I fail to see how this feature will be accurate enough because FaceBook users are not all that consistent. I don't wish to be brash but the general population are the single most worst data entry officers / records keepers.
FB is not set up or used to be used as a professional tool. E.G Going to a Dentist based on your friends "likes" **. Since "liking" a place, doesn't equate to the place being right next to you and your family members / friends could live on the other side of the country, therefore rendering a useless search. It requires a tremendous amount of GPS overhead on the places to get the results right. I.E the place in question, your friends and yourself needs to be accurate (up-to-date) which means "taken" and then used to compile search relevancy.
Another example, Going to a place for dinner means you've uploaded a photo of you being with a pile of people at a particular place and nine times out of ten nobody really goes to the place and tags the "place" in the photo. Besides, if your friends went their and YOU didn't, maybe it's time to take a good long hard look at yourself and think "it's time to reduce my Facebook hours because I'm not getting invited out any more."
I see the long term potential of something like this eventually combating Google Places (at best) but the issues are to that is Google Places already does this better, it's a part of real technology like, I dunno, Android (a working popular mobile platform).
Many Google Places house reviews by strangers about particular locations which I think is good enough besides the last thing companies want is to do is lose the power of their own reviews and they will if they ask FB to base their company's importance against competitors via social interaction. In essence using this services means Businesses are going to have to give up the control on their own product popularity and leave it in the hands of the general population to decide.
Lastly, I fail to see it's overall relevancy. Dentist? are people that much of losers to post which dentist they go to? really? People who complain about privacy yet post this kind of data only has themselves to blame if they post who their freaking doctors are on FB.
** Yes it's one of the key examples used in Zukkers presentation video, look it up, its worth a laugh just how 1 min in the whole thing it loses all substance.
Sorry but the sheer mechanics of what your proposing totally and utterly mind boggling.
I'm pretty sure no matter how good the prosecutor is, his/her's a sphincter is actually going to occupy that chair. Then you're proposing that people who do sit in a particular chair should be thrown in jail?
Lunacy! but not so far fetched considering what the US Govt. did to Swartz.
Oh my, here we go with dumb ass precedence all over again. See my post on philosophies perpetuated by the GP here.
You do realise radio DJ's are far more harmless than prosecutors? I.E DJ's aren't out to jail you? You also realise that these are two completely separate issues? and that they pose very little in common with each other?
I think a phone call from your lawyer telling you that what you have to look forward too in life is being locked behind a set steel bars until your 56 and that you and your family owe a $1million debt to the US govt.
This is a pretty compelling reason to top yourself. Also consider how driven this guy is at wanting to make a difference in the world and actually contribute. This news is kind of a bit of an overall set back yeah?
I have to admit (not proud of it) but I was nearly going to stay up and wait for this announcement.
I love to watch the Stock Market and see how things go on the day-to-day, not really to put money down but just to simply observe. In any case, Reuters did post an article about this and it did receive some (not a lot) attention.
Sufficed to say FB's stock has been growing quite steadily at to this point back to $38 a share (IPO offering) but as soon as this new search feature broke being the next "big new thing" from FB their stock dropped by close to $1. Anyway, here is what a Reuters commenter wrote:
reality-again wrote: Kinda disappointing Google’s search algorithm has become outdated, from the results page that’s almost identical to the design offered by Altavista and Northern Lights back in the nineties, to results provided by this monopoly’s search engine that increasingly look irrelevant to the point of being comic. This naturally calls for someone to introduce a better web search service, but FB’s search function seems like yet another ‘internal’ feature of their website, and not something for the ‘real world’ out there.
I felt it noteworthy to post this for a few reasons. When I read it if found it quite cute:) It's funny how these investor people think in some ways.
a) The commenter thinks that Google uses old broken algorithms. Anyone who follows Google knows that they update and refine (especially with mobile platforms) 100s of times a year and do this for this exact reason. In fact, I'd tell this person to go use Google's mobile stuff (and so should Mark Z) and see exactly what it takes to run a proper mobile platform. b) That writing a search engine that can rival Google can be done by Mark Zuckerberg (this one really makes me giggle) c) Being able to index pretty much the entire internet in just a few short weeks/days. I.E from the beginning of when FB wrote "see what we're building" and we were going to see a dropped curtain on a Google killing Search Engine.
I know what the commenter wrote was opinionated as it almost looks like he/she knows a few things about Search Engines by mentioning Altavista but if we are to ever understand these "dotcom bubble investors" I sure think this comment gives us some insight into them. Scary.
