration work shall be completed no later than January 31, 1998. Please notify this office when the restoration has been completed so that a follow-up site inspection may be scheduled by our staff. Failure to comply with this request, or any further unauthorized activity on the site, may result in this case being referred for elevated enforcement action. We anticipate and would appreciate your full cooperation in this matter.
Please feel free to contact me at this office if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
David L. Price
District Representative Land and Water Management Division
Dear Mr. Price:
Re: DEQ File No. 97-59-0023; T11N, R10W, Sec 20; Montcalm County
Your certified letter dated 12/17/97 has been handed to me to respond to. You sent out a great deal of carbon copies to a lot of people, but you neglected to include their addresses. You will, therefore, have to send them a copy of my response.
First of all, Mr. Ryan DeVries is not the legal landowner and/or contractor at 2088 Dagget, Pierson, Michigan -- I am the legal owner and a couple of beavers are in the (State unauthorized) process of constructing and maintaining two wood "debris" dams across the outlet stream of my Spring Pond. While I did not pay for, nor authorize, their dam project, I think they would be highly offended you call their skillful use of natural building materials "debris." I would like to challenge you to attempt to emulate their dam project any dam time and/or any dam place you choose. I believe I can safely state there is no dam way you could ever match their dam skills, their dam resourcefulness, their dam ingenuity, their dam persistence, their dam determination and/or their dam work ethic.
As to your dam request the beavers first must fill out a dam permit prior to the start of this type of dam activity, my first dam question to you is: are you trying to discriminate against my Spring Pond Beavers or do you require all dam beavers throughout this State to conform to said dam request? If you are not discriminating against these particular beavers, please send me completed copies of all those other applicable beaver dam permits. Perhaps we will
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