Managers are "groundskeepers" of a facility and are employed to use that facility to make money. They have set roles and responsibilities and are usually bent by company politics. Entrepreneurs don't need a maintained facility to ensure success. They create it. This article is full of hooey and it's sad it even makes Slashdot. Sadder still are comments like this clown.
The truth is most Managers could never survive the harsh environment of the low end business world, swim against the tide and make something from very little. Many Managers if chose to become Entrepreneurs in their own right would usually fall belly up because being in the business world without any leg ups, without handouts, or any form of "assistance" is a true test of ones own ability and self belief. If you lack these skills in any way you will never last and as such many Managers are not suited to the task. Likewise, people who start off as Entrepreneurs that cannot handle such pressures usually go on to become Managers.
Entrepreneurs who understand these things do go on to become successful. Many of them also understand "If you want something done properly, one must do it them self" regardless of their "level" within an organisation. Entrepreneurs are not afraid to get their hands dirty namely because they know how everything works. Managers are employed based on Position Description and anything that falls out of said criteria are either not their responsibility or never truly understood.
This is the key to any level of pioneering in business, knowing it well enough to make money from it. Know bits of it and who are you kidding?
I.E. Separating the boys from the men is manager to entrepreneur.
E.G. Steve Jobs, Entrepreneur. Tim Cook, Manager. Enough said.
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Corruption is a very interesting topic. I work on three simple philosophies when dealing with a wrong when it comes to business or government situations. They go like this.
1. Stupidity and/or Fear. People in powerful positions are sometimes afraid of change or are simply just too vanilla to get it. Regardless of how many letters before or after their name, what position they hold or how much money they earn. Stupid can be found at the top of any government or business food chain.
2. Precedence. Old broken laws, Misinterpreted precedence or better yet manoeuvred legal precedence sold to a judge who fits in to philosophy #1. Precedence can be the blame of the GFC in certain areas. Precedence is the hinge of "one size" fits all legal defence and since we are humans nothing ever fits just "one size" when it comes to natural interaction of life. It's why we've been absolutely inundated with ridiculous precedence which create ridiculous law and fuels an endless yet fundamentally flawed process of trying to turn "right and wrong" into a poorly written piece of spaghetti code (law).
3. Corruption. The tyrant, the ego maniac (narcissist), the thief, perhaps the 3 lesser common forms of corrupted types of people out there. Corruption can simply be using a position of high responsibility to help a friend. The concept that "what goes around comes around" simply does not work in such circumstances. The "all boys club" or "sliver spoon club" are corrupted by their own arrogance assuming that simply because they are in the same group they are of all the same level/class regardless of talent, usually not the case and loops straight back to philosophy #1.
So yeah, all in all, not a big believer in true corruption more I simply believe the world is simply too dumb or scared to know what's best, it's my dark yet humours way of looking at life.
The govt writes the laws, so gives itself loopholes when it doesn't like those laws.
A solid true key point made in your post yet a point that shouldn't be the case. Law should be an independent entity above government and the law should be leveraged to hold governments accountable but it's not used this way, nor is it built to do so.
The Manning / Lamo situation is an interesting one as the greatest wrongs were not committed by either man. It's committed by the above statement. Think of the movie "The Fugitive" with Harrison Ford where there's happy ending in the story. In real life it's more like "Law Abiding Citizen" with Gerard Butler if not worse.
Was the information contained in the cables simply not damning enough? was the Wikileaks escapade a waste of effort for Assange / Manning? and did they destroy their lives in vein? Personally I'd like to live in a world where believing in one's own self belief and hope that situations like say "The Fugative" movies could possibly take place.
I don't know too much about the content of the cables or if there was any worthwhile information contained in them which could be used to arrest anybody. Was it really just a waste for all these guys? Do they watch too many movies perhaps?
Your own logical conclusion is faded by the fact that Apple didn't invent mobile phones. Apple may of invented the market space but they don't get the right to patent a specific market space otherwise MS would of owned the IT industry years ago and none of this would be a point of contention.
Company A supplies Company B with chips for Company B's products. Company A decides the money made off supplying parts is not enough and decides to compete with Company B directly by supplying products with very similar designs to Company B.
PSST! America stop giving your IP Asian companies. As far as Apple vs Samsung is to the rest of the world, we are simply passing around the popcorn because most of the arguments shown between the two companies in other countries are either being thrown or setted / awarded for small fractions of the $1bn Judge Lucy Koh verdict. A citation to that sentiment must be the apology letter written by Apple addressed to Samsung over in the UK. It's a joke everywhere else except the USA why can't you see that?
There are two key producers (other than big oil) that the US has to the rest of the world, Hollywood and Silicon Valley. Hollywood is not scalable because of what's been done with technology likewise with technology itself because the US chose to use Asian vendors to create the goods. Maybe you could try and bomb China to try to keep them in line but I really don't like your odds on that one but I think that's all what it boils down to here, control, nothing else. IP is just the glamoured excuse used in the press.
Trying to use the law to patch up Pandora's box is not really going to do much other than perpetuate these inherent weaknesses. Kind of like putting a band aid on a ruptured artery. Samsung may of been sneaky business people but it was Apple's visionless greed that started and it's that very same visionless greed which is also perpetuating it and will also be responsible for it falling flat on it's ass.
Change your stance and evolve / adapt around this or become one of the 1% (as they say). Eitherway, it doesn't look good for the average Apple using US citizen because they are just as much the victim as the factory workers at Foxconn. What is it now, six month product release cycles?
LOL this comment needs framing as it symbolically shows societies degradation in so many ways.
It shows the conditioned and damaged mental state of our society as a whole. No matter how smart one is, through correct social conditioning one can become as dumb as a doorknob to preserve a set of programmed ideals.
The very core of the word "regulation" is "regulate" like "government" is "govern".
Regulate Verb Control or maintain the rate or speed of (a machine or process) so that it operates properly. Control or supervise (something, esp. a company or business activity) by means of rules and regulations.
Govern Verb To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; exercise sovereign authority in. To control the speed or magnitude of; regulate: a valve that governs fuel intake. To control the actions or behavior of: Govern yourselves like civilized people.
I might add common sense is becoming less common these days. Now, that lack of "common" within sense is being used to pervert the constitution so individual ideals can be preserved. I may be considered a fool for stating this but sometimes people really need to get "back to basics" before perceiving the world around them, absorb it and try to see past these forms of social conditioning.
The word "trained" is not used in the above definitions. Yet "operates properly" means that a logical process needs to be ensured some how. "Training" to enable proper operation seems logical (and simple), how else do you expect to achieve "operates properly" to ensure "regulation" is instilled? hocus pocus? more social conditioning? how about more/less video games? let's hear the bullshit I can't wait.
My line of work is Martial Arts instructor going on (14 years) and I work in government funded Youth Justice offence prevention program for the state.
All of what you say is utter shit. Scratching eyes, spitting? really? two police officers really worried about that? They are cops fuck-knuckle they signed up for this! don't like it become a freaking florist. Seriously harden the hell up.
Pretty sure that's what IA is there for?
Straight off the bat you watch too much TV. IA I'd imagine is your typical misconduct investigation group yeah? They'll give this whole issue 2 mins of their time and then lawyers battle it out, this really is not an IA "thing" if you get my drift. AI is more concerned with dirty cops helping the import of dope, you know proper corruption. IA will look at this as see two low-level idiodic cops and they'll feed them to the sharks.
at maximum, less amperage than what an active smartphoneAustralia draws being used against someone.
They kill people too. Just killed a guy last month, healthy young man, ran from police ended up dead from the taser.
What on earth makes you think that they didn't try to remove her from the store by other means before tasing her?
90 POUND WOMAN! 2 POLICE OFFICERS TRAINED TO ARREST PEOPLE! You people should just pack your shit up in the middle east, obviously when China decides to launch an all out war all they'll need is little tiny Chinese woman with iPhones take you on.
You know all you create with your babbling is more reasons to inflict these "nanny state" measures on society.
What a kind of dipshit are you? what are you a cop? If she had a baseball bat and was smashing the shop up then okay zap her and lock her up.
What on earth makes you think that they didn't try to remove her from the store by other means before tasing her?
Common sense, if two trained officers of the law cannot remove a disorderly person without resorting to electrocution then they need to find another profession. Simply restraining her and _if_ and only _if_ then pin her down (easily remember 90 pound woman not the hulk). Unless she was strong enough two overpower the two officers then slamming her down and issuing a dose electrocution is woefully excessive.
Picking her up with one arm and putting her in the back of a police car can be considered as assault as well.
So is shooting her in the head with a 9mm but I hope you're intelligent enough to see the various shades of grey on your own statement.
Police should be held account by the same laws as citizens in times of apprehending people and that is reasonable applied force only. This is clearly not reasonable, not by a long shot. As excessive force is punishable by laws of assault these officers should bare such charges.
Still doesn't justify two grown police officers assaulting a 90 pound Asian woman. Look at it a million different ways still comes back to that for me, she could be trying to physically steal those iPhones and provided she is unarmed she's a 90 pound Asian woman, you pick her up with one arm and put her in the back of a police car.
Apple needs to cut the arrogance crap! If Apple wants to stay in the BYOD game they should be seeking means to accommodate services as such by being as plugin friendly as possible. Blackberry, Nokia and anything Android would not put down such limitations.
This also means companies (not BYOD) seeking devices which plugin to their already pre existing services only serves to strike Apple off the buying list.
What's next? expecting people to drop Exchange for MobileMe? not likely. Not to say I use either Office 365 or Exchange, Zimbra for me all the way. What move has done is affect legacy and hurt Apple. A card that needed to be played much later in the collapse of MS as doing it now only serves to promote it and help Windows 8, stupid.
I'm actually saying the opposite but if you read in to my post a little further the key things are -
a) Apple has the money and means to solve the issue (or go back to Google) b) They created the issue by creating product reliance and then offering a defective "upgrade"
Apple shouldn't be trusted as nor should TomTom for that matter but the above two key points are noteworthy and deserve a good Apple bashing IMHO, unlike the GPO's sentiment.
Forgive me if I'm also wrong about this but as the case usually goes I highly doubt Apple would have any intention of being apologetic about it, protected by a set of closed T&C's, move on in it's merry life leaving fumes of asshole wherever it may go. Further, I'd also fully expect nothing more from Apple fanbois but for them to simply jump on the ass-fume-filled train along with them siding with Apple's smelly ass ethics and think nothing but glory for Apple's assholelicious nature.
As much as I enjoy a good old apple bashing, anyone who trust their gps without checking the plausibility of the route is an utter fool.
So you're saying that people shouldn't trust a multibillion dollar company vs a company say tomtom whose worth a 1/500th (if not less)? meanwhile a company like Google which is supposedly valued at half the value of Apple can be trusted?
Considering that the very product in question used to be accurate and reliable only pushes the argument from "pretty shit" to "fucking terrible".
Yes, Apple had a flogging in the news about the map quality. Sufficed to say it shouldn't show you anything rather than wrong information. Therefore moving from "fucking terrible" to "pretty fucking dodgy shit".
You have to excuse the recursive nature of the term "shit" however I needed to specify the word "dodgy" to fully experience the gravity of the "crapulation" to which I'm trying to emphasize.
Analyst's say FB will 10 fold its revenue by 2015 and have a present life cycle of 15+ years. Meanwhile real companies with proper business models struggle, you tell me where does this insanity come from?
On the other hand, if the data is not relevant or currently accurate, then Google should have no problem purging cached results. So for example, a libelous comment or news article was made available online and then was retracted or removed by request and yet still appears in Google's searches, then Google should be obliged to remove it by request as it no longer reflects what is available.
Yes but only by the publisher and Google has put systems in place to ensure happens (see webmaster tools). What you're insinuating is that anyone can do anything they like provided they pay a lawyer to draft up a letter to do so.
Google is not a resource, it's a tool, the websites containing the information are the resources. So lets consider Google's role for just one second in the use of key phrases.
Search "Milorad Trkulja" or "Milorad Trkulja mob ties" or "Milorad Trkulja" just within Google news.
What Google is designed to do that is display content based on its relevancy and that relevancy is driven by the user. Now, if you had said, Google is promoting sites based on PageRank, Reverse links, etc and someone had misused these SEO concepts and have pushed the defamatory comments to the top and then yes Google did nothing to fix it you may somewhat of a point. Google could get fined for that as they should put measures in to stop it from happening in the future but now what that means is we are regulating the concept of what a Search Engine is, yet another can of worms.
Consider this Google only shows the title of the page and 2 or 3 lines of content from the sites that it indexes it does store the whole page in its cache but the public mostly see the paragraph of text pertaining to the rest of the information. What this does is it makes it one step closer for people to be sued because of a tag which no, under any law is wrong.
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I fail to see how this feature will be accurate enough because FaceBook users are not all that consistent. I don't wish to be brash but the general population are the single most worst data entry officers / records keepers.
FB is not set up or used to be used as a professional tool. E.G Going to a Dentist based on your friends "likes" **. Since "liking" a place, doesn't equate to the place being right next to you and your family members / friends could live on the other side of the country, therefore rendering a useless search. It requires a tremendous amount of GPS overhead on the places to get the results right. I.E the place in question, your friends and yourself needs to be accurate (up-to-date) which means "taken" and then used to compile search relevancy.
Another example, Going to a place for dinner means you've uploaded a photo of you being with a pile of people at a particular place and nine times out of ten nobody really goes to the place and tags the "place" in the photo. Besides, if your friends went their and YOU didn't, maybe it's time to take a good long hard look at yourself and think "it's time to reduce my Facebook hours because I'm not getting invited out any more."
I see the long term potential of something like this eventually combating Google Places (at best) but the issues are to that is Google Places already does this better, it's a part of real technology like, I dunno, Android (a working popular mobile platform).
Many Google Places house reviews by strangers about particular locations which I think is good enough besides the last thing companies want is to do is lose the power of their own reviews and they will if they ask FB to base their company's importance against competitors via social interaction. In essence using this services means Businesses are going to have to give up the control on their own product popularity and leave it in the hands of the general population to decide.
Lastly, I fail to see it's overall relevancy. Dentist? are people that much of losers to post which dentist they go to? really? People who complain about privacy yet post this kind of data only has themselves to blame if they post who their freaking doctors are on FB.
** Yes it's one of the key examples used in Zukkers presentation video, look it up, its worth a laugh just how 1 min in the whole thing it loses all substance.
Sorry but the sheer mechanics of what your proposing totally and utterly mind boggling.
I'm pretty sure no matter how good the prosecutor is, his/her's a sphincter is actually going to occupy that chair. Then you're proposing that people who do sit in a particular chair should be thrown in jail?
Lunacy! but not so far fetched considering what the US Govt. did to Swartz.
Oh my, here we go with dumb ass precedence all over again. See my post on philosophies perpetuated by the GP here.
You do realise radio DJ's are far more harmless than prosecutors? I.E DJ's aren't out to jail you? You also realise that these are two completely separate issues? and that they pose very little in common with each other?
I think a phone call from your lawyer telling you that what you have to look forward too in life is being locked behind a set steel bars until your 56 and that you and your family owe a $1million debt to the US govt.
This is a pretty compelling reason to top yourself. Also consider how driven this guy is at wanting to make a difference in the world and actually contribute. This news is kind of a bit of an overall set back yeah?
I have to admit (not proud of it) but I was nearly going to stay up and wait for this announcement.
I love to watch the Stock Market and see how things go on the day-to-day, not really to put money down but just to simply observe. In any case, Reuters did post an article about this and it did receive some (not a lot) attention.
Sufficed to say FB's stock has been growing quite steadily at to this point back to $38 a share (IPO offering) but as soon as this new search feature broke being the next "big new thing" from FB their stock dropped by close to $1. Anyway, here is what a Reuters commenter wrote:
reality-again wrote:
Kinda disappointing
Google’s search algorithm has become outdated, from the results page that’s almost identical to the design offered by Altavista and Northern Lights back in the nineties, to results provided by this monopoly’s search engine that increasingly look irrelevant to the point of being comic.
This naturally calls for someone to introduce a better web search service, but FB’s search function seems like yet another ‘internal’ feature of their website, and not something for the ‘real world’ out there.
I felt it noteworthy to post this for a few reasons. When I read it if found it quite cute :) It's funny how these investor people think in some ways.
a) The commenter thinks that Google uses old broken algorithms. Anyone who follows Google knows that they update and refine (especially with mobile platforms) 100s of times a year and do this for this exact reason. In fact, I'd tell this person to go use Google's mobile stuff (and so should Mark Z) and see exactly what it takes to run a proper mobile platform.
b) That writing a search engine that can rival Google can be done by Mark Zuckerberg (this one really makes me giggle)
c) Being able to index pretty much the entire internet in just a few short weeks/days. I.E from the beginning of when FB wrote "see what we're building" and we were going to see a dropped curtain on a Google killing Search Engine.
I know what the commenter wrote was opinionated as it almost looks like he/she knows a few things about Search Engines by mentioning Altavista but if we are to ever understand these "dotcom bubble investors" I sure think this comment gives us some insight into them. Scary.
Managers are "groundskeepers" of a facility and are employed to use that facility to make money. They have set roles and responsibilities and are usually bent by company politics. Entrepreneurs don't need a maintained facility to ensure success. They create it. This article is full of hooey and it's sad it even makes Slashdot. Sadder still are comments like this clown.
The truth is most Managers could never survive the harsh environment of the low end business world, swim against the tide and make something from very little. Many Managers if chose to become Entrepreneurs in their own right would usually fall belly up because being in the business world without any leg ups, without handouts, or any form of "assistance" is a true test of ones own ability and self belief. If you lack these skills in any way you will never last and as such many Managers are not suited to the task. Likewise, people who start off as Entrepreneurs that cannot handle such pressures usually go on to become Managers.
Entrepreneurs who understand these things do go on to become successful. Many of them also understand "If you want something done properly, one must do it them self" regardless of their "level" within an organisation. Entrepreneurs are not afraid to get their hands dirty namely because they know how everything works. Managers are employed based on Position Description and anything that falls out of said criteria are either not their responsibility or never truly understood.
This is the key to any level of pioneering in business, knowing it well enough to make money from it. Know bits of it and who are you kidding?
I.E. Separating the boys from the men is manager to entrepreneur.
E.G. Steve Jobs, Entrepreneur. Tim Cook, Manager. Enough said.
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This is a hazard! I've already lost two cats in this thing. There should be a warning sticker or something. I assumed the cats would float, but they sunk like rocks into the lube. And no, it's not what you think. Don't be disgusting. I was trying to create my own cat lube wrestling league. You know, for sickos.
Corruption is a very interesting topic. I work on three simple philosophies when dealing with a wrong when it comes to business or government situations. They go like this.
1. Stupidity and/or Fear. People in powerful positions are sometimes afraid of change or are simply just too vanilla to get it. Regardless of how many letters before or after their name, what position they hold or how much money they earn. Stupid can be found at the top of any government or business food chain.
2. Precedence. Old broken laws, Misinterpreted precedence or better yet manoeuvred legal precedence sold to a judge who fits in to philosophy #1. Precedence can be the blame of the GFC in certain areas. Precedence is the hinge of "one size" fits all legal defence and since we are humans nothing ever fits just "one size" when it comes to natural interaction of life. It's why we've been absolutely inundated with ridiculous precedence which create ridiculous law and fuels an endless yet fundamentally flawed process of trying to turn "right and wrong" into a poorly written piece of spaghetti code (law).
3. Corruption. The tyrant, the ego maniac (narcissist), the thief, perhaps the 3 lesser common forms of corrupted types of people out there. Corruption can simply be using a position of high responsibility to help a friend. The concept that "what goes around comes around" simply does not work in such circumstances. The "all boys club" or "sliver spoon club" are corrupted by their own arrogance assuming that simply because they are in the same group they are of all the same level/class regardless of talent, usually not the case and loops straight back to philosophy #1.
So yeah, all in all, not a big believer in true corruption more I simply believe the world is simply too dumb or scared to know what's best, it's my dark yet humours way of looking at life.
The govt writes the laws, so gives itself loopholes when it doesn't like those laws.
A solid true key point made in your post yet a point that shouldn't be the case. Law should be an independent entity above government and the law should be leveraged to hold governments accountable but it's not used this way, nor is it built to do so.
The Manning / Lamo situation is an interesting one as the greatest wrongs were not committed by either man. It's committed by the above statement. Think of the movie "The Fugitive" with Harrison Ford where there's happy ending in the story. In real life it's more like "Law Abiding Citizen" with Gerard Butler if not worse.
Was the information contained in the cables simply not damning enough? was the Wikileaks escapade a waste of effort for Assange / Manning? and did they destroy their lives in vein? Personally I'd like to live in a world where believing in one's own self belief and hope that situations like say "The Fugative" movies could possibly take place.
I don't know too much about the content of the cables or if there was any worthwhile information contained in them which could be used to arrest anybody. Was it really just a waste for all these guys? Do they watch too many movies perhaps?
Apple vs Samsung is only an issue in the USA.
Your own logical conclusion is faded by the fact that Apple didn't invent mobile phones. Apple may of invented the market space but they don't get the right to patent a specific market space otherwise MS would of owned the IT industry years ago and none of this would be a point of contention.
Company A supplies Company B with chips for Company B's products.
Company A decides the money made off supplying parts is not enough and decides to compete with Company B directly by supplying products with very similar designs to Company B.
PSST! America stop giving your IP Asian companies. As far as Apple vs Samsung is to the rest of the world, we are simply passing around the popcorn because most of the arguments shown between the two companies in other countries are either being thrown or setted / awarded for small fractions of the $1bn Judge Lucy Koh verdict. A citation to that sentiment must be the apology letter written by Apple addressed to Samsung over in the UK. It's a joke everywhere else except the USA why can't you see that?
There are two key producers (other than big oil) that the US has to the rest of the world, Hollywood and Silicon Valley. Hollywood is not scalable because of what's been done with technology likewise with technology itself because the US chose to use Asian vendors to create the goods. Maybe you could try and bomb China to try to keep them in line but I really don't like your odds on that one but I think that's all what it boils down to here, control, nothing else. IP is just the glamoured excuse used in the press.
Trying to use the law to patch up Pandora's box is not really going to do much other than perpetuate these inherent weaknesses. Kind of like putting a band aid on a ruptured artery. Samsung may of been sneaky business people but it was Apple's visionless greed that started and it's that very same visionless greed which is also perpetuating it and will also be responsible for it falling flat on it's ass.
Change your stance and evolve / adapt around this or become one of the 1% (as they say). Eitherway, it doesn't look good for the average Apple using US citizen because they are just as much the victim as the factory workers at Foxconn. What is it now, six month product release cycles?
LOL this comment needs framing as it symbolically shows societies degradation in so many ways.
It shows the conditioned and damaged mental state of our society as a whole. No matter how smart one is, through correct social conditioning one can become as dumb as a doorknob to preserve a set of programmed ideals.
The very core of the word "regulation" is "regulate" like "government" is "govern".
Regulate Verb
Control or maintain the rate or speed of (a machine or process) so that it operates properly.
Control or supervise (something, esp. a company or business activity) by means of rules and regulations.
Govern Verb
To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; exercise sovereign authority in.
To control the speed or magnitude of; regulate: a valve that governs fuel intake.
To control the actions or behavior of: Govern yourselves like civilized people.
I might add common sense is becoming less common these days. Now, that lack of "common" within sense is being used to pervert the constitution so individual ideals can be preserved. I may be considered a fool for stating this but sometimes people really need to get "back to basics" before perceiving the world around them, absorb it and try to see past these forms of social conditioning.
The word "trained" is not used in the above definitions. Yet "operates properly" means that a logical process needs to be ensured some how. "Training" to enable proper operation seems logical (and simple), how else do you expect to achieve "operates properly" to ensure "regulation" is instilled? hocus pocus? more social conditioning? how about more/less video games? let's hear the bullshit I can't wait.
I'm not YT conspiracy theorist but something has to be wrong here....
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4 words ... explains it all ...
"Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter"
This historical recount of US history really explains everything if you ask me.
With the use of sufficient, equal to or opposite as the law mandates.
My line of work is Martial Arts instructor going on (14 years) and I work in government funded Youth Justice offence prevention program for the state.
All of what you say is utter shit. Scratching eyes, spitting? really? two police officers really worried about that? They are cops fuck-knuckle they signed up for this! don't like it become a freaking florist. Seriously harden the hell up.
Pretty sure that's what IA is there for?
Straight off the bat you watch too much TV. IA I'd imagine is your typical misconduct investigation group yeah? They'll give this whole issue 2 mins of their time and then lawyers battle it out, this really is not an IA "thing" if you get my drift. AI is more concerned with dirty cops helping the import of dope, you know proper corruption. IA will look at this as see two low-level idiodic cops and they'll feed them to the sharks.
at maximum, less amperage than what an active smartphoneAustralia draws being used against someone.
They kill people too. Just killed a guy last month, healthy young man, ran from police ended up dead from the taser.
What on earth makes you think that they didn't try to remove her from the store by other means before tasing her?
90 POUND WOMAN! 2 POLICE OFFICERS TRAINED TO ARREST PEOPLE! You people should just pack your shit up in the middle east, obviously when China decides to launch an all out war all they'll need is little tiny Chinese woman with iPhones take you on.
You know all you create with your babbling is more reasons to inflict these "nanny state" measures on society.
What a kind of dipshit are you? what are you a cop? If she had a baseball bat and was smashing the shop up then okay zap her and lock her up.
What on earth makes you think that they didn't try to remove her from the store by other means before tasing her?
Common sense, if two trained officers of the law cannot remove a disorderly person without resorting to electrocution then they need to find another profession. Simply restraining her and _if_ and only _if_ then pin her down (easily remember 90 pound woman not the hulk). Unless she was strong enough two overpower the two officers then slamming her down and issuing a dose electrocution is woefully excessive.
Picking her up with one arm and putting her in the back of a police car can be considered as assault as well.
So is shooting her in the head with a 9mm but I hope you're intelligent enough to see the various shades of grey on your own statement.
Police should be held account by the same laws as citizens in times of apprehending people and that is reasonable applied force only. This is clearly not reasonable, not by a long shot. As excessive force is punishable by laws of assault these officers should bare such charges.
LOL yeah, the police responded quickly because their "unoffical" HQ was the food court.
Still doesn't justify two grown police officers assaulting a 90 pound Asian woman. Look at it a million different ways still comes back to that for me, she could be trying to physically steal those iPhones and provided she is unarmed she's a 90 pound Asian woman, you pick her up with one arm and put her in the back of a police car.
Apple needs to cut the arrogance crap! If Apple wants to stay in the BYOD game they should be seeking means to accommodate services as such by being as plugin friendly as possible. Blackberry, Nokia and anything Android would not put down such limitations.
This also means companies (not BYOD) seeking devices which plugin to their already pre existing services only serves to strike Apple off the buying list.
What's next? expecting people to drop Exchange for MobileMe? not likely. Not to say I use either Office 365 or Exchange, Zimbra for me all the way. What move has done is affect legacy and hurt Apple. A card that needed to be played much later in the collapse of MS as doing it now only serves to promote it and help Windows 8, stupid.
I'm actually saying the opposite but if you read in to my post a little further the key things are -
a) Apple has the money and means to solve the issue (or go back to Google)
b) They created the issue by creating product reliance and then offering a defective "upgrade"
Apple shouldn't be trusted as nor should TomTom for that matter but the above two key points are noteworthy and deserve a good Apple bashing IMHO, unlike the GPO's sentiment.
Forgive me if I'm also wrong about this but as the case usually goes I highly doubt Apple would have any intention of being apologetic about it, protected by a set of closed T&C's, move on in it's merry life leaving fumes of asshole wherever it may go. Further, I'd also fully expect nothing more from Apple fanbois but for them to simply jump on the ass-fume-filled train along with them siding with Apple's smelly ass ethics and think nothing but glory for Apple's assholelicious nature.
As much as I enjoy a good old apple bashing, anyone who trust their gps without checking the plausibility of the route is an utter fool.
So you're saying that people shouldn't trust a multibillion dollar company vs a company say tomtom whose worth a 1/500th (if not less)? meanwhile a company like Google which is supposedly valued at half the value of Apple can be trusted?
Considering that the very product in question used to be accurate and reliable only pushes the argument from "pretty shit" to "fucking terrible".
Yes, Apple had a flogging in the news about the map quality. Sufficed to say it shouldn't show you anything rather than wrong information. Therefore moving from "fucking terrible" to "pretty fucking dodgy shit".
You have to excuse the recursive nature of the term "shit" however I needed to specify the word "dodgy" to fully experience the gravity of the "crapulation" to which I'm trying to emphasize.
hardy har har
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Analyst's say FB will 10 fold its revenue by 2015 and have a present life cycle of 15+ years. Meanwhile real companies with proper business models struggle, you tell me where does this insanity come from?
On the other hand, if the data is not relevant or currently accurate, then Google should have no problem purging cached results. So for example, a libelous comment or news article was made available online and then was retracted or removed by request and yet still appears in Google's searches, then Google should be obliged to remove it by request as it no longer reflects what is available.
Yes but only by the publisher and Google has put systems in place to ensure happens (see webmaster tools). What you're insinuating is that anyone can do anything they like provided they pay a lawyer to draft up a letter to do so.
Google is not a resource, it's a tool, the websites containing the information are the resources. So lets consider Google's role for just one second in the use of key phrases.
Search "Milorad Trkulja" or "Milorad Trkulja mob ties" or "Milorad Trkulja" just within Google news.
What Google is designed to do that is display content based on its relevancy and that relevancy is driven by the user. Now, if you had said, Google is promoting sites based on PageRank, Reverse links, etc and someone had misused these SEO concepts and have pushed the defamatory comments to the top and then yes Google did nothing to fix it you may somewhat of a point. Google could get fined for that as they should put measures in to stop it from happening in the future but now what that means is we are regulating the concept of what a Search Engine is, yet another can of worms.
Consider this Google only shows the title of the page and 2 or 3 lines of content from the sites that it indexes it does store the whole page in its cache but the public mostly see the paragraph of text pertaining to the rest of the information. What this does is it makes it one step closer for people to be sued because of a tag which no, under any law is wrong.